Like and share this collection of videos on YouTube. Each video features a young King David in the Temple, proclaiming the Gospel. Each is a striking reminder of deep connection between Jewish history, King David, and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The boy king is clothed as an initiate, recalling the Gospel account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Writing to the Philippians in the early second century, Saint Polycarp consciously places himself in continuity with Saint Paul, who had both preached in their city (Acts 16) and written to them decades earlier. His humility is striking: he openly acknowledges that he cannot rival the ‘wisdom of the blessed and glorious Paul’, yet he exhorts the faithful to live according to the same gospel Paul proclaimed. In this way, Polycarp embodies the role of a bishop as both guardian of apostolic teaching and shepherd of souls [ … ]
In these Bible verses, Jesus begins his farewell to his disciples, and the chapter closes with the words: ‘Rise, let us go hence.’ The natural continuation would then be the verse which opens chapter 18: ‘When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.’ However, Jesus continues to teach his disciples through chapters 15 to 17. We are aware, then, of the rearrangements which seem to have taken place as John composed his Gospel [ … ]
We have known the Father through the Son. Indeed, Jesus now tells the disciples that they have actually seen God the Father. This is the vision of faith, and of our knowledge, as Jesus tells us that he is in the Father and the Father in him. The unknowable, in this life to our natural senses, has become a knowable truth of faith [ … ]
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