(Listen to this homily here).
Jesus warns the disciples, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the
Pharisees and the leaven of Herod…” This is not the only time Jesus uses
the image of leaven—yeast—in his teaching. In another parable he refers to how little yeast is needed
to raise a whole batch of dough.
Now
I am not a baker and don’t have much experience using yeast to make bread. But I have used yeast for another means
of consumption—brewing beer. It
amazes me how little yeast is needed to make five gallons of brew. And yeast is arguably the most
important part of the batch. If
you don’t have yeast, you simply make dirty water!
Don’t
ever underestimate what a few good people can do working together. Look at the apostles. Jesus took twelve men and now has over
two billion followers world-wide!
Another
more local example is the great work that Dynamic Catholic is doing. This is the place from which we ordered
books for our mission and for Christmas.
They are changing the face of evangelization in our country, offering
free books, CDs and evangelism programs around the nation. And it all started with Matthew Kelly
and a few of his friends who had a dream to proclaim the Gospel.
God
is calling us to be the yeast in our society. Never underestimate what good people like you to raise the
dough of your family, community and world.
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