Today, our Daily Reading reminds Catholics that many who reject God’s Invitation to accept “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” end up in hell! Catholics guide our lives by His Invitation to Heaven: “And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
Today, God’s Invitation in Romans 12:5-15 tells each of us we have a special gift that makes us as different from others as our fingerprints. Cell phones and computers help us find our Catholic Invitation to “minister, teach, exhort, contribute generously, and cheerfully do acts of mercy”.
We are invited to “love sincerely, hate what is evil, hold on to what is good, love each other with mutual affection, stay zealous and fervent, while serving The Lord.” We are invited to “Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, and persevere in prayer, help God’s holy ones, be hospitable, bless our persecutors and not curse them, rejoice with the rejoicing, weep with those who weep, have the same regard for one another, and not to be haughty, but associate with the lowly.”
After we read that Passage, Mt. 12:28 gives another “invitation” to everyone on earth! “Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest, says The Lord.”.
Then, Today’s Psalm “invites us” to do our work and not “busy myself with things too sublime for me”, and “Find my peace in You, O Lord”!
Then, Luke 14:15-24 tells us what happens to the immortal souls of those who reject God’s Invitation! “The Lord invited people to His ‘great dinner’, but many refused His invitation. One was busy with real estate, another with new equipment, and another was focused on married life.”
The Lord was “enraged”! He invited “the poor, the crippled, blind, and lame, but there was still room at The Great Dinner”, which obviously symbolized Communion at The Catholic Mass. So, God invited everyone in the world to “Be Catholic”! “Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that My Home be filled.” Then, we are told what happens to those who refuse God’s invitation to The Holy Food of Catholic Communion at “God’s Great Dinner” to which Jesus invited us, repeating 14 times: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.”
Those who “refuse” God’s Invitation have refused to “have life in them”.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May we pray that every sinner / will attend God’s ‘Holy Dinner’!”
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