<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Friends,<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>
today's Gospel likens the kingdom of heaven to a king who gave a
wedding feast for his son. Notice that the father (God the Father) is
giving a banquet for his son (God the Son), whose bride is the Church</b></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
Jesus is the marriage of divinity and humanity—and we his followers are
invited to join in the joy of this union.</b></span></p>
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<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The
joyful intimacy of the Father and Son is now offered to us to be
shared</b></span>. Listen to <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Isaiah </b></span>to learn <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>the details of this banquet: "On this
mountain the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich
food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines."</b></span></p>
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<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Now
there is an edge to all of this. For<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> it is the king who is doing the
inviting and it is a wedding banquet for his son. </b></span>We can see<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> how
terribly important it is to respond to the invitation of the King of
kings.</b></span></p>
<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">We
have heard the invitation of God to enter into intimacy with him, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>to
make him the center of our lives, to be married to him in Christ</b></span>—and
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>often we find the most pathetic excuses not to</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> respond.</b></span></p><br><br></div><div id="m_-4950691393012960745DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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