Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast.

So we're going to give you the tools, as we always do, to understand the literal sense of the text of the gospel reading from today's Mass.

So today's reading is from Luke chapter 14, verse 1 and then verses 7 to 14.

So let's take a look at it.

Now on a Sabbath day, Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees,

and they watched him closely.

He then told the guests a parable because he had noticed how they picked the places of honor.

He said this,

When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take your seat in the place of honour. A more distinguished

person than you may have been invited, and the person who invited you both may come and say,

give your place up to this man. And then to your embarrassment, you would have to go and take the lowest

place. No, when you are a guest, make your way to the lowest place and sit there, so that when

your host comes, he may say, my friend, move up higher.

In that way, everyone with you at the table will see you honoured.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself will be exalted.

Then he said to his host, when you give a lunch or a dinner, do not ask your friends, brothers, relations, or rich neighbours, for they repay your courtesy by inviting you in return.

No, when you have a party, invite the poor,

the crippled, the lame, the blind, that they cannot pay you back means you are fortunate,

because repayment will be made to you when the virtuous rise again.

So that's our text today, and it's a text that's often forgot about.

It's a really interesting one, but you may not have heard a lot of sermons preached on this particular text.

So we'll start by thinking about the context.

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