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Mark 10:28-31... Hundredfold Reward ... Reflect…
Mark 10:28-31... Hundredfold Reward... Reflect…
The gospel reading has been more or less monopolized by monks and nuns in the course of the centuries. This was no doubt inevitable since the religious men and women of the Church, those who belong to the so-called “consecrated” life, renounce all personal property for the sake of imitating more closely Christ poor. And they do receive the hundredfold in this life in terms of shared property and spiritual brothers and sisters in the congregation to which they belong. Nothing in this goes counter to the promise given here by Jesus.
However, it is doubtful that Jesus would mean to restrict his promise to the religious only. Already we see a first fulfillment of his promise in the primitive Church. According to the description given us by Luke in the Acts of the Apostles, “There was no needy person among them, bring the proceeds of the sale, and put them at the feet of the apostles, and they were distributed to each according to need” (Acts 4:34-35 ). Consequently, at least those who were formerly needy had literally much more property, by becoming Christians, than they had before.
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