MAY 8 Fourth Sunday after Easter
ST. MICHAEL-3RD SHIFT WORKERS -MOTHERS DAY
Know,
therefore, that they are not gods; do not FEAR
them.
“Take courage; get up, he is
calling you.” (Mk: 10:49)
Christ
calls us to a greater purpose:
No man or
woman of good will can renounce the struggle to overcome evil with good. This
fight can be fought effectively only with the weapons of love. When good
overcomes evil, love prevails and where love prevails, there peace prevails.
This is the teaching of the Gospel, restated by the Second Vatican Council:
"the fundamental law of human perfection, and consequently of the
transformation of the world, is the new commandment of love"…Christians
must be convinced witnesses of this truth. They should show by their lives that
love is the only force capable of bringing fulfillment to persons and societies,
the only force capable of directing the course of history in the way of
goodness and peace…By Christ's death and resurrection, made sacramentally
present in each Eucharistic celebration, we are saved from evil and enabled to
do good. Through the new life which Christ has bestowed on us, we can recognize
one another as brothers and sisters, despite every difference of language,
nationality and culture. In a word, by sharing in the one bread and the one
cup, we come to realize that we are "God's family" and that together
we can make our own effective contribution to building a world based on the
values of justice, freedom and peace.[1]
Aids in Battle The Enemy’s Strategies
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The
adversary of our human nature examines from every side all our virtues:
theological, cardinal, and moral. Wherever he discovers the defenses of eternal
salvation to be the weakest and most lacking, there he attacks and tries to
take us by storm. ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA
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[St.
Catherine of Siena reports that Our Lord said to her:] I have told you that the
Devil invites men to the water of death— that is, to the things he has. Then,
blinding them with the pleasures and circumstances of the world, he catches
them with the hook of pleasure through the lure of something good. He could
catch them in no other way; they would not allow themselves to be caught if
they saw that no good or pleasure for themselves could be obtained in this
manner. For the soul, by her very nature, always relishes good. Yet it is true
that the soul, blinded by self-love, does not know and discern what is truly
good and profitable to the soul and to the body. So the Devil, seeing them
blinded by self-love, wickedly places before these souls diverse and various
delights, colored so as to have the appearance of some benefit or good. He
tempts each one, according to his condition, to those principal vices to which
that soul seems to be most disposed.
· When the sly demon, after using many devices, fails to hinder the prayer of the diligent, he desists for a little while. But when the man has finished his prayers, the demon takes his revenge. He either fires the man’s anger and thus destroys the good condition produced by prayer, or he excites an impulse toward some animal pleasure and thus mocks the man’s mind. ST. NILUS OF SINAI
ON KEEPING THE LORDS DAY HOLY[2]
CHAPTER II
DIES CHRISTI
The Day of the Risen Lord
and of the Gift
of the Holy Spirit
A day of solidarity
71. The teachings of the Apostles
struck a sympathetic chord from the earliest centuries, and evoked strong
echoes in the preaching of the Fathers of the Church. Saint Ambrose addressed
words of fire to the rich who presumed to fulfil their religious obligations by
attending church without sharing their goods with the poor, and who perhaps
even exploited them: "You who are rich, do you hear what the Lord God
says? Yet you come into church not to give to the poor but to take
instead". Saint John Chrysostom is
no less demanding: "Do you wish to honor the body of Christ? Do not ignore
him when he is naked. Do not pay him homage in the temple clad in silk only
then to neglect him outside where he suffers cold and nakedness. He who said:
'This is my body' is the same One who said: 'You saw me hungry, and you gave me
no food', and 'Whatever you did to the least of my brothers you did also to me'
... What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden
chalices, when he is dying of hunger? Start by satisfying his hunger, and then
with what is left you may adorn the altar as well".
These words effectively remind the
Christian community of the duty to make the Eucharist the place where
fraternity becomes practical solidarity, where the last are the first in the
minds and attentions of the brethren, where Christ himself — through the
generous gifts from the rich to the very poor — may somehow prolong in time the
miracle of the multiplication of the loaves.
Fourth
Sunday after Easter[3] A description of the
meekness and patience of Christ's flock and an explanation of the necessity of
the Ascension.
THE
Introit of the Mass of to-day is a song of praise and thanksgiving.
Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle,
alleluia, for the Lord hath done wonderful things, alleluia. He hath revealed
His justice in the sight of the gentiles, alleluia, alleluia. His right hand
hath wrought for Him salvation, and His arm is holy.
Prayer.
