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February
5, 2013
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R. February 5, 2000 - 13 years ago
Consecration of the Rosary Factory
to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.
February 5, 2000
February 5, 2000
February 5, 2000
February 5, 2000
R. Fr. Carter did this –
Jesus appeared to me in the Sacred Heart statue
outside - transfigured
Excerpt from June 27, 2006
Messenger: On
February 5, 2000 there was a T.V. studio
filming me praying after we consecrated the rosary
factory as you see above and they told me
to kneel and look holy praying outside
before the image --
To my
amazement Jesus appeared
transfigured in the Sacred Heart Statue
June 27, 2006 message continues
Messenger: and I told
them
"Film Jesus, not me."
He
wouldn't listen and I am sure instead
of praying -- they got a lady dressed
in white hollering to them --
not looking as they desired at all --
The
photographer hollered to me --
kneel quiet and at that point
I got up, going over to him to
tell him to film Jesus who
was appearing, not me.
Jesus
appeared transfigured in the
Sacred Heart Statue in the most
magnificent light.
end of excerpt
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 6: 1-8
In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; his train filled the sanctuary. Above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings: two to cover its face, two to cover its feet and two for flying; and they were shouting these words to each other:
Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh Sabaoth.
His glory fills the whole earth.The door–posts shook at the sound of their shouting, and the Temple was full of smoke. Then I said:
‘Woe is me! I am lost,
for I am a man of unclean lips
and I live among a people of unclean lips,
and my eyes have seen the King,
Yahweh Sabaoth.’Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding in its hand a live coal which it had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. With this it touched my mouth and said:
‘Look, this has touched your lips,
your guilt has been removed
and your sin forgiven.’I then heard the voice of the Lord saying:
‘Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?’
And I said, ‘Here am I, send me.’
1 Corinthians 15: 1-11
I want to make quite clear to you, brothers, what the message of the gospel that I preached to you is; you accepted it and took your stand on it, and you are saved by it, if you keep to the message I preached to you; otherwise your coming to believe was in vain. The tradition I handed on to you in the first place, a tradition which I had myself received, was that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried; and that on the third day, he was raised to life, in accordance with the scriptures; and that he appeared to Cephas; and later to the Twelve; and next he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still with us, though some have fallen asleep; then he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles. Last of all he appeared to me too, as though I was a child born abnormally.
For I am the least of the apostles and am not really fit to be called an apostle, because I had been persecuting the Church of God; but what I am now, I am through the grace of God, and the grace which was given to me has not been wasted. Indeed, I have worked harder than all the others—not I, but the grace of God which is with me. Anyway, whether it was they or I, this is what we preach and what you believed.
Luke 5: 1-11
Now it happened that he was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats at the water’s edge. The fishermen had got out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats—it was Simon’s—and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ Simon replied, ‘Master, we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled both boats to sinking point.
When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man.’ For he and all his companions were completely awestruck at the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. But Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is people you will be catching.’ Then, bringing their boats back to land they left everything and followed him.
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 7, 2010
– (Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11) Our first reading is one of my favorite Old Testament readings. It is from the prophet Isaiah who lived about 725 years before Christ. He describes his call from God to be a prophet. The setting is in Jerusalem in the Temple. Notice he is unable to describe what God looks like. He describes God’s royal robe, the angels, the sounds and the profound sense of God’s holiness. In this experience he becomes aware of his own unworthiness. You will recognize in this passage the inspiration for two familiar hymns: the Holy, Holy, which we say or sing at every Mass and the hymn, Here I Am, Lord.INTRODUCTION
In the other two readings we hear how two other people experienced God in Jesus Christ: Paul in his vision of the Risen Christ and Peter in the miraculous catch of fish.
