February 27, 2022 -In the Gospel of St. Luke 8, our Lord tells the Parable of the Sower. This parable is as much if not more about the importance of the condition of the soil as it is the seeds that have been scattered. God, through His prophet Hosea, calls His people to break up their fallow ground for it is time to seek the Lord. The reason their hearts had become hard is that they had given themselves over to idolatry? Idolatry can be far more than the worship of other gods. For the Christian, idolatry is anything we are consumed by and love more than God. Today we consider the idolatry that may exist in our soul that causes hardness in our hearts. And we see how our Lord so desires to help us break up the fallow ground of the soil of our soul so that the seed of Christ within us can produce a harvest of the fruits of the Holy Spirit.