Yeast ~ Msgr. Daniel Hoye

There’s one theory of public speaking that says you ought to tell the people what you’re going to say, then you say it, and then you tell them what you said.  In other words, it’s repetition and it might finally sink in.

Maybe that’s behind the folks who selected our scripture readings…or maybe they just weren’t talking to each other!  The ones for Sunday have been from Matthew 13 for the last three weekends.  What do we read today?  Matthew 13!  Maybe they’re trying to have it sink in – what is the Kingdom of Heaven like?  Over and over again.

Maybe we can just focus on the last one that we heard today – it’s like yeast that’s mixed in with white flour - the whole thing is leavened.  It creates a reaction that allows for the bread to rise.  Maybe you and I need to be open to the yeast, or the Kingdom of Heaven, that can transform us, that can lift us up, that can change us in ways that we can’t even dream of; that we will be able to help the Kingdom of Heaven be established upon Earth by the way we live and do.