The 25th Sunday of the Year
Wis 2:12 & 17-20; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mk 9:30-37 (Year B)
“Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? You want something and you haven’t got it; so you are prepared to kill.”
The Epistle of St James unflinchingly confronts one of the least attractive aspects of sinful human nature, one that we are reluctant to acknowledge in ourselves. While we might not go so far as killing somebody who does not share our views, we can undermine them by the half-truths that thrive in a climate of rumour and gossip. James goes on to say: “Wherever you find jealousy and ambition, you find disharmony, and wicked things of every kind being done.”
