You can almost see the feast in Isaiah’s description, the table laden with food, and wine, rich, expensive and delicious food and wine. This is quite usual for a wedding feast in most cultures, like the feast in today’s Gospel parable. There are oxen and fat calves, and much more, as befits a wedding feast flowing with rich wine lasting for many days. After all, it is the wedding feast of a king’s son. The mystery is why the guests turned away. Did they think they could have

This image of the vineyard is one of the less-common images for the people of Israel, but it pops up in three of our readings this Sunday. In fact, this Sunday is the third week in a row that we’ve had Jesus telling a parable about a vineyard. They have all been taken from roughly the same section of the Gospel of Matthew. Much like his parables about sheep, fishing and making bread vineyards feature in Jesus’ parables because of the place that wine had in ancient Israel. To

I love you! A phrase no doubt that fills its recipient initially with joy, if indeed the same affections are felt. But, is ‘I love you enough’ in any relationship? Of course not. The old adage love is shown in deeds not words, or more familiarly “actions speak louder than words” fosters the idea that when we say something significant we should follow up on it concretely. In a relationship words need a concrete expression, maybe the ‘I love you’ is followed up by flowers, a ni