Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 10/11

Dear brothers and sisters!

This Sunday Our Lord is making explicit and rich in details the final goal of our existence: enjoying the Feast of Life. He describes the Kingdom of Heaven as a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, summoned the guests to the feast, but they refused to come. I suggest we take a moment of silence and reverently let this words sink into our hearts: “I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’ 
Let us first of all contemplate the desire, the expectation, the deep longing there is in the heart of the Trinity for us to join the Feast of Life. Through the many details present in the first reading and the Gospel you can visualize the details, the care, the joyful expectation. Maybe call to mind whenever you organized a big effort to show your love to someone and that person didn’t acknowledge enough the intensity of your love.It is sad to ignore the essence of Christianity, the Joy of the Gospel. But why do we refuse the invite? Maybe because we are busy with “more important things”, my schedule, my job, my career, my image, my “ego”. Maybe because I am already used to the veil of sadness and I don’t believe in a greater Joy. Jesus wants to break trough that inner habit of sadness or melancholy that sometimes covers our souls… He is all about the surprise of love, the unexpected Gift, the sunrise in the cold dark night.

 Just show up to the party, go to your prayer appointment with your Lord, show up to His embrace in the sacraments, open to your neighbor who longs for friendship. God will do the rest, we just need to show up, He will dress us up with the wedding garments of His Grace. Accept the gift, his vestment, his Joy and enter the Feast of God now and forever!!
God bless you!!

Fr. Remi