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“I Don’t Have Time” — Are You Ignoring God’s Invitation?

Sensus Fidelium

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“I don’t have time to pray.”

“I don’t have time to go to church.”

“I don’t have time to read Scripture.”

Yet somehow, we usually find time for the things we consider important.

This homily reflects on Christ’s parable of the great wedding feast and asks a much more personal question:

What am I doing with God’s invitation in my own life?

Every new day, every call to the Divine Liturgy, every movement of conscience toward repentance, and every approach to the Holy Eucharist is another invitation from Christ: Come.

But accepting the invitation outwardly is not enough. The wedding garment represents the life of Christ we are called to “put on.” We can be baptized, attend church, light candles, venerate icons, and know all the outward customs—while our hearts remain unchanged.

If we receive Christ on Sunday but refuse to forgive on Monday, something is missing.

God does not want the leftover portion of our lives. He wants to be the center.

The doors of repentance are still open. Christ still calls us to His banquet.

The invitation is not for someday. It is for today.

Glory to Jesus Christ!

00:00 Glory to Jesus Christ
00:57 “I Don’t Have Time”
01:07 No Time to Pray
01:16 No Time for Church or Scripture
01:38 We Find Time for What Matters
01:49 The Gospel’s Personal Challenge
02:01 The Great Wedding Feast
02:17 What Am I Doing With God’s Invitation?
02:27 God Is Constantly Calling Us
02:46 The Divine Liturgy: Christ Says “Come”
03:00 Repent, Forgive & Change
03:16 Approaching the Chalice
03:38 Too Busy for God
04:22 Christianity and Daily Responsibilities
04:29 When Everything Becomes More Important Than God
04:40 Too Busy Making a Life to Live
05:02 What Is Happening Inside My Heart?
05:12 Giving God the Leftovers
05:48 Christ Wants to Be the Center
06:01 The Wedding Garment
06:27 A Warning for Those Inside the Church
06:35 Outward Religion Without Interior Change
06:47 “I Can Call Myself Catholic…”
07:13 What the Wedding Garment Represents
07:26 “Put On Christ”
07:48 Communion Without Forgiveness
07:58 Prayer Without Charity
08:13 Lighting Candles While Bringing Darkness Home
08:30 Becoming Fit for the Kingdom
08:43 What Repentance Really Means
08:49 Stop Asking What Is Wrong With Everyone Else
09:12 Seeing Our Own Sins
09:36 Where the Spiritual Life Begins
09:42 You Have Been Invited
09:53 The King Wants You at His Table
10:00 Despite Your Past, He Calls You
10:18 The Eucharist and the Heavenly Banquet
10:37 God Gives Us Himself
10:50 Do Not Take the Invitation for Granted
11:05 Careers End, Possessions Remain Behind
11:18 What Will Matter at the End
11:28 What Place Does God Really Have in My Life?
11:56 Answer God With Your Whole Life
12:17 The Invitation Is for Today
12:28 Come to the Banquet With Faith
12:40 When You Fail, Get Up Again
12:52 What We Hope to Hear at the End
13:07 The Eternal Banquet
13:15 Prayer for Wisdom, Courage & Grace
13:38 Sponsor Message
13:58 Sensus Fidelium App

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10 Comments

@SensusFidelium Creator 3 weeks ago Pinned

“I don’t have time.”

No time to pray.
No time for Scripture.
No time for church.
No time to think about the soul.

Yet we somehow find time for what we consider important.

The question from this homily is uncomfortable but necessary:

What place does God actually have in my life—not the place I say He has, but the place my daily choices reveal?

The invitation is open.

Come. Put on Christ.

@CoffeeTime-s9r 22 hours ago

ST. TERESA OF LISIEUX: “I cannot bring myself to hunt through books for beautiful prayers. There are so many of them that I get a headache. Besides, each prayer seems lovelier than the next. I cannot possibly say them all and do not know which to choose. I behave like a child who cannot read: I tell God what I want and He always understands. For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy...”

@duboishelena4802 22 hours ago

Good afternoon to all thank you very much Father Ripperge may you bless you

@duboishelena4802 22 hours ago

I go to Holy Mass in Latin every day, even when I was working, and on Sundays I go to two Masses for myself and the other to make reparation for those in my family who cannot or for those who do not respect this precept. I adore Holy Mass

@ETERNALBLAZE-2003 23 hours ago

Remember me in you prayers pls🙏
Going through a great spiritual challenge😢

@tqwithlove 9 hours ago

🥰🙏✝️❤️

@boink800 22 hours ago

Jesu, ufam Tobie.

@Tgthreemw 17 hours ago

Who is this priest speaking? I like his homilies?

@Catholicity-uw2yb 22 hours ago

ST. TERESA OF AVILA: “Don’t think that if you had a great deal of time you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea! God gives more in a moment than in a long period of time, for His actions are not measured by time at all. Know that even when you are in the kitchen, our Lord is moving among the pots and pans!”

@Catholicity-uw2yb 22 hours ago

Jesus said:
When you pray, there is no need to use many words. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray like this:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: “The Lord’s Prayer is the best of all prayers: confident, ordered, suitable, devout and humble.”

ST. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA: “We create all kinds of difficulties in our prayer. Let us go back to what Jesus has taught – the intimate and simple prayer: ‘Our Father...’ Even little children can pray this.”