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MATTHEW’S: CATECHETICAL GOSPEL

Matthew’s Catechetical Gospel: Training Disciples in the Truth for the Kingdom of Heaven within the Jesus Tradition offers Christian believers a religious experience of the Matthean text along with several ecclesiastical documents. In the second stage of the Gospel Listening Experience (GLE), Christian households are recatechized in and by the Gospel according to Matthew in the moral teachings of Christ as found in the Matthean text and in its living Apostolic Tradition. It guides Christians to Jesus Christ, who is the Truth. Matthew teaches the believers how to recognize Jesus Christ as the Truth. Christ not only knows the truth but also is truth and lives the truth. He helps believers to rediscover the truth. Many believers today are on a path of self-destruction. They have lost sight of the relationship between freedom and truth in their present-day culture and world view.

About the Author

Br. Julian Haas, a Capuchin Franciscan, who belongs to the Province of Mid-America (USA), did his graduate studies in Romance languages (now speaks five languages) and secured MA in Religious Education and another in Methodology. He holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (Biblical theology) from Gregorian University, Rome, Italy and a Doctorate (STD Biblical theology) from Seraphicum Franciscan University, Rome. A well-known figure in Religious Education, he was as teacher at the Bible School, Denver, Colorado, lecturer and taught Sacred Scripture to the Capuchin Poor Clares in the USA federations.

Born in 1938, Br. Julian made his Profession in 1959 and was ordained in 1965. He has served the Capuchin Order in diverse ministries in his Province: teacher, leadership training, lecturer, retreat master, and pastor. On the -international level in Rome, he worked as a member of the Capuchin Historical Institute, the Capuchin Office of Research and Reflection, as well as the webmaster of the Order’s website. In 2010, he began a new Gospel Listening Experience Ministry in workshops, in retreats and on the internet. Anyone may join this ministry by going to the website: gle-ministry.us