May 25, 2016 Wednesday, 8th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: 1 Pt 1: 18-25 Gospel: Mk 10:32–45
Jesus and his disciples were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead. The Twelve were anxious and those who followed were afraid. Once more Jesus took the Twelve aside to tell them what was to happen to him, “You see we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be given over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death and hand him over to the foreigners who will make fun of him, spit on him, scourge him and finally kill him; but three days later he will rise.”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
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Assimilated Life
Experience)
The Evangelist Mark makes three predictions of Jesus’ Passion. In the first prediction we read: “He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again” (Mark. 8:31). In the second prediction we read: “For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after he is killed, he shall rise on the third day” (Mark. 9:31).
The third prediction is today’s Gospel reading. It is the most detailed. Still, the importance of suffering to discipleship never sank into the hearts and minds of the Apostles. Worse, they did not bother to clarify. Instead they were preoccupied about which seat to take in the kingdom.– (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email:dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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