Gospel: Mark
10:32-45
The
disciples were on the way, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went ahead of them.
They were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. Taking the Twelve aside
again, he began to tell them what was going to happen to him. “Behold, we are
going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief
priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over
to the Gentiles who will mock him, spit upon him, scourge him, and put him to
death, but after three days he will rise.” Then James and John, the sons of
Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, ‘Teacher, we want you to do for us
whatever we ask of you.” He replied, ‘What do you wish me to do for you?” They
answered him, “Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the
other at your left.” Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can
you drink the chalice that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I
am baptized?” They said to him, ‘We can.” Jesus said to them, “The chalice that
I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you
will be baptized; but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but
is for those for whom it has been prepared.” When the ten heard this, they
became indignant at James and John. Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You
know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over
them, and their
great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so among
you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever
wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did
not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Reflection:
What ensures lasting marriage? It’s the willingness to
sacrifice, the willingness to bear pain and suffering and the willingness to
swallow our own pride and ego. After we have endured these trials lasting
marriage would be at hand.
The two disciples namely James and John wanted to sit
beside Jesus in His glory. It seems that both of them did not want to pass
through what Jesus was about to go through. Both of them wanted the easy path
towards glorification.
But the easy path is not the way of Jesus for the way
of Jesus is the way of the cross. The way of humility, suffering and
humiliation without it there would be no triumph over evil. Without it there
would be no glorious resurrection and ascension into heaven.
The same is true if we want to become true followers
of Jesus. We also have to go through the way of Jesus before we could be
bestowed by glory that Jesus alone can bestow upon us. .
Stay the course therefore no matter how filled with
trials the journey with Him might be. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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