by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“‘… Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. …'”
“Jesus stood up and exclaimed, ‘Let anyone who thirsts come to Me and drink. As Scripture says: Rivers of living water will flow from within him who believes in me.’ He said this in reference to the Spirit that those who came to believe in Him were to receive. …”
“Lord, send out Your Spirit, and Renew the face of the earth.”
“The just will gaze on Your Face, O Lord.”
“Lifting up His Eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying:
‘Holy Father, keep them in Your Name that You have given Me …
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Consecrate them in the Truth. Your Word is Truth.
As You sent Me into the world,
so I sent them into the world.
And I Consecrate Myself for them,
so that they also may be Consecrated in Truth.'”
“‘Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.'”
“‘Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.'”
“… The source of all love, of course, is Divine Love, Trinitarian Love. God Who is Love could not contain that love within the Trinitarian Unity. It burst forth into a creation, every part of which God pronounced very good. God even made creatures in his own image and likeness. The whole of creation is meant to mirror and give glory to all the perfections in the creator: unity, beauty, truth, goodness, holiness, power and majesty. …”
“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. …”
“Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘As the Father loves Me, so I also love you. Remain in My Love.If you keep My Commandments, you will remain in My Love, just as I have kept My Father’s Commandments and remain in His Love. … This is My Commandment: love one another as I Love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. … go and Bear Fruit that will remain … whatever you ask the Father in My Name He may give you. This I Command you: love one another.'”