...Holy Ghost." LESSON IX. JESUS THE MESSIAH.— Mark viii, 27-38; ix, i. GOLDEN TEXT.— WhosoeTer will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. — Mark viii, 34. And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Ccsarea Philippi : and...

...robes and crowned with flowers, for the Egyptian banquet. Hence our Lord says, — "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whosocver will save his life shall lose it." St. Matt. xvi. 24, 25. The reason of this is obvious...

...that each time vou do this vou become guiltv ot the Bodv ot Our Lord. Our Ixird has said: "If any man come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." This act of self-denial is taken so seriously by many a devout friend of God that one hardly dares...

...learn humbly with the other disciples the instructions of Christ: "If anyone wants to come after 87 me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me." At the beginning of the Passion (Lk 22:31-62), Peter had a poor memory, he had already forgotten the...

...one's own particular egoism is, at the end of the day, only overcome by sacrifice. "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me" (Mt. XVI, 24). Every sacrifice is adapted to the shoulder bearing it. The cross is "ad hominem" but...

...cold or heavy traffic . . . As we finish today's meditation on the words of Jesus, if anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me, we request of him in the intimacy of our prayer, Grant me, Jesus, the Cross with no Simon of Cyrene...

...the Gospel of St Mark, as in the other two Synoptic Gospels, in the following form: 'If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me' (8:34). As we have seen, the East-European people has not voluntarily taken up this cross but has had...

...it with a call to discipleship which involves the risk of suffering and death: If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever releases his life for my sake and the...

...ushers them into the land of "milk and- honey" of spiritual consciousness. "If any man will come i« after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." Experiences in sin force consciousness to Christ. Not that sin is conducive toward the identification...

...believed, was a call to suffer with Christ and a call to narrow-road living. "Whosoever would follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." The call to missions was a call to bring the good news of the gospel to all people and all nations....