Post by Eric Gajewski on Nov 8, 2015 4:46:35 GMT
TradCatKnight: Fr. Campbell, "Tears at the Foot of the Cross"
Many of Our Lord’s hearers were ordinary folk – laborers, fishermen, housewives, shepherds, farmers. The Lord spoke to them using images that were familiar to them, as in the Gospel today about the weeds (cockle) among the wheat. Everybody knew that you just can’t start pulling the weeds out of a field of wheat. They grow too close to the wheat and are entangled in its roots, so that in uprooting the weeds you endanger the wheat also. Unfortunately, the weeds steal sunlight and nourishment from the wheat; they invade its space and crowd it out; they strangle it and prevent it from ripening. They persecute the wheat.
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