Homily - 15th Sunday in OT - The Seed & The Soil
Homily Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 12, 2026 In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the Parable of the Sower. The seed is the word of God; His love, His life, His truth, and every good gift He has given us. But the story is not really about the seed; the seed is the same, consistent, every time and always. The story is really about the soil. And we are the soil. Each of us is soil, the soil in our heart, not to be confused with dirt. Not ‘Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.” No, our hearts are in what everything grows. Everything that we do or don’t do, say or don’t say, is a product of the seed placed in the soil of our hearts by God. And like the soil in a farmer’s field, which is tilled and fertilized and watered and made receptive to the seed, the soil of our hearts also changes based on how we care for it. We are the farmers of our hearts’ soil. Some days our hearts are rich, receptive soil. Other days, hard, rocky, or choked with th...