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Tuesday of Holy Week
St. Luke’s Institute
March 31, 2015
JESUS’ MISSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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It
is well know that Christ consistently used the expression “follower”
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J
never asks 4 admirers, worshippers, adherents
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No,
he call disciples
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It
is not adherents of a teaching, but followers of a life Christ is looking for
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Christ
came into the world with the purpose of saving, not instructing
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At
the same time he came to be the pattern,
to leave footprints for the person who would join him, who would become a
follower
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Why
Christ was born & lived and died in lowliness
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There
is nothing to admire in Jesus, unless you want to admire poverty, miser, and
contempt
ADMIRERS AND
FOLLOWERS +++++++++++++++++++
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What’s
difference betw an admirer a follower?
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A
follower is or strives to be what he/she admires
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An
admirer keeps himself personally detached
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He
fails to see that what is admired involves a claim upon him, and thus he fails
to be or strive to be what he admires
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To
want to admire instead of to follow Christ is not necessarily an invention by
bad people
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No,
it is more an invention by those who spinelessly keep themselves detached, who
keep themselves at a safe distance
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Admirers
are related to the admired only through the excitement of the imagination
APPLICATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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The
difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you
are
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The
admirer never makes any true sacrifices
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He
always plays it safe
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Though
in words, phrases, songs, he’s inexhaustible abt how he prizes J, he renounces
nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he
admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admirers
CONCLUSION
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Not
so for the follower. No, no
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The
follower aspires with all his strength, with all his will to be what he admires
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The
Sacred Triduum is opp to move to follower
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