In today’s Gospel Our Lord teaches thus that is we want to achieve great things, from a Christian perspective, we have to “aim low” in order to aim high.\u00a0Practically everybody wants first class on the plane, but not everybody has the resources or the connections to get it.\u00a0Why not forget about a seat you probably don’t deserve (or the person who’s sitting in it) and focus on the privilege of having a place on the flight at all?\u00a0If you’re going on vacation upon arrival you’re going to care less about what seating you had on the plane.<\/p>\n
When you realize that everything you have and are is a gift from God you realize that whatever you receive is a motive for gratitude. It won’t matter whether you’re sitting at the main table or on a folding chair by the service door: someone has thought of you and invited you to partake of their joy. Dissatisfaction comes when you think you’re entitled to a place at the main table and everyone knows your place in the banquet\u00a0is not much beyond a folding chair by the service door.<\/p>\n
The only thing worse than putting someone on a pedestal is putting yourself on one: it just makes the fall that much more embarrassing. Ask Our Lord today to help you grow in the humility to “aim low.”<\/p>\n
Readings:\u00a0Romans 11:1\u20132a, 11\u201312, 25\u201329;\u00a0Psalm 94:12\u201313a, 14\u201315, 17\u201318;\u00a0Luke 14:1, 7\u201311.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today’s Gospel Our Lord teaches thus that is we want to achieve great things, from a Christian perspective, we have to “aim low” in order to aim high.\u00a0Practically everybody wants first class on the plane, but not everybody has the resources or the connections to get it.\u00a0Why not forget about a seat you probably … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-dL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}