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<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.</b></span> Notice that<span style="background-color:rgb(207,226,243)"><b> the father (God the Father) is
giving a banquet for his son (God the Son), whose bride is the Church.
</b></span></span></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Jesus is the marriage of divinity and humanity—and we his followers are
invited to join in the joy of this union.</span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The
joyful intimacy of the Father and the Son is now offered to us to be
shared. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Listen to Isaiah </b></span>to learn the details of this banquet: <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>"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></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Now,
there is an edge to all of this. For it is the king who is doing the
inviting, and it is a wedding banquet for his son. 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></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">We
have heard <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the invitation of God to enter into intimacy with him, 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 respond.</b></span></span></b></b><br></div>
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