Gospel
text (Mt 13,18-23): Jesus
said to his disciples, «Now listen to the parable of the sower. When a person
hears the message of the Kingdom but without taking it to himself, the devil
comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed that fell
along the footpath. The seed that fell on rocky ground stands for the one who
hears the word and accepts it at once with joy. But this fickle and has no
roots. No sooner is he harassed or persecuted because of the word, than he
gives up. The seed that fell among the thistles is the one who hears the word,
but then the worries of this life and the love of money choke the word, and it
does not bear fruit. As for the seed that fell on good soil it is the one who
hears the word and under-stands it; this bears fruit and produces a hundred, or
sixty, or thirty times more».
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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