{"id":153134,"date":"2016-08-30T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/?p=153134"},"modified":"2016-09-02T19:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:12:47","slug":"23rd-sunday-o-t-ross-reyes-dizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/23rd-sunday-o-t-ross-reyes-dizon\/","title":{"rendered":"23rd Sunday in O.T. (Ross Reyes Dizon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way that leads to truth and gives life<\/em><\/p>\n

Jesus guides our feet into the way of the Kingdom of God.<\/h3>\n

Great crowds follow Jesus who is on his way to Jerusalem.\u00a0 But quality is more important to him than quantity.\u00a0 Hence, he lays out his demands in a disconcerting way.<\/p>\n

First, Jesus demands that those who seek membership in his big family hate their family members and their own lives.\u00a0 It is not that he rejects family ties and self-esteem.\u00a0 Were he rejecting these, he would not use them to highlight his precedence over everything and everyone.\u00a0 The superlative degree implies the positive and comparative degrees.\u00a0\u00a0 Moreover, to have family ideals that apply to the big Christian family supposes some experience of such family value as the love that is intimate, supportive, respectful, understanding, unconditional, fair and humanizing.<\/p>\n

Jesus, then, does not break up the human family.\u00a0 His point is that we must put nothing and no one ahead of him.\u00a0 He himself lives up to his teaching, \u201cSeek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.\u201d\u00a0 That is why he serves as a model for us all.\u00a0 He is the way that leads to the Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Secondly, Jesus urges us not to have illusions about discipleship.\u00a0 To be a disciple is to suffer the same fate as the one who is on his way to where sufferings and the cross await him.<\/p>\n

Since Jesus promotes justice, mercy and faithfulness, the powerful persecute him and condemn him to death.\u00a0 They will likewise persecute disciples who do as Jesus.\u00a0 Disciples will run afoul of the authorities and will end up receiving the death sentence.<\/p>\n

Disciples\u2019 personal crosses refer literally, then, to the death penalty.\u00a0 We who enjoy today religious freedom, however, understand the cross more metaphorically.\u00a0 But are our \u201cmetaphorical\u201d crosses really comparable to the \u201cliteral\u201d crosses of those who do not enjoy religious freedom?<\/p>\n

Thirdly, Jesus adds that we must renounce all our possessions.<\/h4>\n

Our possessions have value, of course.\u00a0 We can sell them to give to the poor, certain that the Father is pleased to give us the Kingdom and everything else.\u00a0 But they should not be objects of worship.\u00a0 And let us watch out, for greed is idolatrous; from it arise injustice, destruction of \u201cour common home,\u201d and forms of enslavement and dehumanization.<\/p>\n

Yes, Jesus invites us to renunciation.\u00a0 Giving his body up and shedding his blood, he exemplifies total renunciation and absolute readiness.\u00a0 He marks out for us the way of life and death \u201cin the service of the poor \u2026 and in a real renunciation of ourselves\u201d (SV.EN III:384<\/a>).\u00a0 To follow him means to abandon the timid deliberations of mortals and to enter the eternal Kingdom.\u00a0 To take another way is to go nowhere and not to come to terms with the one who, crucified out weakness, is the strongest of all.<\/p>\n

Show us, Lord, your way so that we may walk in your truth and live.<\/em><\/p>\n

September 4, 2016
\n23rd<\/sup> Sunday in O.T. (C)
\nWis 9, 13-18b; Philm 9-10. 12-17; Lk 14, 25-33<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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