2026 Lenten Retreat
TALK FOUR
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Carole Brown is a 2025 graduate of the Renewal Program for Missionaries at the Gregorian University. She lives in the USA, and works in the Diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota. For the past 7 years, she has served as director of a small retreat center that serves native American Catholics. Her work there includes ministry with indigenous people, as well as spiritual direction and retreat ministry. She got her PhD in Theology at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland. Her topic was “The Conversion of the Baptized in the Thought of Pope John Paul II.”
Rich Young Man Mark 10:17-22 parallel Luke 18:18-23
Mark:
As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.’”
He replied and said to him, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.”
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to [the] poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
At that statement his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
Luke:
An official asked him this question, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother.’”
And he replied, “All of these I have observed from my youth.”
When Jesus heard this he said to him, “There is still one thing left for you: sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
But when he heard this he became quite sad, for he was very rich.
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