Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13, 1-23 - The seed is the word of God; the sower is Christ; he who finds him remains forever.

It is notorious, and it is even a habit in Christ, when He wants to pass on a message in His teachings, to speak in parable, and He explains to the disciples the reasons for this way of speaking in parable. On the one hand, there are those to whom it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, those they believe and can therefore understand. But on the other hand, the Jews who do not want to believe and do not recognize him, Christ wants to reveal God to them only through parables.

Here, Jesus identifies Himself with the sower who sows without distinction on every kind of ground, whether it be on the roadside or on rocky ground, whether it be on thorny ground or on very fertile soil, which represent the crowd gathered around Him. God dispenses his grace without any discrimination, it is up to each one of us to receive this grace or not. Here, this grace is none other than the word of God announced to the people, assimilated to the grains sown, some of which fall into the hearts of men, take root there and bear fruit while others, ignored, die.

"The word is sacred" according to Malagasy culture. The word of God is announced to us but it is we who plug our ears, making us an inert earth, infertile to the word of God. Let us assimilate the teaching of Christ so that the word of God may fall on fertile ground and bear fruit, and so that the word of Christ may be effective for us: "To him who has, to him will be given, and he will be in abundance".