The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

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Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Many devout believers find the parable of the wedding feast in the Gospel of Matthew difficult to understand. The story is meant to stir us up with its exaggeration, to signal the spiritual destruction that follows from refusing the divine invitation. We are meant to see how valuable an invitation we have received and how odd it is that we would choose to reject it.

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0:00.0	Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an
0:05.4	apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and
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0:16.6	Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring
0:21.8	the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite
0:27.9	you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the
0:32.5	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. Peace be with you. Friends, our
0:40.8	gospel for today is one of the strangest and most shocking of the parables of
0:45.9	Jesus as reported in the gospel of Matthew. It has to do with the King who gives a
0:51.5	wedding party for his son and vice people to come and then they find all these
0:55.2	excuses for not coming and the King responds with a sort of extraordinary anger
1:01.7	and he kills them and burns down their city and then when he invites people from
1:06.2	the hedgerows to come in this poor man shows up without a wedding garment the
1:10.0	King upgrades him and throws him out into the darkness. So people wonder what in
1:16.3	the world this parable can mean. Many devout believers find the brutality and
1:22.5	violence of the story hard to take. I mean I get it the King might have been
1:27.8	insulted and hurt that people didn't respond to the invitation but does that
1:31.6	give him the warrant to kill them and then burn down their city. So I understand
1:36.9	people's reticence about this their concern and then the poor guy at the end
1:42.5	who is who is invited and finds himself without the wedding garment and is thrown
1:47.2	out into the darkness. Well we just begin to wonder about the sanity of this
1:51.5	King and if we make the association that Jesus clearly intends between this
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