13th Sunday in Ordinary Year A: 

Mt 10:37-42: In strong terms, Jesus exclaims that the disciples or believers must love and follow Jesus supremely. 

Following Jesus makes us better fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, and so forth.

The disciples or believers must follow Jesus even to the place of taking not only the Cross of Jesus but their own cross which means death to self with humility and doing God's Will or Plan, but resurrection life unto God. 

The disciples or believers live in a paradox because they can only find life by losing it and live by dying. 

Resurrection life can only come after we take up our own cross to follow Jesus as he did.

A Christian who shuns the Cross is no Christian.

St Paul rightly says in Romans 8:31-39: 

Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Nothing can separate us from the love of God...no trouble or calamity, or persecution, or hunger, or destitute, or danger, or threatened with death, etc.

What are our crosses today following Jesus Coronavirus Pandemic Covid-19?

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