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Today is Monday, November 9th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are continuing our study of Jesus Christ by talking about a specific calling that he gave to people he knew at the time, people he met while he was preaching,

but something that he also gives to us today.

And this is the call to be a disciple.

Shortly after Jesus is baptized, we hear him calling to various people that they come and follow him.

There are two sets of brothers that we see him call in a couple of different gospels.

And those sets of brothers are Peter and his brother Andrew, and then also James and his brother John,

the sons of Zebedee. Now, both of these sets of brothers, they had a life. They had lots of things

they were doing and obligations that they had made. They were fishermen. We know that they are out

fishing, in fact, when Jesus calls them. And yet Jesus calls them to lay down their nets, to come

and follow him and catch men instead of fish, to go and evangelize. So Jesus calls them to be disciples. Now all week long,

we are going to look at what that means. When we too are called to be a disciple, what is Christ

calling us to actually do? And also, what are the requirements of being a disciple? We hear from Jesus that there's a lot

of serious things that we have to do to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ. Jesus even tells one person

that unless we hate our mother and father, we are not worthy of being his disciples. Others are told

to come now, to not finish the harvest, to not even bury their parents, but to come now.

So we'll talk about this. And luckily, we have some incredible saints celebrating feast days

this week because we know that the call

to discipleship is something that we see Jesus do in the Gospels, but it is something that is

still happening.

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