Questions – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Discussion Questions related to Sunday Readings featuring Word-Sunday, Vince Contreras, RCIA Seekers’ Michael Marchall, RCL Benziger, and Anne Osdieck.
Discussion Questions related to Sunday Readings featuring Word-Sunday, Vince Contreras, RCIA Seekers’ Michael Marchall, RCL Benziger, and Anne Osdieck.
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5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
What are the differences between the leader and the follower? When does a follower lead?
The path to leadership is a hard one. True leaders are committed to a goal or a cause. They are also willing to sacrifice time, talent, and treasure for their passion. They gather as many followers by their example as by their ideals. In fact, many measure leaders’ goals and passion by their example. Do they merely talk? Or are they willing to walk the path?
In one sense, a follower becomes a leader the moment he or she makes a commitment beyond the norm. At that point, the easy way becomes difficult. In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus honored his followers who took the hard way, those who lived out the Beatitudes. Those who sacrificed for the Kingdom would be the salt of the earth and light to the world.
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5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
1. Jesus asked us to be like light and salt. What determines your degree of saltiness or brightness?
2. What does Pope Francis say is the “battery” for our light?
What must a Christian do in order for the salt not to run out, so that the oil to light the lamp does not come to an end? The “battery” a Christian uses to generate light … is simply prayer. Prayer, the Pope says, is what lights up Christian life … prayer must come from the heart.”
As regards the salt that Christians are called to be: it becomes salt when it is given to others. This … is another Christian attitude: to give of oneself, to give flavor to the lives of others, to give flavor to many things with the message of the Gospel … It’s curious: both salt and light are for others, not for oneself. Salt does not give flavor to itself; light does not illuminate itself.
Mass at Casa Santa Marta,
June 7, 2016
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
Let Your Light Shine Before Human Beings
Jesus explains that light is something that should not be hidden; light, by its nature, is something that is meant to bring clarity to the area where it is placed. Light is not a private phenomenon, but the light is an indication of a public purpose. Therefore, think about your own life of faith as a light that is placed in a public sphere.
In what way does your light shine before other human beings? Think about it, and record all the feelings/emotions that are associated with this reflection.