This sermon, drawing on Matthew 25 and Isaiah 65, explains the parable of the ten virgins as a portrait of Jesus as both the bridegroom and the true Wisdom. Though all humanity is foolish in sin, we are grafted into Christ and made wise through his life, death, baptism, and Eucharist.

We are invited to follow as bridegroom in suffering and faithfulness now, with the sure promise of being received into the eternal wedding feast and the new creation.