True greatness -- servanthood not status
Contemporary Lectionary Prayers
Gospel Note:
Mark often uses the disciples to represent the attitudes of his own contemporary church. Here we have them vying for positions of prestige in glory. Jesus' response hints that suffering takes precedence over glory, that positions in glory are granted by a higher authority, and that in any case such quibbles belong to the world. Christian greatness, it seems, is a matter of servanthood, not status.
Liturgical Color:
Green
Suggested Hymns:
God, Who Stretched The Spangled Heavens
Out Of The Depths, I Cry To You