TABLE OF CONTENTS (24 pages)

THE PARABLES IN THE HOLY GOSPEL .....Page 203

- What Are the Parables? ..... 204

- Are the Parables obscure?

- What the Kingdom of Heaven Is ..... 207

- The House Built upon Rock - The Sower - The Good Seed and the Weeds - The Wheat Cast into the Earth - The Mustard Seed - The Leaven - The Hidden Treasure - The Precious Pearl - The Net Filled with Fish

- Conditions for belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven ..... 212

Prayer and Humility

- The Persistent Friend - The Unjust Judge and the Widow - The Pharisee and the Publican - Poor Servants

Charity toward every Neighbor

- The Good Samaritan - Lazarus and the Evil Rich Man - The Dishonest Steward

- Divine Mercy ..... 217

- The Merciless Servant - The Lost Sheep - The Lost Drachma - The Prodigal Son - The Workers of the Eleventh Hour

- Parables Relative to our Last Ends ..... 222

- The Foolish Rich Man - The Watchful Servants - The Faithful Administrator and the Unfaithful One - The Wise Virgins and the Foolish Virgins - The Parable of the Talents - The Parable of the Gold Coins - The Last Judgment and Works of Charity