THE GOSPEL
Mark 9:30-37If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all
and the servant of all.
Who is greatest?
Who is first?
Jesus,
you were born in a stable
needing everything,
having only
love.
Then you were on the cross,
needing eveything,
having no
life.
Yet
you are
greatest of all.
You taught the disciples
as you journeyed through Galilee.
Teach us too.
To love you.
To care for your children, to serve your poor,
to welcome the immigrant,
to free the prisoner.
Lord, we ask you,
give us only
your
grace.
THE FIRST READING
Wisdom 2:12, 17-20
Let us find out what will happen to him.
He answered the mocking tongues with silence only
Never did he ask anyone to take his cross away,
or wipe the blood and saliva from his face.
Forsaken, he cried out to his Father,
just one time before he died.
His mother and his friends
laid him out in a
borrowed
tomb.
He
had
shown
his gentleness to
the Father, to us as well.
And, yes, God took care of him,
and us in him. It was for us he came,
for us he suffered, for us he won the battle.
He rose from the dead and because of this, so do we.
God loved the world and all of us in it. Death, where is your sting?
THE SECOND READING
James 3:16-4:3
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace
for those who cultivate peace.
please help us to
care for your garden of peace,
cleaving only to your holy teachings:
• to feed them with love.
• to sprinkle them with truth.
• to weed them every day.
• to make room for them to grow.
• to sow some seeds.and forgiveness)
Then, finally,
to share his goodness
(with everyone we know.)
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