Category: Christ

CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “Homily, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B – 10.20.15” – Father Boniface O’Nell, OSB, Saint Anselm’s Abbey

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Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“… With a Christ-like attitude, every work in which we find ourselves is a work of service. We are stewards only of the many gifts God entrusts to us and which God intends to be used in His Service. Meeting the needs of others means being present to others in many different ways.[] Christ’s teaching is not meant to be a formula for worldly success. It involves drudgery and ingratitude. We, the Baptized are called to continue Christ’s work of service so that Jesus can give His Love to others through us. We all have opportunities to serve those around us …. The occasions are limitless. To be a Disciple means being open to what God asks of us at any given moment, even in very small things …. By putting on the Mind of Christ in the Service of others we become Transfigured in Christ and even in this life begin to know the Peace and Joy of the Kingdom.”

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CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Homily of His Holiness Saint John Paul II, 21st Anniversary of the Death of Paul VI, Friday, 6 August 1999” – vatican.va 8.6.99

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“Today, the Eucharist which we are preparing to celebrate takes us in spirit to Mount Tabor together with the Apostles Peter, James and John, to admire in rapture the splendour of the transfigured Lord. In the event of the Transfiguration we contemplate the mysterious encounter between history, which is being built every day, and the blessed inheritance that awaits us in heaven in full union with Christ, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. 

We, pilgrims on earth, are granted to rejoice in the company of the transfigured Lord when we immerse ourselves in the things of above through prayer and the celebration of the divine mysteries. But, like the disciples, we too must descend from Tabor into daily life where human events challenge our faith. On the mountain we saw; on the paths of life we are asked tirelessly to proclaim the #Gospel which illuminates the steps of believers. …”

Click here for: “Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Homily of His Holiness Saint John Paul II, 21st Anniversary of the Death of Paul VI, Friday, 6 August 1999” – vatican.va 8.6.99

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CATHOLIC VIDEO: “Mount Tabor and the Feast of the Transfiguration” – Franciscan Media

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“Franciscan Media presents a look at Mount Tabor and the Church of the Transfiguration, site of the Transfiguration of Jesus, when Jesus was transformed in appearance with His Face Shining like the sun and His clothing dazzling like light; when Jesus conversed with Moses and Elijah; and when the Voice of God the Father came from a dazzling cloud, saying, ‘This is My Beloved Son, with Whom I AM well pleased; listen to Him,’ all before the eyes of the Apostles Peter, James and John. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “[The Multiplication of Loaves and Feeding of the 5,000 in the Gospel of John] – Pope Benedict XVI Angelus, July 29, 2012” – VaticanVa

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“… the multiplication of the loaves … Jesus later comments on … pointing to himself as the ‘Bread’ which gives Life. Jesus’ actions are on a par with … the Last Supper. He ‘took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated,’ … the topic of ‘bread,’ … shared out, and on thanksgiving (v. 11, in Greek eucharistesas), recall the Eucharist, Christ’s sacrifice for the world’s Salvation. * * * Priest Lifting Large HostThe Eucharist is the human being’s ongoing, important encounter with God in which the Lord makes Himself our Food and gives Himself to transform us into Him. … [F]ive loaves and two fish …. The miracle was not worked from nothing, but from a first modest sharing of what a simple lad had brought …. Jesus does not ask us for what we do not have. … God is capable of multiplying our small acts of love and making us share in his gift. The crowd was impressed by the miracle …. However the people stopped at the material element …. [L]et us ask the Lord to enable us to rediscover the importance of feeding ourselves not only on bread but also on Truth, on Love, on Christ, on Christ’s Body, taking part faithfully and with profound awareness in the Eucharist so as to be ever more closely united with Him. … ‘It is not the Eucharistic food that is changed into us, but rather we who are mysteriously transformed by it. Christ nourishes us by uniting us to Himself ….’ (Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, n. 70). Let us [also] pray … that … bread necessary for a dignified life may never be lacking … that inequalities … be demolished … with sharing and with love. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Bread Left Over: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time” – St. Paul Center for

