Sermons & Homilies
What is the state of our heart? In today’s Gospel our Savior presents the parable of the Sower in order to get us to ponder this question. What is the state of our heart? Are we able to bear spiritual fruit? This is the most important question of our life, and we need to be constantly reminded to keep it front and center.
“The rich man shall hardly enter the Kingdom of heaven.” That is, only with great difficulty. These are strong words from our Lord. So strong that even the Apostles who, as St. Peter testified directly after today’s Gospel reading, left everything to follow Christ—not simply possessions, but family, relatives, wife, children, lands, and property; everything!—even they responded: “Who then can be saved?!”
The Son of God and God has clothed Himself with our humanity, furtherly clothing Himself in the letters of ink of the Holy Gospel. Today, we are given a little glimpse of one of the many qualities of Christ, as in every place of the Gospel.
