Welcome to ALIVE with Fr. Jonathan Meyer!
Each week, ALIVE helps you prepare your heart for Sunday’s Mass by reflecting on the Gospel and discovering how God’s Word applies to your daily life.
This week, Jesus gives us one of His most challenging invitations:
“Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.”
What does it really mean to take up your cross?
Sometimes our cross is a difficult relationship. Sometimes it’s caring for a loved one, enduring suffering, or faithfully carrying responsibilities we didn’t choose. But Jesus calls us to something even greater—not simply to endure the cross, but to unite it with His own.
Drawing from a powerful mission trip tradition and the witness of St. Francis of Assisi, Fr. Jonathan reflects on what it means to embrace the Cross as a path to holiness.
This week, spend some time praying with these questions:
✝️ What cross am I carrying?
✝️ Am I resisting it or surrendering it to Christ?
✝️ How is Jesus inviting me to follow Him more closely?
Discussion questions for this Sunday’s readings are linked below and are also available at allsaintscatholic.net. Gather a few friends, read the Scriptures together, and discover what God is saying to you this week.
Keep pressing play.
Keep sharing the Gospel.
Keep becoming the saint God created you to be.
Gospel Discussion Questions:
13th Sunday in ordinary Time- Matthew 10:37-42
What is the message or story?
What is the Good News in this passage?
Which of the 10 commandments is most closely associated with today’s reading?
Are there times in your life when you have felt unworthy of God?
Are there things in your life that you love more than Jesus, or you are tempted to love more than Jesus?
We are told that if someone receives us, they receive God…who have we become through baptism, confirmation and the Holy Eucharist?
Why does Jesus seem to have such a clear love for children?
How is today’s passage related to the corporal works of mercy (Matthew 25).
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