Men, join us this coming Tuesday to pray the Rosary and for a bible study afterwards at SDVP.

We will be reading the upcoming Gospel for Sunday, October 20th: MARK 10 (35-45) and reading Father Lapide’s Gospel commentary from the Saints (both texts are copied below). Bring a light snack to share, there will be coffee, tea or hot chocolate available.

The Gospel Text for Sunday, October 20th, 2024:

St MARK 10:35-45:

 30 Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time; houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.

 31 But many that are first, shall be last: and the last, first.  32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went before them, and they were astonished; and following were afraid. And taking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should befall him.  33 Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes and ancients, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.  34 And they shall mock him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.  35 And James and John the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying: Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us:

 36 But he said to them: What would you that I should do for you? 37 And they said: Grant to us, that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.  38 And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink of the chalice that I drink of: or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized?  39 But they said to him: We can. And Jesus saith to them: You shall indeed drink of the chalice that I drink of: and with the baptism wherewith I am baptized, you shall be baptized.  40 But to sit on my right hand, or on my left, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared.

 41 And the ten hearing it, began to be much displeased at James and John.  42 But Jesus calling them, saith to them: You know that they who seem to rule over the Gentiles, lord it over them: and their princes have power over them.  43 But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater, shall be your minister.  44 And whosoever will be first among you, shall be the servant of all.  45 For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.

The Great Commentary Of Father Lapide

(Abridged to include Sunday’s verses):

Ver. 30. Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time; houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting. I have explained this hundredfold in S. Matt. 19:29. Mark here adds, with persecutions. The Arabic has, in tribulations. “Let him who has relinquished his possessions and friends for the love of Christ, and is set in the midst of persecutions, and is encompassed by them on every side, be faithful. For there will not be wanting a hundred, that is, very many, who will succour and cherish him, as brothers, fathers, and mothers.” So Jerome, Bede, &c.

This is added because in persecutions the believer especially needs the help and assistance of others., Also, because this is a rare and marvellous thing, that in persecution, when a man is wont to be left destitute of help and friends, and when all, through fear of danger, withdraw themselves from him, those who follow Christ experience the exact contrary, and find a hundred, i.e., very many to succour them.

Again, with persecutions may be taken thus—that persecutions and tribulations undergone for Christ’s sake are part of the reward which shall be given, together with the hundredfold, to those who follow Christ. For to suffer for Christ is a great gift of God, as the Apostle teaches (Phil. 2:19).

Ver. 32. They were in the way, from Jericho, … and Jesus went before them, as with alacrity, affording Himself as a guide in the way to the frightened Apostles, who shrank from Jerusalem, because they knew that Jesus was there sought for by the princes to be put to death. Yea, a decree had been made to that effect by their great council, the Sanhedrim (John 11:52). Whence it follows—

They were astonished, and following, were afraid. Gr. ἐθαμβοῦντο, i.e., they were astonished with great fear and dread. The imminent peril of death, says Bede, was the cause of their fear. They were amazed that Christ with so prompt and resolute a mind should bring Himself and His disciples into such open peril of death. They were afraid lest they might suffer and be put to death with Christ.

Ver. 38. Or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized. Christ calls His Passion a baptism, because He was to be evidently immersed and drowned in it, according to what David says of himself, but much more of Christ (Ps. 69:12), “Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.”

Ver. 42. Ye know that they who seem to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them. Gr. κατακυριεύουσιν αὐτῶν, i.e., dominate over them, or against them. For who seem, the Gr. is οἱ δοκοῦντες, i.e., who please themselves, and rejoice in ruling. For none rule more imperiously and harshly than those who are delighted with ruling and commanding. Whence the Arabic translates, they who think themselves princes of the people are their lords, i.e., they exercise, as it were, a tyrannical domination over them.∎

NOTES:

Gospel text copied from from Online Dhouay-Rheims https://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=48&ch=10&l=30-#x and EWTN Daily Mass Calendar: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/daily-readings/2024-10-20

Document author: Jose Bregel, Monday, October 14th, 2024 | All errors, text omissions or grammatical or typographic errors are my own.