8-31-25 -22nd Sunday Ordinary Time
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) ...