FROM HUMANITY TO DIVINITY
FROM HUMANITY TO DIVINITY. The Feast of Saint Lawrence I presume everyone is familiar with the educational phrase "No pain, no gain," which means that if there is no distress, there can be no gain. As you may have noticed, the opening of our first reading today states, "The more you sow, the more you reap, or whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully." In t oday ’s G ospel, it is said that the seed must die for there to be a harvest. The two images in the readings discuss how God views the seed in particular. We are all like the rotten apple, yet God has found that every one of us has a life-giving seed buried deep within. A generative seed capable of transforming and containing the entire being . Saint Lawrence, who is celebrated on this day in the church, is probably us, in all our goodness and wickedness. One of my favorite quotes is, "God does not look at the sinners as the rotten one but look at the seed that has life," which translates