Friends:
Nothing is easier, and more tempting, than dividing the world into two: wheat and weeds, ours and theirs, the good and the bad. We do this with those who think differently, with those who come from outside, with those who believe or vote differently. And this Sunday’s Gospel disarms us: do not go out to uproot the weeds, lest you also uproot the wheat.
Certainly, there are no people who are only wheat nor people who are only weeds. The wheat and the weeds are within each one of us. It is about bearing fruit, about striving for our best version to prevail.
Gospel and Gospel Commentary
Matthew 13:24-42. The parables of the weeds, the mustard seed, the leaven…
Miguel A. Munárriz Casajús: The vegetable parables. There are no righteous and sinners; only sinners loved by God
José Luis Sicre: Parables for a crisis (Part 2). This Sunday’s parables pose these two questions: what attitude to adopt toward those who do not accept the message? and does this small thing have a future?
Enrique Martínez Lozano: The error of dualistic frameworks. We all debate between good and evil, between truth and lies, between “wheat” and “weeds.”
Fray Marcos: Discovering the weed in me, would be the key to accepting it in others.
José Antonio Pagola: Leaven of a more human life. And the kingdom of God grows there, in the density of that sometimes so ambiguous and complex life.
Fidel Aizpurúa: Where does the weed come from? The text narrates the surprise of the farmer’s employees who, having sown good seed, see how the weeds eat up the field.
Silvia Martínez Cano: God as nourishing Wisdom. Its food awakens the creative activity of the earth and reorients damaged life toward growth, leaving behind violence and senselessness.
Selected Articles for the Week
José Arregi: Leo XIV: From appealing to unity to decreeing excommunication. What Pope Leo most wanted to avoid has happened. He was elected and accepted the election precisely to circumvent the schismatic threat from the most traditionalist sectors.
César Caro: I admire that the Pope has returned to the palace, with everything and a gym. More than a year has passed, and I perceive that Leo is not afraid of comparisons with Francis. It seems that the Pope has sought to enjoy a home, like every human being.
Gabriel Mª Otalora: Depth lives in the everyday. This mystery of Jesus’ prolonged silence overwhelms, reminding us of the times nature takes to germinate and which Jesus himself used in many of his teachings.
Jesús Lozano Pino: God, the homeland, and the pocket: The dangerous alliance between the far-right and prosperity theology. The perfect moral justification of the far-right for its agenda of cuts, exclusion, and savage individualism.
José Lorenzo: Juan José Aguirre: “The times I return to Spain, I smell decadence.” At 72 years old, the Pope has just accepted this Combonian religious’s resignation as bishop of Bangassou, in the Central African Republic.
Digital Religion: Jesús Fernández: "Dignity is not lost when crossing a border". The Bishop of Córdoba highlights the universal approach of Cáritas, where the primary concern is not the place of birth, but the need for help. "Making divisions between poor people does not correspond to our mission".
Víctor M. Ruano: Guatemala, Israel and Gaza (I) The memory of genocide versus the silence of the powerful. The wounds remain open because many responsible parties were never judged, thousands of people remain missing, and justice continues to advance with desperate slowness.
Nina Schmedding (KNA): From Muslim to Catholic Priest: the exceptional story of Senad Mrkaljevic. According to ecclesiastical records, there is no other Catholic cleric in the entire country with a similar past.
News of Scope. León XIV’s first great challenge ends in excommunication
For more participatory and current Eucharists
Wisdom 12, 13-19. This text is collected for its allusion to the final judgment of God. It would be fitting to reread the important commentary left by José Enrique Galarreta.
Romans 8, 26-27. The Spirit comes to help us pray as we ought.
Florentino Ulibarri: Sowing. He who sows sows with hope, proclaims good news, and longs for the harvest.
Vicky Irigaray: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Today’s Word reminds us that the Kingdom of God is given in the ambiguity of History and that we must love reality as it is, even if we long for it to be different.
Anaphora: The vocation of Jesus. Bet on humanity, on the happiness of all human beings.
Benedictine Nuns of Montserrat. 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Multimedia material
I am at peace with what I am feeling. That divine understanding of every feeling I have allows me to live in peace.
No one but You. Take everything that is in me, take everything to serve.
Salomé Arricibita: To be born. We grow with all the good and the least good that we have, and God counts on it. Set aside our quarrels and value all our fruits.
Flowers. One of Luis Guitarra’s most beautiful sung stories with watercolors by painter Martina Prim: "do not let love or memories wither".
I am fine. Not always when we affirm "I am fine" is it completely true. Not always around us, in our lives, is everything going well. Wheat and weeds coexist in our world and in each one of us. We need to be coherent so that with our lights and also our shadows we are able to follow the path with prudence, simplicity, patience, and responsibility to decisively take charge of the reality we have been called to live.
You are still here.!!THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME TO LOVE!!
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Inma Calvo
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