Gospel: Mark 8:27-33
He began to teach them that the Son of Man
must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the
scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and,
looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You
are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
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Reflection:
Have you suffered for someone you love?
Suffering is part and parcel of loving, there’s no real love without suffering for that love. For so long as you love you should expect some big and little sufferings along the way. Why? Because suffering perfects and purifies love, love without suffering is not love it’s simply lust or a shallow object of attraction.
For example, a man and a woman decided to marry. So, after their marriage they move to a place to be together. After a few months the man found out that his partner is sick of cancer so he decided to leave her. It was not real love that attracted the man to the woman. It was simply lust for he was not willing to suffer for his beloved.
Jesus in the gospel gives us the best example of perfect love when He said that the Son of man must suffer greatly. To whom did Jesus suffer? For us, He suffered out of His great love for us; He could have avoided going thru intense suffering for He was God too. But He chose to tread the road of suffering so that we can be redeemed from our sinfulness.
Would you be willing to suffer for someone you love? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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