Readings
I - Ezk. 36: 23-28
II - Mt. 22: 1-14
MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN
Holiness is the not privilege of the few is the crux of the Gospel passage today. In the parable of the wedding banquet, the king calls for the guests who had received the invitation to the banquet but they shirked and slighted giving silly reasons. Finally, at the king’s command, the wedding hall was filled with whomever they saw on the road. Israel, the chosen race of God, paraded calling themselves ‘people of God’ but failed to recognise the ‘Son of God’, the Promised One in Jesus and thereby took his invitation into the kingdom of God for granted. Whereas the sinners, tax collectors, outcasts and the gentiles obliged to his invitation and started amending their lives befitting to the kingdom of God true to the saying of Jesus, “may are called but few are chosen”.
In every event and person God beckons us for a worthy living in Him with necessary graces. God desires that all of us inherit the eternal kingdom but it may demand us to rid our comfort zone. It takes courage to respond to that invitation of God for eternal life. If we do so, we would be counted to be with Him in his wedding banquet, the paradise. This invitation is universal but the privileged partakers are those who respond to that invitation.
