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.
Saint Augustine reflects on the divine promise from Ezekiel: ‘I shall feed my sheep.’ He interprets the mountains of Israel as the sacred authors of Scripture, whose writings provide the true and safe nourishment of the flock. For Augustine, the faithful are to graze on these pastures by listening to the Word of God. Teachings that accord with Scripture are to be received; teachings that diverge from it must be rejected. This safeguards the flock from error and ensures that the food they consume is wholesome [ … ]
Pope Saint Leo the Great continues his exposition of the Beatitudes, moving from the blessing on the poor in spirit to those pronounced on those who mourn and on the meek (Matthew 5:4–5). His reflections trace both the inner character of these dispositions and their eschatological fulfilment [ … ]
Today’s Gospel verses again speak of the conflict between Jesus and the scribes and Pharisees, and again we sense the verses reflecting the breaking away of Christianity from Judaism, and the tensions in the aftermath of the fall of Jerusalem. Jesus’ rebuke of the scribes and Pharisees, the lawyers, is stinging. Jesus associates them with the history of murder of the righteous through Scripture, from the first murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, a prophet who died by stoning in Jerusalem around the year 800 BC because he accused the Jewish people of being unfaithful to God’s law (cf. 2 Chronicles 24: 20-22) [ … ]
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