July 31st : GospelThe smallest of all seeds grows into the biggest shrub of allA reading from the Holy Gospel according to St.Matthew 13: 31-35

July 31st :  Gospel

The smallest of all seeds grows into the biggest shrub of all

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to St.Matthew 13: 31-35 

Jesus put a parable before the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches.’

  He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.’

  In all this Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables; indeed, he would never speak to them except in parables. This was to fulfil the prophecy:

I will speak to you in parables

and expound things hidden since the foundation of the world.

The Word of the Lord.