Follow Me

The Philip Papers, No. 9. Follow Me. Matthew 9:9, Douay-Rheims.

There is a kind of question that does not arrive until you have come a long way. Not "Am I forgiven?" That has been answered. The new question is quieter, and harder: what happens now?

This paper sits at the turning of the road. A man is found at his tax table and given two words: Follow me. He rises. And in that single movement, the smallest and the largest a man ever makes, the whole of the Christian life begins. It asks what it truly costs to follow, and where you are still sitting.

The Philip Papers are a single road walked in twenty steps, the Road to Rome. The way is narrow, but just.

Format: Digital PDF, 6 pages, approx 1700 words

Language: English

Author: M.F. Robb

Published by thephilippapers.com

A Cathedral of The Fourth production.