HOMILY
– Several years ago, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin wrote a little book called Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews. In it he tells this story: A man takes some very fine material to a tailor and asks the tailor to make him a pair of pants. He goes back a week later, but the pants are not ready. Two weeks go by, and still the pants are not ready. Finally, after six weeks, the pants are ready. The man tries them, and they fit perfectly. As he pays for them, he says to the tailor, “It took God only six days to make the world. And it took you six weeks to make just one pair of pants.” “Yes,” said the tailor, “but look at the pair of pants (perfect!) and look at the world (it’s a mess).” The tailor was hinting that perhaps God would have done a better job if he weren’t in so much of a hurry.I wonder if the tailor ever read his bible. It tells us from the very beginning all that God made was good. God, moreover, put his human creatures in the garden of Eden, a paradise that would be a source of every delight. But God’s first human creatures rebelled against God and destroyed the harmony and joy God had blessed them with. Somehow we, the children of those first humans, continue to follow their example. So if the world is in a mess, the bible is telling us, don’t blame God. We humans have created that mess ourselves.
Maybe God really didn’t create the world in six days. After all the bible is not trying to teach science. It’s trying to tell us that God made all things, not how. You may have heard the story that after God made Adam, and Adam was in the Garden of Eden for a while, God asked Adam how things were going. Adam told God he was enjoying everything, but he felt something was missing. God said, how about if I create a companion for you, someone you can put your arms around, someone who will laugh at your jokes, listen to your stories, who will give you no hassle and will cater to your every whim. Adam thought that would be great. God said it will cost you an arm and a leg. Adam thought for a few moments, then asked God, what can I get for a rib.
We know there is a lot of symbolism in the two creation accounts of Genesis. For example, men are not going around with a rib missing. The six days of creation is also symbolic. Scholars tell us this account of creation was written by a priest who was trying to teach his people, among other things, that they were to keep holy the Sabbath. Even God rested on the Sabbath. Actually God doesn’t get tired and his work of creation is ongoing. Astronomy has discovered that new stars are forming all the time. New human beings are coming into the worldall the time. Even Jesus told the Jewish leaders after one of his miracles: “My father is at work until now, so I am at work.” (Jn 5:7). We heard how God is at work making the world better through his prophet, Isaiah. God appeared to Isaiah, and purified his lips so that he could proclaim God’s message to God’s people. God was at work through St. Paul in today’s second reading proclaiming the resurrection. I would like to expand on this passage a little more. Paul’s letter is one of the earliest writings in the New Testament, written about the year 56 or 57 (about 14 years before the first gospel was written), thus it is a very important testimony to the faith of the early Church. The Corinthians were having a problem accepting the idea of the resurrection of the body. They thought our body came back to life with the same problems, weaknesses, and flaws it had before we died. They thought their spirits would be freer without their bodies. That’s not so, Paul said. He tells them “what I handed on to you, as of first importance, I also received.” Because it is such an important doctrine, Paul dedicated the whole last part of his letter to the resurrection. Notice the kind of language he uses to indicate this is the Tradition of the Church: “I handed on to you what I also received.” That is, this is what the Church always believed about Jesus, that although he was put to death, his body now lives and he is seated at the right hand of God the Father. Paul goes on (beyond today’s passage) to explain how we too shall rise to new life with him. It is a new world God is creating, in the risen Lord Jesus. That’s where our gospel comes in: Peter and the apostles, who were among the many who visibly saw Jesus after his resurrection, would now be catching people, Jesus told Peter. They would be bringing people into God’s perfect Kingdom, leading them though baptism and the Eucharist to a new life, eternal life, where there would be no more pain or suffering or even death.
When we look around and see that the world is in terrible shape, let us not lose hope. God hasn’t abandoned us, rather God continues to send people who will help to establish his eternal Kingdom, people like Isaiah, people like Paul, people like Peter and the apostles, people like you and me. Amen.
Genesis 3: 24
He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
R. God created an orderly, harmonious
world –
Adam and Eve sinned –
Eve wanted to be = to God
Shepherds of
Christ
Priestly
Newsletter 2000 - Issue 3
The Father's Will for Us - Our Source of Peace
Pope John Paul II instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of love created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis 1:27: Psalms 8:4-8)…He created them so that they might live in friendship with Him and in communion with one another.
