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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...

just want to hold on to him. «Everyone is looking for you». But Jesus would not let himself be programmed by others. His only thought is the project of the Father. Nothing and no one will draw him away from his chosen path. Jesus does not care to stay back to enjoy his success in Capernaum. He does not yield to the enthusiasm of the crowds. There are villages that still have not heard the good news from God. «Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also». One of the
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