Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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“The sower sows the Word. And those who are sown upon good ground arc they who hear the Word, and wel- come It and yield fruit. . .” The seed is the Word of God, which I le sows through Jesus Christ. And it is through the pursuit and application of 11 is teachings that lasting peace may he achieved. What is this miraculous Word of God? Ac- cording to Scripture, it is the Way, the Truth and the Light. It is Jesus (Christ I limself and all 11 is Teachings. The greatest of these teachings are to love the Lord thy God and to love thy neighbor as thyself. I low can we best fulfill this new law of Christ? How can

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we be good and fruitful ground for the Seed? The solution is in ac- cepting Christ and 11 is doctrines, and acting in accordance with them. This means practicing the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity; it means applying the four cardinal virtues of justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude to daily living. I n other words, it means living the will of God at all times. These are the seeds that have been sown in us. In the past and in the present the seed has fallen upon bad ground: some has fallen by the wayside where it js consumed by evil; some has fallen upon the stony hearts of men •hfik it withers away; some has fallen among the thorns where it u lioked by materialism and worldliness. Vet always some of the seed fait Ipon good ground where it yields fruit, sometimes thirty, sometim|sfifxtv ajid sometimes a hundredfold. fc MIA jetj University strives to be good ground in receiving the Word