Followers of Jesus

The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today echo the messages of yesterday. Matthew’s account of the discipline required of the followers of Jesus is shorter than Luke’s. The mission is the number one priority of the disciple. As the pastor of my Parish church put it last night as we celebrated his six years of service in our community and wished him well in his new parish, “When the call comes, you answer it”. The believer comes to life in the ‘yes’. The path to which we are called by the relationship with the Divine, through the indwelling Spirit, is our Life and the path to the ‘whole-i-ness’ which is the motivation of our being. The psalmist and the texts from the Hebrew bible today lament the falling away from the path of attending to the promptings of the Spirit. The options presented by Moses in Deuteronomy are still before us. ‘Choose Life’ is the path that the indwelling Spirit prompts us to take.
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