Jill Bevilacqua presents readings and reflections to mark the XVI Sunday of the year
in Ordinary time. Listen:
Gospel Mt
13:24-33 Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying: “The kingdom
of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone
was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went
off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves
of the householder came to him and said, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in
your field? Where have the weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done
this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ He replied,
‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let
them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First
collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into
my barn.”