{"id":2068,"date":"2022-08-28T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:20:26","slug":"twenty-second-sunday-of-ordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Luke-14-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luke 14:1,7-14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u2018When 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, \u201cGive up your place to this man.\u201d And then, to your embarrassment, you would have to go and take the lowest place.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The scene painted in today&#8217;s Gospel is very familiar to us in terms of the biblical imagery of banquets, dinners and feasting. The banquet serves an an over-arching metaphor for the Kingdom, with texts in both the Old and New Testament. I relate easily to this metaphor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, in my own life, this Gospel scene is not a familiar one. My formal dining experiences would all have involved a seating plan; there would be no possibility of sitting in the wrong place. I have always had a certain relief in finding my name on the name card. And bigger relief if I knew the people sitting either side of me. Where I sat has always mattered to me, but not for the reasons implicit in the Gospel. I&#8217;d be very unlikely to feel comfortable on a &#8216;top table.&#8217; So what does this Gospel scene say to me? I think the underlying meaning for me is about graciousness and the value in joining a gathering in a way that is humble and true to myself. When writer and speaker Brene Brown speaks about authenticity she shares a mantra: &#8216;Don&#8217;t shrink, don&#8217;t puff up, stay on your sacred ground.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear today&#8217;s Gospel is an invitation to know my sacred ground. <br>How do you hear this Gospel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 14:1,7-14 \u2018When 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, \u201cGive up your place to this man.\u201d And then, to your embarrassment, you would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twenty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}