Sunday Reflection, WILL YOU ACCEPT THE INVITATION?
TradCatKnight: Sunday Reflection, WILL YOU ACCEPT THE INVITATION?
Why do we choose to do the evil which we hate while we refrain from doing the good which we love? The answer is in the reality of original sin. This truth revealed in the second chapter of Genesis must be overcome through the gift of grace in baptism followed up by mortification and the reception of holy communion. "Unless you eat my Body and drink my Blood, you have no Aeos (= eternal life) in you." Only our friendship with Our Lord Jesus Christ can conquer the effects of original sin.
Our friendship with the Spouse of the Mystical Body was prepared by the Father Who preferred us from all eternity and desires to re-bond us to Himself through the blood of His only begotten Son. It is this mystical banquet which is the wedding feast of His Son. The Jews were invited first but they found the world too appealing and went off to their farms, their businesses, their law firms. They reject the eternal in exchange for a temporal happiness.
These same Jews shunned the prophets who foretold the coming of Christ and killed those who warned them of the future gift of God. They would even kill the Author of Life Itself because He was "too Holy", He made Himself God. They refused to eat the fattened calves representing those who feasted on the word of God. They would bow to the "prince of this world" and scorn the King of Kings. What a poor exchange they made and what a treasure they lost.
Now it is the Gentile turn to be tested. The banquet and its feast have been prepared and who will accept the invitation that was rejected by the Jew. Stand all you Gentiles and rejoice in the life of grace (friendship with God) which was offered to us through the holy sacrifice of the Lamb of God. All who hear the word of God feast on the fatted calf and enjoy the wine of eternal life. What a joy to keep our hearts fixed in the eternal!
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Why do we choose to do the evil which we hate while we refrain from doing the good which we love? The answer is in the reality of original sin. This truth revealed in the second chapter of Genesis must be overcome through the gift of grace in baptism followed up by mortification and the reception of holy communion. "Unless you eat my Body and drink my Blood, you have no Aeos (= eternal life) in you." Only our friendship with Our Lord Jesus Christ can conquer the effects of original sin.
Our friendship with the Spouse of the Mystical Body was prepared by the Father Who preferred us from all eternity and desires to re-bond us to Himself through the blood of His only begotten Son. It is this mystical banquet which is the wedding feast of His Son. The Jews were invited first but they found the world too appealing and went off to their farms, their businesses, their law firms. They reject the eternal in exchange for a temporal happiness.
These same Jews shunned the prophets who foretold the coming of Christ and killed those who warned them of the future gift of God. They would even kill the Author of Life Itself because He was "too Holy", He made Himself God. They refused to eat the fattened calves representing those who feasted on the word of God. They would bow to the "prince of this world" and scorn the King of Kings. What a poor exchange they made and what a treasure they lost.
Now it is the Gentile turn to be tested. The banquet and its feast have been prepared and who will accept the invitation that was rejected by the Jew. Stand all you Gentiles and rejoice in the life of grace (friendship with God) which was offered to us through the holy sacrifice of the Lamb of God. All who hear the word of God feast on the fatted calf and enjoy the wine of eternal life. What a joy to keep our hearts fixed in the eternal!
Read the whole reflection here...
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