Someone asked who might be the one of whom the Gospel says that he entered the banquet without having the proper garment (Mt. 22:11). Do not look outside yourself, but examine the depths of your heart, for all Christians have been called to the divine banquet. Therefore, if we enter filled with thoughts of love of silver, of love of fornication, or of envy, or other such things, it is evident that we have dared to stand at the joyful and spotless banquet clothed in a foreign garment. But if we change our judgment, which is worthy of condemnation, and clothe our mind with thoughts of spiritual mercy and almsgiving, of goodness and pure love, of gentleness and humble discernment, and with those similar to them, it is clear that we will also clothe ourselves with the garments worthy of the wedding. Let us hasten, therefore, to clothe ourselves with the saving garment of the spiritual wedding. For it depends on us to clothe ourselves and to unclothe ourselves, and to change our garments, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil, and to prefer now one, and later another; and this because man was created with a self‑governing will.
The Garment of the Heart Before God
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