First Option - Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-11

¹ One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.
⁷ Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,
⁸ ”When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him;
⁹ and he who invited you both will come and say to you, `Give place to this man,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.
<sup>10</sup> But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, `Friend, go up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
¹¹ For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”