School of the Word Sept 4 Discipleship

Readings for Sunday are here. 

Highlights:

• To get the most out of the School of the Word four steps: Listen, Assimilate, Live, Share
• Point is how we translate into action
• Think as human .
•  Conditions of discipleship . 
• What does it mean to be a disciple . 
• We are not following a crowd. Gospel provocation.

Perplexing quote from the Gospel: 

“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters,and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple" .   - listen to an example from Father Gerson's life

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian wrote: 

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.  Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Read the rest. 

Ed

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page 580 in Sharper Than A Sword  by Father James McTavish

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