25th Sunday, Cycle B.

Jesus predicts his passion. His self-gift is contrasted with human selfishness.

We all sense the call of love, to call to love, but we can err in the way that we go about it. But being his disciple trains us to respond to the truth. Jesus has the best place – last of all. Being with him is the promotion.

Moving from living by our own surging and arbitrary passions to accompanying, living with his heart, is the way to really constructing human life. This call is made to us again. He is full of love, and this is the call He makes to us.