Year A - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Isaiah 55, 10 - 11

Psalm 63

Romans 8, 18 - 23

Matthew 13, 1 - 23

 

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Details

- The rabbit is moving forward while sowing seeds, under the penguin's skeptical look

- In this picture, nothing could prevent the seeds from growing apart from the soil itself

- There also is a periscope. We don't quite know what it is doing there. It is hope, in the coldest lands, which is looking in the direction the rabbit is taking.

- The rabbit is carrying a towel. On his shoulder (not on his frozen ears). It's the softness, the warmth and the strength of the Holy Spirit. With your shoulders, you can carry heavy things, that's why when we make the sign of the cross, we sign our shoulder when we mention the Holy Spirit.

- The seeds are red, the towel is yellow ; the colours are visible. They are they only warm ones of the picture. The Spirit that God put within ourselves is the only one that can make us live, like a source of heat in a frozen environment.

Questions

- In this picture, nothing could prevent the seeds from growing apart from the soil itself. We can take away the warmth of the sun from the parable, the birds, the bramble, ... If the soil is not welcoming, nothing can grow. The seeds bounce as if to go somewhere else.

- For God's grace to rest within ourselves, we must clear the ground a bit. The more we clear, the more welcoming space there is.

- How can I clear the ground this week ?