Re order the Priorities

The Roman Catholic Lectionary offers texts which give us a opportunity to consider the requirements of being Jesus disciples. The 1st Letter of Peter declares a mission to be holy. What is being holy? It is not so much what we woulf call pious as it is being heroic. The living of Faith (trust), Hope (joy in promises to be fulfilled) and Charity (Love) is the struggle for holiness. Mark’s Gospel is concise in the need to be disciples without distraction from the mission. The consequence of this focus is the disappearance of importance of the “things” and “possessions” of life. The evangelist hints that the “giving up” is not a complete absence from because the mission is in the world of people, “things” and “possessions”.