Posted on 03/25/2014 2:25:22 AM PDT by markomalley
Not social justice — read the Gospel again. Christ is sowing the word in the Woman at the Well. Then she goes off and does more sowing in the townspeople.
Then both she and the Lord rejoice.
It’s about evangelization.....nothing else.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3136995/posts?page=21#21
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No money needs to be involved. AND IS NOT involved in this Gospel story. Please Read it again.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3136995/posts?page=21#21
You guys getting Marxist teaching out of what Msgr. Pope has written must keep in mind that this is an analogy, a comparison of similar things which are otherwise dissimilar. It is not like a farmer planting his own seed and then someone comes along at harvest time to take the fruit away from him. We ourselves are part of God’s harvest. We are fruit that was harvested from seed planted by others, and the seed that we sow bears fruit that is added to the harvest, the body of Christ.
It is easy to cut open an orange, knead through it, and count the number of seeds in that orange. But it is impossible to take one of those seeds and count the number of oranges in that seed.
I completely agree with your post # 16.
Nice job! You have stated it well.
Okay, who’s actually read the first few chapters of 1 Corinthians and thinks that passage is promoting Marxism? Yikes.
Thank you.
Interesting. We studied this passage in Bible Study last week. We had the same conclusions as the Fr. does. Sometimes it’s our job to sow, sometimes our job to reap. Bottom line is that the harvest is plentiful, and we need to be faithful workers to whichever task we’re called to perform at all those times we’re called to perform it.
Just curious.
Why should we spread the gospel? Because as Christians, we are doing what Jesus commanded us to do. I say that those to whom you refer do not understand Jesus’s instructions to all of us who follow Him.
I’m not getting the Marxist connection here either. This was a good message.
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