O God, Who dost unite the hearts of
the faithful in one will, grant to Thy people to love what Thou commandest, and
to desire what Thou dost promise, that among the changes of this world our
hearts may be fixed on that place where true joys reside.
EPISTLE. James i. 17-21.
Dearly
Beloved: Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down
from the Father of lights, with Whom there is no change, nor shadow of
alteration. For of His own will hath He begotten us by the word of truth, that
we might be some beginning of His creatures. You know, my dearest brethren. And
let every man be swift to hear but slow to speak, and slow to anger. For the
anger of man worketh not the justice of God. Wherefore casting away all
uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the engrafted
word, which is able to save your souls.
Practice.
In
this epistle the Church teaches us that every good gift comes from God. But the
most precious gift is, that He of His grace through the doctrines and
institutions of Christianity, has made us new men, children of God, and heirs
of the kingdom of heaven. The Church admonishes us, further, to walk worthy of
this grace; to love God as our Father, to listen to His word willingly, without
complaining when He chastises us, and to shun all impurity, anger, and
multiplicity of words, in which “there shall not want sin” (Prov. x. 19).
Aspiration.
Help me, O God, to preserve the
grace received in baptism; give me, therefore, a great love for Thy word.
Deliver me from all inordinate passions, that I may walk worthy of Thee, purely
and with patience.
GOSPEL. John xvi. 5-14.
At that time Jesus said to His
disciples: I go to Him that sent Me; and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest
Thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your
heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for if I go
not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send Him to you.
And when He is come, He will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of
judgment; of sin: because they believed not in Me. And of justice: because I go
to the Father: and you shall see Me no longer. And of judgment: because the
prince of this world is already judged. I have yet many things to say to you:
but you cannot bear them now. But when He the Spirit of truth is come, He will
teach you all truth; for He shall not speak of Himself; but what things soever
He shall hear, He shall speak, and the things that are to come He shall show
you. He shall glorify Me because He shall receive of Mine and shall show it to
you.
Why
did Jesus say, “I go to My Father”?
To reprove
His disciples for giving way to excessive sorrow over His departure, which was
to be the means of purifying and strengthening their virtue, and of perfecting
the work of redemption, for them and for all the world. Learn from this, not to
give way to too much sorrow in adversity.
How
has the Holy Ghost convinced the world of sin, of justice, and of judgment?
He has
convinced the world:
1.
of
sin, by making the Jews know and lament the monstrous crime which they
committed against Christ, and this He effected particularly at Pentecost.
2.
Of
justice, by teaching the innocence and holiness of Jesus, on account of which
God gave Him a kingdom, and required men to worship Him as the true God.
3.
Of
judgment, by everywhere overcoming the prince of darkness, destroying his
kingdom, casting down the temples of idolatry, and in their place, by seemingly
weak means, establishing the kingdom of truth and virtue.
How
does the Holy Ghost teach all truths?
By
preserving the pastors and teachers of the Church from all errors, in their
teaching of faith and morals, and by instructing each, member of the Church in
the truths of salvation.
Aspiration.
Whither am I going? Will my life
bring me to God? O my God and my Lord direct my feet in the way of Thy commandments,
and keep my heart free from sin, that the Holy Ghost, finding nothing in me
worthy of punishment, may teach me all truth, and bring me safely to Thee, Who
art the eternal truth. Amen.
Apparition of St. Michael[4]
It is evident from Holy Scripture that God is pleased to make frequent use of the ministry of the heavenly spirits in the dispensations of His providence in this world. The Angels are all pure spirits; by a property of their nature, they are immortal, as is every spirit. They have the power of moving or conveying themselves at will from place to place, and such is their activity that it is not easy for us to conceive of it. Among the holy Archangels, Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are particularly distinguished in the Scriptures. Saint Michael, whose name means Who is like unto God? is the prince of the faithful Angels who opposed Lucifer and his followers in their revolt against God.
Since the devil is the sworn enemy of
God’s holy Church, Saint Michael is given to it by God as its special protector
against the demon’s assaults and stratagems.
Various apparitions of this powerful
Angel have proved the protection of Saint Michael over the Church. We may
mention his apparition in Rome, where Saint Gregory the Great saw him in the
air sheathing his sword, to signal the cessation of a pestilence and the
appeasement of God’s wrath. Another apparition to Saint Ausbert, bishop of
Avranches in France, led to the construction of Mont-Saint-Michel in the sea, a
famous pilgrimage site. May 8th, however, is destined to recall
another no less marvelous apparition, occurring near Monte Gargano in the
Kingdom of Naples.
