October 18, 2015 Sunday
29th Sunday
in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Is 53:10–112nd Reading: Heb 4:14–16
Gospel: Mk 10:35–45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Master, we want you to grant us what we are going to ask of you.” And he said, “What do you want me to do for you?” They answered, “Grant us to sit one at your right and one at your left when you come in your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized in the way I am baptized?” They answered, “We can.” And Jesus told them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and you will be baptized in the way I am baptized. But to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to grant. It has been prepared for others.”On hearing this, the other ten were angry with James and John; Jesus then called them to him and said, “As you know, the so-called rulers of the nations act as tyrants and their great ones oppress them. But it shall not be so among you; whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you shall make himself slave of all. Think of the Son of Man who has not come to be served but to serve and to give his life to redeem many.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
A fable is told of a crow sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day?” The crow answered in the affirmative. So the rabbit sat on the ground below for he cannot climb to sit beside the crow. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate him. The lesson is: to be sitting all day doing nothing in the workplace, you must be sitting very high up or you’ll be eaten up by intrigues.”
This fable presupposes that those in highest positions of power have superior and exclusive rights over the others. God had a different way of looking at positions of power. Jesus came down in humility to serve the powerless. To serve the powerless means to assume a status lower than theirs.
Humility is a lesson hard to learn even by the Apostles who were under the tutelage of Jesus. Being apostles, James and John were always exposed to the teachings of the Lord. Yet look at how ambitious they remained. They had the guts to ask from Jesus a good share of his heavenly power. But Jesus said to them, “The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and the great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so among you. Whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant”. — Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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