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Last time, we shared that the Word of God, the Bible, concerns the promise or covenant with God (Old Testament), the fulfillment of the Old Testament (First Coming), the covenant with Jesus (New ...

The word parable comes from the Greek pará (alongside) and báll? (throw). When you pitch a comparison or analogy, you don’t ...

What are the weeds in our gardens of life that threaten the wheat growing there? In this Sunday’s reading from Matthew’s ...

"Our Founding Fathers intended that all should receive a bouquet of beautiful rights: freedom and justice for all. Yet through no fault of their own, many have thistles and cannot hold those rights." ...

This past weekend, we had a familiar Gospel reading from Matthew 13:1-23. It is the parable of the Sower. Jesus uses the ...

Jesus tells His disciples the parable of the Sower in this Sunday's Gospel. Msgr. Joseph Prior explains the transformative power of the Word of God which, as the parable teaches, can bear abundant ...

Many Christians can answer the question, “How are we saved?” with a simple response: through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But a more difficult question follows: How, exactly, do those ...

Jesus teaches a lesson of perseverance in the face of evil in His parable of the weeds among the wheat, in the Gospel passage for this Sunday's liturgy that Msgr. Joseph Prior explains.

Why does God speak in parables? In our Gospel today (Matthew 13:1-23), Jesus, the storyteller, invites the vast expectant crowd to consider the parable of the sower. His disciples later approach him ...

A simile likens one thing to another, but this also implies that the two differ. Otherwise, there would not be two. Jesus says that “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed ...

This time of year, it’s hard not to think about weeds. They intrusively obscure the vibrancy of garden flowers and the tidy uniformity provided by fresh mulch and a neatly mowed lawn. Not only do they ...