2009-Holy Week: Tuesday

African Painting of the Vth station of the Way of the Cross Simeon helps Jesus... +++++++++++++++++++ The Cost of Discipleship Diciple is one who learns from the Master Prayer: That I may be placed with Christ the Son. AIDS TO PERSONAL REFLECTION AND PRAYER Passages from Scripture: = 2 Cor 4: 7-18 Renunciation is the basis of Christian Discipleship… It helps us to accept the hardships and humiliations that will be part of our life… = Isaiah 29: 13-14 Deeds, not words, are the proof of the true disciple… = Mtt 10: 17-25 If they have persecuted Jesus, then the disciples must also expect to be persecuted… = Mtt 10: 26-33 Who will take her/his stand for Christ? We must be fearless in the choice of what Christ stands for. This fearlessness will give the disciple the freedom to confess always Christ before all… = James 2: 14-17 Faith is like that: if good works do not go with it, it is quite dead… = Mtt 16: 24-26 Any one who loses her/his life for my sake will find it… = Mtt 5: 3-12 The beatitudes are the cross of Christ realized in practical living… The key to all of them is the first; “Blessed are the poor in spirit”… = Mtt 16: 13-20 Who do you say that I am?… ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' "He it is, the innermost one, Who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain. He it is who weaves the web… in evanescent hues of gold and silver, blue and green, and lets peep out through the folds his feet, at whose touch I forget myself. Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy of sorrow.” '''''''''''''''''''''''Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali Comments to: vmalpan@gmail.com