Category: Miracles

[PDF] CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[Homily for the] 2nd Sunday of Year – Cycle C” – Fr. Joseph Jensen, Saint Anselm’s Abbey

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“… ‘Today the Bridegroom claims his bride, the Church, since Christ has washed her sins away in Jordan’s waters; the Magi hasten with their gifts to the royal wedding; and the wedding guests rejoice, for Christ has changed water into wine, alleluia.’ The full manifestation of our Savior includes also His baptism (last Sunday), which is presented as His acquisition of the Church as His bride. But there was also Jesus first miracle; and John
concludes this account by declaring, “Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.’ It is well worth looking in more detail at this gospel, so closely related to the Epiphany theme and so instructive about Our Lady as intercessor. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “‘He immediately received his sight and followed Him, giving glory to God’ – Saint Gregory the Great, Homilies on the Gospel, no.13; PL 76, 1081” – DailyGospel.org

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“… We must understand the Miracles of our Lord and Savior … to believe that they have been truly done and that their meaning still signifies something else …. We do not know the historical identity of the blind man, but we know whom he mystically denotes. The blind man is the human race. In our first parents it was driven from the joys of paradise, and ignorant of the brightness of the divine light, it suffered the darkness of its condemnation. But yet it is enlightened by presence of its Redeemer, to see already the joys of inward light by desire, and to direct the footsteps of its good works in the way of life. …”

Click here for: “‘He immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God’ – Saint Gregory the Great, Homilies on the Gospel, no.13; PL 76, 1081” – DailyGospel.org

 

 

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Master, I Want to See! [Jesus Gives Sight to the Blind]” – Salt and Light TV/Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB

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“… Compassion for the outcast was a hallmark of Jesus’ ministry and healing stories in the Gospels never seem to be simply a reversal of physical misfortune. In the stories of those who ‘once were blind, but now they see,’ the connections between seeing and believing are so strong that these miracles worked by Jesus are more about growing in faith than letting the scales of blindness fall away. …”

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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. …”

Click here for: “[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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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: “[‘Young man, I tell you, arise’] Treatise on St Luke’s Gospel” – Saint Ambrose/ DailyGospel

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“Even though signs of death have removed all hope of life … at God’s Voice, corpses on the point of decay rise up and speak again. The son is restored to his mother; he is called back from the tomb and snatched out of it. What is this tomb? Your own! Your evil habits, your lack of faith: this is the tomb from which Christ delivers you, from which you come back to life if you hear the Word of God. …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “I Went, I Washed, and Now I Can See – A Homily for the 4th Sunday of #Lent” – Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope

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“In today’s #Gospel, #Jesus, the Light of the World, brings light to a man born blind. If you are prepared to accept it, you are the man born blind, for all of us were born blind and in darkness. It was our baptism and the faith it gave that rendered us able to see and to come gradually more fully into the light. The man in today’s Gospel shows forth the stages of the Christian walk, out of darkness and into the beautiful light of Christ. Let’s take a moment to ponder the stages of the blind man’s walk, for each of us is the man. …”

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