Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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Preparing for this week’s gospel, we need to look back at what the lectionary skipped over last week—disciples’ inability and confusion.
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The challenge of the Passion Predictions is that they force us to confront our failure to follow Jesus, to love in the way he teaches.
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In the second passion prediction, Jesus again upends the disciples’ expectations (and ours) for a messiah, and for his followers.
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Most people, including Christians, have a hard time talking about death. And struggle with the idea that it can be good news.
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Between the predictions of the Passion, Jesus confronts a moment of failure for the disciples, helping us see our lack of focus.
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In Jesus’s first passion prediction, we encounter the language of Messiah and cross-carrying, which we need some untangling.