READINGS:
1 R : 1 Pt 1 :10 - 16.
Ps 97 :1, 2 - 3ab, 3c - 4.
Gos : MK 10 : 28 - 31.
WE NORMALLY TEND TO APPLY TODAY'S ASSURANCE OF JESUS TO THE RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN.
BUT WE SHOULD REMEMBER ;
WHEN ST. MARK RECALLS JESUS' WORDS PRACTICALLY ALL CHRISTIANS HAD TO GIVE UP THEIR RELATIONS, PROPERTY, MONEY AND VALUABLES AND READY TO BE MARTYRED AND PERSECUTED.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME A NEW AND LOVING COMMUNITY , THE " CHURCH " WAS GETTING FORMED.
SO JESUS SAYS IN THIS LIFE ITSELF YOU WILL GET - ----------- AND --------------- AND PERSECUTION.
+ IN THE TIMES TO COME ETERNAL LIFE.
EVEN TODAY NO CHRISTIAN CAN BE CALLED " ALONE "
EVERY CHRISTIAN BY THE VERY DEFINITION OF THE TERM COMMUNITARIAN.
IN THE FIRST READING ST. PETER ELABORATES THAT JESUS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL THE PROPHESIES.
