“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” (Matthew 13:31–32)
This Monday’s Gospel provides us with a good way to start the week. If we understand the Kingdom parables in terms of our own spiritual growth, they incentivise us to grow in faith like nothing else. As Fr Matthias Joseph Scheeben puts it in his meditation for that day (p. 374):
