The Beloved's Betrothal
tailor-made for God's kingdom
Announcements for October 10, 2020:
Join our Rosary Rally today (Saturday) - 12:00noon in the parking lot of Dangler Funeral Home.
Let's plan on our (now) regular offering of Masses this weekend. I'll send a text/email update Sunday morning to confirm. If you haven't been receiving these notifications, let me know.
Our weekend Masses are: Saturday 5:15pm in the church; Sunday at 7:30am and 9:00am in the church; Sunday at 9:00am at Walmart; and Sunday at 11:00am outside.
Please be in touch with me if you need anything at all, or if you'd like to share any questions or concerns.
Dear Saints,
It's not exactly a repeat, but our Gospel passage this weekend again includes a parable - The Parable of the Wedding Feast - that confronts the Temple authorities and gives pictorial expression to Jesus' new-Israel project.
Israel, in the great plan of God, was always meant to be a light to the nations, but try as they might God's people could never live up to their lofty call.
Rather than ditching the plan, though, God decides to shoulder the load: In place of Israel's infidelity, Jesus lives faithfulness; in place of Israel's rebellion, Jesus lives obedience. Jesus, embodying God's for-the-other-ness all the way through and all the way to the end, overcomes every obstacle to Israel being Israel at last!
Those who trust and follow Jesus - those who make God's way of self-giving love their own - are made to become God's renewed Israel, gathered to the wedding feast of God's own Son. Further, we who have come to the banquet of God's mercy are called to put on the wedding garments of God's no-limits love - to bring his love and his light to life - for everyone we encounter.
I love you, my friends, and I look forward to seeing you very soon.
Christ's Peace,
Father Daniel
δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ
PS Don't forget to join us for today's rosary rally at Dangler Funeral Home.
Preparing for Mass?
Check out this weekend's readings:
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parable of the Great Banquet
Brunswick Monogrammist, ca.1525