5th Pentecost

FRIDAY
Acts 10:44-48
While Peter was still speaking these things, the holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word. The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the holy Spirit should have been poured out on the Gentiles also, for they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter responded, “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the holy Spirit even as we have?” He ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 10:34-39
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’ “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Do I love Jesus more than I love others? Am I afraid of the cross that is prapared for me? Am I willing to lose my lifr for Jesus? This passage seems to have deep analogies to marriage. If you love your spouse less than you love your parents or if you are unwilling to lose your life for the new life together or you are unwilling to bear burdens for the other then your love is not yet perfect.

Glory to the Father, who has commanded the judgment of all
human beings; adoration to the Son, whose judgment is
perfect; thanksgiving to the Spirit, who rejects privilege and glory be to God!
O Christ who prayed that the cup of death might pass away from you, take away from us the cup of the second death, and
have mercy on us.