Year A: 28th Sunday Ordinary Time

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Matthew 22:1-14

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Have you ever planned a big party and sent out the invitations to your friends, but no one showed up?

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In Jesus's parable, a king threw a big party for his son's wedding, but none of the people he invited showed up.

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Of course the king got angry and ordered his servants to go to the main streets to invite everyone to the banquet.

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The servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the wedding hall was full.

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In those days, wedding robes are given to guests for free. That explains why the king got angry when he saw a man not wearing a wedding robe. So the king had him thrown out.

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By refusing to attend the banquet, the invited guests did not only disrespect the king, but also rejected his authority over them.

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Accepting God’s invitation to be intimate with Him is of supreme importance that it should relativize all our other plans and concerns.

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God invites us not because we are worthy but because God loves us and wants us to be with Him.

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Just like the man who did not wear a wedding robe, there are those of us who think that all we have to do is to show up.

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We need to be “properly dressed”, we need to become like Christ, whose only concern is to do the Father's will.

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We need to live our lives in accordance with the Father's will: love our neighbors and help those in need.

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If we do not accept the Father's love and reject his will, we will have no place with him in his heavenly banquet.

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