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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Sep 18 06:10PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/ba6076f724a3cae3
Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies. And what
you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel of wheat,
perhaps, or of some other kind; but God gives it a body as he chooses,
and to each of the seeds its own body. 1 Corinthians 15:36-38
The seed is the word of God…But as for the seed that fell on rich
soil, they are the ones who, when they have heard the word, embrace it
with a generous and good heart, and bear fruit through perseverance.
Luke 8:11, 15
Piety
Seed, scattered and sown, wheat, gathered and grown, bread, broken and
shared as one, the living Bread of God.
Vine, fruit of the land, wine, work of our hands, one cup that is
shared by all, the living Cup, the living Bread of God.
1. Is not the bread we break, a sharing in our Lord? Is not the cup we
bless, the blood of Christ outpoured?
Seed, scattered and sown, wheat, gathered and grown, bread, broken and
shared as one, the living Bread of God.
Vine, fruit of the land, wine, work of our hands, one cup that is
shared by all, the living Cup, the living Bread of God.
2. The seed which falls on rock will wither and will die. The seed
within good ground will flower and have life.
Study
Is there any more apt analogy for the change needed within our lives
than the seed. The analogy of the seed in both our readings drives
home the importance of change in our lives. For the new to emerge, the
old must pass away. There is no turning back.
Look at a seed. Take one out of a piece of fruit. When you contemplate
the seed of an apple or orange, what do you see? The small shell that
is buried in the ground, surrounded by dirt, mud, fertilizer? The
sprout shooting up from the ground? The fragrant apple or orange
blossom that must wither and die to make way for the fruit?
What do you see?
Now leave behind your fruit seed and think of a grain of wheat.
Imagine all the change and transformation that takes place with the
seed from a stalk of wheat. Just like our apple seed, it is planted
and sprouts. The seed becomes a plant. The stalks yield grains which
are ground to become flour. Just like you can not turn the flour back
into the stalk, the stalk cannot be changed back into the seed. It has
changed.
Take that flour and mix it with a little water and yeast to make
dough. Bake that in the heat of an oven and you have bread. Bless and
break that bread and it changes again into the body of Christ.
The farmer who planted the seed will no more recognize the loaf of
bread transformed into the Eucharist than will the disciples recognize
the body of the Risen Christ.
Action
We are asked to change just like the seeds in the garden of life.
However, we do not known if we are on rocky ground or fertile soil. We
do not know if we will win when we fight against the weeds of our
life. Let today's Word of God be the yeast of change in your life.
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