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Sunday Eucharist every week at 9.15am
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
11th October 2026
Exodus 32:1-14;
Psalm 106:1-6, 20,24;
Philippians 4
Gospel according to Matthew 22:1-14
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying
2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.
6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’