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Theo Tigno•
11/7/2006 11:07 am
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Tuesday, November 7th 2006 |
Luke 14:15-24
One of those at table with Jesus said to him, "Blessed is the one who will dine in the Kingdom of God." He replied to him, "A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, 'Come, everything is now ready.' But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.' And another said, 'I have purchased five yoke of oxen and am on my way to evaluate them; I ask you, consider me excused.' And another said, 'I have just married a woman, and therefore I cannot come.' The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.' The servant reported, 'Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.' The master then ordered the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.'"
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for those who are voting, that God's grace influence them to choose candidates and initiatives that support the dignity of life.
If we only knew how loving a God we really have, our whole being would ache to strive to going to the eternal banquet of The Lamb.
Today, there will be many people voting. Some will be voting for whether or not "same sex" marriages will be acceptable. Others will be voting on stem cell research and cloning.
As we pray and as we vote, are we building a society that points others to the banquet or are enabling others to choose to "do their own thing?" After the general confession during mass, the congregations says, "In what I have done and what I have failed to do." Are we "failing to do" the things that will draw others to The Banquet of The Lamb? Are we saying that "same sex marriage" is okay with our failure to act? Are we saying that it's okay to kill babies by our indifference or our lack initiative to find out more about the issues at hand?
In voting, every vote counts. In our spiritual life, every act of love we do and every act of love we fail to do counts. Will you be one of the "indifferent" ones who leaves the banquet on what YOU have failed to do? Take care and God Bless.
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