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00:00Brothers, welcome.
00:30We have reached the middle of Mark's narrative, and I think you already know it very well from your horizontal and vertical reading, and your experiences in homilies and talks.
00:43But in these classes we have done it in a very different way, studying pericopes that Marcos presents to us in his own style, remembering that a pericope is a story that has a beginning and an end.
00:59And we begin with a very interesting passage, the question that Jesus asks his disciples about who He is.
01:08It is the question that every Christian asks themselves, and it is the one that each of the gospels, including that of Saint John, tries to answer in its own way.
01:19In other words, the fundamental concern of the Christian, and the one to which each evangelist wants to respond, is to guide the faithful follower of Jesus to define who Jesus is for him.
01:33What place does Jesus play in your life?
01:36Likewise, although with certain variations, all the evangelists agree that it is Simon Peter who takes the initiative and makes the main confession of faith about Jesus.
01:51In the case of the Synoptic Gospels, Peter's confession is situated in Caesarea Philippi, and both Luke and Mark declare that Jesus is the Christ.
02:04while Matthew adds the expression the Son of the living God.
02:10For his part, the author of the fourth gospel puts this profession of faith in the bread of life discourse in the synagogue of Capernaum.
02:20And on that occasion, Peter declares that only Jesus has words of life, and that they, his disciples, are convinced that Jesus is the Holy One of God.
02:34First announcement of the passion and resurrection
02:37The expression used by the evangelist, "he began to teach them," marks the beginning of a new stage.
02:46It is a crucial and decisive moment in the life and mission of Jesus.
02:52He will continue to be the teacher who communicates his instructions through actions and words.
02:59But now, the main theme of his new ministry will be the announcement of his future, yet imminent, passion and resurrection.
03:10Jesus not only announces, but formally teaches both about his passion and his resurrection.
03:23Marco emphasizes that Jesus spoke openly about these things,
03:29whereas when discussing his status as Messiah, he was very reserved and prudent.
03:34Now, when speaking of his passion and resurrection, he does so with complete clarity and without resorting to parabolic discourse.
03:45as if he does so when he announces the kingdom of which he is the forerunner and center, even though he never says so openly.
03:55Peter has become trapped in suffering and death alone, and has disregarded the fact of the resurrection.
04:02That is why he opposes Jesus accepting a plan under these conditions.
04:09But Jesus makes him see that his way of seeing things coincides with the criteria of men,
04:15but not according to God's criteria.
04:18Peter and the disciples may have been thinking about the glorious and triumphant messianism that the men of their people expected.
04:27That is why they find unacceptable a Messiah who, instead of contesting his title in battle,
04:36He achieved it through death on a cross.
04:39It is not easy to know if the disciples understood what resurrection meant in the sense that the evangelists would later give it.
04:49That's why a promise of resurrection might seem meaningless to them.
04:57which they will only understand when Jesus appears to them three days after his death.
05:04The true disciple who follows Jesus
05:09At the heart of Mark's Gospel, in the middle of its writing,
05:15There you will find the great words of Jesus about discipleship.
05:19In the context of announcing his passion, Jesus finds no better moment to invite people to renounce their faith.
05:28to deny oneself and take up the cross in order to follow him.
05:34In a veiled way, Mark shows that being a disciple of Jesus
05:39It involves having an experience of the kingdom that Jesus announces in order to then be able to proclaim it.
05:46In the initial call, the first costs of following Jesus had already been mentioned,
05:54leaving one's job, family, and home,
05:59which was already quite a lot.
06:01However, Jesus now declares that there is an even greater price to pay if one wants to follow faithfully.
06:10Just as he was to suffer the passion,
06:13Jesus was known for using scandalous symbols
06:25that made it easier for his disciples to remember his teaching.
06:30What better symbol of total and absolute renunciation
06:35to ask the disciples to be willing to have the horizontal beam tied to their backs,
06:44in which they would be executed,
06:46and carry said beam to the place where the upright beam was already ready for the crucifixion?
06:54The person condemned to death, to crucifixion, was completely stripped naked.
07:03He would lie down on the horizontal beam that was tied to his arms and back,
07:09I walked with him and arrived at the place where he would be executed,
07:13through a slow and painful death.
07:16What other means can one renounce one's own personal history?
07:23to the present and the future with their plans and projects?
07:28What other way could Jesus use to ask his disciples to deny themselves?
07:35There are no more plans, no more decision-making centers,
07:40There is no way to organize one's own life.
07:44She dedicates herself entirely to following Jesus.
07:48Because?
07:49Because what comes next, only Jesus can offer.
07:54No matter how much we lose, give, and surrender,
07:58What comes next is greater than the price we pay.
08:02We can give our lives and suffer for it,
08:06But the reward it promises more than compensates for the demands we place on ourselves.
08:14The Transfiguration
08:16Jesus calls Peter, James, and John,
08:21as companions on his ascent to a high mountain.
08:25That detail is reminiscent of Moses,
08:27who was accompanied by Aaron, Nabat, and Abihu.
08:32When they went up to Sinai and saw God.
08:36The high mountain of the transfiguration is another Sinai,
08:41and tradition identifies this mountain with Mount Tabor.
08:46The inner mystery of the person of Jesus
08:50It is expressed in the whiteness and radiance of her dresses.
08:57Whiteness, light, and radiance are signs of God's presence.
09:05The divine glory, reflected in the faces of Moses,
09:10It is far surpassed in the transfiguration of Jesus' face and clothing.
09:17The scene represents a powerful experience of Jesus in his human nature.
09:22It is a particularly Christological scene.
09:27We find Moses and Elijah conversing with Jesus,
09:33representatives of the law and the prophets.
09:36This vividly proclaims the unity and continuity of revelation in the Old and New Testaments.
09:46Peter, bewildered and overcome with a reverential fear in the presence of the divine,
09:54He speaks up and tells Jesus that he wants to build huts to stay there.
10:00This intervention by Pedro is yet another reminder of the times of exile.
10:07and possibly also an allusion to the Jewish festivals of tabernacles.
10:13Peter's words suggest that he prefers a life of glory and happiness for Jesus.
10:22than a path of pain, of the cross and of death.
10:26The cloud that covered them with its shadow also evokes the cloud that accompanied the Israelites
10:35during their march through the desert.
10:39The cloud speaks of God's nearness and his voice of his intervention in the story of Jesus.
10:47The voice declares to those present what it declared to Jesus at his baptism.
10:52Jesus is the Son of God and the best attitude for his disciples is to listen to him.