My place at the table ~ A Meditation on the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

Jesus said:  "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at the table in the place of honor."  (Luke 14)

Someone more important than you may have been invited and the host or hostess will ask you to move further down...  Rather embarrassing, right?

What Jesus is asking you to do, is to practice humility.  Don't automatically assume that you are the most important one. Remember the story about James and John, who felt that they deserved the important places next to Jesus when he came into his Kingdom.  They felt certain they had what it took to be in those places.  That they had the right to those places because they would be willing to suffer and die for Him.  Jesus told them outright that those places were not his to give.    

Actually, we are all important in the eyes of God and each of us is invited to the banquet of the Lord.  The Lord's table is one we can approach each Sunday and even on the days inbetween to hear the Word and receive the Body and Blood of the Lord.  We approach the table with humble and thankful hearts, knowing  that this precious gift has been given to us... to strengthen us and grace us to live our lives in the holiness that the Father wishes of us.


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