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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
Saturday, November 4, 2017
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Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo

Luke 14:1-11




*Friends, our Gospel today is the famous passage from Luke's Gospel dealing
with honor at a banquet. Jesus has been invited to the home of a prominent
person, one of the "leading Pharisees," and he notices how people jockey
carefully for position, status, prominence. Who will notice me? Who can I
impress? And Jesus puts his finger on the most desperate scenario for an
egotist. Trying as hard as he can to be noticed, he gets noticed but for
all the wrong reasons! His egotistic games backfire dreadfully, as everyone
sees him reduced to embarrassment. So what's the solution? Stop playing the
game. Take the lowest place on purpose. Opt out. Another strategy is
suggested at the end of the parable. It's also a strategy of
non-cooperation with evil. I'll have a dinner for people, but only so that
they can pay me back with another dinner. So opt out! Don't play. Invite
people to a party who have no capacity whatsoever to invite you in return.
"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."*
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