In the Sunday Gospel reading for Luke, we heard:

"...And people will come from the east and the west
and from the north and the south
and will recline at table in the kingdom of God."

(Luke 13)

What a feast!  Everybody is invited.  Who knows who will come?  God knows, and that's enough.  We need not spend one minute trying to decide who is worthy of the Kingdom--because no one is worthy of heaven. We can't earn it; but we can accept our place at the Divine dining table because of the gift of Christ's passion, death and resurrection.

We can't understand it from our personal sense of the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

It is the Cosmic Christ--the crucified, then resurrected and transfigured Son of Man/Son of God who will accomplish this grand design of salvation.

If you want to fill your heart and soul this week, go to Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (Lumen Gentium) and read the first part of Chapter II (On the People of God), starting with Paragraph 9.  Here's your link:  http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

Blessings for the week,

Bob