Daily Shots - November 4, 2020 - Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time - a podcast by Verbum Dei Philippines

Luke 14:25-33

Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo, bishop

Great crowds were traveling with Jesus,

   and he turned and addressed them,

   “If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother,

   wife and children, brothers and sisters,

   and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me

   cannot be my disciple.

Which of you wishing to construct a tower

   does not first sit down and calculate the cost

   to see if there is enough for its completion?

Otherwise, after laying the foundation

   and finding himself unable to finish the work

   the onlookers should laugh at him and say,

   ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’

Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down

   and decide whether with ten thousand troops

   he can successfully oppose another king

   advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?

But if not, while he is still far away,

   he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms.

In the same way,

   everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions

   cannot be my disciple.”

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