This week's Gospel: The 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 16th 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.
(20th-Jul-2008) The 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A

Let them both grow till the harvest.
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.
Most of this week’s reading has, due to the re-ordering,already been given last week. What difference there is comprises omitting the first two capita from last week’s reading, and adding the subsequent caput after the last.

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.)

LXXVI. Qui seminat semen et vadit dormitum vel surgit et discipulis parabulam zizaniorum agri disseret.
(He who sowed seed and went to sleep and rose, and He discussed the parable of the burdock in the field with the disciples.)

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.

76: 1
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, and should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.
2
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
3
Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the burdock of the field.
4
Responding, he said: He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man, and the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the burdock are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. Even as burdock therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.
5
The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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