Romans 11:1-2A, 11-12, 25-29
Psalm 94:12-13A, 14-15, 17-18
Luke 14:1, 7-11
Summary
"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet,
do not recline at table in the place of honor. For everyone
who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles
himself will be exalted."
Reflection
At the time of Jesus there were seat
s
and there were
seats
:
principal seats, in the middle part of the couch on
which they reclined at meals, esteemed the most honorable. Needless
to say the Pharisees would have been jockeying to be seated in the
place of honor.
Where are the seats of honor nowadays? Being invited to the White
House, being on a committee for the CEO, at the
A
cademy
A
wards,
on the fifty yard line, in the presiders
’
seat? Who wouldn’t want to sit
in one of those seats? I, for one, would like to sit in all of them. Yet
would I push myself into such a seat? I am way to
o
shy to do that.
I have gone to a few events where I was asked to sit next to person
of honor. I remember being so honored to be sitting there. Most of
the time the person I
was
seated
next to
was
a person I admire
d
.