“Is This Seat Taken?”, the title of Archdeacon Elizabeth Hardy’s homily for this Twelfth Sunday in Pentecost, is based in the Gospel of Luke’s account [14:1, 7-14] of Jesus’ parable for the Pharisees about the wedding banquet: “For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted”. September 1, 2019