22 Sep 2024
2 CommentsAmbitious for the Right Things
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For 22 September 2024, The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, based on Mark 9:30–37
Jesus and his disciples passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for 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.’ But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.
Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, ‘What were you arguing about on the way?’ But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, ‘Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.’ Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Brigid Cannon, OP
23 September 2024 @ 1:01 am
Dear Fr. Don,
Thank you very much for a wise reflection on what true ambition is about in our lives and how the opposite leads to disorder, foul practices, hypocrisy, and selfish egotism. May we all pray to model Jesus who is gentle, patient, peaceable, truthful and be ambitious always for what God wants of us in our daily lives.
Blessings on your breaking open the Word of God,
Brigid Cannon, OP
Peggy
23 September 2024 @ 5:02 am
Thank you Father Don.