Jesus uses two parables about a mustard seed and yeast to show how the Kingdom of heaven starts small and proceeds with slow and steady growth. May our own faith do the same!
Mass Readings – Monday of the 17th Week of the Year (#401)
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Daily Mass: Our faith starts small and proceeds with slow and steady growth. Catholic Inspiration
Daily Mass: Learning from the Kingdom of God. Catholic Inspiration
Jesus offers two parables to explain the Kingdom of God, helping us to apply the lesson to our own journey of faith.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 30th Week of the Year (#480)
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Daily Mass: The Kingdom of God is like a tiny seed. Catholic Inspiration
Jesus offers the examples of a mustard seed and yeast to show how the Kingdom of God flourishes over time, starting small and becoming something extraordinary.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 30th Week of the Year
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Study, Pray, Serve: 16th Sunday of the Year
Here are some of the main themes that surface in the Mass readings for the 16th Sunday of the Year.
1st Reading – Wisdom: 12:13,16-19
- God is the source of all might and justice who judges with clemency.
- The Lord teaches the people that those who are just must also be kind and seek repentance.
Psalm – 86:5-6,9-10,15,16
- “Lord, you are good and forgiving.”
- God, who is merciful and gracious, abounds in kindness toward all who plead for help.
2nd Reading – Romans 8:26-27
- The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness, even when we do not know how to pray.
- God’s will is that the Spirit will intercede for us.
Gospel – Matthew 13:24-43
- Jesus offers three parables: about weeds in a wheat field, a mustard seed, and yeast mixed into wheat flour.
- The Lord then explains to the disciples about the parable of the weeds and the wheat.
Mass Readings – 16th Sunday of the Year
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Daily Mass: The Kingdom of God starts small with steady growth. Catholic Inspiration
Using the examples of a mustard seed and yeast, Jesus shows how the Kingdom of God begins small and develops over steady growth. May this teaching inspire us to cultivate each day a worthy and fruitful harvest of faith within our hearts.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 30th Week of the Year
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Daily Mass: The Kingdom of Heaven grows from a tiny seed. Catholic Inspiration
Jesus uses the examples of seeds and yeast to demonstrate how God works in our world by starting small and growing strong over time.
Mass Readings – Monday of the 17th Week of the Year
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Daily Mass: We start small to grow big. Catholic Inspiration
Jesus teaches that the Kingdom of God starts small but over time grows larger and is transformed. The same is true for our spiritual journey, reminding us to take the small steps we need to do today to become the disciples the Lord calls us to be.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 30th Week of the Year
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Daily Mass: Starting small. Catholic Inspiration
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 30th Week of the Year
Like a mustard seed and some yeast, the Kingdom of God grows and transforms into something entirely new. What’s more, this process happens as we offer our lives…following the example of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Daily Mass: The leaven of God’s grace. Catholic Inspiration
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 6th Week of the Year (Sts. Cyril & Methodius)
Jesus recalls how a little yeast can transform dough – making it grow larger into something new. In our spiritual lives this process can work for both good or evil, and we are invited today to embrace God’s grace into our hearts, changing us into daughters and sons of God.
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Daily Mass: Seeds & Yeast. Catholic Inspiration
Fr. Andrew’s Daily Mass Homily Podcast
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 30th Week of the Year
Seeds & Yeast – They start small, grow over time, and die to themselves to bring forth a new creation. And Jesus says they are like the Kingdom of God!
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Catholic Inspiration – Podcast Archives of Homilies & Talks- Daily Mass: Let the Lord enter!
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