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Following in the Footsteps of Jesus: Meditations on the Gospels for Year A is unavailable, but you can change that!

This personal meditation on the words of Jesus transforms us—more than all the explanations, sermons, and exhortations we read elsewhere, which reach us from the outside. People change from within. Jesus’s words reach within us to transform us unlike any other force. Perhaps this is one of the most serious problems of our religion: too frequently it is not the vital sap of Jesus that passes...

spectacular. Where are the «signs from heaven» of which the apocalyptic writers speak? Where can you see the power of God come down on the wicked? Jesus had to teach them to perceive his presence in a different form. He still remembered the scene that he had seen in the patio of his house. His mother and the other women would arise early on the eve of the Sabbath to prepare bread for the whole week. It suggested to Jesus the motherly work of God in placing his leaven in the world. The kingdom of
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