Please 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 is intended to imply deep connection between King David, and the heart of Jewish faith, and Jewish history, and the coming of the Lord in Jesus Christ.
Jesus has amazed the people with his teaching and with his signs and healing miracles. Now Jesus entrusts and enables the Twelve to go out and to do the same. In calling the Twelve, Jesus intensifies the announcement of the good news. Here is a further stage by which Jesus founds his Church, sending his disciples out on mission and giving them power [ … ]
You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church. This is taken to be the expression by Jesus of Peter’s primacy among the Apostles. Jesus tells Peter that he is to hold the keys of heaven, and so the gift and the power to grant admittance to heaven. Peter is to be the foundation of Christ’s Church [ … ]
Jesus’ Ministry has entered into a time of conflict, during which people begin to react against Jesus’ teachings, despite the many and beautiful miracles he has performed. In today’s Bible verses, the Pharisees accuse Jesus and his disciples of breaking the Sabbath. Jesus defends himself, justifying his actions, and in doing so suggests both his own divinity and a greater dignity for all people than that which the Pharisees can admit [ … ]