Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- R.S.V.P.

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 8-19-2021 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 22:1-14

Friends, today’s Gospel likens the kingdom of heaven to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. Notice that the father (God the Father) is giving a banquet for his son (God the Son), whose bride is the Church. Jesus is the marriage of divinity and humanity—and we his followers are invited to join in the joy of this union.

The joyful intimacy of the Father and Son is now offered to us to be shared. Listen to Isaiah to learn the details of this banquet: "On this mountain the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines."

Now there is an edge to all of this. For it is the king who is doing the inviting, and it is a wedding banquet for his son. We can see how terribly important it is to respond to the invitation of the King of kings.

We have heard the invitation of God to enter into intimacy with him, to make him the center of our lives, to be married to him in Christ—and often we find the most pathetic excuses not to respond.

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+++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.”+++

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Bobby Barron is a “Hell is empty” and “homos are OK” heretic.

He doesn’t even believe in the dogma of “Extra Ecclesiam, Nulla Salus”.