25th Sunday in Ordinary Time - B. "They had been discussing who was the greatest."
Last week I saw a tongue-in-cheek description of "the perfect priest." (The perfect priest makes 15 house calls daily to poor families, but is always in the rectory office to answer the door and phone. The perfect priest has 30 years of preaching experience but is 28 years old.) Jesus obviously didn't pick "perfect apostles" for companions. In fact, they sound a lot like us -- at turns selfish, greedy, ambitious, just downright dumb. Maybe he did that to teach us how far we have to go to understand what it means to follow him to the cross, and receive children in his name.
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