"If you want to be the greatest, you must be the servant of all." How many of us here would take the challenge of becoming the greatest in God's kingdom by becoming a servant first? In our parish community, in this little faith community, we are always confronted with the challenge of living the true meaning of Christian discipleship. Do you want to be first? Be the last. In our effort to build this parish around love, we are all called to serve one another. If we do so, we become a blessing to one another.
In the gospel today, Jesus, knew all along that His disciples do not grasp yet the fullness of discipleship - of being His followers. They argue over recognitions, they compete for positions, they fight for titles. Jesus knew well that they haven't taken to heart that to be His disciples mean they have to forget about themselves and start thinking about others. The disciples want to be the first and none of them grasped the meaning of being first in the kingdom of God. Jesus gave them the ultimate meaning of being placed number one in God's kingdom - YOU have to be the LAST. How ironic, we might say, the FIRST should be the LAST. We all know very well that the WORLD teaches us the opposite - YOU must always be the FIRST. The world, especially the media is teaching us exactly the opposite of Christ's teaching on discipleship - YOUR SELF FIRST BEFORE OTHERS. In this EGOISTIC, SELF-CENTERED world, it is DIFFICULT to be a TRUE DISCIPLE of CHRIST. It takes HUMILITY in order to embrace the true call to Christian discipleship.
"If you want to be the greatest, you must be the servant of all." How many of us here would take the challenge of becoming the greatest in God's kingdom by becoming a servant first? In our parish community, in this little faith community, we are always confronted with the challenge of living the true meaning of Christian discipleship. Do you want to be first? Be the last. In our effort to build this parish around love, we are all called to serve one another. If we do so, we become a blessing to one another. Comments are closed.
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