WORD 2day: Wednesday, 8th week in Ordinary Time
May 29, 2024 - 1 Peter 1: 18-25; Mark 10: 32-45
The Word today presents to us two crops of people: one an old crop and the other a new crop, a newly born community of persons, born anew in the blood of Christ. The seed of the latter crop is the very blood of Christ! The Question is: which crop do you belong to? Which is your seed?
We see Jesus presenting to us the contrasting mentalities: the popular mentality of dominance and control and the Jesus' mentality of service and collaboration. One will not fit in the other, for they two are contrasting mentalities and the Lord wants us to make a choice and make it known! We see Jesus preparing his disciples in the Gospel, to be a crop of the latter kind. Of course, he finds it tough but he does not mind it and he will never compromise on it.
The challenge is, Jesus expects the same from us - to grow into a community of love, fellowship and service, not a structure of power, authority and dominance. What is that which excites us - power, position and possession? Or compassion, empathy and solidarity? That would define what kind of a community we are, what kind of a tree we are: we better check our seed!