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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> in today’s
Gospel, Jesus lays down the conditions for discipleship: "Whoever loves 
father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son
 or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take
 up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his
 life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find 
it."</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 line from the illuminator of the </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:italic">St. John’s Bible
</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">that
 states: "We have to love our way out of this." There is nothing wimpy 
or namby-pamby or blind about this conviction. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>When we love 
extravagantly, </b><b>we are not </b></span>purposely <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">blinding</span> ourselves to moral 
realities</b></span>—just the contrary. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Love is not <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">a sentiment</span>, but "a harsh and 
dreadful thing," <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">as Dostoevsky said. </span></b></span><br></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><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(255,242,204)"><u><b>This is just what Jesus shows on his terrible cross. And this is just what we, his followers, must imitate. </b></u><b>Taking up
the cross means not just being willing to suffer, but <u>being willing to suffer </u></b></span></span><u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">as he did</span><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">, absorbing <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">violence and hatred</span> through our forgiveness and nonviolence.</span></b></span></u></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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