The seed grows, he knows not how

O you churches that spend endless hours on gimmicks, programs, bait-and-switch, and all manner of earthly attempts to make the kingdom of heaven grow, if only you had heard  this parable (St. Mark 4), you would know that the kingdom of heaven grows of itself. For consider the works Christ's hands: how, impaled to a cross, he did the work of redeeming the world. This is the way of the Gospel. Sermon for Midweek of Sexagesima.