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 been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.’ But they paid no attention and went away; some went to work in the fields, others to their business.

The king said to his servants: ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those I invited have not come. So go out into the streets and invite anyone you find to come to the feast.’ The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was full of guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw one who was not wearing a wedding garment. 

The king asked: ‘Friend, why did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ The man was silent. “Then the king said to his servants, ‘Bind him and throw him out into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ Many were invited, but few were chosen.” MATTHEW 22:2-14

Dear Jesus,

I see your courage while returning to Jerusalem when the members of the Jewish Council were ready to arrest you. 

The parable of the Wedding Feast shows the boundless love of God the Father when He invites everyone without exception, just as He pours down sun and rain on both the righteous and the wicked. Some might ask, if the king invites the guests without prior notice, how can they have wedding garments to wear? Indeed, the hour we are invited to the feast is the hour we leave this miserable world. You once said, 'My hour will come like a thief,' meaning it comes without warning; no one knows that hour. This wedding garment is the garment we weave from the days we first developed reason, knowing the difference between right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. This garment of virtues is woven from the good deeds we do throughout our lives and always carry within us. Even though we are called suddenly to the Heavenly banquet at an unknown time, we are always prepared.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Let me know You, and let me know myself. Know You to listen to Your Word, and put it into practice in my daily life. Know me to change my path to Your righteous one, to have Heaven in my heart, and You are always with me.

May my meditation bring many more readers,  who are not yet believers, into your Forever Family.

Please bless all those who read this meditation in my Blog.

AMEN.