Be dependent on tips since the pay is not adequate.
And probably have a second or a third job.
I can understand why the Twelve complained about serving at table.
Serving table isn’t easy. But their attitude, “It is not right for us… to serve at table” bothers me. Did the disciples so quickly forget that last night when Jesus washed their feet and presided over the Passover meal?
Often with profound and deeply spiritual meanings and insights.
Have you ever contemplated in the light of Jesus Christ
the meaning of these acts that you do for others?
“It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to serve at table.”
Why do you think the Twelve concluded they shouldn’t have to serve tables anymore?
Pope Francis is said to have broken tradition when on Holy Thursdays he went to prisons, rehabilitation centers, and healthcare facilities for the elderly and disabled. There, he washed the feet of marginalized individuals, prisoners, women, Muslims, refugees, teen-agers, immigrants, Hindu, and the sick, rather than only priests robed in richly clad vestments. His actions scandalized some Catholics. But Francis did not break tradition. Francis fulfilled tradition.
To follow Jesus is to serve the world without distinctions. And to serve the world through the everyday actions of service.
There is no choice to be made between the Word of God and serving table.
It is not an either/or, as the Twelve seem to think, but a both/and.
Serving tables is living out the reflected Word of God.
The living Word of God is found sitting at various tables in our society.
Terence Cooke, Cardinal Archbishop of New York
was regularly found feeding people at food pantries.
John Cardinal O’Connor sat at the bedside of AIDS patients.
Pope Francis regularly ate with trans women of Rome.
The marginalized. The sick. The dying. The lonely and hungry.
Our positions in life do not absolve us from serving tables in very tangible ways.
How many of you do these actions without thinking every day?
Tables take many forms; from kitchen tables to bedsides to food pantries to…
…wherever we encounter need…the marginalized, the sick, the dying, the lonely and hungry.
Consider how often Jesus is found at table throughout the Gospels.
He indiscriminately ate with anyone down to this very Eucharist.
Serving table and Word of God go hand-in-hand
Serving tables is living out the reflected Word of God.
The living Word of God is found sitting at various tables in our society.
Maybe we should not have turned our Christian tables into Christian altars.
The essential actions can be lost to us.
Welcoming…the stranger.
Serving…the discarded.
Eating and drinking…with anyone, without judgement.
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