The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary are associated with ideas of seeds and fruit. Paul continues his presentation to the Corinthians of the meaning of the Resurrection of Christ. The image of the wheat plant following the seed but being different is made analogous to the resurrected body being different from our earthly body. Eileen Burke-Sullivan explores the growth of the Korean Church through lay people who were good soil for the Word which they encountered in the lives of Jesuits in China. The Church grows at times through the blood of martyrs who, Eileen Burke-Sullivan notes value the experience of living the life of Jesus more than attachment to our earthly existence. In the Gospel from Luke, Jesus uses the parable of the sower to indicate that our fruitfulness in living as a disciple of Jesus is centered on our openness to receive the Word and act on it.
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