A Latin spiritual journey with discerning hearts, from ashes to glory.

Day 7. The Call of the Disciples, leaving everything to follow him.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke, chapter 5 verses 1 through 11.

Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Geneseret, and the crowd was pressing in on him

to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake. The fishermen had

gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon,

and asked him to put out a little way from the shore.

Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,

Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.

Simon answered, Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so,

I will let down the nets. When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break.

So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them.

And they came and filled both boats so that they began to sink.

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees saying,

Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.

For he and all who were with him were amazed at the catch of fish that they had taken.

And so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.

Then Jesus said to Simon, Do not be afraid. From now on, you will be catching people. When they had brought their boats to

shore, they left everything and followed him. The call of Simon Peter, James, and John, is a moment of profound transformation.

These ordinary fishermen encountered the extraordinary power of Jesus, and in an instant,

their lives are forever changed.

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