We few

Today, many, many people - including many, many children - are going to celebrate witches, demons and many evil things.

Today, many people are planning to vote on behalf of the destruction of human life or against the protection of moral values.

Today, the airwaves, the media, and the Internet seem to overflow with people who reject God or any objective morality.

We seem to be outnumbered.

Yet in today's Gospel (Luke 13:18-21), our Lord Jesus Christ reminds us of the even more overwhelming power that small, outnumbered things can have through the grace of God.

Then said he,
Unto what is the kingdom of God like?
and whereunto shall I resemble it?

It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which a man took, and cast into his garden;
and it grew, and waxed a great tree;
and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

And again he said,
hereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
It is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened.

No matter what we may face, "we few, we happy few," may we plant seeds faithfully and may God's grace make us his leaven for the world.