Saints Timothy and Titus

Read: 2 Tm 1: 1-8 Mk 4: 26-34

“This is how it is with the reign of God. A man scatters seed on the ground. He goes to bed and gets up day after day. Through it all the seed sprouts and grows without his knowing how it happens.” (Mk 4:26-27)

The unfolding of the Kingdom is the mysterious and hidden rhythm of Him who makes all things holy. “Through it all the seed sprouts and grows without his knowing how it happens.”

Jesus said: “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give him will never be thirsty; no, the water I give shall become a fountain within him, leaping up to provide eternal life.” (Jn 4: 13-14)

The Kingdom of God (which is the participation in the very life of God), seen with the eyes of faith is more spectacular and marvelous than creation and far greater than the greatest life we could imagine on Earth.

The divine life, the true Kingdom of God, has its harvest in eternal life.

As a seed carefully sown, so that the grain makes it to yield a rich harvest, it is required of our treatment of the divine life within us: The gestation in the heart must be nurtured, and its growth is silent, slow — yet infinitely profound.

“What profit would a man show if he were to gain the whole world and destroy himself in the process?” (Mt 16:26)

Reflection and commentary

Psalm 139:17 “How precious to me are your designs, O God; how vast the sum of them!”

Sts. Timothy and Titus, d. 1st c. companions of St. Paul, and overseers (bishops) of the churches of Ephesus and Crete, respectively; recipients of St. Paul’s pastoral epistles.