In the year 492 a man named Gargan was
pasturing his large herds in the countryside. One day a bull fled to the
mountain, where it could not be found. When its refuge in a cave was
discovered, an arrow was shot into the cave, but the arrow returned to wound
the one who had sent it. Faced with this mysterious occurrence, the persons
concerned decided to consult the bishop of the region. He ordered three days of
fasting and prayers. After three days, the Archangel Michael appeared to the
bishop and declared that the cavern where the bull had taken refuge was under
his protection, and that God wanted it to be consecrated under his name and in
honor of all the Holy Angels.
Accompanied by his clergy and people,
the pontiff went to that cavern, which he found already disposed in the form of
a church. The divine mysteries were celebrated there, and there arose in this
same place a magnificent temple where the divine Power has wrought great
miracles. To thank God’s adorable goodness for the protection of the holy
Archangel, the effect of His merciful Providence, this feast day was instituted
by the Church in his honor.
It is said of this special guardian
and protector of the Church that, during the final persecution of Antichrist,
he will powerfully defend it: “At that time shall Michael rise up, the great
prince who protects the children of thy people.”
Judgment Day[5]
How will the Last Judgment begin?
At the command of
God, the angels, with the sound of the trumpet, shall summon all men to
judgment (i. These, iv. 15). The bodies and souls of the dead shall be again
united, and the wicked shall be separated from the righteous, the just on the right,
the wicked on the left (St. Matt. xxv. 33). The angels and the devils will be
present, and Christ Himself will appear in a bright cloud with such power and
majesty that the wicked, for fear, will not be able to look at Him, but will
say to the mountains, “Fall on us,” and to the hills, “Cover us” (St. Luke
xxiii. 30).
Why
will God hold a general and public judgment?
1. That all may know
how just He has been in the particular judgment of each one.
2. That justice may
at last be rendered to the afflicted and persecuted, while the wicked who have
oppressed the poor, the widow, the orphan, the religious, and yet have often
passed for upright and devout persons, may be known in their real characters
and be forever disgraced.
3. That Jesus Christ
may complete His redemption, and openly triumph over His enemies, who shall see
the glory of the Crucified, and tremble at His power.
How
will the Last Judgment proceed?
The books will be
opened, and from them all men will be judged; all their good and bad thoughts,
words, and deeds, even the most secret, known only to God, will be revealed
before the whole world, and according to their works men will be rewarded or be
damned forever. The wicked shall go into everlasting punishment, but the just
into life everlasting (St. Matt. xxv.46).
Today
is Third Shift workers day-let us pray for those who like the angels of God,
provide us with healing, protection and subsistence while we sleep.
Third Shift Workers’ Day
Most
people work during the day, which is lucky for them. Third Shift Workers’ Day
celebrates those who lead more nocturnal lives. Do you ever spare a thought for
the nurses, fire-fighters, supermarket shelf-fillers, and all the other brave
people that work the graveyard shift while you sleep soundly in your soft, warm
bed?
They
are the people that
really keep the world turning, yet they might as well be invisible as far as
most of us are concerned. Inhabiting the strange, monochromatic world of
dreams, they keep us safe from harm, make sure our packages are delivered on
time, and see to it that our morning croissant is freshly baked. Now come on
and drink a toast to the health of third shift workers everywhere. Let’s face it, what with the ravages
wreaked on their immune systems from having their body clock messed around so
much, they’ll be
grateful for it!
Mother’s Day
In honor of Mother’s Day, here are
a few quotes from John Paul II’s apostolic letter On the Dignity of Women (Mulieris Dignitatem) about the
unique vocation of motherhood.[6]
John Paul II: “Motherhood involves a special
communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother’s womb. The
mother is filled with wonder at this mystery of life, and ‘understands’ with unique
intuition what is happening inside her. In the light of the ‘beginning’, the
mother accepts and loves as a person the child she is carrying in her womb.
This unique contact with the new human being developing within her gives rise
to an attitude towards human beings – not only towards her own child, but every
human being – which profoundly marks the woman’s personality.”
“Motherhood
implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman’s
‘part’. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman
‘discovers herself through a sincere gift of self’.”
“Human parenthood is something
shared by both the man and the woman. Even if the woman, out of love for her
husband, says: ‘I have given you a child’, her words also mean: ‘This is our
child’. Although both of them together are parents of their child, the woman’s motherhood constitutes a special
‘part’ in this shared parenthood, and the most demanding part.
