CHRISTIAN LIVING

• how do we become disciples of jesus?

  By following him, and surrendering everything
• It is hard to be followers of christ because of the temptations of the world
• church - followers of christ
• jesus disciples were commissioned to to preach the good news to share the good works of jesus
• how to bring salvation? by being faithful to jesus
• faith is believing without seeing
• evangelization is preaching of the gospel
• The three fold missions are, prophetic, kingly and priestly
• prayers of the faithful is an example of priestly mission
• being a messenger of good news is prophetic mission.
• Jesus had friends, and his friends were the disciples
• disciples are also called followers
• how to become disciples? by proclaiming the good news
• the early disciples were very devoted.
• the early disciples of jesus were like brother and sisters.
• the early disciples were witnesses of the trinitarian relationship
• despite of the differences, they joined together
• what one had, everyone had
• they sold all their land
• prayer they prayed with eachother
• breaking of the bread isn't actually breaking the bread, but actually the sharing to it to others
• commitment to the mission, was their being equal to each other
• their mission was to spread the word of god
• ecclesial community is the people of god
• 1st reading are usually from the old testament
• the 2nd reading is usually from the new testament
• the gospel readings are from the new testament
• encyclical letter is the pope's message to the whole catholic church.
• most of the masses were held in caves because they might get caught by the romans