23 February 2012, Thursday
Gospel: Lk 9:22-25
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘The Son of Man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.’
Then to all he said, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it. What gain, then, is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self?’
Reflection
Jesus suffered and died because He did not bend the truth that He came to teach us, nor did He deviate from the way He came to show us. He remained as the bright Light for us to see the way to our eternal home, remaining completely faithful to His Father’s Will till the very end.
If we live by Christ’s values, we put our every possession – kinship, friendship, career, material goods, at risk. But without this necessary detachment from earthly things, we can never be attached to God.
In what ways have you compromised Christ’s values to safeguard your earthly attachments?
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