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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
Gospel text
Mt 13:24-43
Mt 13:24-43
"The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat..."
Gospel's Commentary
Today many people protest against the evils of the world and even rebel against God because of them. Through the “Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds,” Jesus warns us about evil. Christ speaks plainly about the “enemy”: it is the Devil! The curious thing is that we easily laugh at the idea of his existence—as something from the past—yet afterward we are scandalized by evil.
—What does Jesus Christ recommend? Realism (God’s enemy exists), patience (to allow time for conversion), and trust in God (the Evil One will be judged and destroyed).