Isaiah 25:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14 The shroud is gone…utterly destroyed. I remember it well, sitting in the very chair I am sitting in as I write today, working to compose a necessary email before taking some much needed time away in the recent wake of my mother’s death. I had just seen off the last of …
Tag: Matthew 22:1-14
This Exile: Then and Now
Isaiah 25:1-9 I have been sitting with the words of the prophet Isaiah in these last days. And I have been wondering at how his words first heard by a broken, lost people must have sounded. I have been wondering what it means that he spoke to a people in exile. And, yes, I am …
The Wedding Banquet: Turning It Inside Out
Matthew 22:1-14 I have preached this parable before, of course. I have preached it as it is written and as it is often most typically understood — as a kind of warning to accept the invitation to the ‘banquet’ and to be ready when doing so. In fact, even this week as I read it …
The Wedding Robe
Matthew 22:1-14 First a disclaimer. I don’t know that much about wedding customs in the time of Jesus. I do know that it was typical for the celebration to go on for days — weeks even. And in today’s Gospel reading we are led to believe that for the guests, a certain attire is expected. In …