FAITH WATCH: “‘I am Sending Timothy’ – A Brief Summary of St. Paul’s Letters to the Thessalonians” – Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington
In this blog-piece, Msgr. Charles Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington covers some major aspects of Saint Paul’s Letters to the Thessalonians, during a week featuring Readings from 2 Thessalonians at Mass.
… preaching of the Gospel – In evangelization … God … causes the preaching of the Gospel to bear fruit. God chooses us and saves us from the wrath … to come. He sustains our hope. … the Holy Spirit … renders the preacher’s word persuasive. The core of preaching is the Gospel, the good news of salvation foretold by the prophets and brought to fulfillment in Jesus.
… foundations of faith and morality – … God is our Father … the source of our salvation; Jesus is His Son and brought about our salvation by the Paschal Mystery; He will come again in power and majesty to judge the living and the dead and will judge us according to our works; The Holy Spirit, to whom is attributed our sanctification, moves us to accept with joy the preaching of the Word of God; we must be attentive and exercise self-control and sobriety.
Eschatology – Christian teaching about the end of the world and the last things … what happens to a person when he or she dies and what will happen at the end of time when the ultimate victory of the Church is revealed. Our life does not end with death … Though our soul lives, our body lies in death. When Christ comes again in glory, the body shall rise as well, in glorified form. …
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