In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. Jesus tells us that the Sower is the Son of Man.

Jesus’ words in today’s Gospel about the sower were spoken directly to those who gathered around him — and they are almost more relevant to us in our highly technological age.

This is Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh’s depiction of a sower like the one in Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. van Gogh lived from 1853-90. (Courtesy Photo) Using agricultural language because his ...

The Parable of the Sower from the Gospel of Luke in the Bible shows that while not everyone may accept faith messages, sometimes the "seed" will land on good soil and produce fruit.

Sunday, July 13, is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). Today’s Gospel, the Parable of the Sower, shows the great risk inherent in Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross: Not only did he live ...

One of the major audiences for Jesus’ parables were Galilean farmers. They knew all about sowing seeds and waiting for the harvest, as Jesus describes it in the parable of the sower.

The sower originally was Jesus, who came teaching the word of God (the seed) and seeking a harvest. Today, anyone who shares God’s word with others is sowing the seed. Like seed, God’s word is “living ...

On Sunday, Pope Francis said that in the parable of the seed and the sower Jesus invites us to reclaim the ‘soil’ of our hearts by bringing to him, in prayer and Confession, the stones ...

But Jesus, the ‘good sower,’ does not tire of sowing it generously,” he said. Pope Francis addresses the crowd in St. Peter’s Square in his Sunday Angelus on July 16, 2023.

It is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today's gospel reading is a parable that our Lord Jesus has given to his disciples.