28th
Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 15, 2017
I
–The Lord will prepare a feast and wipe away the tears from every face.
R
–I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
II
– I can do all things in him who strengthens me.
A
– May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts, so
that we may know what is the hope that belongs to our call.
G –Invite
to the wedding feast whomever you find.
+ The richness of the graces and blessings God has planned for his
children who are faithful to him throughout life on earth are immeasurable. The prophesied feast on the mountain in the Book of
Isaiah in the first reading today foretells not only a satisfied stomach but
also peaceful relations with nations all around: the fruit of faithfulness is the abundance of God’s favor!
Therefore, living always as a child of
the light, a child of God is of the highest priority – or there will be no
mountain, there will be no meal, and there will be no peace among peoples.
Now, in his own infinite
wisdom and plan God had a predetermined order as to whom the fullness of his
blessings would come first: he formed a
people peculiarly his own: a family of nations to which he would send his
own Son as redeemer and savior. But, according to the parable in the gospel,
when the course of history was run, many of that family had excuses for not
coming to the “wedding feast of the King’s Son” – and so they were disinvited,
and in their place everyone that could be found on the streets were rounded
into the banquet hall; this seemed to be a very charitable thing to do.
But the one caught without a proper wedding garment was cast back outside
and thrown into a place of torment: for everyone, everywhere, at every time
needs to be ready to enter the King’s presence dressed with the robes of virtue, right-living, and “good deeds done
for others”; not even the lowliest and poorest people on earth are exempt
from this basic human dynamic of love.
May we today rejoice in the hope of our call to the Wedding Feast of the King’s Son, and may we
be clothed to the hilt with the riches of “good deeds done for love of God” –
no matter who we are, no matter what our economic or social circumstances might
be!
I
shall, hopefully, live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
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