Monday, August 16, 2010
Chapters Three and Four - Open Thread
I will try to summarize what we talk about tonight and include that in the comments. In the meantime, feel free to add your own comments, questions, observations about these chapters.
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Among my impressions from the discussion on Monday night:
ReplyDeleteWe reflected a bit on the life and martyrdom of St. Maxilmilian Kolbe. His feast day was Saturday, August 14. He wrote, many years before his death, of cultivating an attitude of obedience to God. This attitude came to fruition in his own life. While a prisoner at Auschwitz, he volunteered to take the place of another prisoner chosen to be starved to death. We began by praying that while we might not be put to that kind of test, that God would give us the grace to hear and be obedient to the Word.
We discussed the different varieties of Judaism common in the Palestine of Jesus' day.
We spoke of the Jewishness of Jesus, coming to fulfill the Law, beginning his public ministry by undergoing a very Jewish ritual.
We spent a bit of time talking about our impressions of the baptism scene and the ways that we read it - whether it was a personal or public experience.
We talked about the various very human temptations with which Jesus dealt.
And we practiced lectio, using the passage about the call of the disciples. The words that came up the most strongly for many of us were "at once" and "immediately."
Feel free to ask your own questions here. Responses will be posted! And please add your own reflections.