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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>today in our Gospel the mother of James and John asks Jesus on their
behalf for high places of authority in his kingdom.</b></span> Ah, there is <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the
voice of ambition. Some people don’t care at all
about money or power or pleasure—but they care passionately about honor.</b>
</span> 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.</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"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>But
Jesus turns the tables on them: "You do not know what you are asking."
</b></span>He is indeed a King, and he will indeed rule Israel, but <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">his crown</span> will
be made of thorns, and <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">his throne </span>will be a Roman instrument of t<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">orture.
</span></b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br></b></span><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>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?"</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>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.</b></span> Look at the lives
of the saints. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>It is not about</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>aggrandizing the ego</b></span>, <b>but emptying it
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