His enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat

28 JULY (Mt 13,24-30)

To understand this parable well it is sufficient to read two passages of Scripture. In Adam and Eve the enemy of man has sown weed of pride.

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.'” But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. (Gen 3,1-7).

Saint Paul knows this well and proclaims it with great firmness. He sowed the good seed of the Word of God and an army of false believers the weeds of the anti gospel.

I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by (the) grace (of Christ) for a different gospel (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach (to you) a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed! Am I now currying favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. For I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. For you heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it, and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions. But when (God), who from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus. (Gal 1,6-17).

It is always so until the end of the world. The good apostles of Jesus sow in the hearts the good Word of Jesus, the Gospel of salvation, while the bad shepherds or bad apostles sow the weeds of heresy, falsehood, error, slander. They sow the thought of man which is the opposite of the thought of God. However, this is an unequal struggle. The children of darkness are smarter than the children of light. Those devote themselves to evil twenty-four hours out of twenty-four. After a few seconds we are already tired and we retire for the proper rest. Those have at their disposal numberless means and every day they created more excellent ones. To sow the Word to those who come to church, because the Lord still sends them to us out of pity, we do not care even to have a proper sound system. So little is our love for the Word, the Gospel, the Good News to be sown in their hearts for their eternal salvation.

He proposed another parable to them. “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, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him and said, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn.”‘”

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels, Saints give us the love for the Word. We want to announce it by making it; say it by witnessing it in a perennial novelty of life.