GRM 181.3 · Volume 3
The Gospel as revealed to me
Quotation
The crowds gather in Elias’ little kitchen garden requesting Jesus to speak to them. And although He is not inclined to do so, sad as He is because of the Baptist’s capture and the way it happened, He yields and begins to speak in the shade of the trees.
«As we are still in the lovely season when the corn bursts into ears, I wish to tell you a parable taken from the corn. Listen.
The Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while the man and his servants were asleep, his enemy came and sowed darnel seeds among the wheat and went away. At first no one noticed anything. Winter came with rain and frost, the end of the month of Tebeth came and the corn sprouted. The tiny little green leaves which had just come up, looked all alike in their innocent early days. The months of Shebat and Adar came and the plants grew and the spikes seeded. They then saw that it was not all wheat, and that there was also darnel, twisted with its thin strong bearbines round the corn stalks.
The servants of the master went to his house and said: “Lord, what seed did you sow? Was it not selected seed, free from every other seed?”.
“It was certainly so. I picked all the grain and they were all of the same quality. I would have noticed any other seed”.
“If so, why has so much darnel grown among your corn?”.
The landlord became pensive and said: “Some enemy has done that to harm me”.
The servants then asked: “Do you want us to go into the field and free the corn from the darnel, weeding it out patiently? Tell us and we will do it”.
But the master said: “No. Because you might weed out also the corn and almost certainly you would damage the ears which are still tender. Let them both grow till the harvest. Then I will say to the reapers: ‘Cut everything together, but before tying the sheaves, since the bearbines of the darnel are withered and friable, whereas the closed ears are stronger and harder, pick the darnel from the wheat and tie it into separate bundles. You will burn them and they will fertilize the soil. Take instead the good corn into the granaries and it will be used to bake good bread, to the great shame of my enemy who will have only gained to become despicable to God because of his envious malice’ “.
Consider now how often and how plentifully the Enemy sows in your hearts. And you must understand that it is necessary to watch patiently and constantly to ensure that little darnel is mixed with the chosen wheat. The fate of the darnel is to be burnt. Do you wish to be burnt or to become citizens of the Kingdom? You say that you want to become citizens of the Kingdom. Well, endeavour to be so. The good God gives you the Word. The enemy is vigilant to make it harmful, because the flour of wheat if mixed with the flour of darnel makes a bitter bread, which is harmful to the stomach. If there is darnel in your souls, pick it with goodwill and throw it away, so that you may not be unworthy of God.
Go, My children. Peace be with you.»
Annotation
To see the full explanation of the parable of the good grain and the tares, we advise you to go to this note.
Although Jesus has little desire to speak, distressed as he is by John the Baptist's capture and the way it came about, he gives in. He had heard the news the day before.
At this beautiful time of year, when the ears of wheat are forming, I'd like to propose a parable borrowed from the grain of wheat. Listen to it. The parable of the wheat and the tares is briefly recounted in Matthew 13:24-30 (see below). At EMV 575.7, Jesus reminds John and James of this parable.
At the end of the month of Tebet, the grain germinated, and the tender green of the little weeds that were just starting to sprout was seen. At the end of the month of Tebet: early January; Shebat corresponds to January/February, Adar to February/March. See the calendar for the months and the explanations given here for the year.
We then saw that the green was not just grain, but that there was also tares wrapped tightly with their fine, tenacious tendrils around the stems of the wheat. The botanical name for ryegrass is Lolium, close to the Italian Loglio used by Maria Valtorta. However, the Vulgate uses the word Zizania (from which comes the expression semer la zizanie). In Latin, this term can be generic and designate a weed in accordance with its Syriac meaning (Zizon), from which it derives. Agronomists call these unwelcome and invasive plants "weeds". See the commentary on chapter 181 on maria-valtorta.org(Pro e contro Maria Valtorta, La disputa tra Mir et Gregori, page 189 and following).
There was also weed, tightly wound with its fine, tenacious tendrils on the stalks of the wheat. Among the "weeds" Jesus mentions later, several plants bear tendrils, such as the bindweed or the Palestine dodder. Understandably, Jesus asks us not to pull them up, lest we pull up the good grain at the same time.
Gospel of Matthew 13, 23-30; 36-43
Mt 13, 23-30; Mt 13, 36-43 : The one who receives the seed in the good soil is the one who hears the Word and understands it: he bears fruit at the rate of a hundred, or sixty, or thirty to one." He offered them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who has sown good seed in his field. While the people were asleep, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away. When the stalk grew and produced an ear of wheat, the weeds also appeared. The master's servants came to him and said: "Lord, is that not good grain you have sown in your field? Where did the tares come from?" He said to them, "An enemy has done this." The servants say to him, "Do you want us to go and remove it?" He replies, "No, by removing the tares, you risk uprooting the wheat at the same time. Let them grow together until harvest time; and, at harvest time, I'll say to the reapers, First remove the tares, bind them in bundles to burn; as for the wheat, gather it up to bring it into my granary."""
Then, leaving the crowds, he came home. His disciples came up to him and said, "Explain to us clearly the parable of the tares in the field." He answered them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the Kingdom; the tares are the sons of the Evil One. The enemy who sowed it is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; the reapers are the angels. As the tares are taken away and thrown into the fire, so it will be at the end of the world. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will remove from his kingdom all those who cause stumbling and do evil, and throw them into the furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father's kingdom. He who has ears, let him hear!