THE KING CAME IN TO MEET THE GUESTS

Ez 36,23-28; Ps 50; Mt 22,1-14
23 AUGUST
Every relationship between man and God and man and man is made of two wills. While there may be agreement between man and man, there can only be obedience between God and man. God gives the rules to enter into a relationship of life and blessing with Him and man can accept or reject them. If he refuses them, every relationship of life is interrupted. If he welcomes them, he must remain faithful to them forever. If he becomes unfaithful, the relationship dies. However, in the meantime, man could also die and remain eternally without his God and Lord. God offers himself to man as his eternal life. It is up to man the will to welcome or to refuse. However, he will have to assume all the consequences of both reception and rejection. The reception wants eternal obedience. Rejection is eternal perdition. Today man has reversed roles. He wants to be the one to dictate to God the conditions, which can be reduced to only one: “I, man, do what I want. You, God, will give me your eternal kingdom and all your grace, always, today and in eternity”.

Today, this is the dark evil of the faith of the disciples of Jesus. They have destroyed the truth of the relationship. There is no longer a sovereign will over them, to which everyone owes eternal obedience. Everyone has decided to live as he likes. But then he wants to be accepted into the structures of the faith, living them not according to their inner truth. But he also wants to be accepted into the eternal structures of the Gospel, without having lived according to the Gospel. today, being the Christian the one to dictate the conditions of the relationship with his God, it will be understood how difficult it is to educate and form the right faith. It also becomes impossible to state that there is an eternal Law to which all obedience is due. Truth is what man decides truth is and it is also Law what man decides to be Law. Today, this is the real condition of the Church of God. There is an axis shift in her. Before the main axis was the Lord and his Gospel. Today the main axis is man and his will. The will of God has been cancelled and in its place the idol of man’s will has been introduced.

Jesus again in reply spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”‘ Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he 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.”

The parable narrated by Jesus reveals to us that it is God the one who invites. It is He who sets the rules. Whoever refuses his invitation, will remain forever outside the banquet hall. But even whoever welcomes it must submit to the laws of the banquet. One must present himself in the hall with the right clothes, which are the clothes of true faith, true charity and true hope. They are the clothes of perfect obedience to the Word of God according to his will. But all this ancient world today is like gone in a moment. The Christian no longer asks himself: “Lord, I welcome your manifested and revealed will”. Instead he says to God: “This is my will. It must take place according to what I establish”. The roles have been reversed. Man became God. God remained God, but only to do the will of man. Either the Christian returns to being a man and not God, or there will be no light on earth.

Mother of Jesus, Angels and Saints, convince Christians that they are men and not God.