Article October 3, 1942 ISSUE

Privilege

MARGARET GERALDINE GODEFROI

"Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom." Thus a mother pleaded, as so many mothers do, that her sons might have preferential treatment.

The answer Jesus gave the wife of Zebedee was direct, almost stern. He turned to James and John and asked them if they knew the meaning of such a request. Were they prepared, with fearless self-abnegation, to share his fate?

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