My Lord, I God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord,

my guardian angel, in her seat for me.

On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea.

And such large crowds gathered around him,

that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore listening to him.

And right now, Jesus, I want to do the same. I want to listen to you, to sit down, to pray.

And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying, a sawer went out to sow, and as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate

it up.

Some seed fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil.

It sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep, but then the sun rose and it was

scorched and it withered for lack of roots. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up

and choked it. But some seed fell on rich soil, and it produced fruit, a hundred, or 60 or 30-fold.

Later, the apostles asked Jesus about the meaning of this parable,

and he explained to them that our divine vocation, our calling from God, is a treasure

that has all the potential in the world,

but at the same time, he's very small. It starts very weak, like a seed, like a mustard

seed, he said in other parts of the gospel, that has the potential to grow to be huge,

but at the same time has the counterpart of us taking care of it,

because otherwise it's exposed to the birds that can eat it up,

the birds of distraction, the birds of a superficiality.

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