CẢM NGIỆM SỐNG LC - REFLECTIONS 13TH SUNDAY-C
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Mo NguyenJun 29 at 9:27 PM
THE PASSION
THIRTEEN SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME / C
30 June 2019
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Lk 9: 51-62)
A PASSION FOR LIFE
Today’s Gospel begins at a turning point in the Gospel of Luke. Like the Servant figure in Isaiah 50: 7, Jesus ‘sets his face’ as he sets out on the long journey to Jerusalem that will climax in his suffering and death.
When a Samaritan village proves inhospitable to messengers that Jesus sends before him, two disciples propose a violent response: call down fire from heaven. But violence is not Jesus’ way to deal with rejection. What he would bring – to Jerusalem and to the world – in peace (19:41-44; 2: 14).
But Jesus does give very demanding responses to three people who offer themselves as companions on his Journey. To the first he responds that following him will mean a wandering life of risky reliance on hospitality, with no guarantee of secure lodging.
The prophet Elijah allowed his disciple Elisha to go home and bid farewell to his parents (1 Kings 19: 16, 19-21). Jesus, by contrast, insists to two other would be followers that even the most sacred family obligations must yield to the claims of the Kingdom, which is about rescuing human beings for life.
The Jesus who confronts us here may seem unusually harsh. But it is important to keep in mind that the other side of this stance is the passion for human lives that drives him on. He is on the march now to a conflict with demonic forces that seek to dehumanise and destroy the world. Those who would seek to rescue people for life and for love must share both his passion and the hardships it entails.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
Hillsong Worship The passion lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-55yTSc4s
THE PASSION FOR LIFE