Resurrection Catholic Church recently issued the following announcement.

The first lesson we can glean from today’s reading is cause for celebration: everyone is invited to God’s feast. Isaiah writes that the Lord “will provide for all peoples,” from all nations, a feast that celebrates an end to sorrow, an end to death (Isaiah 25:6). In the psalm we sing that we all shall live in the Lord’s house all the days of our lives. In the Gospel, the “bad and good alike” area all invited to the wedding banquet (Matthew 22:10). What glorious news! We get to go even if we’ve sinned. But the second lesson today is sobering. Not everyone is allowed to stay. 

The king in Jesus’ parable casts out one guest who was not dressed appropriately. Really? Recall a different parable in which a rich man dressed in the finest garments who is suffering in a place of torment sees the beggar Lazarus, dressed in rags, resting in the bosom of Abraham. Now there’s a dress code? Perhaps it helps to realize that when we were baptized, we were told that we put on Christ, that we clothe ourselves in Christ. Therefore, whether we wear gowns of rags, le us first put on that unstained garment of our baptism, symbolizing the new life to which we are called. After all, Saint Paul was in prison when he wrote to the Philippians. But even in prison clothes he radiated the “glorious riches” of Christ (4:19). 

How do you go about “putting on Christ,” so that you can give witness to God’s grace in your life?

Original source can be found here.