Does Jesus actually want us to 'hate' our family members?
Does Jesus actually want us to 'hate' our family members?
Christ tells us the cost of discipleship: not only must we carry our cross, but we must 'hate' father, mother, wife and children—even our own life. But what did he mean?
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Christ tells us the cost of discipleship: not only must we carry our cross, but we must ‘hate’ father, mother, wife and children—even our own life. But what did he mean?
Editor’s Notes
This is the last part of the chapter which deals with the episodes read at Mass on the Second and Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. It deals with the challenging words of Christ:
“If any man come to Me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and …