Please read the passage before that the homily.
We do it for Thanksgiving Day; why not do it every day? We celebrate the Eucharist every day, and Eucharist means thanksgiving; every day, then, is a Thanksgiving Day. What do we do on Thanksgiving Day that we do not do on ordinary days of the year?
We invite the homeless and the poor to come together to a big place and give them a big Thanksgiving Day feast free of charge. Once a year, whether they need it or not, we treat the poor as people and recognize their humanity. The rest of the year we dine in or out with relatives, family, friends and business associates, people who can pay us back. If our repayment come by way of another meal with associates, they we are ignoring the possibility being repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
Can we afford to ignore anyone who cannot afford a place at the table of plenty? Consider that we stand before the Lord as people who cannot afford to eat at his table of plenty. Before the Lord we are poor and homeless, people who have no way of getting into the Lord’s great banquet. Nevertheless, we are invited us in, not once, but every day, when God shows us wonderfully how God feeds us, nourishes us and loves us.
Everybody whom we meet today and everybody whom we do not meet today, is a human person who has every right to share in the bounty we share. The people of Ukraine, the people of Russia, Hamas, the people of Israel, together with their leaders are people whom God loves and cares for, are people for whom we ought to care, even if they cannot repay us.