tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20587008.post7860658315300886587..comments2024-01-25T03:56:02.403-08:00Comments on Presbyterian Bloggers: Lectionary Ruminations for Sunday, August 29, 2010, the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)Mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380861596539183040noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20587008.post-6673607795389402952010-08-26T14:57:15.687-07:002010-08-26T14:57:15.687-07:00Kinniekind, you will receive no disagreement from ...Kinniekind, you will receive no disagreement from me. I applaud such creative reading and thank you for posting. Your interpretive twist maintains, if not strengthens, a Eucharistic interpretation.John Edward Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843497044452774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20587008.post-90752410396941975642010-08-26T08:16:59.024-07:002010-08-26T08:16:59.024-07:00I'm toying with the idea that this text should...I'm toying with the idea that this text should be read the wrong way round (with the parable of the king who invited people to his dinner first). It feels to me that this text says more about how God invites us, based on God's own mercy and on no doing of our own rather than about dinner invitations first and foremost. Then the focus seems to be on God, God's upside down Kingdom and how we can't earn a place at God's table - its given to us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com