Pick Up Your Cross and Follow Me
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
A device of torture, shame, and suffering, the image of the cross struck fear into the hearts of first century Jews. Against this backdrop, Jesus tells his disciples, “Pick up your cross and follow me.” And he doesn’t just say to pick it up once; he says we must do this daily if we want to be his disciples.
To pick up our cross, we must accept and embrace the sufferings that God has allowed in our lives, knowing that they can sanctify us. It's not easy, but the paradox is that we will find joy by picking up our cross and following the savior who took up his own cross for our sake.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:07.0 | How do you know you're really following Jesus? I mean not just being a Catholic a |
| 0:19.8 | Catholic that goes to church on Sunday or a Ra Ra A Ra A Ra A Catholic even. You know, I'm a Catholic that you know really volunteers at the parish and I I'm involved in Bible studies and I listen to Catholic podcasts and I go to all these Catholic events you know that's all great but what's happening on the inside how do I know I'm really following Jesus as a disciple you know Lent is a great time to kind of really examine our hearts and really seeing is my life on the right path |
| 0:46.0 | am I really following Jesus you know because there's one test of a true disciple |
| 0:52.4 | St John Henry Newman brings this point out of if I really want to know am I really following Jesus as a disciple? |
| 0:58.0 | What's the one test? How do I really know? |
| 1:01.0 | And it's not just Newman's insight, it's what Jesus said. He said, pick up your cross daily and follow me. |
| 1:08.9 | That's what we're going to look at in today's podcast. So welcome back. I am Edward Sree and I'm the host of all |
| 1:14.7 | things Catholic. Welcome back to the show. I want to welcome particularly any |
| 1:17.9 | new listeners that may be joining us here. It is the Lenton season here |
| 1:22.2 | upon us here. |
| 1:24.0 | We're starting the 40-day journey. |
| 1:26.0 | And I think it's a wonderful theme for us to be really thinking about |
| 1:30.0 | how do we live as true disciples how can I use this this Lenton season to help us to help |
| 1:39.0 | us grow you know in in this path as a disciple and so I want to think about those words and I want you to just imagine |
| 1:46.0 | being Peter or James or John or Andrew Philip |
| 1:50.0 | one of those apostles and you're with Jesus and just picture this you've been |
| 1:53.8 | following Jesus for about three years just from one village to another you've |
| 1:58.8 | seen and perform all these miracles you've heard his amazing teaching he's explained to you all the parables he's been |
| 2:04.1 | training you and now you've been going out and sharing the good news but then at a |
| 2:08.9 | certain moment in his public ministry we know that this happens is toward the end |
| 2:12.4 | it says he's getting ready to leave Gallo public ministry and we know that this happens toward the end. |
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