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Today's scripture comes from Matt.22: 1-14, which is entitled "The Parable of the Wedding Feast." "22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who ...
come to the feast.” The Parable of the Wedding Feast is the parable of our call, our vocation issued by God. In the formation sessions we hold for different groups (teachers, youth groups ...
“The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son” (Matt 22:1). Ez 36:23-28; Matt 22:1-14 The Parable of the Wedding Feast, recorded in Matthew’s Gospel ...
The Parable of the Ten Virgins applies equally ... you will be like the five foolish virgins who were prevented from entering the wedding banquet. "And the door was shut ...
Jephthah’s decision to offer up his daughter horrifies us. The same reaction to the violence in the parable of the wedding feast may also be a matter of layers in the redaction of the original ...
In the parable, Jesus tells of 10 bridesmaids ... They were locked out of the wedding feast. This story is connected to the Book of Revelation, said Fr. John Burns, a priest of the Archdiocese ...
The Fathers of the Church did not read St. Matthew’s parable of the wedding feast as an allegory of heaven. No, it was about culling for the winter to come. Apollinaris wrote, “The wedding ...
They will, in fact, be the focus of this essay. Today we read another parable, this one about a wedding feast a king prepares for his son. When all the arrangements are made, he dispatches ...
Our Sunday gospel today is the Parable of the Wedding Feast, which is not easy to interpret unless you have a good understanding of Jewish customs and traditions. You can read it in Matt.