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

ties they need to sever. His exchanges basically pose one question: what kind of relationship do we, who call ourselves his followers, want to establish with him? The first scene: One of those accompanying him is so attracted to Jesus that he himself takes the initiative before he is called: «I will follow you wherever you go». Jesus makes him aware of the implications of what he is saying: «Foxes have holes and birds have nests», but, «the son has no place to lay his head». It is an adventure to
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