This week's reflection sits down at the great supper of Luke's Gospel, where a generous host fills his hall after the first guests turn away with their small, busy excuses, a farm, some oxen, a new marriage. Drawing on St. Bede the Venerable, who saw in the open invitation God's mercy reaching past the comfortable to the poor and the overlooked, and on St. John Chrysostom's teaching that we pass from death to life by loving one another, the episode connects the banquet of the Gospel with the Epistle's call from First John to love not in word but in deed. Families will be encouraged to recognize the invitation already extended to them, and to answer it with open hands.

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