When you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind

5 NOVEMBER (Lk 14,12-14)

In the Old Testament we find men with a very high morality. They are true masters in science, in wisdom, in the knowledge for the formation of a straight conscience, more than straight, delicate at the utmost of human possibility. Job is one of those teachers of mankind. He lives of perfect justice. Even his charity is pure, high and elevated.
If I have made an agreement with my eyes and entertained any thoughts against a maiden; If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door; Then may my wife grind for another, and may others cohabit with her! For that would be heinous, a crime to be condemned; A fire that should burn down to the abyss till it consumed all my possessions to the roots. Had I refused justice to my manservant or to my maid, when they had a claim against me, What then should I do when God rose up; what could I answer when he demanded an account? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same One fashion us before our birth? If I have denied anything to the poor, or allowed the eyes of the widow to languish While I ate my portion alone, with no share in it for the fatherless, Though like a father God has reared me from my youth, guiding me even from my mother’s womb –  If I have seen a wanderer without clothing, or a poor man without covering, Whose limbs have not blessed me when warmed with the fleece of my sheep; If I have raised my hand against the innocent because I saw that I had supporters at the gate –  Then may my arm fall from the shoulder, my forearm be broken at the elbow! For the dread of God will be upon me, and his majesty will overpower me. Had I put my trust in gold or called fine gold my security; Or had I rejoiced that my wealth was great, or that my hand had acquired abundance –  Had I looked upon the sun as it shone, or the moon in the splendor of its progress, And had my heart been secretly enticed to waft them a kiss with my hand; This too would be a crime for condemnation, for I should have denied God above. Had I rejoiced at the destruction of my enemy or exulted when evil fell upon him, Even though I had not suffered my mouth to sin by uttering a curse against his life – Had not the men of my tent exclaimed, “Who has not been fed with his meat!” Because no stranger lodged in the street, but I opened my door to wayfarers –  Had I, out of human weakness, hidden my sins and buried my guilt in my bosom Because I feared the noisy multitude and the scorn of the tribes terrified me – then I should have remained silent, and not come out of doors! If my land has cried out against me till its very furrows complained; If I have eaten its produce without payment and grieved the hearts of its tenants; Then let the thistles grow instead of wheat and noxious weeds instead of barley!(cf. Job 31,1-37).
But man also knows low morality, lives of immorality, today he even reached amorality and no moral connotation of any of his acts. Without moral connotation man claims to be in all very similar to animals. But man is not an animal. He is endowed with a, rational, logical and intelligent soul, capable of discerning good from evil, right from wrong, truth from falsehood. Man is in the image and likeness of God, and God is the highest good, most pure truth, love, justice, mercy, piety and compassion. Without morality one is also with no true humanity. Today a false man, a false humanity are being built and all this is done in the name of freedom, ignoring that it is proper of freedom to be guided by the truth. The truth is the mother of all freedom and where there is no truth, there is only big bondage. Today, this is the miserable condition of mankind. It is sad. But that is how it is.

Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Jesus teaches man a high, insuperable morality, never thought of before. The good is done to those who really need it. It is done to the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, refugees and foreigners.
Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints teach us high morality.