SAINT JAMES APÓSTOL

WHOEVER WANTS TO BE FIRST, LET HIM BE THE SERVANT. Matthew 20:20-28

There we have James, who to show his faintheartedness, his weakness , lets his mother ask Jesus for him and his brother John for places of honor in his kingdom. But it is also true, and this is what remains, after all, that God sustains him and it is clear “that such an extraordinary force is from God and does not come from us”. That power of God was also felt and lived by James, giving his life for Jesus and his Gospel: “King Herod had James, John’s brother, beheaded.”

Jesus asked James and John, “Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” And they did, when they realized that the places of honor in the kingdom of God, in the kingdom preached by Jesus, is not to be higher than anyone else, above others, but to occupy the positions of servant, of slave, of laying down one’s life for one’s brothers and sisters, of being the last.

“I have not come to be served, but to serve.” For preaching these values of the kingdom, as the only way to enjoy the joy of living, Jesus was killed, He drank the chalice of his sorrowful death so as not to deny his Gospel, everything he had preached to flood our lives with his light.