We hear in our Gospel passage today about how Jesus must
suffer and die before He is raised. He
also tells us that we must likewise take up our crosses and follow Him. It is not always easy to be Catholic and to
follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, which He entrusted to His bride the
Church. Especially when those teachings
differ from the morality of today’s society. Jesus Himself asks us, “What profit would
there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?” Jesus means, it isn’t good to indulge in the
sinfulness found here on earth and in doing so, forfeit heaven. Instead whatever difficulties we have in
following Him should be thought of as our crosses, which we are to carry. To do this we often times must deny
ourselves, our impulses, our disordered desires, our love of comfort and
convenience, and instead follow Christ by following His teaching.
Our crosses become easier to carry when we love the Lord and
long to be with Him as we hear in our Responsorial Psalm, “My soul is thirsting
for you, O Lord my God.” Love makes
sacrifices easy and it is because of the great love of Jesus Christ for God the
Father and for all of us, that He was willing to go through His passion, death,
and resurrection to express that love and bring about our salvation. Let us grow in our love for the Lord, and as
we so, let us more easily take up our crosses and follow Him.
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