Monday, 3 MAR, 2025: Sir 17:20-24; Mk 10:17-27
How hard it is… Jesus does not just address the rich. In various ways—take up your cross…Blessed are they who mourn—Jesus tells us that life is hard.
If I haven’t accepted that, I haven’t accepted his Gospel.
And if I don’t, I will recognize no miracle, feel no joy wholeheartedly, experience no communion.
No blessing will satisfy me, no friend be loyal enough, no wealth secure enough; every neighbor will be a threatening alien, each tragedy and insult will permanently lodge with me, my world will be filled with conspiracies; no number of guns will be sufficient to ensure my safety and even God will not be sufficiently reliable.
How hard it is…That is where salvation is born.