Parenthood – even though it belongs to both – is realized much more fully in
the woman, especially in the prenatal period. It is the woman who ‘pays’
directly for this shared generation, which literally absorbs the energies of
her body and soul. It is therefore necessary that the man be fully
aware that in their shared program of parenthood he owes a special debt to
the woman.”
John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem (1988), no. 18
Mother's
Day Top Events and Things to Do[7]
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Take
mom out to brunch or dinner. Be sure to book in advance as Mother's Day
brunches are always very busy.
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Clean
the house for your mother or grandmother.
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Send
mom and grandma flowers. You can either pick them up or deliver them yourself
if you are nearby or use one of many online services that ship directly to her
door.
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Give
mom a gift she will really appreciate - a day at the spa or a weekend off.
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A
simple phone call to mom will suffice. Let her know that you love her and think
about her.
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
CHAPTER TWO-I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST,
THE ONLY SON OF GOD
Article 3 "HE WAS CONCEIVED
BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY"
Paragraph 1. THE SON OF GOD
BECAME MAN
I. WHY DID THE WORD BECOME FLESH?
456 With the Nicene Creed, we answer by confessing: "For
us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy
Spirit, he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man."
457 The Word became
flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God, who "loved us
and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins": "the Father has
sent his Son as the Savior of the world", and "he was revealed to
take away sins":
Sick, our nature demanded to
be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again. We had lost the
possession of the good; it was necessary for it to be given back to us. Closed
in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a
Saviour; prisoners, help; slaves, a liberator. Are these things minor or
insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it,
since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?
458 The Word became
flesh so that thus we might know God's love: "In this the love of God was
made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we
might live through him." "For God so loved the world that he
gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life."
459 The Word became
flesh to be our model of holiness: "Take my yoke upon you and learn from
me." "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the
Father, but by me." On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the
Father commands: "Listen to him!" Jesus is the model for the
Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: "Love one another as I have loved
you." This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his
example.
460 The Word became
flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For
this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so
that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine
sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became
man so that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God,
wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he,
made man, might make men gods."
II. THE INCARNATION
461 Taking up St.
John's expression, "The Word became flesh", The Church calls
"Incarnation" the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in
order to accomplish our salvation in it. In a hymn cited by St. Paul, the
Church sings the mystery of the Incarnation:
Have this mind among
yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of
God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied
himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. and
being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,
even death on a cross.
462 The Letter to the
Hebrews refers to the same mystery:
Consequently, when Christ came
into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you
have taken no pleasure. Then I said, Lo, I have come to do your will, O
God."
463 Belief in the true
Incarnation of the Son of God is the distinctive sign of Christian faith:
"By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God." Such is the joyous
conviction of the Church from her beginning whenever she sings "the
mystery of our religion": "He was manifested in the flesh."
III. TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN
464 The unique and
altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean
that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the
result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man
while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man.
During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of
faith against the heresies that falsified it.
465 The first heresies
denied not so much Christ's divinity as his true humanity (Gnostic Docetism).
From apostolic times the Christian faith has insisted on the true incarnation
of God's Son "come in the flesh". But already in the third
century, the Church in a council at Antioch had to affirm against Paul of
Samosata that Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption. the
first ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325 confessed in its Creed that the Son
of God is "begotten, not made, of the same substance (homoousios) as the Father",
and condemned Arius, who had affirmed that the Son of God "came to be from
things that were not" and that he was "from another substance"
than that of the Father.
466 The Nestorian
heresy regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God's
Son. Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical
council, at Ephesus in 431, confessed "that the Word, uniting to himself
in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became
man." Christ's humanity has no other subject than the divine person
of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from his conception. For
this reason the Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the
Mother of God by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb:
"Mother of God, not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received
the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy
body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word of God united to himself
according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born
according to the flesh."
467 The Monophysites affirmed that the human nature had ceased
to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God's Son assumed it.
Faced with this heresy, the fourth ecumenical council, at Chalcedon in 451,
confessed:
Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and
confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in
divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of
rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and
consubstantial with us as to his humanity; "like us in all things but
sin". He was begotten from the Father before all ages as to his divinity
and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his
humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God.
We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only
begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change,
division or separation. the distinction between the natures was never abolished
by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was
preserved as they came together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis.
468 After the Council
of Chalcedon, some made of Christ's human nature a kind of personal subject.
