Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The message? Responding to the good news of God's fresh intervention entails letting go of one's conventional tasks and attachments and following Jesus. The new task is described as “fishing people.”
John Kavanaugh, SJ
You would think that, after being invited by one such as Christ, all would be smooth sailing. Things would be free and clear. And yet, we know their call must surely have been experienced as a journey into frustration and failure.
John J. Pilch
Modern believers are amazed that the people Jesus invites to join him seem to drop everything and follow him immediately. It is all the more amazing if this is the first time they have met each other.
It may be that some are less guilty than others, but no one is
entirely free from fault; there may be degrees of guilt, but no one
can escape it altogether.
Reginald H. Fuller
The challenge to repent, therefore, means much more than to be sorry for one’s individual sins. The Greek word for “repent” is metanoiein, which literally means “to change one’s mind.”