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Jesus upturns the values we would normally consider desirable.
These people have recognized their spiritual poverty before God and have come to Him.
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１Corinthians 7:25-31
With regard to those
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“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit…”
Jesus’ Calling of His Disciples, These men are far from perfect, Jesus chose very ordinary men.
Lord, I am here, Send Me Lord.
I realise he has also chosen me. “Come. Follow Me,”
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1 Corinthians 6:1-11
When you have a complaint
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Jesus commands Peter to put out into the deep and let down the nets for a catch.
Here is a carpenter telling a professional fisherman how to do his job!
“Lord, show us where the fish are that You want us to catch, and we’ll cast the nets there.”
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1Corinthians 3:18-23
Do not deceive yourselves.
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‘The Son of Man’ is master of the Sabbath.
Rule of love is taking over from the rule of law,
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1 Corinthians 5:1-8
You have become news
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Have the confidence to ask him for whatever you need.
I open myself to his compassion and let his heart shape mine.
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１Corinthians 3:1-9
I could not, friends,
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" Whoever does not follow me, carrying his own cross, cannot be my disciple."
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Wisdom of Solomon 9:13-18
Indeed, who can know
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Jesus was challenged and resisted by the demons.
Because of his authority as the "Holy One of God", all evil is ultimately powerless before Jesus.
The demon then says, ”I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
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１Corinthians 2:10b-16
The Spirit probes everything,
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"We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of Wonder."
~~~ ST. GREGORY THE GREAT ~~~
St. Gregory the Great, pope & doctor
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1 Corinthians 4:6b-15
Learn by this example
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'It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.'
he was a man of integrity. John the Baptist was beheaded because he spoke truth to power.
Truly, The king was ‘much perplexed’ whose conscience pulls him one way.
But because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her.
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１Corinthians 2:1-5
When I came to reveal to you he
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All is made new by God who meets us where we are.
The old wineskins of the old Testament did not manage to accommodate the new wine of Jesus’s message.
"But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast."
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1Corinthians 4:1-5
Let everyone then see us
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Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
My son,
