DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“God’s Reward”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed to the Pharisees that when they “throw a party, invite those who are not able to repay us, like the poor, crippled, blind . . . This is so that God can see our pure intentions, and “reward us for them.” Ponder on, “Do we do good to others, so that we can benefit from them or are they done out of our love for God?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 14:12-14
Jesus said to his host, one of the leading Pharisees, ‘When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relations or rich neighbours, in case they invite you back and so repay you. No; when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; then you will be blessed, for they have no means to repay you and so you will be repaid when the upright rise again.’