• Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 22:1–14), Jesus continues to speak to us in parables. The kingdom of heaven is compared to a king who prepares a wedding feast —
  • Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 21:33–43), Jesus returns once again to a parable whose defining image is that of the vineyard. This time, the vineyard is entrusted to tenants
  • Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 21:28–32), through the parable of the two sons who are called to go and work in the vineyard, Jesus draws our attention to the
  • Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 20:1–16), Jesus, wishing once again to describe the “kingdom of heaven”, tells the parable of the labourers in the vineyard. The Greek word for
  • Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 18:21–35), when Peter asks how many times one must forgive, Jesus replies: ‘not seven times, but seventy-seven times’: ἕως ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά (héōs hebdomēkontákis heptá).
  • Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 18:15–20), Jesus sets out with great clarity the nature of our relationship with, and responsibility towards, our brothers and sisters. It is worth noticing