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 ...

The story in these verses is known as the "parable of the wedding banquet," said Fr. Jeffrey Kirby. Kirby is pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish in Indian Land, South Carolina, and host of the ...

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 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 ...

It was, after all, a story to which he could relate: Jesus was comparing the kingdom of heaven to a wedding banquet, or a party, wanting everyone to come and celebrate with him. In the parable, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today is the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time and our gospel reading is another parable taught by our Lord Jesus Christ called the Parable of the Wedding Feast that is found in Matt.22: 1-14.

Today’s parable of the wedding feast, like the parables of the vineyard tenants and the curse of the fig tree before it, have a severity about them that seems uncharacteristic of Jesus.