THE EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - 7/19/2026
The parable we hear this coming Sunday is about a field in which both wheat and weeds are growing—which is a way to describe the church, the world, and even ourselves. Come to worship so that hearing the word and eating the supper of the Lord can nourish your “wheat” and stifle your “weeds.”
Typical of medieval art, a 1540 painting of today’s parable, made to hang on an altar in Germany, depicts the devil with horns on his head and clawed feet. The landowner is asleep, and several bishops are not alert to the machinations of the devil. Note the cross of Christ shining in the sky.





















