Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

A few weeks ago, my husband and I went on a weekend trip to Lake Tahoe. On the last day of our trip, we hiked through Van Sickle Bi-State Park, a beautiful wilderness area that stretches between ...

Today’s Sunday gospel reading is about the Parable of the Seed. Our Lord Jesus Christ explains to his disciples why he teaches them by using parables perhaps because it was one easy way for them to ...

Find today’s readings here. “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic revealed to us what we should have realized all along: namely, how extremely fragile was an economic system that relied on long supply chains, a lesson only reinforced by ...

Today’s selection from Matthew 13 continues Jesus’ Parables Discourse. It contains two short parables—about a mustard seed and yeast—and a long parable with an allegorical interpretation—about the ...

This Sunday, the church returns to simple ordinary time. Since Feb. 17, we've observed Lent, celebrated Eastertime, and then finished by riding the wake of the two major feasts that follow Pentecost.

The mustard seed is such an appropriate parable that it was told three times in the Bible. As the story goes, the small, oblong seed grew into a large tree that attracted and housed a plethora of ...

Sometimes tiny seeds, like a Mustard Seed, can grow into a large plant and bring big surprises. Just like the Mustard Seed parable, for which a downtown restaurant/coffee shop is named, the Mustard ...

It's the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time and our Sunday gospel today talks about the Parable of the Growing Seed found in Mark 4:26-34. Our Lord Jesus speaks to his disciples in parables so they would ...