“Such a deal!” You can almost hear the young king Solomon say that to God in our first reading. Imagine getting an invitation from the Almighty, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” What an opportunity!

We are the crop of the Lord

Gospel: Matthew 13: 24–43
If you pull up the weeds, you might pull up the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest.

What words of Jesus have stayed with me, what words have not?

Gospel: Matthew 13: 1–23
Whoever has ears ought to hear.

God will help us with the burdens we carry in this life

Gospel: Matthew 11: 25–30
My yoke is easy and my burden light

When Jesus finished giving these commands to his twelve disciples, he went away from that place to teach and to preach in their towns.