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The
Word Embodied
John Kavanaugh, S. J.
On God’s mountain all people are given a banquet of rich food and fine, aged wine. Mourning and death cease, and every tear is wiped away...
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Historical
Cultural Context
John J. Pilch
Some background knowledge of meals in antiquity sheds light on today’s parable. Meals reproduce in miniature the everyday social relations of a society...
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
Edith Barnecut, O.S.B., ed.
Augustine
All believers are familiar with the story of the wedding of the king’s son and the banquet that followed it, and of how the Lord’s table was thrown open to all comers...
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Preparing
for Sunday
Larry
Gillick, S. J.
Young men who are making formal application for entrance into the Jesuits are interviewed by four different members of the Society. One such Jesuit interviewing me so many years ago asked if I thought I could give up my “dancing shoes”...
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