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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> in today’s Gospel people ask Jesus why he doesn’t encourage fasting
among his followers. </b><b>Jesus’ answer is wonderful: "How can the guests at a
wedding fast while the groom is still with them?"</b></span> (That’s <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>a typically
Jewish style, by the way: answering a question with another question.)</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">This
great image of the wedding feast comes up frequently in the New
Testament, most obviously in the wedding feast at Cana narrative. And it
is echoed in the Tradition.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> Jesus </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">is</span><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"> the wedding of heaven and earth, the marriage of divinity and <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">humanity</span>; he is the bridegroom and the Church is the
bride. In him, the most intimate union is achieved between God and the world.</span></b></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></b></b><br><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;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;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>Could
you imagine people fasting at a wedding banquet? </b></span>Could you imagine
going into an elegant room with your fellow guests and being served
bread and water? <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>It would be ridiculous!</b></span> So says Jesus: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>"As long as the
groom is with them, how could they fast?" The mark of the Christian
dispensation is joy. Exuberance. Delight. God and the world have come
together. What could be better news?</b></span></span></b></b></div>
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