28th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Fr. Leo
In our first reading, there is great celebrating over God’s saving his people. Gratitude and joy emirate from the reading. In the Gospel there is a parable about another celebration, a wedding feast, but things aren’t going so smoothly. The king has been royally snubbed. His peer group ignores his invitation. The king has lost his recognition. That hurts, but to gain a new circle of friends, he humbly invites strangers to his son’s wedding. He is making the best of his situation.
Being gentiles, we are the invited to God’s feast. In truth, God invites all to join him through the intercession of the Son in the Holy Spirit. This is God hope in love, that we would share with him at the table of his divinity. Yet, though we are all invited because of our being made in God’s image, we each will need to accept the invitation. We will need to put on the cloak of Christ and live a grateful life in response to God’s mercy.
God’s love, calls us to be who he created us to be. So we strive to live in the Holy Spirit so that we aren’t left out of the feast to wail and grind out teeth. What can give us hope, is God’s infinite humility. He doesn’t destroy us because of our weakness, but uses our weakness as a way to help us grow in wisdom, truth and love. Let us remember with the psalmist that the Lord is our shepherd. He leads us and brings us at last to dwell in His eternal home. With hope and confidence, let us keep the words of today’s psalm in our hearts and pray them slowly till we can even taste now the goodness of the Lord! Amen.