The cost of discipleship is great; the rewards are even greater, and fear is one of the only things that can prevent one from trusting fully in the ultimate saving power of God.
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Jesus Christ sends us forth to respond to this world with compassion
Anyone can judge it, but a true disciple sees it with compassion and loves as Christ loves.
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A ‘Pentecost Church’ — our inner life of the Spirit comes from the Spirit of God
When we listen attentively to these scriptures today, we hear the wonders of the Spirit of God as forgiveness abounds, tongues are loosened, understanding and proclaiming is everywhere, and people’s hearts and souls and lives go through profound conversion.
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There are many ways to know
Or to say it another way — there are many ways to know. Some know with the mind, but have little connection to the heart. Some know and believe fully with the heart, but do not understand, or even have a confused or erroneous understanding.
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This Holy Week is our week
The forbidden, Lenten “A” word returns in all its glory at the Easter Vigil, and will be our Easter Song!
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Our ‘yes’ to Jesus is ‘yes’ to seeing
That “yes,” however, means that we believe in his teachings, his example, his way of life, his values, his surrendering to God, his unequivocal “yes” to loving always, his preference for the poor and marginalized, and his refusal to be blind followers of the law.
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So that we may be truly fruitful
This is what turns an admiration for a faith into a fully lived and transforming faith. We are all “that woman” at the well. This is what makes true disciples.
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Do we ever experience the voice of God clearly speaking to us in the ordinary?
Visions of prophets, a glorified transfiguration, bright lights, and voices — all streamed together to “call” the disciples deeper into the mystery of God revealed in Jesus.
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Like Jesus, are we capable of and open to emptying ourselves?
Let us do Lent so we can do Easter and be renewed as disciples of Jesus Christ!
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Jesus captures within his teaching totality of love, beyond what ‘you have heard’
His reason is simple: that is what God does: “he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.”
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