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Following in the Footsteps of Jesus: Meditations on the Gospels for Year B 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...

listen to the explanations of their leaders. It is in this context that Jesus begins to teach for the first time. Nothing is said about the content of his teaching. That is not what matters on this occasion. What is important is the impact his intervention produces. Jesus causes astonishment and admiration. The people perceive in him something special that they do not find in their religious teachers. Jesus does not teach like the scribes. He teaches with authority. The learned teach in the name
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