Today's Gospel 19 September 2020 with the words of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
From the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corìnzi
1Cor 15,35-37.42-49

Brothers, someone will say: «How are the dead raised? With which body will they come? ». Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies first. As for what you sow, you are not sowing the body that will be born, but a simple grain of wheat or some other kind. So too is the resurrection of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in misery, it rises in glory; it is sown in weakness, it rises in power; animal body is sown, spiritual body is resurrected.

If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body. Indeed, it is written that the first man, Adam, became a living being, but the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. There was not the spiritual body first, but the animal one, and then the spiritual. The first man, taken from the earth, is made of earth; the second man comes from heaven. As the earthly man is, so are those of earth; and as the heavenly man is, so also the heavenly ones. And just as we were like earthly man, so we will be like heavenly man.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to Luke
Lc 8,4-15

At that time, as a great crowd gathered and people from every city came to him, Jesus said in a parable: «The sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air ate it. Another part fell on the stone and, as soon as it sprouted, withered due to lack of moisture. Another part fell among the brambles, and the brambles, which grew together with it, choked it. Another part fell on good soil, sprouted and yielded a hundred times as much ». Having said this, he exclaimed: "Whoever has ears to listen, listen!"
His disciples questioned him about the meaning of the parable. And he said: "It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others only with parables, so that
seeing do not see
and by listening they do not understand.
The meaning of the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. The seeds that fell along the way are those who have listened to it, but then the devil comes and takes the Word away from their hearts, so that it does not happen that, believing, are saved. Those on the stone are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy, but have no roots; they believe for a time, but in the time of the test they fail. Those who fell among the brambles are those who, after having listened, let themselves be suffocated along the way by the worries, riches and pleasures of life and do not reach maturity. Those on the good ground are those who, after having listened to the Word with an integral and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with perseverance.

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
This of the sower is somewhat the "mother" of all parables, because it speaks of listening to the Word. It reminds us that it is a fruitful and effective seed; and God generously scatters it everywhere, regardless of waste. So is the heart of God! Each of us is a ground on which the seed of the Word falls, no one is excluded. We can ask ourselves: what kind of terrain am I? If we want, with God's grace we can become good soil, carefully plowed and cultivated, to ripen the seed of the Word. It is already present in our heart, but making it bear fruit depends on us, it depends on the welcome we reserve for this seed. (Angelus, 12 July 2020)