Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - The Invitation to All

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 11.06.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Luke 14:12-14
Friends, in today’s Gospel,
Jesus gives us this extraordinary command to consider the weakest
and most vulnerable in our society:
“When you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind.”
This is one of his central concerns throughout the Gospels.
Aliens, strangers, foreigners, widows, orphans, the poor—
if these weak people are ignored, God will become angry.

God’s passion not only runs right through the biblical tradition,
but it comes roaring up into the social teaching of the Catholic Church:
“If you have two coats in your closet, one belongs to you;
the other belongs to the man who has no coat.”

Let us not forget the poor and marginalized today.

[MurphsLaw]

+++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."+++