In the gospel of Luke, meals are important. In fact, Jesus’ life in that gospel is punctuated with at least ten different meals. But they are more than just scenes in a play, a good way to bring people together and have them interact. Because all these meals, to Luke, are also an image of the future. Here’s something important to take away from this gospel. Luke believes not only that the eucharist is a meal, but that our whole life, eternal life with God, is like a meal. It is his vision of the future that awaits us. Whatever heaven is, what it’s most going to be like is…