"God is faithful to His eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the evil one (see Wisdom 2:24) and carried away by his own pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love and generously seek what is good, and (instead) refuses to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when man, instead of responding with love to God’s love, opposes Him and treats Him like a rival, deluding himself and relying on his own power, with the resulting break of relationship with the One who created him. In spite of this transgression on man’s part, God remains faithful in love.
"It is certainly true that the story of the Garden of Eden makes us think about the tragic consequences of rejecting the Father, which becomes evident in man’s inner disorder and in the breakdown of harmony between man and woman, brother and brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable of the ‘prodigal son’; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in different ways, distance themselves from their father and cause a rift between them. Refusal of God’s fatherly love and of His loving gifts is always at the root of humanity’s divisions.
"But we know that God…like the father in the parable (of the prodigal son), does not close His heart to any of His children. He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet them at the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them in isolation and division. He calls them to gather about His table in the joy of the feast of forgiveness and reconciliation.
"This initiative on God’s part is made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act of Christ, which radiates through the world by means of the ministry of the Church." 13
13. Pope John Paul II, as in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp. 140-141.
R. Man can be a rival to God's will
We see in the book of Genesis a history
of God's people and God working His Plan
among the people, and His intervention
with them.
We see God revealing Himself to
man in various ways, in visions
and in dreams. We see
genealogies. We see the beginning
Adam and Eve and how they sinned and
opposed God, disobeyed God, they
did their own will.
We see God, also, using angels as
intermediaries with men.
We see the accounts about
the origin of the men in the
world, starting with Adam and
Eve and how the world began.
We see God commanded the light
and it responded to Him –
Let there be light and there was
light and we see God call us and
we are to respond to Him.
We see in Father's Carter's books
Response in Christ, Response to God's
Love – how we are to answer
God's call and respond to Him.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.
At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.
R. In continuing with the beginning
of the Bible, we see the story of
creation and are in awe of it –
The gift God created us in His
image and likeness.
Genesis 1: 27-28
God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
God blessed them, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that move on earth.
R. We see the order and the harmony
and the sin of Adam and Eve brought
disorder, and disharmony –
Man was given all these gifts and
the devil tempted Eve in the Garden –
Jesus agonized in the Garden for our
sins. Jesus was buried near
a garden –
Genesis 3: 19
By the sweat of your face
will you earn your food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.’
1 Corinthians 15: 20-28
In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.
R. We remember Chapter 3 of Genesis and
read with great seriousness –
We see that Cain killed Abel and we
see the hatred of brother for
brother begin. This corruption had
grown so by Noah that God flooded
the earth, but made a Covenant
with Noah –
Genesis 7: 11-12 In the six hundredth year
of Noah’s life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth
day of the month, that very day all the springs of the great
deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened. And
heavy rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 9: 11-17 And I shall maintain my covenant with
you: that never again shall all living things be
destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever
again be a flood to devastate the earth.’ ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign
of the covenant which I now make between myself and you
and every living creature with you for all ages to come:
I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign
of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather
the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the
clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and
you and every living creature, in a word all living
things, and never again will the waters become a flood
to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the
clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal
covenant between God and every living creature on earth,
that is, all living things.’ ‘That’, God told Noah, ‘is
the sign of the covenant I have established between
myself and all living things on earth.’
R. We see the flood and the ark
and know that they pre-figure
the waters of baptism and
the ark – the gift of the Church.
Christ is Savior –
He came to save us from our sins.
We see the descendants of Noah –
We see the genealogy hold the
words of Genesis together
And we see God intervening in
their lives –
Abraham has his son Isaac and
we see the sacrifice of the father
and his son – reminding us of
God the Father who gave His Son –
From the Apostles Manual
February 23, 1997
SacrificeR. When I go to Mass I offer a sacrifice. God wants our all. He wants to be first in our life. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son.
