Follow in my footsteps
13th Sunday In Ordinary Time: MT 10:37-42
The Bible Society’s Lectio Divina is unavailable for this Sunday. We reproduce this meditation with the kind permission of Magnificat:
Jesus instructed the twelve as follows: “Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me” (10:37).
St Thomas Aquinas finds the basis for this challenging teaching in human experience itself: “Sons are naturally subject to their father so that they naturally honour the father so much so that they are more angered over an injury done to the father than over an injury to themselves. And they desire glory for the father more than for themselves.
