Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Adult Faith Formation In her book ‘Forming Intentional Disciples’, Catholic author Sherry Waddell lays out five thresholds people walk through when moving to discipleship. People tend to move from (or between) initial trust, to curiosity, to openness, to seeking, and then to discipleship. Waddell also describes three elements of the spiritual journey that are crucially…

Responding to change with the disciples Every so often, I have to celebrate the funeral of a person in their late nineties. As funerals go, the photo presentation provides the congregation with a visual arc of the person’s life.   The pictures provide some glimpse into the sheer volume of societal change they’ve navigated in…