28th Sunday OT, A
Oct 5, 2026 · 37 min · 7 segments
God's Terms of Salvation
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Oct 5, 2026 · 37 min · 7 segments
God's Terms of Salvation
We read when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.
They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds because they regarded him as a prophet.
That's the end of chapter 21.
So in paragraphs 1021 to 1022, we read death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ.
The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that each will be rewarded immediately after death in accordance with his works and faith.
Later we read, each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ.
The Catechism goes on to explain that the outcome of this particular judgment is, on one hand, entry into the beatific vision, the blessedness of God, either immediately in heaven or after a period of purification in purgatory, or, on the other hand, chosen and willed separation from God, which we call hell.
Now we've seen in previous webinars that Matthew structures his parables in a very careful and deliberate way.
They don't work alone.
So what other parables do we find around this particular parable? We find that this parable is the third in a series of judgment-themed parables.
We read when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.
They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds because they regarded him as a prophet.
That's the end of chapter 21.
So in paragraphs 1021 to 1022, we read death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ.
The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that each will be rewarded immediately after death in accordance with his works and faith.
Later we read, each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ.
The Catechism goes on to explain that the outcome of this particular judgment is, on one hand, entry into the beatific vision, the blessedness of God, either immediately in heaven or after a period of purification in purgatory, or, on the other hand, chosen and willed separation from God, which we call hell.
Now we've seen in previous webinars that Matthew structures his parables in a very careful and deliberate way.
They don't work alone.
So what other parables do we find around this particular parable? We find that this parable is the third in a series of judgment-themed parables.
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