Gospel: Matthew
22:1-14
Jesus
again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in
parables saying, “The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a
wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited
guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants,
saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and
fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast. Some
ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.
The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king
was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their
city. Then the king said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who
were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and
invite to the feast whomever you find.’ The servants went out into the streets and
gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with
guests. But when the king came in to meet the guests he saw a man there not
dressed in a wedding garment. He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you
came in here without a wedding garment But he
was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands
and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing
and grinding of teeth.’ Many are invited, but few are chosen.
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Reflection:
Do you
always find time for Holy Mass especially during Sunday? Every Holy Mass is an
invitation for all of us to be present at the Lord’s banquet. To be present
there will not cost us anything except a little of our time. In fact it’s us
who will be greatly blessed by the Lord if we would make ourselves available
for Holy Mass.
In the
gospel Jesus tells us about a parable regarding a king who had invited guest to
come to the wedding banquet of his son. But for the reason of their preoccupation
nobody came to honor the king’s invitation. Thus, they missed the opportunity
to break bread with the king, his son and other members of his family.
This is also what we miss when we fail to
attend Holy Mass. We miss the opportunity to break bread with Jesus and partake
of His Body and Blood and subsequently be strengthened by it.
Let us always find time to respond to Jesus’
invitation to be with Him at Holy Mass no matter how busy we are. Let us not
miss the opportunity to be blessed by Him and to be up close and personal with
our Lord and Master.
Do you always find time to be with Jesus at
Holy Mass? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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