Today's parable can be read on various levels. There is the literal level, in which Jesus indicates to the chief priests and elders that they were invited to the messianic wedding banquet but that they have declined the invitation. So a new Israel will be formed in place of the old. But the "wedding feast" to which Jesus is referring is not simply His marriage to the New Israel, the Church, but it also refers to the place where that marriage is consummated anew: Mass. And to every Mass many are invited to share in the banquet... do we accept the invitation?