17th Tuesday - Weeds & Wheat

 In the Gospel today, Jesus explains the parable of the wheat and the weeds, which represent those who are righteous, and those who are evil, and what will happen to them at the judgment at the end of the world.

No one knows the day or the hour when the final judgment will be, but we do know that there will be one. Jesus said that He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, who is Himself. The field is the world and the good seed is the children of the Kingdom of Heaven. The good seeds, produce good fruit. The weeds are the children of the evil one and the enemy, who sows seeds which produces weeds, is the devil. At the end of the world the wheat will be separated from the weeds. The wheat will be harvested and the weeds will be burned in the fire. Until the judgment comes, the wheat and the weeds will grow together, that is until the harvest when they will be separated. Our Lord then explains what it will be like for the children of the kingdom.

He said, they will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of the Father, which is heaven. The children of the evil one-- will be wailing and grinding their teeth-- because they will be cast into the fiery furnace, which is hell.

Today, like never before, we need to ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to open the hearts of those who seem to be children of the enemy, that they may have a conversion of heart. And may we be prepared—for at a day and an hour we know not, when the Son of Man will come to judge the living and dead.