Jesus' Parable of the Mustard Seed, with its imagery of a seed growing into a plant big enough for birds to perch in, is often seen as foretelling the growth of Christianity. Arguably the greatest ...

Can there be anything more French than Dijon mustard? Perhaps the mustard is elaborated in Dijon, but the mustard seed, it turns out to everyone’s surprise, is imported from Canada and Ukraine.

When his followers asked Jesus to increase their faith, he told them the parable of the mustard seed. Though it was the smallest of seeds, once sown the mustard plant sprang up and spread rapidly.

It contains two short parables—about a mustard seed and yeast—and a long parable with an allegorical interpretation—about the wheat and the weeds.

But there is another story happening in Catholic communities across the world — a story that we in the Catholic Church of the Beatitudes know very well: the story of the mustard seed.

The mustard seed was the smallest seed, but it grew into a huge plant. This is Mark’s third parable of growth.

In the Parable of the Sower and Seed, a sower goes out into his field to sow seed. Imagine it is early spring, perhaps early in the morning. He scatters the seed in his bag across the land.

Find today’s readings here. “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of ...

On the surface the parable of the mustard seed is an image of great growth coming from something small. The parable of the yeast offers the same message.