Against them, the fifth ecumenical council, at Constantinople in 553, confessed
that "there is but one hypostasis [or person], which is our Lord Jesus
Christ, one of the Trinity." Thus, everything in Christ's human
nature is to be attributed to his divine person as its proper subject, not only
his miracles but also his sufferings and even his death: "He who was
crucified in the flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ, is true God, Lord of glory, and
one of the Holy Trinity."
469 The Church thus
confesses that Jesus is inseparably true God and true man. He is truly the Son
of God who, without ceasing to be God and Lord, became a man and our brother:
"What he was, he remained and what he was not, he assumed", sings the
Roman Liturgy. and the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom proclaims and sings:
"O only-begotten Son and Word of God, immortal being, you who deigned for
our salvation to become incarnate of the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin
Mary, you who without change became man and were crucified, O Christ our God,
you who by your death have crushed death, you who are one of the Holy Trinity,
glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us!"
IV. HOW IS THE SON OF GOD MAN?
470 Because
"human nature was assumed, not absorbed", in the mysterious
union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to
confess the full reality of Christ's human soul, with its operations of
intellect and will, and of his human body. In parallel fashion, she had to
recall on each occasion that Christ's human nature belongs, as his own, to the
divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. Everything that Christ is and
does in this nature derives from "one of the Trinity".
The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his
own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body,
Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:
The Son of God. . . worked with human hands; he thought
with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved.
Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all
things except sin.
Christ's soul and his human
knowledge
471 Apollinarius of
Laodicaea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or
spirit. Against this error the Church confessed that the eternal Son also
assumed a rational, human soul.
472 This human soul
that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such,
this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the
historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son
of God could, when he became man, "increase in wisdom and in stature, and
in favour with God and man", and would even have to inquire for
himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from
experience. This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of
himself, taking "the form of a slave".
473 But at the same
time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his
person. "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its
union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains
to God." Such is first of all the case with the intimate and
immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father. The
Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the
secret thoughts of human hearts.
474 By its union to
the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his
human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come
to reveal. What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere
declared himself not sent to reveal.
Christ's human will
475 Similarly, at the
sixth ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681, the Church confessed that
Christ possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. They
are not opposed to each other but co-operate in such a way that the Word made flesh
willed humanly in obedience to his Father all that he had decided divinely with
the Father and the Holy Spirit for our salvation. Christ's human will
"does not resist or oppose but rather submits to his divine and almighty
will."
Christ's true body
476 Since the Word
became flesh in assuming a true humanity, Christ's body was
finite. Therefore, the human face of Jesus can be portrayed; at the
seventh ecumenical council (Nicaea II in 787) the Church recognized its
representation in holy images to be legitimate.
477 At the same time
the Church has always acknowledged that in the body of Jesus "we see our
God made visible and so are caught up in love of the God we cannot
see." The individual characteristics of Christ's body express the
divine person of God's Son. He has made the features of his human body his own,
to the point that they can be venerated when portrayed in a holy image, for the
believer "who venerates the icon is venerating in it the person of the one
depicted".
The heart of the Incarnate Word
478 Jesus knew and
loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave
himself up for each one of us: "The Son of God. . . loved me and gave
himself for me." He has loved us all with a human heart. For this
reason, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by our sins and for our
salvation, "is quite rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of
that. . . love with which the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal
Father and all human beings" without exception.
IN BRIEF
479 At the time
appointed by God, the only Son of the Father, the eternal Word, that is, the
Word and substantial Image of the Father, became incarnate; without losing his
divine nature he has assumed human nature.
480 Jesus
Christ is true God and true man, in the unity of his divine person; for this
reason he is the one and only mediator between God and men.
481 Jesus
Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but
united in the one person of God's Son.
482 Christ,
being true God and true man, has a human intellect and will, perfectly attuned
and subject to his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common
with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
483 The
Incarnation is therefore the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and
human natures in the one person of the Word.
Week ahead
·
May 10th Tuesday Saint Damien
·
May 13th Friday Our
Lady of Fatima
·
May 14th Mass Saturday Feast
of St.
Matthias
o
Start Novena to
St. Rita Saint of Impossible causes
· May 15th Fifth Sunday of Easter
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Protection
of Traditional Marriage
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Manhood of
the Master-week 12 day 1
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
· Make reparations to the Holy Face
· Total
Consecration to Mary Day 11
[1]https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_20041216_xxxviii-world-day-for-peace.html
[3] Goffine’s Devout Instructions, 1896
[4]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2019-05-08
[5]Goffine’s Devout Instructions, 1896.
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