February 25 - Tuesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.2:1-11; Ps.37:3-5,18-19,27-28,39-40; Mk.9:30-37) “My son, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials.” Is Jesus not “teaching His disciples in this vein” when He speaks of His imminent death, a death they shall share, and calls them to “remain the least one of all and the servant of all,” even as He is? Their arguing about importance reveals that they have not understood who they are, and so He would remind them that “in fire gold is tested, and worthy men in the crucible of humiliation.” A kind of humiliation is upon the Lord’s disciples today as they fall silent in…
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