Prayer Prompt before reading MK 6:14-29: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“KING HEROD HEARD ABOUT JESUS, FOR HIS FAME HAD BECOME WIDESPREAD.” MK 6:14-29
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
What happens when we are in a powerful position and our power is threatened? It could be popularity, fame, a high office, a position of authority. The first thing we will think is to take away the threat. This is what King Herod does with John the Baptist. This is the first thought of most humans.
Jesus teaches us, as the most powerful, that in power of position we should be humble, a servant. Jesus, the God-man, the most powerful, taught us to submit ourselves to the will of God. Jesus came to us in the flesh to teach us that the most powerful should be the most humble of servants. We are called to be in service to others. “If we are to become saints/enter heaven, we have to realize that finally our lives are not about us”. —-excerpt from Bishop Barron “The Strangest Way”
“Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names; so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Phil 2: 5-11
Make your own the mind of Christ, empty yourself, be humble, and become a slave for others, especially if you are in a position of authority. In this we glorify our Father! This is what we were made for.
Today’s challenge: Be humble, by your baptism, become a slave of Christ, and do all things in His name, especially if you are in a position of authority.
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
Amen.
I feel that this gospel is trying to tell me to be more courageous. I don’t think I could endure anything close to the agony that John the Baptist suffered in his execution.
“KING HEROD HEARD ABOUT JESUS, FOR HIS FAME HAD BECOME WIDESPREAD.” This is telling us how amazing Jesus is.
#Christian YODO
I find it crazy how they asked for his head. I mean in my mind thinking of seeing a head on a platter sounds crazy.
“KING HEROD HEARD ABOUT JESUS, FOR HIS FAME HAD BECOME WIDESPREAD.” This is telling me that Jesus is amazing because he died for us