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Our
Faith
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Place
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Philip Yuson
Surabaya
Corner
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Ramon Martillano
Sharing
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Michael
Here's
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By
Tintin Magbitang
Catholic
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Armand Sol
God
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Saints
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complete humans from the beginning of our life, in
our mother’s womb. And yet it takes a lifelong time to grow
towards the full completion. The growing up to become mature
consists of many processes: at home, in school, at our job and in
society. There are positive events as well as bitter experiences,
luck and blight, rejoicing and painful memories, health and disease,
encouragement and disappointment. People around us who give us help
or obstruct us, block us.
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growing up becoming mature. We can get stuck or whither away. So we
need people we can trust. A text of the Second Vatican Counsel (GS=Gaudum
et spes 41) tells us, “He who follows Christ, the perfect man,
will become more of a man likewise. Stay in me, then I shall stay in
you.”
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me,” the call of Jesus. Leave your profession, leave your family,
for a new style of life: community with Him. His disciples listened
to His call – a call of a freeing, redeeming message. They saw His
style of life: without a permanent house, without safeguards,
without ties to family. They saw His bestowing all His affections
for the needy and the poor. They felt also the risks, the want, the
rejection and persecution. No wonder that many left Him again.
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did others stay with Him? Peter and his friends answered Him:
“Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We
have come to believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”
(John 6:68-69). To follow Him means to experience words and tokens
of eternal life – life with the Holy One of God. St. Paul writes
in the letter to the Philippians: “Whatever gains I had, these I
have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I
regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing
Christ Jesus, my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all
things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain
Christ and be found in Him.” (Phil. 3:7-9a)
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we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”
asked Peter. “Truly I tell you, everyone who has left houses, or
brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or fields, for
My Name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit
eternal life.” (Matt. 19:27 ff)
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- Monks
and nuns followed the call in a radical fellowship like the
apostles. Are we ordinary Christians also called like them? The
answer is of course: for to follow Christ means to believe in
Christ. And to stay in His love.
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world should understand, seeing the faith, the love and hope of
Christians that their gain was becoming real men and women.
Therefore let us all, religious and laymen be credible witnesses.
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