"The Parable of the Sower” and “The Good Samaritan” Explained

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gormley emphasizes the importance of hope, while meditating on Pope Leo’s reflections, praising his ability to speak on the human and spiritual level. Gormley also analyzes the Pope’s General Audiences as he dissects two popular parables, “The Parable of the Sower” and the “Good Samaritan”.

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“Look at your life, look at the daily circumstances, and ask yourself, ‘Okay, what situation right now is God using, is God leveraging, to reach me, to bring the grace, of His word into my life?’”

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:03.1	To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com.
0:11.6	Look at your life.
0:12.8	Look at the daily circumstances and ask yourself, okay, what situation right now is God using, is God leveraging to reach me to bring the grace of his word
0:24.9	into my life.
0:41.4	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every every knee shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:43.9	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am not joined today by Dave the man Van Vickle because,
0:49.3	unfortunately, he had to go to a funeral of a priest's friend of his. And so I am recording solo.
0:55.7	Here's another funny thing.
0:57.2	My entire internet died.
0:59.9	We have fiber internet.
1:01.0	You know, those fibers really, really super like human hair thin.
1:04.4	My son accidentally moved his chair where the plug is and it ripped the plug out of the wall separating it.
1:10.8	So now it's a whole thing.
1:12.1	It's going to cost me hundreds of dollars to repair.
1:15.2	I love modern technology.
1:17.7	But today I want to continue with this theme of meditating on the words of Pope Leo
1:23.4	the 14th, first American pope.
1:25.3	Yeah.
1:26.1	I want to keep going because I find that this is super
1:29.6	fruitful for all of us. And I want to really get to his Augustinian approach to scripture,
1:37.3	this thoughtful meditation. You know, one of the things that was very apparent with Pope Francis
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