Theme: The LORD teaches you to follow Him.
Jesus began to teach the disciples that
the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief
priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days.
He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him
aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his
disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not
as God does, but as human beings do.”
He summoned the crowd with his disciples
and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take
up his cross, and follow me.
Let us meditate on how the
LORD taught us that following Him does not mean ideas or appearances, but it
means living the gospel and incarnating the Word of God in our lives, even when
we have to experience the holy and painful way of the cross. All of this is impossible without faith in
the Real Presence of Christ among us.
Let us pray for all those
who are burdened by their crosses, so that they may look at the living LORD and
move on.
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For Spiritual Direction
This stage goes from the moment you try to convert others to the moment you experience the resurrection of Christ in your life.
The length of this stage depends from one person to another. Some people experience Follow Me for more than 2 years others for less than 1 year. All people experience the end of “Follow Me” with an amazing grace that will change everything.
In this stage, Christ teaches you to follow Him.
Man learns how to follow Jesus:
Man denies the Lord for the third time:
Meditations: John
After learning how to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus, you will experience the beginning of a new stage: “The Resurrection”.
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