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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St James
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM \n◊◊◊ \nThe sons of Zebedee press Christ: “Promise that one may sit at your right \nside and the other at your left”. What does he do? He wants to show them that it \nis not a spiritual gift for which they are asking\, and that if they knew what their \nrequest involved\, they would never dare make it. So he says: “You do not know \nwhat you are asking”\, that is\, what a great and splendid thing it is and how much \nbeyond the reach even of heavenly powers. Then he continues: “Can you drink \nthe cup which I must drink and be baptized with the baptism which I must \nundergo?” He is saying: “You talk of sharing honors and rewards with me\, but I \nmust talk of struggle and toil. Now is not the time for rewards or the time for my \nglory to be revealed. Earthly life is the time for bloodshed\, war and danger.” \nConsider how by his manner of questioning he exhorts and draws them. \nHe does not say: “Can you face being slaughtered? Can you shed your blood?” \nHow does he put his question? “Can you drink the cup?” Then he makes it \nattractive by adding: “which I must drink”\, so that the prospect of sharing it with \nhim may make them more eager. He also calls his suffering a baptism\, to show \nthat it will effect a great cleansing of the entire world. The disciples answer him: \n“We can!” Fervor makes them answer promptly\, though they do not know what \nthey are saying but still think they will receive what they ask for. \nHow does Christ reply? “You will indeed drink my cup and be baptized \nwith my baptism”. He is really prophesying a great blessing for them\, since he is \ntelling them: “You will be found worthy of martyrdom; you will suffer what I \nsuffer and end your life with a violent death\, thus sharing all with me. ‘But seats \nat my right and left side are not mine to give; they belong to those for whom the \nFather has prepared them.’” Thus after lifting their minds to higher goals and \npreparing them to meet and overcome all that will make them desolate\, he sets \nthem straight on their request. \n“Then the other ten became angry at the two brothers”. See how imperfect \nthey all are: the two who tried to get ahead of the other ten\, and the ten who were \njealous of the two! But\, as I said before\, show them to me at a later date in their \nlives\, and you will see that all these impulses and feelings have disappeared. Read \nhow John\, the very man who here asks for the first place\, will always yield to Peter \nwhen it comes to preaching and performing miracles in the Acts of the Apostles. \nJames\, for his part\, was not to live very much longer; for from the beginning he was \ninspired by great fervor and\, setting aside all purely human goals\, rose to such \nsplendid heights that he straightway suffered martyrdom.
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