October 20 - Sunday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(Is.53:10-11; Ps.33:4-5,18-20,22; Heb.4:14-16; Mk.10:35-45) "We have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God." And this is He who is both priest and victim, for "He gives His life as an offering for sin" – He Himself is our sacrifice. Here is one who is able "to sympathize with our weaknesses… one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin." Here is He who has suffered the affliction of our fallen state but to raise us up with Himself from the mire, from the lowly condition we have come to know as our own. Here is He who "give[s] His life…
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