How do you define discipleship for yourself? What are the ways you follow Jesus in your everyday life?

Imagine if everyone in your community wore a name tag for each of the personal categories they fit into.

TODAY IS FATHER'S Day and also World Refugee Day. The dual observance is a coincidence, yet the two fit together.

Take up your cross and follow me, Jesus told his disciples: to follow my way will involve the willingness to make sacrifices - including the sources of security most people take for granted.

He let nothing separate him from the love of God, and he spread that love to many who were in great need.

DENYING OURSELVES has never been socially acceptable. More wealth, more power, or more glamour is forever the order of the day.

Illness and death were real and part of life and the home and therefore not something to be afraid of.

Jesus asks all of us, "Who do you say I am?" There are a lot of wrong answers to that question floating around. Are you prone to thinking any of these from time to time?

In hope of God's grace and mercy, we stand before the Lord.

Denying oneself and taking up one's cross-and the seriousness and depth of such self-sacrifice is brought home by the fact that Jesus says these words as he is about to begin his final earthly journey to Jerusalem and his own cross.

But any kind of social or cultural discrimination in basic personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design. - The Church in the Modern World, Second Vatican Council