:: ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER PARISH ::

Sunday Readings

First Reading
Is.25:6-10

Second Reading
Phil.4:12-14.19-20

Gospel
Mt.22:1-14

The St. Joseph the Worker Parish is situated in the North of St. Lucia. It was created in 1763 to serve the needs of the expanding area under the pastoral guidance of the first recorded Parish Priest, Abbe Termoniac. The entire parish now comprises of the town of Gros Islet serving approximately 22,000 people of which approximately 17,600 are Catholics, the communities of Grande Riviere and Monchy serving...

Come to the banquet.

The parable in today’s Gospel is a fairly straightforward outline of salvation history. God is the king, Jesus the bridegroom, the feast is the salvation and eternal life that Isaiah prophesies in the First Reading. The Israelites are those first invited to the feast by God’s servants, the prophets. For refusing repeated invitations and even killing His prophets, Israel has been punished, its city conquered by foreign armies. read more

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