"...when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind..." Luke 14:12-14

Today's Readings

"...when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind..." 

 Luke 14:12-14

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 69:30-31, 33-34, 36-37

³⁰ I will praise God's name in song, I will extol him by thanksgiving,

³¹ for this will please Yahweh more than an ox, than a bullock horned and hoofed.

³³ For God listens to the poor, he has never scorned his captive people.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth and seas, and all that stirs in them, acclaim him!

³⁶ the descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.

Gospel  

"...when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind..." 

 Luke 14:12-14

¹² Then he said to his host, '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.

¹³ No; when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

¹⁴ then you will be blessed, for they have no means to repay you and so you will be repaid when the upright rise again.'