Daily Meditation - Saturday 13September 2008 - SOUND FOUNDATIONS

[BarbaraTherese]

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Memorial
John Chrysostom

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Mass Readings & Meditation

Readings

Meditation

Why does Jesus set

** figs and grapes over against thorns and brambles?**

• The fig tree was the favorite of all trees for the people of Palestine.
• It symbolized fertility, peace, and prosperity.
• Grapes, likewise, produced wine, the symbol of joy.
• Thorns and brambles were only good for burning as fuel for the fire.

There’s a proverbial saying that you know a tree by its fruit. Likewise a person will produce good or bad fruit depending on what is sown in the heart.

• Charles Read said: "Sow an act and you reap a habit.
• Sow a habit and you reap a character.
• Sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Character, like fruit, doesn’t grow
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