Tuesday 31st in Ordinary Time Reflection for the Gospel text Luke 14:15-24 Go out to the highways and country lanes and force people to come in, to make sure my house is full Today, the Lord offers us an image of eternity represented by a banquet. The banquet denotes the place where the family and friends gather together to celebrate and enjoy the company, the conversation and the friendship, sitting around the same table. This image speaks of our intimacy with God as Trinity and the joy we will find in the Promised Land. He has made everything for us and He calls us in «for everything was ready» (Lk 14:17). He wants us with him; He wants all men and women by His side, each one of us. We must, however, yearn to go. And, despite we know quite well that Heaven is where we can be at our best, where we should stay eternally, exceeding the noblest humans ambitions —«What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him» (1Cor 2:9) and, therefore, without any possible comparison—, we are, all the same, capable of refusing the divine invitation missing forever the best offering God could ever make us: to share His home, his table, his intimacy, forever and ever. What a responsibility! Unfortunately, we are capable of swapping God for practically anything. Some, as we read in todays Gospel, for a piece of land; others, for some yoke of oxen. And you and I, what are we willing to trade He, who is our God, and his invitation, for? There are those that out of laziness, sloppiness, convenience, refrain from fulfilling their duties of love towards God: is God so unworthy we can replace Him with anything? Let our response to the divine offering be always a yes, full of gratitude and admiration. Comment: Fr. Joan COSTA i Bou (Barcelona, Spain).
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:40:34 +0000
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