Jesus gave us this parable about those who attend the feast of Heaven.

[Luke]
{14:15} When someone sitting at table with him had heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of God.”
{14:16} So he said to him: “A certain man prepared a great feast, and he invited many.
{14:17} And he sent his servant, at the hour of the feast, to tell the invited to come; for now everything was ready.
{14:18} And at once they all began to make excuses. The first said to him: ‘I bought a farm, and I need to go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’
{14:19} And another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you to excuse me.’
{14:20} And another said, ‘I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.’
{14:21} And returning, the servant reported these things to his lord. Then the father of the family, becoming angry, said to his servant: ‘Go out quickly into the streets and neighborhoods of the city. And lead here the poor, and the disabled, and the blind, and the lame.’
{14:22} And the servant said: ‘It has been done, just as you ordered, lord, and there is still room.’
{14:23} And the lord said to the servant: ‘Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel them to enter, so that my house may be filled.
{14:24} For I tell you, that none of those men who were invited will taste of my feast.’ ”

There are three categories of persons invited to the feast. Those formally invited, who are first, represent Christians who receive a formal Baptism. The next group is “the poor, and the disabled, and the blind, and the lame”. These are non-Christians who did not become Christian because they did not see the truth of Christianity (the blind) or because some other obstacle prevented them from accepting the true Faith. They are led to the feast by the same servant, the Church, meaning that they receive an implicit baptism of desire. Their desire for truth, justice, love, and mercy leads them to the state of grace and makes them a member of the one Church.

The third group is those who are, in a sense, compelled to enter the feast. These are the persons who obtained the state of grace by a baptism of blood. This type of baptism is usually accompanied by some form of violence, even if it is only the violence of an accidental death. Thus, the figure of being “compelled” to go to the feast is fitting because most of these persons have not entered Heaven by a knowing choice.

Certain holy martyrs, catechumenates who died before formal Baptism, receive a baptism of blood based on their choice to die for Christ. But if that were the only way to obtain a baptism of blood, Jesus would not have said, by way of parable, that these souls are compelled to go to the feast of Heaven. So most souls who receive a baptism of blood do not exercise any knowing choice (for example, the Holy Innocents). This implies that they are unable to do so because they are very young or mentally disabled. Such souls are compelled into Heaven only in the sense that no act of will and intellect is required of them, as would be required in the case of a baptism of desire. Even so, in my opinion, these souls enter the limbo of Purgatory first, so that they enter Heaven after they have knowingly chosen to accept and love Christ.

Finally, notice what the lord (God) says to the servant (the Church), “so that my house may be filled”. One meaning of this parable is that the Lord God goes to great lengths to see to it that Heaven is filled with many souls.

He formally invites all Christians. He leads many others toward Heaven; these are described as having various disadvantages, representing the obstacles that prevented them from believing in Christ (without culpability to the extent of actual mortal sin). These must have received a baptism of desire, for no one enters the feast of Heaven without sanctifying grace. The third group are “compelled” to go to the feast in the sense that they enter sanctifying grace without a knowing choice (baptism of desire) and without a formal invitation (baptism of water). These received a baptism of blood. By the violence of an untimely death, absent any actual mortal sin, they too are allowed into the feast of Heaven.

And why does the Father of the family go to such lengths? So that His House, His dwelling place in Heaven, will be filled with many souls. Therefore, most souls go to Heaven, not to Hell, as their final destination. Otherwise, the figure of a Father of the family of mankind, who goes to great lengths to make sure that His House of Heaven is filled, would not be true. When Jesus teaches, why do you not believe Him?