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One seed, four roads, one hearttranslated

October 10, 2026 · 1 min read

Written by Sotirios Theologu, Postgraduate Theology Student of A.P.Th.

- Once again, Christ speaks to us through a parable. Through her, she wants to send us some messages. Messages to keep to change our lives. If we want, to change it and if we want to have a life close to Christ. Real, substantial, true.

Today's parable is familiar to all of us. The Parable of the Sower. It is not by chance that the Holy Church determined this particular parable to be in this period.

At the same time, the farmers also begin to sow their fields and have the worry and anxiety if the seed will reap this year as well.

Christ does the same work. He appears as a farmer, who sows the word of God again in the souls of men. He comes out and extends an invitation to all of us to repent and return to God.

So, the parable presents us with four roads.

The first is the road, on which the seed falls but is trampled and eaten by the birds. It is that heart, which hears the word of God, but remains hard and indifferent. It doesn't change with speech. He only listens and does not repent of the…

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