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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Wednesday, July 25, 2018*
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Feast of Saint James

Matthew 20:20-28




*Friends, today in our Gospel the mother of James and John asks Jesus on
their behalf for high places of authority in his kingdom. Ah, there is the
voice of ambition. Some people don’t care at all about money or power or
pleasure—but they care passionately about honor. A lot of people can
identify with James and John. They want to go places, they want to be
movers and shakers in society. Perhaps a number of people reading this
reflection are filled with these emotions. But Jesus turns the tables on
them: "You do not know what you are asking." He is indeed a King, and he
will indeed rule Israel, but his crown will be made of thorns, and his
throne will be a Roman instrument of torture. And so he tries to clarify:
"Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with
which I am baptized?" The key to honor in the kingdom of God is to drink
the cup of suffering, to be willing to suffer out of love, to give one’s
life away as a gift. Look at the lives of the saints. It is not about
aggrandizing the ego, but emptying it out.*
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