The sacrament of baptism leads all into the mystery of life — past sins are forgiven, the baptized person is born into a new life. En el sacramento del Bautismo desemboca todo el misterio de la vida: el pasado del pecado, el presente del hombre nuevo y la esperanza del mundo definitivo.

Being flexible is always good advice to give but not always easy to accept. When we’re on a schedule, have an agenda, need to “get things done,” we don’t have time for flexibility. Or so the story goes.

The gathering of disciples was much in fashion in intertestamental times, that is, a century or two before and after the birth of Jesus. The great scribes before and after Jesus had their disciples. Even in the Old Testament we notice that some of the prophets had disciples. There were called “sons of the prophets.”