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<b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><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">Friends, in today’s Gospel<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>, the Lord lays out the conditions for discipleship. He makes this demand: "</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><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:normal">For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.</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">"<br></span></b></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">Notice
 please that this is not simply a question of accepting suffering that 
happens to befall one. This is not simply a Stoic resignation. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus is 
telling us actively to take up our crosses, to seek them out, to carry 
them as he willingly carried his</span></b>. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">What Jesus did on the cross was bear 
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the burden of the world’s sin</span>. He bore others’ <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">burdens </span>in love. And this
 is what <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span> must do: actively, proactively seek out ways to lighten 
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">other people</span>’s <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">loads.</span></span><br></b></span><br><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><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:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Dietrich
 Bonhoeffer commented that when the Lord summons a person to 
discipleship, he calls him to come and die</span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">When the blind Bartimaeus 
received his sight, at the midpoint of the Gospel of Mark, he followed 
Jesus up the road that would lead to Calvary. </span>T<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">he way of the Christian 
life begins and ends with the man who is God <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">dying on a cross.</span></span></span></b></div><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké. Ámen.<br></span></b></span></div><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><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:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><br></span></span></span></b></div></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b>

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