Sunday/Unrequited
Today's gospel is one of the 'first will be last' gospels where Christ seems to be structuring a message He knows we can't hear. It is a triangulation. First, He describes seating at a banquet where taking a seat of honor might embarrass you, and a lower seat reward you. So humility, far from pure, might be worthwhile, might be advantageous. His next analogy is a feast where the guests are incapable of returning the favor.
He seems to be putting the otherworldly in a worldly setting, describing the motiveless love of a motiveless God.
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