Nesmith Library

Jesus, a pilgrimage, James Martin, SJ

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-504)

individual biography

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non fiction

Jesus

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James Martin, SJ

a pilgrimage

"James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus through Scripture, prayer and travel. Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual insights about the Christ of faith, Father Martin recreates the world of first-century Galilee and Judea to usher you into Jesus's life and times and show readers how Jesus speaks to us today. Martin also brings together the most up-to-date Scripture scholarship, wise spiritual reflections, and lighthearted stories about traveling through the Holy Land with a fellow (and funny) Jesuit, visiting important sites in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The person at the heart of the Gospels can seem impossibly distant. Stories about his astonishing life and ministry--clever parables that upended everyone's expectations, incredible healings that convinced even skeptics, nature miracles that dazzled the dumbstruck disciples--can seem far removed from our own daily lives, hard to understand, and at times irrelevant. But in Jesus you will come to know him as Father Martin knows him: Messiah and Savior, as well as friend and brother"--, Provided by publisher

Who is Jesus? -- Pilgrims -- Yes : "How can this be?" -- Bethlehem : "She gave birth to her firstborn son" -- Nazareth : "Jesus increased in wisdom and in years" -- Jordan : "Do you come to me?" -- Rejection : "Is not this the carpenter?" -- Galilee : "And immediately they left their nets and followed him" -- Immediately : "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?" -- Gennesaret : "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" -- Happy : "Rejoice and be glad" -- Capernaum : "They removed the roof above him" -- Parables : "He began to teach them many things in parables" -- Storms : "Teacher, do you not care?" -- Gerasa : "Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones" -- Tabgha : "And all ate and were filled" -- Bethesda : "There is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes" -- Jericho : He was trying to see who Jesus was" -- Bethany : "Take away the stone" -- Jerusalem : "Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet" -- Gethsemane : "He threw himself on the ground and prayed" -- Golgotha : "Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last" -- Risen : "Jesus said to her, 'Mariam!'" -- Emmaus : "Their eyes were kept from recognizing him" -- Tiberias : "Do you love me?" -- Amen