The Catholic Commute

S01E55 Are you offended by Jesus


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In Matthew 11:6, our Lord says "And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me."  What does this mean?  It's easy to see how much of the secular world takes offense at Jesus, but do we?  What does this even mean?  Most of what Jesus taught was good and loving.  Who would take offense?

At the time of recording, we are almost at Christmas, 2016.  In order to help prepare our hearts for this Christmas - or any time of year - I want us all to ponder where we take offense at the teachings of Our Lord.  It is a virtual certainty we do somewhere - we are all selfish.  I know that I certainly do, though it surprised me to discover so.

In this episode, I discuss 5 ways I found that I am offended by Jesus.  I did not expect to find this when I first encountered this verse.  I hope that you will learn something about how you think and feel by going through these ways.  In the next episode, I hope to offer some ideas to help let go of this offense, and thus ready ourselves for Him to truly come.

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The Catholic CommuteBy Michael Jaquith