October 12, 2008: Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 25:6-10a; Psalm 23; Philippians 4:12-14,19-20; Matthew 22:1-14
At dinner tonight someone told me about a dream she had last night. As I read this week’s readings and prayed and reflected on this difficult gospel, the dream kept coming to mind as having some insight to offer. She dreamed that she was planning to go on a cruise some days in the future, but suddenly she was awakened and told that the ship was about to leave and she needed to come right away. Naturally stressed out about the situation, she frantically gathered a few things and went to the ship, just barely making it on board before they left. Then she realized that she was totally unprepared – she had forgotten her purse with her money, her credit cards, her keys; and she had forgotten her vital medication. The friend who was with her assured her that she would be find: the friend had money enough for both of them, there was no need for credit cards, and there was a pharmacy on board where they could get her medication. Every problem was taken care of – yet she woke from the dream tense and filled with stress because it was such a nightmare. The dream makes me think of the guest at the banquet without a wedding garment. I wonder if he, like the dreamer, was unable to let go of the stress and tension of daily life to enter into the spirit of the banquet. He might as well have been tossed outside to the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
What is your own thinking on the guest without a wedding garment? What in your own experience helps you to understand this story?
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