Mark 10:43-45 – “Not so with you. Whoever wants to become great… must be your servant… slave of all”

John 14:21 – “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.”

Matthew 22:37-40 – The Greatest Commandments: Love God and neighbor

Mark 9:23 – “Everything is possible for one who believes”

John 7:37-39 – “If anyone is thirsty… rivers of living water”

John 3:16 – God so loved the world….

Matthew 18:3 – Become like children to enter the kingdom

Mark 10:43  Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

A PRAYER FOR MORAL COURAGE (Max Oliva, SJ)

Dear God, please give me the courage to always stand for what is right in Your sight. Give me the wisdom to know when to act quickly and wisely, and the strength to speak truth to power regardless of personal cost.

Please fill me with Your Spirit, give me hope, and make my heart both compassionate and courageous.  Amen

Mark 5:36  …“Do not fear, only believe.”

Matthew 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.

Matthew 22:39-40“And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 18:3 Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

1 Corinthians 6:19 RSV — Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?

John 17:21  that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,[a] so that the world may believe that you have sent me.