Homily for the Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
October 15, 2023
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas
Isaiah 25:6-10a
Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20
Matthew 22:1-14
The readings that the Church offers us for our reflection on this Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time present us with two symbolic examples of garments. There is the wedding garment from Jesus’ parable and there is the veiling of death (a shroud) from the first reading from Isaiah. These two garments represent two possibilities for our decision that the Lord offers us along with His invitation to follow Him. They represent two pathways: the way of life and the way of death. They call to mind the option presented in the thirty-first chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, “I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing, and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live.”
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