2nd Week in Ordinary Time - Monday; Memorial of St Agnes (21 January 2019)
Hebrews 5:1-10. Psalm 110:1-4. Mark 2:18-22.
Although Jesus was Son [of God], he learned to obey through suffering.
The first reading from the letter to the Hebrews says that Jesus learned through suffering.
Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. It is the only force strong enough to destabilize the imperial ego. Suffering can be simply defined as "whenever we are not in control."
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
If we cannot find a way to make our wounds into sacred wounds, we invariably become negative or bitter.
Original shame = original sin.
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life.
Pain may come from the inside or the outside, but suffering does not come from outside, always only from the inside. It comes from our human condition.
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