The proclamation of the Good News demands a response. The question is: is Jesus truly who he said he was? Is so, what is your reaction? Are you going to change your life like so many of the figures in the Gospel who follow Jesus on "the Way" or are you going to carry on with your life as if nothing has happened. Simply knowing about Jesus is insufficient: "Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.' But the Lord will say, 'I do not know where you come from; go away from me you evildoers!' " (Lk 13: 26-27) The journey of salvation is not an easy one, A sense of entitlement cuts no ice with the living God. Nominal religion that bears no fruit for the Kingdom and attributes magical qualities for the sacraments to make up for our deficiencies is futile. The danger is that we will find ourselves exclude from the glory which we professed with our lips but failed to witness to in our deeds. Others who we have disregarded or snubbed will enter the Kingdom ahead of us and eat at God's heavenly banquet: "There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out. Then people will come from east and west, north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God." (Lk 13: 28-29)
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