In this beautiful period 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.
The enemy is watching to make it harmful, for grain flour mixed with darnel flour makes bitter bread, harmful to the intestines. (...) Now, thrown in by the enemy, all the other seeds sprout: here are nettles, couch grass, dodder, bindweed, and here are hemlock and poisonous herbs. Dodder has laxative properties and bindweed is a mild purgative. The flour of common ryegrass, mixed in small quantities with wheat flour, prevents the action of yeast. As for the intestinal disorders mentioned by Jesus, they must be caused by dodder or bindweed, or a type of ryegrass distinct from the common grass, which is sometimes used as a fodder plant.
These will attain, as the prophets announce, the perfection of scandal and abomination in all their earthly activity. For example, Deuteronomy 9:27; 11:31, 36; 12:11.
Deut 9:27: Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness and to their sin.
We have not found any convincing verses in the other references given.
Here, then, is the universal meaning: Jesus had already commented on the meaning of the Parable in his catechesis of October 27, 1943.
You may ask: "But can there be traitors among the disciples? "See the previous chapter, in EMV 180.8. The betrayal of one of John the Baptist's disciples, which led to the prophet's arrest, caused quite a stir.
Now, thrown in by the enemy, all the other seeds germinate: here are nettles, couch grass, dodder, bindweed, hemlock and poisonous herbs. Palestine dodder (cuscuta palaestina) is a parasite that surrounds plants with numerous suckers. See remarkable botanical knowledge.
Have you ever seen how beautiful they are, with their tiny flowers that become so many little white, red, blue-purple balls? Red balls: Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara). Its berries are said to cause abdominal pain, vomiting and headaches. Found in southern Eurasia.
Blue-purple balls: This is the case with myrtle-leaved corroyera (corriara myrtifolia). Its blue-purple fruits are appetizing, but cause alcohol poisoning in herds that eat them. They can be fatal under certain conditions. However, the plant is only common in the western Mediterranean. This may also be the case for Bryonia dioica. A climbing plant with tendrils, it can cause dermatitis of varying degrees of irritation on contact with the skin. Ingestion of plant parts (berries, root) causes vomiting and diarrhea, and can have serious consequences (delirium, cramps, etc.). The absorption of just a few dozen berries, attractive because of their color, is enough to cause the death of a child.
Good people believe that others are as good as they are! Ah, what a truth that elevates the master and condemns the betrayer! When rereading the typescript made by Father Migliorini, Maria Valtorta notes at this point: "To work to redeem with goodness, to work without hopes or illusions, out of pure desire to do one's duty to the extreme, to work so that others don't realize that this one is a bad one, so that they don't hate him ... What a divine lesson the Divine Master gives to spiritual guides and to all Christians!"
"God does not allow us to oppose the triumph of his loving will any more than is useful". On a leaf inserted in the typed copy, Maria Valtorta wrote:
"God has given man the intellect to understand, the reason to guide himself as a reasonable creature, the conscience to advise, the law to know how to regulate himself, the freedom to deserve what he wants to deserve: God and glory, or Hell and damnation.
Moreover, He has given him grace, or predestination to grace, so that it may be a stimulus, or a means, of raising the things listed below to a level capable of giving him a holy taste for the supernatural and for God.
Now, in the man who is intelligent, reasonable, conscious, free, and above all instructed in the Faith, knowing his last end and the divine Law, there should be only such actions as the Law prescribes and the knowledge of the end incites us to practice, even as reason and conscience indicate them as good to all, even to those who do not know revealed religion, in order toto obtain the eternal reward that the human intellect, all the more so when enlightened by Grace, is infinitely superior to all conceptions a believer can imagine.
But it sometimes happens that man, acting against reason, turns his freedom into a yoke of the cruellest of slaveries: that of the devil and sin, preferring Evil to Good.
Even if God allows man to do what he chooses of his own free will, in order to judge and confirm him in grace, or to judge that he deserves punishment, nothing lessens man's guilt. For while it is true that man, at God's prompting or Satan's instigation, can do good or evil, it is no less true that man should follow God alone and his loving invitations, for it is from him that he has received all those natural, moral and supernatural gifts capable of making him a child of God, heir to the Kingdom."
Gospel of Matthew 13, 23-30; 36-43
Mt 13, 23-30; Mt 13, 36-43: He who received the seed into the good soil is he who hears the Word and understands it: he bears fruit 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. But while the people were sleeping, 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!