The Great Feast — This familiar parable is read in the Church each year just two Sundays before the feast of our Lord’s Nativity. In it we are reminded of the great care with which God prepared the way of His incarnation. All of the Law and the Prophets look forward to this moment, the moment wen the God-man Jesus Christ comes into the world.
He is, in fact, the fulfillment of the law and the Prophets — the goal towards which they were all aiming. The whole world was prepared by them for this great event.
As the parable tells us, the King — that is God — has prepared a great feast for us and has invited us to come and enter into that joy that He has prepared for us.
Today we begin in earnest to move toward the feast in the birth of our Incarnate Savior Jesus Christ.
Today we are called to see the great preparation that has gone into this event, to marvel at the great love and care of God for us that He would labor so long and with such great care for us.
Today we look back at the whole of the history of the people of God and see that it is the history of God’s preparation all leading to the moment when He would take flesh, become incarnate and enter the world as a child.
We have been given an invitation to come and join the feast, to abandon the world and enter the Kingdom of God, to leave our own life and receive instead the Life of Christ.
We have been invited – chosen by God. Well we accept the invitation and choose Him?
