Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Cycle A

Is 25:6-10a
Phil 4:12-14, 19-20
Mt 22:1-14 or 22:1-10

The readings assigned for today speak about the banquet to which God – in the old and new covenants – calls his people. The homilist can point out that this is a banquet of life. The prophecy of Isaiah tells us that God is in the business of destroying death. “On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all people, the web that is woven over all nations; he will destroy death forever.” This is the same mountain on which he will provide the choice foods and wines.

God did not make death; rather, he destroys it. He does so in Christ, for whom the wedding banquet (the marriage of Christ the Bridegroom with the Church his bride) is celebrated. To stand with Christ is to stand with life, and to stand with life is to stand against whatever destroys it. Nothing destroys more life than abortion.

As committed disciples of Christ, we renew our vows to the Lord every day, and both recall and participate in his victory over death. It remains for us to proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of Life, and to apply that victory to every sector of society.