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Sunday February 09, 2025
Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.
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Discipleship breaks down our religious categorizations. We look at Christ's first followers through the lens of retrospective holiness, forgetting they were ordinary people whose hands smelled of fish and whose lives were marked by the routine of daily work. This spiritual amnesia robs us of the revolutionary essence of Christ's call.
On the shores of the lake, Christ did not seek refined theologians or accomplished mystics. He chose those who knew the weight of empty nets and the frustration of fruitless work. The call to discipleship is not an invitation to abandon the ordinary, but to allow the divine to break through in the midst of our most mundane routines.
The paradox persists: it is precisely in our ordinariness where Christ performs the extraordinary. Peter's boat becomes a chair of theology, and the empty nets become testimony to divine abundance. Today, our desks, kitchens, and workshops are the new settings where the "follow me" resonates with renewed urgency.
Listen
Reflect
(Luke 5:1-11)
-Contemplate the scene: Peter, exhausted after a fruitless night, encounters Christ in his moment of professional failure. Where are your empty nets? Allow your vulnerability to become the meeting point with the divine.
-"Master, at your word I will let down the nets." Peter's obedience challenges the logic of his fishing experience. What professional or personal certainties do you need to release to make space for Christ's transforming word?
-The nets break with unexpected abundance. The miracle exceeds human capacity to contain it. What self-imposed limits are containing the grace that God wants to pour into your life?
-"Do not be afraid." These words resound when divine reality surpasses our expectations. What fears do you need to name before the Lord to take the next step in your discipleship?
Pray
Lord of the ordinary and extraordinary, who transforms routines into sacred encounters and weaknesses into points of grace, grant us the audacity to recognize you in the midst of our daily failures. Break the molds of our limited understanding and take us into deep waters, where our certainties dissolve in the mystery of your grace. May our discipleship be as radical as that of those first fishermen who left everything to follow you.
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