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Integrating Scripture with Catholic doctrine, worship, and daily life, Mary Healy’s volume unwraps the riches of Mark’s Gospel for serious students and novices alike. It includes links to catechism and lectionary texts, accessible and substantive exegesis, reflection and application suggestions, biblical background and living tradition sidebars, and much more.

4:26–29 These verses recount another seed parable, one that is found only in Mark. This time the focus is on the seed’s intrinsic power to grow of its own accord. The sower liberally scatters his seed, then goes on with the routine of his daily life. Slowly, imperceptibly, the seed begins to sprout. The farmer does not know how this happens; even today, with the tremendous advances in microbiology, life remains a mystery. Nor can the farmer control the process. According to its natural stages the
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