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T1.E193| Mc 4, 26-34: XI Domingo Ordinario. El árbol de mostaza · Vitamina O: Evangelio dominical comentado

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  Frozen foods areband the best selection of pre- cooked and ultra- frozen foods.
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  Vegetarian potatoes esmuris and much more supernatural, nutritious and easy to prepare,
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  find them in all supermarkets in the frozen section. Welcome to this space of
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  vitamin prayer, together with Francisco Hermengol, a brief spiritual biblical reflection capsules that
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  entertain, teach and lift the soul. Good morning, the eleventh Sunday of
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  Ordinary Time and we read the Gospel of Mark. At that time, Jesus
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  said to the crowd the Kingdom of God. It looks like a man who
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  casts seed on the earth. He sleeps at night and rises in the morning
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  the seed germinates and grows without him knowing how the earth produces fruits alone,
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  first the stems, then the spike, then the grain. When the grain
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  is ready, the sickle is stuck because the blind has arrived. He also
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  said with what we will compare the Kingdom of God, what parable we will
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  use with a mustard seed in sowing it on earth. It is the smallest
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  seed, but after sowing it grows higher than other vegetables and made branches so
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  large that birds can nest in its shade. With many similar parables. He
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  exposed the word to them by conforming to their understanding. He explained everything with
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  parables, but to his disciples he explained everything in private. Jesus tried to
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  explain to the people of his time what God' s love is like and
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  how it works, because that is God' s kingdom, God' s
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  love, and he did it with images that his listeners could relate. On
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  this occasion he uses two images, the image of a sown grain growing at
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  night and the mustard seed. What I meant by that. The grain has
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  an intrinsic internal dynamism that makes it grow without us realizing it. Just be
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  sown in a good land and he' s acting on his own. This
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  is the action of God. Grace is acting slowly and mysteriously, not knowing
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  how this clashes with the current mentality. Because we want immediate results, we
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  want to understand, we want to control and we want to see the results
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  and measure them day by day, month or, month and year by year.
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  Every company has meters, it has the famous CAPE and those with which
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  it evaluates its performance. That is good and necessary for business and for human
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  institutions. It is useful and good, but that desire for control and measurement
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  does not work with the love of God. Our job is to sow and
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  then God will take care of your time to grow. It is not up
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  to us to measure progress in God’ s love. In fact, when
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  we begin to measure the apostolic or spiritual outcome of our actions, things usually
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  start to become a little vitious there. The second image that Jesus uses mustard
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  seed, because Jesus chose a relatively small and highly invasive ugly plant like mustard
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  to compare it with God’ s love. I think he does it to
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  achieve the amazement of his listeners and I first explain the ugly appearance and invasive
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  characteristic of the mustard plant. Pliny the Elder, in his book Natural History,
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  says that mustard germinates immediately after being sown and that it is almost impossible
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  to eliminate it. Once planted. It' s considered a weed. Once
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  planted it is really very difficult to get rid of it. It invades everything
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  around you. It was not a seed someone wanted in his field or in
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  his garden. If she was left alone, she would become an impenetrable scrub.
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  What a relationship this has with God' s love, the ugly look.
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  Many times God acts in the midst of realities that are full of imperfections,
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  but yet grace finds its way and advances. The invasive characteristic of God
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  ' s love permeates and penetrates the whole reality of the human being. The
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  love of God is not only an aspect of Sunday manifestation, go to the
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  temple to pray for a while on Sundays, but the love of God invades
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  and illuminates all other spheres of the person, family, work, hobbies,
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  health, everything and besides, is unstoppable. For the expansion of the Kingdom
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  of Heaven. It takes nothing more than a tiny seed to start a whole
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  movement that once in motion is unstoppable. We must have the confidence that God
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  ' s love is unstoppable. Second, the size of the mustard tree.
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  You have ever seen a mustard plant, although in some parts of the planet,
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  as in the west of the United States, it can reach almost five
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  meters high the variety of mustard tree that Jesus would have seen in Palestine barely
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  exceeded two meters or two and a half meters at most and as we have
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  said, it was not a shrub of beautiful appearance. In any case,
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  neither the Palestinian nor the Canifornian variety are such trees. They' re actually
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  vegetables. That Jesus qualified this plant as a tree and even as a large
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  tree is a little ridiculous. If Jesus had said that this mustard seed in
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  question, when planted, would become a small tree. It would have already
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  been an exaggeration, but a small exaggeration and as a figurative expression. The
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  fact that Jesus describes the mustard tree as of enormous proportions could be accepted.
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  It suggests that Jesus either did not know much about the mustard plant, which
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  I do not think is the case, or that he spoke in this way
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  just to draw attention to a ridiculous thing expressly desired by Jesus so that people,
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  hearing such absurdity or exaggeration, could understand the point that Jesus was trying
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  to convey. The size of the mustard seed in its very small beginnings can
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  reach unimaginable, disproportionate and never thought of sizes. Third, the function of
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  giving shade for birds to nest Once grown. The parable says that it becomes
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  a tree in which birds come and make their nests in the Old Testament.
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  When speaking of some powerful kingdom, it is often compared to a tree,
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  since they are majestic and wonderful. It used to compare a great kingdom to
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  the hill of Lebanon a really huge and majestic tree. When a tree of
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  those trees was cut, its wood was used to make all kinds of products
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  and especially those dedicated to the temple of Jerusalem. Jesus takes this simile from
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  the Old Testament to compare in this case the Kingdom of Heaven, the love
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  of God to a tree also as it was done in the Old Testament,
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  with the difference that, instead of comparing it to a wonderful and majestic tree,
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  it compares it to the tree coming from the grain of Mustard, which,
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  as we have said before, rather, is the opposite, small and
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  ugly. So, what is the background message of this parable, the reference
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  to birds sheltering under mustard sounds a little random, although it has a poetic
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  touch. Jesus is referring to the prophecy of the Old Testament, in which
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  birds nesting in trees represent different nations that find protection under the shadow of powerful
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  leaders. In Ezekiel, that leader is Pharaoh. In Daniel is Nebuchadnezzar referring
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  to those realms of Antiquity that seemed in their time totally indestructible. In the
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  end, history proves it. All kingdoms are temporary, come, have their
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  epoch of splendor and then collapse. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece,
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  Rome, the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, Spain, England, France, the
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  United States, Russia are kingdoms that in their time seemed invincible, but collapsed.
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  If we had told a Roman of the 2nd century that Rome was going
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  to collapse and fall it would have seemed absurd and yet so it happened.
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  The Kingdom of God. In the end, however, it is the one
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  that will prevail over all others. Applying this idea to a more personal and
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  particular sphere, we could say that those realms can also be all those human
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  realities, those ambitions under which we shelter ourselves and in which we support our
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  happiness, stability and personal security, health, success, money, economic stability,
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  the pleasures of life, power, fame, etc. In the end,
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  those trees will also fall and we will realize that the tree that truly
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  shelters us is the love of God. The shadow of the Mustard tree I
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  saw comes from saying that at the end of everything, who will save us
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  and give eternity is God, nothing and no one else. The love of
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  God is the most stable in the Universe, because Jesus used the image of
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  the cane of Mustard. Something that seems small, insignificant, ugly invasive or
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  of relative little value, imperfect, can and will, in fact, result
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