Like and share a collection of videos being put up on YouTube. In each, a young King David in the Temple offers a Gospel passage – proclaims the Gospel. This thought implies deep connection between King David, and Jewish faith and Jewish history, and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The way of life of Jesus presents a marked contrast with that of guests at the house at the ruler of the Pharisees. Jesus has made his home among the poor and dispossessed, he is the model of the ways of perfection he presents to us in the Beatitudes, while the scribes and the Pharisees very much value their worldly importance, automatically choosing the places of honour at the meal [ … ]
This powerful text from Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church from the Second Vatican Council, invites us to reflect on who the Church truly is — not just what she does or how she’s organized, but her deepest identity as the people of God, drawn together by grace, and sent into the world to be a sign of unity and an instrument of salvation [ … ]
One thing that emerges here is how understanding of Christ’s meaning develops and matures with time and through recollection. The people have flocked to hear Jesus’ teaching, and in Jerusalem he has a very attentive audience – of ‘all’ the people. Jesus continues, however, to speak in a veiled way, his parables deliberately concealing a part of his meaning, relating to his own divinity, to his accomplishing the inauguration of the Kingdom of God, and the great self-sacrifice to expiate our sins he is called to make [ … ]
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