61.Wednesday - 3nd week: Parable of the Sower : Memory, Rich soil , Perception : The mystery

Through Baptism, the mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you.


To become rich soil that produces a hundredfold yield, honor God with your best.

A man after Gods  heart  knows how to please God. This  turns to favor , and favor turns promise or blessing.  The waiting period for a promise to fulfill is the preparation period to forging the character required to sustain the promise. This leads to intense purification process covering the full spectrum of human experience from suffering to triumph. This will make a heart meek and humble.

David’s desire to build a house for God resulted in God promising to build an everlasting dynasty  for David, securing his royal throne forever.

2 Samuel 7  2 David  said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.

Jesus built a mystical house—the Church—as the Mystical Body of Christ, and the Lord established his royal throne forever. Through baptism, a Catholic is incorporated into this Mystical Body.

2 Samuel 7 : 5 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the LORD: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in?

As long as I have wandered about among the Israelites, did I ever say a word to any of the judges ,Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

I was with you wherever you went, and I cut down all your enemies before you. And I will make your name like that of the greatest on earth.

11I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD also declares to you that the LORD will make a house for you.

12 I will raise up your offspring after you, sprung from your loins, and I will establish his kingdom. 

13 He it is who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever. 

14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will reprove him with a human rod and with human punishments;

Catholic baptism infuse sanctifying grace, which is the presence of God within the soul, which justifies the soul, removes original sin, and enables the baptized to live, act, and grow in the Kingdom of God. 

 A Catholic need to perceive what is within, rather than wandering outside like a prodigal son.

Mark 4:1 11 Jesus answered them, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you. But to those outside everything comes in parables, 12 so that ‘they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.

This shows the importance of sanctifying grace in catholic baptism  to perceive the mystery of the kingdom of God. 

Mark chapter 4 verse 20, Those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”

Luke 2:19, the phrase "Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart."

Luke 22:19 "Do this in memory of me."

"Memory is the blueprint for current reality and future destiny. To change destiny, one must rewrite that blueprint."

Sanctifying grace infuses the theological virtues—faith, hope, and charity—which empowers  the sacramental life and informs all actions for the heart to perceive the mystery of the kingdom of God. This  perception forms a conclusion or theological object fosters a    habitual disposition in the heart  in form of memory  that is rich soil . Eventually rich soil  produce hundredfold fruits of conversion, repentance, forgiveness and grow in the kingdom of God.

Theological Framework  acts as an interpretive lens for perception, shaping a raw data of reflection from soul, imagination of heart and thought of brain  into a, judgment, or, decision, which is often termed a "pastoral" or "contextual" conclusion  or theological object  that leads to express truth

Mark 4: 14 The sower sows the word. 15 These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them. 16And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy. 17But they have no root; they last only for a time. Then when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18Those sown among thorns are another sort. They are the people who hear the word, 19but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit. 20But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”

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