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Gospel Commentary for August 21, 2025
Dear friends,
Nothing is more demanding than love. Because love, by its very nature, calls for a loving response. If you don’t respond with love, you haven’t understood anything. And if you do live it, you’ve found the true meaning of life.
This was also true in Jesus’ time. The Gospel speaks about the covenant that God wants to make with His people — symbolized by a wedding feast. But many times, the people rejected that covenant and turned away from God.
Even in Jesus’ time, some welcomed Him, but many rejected Him… Strangely, they didn’t want to join the celebration.
But God didn’t cancel the covenant. Instead, He opened it beyond the chosen people — to all the peoples of the earth. The servants went out to the roads and brought in everyone they could find — both bad and good.
Because God’s love is free. And when it is welcomed, it can change the human heart. But once we enter into this relationship — this covenant of love — we must respond properly. We must “dress for the wedding,” which means responding to love with love. A love that is sincere, generous, and freely given.
This also happens today. We often get distracted by many things and forget the one thing that really matters: love. The love that God freely gives us — not because we deserve it — and which we are called to welcome, wear like a garment, and pass on to others.
Everything else is secondary.
God will never stop loving us, even if we don’t love Him back. The problem is on our side: we risk missing out on the greatest thing in life. Because love demands a response — a real, deep, and committed response. If you don’t live that love, you stay outside the feast. If you begin to live it, then you begin to truly live.
Thank you, Lord, for your generous, free, and selfless love.
May I stay open to that love, like Mary.
May I not get distracted by superficial things,
but focus on what truly matters:
living from your love, so I can truly love others.
Your brother in faith,