discipleship
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The Presentation of Our Lord at the temple offers us another opportunity to witness others’ response to faith, to embody it with hope.
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In proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor, Jesus invites us to see, not an ideal future, but an actual, present command for life.
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When Jesus declares the day of the Lord’s favor in the reading from Isaiah, he’s inviting us to share in the making of this reality.
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It is the servants who witness the miracle, not the guests. The ones who are invited to do the work, to participate in sharing God’s grace.
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The awkward experience of realizing the “first miracle” of Jesus isn’t the first or most important thing Jesus did after his baptism.
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In the baptism of Jesus, we are invited into old debates about the nature of Jesus and baptism, but a bigger debate is right there.