The Parable of the Wedding Feast
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This article offers a homiletical meditation on the parable of the wedding feast (Matthew 22:2-14), read within the liturgical context of the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Alexandre Turintsev adopts a careful exegetical approach, rejecting systematic allegorism in favor of a reading centered on the overall spiritual meaning of the narrative. The main idea is that the parable illustrates humanity's refusal to respond to the divine call, motivated either by attachment to earthly goods or by active hostility toward God. The author develops a Christological rereading of the royal anger, interpreted not as juridical punishment but as the pain of unrequited love. On the theological level, the article offers a reflection on the eschatological time inaugurated by the Incarnation and on the significance of the wedding garment, identified by the Eastern Fathers with true penitence, understood as a return to man's original nature.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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