Monday

 The Eucharistic Meals of Jesus. 

Picture yourself watching T.V. or sitting in your room and Jesus comes by and says "let's go to dinner! "

     This may sound odd, but it really isn't. Jesus did this all of the time!

After a long day preaching and healing and praying, Jesus was tired and hungry as we all are after a long day...and like us He too wanted to relax around a nice dinner.

     Throughout His life, we find Jesus having dinner with His friends, His enemies, with crowds and in small intimate settings, with the rich and poor, with men and women, with saints and sinners.

     Sometimes He was invited and other times He did the inviting.

But there is no doubt that Jesus loved to eat and that His meals were times of tenderness, sacrifice, healing, joy, teaching, conversion, revelation and love.

     When Jesus broke bread with others, it was a time to experience Jesus in the most intimate and personal of ways.

It was during His meals that we really come to know Jesus. 

     Many of His parables took place in the setting of a meal from the Prodigal Son which ends in a banquet, to choosing the highest and lowest place to sit at a banquet to inviting not the rich and famous but the poor, the blind and the crippled. 

   Jesus welcomed everyone to dine with Him.  This week we will visit with Jesus as He dines with all different kinds of people.