Gen. 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18:
It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. 'Abraham, Abraham!' he called. 'Here I am,' he replied. God said, 'Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you. '
When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven. 'Abraham, Abraham!' he said. 'Here I am,' he replied. 'Do not raise your hand against the boy,' the angel said. 'Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your own beloved son.' Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from heaven. 'I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son, I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies. All nations on earth will bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed my command.'
R. The Father gave His Son for us. This is how great the Father's love is for us.
When we go to the altar many times we are suffering. We want something really bad, but we know we love God the most. What the Father asks for us is to offer that which we are so attached to as a sacrifice, united to the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. If we offer this sacrifice to Him, the Father will pour out blessings that will be divine blessings, greater than anything we could have here on earth.
The Mass is the perfect sacrifice we offer to the Father, in which God pours out His blessings and we are one with Him and with all others in a profound expression of love. God shares His divine love with us and we partake in an intense way in His divine loving capacity. In order to become one in Him and to feel His love like this, we must surrender ourselves and be open.
He told Abraham to offer his son. God gave him his son back. He wanted Abraham to love God above all things and people.
Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice to the Father. This is the most pleasing sacrifice to the Father. If He gave His Son Who died for love of us, will He deny us when we unite our petitions with Jesus and offer these at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
He took them to the highest mountain and He was transfigured before them in the greatest light.
Mark 9:2-10:
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus, 'Rabbi,' he said, 'it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.' He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, 'This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.' Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.
As they were coming down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what 'rising from the dead' could mean.
R. We go to the altar of sacrifice. The mountain to come, in which so many graces will flow, is the altar of sacrifice where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered through the hands of consecrated priests.
We hear the Father say, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him." He is speaking to us. He is the Word. He is speaking in these messages. He is unveiling the Scriptures and speaking to us in plain talk. This is a great gift He is giving to us.
We are transformed in the Mass. We unite with the greatest sacrifice offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We have the most perfect sacrifice to offer to the Father when we offer this sacrifice. He gives us great blessings. We die to ourselves, we become white.
We must unite all of our sacrifices to this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being said all over the world. This is the greatest way to magnify all of our offerings - by uniting everything we do as an offering, a sacrifice to the Father in union with His Son.
end of February 23, 1997
2nd Sunday of Lent
February 28, 2010
– (Gen. 15:5-12, 17-18; Phil, 3:20-4:1; Luke 9:28b-36) Abram, whose name was later changed to Abraham, lived almost 4000 years ago. God had already inspired him to leave his home in southern Iraq (Ur of the Caldeans) and make a new home in the Land of Canaan. Today we hear God make two promises to Abram 1) he would have so many descendants they could not be counted and 2) someday his descendants would occupy the entire land of Canaan. As a proof that these promises would ever be fulfilled, God gave Abram a sign which consisted of a covenant ritual, a common practice in those days. This ritual involved those who were making the covenant to cut an animal in half and then walking between the halves. It was a symbolic way of saying, “may the same thing happen to me as to this animal if I am unfaithful to my promise.” God is often represented as light and/or fire in the Scriptures. In this experience only God, symbolized as fire and light, moved between the two halves of the animals. This indicated that God was not asking anything in return from Abram except for his trust, a trust that would be tested in many ways, but a trust that Abram always maintained. In the psalm that follows, we express our own trust in God as our light and our salvation.”INTRODUCTION
From Centered in Christ Homily book, p. 123 Homily - A man was driving around
downtown in a sweat because he couldn’t find a parking place and
he was late for an important meeting. Looking up to heaven he
prayed, “Lord help me! If you find me a parking place I’ll go to
Mass every Sunday for the rest of my life and I’ll give up
drinking whiskey.” Miraculously, a parking place opened up right
in front of the building where he had his meeting. The man
looked up to heaven again and said, “Never mind, God; I just
found one.” end of excerpt
R. Jacob and Esau was Isaac and Rebekah's
Genesis 37: 27-28 Come, let us sell him to the
Ishmaelites, then we shall not have laid hands on him ourselves.
