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
Twenty-third Sunday of the year. Listen:
GospelLk 14:25-33
Great crowds were traveling
with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without
hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even
his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross
and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a
tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough
for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself
unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one
began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ Or what king marching
into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he
can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?
But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for
peace terms. In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot
be my disciple.”