Tag Archive: cost of discipleship

Nov 08

WOAM 2010

While we can’t tell you everything that happened on our October week-end , we can tell you this: The women heard fellow parishioners share how their faith helped them with their daily living. Five women shared their stories of faith. The participants were wined and dined with great food and snacks. There was a moving …

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Sep 05

Discipleship – At What Cost?

What do you find hard to let go of? What sort of things make it hard for you to be a disciple? In today’s selection from Luke’s Gospel, Jesus laid out three “trip wires” for discipleship: attachment to family, the hard consequences of discipleship, and attachment to possessions. All three have a caveat. If someone …

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Aug 22

Who Will Be Saved?

“Who will be saved?” If you Google the question, there are pages and pages of search results and books galore trying to distill the answer!  Many of the entries try to streamline the response!   Our Gospel for this Sunday makes it very clear who will be saved. Jesus makes it very clear, that the journey …

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Jun 27

Cost of Discipleship

Sometimes I need a push to dive into something demanding, be it an unpleasant task, a tediously long and boring job or just motivating myself for a variety of tasks.  Motivation and persistence do not come naturally  to many of us. The Gospel for this Sunday is about a journey but the end is not …

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