Group C

After roaming all around downtown
Bringing and guiding the poor and sick to the palace
After sweeping the whole city
And filling your master's house with unlikely and surely very grateful people
The servant will say: What you ordered has been done, and there's still room
This is one of the most beautiful phrases in all the sacred text, there's still room
This phrase should be written on the facades of all the churches, there's still room
Come one, come all, we are the people who welcome, who gather and include
There's still room
This phrase is so powerful
That it was exactly the spirit of this phrase that the whole world was formed
It was because back in eternity, when nothing had yet been created
Existing autonomously, without depending or needing anything or anyone
God in His eternal and triune council
Looked around and said: There's still room

And from there everything began: Heaven, earth, animals, man and woman
A house full of color, arrangement, sounds and music of all kinds
A loving father and his children, a full house
This phrase has an extraordinary revolutionary power
If in every Christian's house, it was written
There's still room
There would be no more orphanages in the world
If in our wallets it was written there's still room
No brother would ever be misty-eyed in prayer on Sunday service saying
Lord, how am I going to feed my family on Monday?
There's still room
This is the spirit that governs the host of the feast, the lord, the majesty
And if this is the spirit that governs us
Our planning won't be like that of the wicked
What to do to have more?
Our planning will be like that of the saints
What to do, what to do to distribute more?
What to do to give more to my brother?

I tasted and saw that it's for me
At the table never alone again
Friend and thief
For everyone, wine and bread
I tasted and saw that it's for me
At the table never alone again
Friend and thief
For everyone, forgiveness
I tasted and saw that it's for me
At the table never alone again
Friend and thief
For everyone, wine and bread
There's still room
So, the lord said
Go, go through the roads and hedges
And compel them to come in so that my house may be full

Wow
Here the story starts to take on stronger contours
Go through the roads and hedges and compel them
A new list of guests emerges
And for these, a new way to execute the invitation
For group A, come
For group B, bring by the hand
For group C, compel them to enter
Why should they be compelled?
Obvious answer
Roads and hedges are the streets and limits outside the city
It's what lies beyond the wall
And who lived in that desolate region?
Thieves, prostitutes, murderers, robbers, fugitives, lepers
People with contagious diseases, those already forgotten by social interaction
Abandoned, wandering, too strange to even be on the street as a beggar
The unequal are the others, the enemies of peace, goodness, morality, promoters of chaos
The indigent, the unsanitary, the irreconcilable, the completely other
Now see what mission we have here in this text
If this majesty is a symbol of God as our father here in the story
Then we need to say
In fact, this text demands that we preachers say that God is determined
And desires to fill His house with this kind of people
Saying this in front of a Christian society
That above all values the comfort and well-being of its followers
Is almost a call to war
Any preacher who puts too much force on this biblical truth
Will risk being seen as a crazy troublemaker
Someone who disrupts the peace and status quo of Christian society
But the text is here, it continues here
And at any cost, I will tell you what it compels me to say
God wants His house full of this kind of people

That we usually put outside our walls
Who is group C?
It's your cousin who got pregnant as a teenager
And today lives asking for help from the family
Who is group C?
Your effeminate cousin that you despise and are ashamed to walk with on the same sidewalk
Who is group C?
It's your alcoholic uncle, who failed, who messed up with everyone
Four kids and none to say happy Father's Day
Messed up every time he could mess up
Who is group C?
Feminists, enemies of the Christian family
The history professor from the federal university
The progressives
Or it's your insensitive, ignorant Bolsonaro uncle
He's out of the table, far from sight
Separated from what you consider good, beautiful, just and true
It's everyone you consider the opposite of that

I don't know another text more scandalous and impressionistic than this
A feast offered by the majesty
A floor of the finest marble or quartz or whatever
White, pure, shining
So shiny that when you look at the floor
You see the ceiling, the chandelier reflected on the floor
When the chandelier is on the floor, people like that don't enter
But still, a feast offered by the majesty
A crowd of condemned, mistreated, dangerous, ugly people
But none of that is seen
It's so much smiling bathed in tears that here everyone is beautiful and knows how to dance
There are the best reasons to dance all night long.