October 11 th, 2023 (28 Sunday Ordinary A)

Dear brothers and sisters,

Jesus Christ is inviting us to a wedding feast. Christ fulfills the prophecy of Isiah where he says that on this mountain God will prepare a banquet, a feast. God on this mountain will remove the vail that covers the faces of all peoples and he will wipe all tears from our faces, and he will destroy death forever. Death and suffering for us are this mountain. Death and suffering are two things that are unsurpassable for us. Only Jesus Christ can overcome death and give meaning to suffering, only he can transform death into a feast. Christ is inviting us to this banquet, on this mountain to have a feast, a wedding. Christ calls all of us to participate of his victory over death. This is the real fest for the Christian to see that death and suffering have been overcome in Jesus Christ and to participate together with Christ of this mystery. Many are called to this feast and to this wedding, but many do not accept this invitation. They refuse to enter. To participate of Christs victory over death we need to be united with him, to be in the feast, and to have within us the wedding garment, that is a new nature. If we do not have the wedding garment we cannot remain in the feast, we are frown out. If we are with Christ we receive from him a new life, this wedding garment, this new nature, were death and suffering can no longer touch us, we have inside of us his eternal life.

Peace, Fr. Nicholas