Неделя четырнадцатая по Пятидесятнице

(2 Cor. 1, 21–2, 4; Matt. 22, 1–14) The king arranges a wedding feast for his son, sends for those invited once, sends twice, but they do not come because of everyday worries: one took up farming, the other traded. A new invitation was made in other areas, and the wedding chamber was filled with reclining persons. Among them there was one not dressed for wedding, and therefore ejected. The meaning of the parable is clear. Wedding feast - Kingdom of Heaven; invitation - preaching the Gospel; those who refused - those who did not believe at all; not dressed for marriage - believed, but did not live by faith. Everyone can figure out for themselves which category each of us belongs to. That we are called is clear, but are we believers? After all, you can be among believers, under their common name, without faith. Others don’t think about faith at all, as if it doesn’t exist; another knows something about it and from it and is satisfied; others interpret faith crookedly; some are completely hostile to her, and everyone is considered to be a Christian, even though they have absolutely nothing Christian. If you believe, figure out whether your feelings, your deeds, the garment of your soul, are consistent with faith, for the sake of which God sees you dressed for marriage or for non-wedlock. You can know the faith well and be zealous for it, and in life work according to passions, dress, that is, in the shameful clothing of a sin-loving soul. Such people have one thing in their words, but another in their hearts; in the language: “Lord, Lord!” , and inside: “Have me renounced” (Luke 14:19). Reason about yourself, whether you are in faith and in the wedding garment of virtues, or in the shameful rags of sins and passions. You might be interested in: