Catechesis: Election

Few receive the Word and follow it. Most despise the Word and will not come to the wedding. The cause for this contempt for the Word is not God’s foreknowledge, but the perverse human will. The human will rejects or perverts the means and instrument of the Holy Spirit, which God offers it through the call. It resists the Holy Spirit who wants to be effective, and who works through the Word, as Christ says, “How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under wings, but you would not!”—FC SD XI:41