[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel, *Jesus says that a disciple must carry his own
cross and follow him. All of us sinners tend to see the universe turning
around our ego, our needs, our projects, our plans, and our likes and
dislikes.* T*rue conversion—the metanoia that Jesus talks about—is so much
more than* *moral reform, though it includes that. It has to do with a
complete shift in consciousness, a whole new way of looking at one’s life.*

*Jesus’ teaching must have been gut-wrenching to his first-century
audience: *“*Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot
be my disciple.”* His listeners knew *what the cross meant: a death in
utter agony, nakedness, and humiliation*. They knew it in all of its awful
power.

*If God is self-forgetting love even to the point of death, then we must be
such love*. *The cross, in short, must become the very structure of the
Christian life*. *This is just what Jesus shows on his terrible cross*. A*nd
this is just what we, his followers, must imitate. Taking up the cross
means not just being willing to suffer but being willing to suffer as he
did, absorbing violence and hatred through our forgiveness and nonviolence.
*
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