![]() While others may refuse to encounter God because they do not feel worthy, Pope Francis said at the Lord's table, "all are invited," especially those who think they are "bad." They have the security of the things they can touch." And that is why they cannot understand what the feast is. "But the majority are attached to wealth, closed. "There are good rich people, saints, who are not attached to wealth," the pope said. Those guests who "tell the Lord, 'Don't disturb me with your feast,'" Pope Francis explained, close themselves "to what the Lord offers us: the joy of the encounter with him."įor this reason, he said, Jesus says that "it is very difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." Luke recounted Jesus telling the parable of a rich man whose invitation to a great banquet was refused by those he invited.Īngered by their refusal, the man instead commands his servants to invite "the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame" while assuring that "not one of those who were invited shall have a taste of my banquet." "This is sin, the sin of the people of Israel, our sin. ![]() I prefer to be alone (or) with people that I like. However, he added, "in front of that gratuitousness, the universality of the feast, there is that attitude that closes the heart: 'I am not going. 5 in his homily during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae. The banquet that Jesus often refers to in his parables "is an image of heaven, of eternity with the Lord," the pope said Nov. ![]()
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