Following in the Footsteps of Jesus: Meditations on the Gospels for Year A
Overview
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 through our hearts.
The life of the church would be transformed if believers, Christian couples, priests, religious, bishops and educators would make the Gospels their bedside book. This publication offers a guide for reading Sunday Gospels and meditating homilies every week for the liturgical cycle A.
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- Offers a guide and homilies for each Sunday Gospel reading
- Presents readers with a brief commentary on the text
- Includes meditations for the readings for the first year of the lectionary cycle
Top Highlights
“The message is clear and urgent. It is stupid to keep listening to the gospel without taking pains to make it a reality in life. This is building Christianity on sand. It is foolish to confess a faith in Jesus Christ that does not impact one’s life, void of its spirit and truth; it is to wait for Jesus with the light in the lamps gone out. Jesus may delay, but we cannot delay our conversion.” (Page 145)
“This servant does not feel identified with his master or his business. At no time is his behavior prompted by love. He doesn’t love his master. He fears him.” (Page 146)
“The kingdom of God is hidden. Many have not yet discovered the grand project God has for a new world. However it is not an inaccessible mystery. It is hidden in Jesus, in his life and in his message.” (Page 116)
“What the church needs is not more social or political power, but more humility to allow ourselves to be transformed by Jesus in order to be the ferment of a more human world.” (Page 114)
“Is it worth committing oneself to the project of humanizing the world, or is it more practical to look for one’s own well-being?” (Page 115)
José Antonio Pagola was born in Spain in 1937. He completed his theological studies in 1962 at the Papal Gregorian University in Rome, and his studies in Sacred Scripture at the Papal Biblical Institute in Rome in 1963. He also studied biblical sciences at the École Biblique in Jerusalem. Pagola is a professor at St. Sebastian Seminary and at the Faculty of Theology of Northern Spain. He has dedicated his life to biblical studies and Christology and has done research on the historical Jesus for more than 30 years.