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Reflection - Week of October 11

Question of the Week:

What will I do this week to weave a wedding garment of repentance, mercy, and love for the Lord’s feast? What do I need to repent of? Who needs my mercy? How can I show love?

     However, after the king throws out a guest who is not wearing a wedding garment, Jesus points out that “Many are invited, but few are chosen” (22:14). The wedding garment may be seen as the act of repentance, which enables the guest’s heart to be ready and worthy of both the eucharistic feast and the kingdom of heaven, which is what Jesus says the parable is all about. This wedding garment may be challenging to don, but it is available to anyone and everyone. With our repentance and God’s forgiveness, we can be welcomed to the heavenly banquet.

     In the second reading, Paul tells the Philippians that God will supply anything they need. We may come to the feast unprepared and lacking a “wedding garment,” but that does not mean that we are doomed to be thrown out into the darkness. No, God, “to whom we looked to save us” (Isaiah 25:9), will supply the wedding garment that will save us: mercy, forgiveness, redemption. Clothed in God’s love, we will be properly prepared to enter the kingdom of heaven.