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“Today’s liturgy brings together several strands of Old Testament expectation to reveal Jesus as Israel’s promised Messiah and King, the Lord who comes to feed His people. … The Gospel today again shows Jesus to be the Lord, the Good Shepherd, who makes His people lie down on green grass and spreads a table before them …. The miraculous feeding is a sign that God has begun to fulfill His promise, which we sing of in today’s Psalm—to give His people food in due season and satisfy their desire ….”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Homily of Pope John Paul II, Mass Dedicated To The Heart Of Christ, Apostolic Journey To Canada 9.20.84” – VaticanVA

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Saint Pope John Paul II file photo, adapted from image at archives.gov

“When we say ‘Heart of Jesus Christ,’ we address ourselves in faith to the whole Christological mystery: the mystery of the God-Man. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “On the Paradoxical Connection Between Love and Law – A Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter” – Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope

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“In the Sunday Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern Western tendency to place love in opposition with law, and law in opposition with joy. Jesus joins all three concepts and summons us to a new attitude. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “Saint John Paul II’s Christological Catechesis” – VaticanVa

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“1.Catechesis as contemplation of the mystery of Christ:
From 7th January 1987 to 19th April 1989 the Holy Father John Paul II gave extensive catechesis on the second article of the Creed: “I believe in Jesus Christ”. It consists of 85 chapters of a Christological itinerary divided into eight stages:
a. Jesus Christ in the Old and New Testaments (1-13);
Christ Breaking Bread, Photograph of Painting, adapted from image at loc.gov with credit to Detroit Publishing Co.b. Jesus Christ Son of God (14-33);
c. Miracles as “signs” of Jesus’ divinity (34-40);
d. Jesus Christ man among men (41-44);
e. The Church’s faith in Jesus Christ (45-49);
f. Jesus Christ’s mission (50-64);
g. Jesus Christ’s sacrifice (65-76);
h. Jesus Christ’s Resurrection and glorification (77-85). …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Christ the Good Shepherd” – Saint Gregory the Great/VaticanVa

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“I am the Good Shepherd. I know My own – by which I mean, I love them – and My own know Me. In plain words: those who love Me are willing to follow me, for anyone who does not love the Truth has not yet come to know it. * * * … by the Love with which He dies for His sheep He shows how greatly He Loves His Father. Again He says: My sheep hear My Voice, and I know them; they follow Me, and I give them Eternal Life. … If anyone enters the sheepfold through Me he shall be saved …. He will enter into a life of Faith; from Faith he will go out to vision, from belief to contemplation, and will graze in the good pastures of Everlasting Life. So our Lord’s sheep will finally reach, their grazing ground where all who follow Him in simplicity of heart will feed on the Green Pastures of Eternity. These pastures are the Spiritual Joys of Heaven. There the elect look upon the face of God with unclouded vision and feast at the banquet of life for ever more. Beloved brothers, let us set out for these pastures …. From a homily on the Gospels by Saint Gregory the Great, Pope (Hom. 14. 3-6: PL 76, 1129- 1130)”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Saint Gregory Nazianzen: “[‘You were raised with Christ; seek what is above’] Sermon I, 1,4-5, PG 36, 623; 35, 395” – DailyGospel

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Jesus and Mary Magdalene After Resurrection, adapted from image at loc.gov

“Christ has been raised from the dead: you also, arise! … It is the Day of the Resurrection, and this beginning of a new world has good auspices! Let us then keep the feast with joy: let us embrace one another with the kiss of peace! … Yesterday I was crucified with Christ; today I am glorified with him; yesterday I died with him; today I live again with him; yesterday I was buried with Christ; today I rise with him. So let us bring our offerings to him who suffered and rose again for us … Let us offer ourselves, the possession most precious to God, and most fitting. Let us give back to the image of God within us the beauty that belongs to this image. Let us recognize our dignity; let us honor our archetype. Let us know the power of the mystery, and for what Christ died. Let us make ourselves like Christ since he made himself like us; let us become God through him since he became man for our sake. …”

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