THE GOSPEL
Mark 10:35-45 or 10:42-45Can you drink the cup that I drink? ...
Whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant.
Can we
drink of your cup?
Can we recognize the sacredness
of every human life?
–the immigrant, marginalized,
trafficked, abandoned?
Can we serve
others?
Certainly
not on our own.
But
through you,
with you,
in you?
Yes,
with
your grace.
Grant us to drink the cup with you,
and become people
for others.
THE FIRST READING
Isaiah 53:10-11
Their guilt he shall bear.
Is there any love anywhere that can withstand
the suffering of a loved one? Doesn’t it
offer everything that it has,
even surrender life itself
for the good of
the one
that
it
loves?
Jesus
knew pain,
because we know pain.
God could not sit back watching
without coming to be right here with his people.
O
God
we see your
infinite love for us.
Let it change our
hearts.
THE SECOND READING
Hebrews 4:14-16
For we do not have a high priest who is unable
to sympathize with our weaknesses.
We
count on you, always––
longing for your mercy and grace,
yet always certain of
your love.
Jesus,
you share our life.
Having been tested as we are,
you have come to live in our weakness,
and you know us better than we know ourselves.
Grant us your grace every
minute of every day
of our lives.
And hold us dear in
your heart.
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