NOTHING COMPARED TO THE GLORY TO BE REVEALED TO US
Catholic Homily/Sunday Reflection 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A July 13, 2008 Readings: Is 55:10-11 /Rom 8:18-23 /Mt 13:1-23 One experience we are all too familiar with, but which we’d rather not have to go through is the experience of failure. Students dread the thought of all their efforts at mastering the subject matter all coming to naught at the end of the term. Farmers need to do their sowing of new seeds at the right time, lest their seeds, for lack of sufficient moisture, wither and die. Parents go through their task of raising children with fear and trepidation because failure in this regard may spell a lifetime of regret - if not, recrimination. We all dread failure. We do not look forward to wastage of any kind, least of all our human efforts. We desire that all human effort expended in whatever field of endeavor, would turn efficacious, either for ourselves, or for others. We long for success. Students look forward to a diploma. Farmers want a bountiful harvest – an...