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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

You can say that the Parable of the Mustard Seed is a metaphor for the Catholic Church, which in truth started with 12 Apostles, although one of them, Judas Iscariot, betrayed our Lord and was ...

Just like the Mustard Seed parable, for which a downtown restaurant/coffee shop is named, the Mustard Seed grew from a small shop into a larger one.

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.

"30 Again he said, "What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. 32 Yet ...

A BIBLICAL PARABLE tells about how the tiny mustard seed builds to a tree, “so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.” That big-things-start-small belief is why the ...