Jesus said to his disciples: “If the world hates
you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world
would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have
chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to
you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will
also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they
will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know
the one who sent me.”
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Reflection:
There were two brothers who had two different motivations
in life. One aspired to become rich and the other one had simple aspirations.
His only aim was to serve God in whatever capacity and then live a simple and
quite life.
After forty years both of them had retired
already the one who became worldly was very envious of his brother. This is for
the reason that the brother who served the church had a settled and peaceful
life than him.
Jesus in our gospel gives us the two pathways of
life that we could choose: The worldly life or a peaceful life with Him. By
virtue of our baptism Jesus had already called us to tread the peaceful and
simple life with Him.
This has always been His desire for all of us but
many of us chose not to follow of this plan of God. Thus, we create our own
selfish plan for ourselves and we embrace the chaotic and problematic life of
this world. We all know what will happen to all of us once we chose to embrace
the life of this world. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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