“The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son” (Matthew 22:2).  ,

The major theme for this 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time focuses on God’s overabundant grace, generosity, love, and hospitality, that He wants to share them with us through the image of a wedding banquet celebration. God loves us, His Chosen People. He is constantly caring for us, providing us with abundant food to satisfy all our hunger and thirst, and to sustain us in our lives. God invites us to the everlasting joy of His heavenly banquet but warns us that we need to be ready for it by constantly wearing the wedding garment – which means, to remain permanently in the state of grace with God.

Grace means favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call, to become the adopted children of God, and partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life. Grace introduces us into the intimacy of God’s Trinitarian life.

By our Baptism through God’s grace, we participate in the grace of Christ, the Head of his Body. And we, as adopted children of God, can henceforth call God "Our Father," in union with His only Begotten Son, and receive the life of the Spirit, who breathes charity into us, and forms us to become the Church, the body of Christ. In other words, the grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul through baptism to heal our soul of sin.

The grace of Christ is the source of work, to deify and sanctify us. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ by the sacrament of Baptism, he is a new creation from God, who through Christ, reconciled us to himself (CCC #1996, 1997, 1999).

God does not want us holding a relationship of Transaction but Transformation. Therefore, Dynamic Christian disciples are those who (1) BELIEVE (2) GROW, (3) SERVE, (4) LOVE and (5) LEAD others to Jesus. Today’s topic invites us to appreciate, accept and maintain God’s grace, to follow Jesus Christ more closely, to repent our sins, to exercise our Christian stewardship, to use our time, treasure, and talents to love God above all and to love our neighbors as ourselves, participating in the works of mercy, to accomplish God’s will in our lives to glorify God.  

How can we help each other appreciate God’s grace, to attend and participate in the Eucharistic banquet with proper preparation, always keep our wedding garment of holiness and righteousness in the state of grace?

Wishing everyone a blessed week in the Lord.