Our Lord, in our words, explains to us the nature of the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven, he said, is like the grain of mustard that a man has taken and sowed in his mother. Of all seeds, none is sown. But when he grows up, it is greater than any of them. He grows into a tree, so that all the birds come and settle in his branches. And he told them still another fact that he could not care for his life better, that a woman has taken and buried away in three measures of wheat, enough to let her go on a path. In these two comparisons, my dear friends, I think you can distinguish three elements. First, there is that evident, astonishing difference between the small being and the universal being.

[01:15]

There is one literal seed, the small subconscious seed, that must succeed And the result is a tree, and a tree being a nod to the birds of heaven. And there is a little piece of leaven, and the result is that there is a little piece of leaven in the leavens the entire batch. we see first the difference between a small beginning and a most universal and fruitful end. Now that is in some way in the way of all living things. We are indeed confronted constantly in the order of life with the surprising reality that this foreboding grows into something big.

[02:19]

Life, like sea, anything living, seems to have this image, this mysterious body called Vitality. This mysterious power which, from within, grows into large dimensions. And that was always to the deeper of integrity, and never, [...] never So there has been another factor which works in this little small thing. Now this other factor is the grace of God. It's the power that comes from God. Grace, that is the first which is explained here in these parables, indicated.

[03:28]

The miracle of grace, the kingdom of heaven, is essentially a miracle of God's grace. we give you a little. But this little, under God's blessing, you better ask Him to something which is completely out of proportion to that little beginning, that little contribution that we make all in that world, that we are able to make. Yesterday I called to a preaching, that this miracle is realized in every holy mass. You've been here, Father, and you've been with your little host. And this host, that is the seed, and that is brought to the altar, and then you receive it back. You receive the Lord of Heaven and Earth. You enter into the huge, great, wise, blessed Savior.

[04:33]

and every single little bit of your goodwill that you bring through your influence of God's divine love and grace develops into something which is completely out of proportion to what you have let us say invested. But there is also another feature which makes it still more and still more miraculous. And that is this, that the kingdom of heaven is in a small tiny mustard seed. And then what we do with this mustard seed? It has to be buried in water. And there's that little piece of leather. And what has to be done with this piece of leather? It has to be eaten. in the mass of death, in being buried, and in being in another.

[05:40]

And that's the way in which that little seed, or that little piece of heaven, has its universal effect. So you see, my dear friends, between the tree and the human being, there is the divine between the small beginning and the irreversible weight that makes us extinct, one other thing comes in between, and that is the being buried, that is the dead. Whatever we bring and we bring to the altar, it has to die. Before it doesn't die, not grow into anything. Not only has it been small, or is it small, it also has to die. We all know living in the light of the Resurrection and the Spirit of Christ as Savior, we all know what this death is that gives the death of our Lord and Savior, that gives the cross.

[06:48]

The cross will make our Lord wait. so that he became the head of his mystical body, the church. Hence the death and may every Christian wait, entering into the mystery of the cross, dying with the Lord, so that when he become large and big, brought into the family of the church. And that again we sing and celebrate in this holy mass. You bring your boast, this boast that represents you, you are that boast. Then give a piece of bread, and we bring it here to the altar, and what do we do? We bear it as a prayer, in the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. And you receive it back in holy communion, And to grow into the biggest election of the church, you become brethren and sisters in one and the same Lord Jesus Christ.

[08:00]

And then there is still a third feature which I want to recall a reference to, and that is that the universalist, he comprehends the big of the kingdom of heaven is of such a nature that it allows the words of heaven to live in the dream. And of the little piece of heaven it is expressly stated in our God's parable that this little piece really envelops the entire world. So it's not only, my dear friends, this difference between a small beginning and a big ending. It is also that this big ending is universal. This big ending is now. The kingdom of heaven is the path to heaven.

[09:05]

It is to comprehend birth by birth the kingdom of God. It is the fullness of which the epistle speaks. And this fullness is represented in the birds, for which are nested in the tree, and in the piece of leaven, transforming the entire mass. The one that the, let us say, witness for universality of the tree, that is universality under the picture of our extinction. And therefore he is more of the features of Catholicism that it extends over the entire world, that it lives in all the nations and all the races. and unites them all in one frame, and in one love, in one omniscience, in one unity.

[10:10]

But that is not all. The level, though that's another unity, I would call it the intensive, inner unity. The level is not something that grows into external, big things. but the land may softly then permeate, the whole transforms, the whole thing fall with me. And those two might constitute really the essence of Catholics. The Catholic Church is not only a worldwide organization, it's a worldwide organization only because it has in worldwide power in itself. And that worldwide power, which is the inside, which then expands in a worldwide organization, then it is called Holy Spirit.

[11:13]

That Holy Spirit transforms the heart of man. Therefore, one is not a Catholic by simply belonging to a worldwide organization, but one is a Catholic only insofar as one has the interior Catholicity, the Catholicity of the Buddhism. So therefore, to realize that we as men of opening a small, infinite, small sea. And that we, therefore, after being absorbed, go through a day of our own sin, in order to become and grow mainly free. And to do that in the power of the Holy Spirit. Then, Mr. Bromberg would listen for this verse.

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