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 <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>our Gospel today from Luke <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">lays out Jesus’ conditions for discipleship</span></b></span>:
 <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>"If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up 
his cross daily and follow me. For whoever
wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my 
sake will save it."</b></span></span><br><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">How
 do we overcome pain? How do we attain joy? Not from a Stoic 
resignation, nor from a Buddhist negation of the self, nor from a 
Platonic contemplation of the eternal forms, but rather from the 
sacrifice of the self in love. Jesus is going to Jerusalem in order to 
give himself away, to sacrifice himself in love for the other—and in 
this, he will become a source of life to others.</span><br><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 style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Ronald
 Knox talked about </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the sign of the cross </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>this way: the first two 
gestures form the letter "I" and the next two cross it
out. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>That’s what the cross of Jesus meant and means. The path of 
discipleship is the path of self-sacrificing love—and that means the 
path of suffering. </b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b>

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