We can be helped by glancing at the sacrifices that our parents had to endure so that we may live and grow up. To provide food and drink every day, to take us to the hospital, to build shelter for us, school, clothing just to mention a few. The notion that the Cross, mortification, sacrifice, are in some way good and a means of salvation, will always strike a discordant note with people who, like Peter on this occasion, view things from a worldly point of view. If we reason only in materialistic terms it is difficult for us to…