This week's Gospel: The 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2008/Jul08.html
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Matt 13: 1 – 23.
(13th-Jul-2008) The 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A

A sower went out to sow.
This reading, taken mainly from Matthew, is one of the few places where the Matthean sequence is disturbed. There may be some doubt as to whether the conventional order has been modified by the harmonizer, or whether he is a witness to an older order. Interweaving is light, with a small amount from Luke, and even less from Mark.
The result of the re-ordering is to insert the capita LXXI, to LXXIII, and part of LXXIIII into the sequence starting with LXX, and ending with LXXV. It might be thought that this was to improve the continuity of Luke, but actually, the Lukan sequence remains as if passed through a shredder.

LXX. Ubi Ihesus in montem orat et iuxta mare turbis et discipulis suis plurima in parabolis locutus est.
(Where Jesus, in the mountain prayed, and near the sea, He is speaking to the multitude and His disciples, many things in parables.)

LXXI. Ecce exiit qui seminat seminare.
(Behold the sower went forth to sow.)

LXXII. De eo qui seminavit bonum semen in agro suo et de zizania.
(Of him who sowed good seed in his field, and of the burdock.)

LXXIII. De grano sinapis.
(Of the grain of mustard seed.)

LXXIIII. De fermento quod abscondit mulier et alia multa discipulis.
(Of the leaven which a woman hid, and many other things to the disciples.)

LXXV. Ubi discipulis disseret parabulam seminantis.
(Where, with the disciples, He discusses the parable of the sower.)


70: 1
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.
2
And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples and going out of the house, sat by the sea side, and great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore, and he spoke to them many things in parables, saying:

71: 1
Behold the sower went forth to sow.
2
And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and were trodden down, and the birds came and ate them up.
3
And others some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth. And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.
4
And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them.
5
And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, some a hundred fold, some sixty fold, and some thirty fold.
6
Saying these things, he cried out: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

72: 1
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
2
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed burdock among the wheat and went his way.
3
And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the burdock.
4
And the servants of the householder coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it burdock? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this.
5
And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the burdock, you root up the wheat also together with it.
6
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the burdock, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

73: 1
Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it or to what parable shall we compare it?
2
It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his garden, which is the least seed of all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.

74: 1
Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
2
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear, and without parables he did not speak to them.
3
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
4
And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? He answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.
5
But apart, he explained all things to his disciples. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
6
And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith:
By hearing you shall hear,
and shall not understand:
and seeing you shall see,
and shall not perceive.
For the heart of this people is grown gross,
and with their ears they have been dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have shut:
lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and be converted,
and I should heal them.
7
But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
8
For, indeed, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.

75: 1
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower: When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.
2
And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy, yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalised.
3
And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
4
But he that received the seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one a hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.

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