Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - October 11

Welcome Dale Horn to the St. Wendelin Parish family!

The first reading and Gospel today both describe images of a great feast. The passage from Isaiah is quite familiar as a favorite selection for the Order of Christian Funerals. The description of the banquet in succulent terms suggests a celebration after a victory. On Mt. Zion (presumably), all peoples are invited to this great feast and all people are encouraged to eat their fill. Most probably, the mouth watering description of the banquet reflects the “desire of an impoverished people for a bountiful meal.”

Above and beyond the feast, though, it is stated that God will destroy death forever. The implication is that God will remove all threats that terrorize humanity including the ultimate one, death.

The passage from Matthew’s Gospel speaks of the wedding feast as an image of life in the kingdom of God. The king and his son clearly represent God and Jesus. The first invitation that is refused points to the prophets. The second invitation (John the Baptist and Jesus) encounters indifference and hostility to the point of those servants being executed. A further piece of the parable tells of a man improperly dressed for the banquet who is thrown out by the host. The moral of the story is that an invitation to the kingdom must be accepted and acted upon so that when the banquet begins, one will be properly prepared to participate. The invitation has been offered to all kinds of people, but only a few of them have acted upon it in such a way to be allowed to participate in the banquet of the kingdom. Later Christian writers would see the image of a “proper garment” as a symbol of baptism. The selection from the Letter to the Philippians situates need and abundance in the life of the disciple…both states shall be known by those who follow Jesus.

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