El Señor te invita a su banquete: ¿Vendrás?

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XXVIII Domingo Ordinario, Año A: 9 Octubre 2011
Is 25, 6-10; Sal 22; Flp 4, 12-14.19-20; Mt 22, 1-14

El Reino de los Cielos se parece a un rey que nos invita a un gran banquete—el banquete nupcial de su Hijo. ¡Qué maravilloso! ¿A quién no le gusta un banquete nupcial?—una ocasión de mucho gozo, y la promesa del futuro, y la presencia amable de amigos y de la familia, y muy buena comida y bebida. Como dice la primera lectura: un banquete de manjares suculentos, un banquete de vinos añejados, de manjares suculentos, medulosos, de vinos añejados, decantados.

Y esto es lo que ofrece Dios Padre a todo el mundo.

The love of Holy Thursday and the gifts of the Eucharist and the priesthood

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Holy Thursday: April 21, 2011
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Exod 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116; 1 Cor 11:23-26; John 13:1-15

He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.

Brothers and sisters, this evening we celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. And so we begin the Easter Triduum—the three days of the Passion and Resurrection of the Lord. This is the culmination of the liturgical year: the very highest point of our entering, week by week, into every facet of our Lord’s life and of the mystery of our redemption.

We know what is coming—just as surely as our Lord Jesus knew what was coming, that Thursday evening, nearly 2000 years ago. We know the tremendous suffering and darkness and death that are coming, within hours!—as he did. But first comes something else. First comes love.