September 20, 2025 – Saturday of the 24th week in Ordinary Time
Homily
Farming or gardening can be a good lesson in patience, trust, and letting go. Once you have worked the soil, planted the seeds, and watered them, all you can do is wait patiently. At first, there is no way to know for sure whether the seeds will grow or not. Then you cannot know to what extent they will grow. You can influence the conditions that promote growth in various ways, but you cannot intervene in the growth process itself. With all this in mind, let us now return to today's Gospel reading.