In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a ...

One day, while going through it, I came across his interpretation of the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, from which he teaches a lesson. His use of the parable significantly differs from the ...

This week, we’ll hear the Parable of the Sower and Seeds. Next week, we’ll hear the Parable of the Wheat and Tares. The week after that, we’ll hear parables of buried treasure and the pearl ...

It struck me that my inner terrain was more like the patchwork terrain of my hike than the neatly differentiated terrain in the parable of the sower and the seed. My life is filled with patterns that ...

In the 13th chapter of Matthew, we find the parable of the sower. In this parable we find that some of the seed fell by the wayside, where birds carried it off. A portion fell in stony places ...

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Some of the deep truths of God are presented so simply in Scripture that we often fail to appreciate their significance. We read of our Lord’s parable of the sower, how he would use a graphic ...