Thursday, November 02, 2017

Reflection for Monday November 6, Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time: Luke 14:12-14

Gospel: Luke 14:12-14
On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited him, "When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters 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:
Who are those that you normally invite to dine in your house? Of course your friends and relatives for this is our normal human nature and there’s nothing wrong with this. But Jesus points us to something that we often neglect, something that we often times purposely forget. And they’re the poor and unwanted; Jesus is pointing us to them for that is where He dwells.

Jesus’ contradicts you on how you normally invite people to dine in your house. Isn’t that you have not yet invited a poor stranger to dine for lunch or dinner? Yes, you have given food to the poor but you haven’t invited someone yet to dine in your house.

Why is it important to invite somebody who is poor to come and dine in your house? This is for the reason the you’re not only inviting the poor you are also opening your house to God. Hard to believe? Just try inviting someone who is poor to come into your house. Let him/her eat and give him/her whatever you could afford. And observe the unfathomable joy that it will give you.

In the story of the last judgment the King said: Whenever you did this to one of the least, you did this to me (Matthew 25:40). – Marino J. Dasmarinas

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