Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14
On a sabbath Jesus
went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there
were observing him carefully.
He told a parable to
those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor
at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not
recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may
have been invited by him, and the host who
invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and
then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather,
when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes
to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will
enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For every one who exalts
himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Then
he said to the host who inited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not
invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy
neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather,
when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed
indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be
repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
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Reflection:
What is the
advantage of a humble person over an egotistical person? The humble person
never competes with anyone he is always peaceful. He does things quietly
without trumpeting it to anyone. The humble one can calmly walk away from
anyone without resentment even those who’ve hurt him.
If the person that he loves has betrayed his
love for her. The humble person can also quietly muster enough strength to
silently leave behind his beloved and evaporate with the sunset to permanently
fade away from her sight.
In the gospel for
this Sunday Jesus talks about humility. Jesus tells us that if we are invited
into a wedding banquet or any banquet for that matter. We should choose to seat
at the back and not in the place of honor, not because we feel inferior or we
have an inferiority complex. We seat at
the back for this is the right action to do, afterwards if the host would call
our attention to be seated elsewhere then we should humbly follow.
What if for example
a person is egotistical could he/she be converted to have the virtue of
humility? Yes absolutely! He/she could be converted provided that he would be
ready to follow the leadings of Jesus in his life.
This is for the
reason that Jesus would always want us to be humble. And the virtue of humility
if this is present in a person’s life could become his/her walkway towards
Jesus.
Strive to be humble and ask Jesus to make you humble for nothing is impossible for Him. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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