After all, he is our brother, and our own flesh.’ His brothers
agreed. Now some Midianite merchants
were passing, and they pulled Joseph out of the well. They sold
Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver, and
these men took Joseph to Egypt.
From Response in Christ, by Fr. Edward J.
Carter, S.J. p. 4-10 1. The Christian
Life as Prefigured in the Mosaic Covenant In the age prior to the
coming of Christ, salvation history was rooted in the Mosaic
period. At the heart of this Mosaic era was the great
salvific event of the exodus (Ex 15:1-18). Through this
event Yahweh led the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery and
under Moses formed them into His People. The history of the
Jewish people previous to this exodus event was merely a
preparation for this central happening. Thus Israel in
recalling its ancient traditions could see that Yahweh's
covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was a preparation for
the great covenant definitively established through Moses on
Mount Sinai. God, then, within the
framework of salvation history has determined to communicate
Himself according to a covenant. What is covenant? In
reference to salvation history it is a mutual life
relationship in love between God and His People, and among
the People themselves. God on His part communicates His own
life through grace, and man in return gives himself to God
and his fellowman in loving service. There are various laws
governing the multiple aspects of this life-relationship.
There is a formal worship with its determined ritual. Yet
everything centers around the essence of covenant, the life
relationship. As mentioned, the
Mosaic covenant dominated the Old Testament period. At the
heart of the formation of this covenant there was a
transition process involved as the Jews were led forth from
Egyptian slavery to freedom under the leadership of Moses.
The Egyptians had finally consented to this departure of the
Jews under the pressure of the last of the plagues inflicted
upon them. Under this plague the Egyptians' first-born were
slain. The Jews escaped this deathblow of Yahweh by marking
their doorposts with the blood of the paschal lamb: ". . . I
will go through the land of Egypt and strike down all the
first-born in the land of Egypt, man and beast alike, and I
shall deal out punishment to all the gods of Egypt, I am
Yahweh! The blood shall serve to mark the houses that you
live in. When I see the blood I will pass over you and you
shall escape the destroying plague when I strike the land of
Egypt." (Ex 12:12-13). As the Jewish people
escaped from Egyptian bondage they experienced a transition
which was essentially religious in nature. This transition
was from a less perfect to a more perfect type of existence,
for in being released from slavery they were gradually
formed into Yahweh's People. The definitive event of this
formation occurred on Mount Sinai. Here the covenant between
Yahweh and His People was sealed with sacrificial blood.
Moses sprinkled with blood both the altar, representing
Yahweh, and the Jewish people. Since blood signified life
for the Jews, such an action had deep meaning for them. It
symbolized the sealing of the covenant, the establishment of
a new life-relationship between Yahweh and themselves. 2. Life in the
New Covenant This Mosaic covenant
prefigured the covenant which was to be established in
Christ. Yahweh had given himself to the Jews in a special
way. He was their God and they were His People. This life
relationship was highly imperfect, however, if compared to
that instituted by Christ. The covenant life between God and
man established by the Incarnate Word is of the most
intimate nature. We see this if we consider the new covenant
as being contained in a perfect way in Christ Himself. He is
radically the new covenant.1
Covenant, remember, has various dimensions of love. Out of
love God shares His life with man, and man in community
responds in love by giving himself to God and relating in
love with his neighbor. In Christ we perceive these
relationships achieved in the most perfect manner possible.
First of all, Christ in His humanity receives the divinity's
gift of self in the highest degree – to such a high degree,
in fact, that we have the hypostatic union as a result. In
other words, the human nature of Christ is recipient of
God's self-communication in such a perfect manner that it
does not exist by reason of its own personal act of
existence, but rather by the divine existence of the Word,
the second person of the Trinity. Christ as man – in the
name of all men, for all men – perfectly receives God's
communication of Himself in grace. This is the first
movement of covenant life, downward from God to man. In the
second movement of covenant, man's response, we again see
Christ as central. As man, Christ makes the perfect response
to God for all men. This response of Christ includes both
His love for His Father and His relationship in love with
men. His entire life was itself this perfect response. His
life, submerged in a constant, loving conformity to His
Father's will, was and is the perfect incarnate response
which man is called upon to make to his covenant God. The response which
Christ made was centered in His death and Resurrection.
