Br. Simon Teller, O.P., on Relationship with Jesus

"When you obey someone's words, something of the mind of that person becomes a part of you.

"You experience this every time you pull up to a stop sign: as you slow down your car, the plan of the lawmakers who instituted that sign become a part of the way you drive. . . .

"When a disciple truly accepts the words of his teacher, that ideology or way of thinking becomes a part of him; it's through making the ideas of the teacher his own that the disciple becomes like his master. . . .

"Christ is the teacher and we are the disciples. . . . Through our obedience to Christ's word, we begin to think and to see the world as Christ sees it. We put on the mind of Christ insofar as we adopt his way of thinking.

"But, if we stop here, do we have an adequate description of our relationship with Christ?"

In a recent commentary, Brother Simon Teller, O.P., reflected on our relationship of Jesus as not only adopting a way of thinking but as a relationship with a person - our brother.

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Dominicana: In Mind (14 NOV 19)