Come to the feast

We can draw important lessons from the parable of the Wedding Feast.

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One is that everyone is welcome to the feast. The king in the parable sends his servants to summon first the invited guests and then whoever they can find. He wants his banquet, he wants heaven, to be full.

Second, there is always an excuse not to attend the wedding. People are busy. They have commitments and obligations that consume their time. Maybe they just do not want to go to the wedding!

God prepares for us an amazing feast: our salvation, but it is always our choice to accept or refuse his invitation. The choice is really ours to stay in a relationship with God or not.

In life, we are either moving toward God with our thoughts, words, and actions, or we are moving away from him. If we are not actively engaging with him, we are moving away. But eventually, there are dire consequences for ignoring God throughout our life.

When we appear before him, we will stand shabbily dressed for not wearing the wedding garment procured by living an exemplary life.

First Reading

Judges 11:29-39a

The Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and through Mizpah-Gilead as well, and from there he went on to the Ammonites. Jephthah made a vow to the Lord.