Today we celebrate the Feast of St. James the Apostle. His mother asked Jesus that he and his brother sit on his right and his left. Jesus replied, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?” They said to him, “We can.”
He replied, “My chalice you will indeed drink, but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”