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LETTING GO AND BE HAPPY: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS OF THE WEEK: 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2024

The way of discipleship is letting go of self-determination to control things, situations, and persons in our lives to be happy and at peace. Today’s readings challenge us to let go of our sense of self-sufficiency, dependence, security, control, possession of power, wealth, and fame.

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THERE IS GREATNESS IN SERVICE THROUGH SUFFERING: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 29TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2021

The Christian life is not only a life of self-effacing alone. It is also a life of loving service to others. This is the life Jesus Christ himself lived for others and called us all to embrace as well. Whether those we live for or serve are grateful or not. 

THE WORD OF GOD: DISCIPLESHIP IS MAKING GOD A PRIORITY: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2021
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THE WORD OF GOD: DISCIPLESHIP IS MAKING GOD A PRIORITY: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2021

Discipleship is making that fundamental or radical choice for God through the Word of God. Indeed, in life, we have many preferential options. God cannot be one of them. He has to be our priority above everything: wealth, power, authority and affluence.