Wednesday, May 30, 2018
8th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading:
Peter 1: 18-25 Gospel: Mark 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. (…)
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.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life
Experience)
Today’s Gospel message about humility comes alive in the life of the late Archbishop of Cebu, Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal who died last October 18, 2017. Cebu owes him a lot for his untrumpeted interventions to restore peace in the country.
His silent intervention helped avert a bloody encounter looming at the Mandaue-Mactan bridge during the coup d’etat in Cebu in the early 90’s. Many warring politicians who submitted to his mediation were subdued, if not reconciled. The late president Ferdinand Marcos received the last Sacraments because he reached out to him in his last days while exiled in Hawaii. The former president Erap Estrada heeded his advice to leave Malacanang temporarily at the height of people power for the sake of the Filipino people. In all these, Cardinal Vidal avoided the spotlight.
The Cardinalate is the highest rank a prelate can attain. In fact it is from the College of Cardinals that popes are chosen. To be a cardinal is rare enough, rarer still to celebrate silver jubilee as cardinal while still in office. When his silver Jubilee was fast approaching I asked him how he felt about everything he had accomplished. He replied by telling me the story of St. Philip Neri. According to a legend, the Pope, who wanted to make him a Cardinal, hang a cardinal’s hat on his door. He took the hat and played with it throwing it like a Frisbee. His message was, “Don’t’ take yourself too seriously”. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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