--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 8/16/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 8/16/11 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2011/08/16/daily-readings-reflection-for-81611#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 8/16/11 Aug 16, 2011 11:00:03 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 420. Judges 6:11-24. Psalm 85:9.11-12.13_14. Matthew 19: 23-30 [Tuesday's Readings](http://usccb.org/bible/readings/081611.cfm) Any form of detachment is not easy for us even those times it is asked of us as disciples of Jesus. The disciples are not different from us since they too find the lessons on detachment from earthly possessions, from family, and from one's own needs very hard to accept even from their master Jesus. We hear them loudly and clearly say, "Then, Lord, who can be saved?" Jesus, of course, continues with his point and elevates the conversation to the level of God. With human effort this detachment is impossible but with God nothing is impossible. Perhaps, only Mary, the Mother of Jesus understood this the first time it was put to her and then lived it out the rest of her life as one of the faithful, in fact, the most faithful of his disciples. After all, she lived with him for the longest time of anyone here on earth! Peter, one of the favorite disciples to be the initiator of dialogue with Jesus pipes up and says what will he and his friends, the other twelve profit from this detachment. After all, they have somewhat left all things and followed him. But they are only beginners so Jesus must continue to give them more information. By listening to this lesson on how to "let go" they make some progress. Jesus then puts all of this into the bigger picture and gives them the context of the entire will and plan of God. They will eventually be with him in glory and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. For us this is an eschatological perspective seen and realized in the future, but the only way that we come to understand Jesus is to make that realized now or to live out "realized eschatology" since the kingdom of God is already here with Jesus in their midst and indeed is within them. This holds true for us when we embrace the will of God in our particular existential situations day in and day out. Still we struggle with letting go of our particular insights, our way of doing things, and our own possessions and relationships. We need to see Jesus not only as one who consoles us but one who calls us to be "other Christs" and to enter into the mysteries of his life, death, and resurrection. That is what the liturgy tells us each time we participate in it actively. This will be the only satsifying way of capturing what it means to let go and to let God do what God wills within us. The crucified God of compassion teaches us the power of love seen in the humanity of Jesus and enables us to glimpse into his divinity through the Paschal Mysteries. Only by entering into these mysteries do we learn how to understand the difficult sayings of Jesus. This is the cost of our discipleship. Johannes Metz, a great Catholic theologian, puts his finger on the meaning of today's passage when he tells us, "Whoever hears the message of the resurrection of Christ in such a way that the cry of the crucified has become inaudible in it, hears not the Gospel but rather a myth." 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