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00:00Okay, so we're back to our
00:29last capsule, to the last episode of
00:33This class and now let's go to chapter 2
00:36In verse 2 the text says what I
00:42You have heard it said in the presence of many
00:44Entrust it to worthy witnesses.
00:48trustworthy that in turn are
00:50trained to teach others. We have
00:53in this text that we have read the
00:56Paul's invitation to seek disciples. No
01:00Everyone can be a teacher. We just have to find the right people.
01:04disciples, we must make disciples and
01:07among the disciples we now have that
01:10Find someone who can continue the work. This
01:14It is vital, it is fundamental, because if it fails
01:18This breaks the chain and there is no more
01:22Evangelization. To a large extent, this is what it is.
01:24What has happened in our church. I know.
01:27I see it, for example, in the parish. He comes in.
01:30leader, and well, maybe it was okay
01:33evangelized, but then did not prepare the
01:36Next, and its cycle arrived because it already
01:39He's going to get married, because he was married, he was a
01:42group of married couples, but they changed it from
01:45place, then his work became more complicated,
01:46He has to give up his position to someone else, and that
01:51another one now has the capacity to
01:55to be a teacher. Not everyone is.
01:58called to be teachers, that's why he tells him
02:00Saint Paul, what you have heard me say in
02:03in the presence of many witnesses, commending him
02:05to trustworthy believers who to their
02:08once they are trained to teach
02:11others. That is, he's talking about the
02:14Dissipative line. That is, one passes to the
02:18Another one, this one passes to the other and we continue
02:20forming disciples. This was the way
02:23in which Jesus established that he should
02:25to be done. It's not about grabbing big
02:29masses. That's why when we've dedicated
02:31practically our evangelization
02:33only in the context of the Mass, in
02:36where we sometimes have a homily of
02:3810 minutes, 5 minutes, 7 minutes, 8 minutes
02:40minutes, 12 minutes, in the heat, in
02:43where there are 200 people, 300 people, 80
02:46people or more people, it's difficult there
02:49preach. It's unlikely he'll go there.
02:53giving the discipleship process. How am I doing?
02:56to help those people become a
02:58good disciple and that those in turn
03:00Can they teach it to others? That has
03:03has been largely, in my opinion, the
03:05a huge failure we have right now within
03:07from the preaching of the church, which is
03:10The dissemination process was lost. And
03:13We need to pick it up again. It's clear on this point.
03:15Text from Saint Paul, right? Jesus said,
03:19Matthew 28:19, Go and make disciples.
03:24Teach them to put everything away, and that's where it should be.
03:28Underline everything, everything I have taught you.
03:30So, it's a process that is also
03:37long. People think that because
03:39attended a querigma, the renewal or
03:41from any group that offers the
03:43querygmas, or because he participated in a
03:45Cursillo de Cristiandad, etc., because
03:47He's already a Christian. No, he's barely there.
03:51The little flame was lit. The process
03:54Discipling is a long process; one must train the
03:57people. That's why Jesus, to those twelve who
04:01He chose them, he called them to be
04:04with him, says Mark, in chapter 3,
04:07Verse 14 says, and called them to
04:10were with him, and then send them to
04:13preaching. So, these are long processes.
04:17where our vision has to be
04:19to evangelize the person, to transmit to them
04:23everything that I in turn have received from
04:26My teacher. And he, he goes for it, more.
04:30Go ahead, he'll pass it on to the next person, and
04:33And so on, the
04:36discipleship schools. That is why, in the
04:38beginning, the first five centuries, the
04:41Christianity was advancing rapidly, and in
04:44For the first four centuries, there had been
04:46almost all of it has been covered
04:48territory of the empire. These were processes
04:51long to form a Christian, the
04:54early years, right? Already of the century
04:56second onwards, a Christian was
05:00subjected to two or three years or more of
05:02training, in such a way that the teacher
05:05He trained his disciple with enough
05:09time for him to become a good
05:12teacher later, and then I could
05:15to pass that on to others. That's why
05:18From the beginning, yes, they were baptized
05:21Children in church. The church
05:23The Catholic Church has always baptized the
05:25Christian children. Today we cannot
05:30to assume that a person who comes to
05:32Baptizing a child to be Christian. When not
05:34He goes to mass, but doesn't go to confession, and doesn't receive communion.
