Mr 8:34-9:1
34Tedaj je poklical k sebi množico skupaj z učenci in jim rekel: »Če hoče kdo hoditi za menoj, naj se odpove sebi in vzame svoj križ ter hodi za menoj. 35Kdor namreč hoče rešiti svoje življenje, ga bo izgubil; kdor pa izgubi svoje življenje zaradi mene in zaradi evangelija, ga bo rešil. 36Kaj namreč koristi človeku, če si ves svet pridobi, svoje življenje pa zapravi? 37Kaj bi človek lahko dal v zameno za svoje življenje? 38Kdor se sramuje mene in mojih besed pred tem prešuštnim in grešnim rodom, se ga bo tudi Sin človekov sramoval, ko bo s svetimi angeli prišel v veličastvu svojega Očeta.«
1In govoril jim je: »Resnično, povem vam: Nekateri od tukaj stoječih res ne bodo okusili smrti, dokler ne bodo videli Božjega kraljestva, ki je prišlo z močjo.«
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A disciple cannot be above their Master. Christ is always the headline for us in how to live our lives. As he took up his cross and accepted whatever life threw at him, so must we. There is always a need for us to practise some self-denial if the false self in us is to die. In this way, with his grace at work in us, we save our real lives. We live to die, and we die to live. This is the true life, both now and for eternity. ‘Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it’ ( Matthew 10:39).
By reminding him of this question, ’What does it profit a person to gain the whole world and lose his/her soul?’, St Ignatius of Loyola inspired St Francis Xavier to give his life completely to Christ as a missionary in the Far East.