Today we read the passage in Genesis 18;3-15 relating the visit of the three "strangers" to Abraham ;under the tree in Marmre, stunningly rendered in Andrei Rublev's icon of the Trinity. Middle East culture was BIG on hospitality and remains so even today; Abraham tooks it steps further by running out of his tent, bowing to greet them and washing their feet. He ordered Sarah to bake loaves and himself selected a choice steer to be slaughtered and prepared for a meal along wih bread, milk and curds. He waited on them and sat while they ate. Lavish hospitality, to say the least! Why did he doi ir? He was a man of faith and love and mirrored the lavish hospitality and friendship he had received from God.
That same lavish hospitality awaits us at every Eucharist where God lavishes us with "the best of wheat" and nourishment from the Scriptures. Like so many things, it's a hospitality we take for granted or don't even advert to as we attend out of habit our duty. No, no...It's God spreading a FEAST for us as Abraham did for his guests. Perhaps this story might inspire us to show more attentiveness and appreciation, as we acknowledge with the Centurion: "Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof, but only say the word and I will be healed.
Bro .Rene
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