A talent in the ancient world was a huge sum of money. I suppose in our terms it would be worth millions, maybe even billions of pounds. And that’s appropriate for the parable, because in the Christian life the Lord endows all of us with…
Surely the parable of the Prodigal Son is the best loved of all Jesus’ parables, and the one that most perfectly summarises the whole Gospel message. It's a very good story, very well told. We find it has power to move us, even to the depths, no matter how…
For the third week running we have a parable about a vineyard. Each one of these parables has been aimed against the Jewish Priests, Elders, Scribes...
The parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, like several other of the parables of the Kingdom, is found in St. Matthew’s Gospel alone. In the verse immediately before it, at
