Thursday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
"Yes, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so you are in mine, House of Israel."

"Yes, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so you are in mine, House of Israel."
Worried about many things? Only one is necessary!
Darnel or wheat ... you just can't tell.
Loincloths in the Euphrates
Treasure and pearls on offer...
Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?
Explain the Parable of the Sower to us.
Why do you speak to them in parables?
Woman, why are you weeping?
Who are my mother, sisters and brothers?
Act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like...
He will not break the bruised reed or quench the flickering flame.
Hey, the disciples are eating corn on the Sabbath!
Who is my Mother?
...on hiding things from the learned and the clever.
"Alas for you Chorazin! (And by Chorazin, I mean Catholics)"
Jesus: "It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword." Everyone else: "Wait... what?"
The good soil ... the kind that receives the seed and then yields an abundant harvest.
why every hair on your head has been counted (and for some, it's not a lot!)
Cunning as serpents ... gentle as doves!
You have received without charge... give without charge.
12 Apostles.... an interesting bunch.
The harvest is rich... when you stick with the Lord of the harvest.
"I am going to lure her and lead her out into the wilderness and speak to her heart."
Take my yoke upon you ... stop carrying your own yoke, it's so much heavier!
"New wine, new wineskins..." Leaving room for the Holy Spirit in our lives.
"My Lord and my God!" - that about sums it up.
"Courage! ... get up, and pick up your bed and go off home."
"At this the whole town set out to meet Jesus; and as soon as they saw him they implored him to leave the neighbourhood."