Reception of the Word

Play
For 13 July 2008, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, based on Matthew 13:1-9

Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Let anyone with ears listen!’


Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

About Francis Arackal OP

Francis is a member of the Indian Province. He is originally from Cochin, Kerala, India. He has a doctorate in media and Licentiate in Philosophy from the the Dominican university in Rome, the Angelicum. Presently he is the Director of the Dominican Institute of Philosophy (Gyanadhara) in Goa, India, and teaches philosophy and media in Goa, Nagpur and other places.