Reflections on the Sunday Readings

                                            As I read the gospel this weekend the lines that stood out to me the strongest were those where Jesus tells his host what he should always do when he gives a dinner.   Jesus   said that this host when he gives a dinner should not  only  invite wealthy friends, influential people, who can repay him or do something important to him.   Rather, Jesus  s uggests, the host invite those who are poor, person with disabilities, unwanted, people who have no power at all because, they are unable to repay him.   When he does such, he is then showing humility, since his gesture will not be necessarily noticed by the world, but it will be noticed by God.    And it will be God then who will repay such a one-" …… the one who humbles himself will be exalted. ” (Luke 14:7)         ...

                                                                                       “William Barclay, scripture scholar and writer, once told the story  of Basil Oliver.                                     Basil was eighty-five years old when he died. Some called him the oldest office boy in London. More than thirty years earlier, after losing his wife, he moved into the London Central Y.M.C.A. and never lived anywhere else.     Instead, he quietly made himself useful. He collected outgoing mail, fetched stamps, ran errands, and assisted with whatever needed to be done. On Sundays, he distributed newspapers and serv...