05:38He doesn't pray, he's not a Christian, he's a
05:41baptized. Then, the church
05:44he baptized the children of the
05:47Christians, but he made Christians, he made
05:50disciples, and that is what we are today
05:53We need to resume, to make disciples.
05:57It took Jesus three years to train his disciples
06:01disciples, a few, twelve. With them
06:06ate, had dinner, slept, had breakfast, them
06:13He explained the scriptures, he spoke with
06:16They saw it constantly.
06:19to confront the Pharisees, in short,
06:23They learned for three years how to form
06:26disciples. Paul earnestly asks him,
06:30Remember what we said at the beginning
06:31of our, of this meeting, of this
06:34session. Pablo needs to make sure that
06:37Timothy will continue the work, and for
06:40To continue the work, another one must be formed.
06:42disciple, just as he trained Timothy, to
06:44Tito, and others as well. All of them
06:48They continued. From one, five, six emerged,
06:51seven, twelve, we don't know how many. We have
06:53Their letters, right? Timothy,
06:56Titus, Philemon,
07:01People who mention Lucas, anyway.
07:05They continued the work. This says that
07:08You saw me do it, now you do it.
07:12Now it's your turn. Now you
07:14You have to train disciples, right? This isn't it.
07:19It's new. This is how the people
07:22It grows and develops from God. The end
07:25this brief moment of reflection
07:27This text, which is vital today in the
07:29church, with a text from the Old
07:31Testament. Deuteronomy, in chapter
07:34Six, it says the following starting from
07:37Verse four says, listen Israel, the
07:41Our Lord God is the only God. Love.
07:44to the Lord your God with all your heart, with
07:47with all your soul, with all your strength.
07:50Verse six. Engrave in your mind all
07:53the things I've told you today and
07:56Teach them to your children continually.
07:59Talk to them about them both at home and
08:03on the way and when you go to bed and
08:06When you get up. The parents are going to
08:10To raise your children. How? By talking to them.
08:14continuously, continuously, when you
08:18Stop, when you eat, when you go to bed,
08:22constantly. He says, "Talk to them about them."
08:24Both at home and on the road. When
08:27You go to bed and when you get up. This
08:31It's the discipleship process. And if not
08:34We have recovered, brothers, the process
08:35discipleship, it will be difficult for the
08:38the church can overcome all this
08:41work that, therefore, leaves us far away today,
08:44Right? We're still just, then,
08:48Catholic Christians, nearly a thousand
08:50millions, one billion two hundred million, while
08:52that we have a world of six thousand
08:55Millions to evangelize. Certainly.
08:58Our separated brethren help us, who
09:00They are also another billion. They
09:02They grew nine times in one hundred years,
09:06while we barely
09:07We duplicated ourselves. And we duplicated ourselves, we might say.
09:11only with the baptized, because
09:13According to statistics, less than three
09:16percent of Catholic Christians
09:18They have sufficient training as
09:21in order to evangelize. This puts us in
09:24high risk. So, this is a text
09:27It's very important that you have to put in
09:30your mind and in your heart. And well,
09:32We conclude with the last pastoral topic that
09:34We have set out to find it
09:37now in this same letter, in this
09:40same chapter, but in verse sixteen.
09:43This tells us something about the
09:50worldliness, of language and of
09:52testimony. It says in verse sixteen,
09:58Avoid profane language, because
10:01Those who give themselves to them drift further and further away
10:03once more of the pious life, and its
10:06Teachings spread like gangrene.
10:10Among them are and wiggle and fillet, which
10:13They have strayed from the truth, they wander
10:15saying that the resurrection has already happened
10:17place, and thus they disrupt the faith of
10:20some. So we need to have
10:23our clear vision, we must have
10:29our clear doctrine, and in this way
10:33so that we can speak coherently,
10:38but also with the truth, with the
10:42truth that emerges from the sacred, that
10:45It emerges from sacred scripture. And in
10:49This touches on a topic I would like to
10:52in these few minutes that I still have
10:54They remain to talk about the testimony.
10:57Testimony is very important, about
10:59everything in our language, in those
11:02empty words, so much nonsense that
11:05Today we say. Saint Paul in his letter to the
11:08Ephesians, in chapter 4, in verse
11:1029, it says,
11:13Do not let bad words come out of your mouth, but
11:17good words that build up the
11:18community and bring benefits to
11:21those who listen to it.
