Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Intention: For God’s strength and comfort for the people of California, especially our Lasallian brothers and sisters, in the face of the devastation and the loss that they are struggling to survive and overcome.
Today’s 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.
From the Meditation on Saint Theresa of Ávila | Saint John Baptist de La Salle
If you love God, prayer will be the food of your soul, and God will enter within you and will have you eat at his table, as Saint John says in the Apocalypse. You will then have the advantage of having God present in your actions and of having no other purpose than to please him.
Prayer
Eternal Father, your Son taught that it is by the greatness of our faith, and the actions that it inspires, that we will know salvation. Strengthen our trust and confidence in you, and guide our footsteps as we seek to follow your Son. Teach us to be servants of all, especially those who are most in need of the healing that compassion and justice. We ask this of you who lives and reigns with your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.