Category: Miracles
[PDF] CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[Homily for the] 2nd Sunday of Year – Cycle C” – Fr. Joseph Jensen, Saint Anselm’s Abbey
“… ‘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
» Read moreCATHOLIC 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
“… 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
» Read moreCATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Master, I Want to See! [Jesus Gives Sight to the Blind]” – Salt and Light TV/Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB
“… 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
» Read moreCATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “[The Multiplication of Loaves and Feeding of the 5,000 in the Gospel of John] – Pope Benedict XVI Angelus, July 29, 2012” – VaticanVa
“… 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
» Read moreCATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Bread Left Over: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time” – St. Paul Center for
“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
» Read moreCATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[‘Young man, I tell you, arise’] Treatise on St Luke’s Gospel” – Saint Ambrose/ DailyGospel
“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
» Read more#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
“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
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