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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> 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.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Who
 will notice me? Who can I impress? </b></span>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? <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Stop playing <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the game</span>.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Take the 
lowest place on purpose. Opt out. </b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Another
 strategy </b></span>is <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>suggested at the end of the parable.</b></span> It's also<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> a strategy 
of non-cooperation </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>with evil.</b></span> 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. 
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Invite people to a party who have no capacity whatsoever to invite you 
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">in return. </span></b></span>"Rather, when you hold a banquet, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>invite the poor, the 
crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of 
their inability to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">repay you</span>."</b></span></span></b></b><br></div>
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