11:23In other texts it says, don't let it come out of your mouth
11:26destructive words, but let it serve
11:28for mutual edification, words that
11:30serve other people, who may be
11:33taken from scripture, or that may
11:35to be, then, words of encouragement, words
11:38Good. We're always talking nonsense.
11:41silly, pointless, which far from helping the
11:44people, because they often confuse it.
11:49Remember that to the extent that you
11:51as we said at the beginning,
11:53the flame of God's love ignited in
11:56your heart, God will be generating in you
12:00that inner vision of love. And this will go
12:05throwing out all this garbage that the
12:08The world keeps influencing our lives and
12:11that we have to exclude. We have
12:15that you keep casting out. Jesus said
12:18clearly in the Gospel of Matthew, in
12:20Chapter 15, verse 18, said, of the
12:24What's in the heart comes out of the mouth.
12:31What's in our hearts comes out of our mouths. If
12:34Only empty words come out of our mouths
12:37worldly matters, if only mundane issues arise
12:40of criticism, if only issues arise
12:43negative, because that's what's in your
12:46heart. I recently read a short
12:49A little article that caught my attention
12:51about an exercise that came about by doing a
12:57person, a teacher to the class, him
12:59Ask a person if I have a
13:02I squeeze an orange, what is it that
13:05Does it come out? Well, obviously the student answered,
13:08Well, maestro, juice is going to come out of it.
13:11orange, well it's an orange, well if the
13:13I squeeze and orange juice will come out.
13:16He says to her, "And what happens in your life when..."
13:19Is someone squeezing you dry? What comes out?
13:22of you? When someone pressures you, when
13:24Someone bullies you, when someone...
13:26Criticism, what comes out of you? Does it come out
13:29Love? Does joy come out? Does peace come out? Does it come out
13:32Excuse me? What happens when you
13:35Are they squeezing? That's where we find ourselves
13:38account of what is in our
13:40heart. That is why Paul invites the
13:44apostle to prevent all these from coming out
13:46things from his life. And certainly, then, no
13:50It's entirely up to us. It has to
13:53to see the action of the Spirit in our
13:55lives and that's why we can't let it happen
13:57quench in us the fire of the Spirit,
14:00but we have to maintain it always
14:03Turned on. Why? So that we don't become
14:09cause of stumbling. When people, in a
14:13the moment they put pressure on us, they criticize us
14:16at work, at school, and they tighten
14:20our lives, they squeeze our hearts and
14:22we exploded with curses and with
14:24rude words, in short, that's what people say.
14:28And these are the Christians?
14:31When it easily comes out of our mouths
14:35derogatory words, dirty words,
14:37conversations that have to do with the
14:39sex, etc., people say, and these
14:42Are these the ones who go to mass? And are these the ones?
14:44who call themselves Christians? There is a text
14:47very important and very strong in 1 Corinthians
14:5010, in verse 32, says Saint Paul,
14:55Don't set a bad example for anyone, not even for the
14:57Jews, nor non-Jews, nor those who
15:00They belong to the church of God. I, for example,
15:03For my part, I try to please everyone in everything.
15:06without seeking my own good, but that of the
15:08others so that they may attain salvation.
15:11Let's not set a bad example, let's not set a bad example
15:14an example to others, because of
15:17We, people speak ill of the
15:19church, especially if you are an apostle, especially if
15:23You are someone interested in the word,
15:26as you have demonstrated, having already reached
15:29This topic, that your life changes, that everything
15:33What you're studying, don't let it be for
15:35all as for many scholars of
15:37Bible, just to have many more
15:40more knowledge and all this, no, but
15:43really so that your life takes shape in
15:46in relation to a word that is the one that
15:48It should guide our lives. And well,
15:51Thus we come to the end of our study
15:54of this interesting letter, this second
15:57Letter to Timothy, and well, I'll be waiting for you
16:00at our next meeting, in which
16:02We will begin our study of the letter to Titus,
16:06This letter that our [name] also writes
16:08Beloved Paul, in this wonderful vision
16:12that it proposes to us to be better
16:14Christians. See you next time.
16:16class. Until then.
16:18Thank you!