The story of Mary of Magdala reminds us all of a fundamental truth: a disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.
You may want to go ahead and do a search on Catholic Discipleship both on Google for articles and on Amazon.com for books to learn how to follow closely after Jesus and how to witness to the power of Jesus' merciful love. Or you might want to spend some serious quiet time with your Bible meditating on the little we know about St. Mary Magdalene who gives us such a powerful example of discipleship.
His entire homily can be found here:
Becoming a saint! That is what it is all about. Not just glorifying God through our repentance and forgiveness, but also from the grace that we use to CONQUER sin and death!!
ReplyDeleteLady, Thanks for inviting me to your blog, I truly am honored,I did not know I had the skills to make my first post early on., but you were kind in responding, and that early time of correcting me,and support encouraged me to study more.
ReplyDeleteDiscipleship I read throughout the Gospel,when I read the gospel I read instruction from the Apostles to their new Lk 9:1; Lk14:26&33;and Math 10:1,disciples; we believers can grow in our commitment to the Lord, and aspire to discipleship but most of us are believers(with family and property).
This is my constant battle with the folks on the other side.
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