MASS READINGS, 12 June 2021, General Week 10 - Saturday 📖GOSPEL "It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows it exceeds all vegetable plants" A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To Mark (4, 26-34)

MASS READINGS, 12 June 2021, General Week 10 - Saturday 

📖GOSPEL 

"It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows it exceeds all vegetable plants" 

A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To Mark (4, 26-34) 

At that time, speaking to the crowd, Jesus said: "It is with the reign of God as with a man who sows seed in the earth: night and day, whether he sleeps or rises, the seed germinates and grows, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat ear. And as soon as the wheat is ripe, he puts the sickle in it, because the time of harvest has come. "

And he said," What shall we compare the kingdom of God? By what parable can we represent it? It is like a mustard seed: when sown in the ground, it is the smallest of all seeds. But when it has been sown, it grows and exceeds all vegetable plants; and it spreads out long branches, so that the birds of the air can make their nests in its shade. "

In many such parables, Jesus preached the Word to them, as far as they were able to hear it. He didn't say anything to them without a parable, but he explained everything to his disciples in particular. 

- Let us acclaim the Word of God.