Homily: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This weekend we hear a gospel from Matthew which is broken into three basic parts: the parable of the sower…Jesus’s reasoning for using parables… and then lastly, the explanation Jesus gave his 1st century followers of what this parable was all about. But there is something so obvious to see in this story that even Jesus omitted it from his explanation. What did Jesus leave out of his elucidation of this gospel? And how can that missing piece of the puzzle change your life? Click and listen to how the answer to these questions is found….in the soil.