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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