March 10, 2026 The Heavenly Feast
The Feast of Our Father Over 2,000 years ago, on a Monday—the day many thousands years later we remember as Holy Monday—and just three days later, on Thursday evening, Jesus would be arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane. On that Monday, the twelve apostles and Jesus gathered at the house of Simon, the village chief, in Bethany, before setting out for Jerusalem. The apostles followed Jesus silently, but their hearts were heavy, filled with fear of the Jews, for there were warrants to arrest their Master posted everywhere. Judas Iscariot, in particular, was still uncertain whether to follow or abandon Jesus. On arriving at the Temple, Jesus preached: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepares a wedding feast for his son.’ The king sent his servants to invite those who had been invited to the feast, but they refused to come. “Then the king sent more servants: ‘Tell those who were invited that I have prepared the feast; my fattened oxen and cattle have...