Join Msgr. Don Fischer as he reads and delivers a short reflection on today’s gospel, followed by 3 1/2 minutes of contemplative music and a closing prayer. Msgr. Don hopes that today’s reflection on the gospel will empower you to carry the Word in your heart throughout the day.

Gospel Luke 9:22-25
Jesus said to his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."
Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?"

Reflection
Jesus had something. Authenticity. Integrity. He was exactly who he was. And we as humans fall into a trap we might call the persona, putting on a way of being, a way of being seen that we feel will make us more attractive or perhaps less attractive or less talented, goes in both directions. So let us ponder on this image of what it means to find your true self and to be connected to it with an intention that goes to our core. And through that intention, we resonate a kind of power to the world.

The Closing Prayer
Free us from any kind of limitation that keeps us from truly entering into who we are and using it as you intended it to be used, to bring life to others. And we asked this in Jesus name, Amen.

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