Sunday, September 1, 2019


37  SECOND  HOMILY


The following is a  37  second homily for this 22 Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C.

When I read today’s gospel - Luke 14: 1, 7-14 - I often feel guilty. It tells the parable of not taking the top seats at the dinner table - as well as inviting the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind to one’s dinner table. I can do the table placements, but I don’t do the inviting of the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind, into dinner in my house.

Then it hit me, “Dummy. You’re it. You’re blind - lame - poor - crippled and Jesus has  invited you to his dinner table.

Enjoy the meal.  Enjoy his love of you. Oh.

Painting on top: Christ 
at the House of Simon
the Pharisee, by Pierre 
Subleyras, c.  1737    

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