In today’s Gospel, Luke 13: 18-21, Jesus asks the question: ‘What
is the kingdom of God like? What shall I
compare it with? It is like a mustard
seed which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and
the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.’ Again he said, ‘What shall I
compare the kingdom of God with? It is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in
with three measures of flour till it leavened all through.’
The seed of the Kingdom is a powerfully creative seed
planted within us at our baptism, sealed within us at our confirmation,
nurtured within us in the reception of the Eucharist, and transformed within us
by all of the sacraments. As the entire dough is effected by yeast, so, too, the whole of human nature is
transformed by the “yeast” of God’s grace until each of us becomes the very
image of God, until we become an alter Christus in this world, until, with St.
Paul, each of us can say: “I have been
crucified with Christ…it is no longer I, but Christ living in me” (Galatians
2:20). Think of the fact that everything
we do and say and long for reflects this longing to be one with Christ, even
when we, or others, fall miserably short
of reaching that goal. Why? Because
Christ has won the victory of our transformation into the very likeness of God.
Good will triumph, no longer how long it takes and evil will be overcome by the
seed of Goodness within each one of us!
Wow!
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