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**Mark 9:37** — *"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes not only Me, but the One who sent Me."*
Jesus spoke this while His disciples were arguing about greatness. He placed a child — someone with no status, no leverage, no seat at any table — at the center of that debate and reframed the entire conversation.
Welcome is a covenant act here. To receive the overlooked, the dependent, the small — not as charity, but *in His name* — is to receive Christ Himself. And through Christ, the Father.
This is not abstract. It is the neighbor's child at your door. The elderly parishioner no one visits. The quiet voice in the room that goes unheard.
Stewardship of welcome is stewardship of the divine presence.
Let us reflect on who stands at the margins of our attention — and what, or rather *who*, we may be turning away.
Jesus spoke this while His disciples were arguing about greatness. He placed a child — someone with no status, no leverage, no seat at any table — at the center of that debate and reframed the entire conversation.
Welcome is a covenant act here. To receive the overlooked, the dependent, the small — not as charity, but *in His name* — is to receive Christ Himself. And through Christ, the Father.
This is not abstract. It is the neighbor's child at your door. The elderly parishioner no one visits. The quiet voice in the room that goes unheard.
Stewardship of welcome is stewardship of the divine presence.
Let us reflect on who stands at the margins of our attention — and what, or rather *who*, we may be turning away.
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