The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary invoke
questions about the nature of the kingdom spoken as Zion by Jeremiah and the
Kingdom of God which is realized through the Word which Jesus describes as
being distributed like seed in the Gospel of Matthew. What is the knowledge we
lack when we let the Word fall like the seed on the path? The tradition of
faith helps us recognize through teaching and sharing what the experience of
intimacy with the Divine is for our ancestors and contemporaries. We see the
need to inquire about the experience of others and to present our lives as experience
which softens the path. We are aware that the concerns of living in the world
can block our care to develop good soil. The choice of the worldly option of accommodation
and taking advantage is the decision taken by the leaders of Israel against
which Jeremiah became a prophet. We know that our human nature tries to make
faith, trust and patience into actions of the ineffective in the world. The
pressure both internally generated and externally supported in the society is
to take care of you. This is contrary to the civilization of love which is the characteristic
of Zion seen by Jeremiah and the fruitful good soil wherein Jesus sees the
transcendent multiplication of good riches for all eternally.
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