Don’t Keep It In The Kitchen!

A man whose wife was sick, decided to do the cooking …

He did quite well at it until, one day, he became very ambitious. He thought he would bake some bread.

As often happens the first time around, he misread the recipe and he put two cups (instead of two ounces) of yeast into the dough. After faithfully following all the other instructions, he put the dough near the heat and waited for it to rise.

Sometime later, his wife called down from the upstairs bedroom, “Have you put the dough in the oven yet, dear?” Frantically, the husband replied, “Put it in the oven? I can’t even keep it in the kitchen!”

That’s the New Testament. The New Testament is the leaven of the Word of God. It isn’t meant to be kept in the kitchen. It isn’t meant to be kept in the Church. The Word of God is meant to be proclaimed throughout the world.

In today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus…