One of my favorite parables of Jesus is found in Matthew 13:24-43 ... the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds. It is a great reminder to all of us, in the church and outside the church, to not be so ...

Last week, the Sunday Gospel began reading Matthew 13, a chapter that contains multiple parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. We began with the Parable of the Sower and Seed, discussing the fate of ...

Last week, many churches read the famous parable of the sower and the seed and its later explanation of the parable. This week, the basic image gets extended, (Mt. 13:24-30, 36-43) and it is given an ...

Jesus identified the characters as follows: the landowner is Jesus, the enemy is the devil, the field is the world, the wheat is the children of God, the weeds are those who belong to the devil, and ...