Friday 16th Week of Ordinary Time

 The Feast of St. James

Can you drink the chalice?

Everyone wants the consolation of our Faith. 

Everyone wants healing and forgiveness and their prayers answered. 

Everyone wants to reign with Christ forever in Heaven. 

But how many want to drink the cup of His suffering?

This is what Jesus asked James in the Gospel. 

And drink of the cup he did.

James was the first Apostle to be martyred 

As he was beheaded by Herod. 

When the Cup comes to us;

And it will. 

Will we drink of it or pass it by?

Jesus prayed “let his cup pass from me; but not my Will but yours be done.”Mt. 26:39

The Cup is never sweet, but doing the Will of God is. 

For Those who die with the Lord we shall live with the Lord. 

And Those who endure with the Lord, we shall reign with the Lord. 

As James does today and forever