In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. 
In today's Gospel, our Lord Jesus uses a parable to show how we receive God's graces. One thing that is very clear that the Gospel points out is that God is generous in that He sows those seeds and calls everyone to share in His divine life. That God sows the seeds even on a path, on rocky ground. But it's the reception of those seeds that determines how that faith grows. We see that we can cooperate with God's graces, we can cooperate in our call and walking with Christ in the faith, or we cannot. The Gospel points out that people receive those seeds in different ways, such as the thorns are commonly seen as those who get distracted by worldly desires and worldly worries, and that the soil that springs up with little soil, at first there is fervor, but that fervor soon dies out. 
This is a reminder how we should be praying for the grace of perseverance, the grace of final perseverance in following Christ faithfully. Each day is a new day for us to receive God's graces, to do God's will, and to bring Christ to others, that we are each also in our own way sowers of the faith, that we are to bring Christ to others by the interactions we have with others and by our daily witness and example. It's always, Jesus always emphasizes something of importance when He says, "Whoever has ears ought to hear." He's saying, "Pay attention to my words. Listen and meditate to my words, that I want you to be rich soil and to produce fruit for the glory of God and the kingdom of heaven."
Today we honor a very, what I consider a very special saint because of her different vocations that she had in life, St. Bridget of Sweden. St. Bridget of Sweden was married by her father to a prince of Sweden, and she was a mother of eight children, and she had a time in which she also attended and served in the royal court of Sweden. But at the age of 10, she had her first mystical experience. After some years of marriage, she and her husband both agreed to enter religious life. Her husband became a Cistercian, and she would found the Order of Our Holy Savior, which would be known as the Brigittines. One of her children, of course, is a saint as well, St. Catherine of Sweden. 
But St. Bridget, of course, is very well known for her mystical experiences, her prophecies, and her revelations that she received, especially she received much revelations from our Lord on His passion and His suffering and all that He endured for us in that passion. At one time, He revealed to her that He was struck by over 5,800 times. Of course, He gave her a prayer to say if she wanted to honor each blow that would be said for a year, the famous prayer on the passion of our Lord that is said for a year. Eventually, she would make also a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and she would die in Rome. I think it was 1373, she died in Rome. 
But it's just what we see in her is someone who is open to God's grace, married life, called to religious life, and giving her life to Christ. It just is a reminder to us to always be open to God's call, what He's calling us to do in this short time that we have for His glory and honor. We can ask St. Bridget today to help us to have a greater devotion to the passion of our Lord, that we might let our reflections on the passion inspire us to greater heroic offering of ourselves to Christ, to atone for our sins, but also to atone for the sins of those who don't seek atonement, for those who don't seek God's mercy and forgiveness, for those who don't seek to acknowledge what Jesus suffered for us. May St. Bridget pray for us that we may, like her, always reflect on the passion of our Savior, but also always trust in His loving mercy. 
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.