The NCA wheat stalk contains 6 grains of wheat, each representing one of the six NCA Parishes.

Ears of wheat and clusters of grapes are emblems of the Blessed Sacrament, the Body and Blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine.

John Paul II has pointed to wheat as a symbol of the mysterious fullness of God’s Grace:

“Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift” (Eph 4:7). Saint Paul teaches us today and at the same time reminds us that grace is the gift by which God gives us his life, making us his children and partakers of his nature. The question therefore arises: How should I live, so that the power of God’s grace will be manifest in me in the fullest possible way, like the mysterious power of a grain of wheat which produces a hundredfold?"