In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Twentyfifth
Sunday of the Year. Listen:
GospelMk 9:30-37
Jesus and his disciples
left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish
anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The
Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and
three days after his death the Son of Man will rise." But they did not understand
the saying, and they were afraid to question him. They came to
Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, "What
were you arguing about on the way?" But they remained silent. They
had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. Then
he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be
first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all." Taking
a child, he placed it in the their midst, and putting his arms around it,
he said to them, "Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives
me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent
me."