Overview
Gathered Here Are a Series of short reflections based on everyday life, "little banquets" for ordinary people, for those whose names the world does not know. Jesus invites us to "Come to the banquet." But what do we need to bring apart from ourselves? In responding to the Lord's invitation we are amazed to find that the Lord has prepared such a table for us filled with all kinds of sumptuous foods and rich choice wine. To be adequately nourished at this banquet we must be prepared to respond to the invitation by coming properly attired with the virtues of honesty, humility, faith, hope and love. We judge our preparedness by holding a mirror up to our lives and delving deep into ourselves, asking certain questions designed to reveal our relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, our familiarity with Scripture, our concern for others. In this work Father Farrell guides our questions and our meditations in such a way that each "morsel" becomes an intimate, exclusive, personal "little banquet" savored in a unique way by each reader. In the midst of so much bland, unwholesome and even tainted food that is dished out each day by the media, how refreshing it is to come to the table of the Lord to be nourished by the Bread of Life come down from heaven for the salvation of the world, the Word of Life made present in the Scriptures and in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar.Synopsis
Gathered Here Are a Series of short reflections based on everyday life, "little banquets" for ordinary people, for those whose names the world does not know. Jesus invites us to "Come to the banquet." But what do we need to bring apart from ourselves? In responding to the Lord's invitation we are amazed to find that the Lord has prepared such a table for us filled with all kinds of sumptuous foods and rich choice wine. To be adequately nourished at this banquet we must be prepared to respond to the invitation by coming properly attired with the virtues of honesty, humility, faith, hope and love. We judge our preparedness by holding a mirror up to our lives and delving deep into ourselves, asking certain questions designed to reveal our relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, our familiarity with Scripture, our concern for others. In this work Father Farrell guides our questions and our meditations in such a way that each "morsel" becomes an intimate, exclusive, personal "little banquet" savored in a unique way by each reader. In the midst of so much bland, unwholesome and even tainted food that is dished out each day by the media, how refreshing it is to come to the table of the Lord to be nourished by the Bread of Life come down from heaven for the salvation of the world, the Word of Life made present in the Scriptures and in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar.