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Tuesday 5 November 2019

Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 14:15-24

The Last Supper

Life does not provide the last supper for man. Neither that of Jesus with his disciples before the days of the Passion and his death on the cross can be defined the last supper. The Last Supper is not part of the plans of life, because, after this earthly life, men and women who will enter the celestial city will be as beautiful as angels, shining like the sun and will enjoy endless banquets and dinners. The last supper is not provided by life, but because of the dominant law of liberty, there could be one for those who want it, for those who have not responded to the invitation of life.
The last earthly supper is for those who have said no to the greatest invitation, is for those who were invited for first to eat at the table of procedures of  the Lord of Life's immense knowledge, at the table of His supreme wisdom, and who did not even sit down for a moment to taste its delicacy. The last supper is for the men and women of this generation who are unwilling to accept the invitation to sit at the table with the Lord, to feed on His procedures to be happy, to live in peace, healthy and in prosperity. The last supper is for those who dine for the last time, the last day of their earthly life, and when they re-open their eyes for the endless life, there are no more tables for them  no more banquets. Actually their last supper on earth is really the last supper for them. The last dinner on earth is for those to whom first the Lord of Life turned the invitation: Come, everything is now ready. But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. They are the ones who apologized, apologize and will apologize for not being able to sit at the table of the knowledge of the divine procedures of happiness, in the name of business, interest, economic security, power, possession, greed. They are the ones who apologized, apologize and will apologize for not being able to feed their own life on the fragrance of the intelligent divine procedures of happiness, in the name of personal fulfillment,  distractions, dreams, expectations, success and prestige. Still, they are are those who apologized, apologize and will apologize for not being able to accept the invitation to the feast, the banquet, the table of knowledge in the name of love affairs, relationships, family bonds, human ties. Those who live their last supper on earth are those who, in the name of greed, ambition and emotional ties, refused to eat at the banquet of full life, according to the procedures of happiness proposed by the Lord of Life, and that is why they will not know the heavenly banquet.
In the heavenly banquet there will be room for everyone but for those who did not want to fead themselves with the divine procedures of happiness and, to chase happiness itself, rely on the energy of greed, ambition, relationships. The heavenly banquet is an endless joyful party and the Gospel texts says that the Lord of Life Himself will wait to His children in the endless banquet (Luke 12:37). But for those who refuse to feed themselves with the knowledge of the procedures of happiness, citing as an excuse greed, ambition and affective bonds, there will be no room. It is the Lord of Life Himself who says: None of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.
In God's plan, there is no last supper for mankind, but if man chooses not to feed himself with God here on earth, how will he have dinner with the Lord for eternity?