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Sunday Sermon: Feast of the Dedication of a Church, 23rd Sunday After Pentecost

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The talk centers on the parables of the mustard seed and leaven, illustrating the growth of the kingdom of heaven from small beginnings through divine grace and transformation. It emphasizes the process of spiritual growth, explaining that the kingdom of heaven expands from minor contributions into a universal entity, reflecting the essence of the Resurrection and the transformative power of the Holy Spirit within the Church.

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  • The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Leaven: These parables from the New Testament highlight the idea that small beginnings, like a mustard seed or a piece of leaven, under God's grace, lead to significant and universal growth, which represents the development of the kingdom of heaven.

  • The Concept of Grace: Discussed as a divine power that amplifies small efforts into extraordinary outcomes, emphasizing the miraculous nature of spiritual growth within the kingdom of heaven.

  • The Holy Mass and the Eucharist: Reference to the transformation of the host during Mass symbolizes the personal and communal entry into the kingdom of heaven, demonstrating the transition from small offerings to profound spiritual realization.

  • Catholic Church's Universality: Explored as a dual concept of external expansion and internal transformation, underscoring the Church's role in unifying diverse peoples and embodying the Holy Spirit's power.

AI Suggested Title: Seed to Universe: Spiritual Growth

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... [...] But when it grows out, it is greater than any garden. It grows in good trees, so that all the birds come and separate its branches. And he told them still another path, the kingdom of heaven is lying dead. And woman and state then varied away three measures of need, enough to let them go home there. In these two comparisons, I have been preparing Distinguished through the evidence.

[01:03]

First, there is that evidence. Astonishing difference between the small people and the university. There is one little student, the small student, the muster team. And the research is extremely So, we see first the difference between a small beginning and a most universal and fruitful thing. Now that is in some way the way of all living things.

[02:05]

We are deep and water constantly in the order of life with a surprising memory that a small beginning grows into something big. Like, like a sea, anything living seems to have this In it, this mysterious what we call a vitality, this mysterious power, which brought with you, grows into large dimensions. And that was always true for people. It would be a miracle, a miracle which was explained that could be explained only through one thing. This bit of steel doesn't seem to have it in itself to grow into such a big thing.

[03:08]

So there has another factor which works in this little small steel. Now this other factor is the grace of it. It's the power that mountains walk by. Grace, that is the curse which is explained here in this alphabet, indicated The miracle of grace, the kingdom of heaven, is essentially a miracle of God's grace. We did a little, but this little, under God's blessing, developed into something which is completely out of proportion to that little beginning, that little contribution, if we may call it that way, that we are in. Yesterday I called your attention to the fact that this miracle of the years is realized in every holy night.

[04:10]

You could hear God and you could break your little post and this post that is to see and that is brought to the altar and then you receive it back. You receive the Lord of heaven and earth. You enjoy it with If you give it wise, there is the Savior. And there is the little piece of pure goodwill that you bring, through the universe of God's demonic love and grace, develops into something which is completely out of proportion to what you have that is very invested. But there's also another future to make things feel more, and still more miraculous. And that is it. That the kingdom of heaven, what the universe, is more than a mustard seed.

[05:16]

And then what do we do with this mustard seed? It has to be buried in the body. And there's that little piece of leather. And what he has It has to be hidden in the paths of death. It's better and it will be hidden away. And that's the way in which that little city or that little themes of death has to its universal effect. So to slip our head right, it's going to be extremely humanly made. And if the divine bliss would be in the small of the evening, and if it prevents the very tremendous effect, what other thing comes to you, and that is the being there, that is the day. Whatever we do, and we watch the altar, it has to come.

[06:22]

Before I just die, not go into anything, Not only has it been small, but is it small? It also happens. We all know living in the life of Christ, and the spirit of Christ the Savior, we all know what this death is, that it is the death of our Lord Savior, that it is the cross. The cross will make our Lord way, so that he will make the dead. of this mystical body of church. And the dead had made every Christian brain, entering into the mystery of the box, dying with the Lord, so that brain could become large and big, brought into the family of the church. And every thing said, why did this for a man?

[07:24]

You bring your boast, this boast that represents you. You are their boast. They take a piece of bread, and they put it here to the altar. And what do we do? We bear it as if we're in the deck of our Lord Jesus Christ, and you receive it back in Holy Communion, and you grow into the biggest adaption of the church. you will be part of the enemy that didn't walk and say, Lord Jesus Christ. And there is still a third picture, which I wanted to call your attention to, and that is that the unification of the kingdom of heaven is of such a nature that it allows the birds of heaven to live in between.

[08:28]

And our political piece of heaven, it is expressly stated in our God's Bible, that this little piece really inhibits the entire world's truth. So it's not only, my dear friends, the difference between a small thing and a big ending, If it's also that best good ending is to the worst, this good ending is to happen. The kingdom of heaven is to happen. It isn't to complain, but by one kingdom of God. It is the goodness of which he has this person. And this goodness is which he said to give the birds for which he has left it. free entities of living, transforming the entire mass.

[09:30]

The one, the, the, let us say, fitness or universal parity of the treaty, there is still universal parity under the picture of an extinction. And then, of course, is one of the features of Catholicism That it extends over the entire world. That it takes in all the nations and all the nations. And you've got to follow in what they, and in what love, in what of music, in what youth. But that is not all. The legend, so there's another unity. I would call it the intensity, even now to me. The letter is not something that grows into an eternally big thing, but the letter is something that radiates the whole, transforms the whole thing from within.

[10:37]

And those two must constitute really the essence of heaven. The Catholic Church is not only in word and word, for better sakes, It's a worldwide organization only because it has a worldwide power in its state. And that worldwide icon, which is the inside, which then expands in a worldwide organization, that is the Christian. That will be still to transform the hearts of men. Therefore, what is not Why is it belonging to work by organization? For one is a Catholic country insofar as one has the interior of the Catholicity, the Catholicity of the Buddhist.

[11:39]

So therefore, to realize that we as men are only a small infinite space for us to And that they might therefore have to be a store, go through a day among our own state, in order to become a global degree. And to do that in the power of the priesthood, that is the wonderful lesson.

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