11.03.14

Lectio:  Lk 14.15-24                                        

Meditatio: "When the time for the dinner came, he despatched his servant to day to those invited: ‘Come, everything is now ready.’But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves...For I tell you none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.’ Lk 14,17, 18a, 24                                          
Oratio: O God, You first invited the chosen people to Your kingdom but they rejected Your invitation and then You extended the invitation to everyone but You so much want to share the kingdom.

I remember Jesus told a parable of a great feast in which those invited all made excuses for not coming and sadly those who did would never taste the dinner which stood for the kingdom of God. In prayer seek the grace to show by our actions that we will accept an invitation to the kingdom for there is no greater good for us than God and being in His presence..

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio:  reflect:” Come....all...excuse themselves”; how sad - those who were first offered the Kingdom rejected it but wonderfully we are the beneficiaries of their rejection. In prayer thank God for extending the invite to His Kingdom to all people and show your acceptance by living a life in accord with Gospel values.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 14.25-33