The Mustard Seed

The Faith Formation classes concluded their work with the Kingdom Parables, focusing on the Mustard Seed. Students were amazed to see tiny mustard seeds from Israel, just like the one Jesus referred to when teaching about what the Kingdom of Heaven is like. Some reflections included, 

God's great strength and power within the seed makes the tiny seed grow and change into something much bigger and so very different - a tree.

There are so very many seeds in the world, seeds of all kinds, and each of those seeds has this same great strength of God working within it to cause such growth and change. How much of this strength, this energy, is at work in the world all around us!

We are like the mustard seed. We began life so very tiny, and yet we are growing and changing. This strength of the life of God that is in the mustard seeds is also at work within us,  causing us to keep growing and changing until and beyond our death.

Afterward, the students took a close look at various garden seeds, selecting some to plant and sprout for later use in our summer garden. 

With the remaining time, we couldn’t forget to mention Saint Patrick and some of the many ways he helped share God’s message of love including his creative use of the shamrock to explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity.