And while he's one of the authors of the Gospels, St. Matthew is only mentioned seven times, said the same website. The story in these verses is known as the "parable of the wedding banquet," said Fr.

The hyperbole, violence, and abrupt scene changes in Matthew’s parable of the wedding feast have driven most interpreters to treat the story allegorically—thereby turning it from a dangerous puzzle to ...

Ez 36:23-28; Matt 22:1-14 The Parable of the Wedding Feast, recorded in Matthew’s Gospel after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, interprets that tragedy as the result of the failure of the ...

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.

The third banquet image in this Sunday’s readings, the parable of the royal banquet in Matthew 22, develops the imagery ... the invitation is to a royal wedding feast for a king’s son.

This Sunday’s Gospel comes in short (Matthew 22:1-10 ... Today we read another parable, this one about a wedding feast a king prepares for his son. When all the arrangements are made, he ...

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 ...

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 ...