a sower went out to sow

[virgen mary]

Some people are like seed along the path,

where the word is sown. As soon as they
hear it, Satan comes and takes away the
word that was sown in them. Others, like
seed sown on rocky places, hear the word
and at once receive it with joy. But since
they have no root, they last only a short time.
When trouble or persecution comes becauseof the word, they quickly fall away. Stillothers, like seed sown among thorns, hear
the word; but the worries of this life, the
deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for
produce a crop--some thirty, some sixty,
some a hundred times what was sown.'