Homily Topic: The Qualities of True Christian Discipleship

From the Catholic Liturgy for Sunday June 26, 2016. To be a disciple means to be a student. As Christians we are students of the Master Teacher, Jesus of Nazareth. We learn His Way, We ponder and accept His Truth. We strive to live His Life. This requires discipline (notice the similarity of this word to 'disciple') and Jesus speaks about this to us in the Gospel reading. A Christian who is a good student developed a heart like Jesus: merciful, forgiving, detached from consumerism, nurturing relationships that are life-giving, and not hanging on to the past...ours or someone else's. In Christ everyone is made new again! In Christ we can ind a new way of living, a new way of thinking!