July 19
Our Lady of Moyen Point
near Peronne, France
Gospel: Matthew 13:24-43
(16th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
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Today’s Gospel
is the Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat, an enemy sows weeds in a good
field at night, and when the servants want to rip them out immediately, the
owner says wait, let them grow together until the harvest, so the wheat isn’t
uprooted along with them. Patience, not premature judgment, is the instruction.
We’re often
the servants in this story, eager to yank out everything that looks like a weed
the moment we spot it, in our own lives, in other people, in the world around
us. We want resolution now, clarity now, the bad separated cleanly from the
good right now. God’s patience can feel almost frustrating by comparison.
Let something
stay unresolved today instead of forcing premature judgment on it. Maybe it’s a
person you’ve already written off, or a part of your own character you keep
trying to rip out by force instead of letting God’s slower work finish it
properly. The harvest comes, and the separation happens, but not always on the
timeline we’d prefer, and rarely by our own hand alone.
Today on the
Marian calendar, we have Our Lady of Moyen Point, near Peronne, France, one more
field of devotion that grew slowly across generations rather than all at once.
Our Lady’s own patience, waiting decades in obscurity before Jesus’s public
ministry even began, models exactly this kind of trust in God’s timing.
Something for you to think about: What have you been trying to uproot before
God’s harvest was actually ready in the timeframe He sees fit in a situation in
your life?
Rosary Man Jim 🌹
Freely given. Freely shared.
