Invite everyone you can find to the wedding

Invite everyone you can find to the wedding

1 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying:
2 "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
3 He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come.
4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.'
5 But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business,
6 while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them.
7 The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
8 Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
9 Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.'
10 Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 "But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe,
12 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?' And he was speechless.
13 Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
14 For many are called, but few are chosen."
(NRSV)

Inspiration of the Holy Spirit - From the Sacred Heart of Jesus

In this parable the kingdom of heaven is compared to a great wedding banquet given by a king to his son. The king is my heavenly father; the bride is the Church, the people of God. The banquet is the Holy Eucharist; the feast is the everlasting life and glory that God offers to everyone.

The call to holiness is made to everyone from Adam to the last man. It is a call to realize that you are invited to become children of God, you are presented a great banquet and all are invited.

In the parable you may see the frustration of the king who having invited everyone to such an important feast, has been rejected. God has offered eternal happiness to all mankind; He has sent prophets and laborers of his kingdom to be his witnesses. He has ultimately sent me, his only begotten son, his own word to save you from your sins and to ask you once again to take part in the offering of your maker.

But how deaf can you be, how senseless can you be to my wisdom, how attached to your sinfulness and your earthly possessions. You prefer to live in the mud, like pigs that find no pleasure in cleanliness. You throw yourselves in the arms of your father the devil as you reject God and his commandments.

You live for the world and for yourselves, you are blind, you are deaf, you are mute, you are paralyzed, therefore you are completely dead to me.

I am the all patient, all loving, all merciful and life giving God who loves you despite your stupidity. I want to save you all, I will insist until the last moment of your lives.

You, who understand my feelings, unite yourself to my desires; pray for the sinner to convert, and pray for all mankind to benefit from my infinite goodness.

I am calling everyone to repent, to amend their lives, to come to me and to know me so that they may live eternally in my kingdom.

Author: Joseph of Jesus and Mary