Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Choosing Earth

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 10-10-2021 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mark 10:17-30

Friends, in today’s Gospel, a rich young man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life. There is something absolutely right about the young man, something spiritually alive, and that is his deep desire to share in everlasting life. He knows what he wants, and he knows where to find it.

Jesus responds to his wonderful and spiritually alive question by enumerating many of the Commandments. The young man takes this in, and replies, "Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth." So Jesus looks at him with love and says, "Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor . . . then come, follow me."

God is nothing but love, straight through, and therefore the life of friendship with him, in the richest sense, is a life of total love, self-forgetting love. Jesus senses that this young man is ready for the high adventure of the spiritual life: he is asking the right question and he is properly prepared. But at this point the young man tragically balks. The spiritual life, at the highest pitch, is about giving your life away, and this is why the many possessions are a problem.

[MurphsLaw]

+++They were exceedingly astonished
and said among themselves,
"Then who can be saved?"
Jesus looked at them and said,
"For human beings it is impossible,
but not for God.
All things are possible for God."
Peter began to say to him,
"We have given up everything and
followed you."
Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you,
there is no one who has given up
house or brothers or sisters
or mother or father or children or for my sake and for the sake of the
gospel
who will not receive a hundred times
more now in this present age:
houses and brothers and sisters
and mothers and children and lands,
with persecutions, and eternal life
in the age to come."+++

[ebb tide]

Bergoglio chooses Earth over God.

Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous peoples of the Andes. In Inca mythology she is an "Earth Mother"

Pachamama and Bishop Robert Barron on Henri De Lubac