On this Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus continues to teach us about the Kingdom of God through parables, this time through the parable of the wedding feast. As Tony explains, through the analogical imagery of food and marriage, Jesus reveals to us that from the very first moment of salvation history, God desired to reunite Himself to the human family through the Son. This reunion is likened to a wedding feast because just as a marriage requires two sharing one life, so too does our salvation require sharing in and living the life of the Lamb.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Isaiah 25:6-10a
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Reading 2: Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20
Gospel: Matthew 22:1-14
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.