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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>in our Gospel today the Lord offers one of the greatest, most "slap you
in the face" challenges he ever offered. "If anyone comes to me without
hating his father and mother…and even his own life, he cannot be my
disciple."</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">There
is the great spiritual principle that undergirds the entire Gospel:
detachment. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The heart of the spiritual life is to love God </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>and then </b><b>to
love</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>everything else </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>for the sake of God</b>. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>But we sinners, </b></span>as St.
Augustine said, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>fall into the trap of loving the creature and forgetting</b></span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the Creator.</b></span> That's when we get off the rails.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">We
treat something less than God as God—and trouble
ensues. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>And this is why Jesus tells his <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">fair-weather <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">fans </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">that they</span> have
a very stark choice to make.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus must be loved first and last</b></span>—<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>and
everything else</b></span> in their lives<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> has to find its meaning</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>in relation to
him.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">In
typical Semitic fashion, he makes this point through a stark
exaggeration: "Unless you hate your mother and father, wife and
children, sisters and brothers...." Well yes, hate them in the measure
that they have become gods to you. For precisely in that measure are
they dangerous.</span></b></b><br></div>
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