death and harvest
Our dog Romero is named after Oscar Romero, a hero of the faith for both of us. Tonight in my reading, I came across these words spoken in his very last sermon, just moments before his death:
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies
Another writer translates it thus: “only in undoing itself does it produce the harvest”. What a profound message for the church. If only the church were willing to “undo itself” to produce the harvest. If only each of us were willing.
April 7th, 2003 at 11:49 am
@ 02/27/2003 14:05:
i’m sorry, isn’t this Buddhist doctrine. Has it been appropriated by Christians now.
October 13th, 2004 at 2:01 pm
I think you’ll find it in the Bible actually John 12:24 - I am telling you the truth: a grain of wheat remains no more than a single grain unless it is dropped into the ground and dies. If it does die, then it produces many grains.
September 11th, 2005 at 9:32 am
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