3 Seeds - Rev. Fr. Vijay Thomas

During Holy Qurbana alongside a harvest celebration, the Vijay Achen connects harvest festivals to Scripture, emphasizing that before any harvest there is seedtime and that God gives the growth. Citing Genesis, Mark 4, Galatians, and John 12, he explains what a seed is—holding within it what it will become—and urges listeners to focus on three kinds of “seeds”: those we plant in others through our expectations and judgments, those others plant in us through words and impressions, and the seed Jesus plants by transforming people and by planting His own life like a grain of wheat that dies and brings abundant life. He calls the congregation the harvest of Christ and invites them to “bury” pride, insecurity, and sin to follow Jesus. Concluding with the shared Onam Sadya meal, he highlights the Malayalam word “namma” (goodness) as the seed believers should plant.