Sunday 28 August 2022 – XXII in Ordinary Time

+ From the Gospel according to Luke (14,1.7-14)

It happened that one Saturday Jesus went to the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees to have lunch and they were watching him.
He told the guests a parable, noting how they chose the first places: “When you are invited to the wedding by someone, do not put yourself in the first place, so that there is not another guest more worthy than you, and the one who invited you and him comes to tell you: “Give him his place!”. Then you will have to shamefully occupy the last place. Instead, when you are invited, go and put yourself in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will tell you: “Friend, come farther!”. Then you will have honor in front of all the diners. Because whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted ».
Then he said to the one who had invited him: “When you offer a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, because they in turn will not invite you too and you have the exchange. On the contrary, when you offer a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; and you will be blessed because they have nothing to repay you. In fact, you will receive your reward at the resurrection of the just ».

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