Resumed Fifth Sunday After Epiphany — A Message From St. Pope John Paul II
Haymaking, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565 Translation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew At that time Jesus spoke this parable to the multitudes: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat, and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. [...]