These two events contained the whole of Christ's life and
are intimately united. Everything which Christ did previous
to Calvary was a preparation for Calvary and consequently
shared its redemptive value. The Resurrection was in one way
or another the completion of the work of Calvary. Since
Christ's perfect response to the Father culminated in His
death-resurrection, it is evident that Christ's life
involved a transition just as did the life of the Jewish
people in the old covenant. This transition of the
Israelites was manifested in the exodus from Egypt. In fact,
Christ's transition in death-resurrection was a fulfillment
of the Jewish exodus; and just as the transition of the Jews
marked a passage from a lower to a higher type of existence,
so did Christ's transition or passover have this
characteristic. What was Christ's
transition? Before Christ experienced death, He was limited
by the sinfulness of the world into which He had immersed
Himself in His Incarnation. He loved men, and He loved to be
in their midst, and in the midst of their world. But He did
suffer from the sinfulness of this world. Sinless though He
Himself was, He was in certain ways affected and limited by
sin. Indeed, sin destroyed Christ in his mortal existence.
This shows us the degree to which Christ was limited by or
"hemmed in" by the world's sinfulness. But through the
passageway of His death, Christ passed beyond the
limitations He had experienced in His mortal life. He
conquered sin, and He rose into a more perfect type of life,
that of the Resurrection. In such a life He could no longer
suffer, He could no longer be "limited" by the sinful aspect
of the world. There is another
similarity between the Jewish transition or exodus and the
transition involved in Christ's death-resurrection. We saw
the part that sacrificial blood contributed to the passover
or transition of the Jewish people in two instances. The
blood of the paschal lamb freed the Jewish homes from the
deathblow of Yahweh immediately before their departure from
Egypt, and ultimately it was sacrificial blood which sealed
the Mosaic covenant upon Mount Sinai. Sacrificial blood was
also essential in Christ's passover or transition. It was
through the shedding of His blood that He passed through
death to Resurrection. It was thus His blood which made the
transition possible and which sealed the new covenant. This
new covenant, supplanting the old, is the new life
relationship between God and His People, and the People
themselves. Christ, in achieving new life through
death-resurrection, gained it not only for Himself but for
all His members. The Christian, then,
shares in the life of Christ's Resurrection. But if he
participates in the Resurrection of Christ he must also
share in Christ's death, since death is the way to
Resurrection. St. Paul tells us: "We are dead to sin, so how
can we continue to live in it? You have been taught that
when we were baptised in Christ Jesus we were baptised in
his death; in other words, when we were baptised we went
into the tomb with him and joined him in death, so that as
Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we
too might live a new life." (Rm 6:2-4). Through Baptism
therefore the Christian is incorporated into Christ's
death-resurrection. Baptism pledges the Christian to die to
sin and ideally to all that is not in accordance with God's
will, even though sin is not involved. Baptism also pledges
the Christian to live vitally his new life in Christ, his
share in Christ's Resurrection. As he is incorporated into
Christ through baptism, the Christian is also made a member
of the Church. Awareness of this simultaneous incorporation
into both Christ and the Church emphasizes for the Christian
the fact that his life of holiness in Christ is to be lived
out in community. In other words, the Christian lives
in Christ within the People of God, within the Church. This
stress of contemporary spirituality upon the communal aspect
of Christian holiness is firmly rooted in God's revealed
truth. Throughout salvation history God has lovingly
communicated Himself to man within the covenant framework
with its communal dimension. He has also asked for man's
response in love within this same covenant framework. The Church in union
with Christ is the new covenant. Since Christ is the Head of
His Church, it follows that the Church with her members must
live out the covenant life according to the structure which
Christ gives her. The Church has no life, no pattern of
life, except that which Christ gives her. This basic pattern
or structure is death-resurrection. Christ established the
Church by His paschal mystery, His death-resurrection. In so
establishing the Church by such an event, Christ also
determined how the Church essentially lives out her covenant
