The Mystery of the Wheat and the Weeds

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 17 July 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In our Gospel for today, we hear the parable of the wheat and the tares. Jesus speaks of the mysterious, and often frustrating, intertwining of good and evil. Don't be too eager, he says, to tear out the weeds, for you might, in the process, compromise the wheat. Listen, as I try to search out the meaning of this important and complex parable.

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0:06.8	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.0	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
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0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, clearly might speak with
0:29.2	love about the one who is love.
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0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:39.6	Peace be with you.
0:41.1	Friends, we're reading now these several weeks from the 13th chapter of Matthew's Gospel.
0:47.0	Can I recommend to you for your summer spiritual reading?
0:50.2	Sit down with this chapter 13.
0:52.6	It's the chapter of parables.
0:54.1	It's just filled with these great stories that Jesus told.
0:58.0	Probably it was the typical form of his preaching, as he wandered from town to town in Galilee
1:03.2	and Judea.
1:04.2	He probably taught this way, and so all the gospels have examples of these parables.
1:08.9	Matthew 13 is one of the treasure troves for parables.
1:13.2	Well, this week we have a whole group of them, and we also find Jesus doing something relatively
1:18.6	rare, and that is interpreting the parables for us.
1:23.3	What I want to do in the short time I have is look simply at one of them.
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