Ministers of the Gospel: Meditations on St Luke's Gospel

Contents

Foreword

1. Towards an understanding of the kerygma:
-- Opening prayer
-- Evangelists and pastors
-- Jesus the failed evangelist
-- Called to be with Jesus

2. Difficulties in understanding the kerygma:
-- The crisis of the evangelist
-- Only half of the kerygma
-- The whole kerygma

3. What does the kerygma do, and what exactly is it?:
-- The effects of the kerygma
-- The gift of the Spirit

4. The sense of sin in the training of the evangelist:
-- "At your word I will let down the nets"
-- The Gospel has the power of forgiveness for all who trust in it
-- Our own way of penance

5. Jesus teaches his disciples:
-- Faith and extra-faith ministries
-- The education of the Christian
-- The formation of the evangelist
-- A living education

6. The way of Peter, the first evangelist:
-- Peter's confession and failure to understand
-- The crisis of Peter
-- The experience of letting oneself be loved

7. Jesus the evangelist in the Passion:
-- Jesus humiliated
-- Jesus tempted
-- Jesus evangelist

8. The salvation which Jesus offers from the Cross:
-- Our individual importance to God
-- The parable of the lost sheep
-- The way of Mary

9. The words of the risen Lord:
-- The apostles' attitude to the words of the risen Lord
-- "My witnesses"
-- Bearers of the apostolic faith