Our mustard seed of faith grows with each watering

Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor.

A reflection on the daily readings, for the Memorial of St. John Bosco, priest, by Father Perry.

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

+ Ah, finally, the letter to the Hebrews gets to the point!

Endure in your faith! Exposed to abuse and affliction, don’t lose faith! Stay faithful to God, and he will certainly be faithful to you. Don’t lose your confidence. Don’t throw your confidence away. And finally, in the final line of today’s passage, the letter declares boldly —

“We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life.”

Then again, today, Jesus speaks in parables. He focuses on the growth of seeds sown, and a tiny mustard seed that becomes a huge tree in which birds come and nest.

But the comparison is so we can understand how faith grows the same in us because of God’s grace and Spirit. That is what happens within us as we come to know more and more the kingdom of God and its riches.

Are we people “who draw back,” or are we among the blessed to whom the —

“Father, Lord of heaven and earth, has revealed …
the mysteries of the kingdom”?