By Sharon Piuse A csc –
Readings: 2 Cor4:7-15; Mt 20:20-28
The first reading asks us to remember that transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. Sometimes our actions and words might look as if we know everything. While we live, we are always being given up for death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifest in our mortal flesh. It shows God’s love towards his people.
We all love someone, and we are all loved by someone, both ways love becomes a struggle. God’s mission was to love and serve. To achieve this mission, he died on the cross. We believe that after death, we all have a resurrection in Jesus. The first reading tells us to thank our Lord for all the blessings we have received.
As children of God, we continue the same mission of God entrusted to his disciples. In the gospel reading, we see a mother asking Jesus for positions for her sons in the kingdom of God. As human beings, we have special interest in positions and authority.
Some people become religious when they see that religious are well respected by many. They want to become a religious so that they can hold big positions and boss over others. The gospel reading very clearly says, “Whoever would be great among you must be your servant and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.”
Both the readings tell that Jesus died for the sake of our sins. The reading invites us to live a life that God wants from us.