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GOSPEL POWER l SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 l SUNDAY
GOSPEL POWER l SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 l SUNDAY
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mk 9:30-37
Week in Ordinary Time 30Jesus and his disciples went on from there and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. 33Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” 34But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. 35He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” 36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
Today’s Gospel gives us a picture of inattentive, indifferent disciples who, while Jesus is speaking of the climax of his mission — his passion, death and resurrection — are busy discussing their own agenda. The sad thing is that their agenda is exactly the opposite of the self-sacrificial offering that Jesus is speaking about. Their being associated with the popularity of their Teacher has gotten into their head. Now their notion of greatness is being on top and in command of all the others. Jesus’ gesture of placing before them a child as his visual aid is symbolic, as if to invite the disciples to go back to the basics. They were simple fishermen and laborers without worldly ambition when Jesus first called them. To be childlike is to return to simplicity, to the essentials of their vocation, to the Kingdom-values that Jesus has been painstakingly inculcating in them.
Lord Jesus, do not allow the seductions of the world to weaken our commitment to you and to the values that you stood for. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER l SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 l SUNDAY
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mk 9:30-37
Week in Ordinary Time 30Jesus and his disciples went on from there and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. 33Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” 34But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. 35He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” 36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
Today’s Gospel gives us a picture of inattentive, indifferent disciples who, while Jesus is speaking of the climax of his mission — his passion, death and resurrection — are busy discussing their own agenda. The sad thing is that their agenda is exactly the opposite of the self-sacrificial offering that Jesus is speaking about. Their being associated with the popularity of their Teacher has gotten into their head. Now their notion of greatness is being on top and in command of all the others. Jesus’ gesture of placing before them a child as his visual aid is symbolic, as if to invite the disciples to go back to the basics. They were simple fishermen and laborers without worldly ambition when Jesus first called them. To be childlike is to return to simplicity, to the essentials of their vocation, to the Kingdom-values that Jesus has been painstakingly inculcating in them.
Lord Jesus, do not allow the seductions of the world to weaken our commitment to you and to the values that you stood for. Amen.