life down through the ages – through death and Resurrection. The Church, then,
continues Christ's death-resurrection. She consequently
continues the entire mystery of Christ, since Christ's
entire life is contained in His passover event.2
We see therefore why the Church can be referred to as the
continuation of the redemptive Incarnation. Indeed the
Church is Christ, the mystical Christ. Because she is the
earthly continuation of Christ, the Church has everything
within her structure needed to be the source of salvation
and sanctification for men of all times. For instance, in
reference to the presently much-discussed theme of the
Church's relevancy to modern man, we know from theological
reflection that the Church has this relevancy radically
structured within her very existence. This is simply an
application of the reality that the Church actually does
prolong the mission of the Incarnate Word; since Christ was
relevant to His age, the Church has the capacity to be
relevant to all ages. What do we mean by
saying Christ was relevant to His age? Christ revealed the
Father and communicated the Father's life to men by adapting
Himself in a fundamental way to the life situation which
existed at that particular time in Jewish history. Since
Christ through His humanity adapted His message to the
people of His times, so the Church must use her innate
capacity to be relevant for the men of this or that age. She
must in a sense be constantly reincarnating Christ, for she
is the only visible Christ which this world now has. This
reincarnation largely means being relevant. As the Church is the
continuation of Christ, so is the life of the Christian.
Just as the Church centers her life in Christ's
death-resurrection, so does the life of the Christian. Both
Church and Christian then are continually dying with Christ,
dying to all which is not of Christ. At the same time Church
and Christian are meant to rise more and more with Christ,
assimilating ever more perfectly His life through grace.
This life of grace is the Church's and the Christian's share
in Christ's Resurrection. It is true that this life of grace
will have its completion only in eternity. Nevertheless, it
does have very real beginnings here in this life. It is therefore
apparent why the Church's life is directed to the liturgy,
especially the eucharistic liturgy.3
For it is within the liturgy culminating in the Mass that
the death-resurrection of Christ is constantly renewed in a
special manner. In the Mass the People of God have the
constant opportunity to assimilate the death-resurrection of
Christ more and more into their lives. As they do so
collectively and individually, the People of God are
continuing Christ's life and mission upon earth. The Christian life,
then, is a response to God's gift of Himself. God in love
gives us a life of grace, a share in His own divine life. We
respond in love by giving ourselves to God and our
fellowman, by dynamically living out this life of grace,
this Christ-life, in the pattern of death-resurrection. This
life of grace is meant to be exercised constantly, as the
Christian loves God and man, in Christ, according to the
will of the Father. Also, to reiterate, God intends that our
life in Christ be lived out in the community of the Church.
The Christian life can never solely be an individual's
response to his God. As the Christian lives
out this life of grace in community, he is offering Christ a
new humanity through which He can reincarnate Himself. It is
not only through the Church as a whole that Christ
reincarnates Himself, but also, ideally, through each
Christian within the Church. Each Christian has a special
responsibility and privilege. No one else can offer Christ
the unique opportunity of reincarnating Himself as can this
or that particular Christian. For each Christian is a
unique, created imitation of God never again to be repeated.
Each Christian has a unique humanity to offer Christ. To the
extent that he fails to do so, to that degree Christ has
lost this opportunity to reincarnate Himself through
this humanity. Consequently, the
Christian life can be conceived as the Christian permitting
Christ to live more and more through his total person.
Christian holiness is continual growth in the assimilation
of that great thought of St. Paul, ". . . I live now not
with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in
me." (Ga 2:20). There are many ways in
which the Christian can permit Christ to live in and through
him. Love of the Father and love of all men, of course, are
the two great themes which will channel this reincarnation
of Christ. These were the great driving forces in Christ's
life, and consequently they will be so in the life of the
Christian. end of excerpt
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