Padre, as you know, the Gospel reading for yesterday was the parable of the host, the guests and the banquet.
In a sermon on the true nature of earthly hospitality and the heavenly banquet, the preacher at our Eucharist yesterday posed this question to the congregation: If you were invited to a dinner party by Martha Stewart and were also invited for the same day and time by Julia Child, where would you go? He explained his choice would not be Martha, not because of the criminal charges, but because he would not feel at home or comfortable there however exquisite the food or the setting; whereas he would expect that Julia would welcome him into the kitchen and put him to peeling vegetables while making him entirely at home. Everyone in church concurred.
