Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - No "I" in JESUS

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 02.18.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

MARK 8:34–9:1

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus lays down the conditions of discipleship.

A few verses before our reading, Jesus predicted his Passion for the first time. He will sacrifice himself in love for the other—and in this, he will come to deeper life and become a source of life to others.
Ronald Knox talked about the sign of the cross this way: the first two gestures form the letter “I,” and the next two cross it out. That’s what the cross of Jesus meant and means.

In this scene, he gathered the crowd with his disciples and pronounced the formula for following him. We ought to be listening too with great attention:
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” The path of discipleship is the path of self-sacrificing love, and that means the path of suffering.

Then the great paradox: “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the Gospel will save it.”
Put that over your door, on the refrigerator, on your screensaver. There is no better one-line guide to the happy life.

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus summoned the crowd with his disciples
and said to them,
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake
and that of the Gospel will save it.
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world
and forfeit his life?
What could one give in exchange for his life?
Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words
in this faithless and sinful generation,
the Son of Man will be ashamed of
when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

He also said to them,
“Amen, I say to you,
there are some standing here who will not taste death
until they see that the Kingdom of God has come in
power.”+++

[ebb tide]

Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - No "I" in JESUS

But there's an "I" in Bergoglio; and it's Jorge's "church" now:

"I (Jorge the Humble) prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. I do not want a church concerned with being at the center and then ends up by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures."

Today I went to the mosque. I prayed in the mosque. Even the Imam got into the popemobile to take a ride around the small stadium.

We Catholics have some, not just some, so many, who believe they have the absolute truth and they move forward with calumnies, with defamation and they hurt (people), they hurt. And, I say this because it's my Church, also us, all of us.

[ebb tide]

Does Bergoglio truly believe the Catholic Church does not possess the absolute truth?

Do Barron and the other modernists agree with him?

[Dr. Sivana]

Of course, in Latin, there IS an I.

Hence: INRI

[MurphsLaw]

Well played, Sir...
Very well indeed.

[dangus]

There is if you don’t Anglicize the spelling of IESUS. Or IESVA.

[circlecity]

There is no “I” but there is an “us”. This should be contemplated on.