Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

The man who passed by the injured person on the road to Jericho was emotionally impaired. The prodigal son becomes the negative attention-getting son. And the foolish bridesmaids who were unprepared ...

Our Sunday gospel reading today is another parable… The Parable of the Tenants, which you can find in your Bibles in Matt.21:33-43. [Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people,] 33 Hear ...

Today’s Sunday Gospel is the Parable of the Weeds Among the Wheat and you can read it in Matt.13: 24-43. Actually this is one parable that our Lord tells the crowds, but eventually explains its ...

Today’s Gospel again addresses the question of why Jesus taught in parables. The scriptures reveal language filled with imagery and analogy, storytelling and nuance. Hebrew amplified meaning by ...

ONE of the best-known and best-loved stories in the gospels is the parable of the Prodigal Son. With its promise of forgiveness and reconciliation for the repentant sinner, it has no doubt been a ...