Reading
Ezekiel 36: 23- 28
36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was defiled among the Gentiles, which you have defiled in their midst. So may the Gentiles know that I am the Lord, says the Lord of hosts, when I will have been sanctified in you, before their eyes.
36:24 Certainly, I will take you away from the Gentiles, and I will gather you together from all the lands, and I will lead you into your own land.
36:25 And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.
36:26 And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
36:27 And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them.
36:28 And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Gospel
Matthew 22: 1- 14
22:1 And responding, Jesus again spoke to them in parables, saying:
22:2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who was king, who celebrated a wedding for his son.
22:3 And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding. But they were not willing to come.
22:4 Again, he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell the invited: Behold, I have prepared my meal. My bulls and fatlings have been killed, and all is ready. Come to the wedding.’
22:5 But they ignored this and they went away: one to his country estate, and another to his business.
22:6 Yet truly, the rest took hold of his servants and, having treated them with contempt, killed them.
22:7 But when the king heard this, he was angry. And sending out his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and he burned their city.
22:8 Then he said to his servants: ‘The wedding, indeed, has been prepared. But those who were invited were not worthy.
22:9 Therefore, go out to the ways, and call whomever you will find to the wedding.’
22:10 And his servants, departing into the ways, gathered all those whom they found, bad and good, and the wedding was filled with guests.
22:11 Then the king entered to see the guests. And he saw a man there who was not clothed in a wedding garment.
22:12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how is it that you have entered here without having a wedding garment?’ But he was dumbstruck.
22:13 Then the king said to the ministers: ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.’ ”