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June 6, 2010 - Feast of Body and Blood of Jesus
Fr. Joe said in his homily today
Ministers in the early days of the country
would travel a lot — he would travel
with others — he would take care
of horses —
The minister said — you know my talk
so well — he told his helper to do it —
at the end he asked if any questions —
the man in the audience asked a
question about predestination —
the helper said
"Oh that is so easy — I will turn, it
over to my assistant —"
Today's Readings
Genesis 14: 18-20
Melchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High. He pronounced this blessing:
Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Creator of heaven and earth.
And blessed be God Most High
for putting your enemies
into your clutches.And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
1 Corinthians 11: 23-26
For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread, and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me. And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me. Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes.
Luke 9: 11-17
But the crowds got to know and they went after him. He made them welcome and talked to them about the kingdom of God; and he cured those who were in need of healing.
It was late afternoon when the Twelve came up to him and said, 'Send the people away, and they can go to the villages and farms round about to find lodging and food; for we are in a lonely place here.' He replied, 'Give them something to eat yourselves.' But they said, 'We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we are to go ourselves and buy food for all these people.' For there were about five thousand men. But he said to his disciples, 'Get them to sit down in parties of about fifty.' They did so and made them all sit down. Then he took the five loaves and two fish, raised his eyes to heaven, and said the blessing over them; then he broke them and handed them to his disciples to distribute among the crowd. They all ate as much as they wanted, and when the scraps left over were collected they filled twelve baskets.
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The Body and Blood of
Christ
June 10, 2007
INTRODUCTION: Today we celebrate our faith in the Eucharist as the Body and Blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Today’s first reading takes us back about 1850 years before Christ. Abraham’s nephew Lot had been captured by some local tribes and Abraham set out to rescue him, which he did. On his return, he passed by Salem, which is Jerusalem today and he was met by Melchizedek, who was both king and high priest in that area. They didn’t believe in separation of church and state in those early days and it was not unusual for the same person to be both king and high priest. Melchizedek offered bread and wine to Abraham. This act of eating together signified the creation of a bond of enduring friendship and mutual protection. Many of the early fathers in the Church saw this gesture as a foreshadowing of the Eucharist.
St. Paul describes the institution of the Eucharist in his letter to the Corinthians. The language he uses indicates that this is a tradition that is authentic and reliable. He received it from the Lord and he is handing it on to the Corinthians as he has received it. Receiving it “from the Lord” does not necessarily mean that he received it directly, but that it is an essential part of the gospel that has its origin in the teaching and the life of Jesus Christ.
HOMILY: I want to begin by saying to all of our fathers here: “Happy Father’s Day.” I was trying to find a joke about fathers and you know what, there aren’t very many. There must be ten times as many jokes about mothers as there are about fathers. Perhaps fathers aren’t as funny or perhaps men write most of the jokes. But since I couldn’t find one about fathers I decided to tell one about mothers. There was this young son who phoned is mother and asked how she was. She said she was awfully weak. Concerned, he asked why she was so weak and she said she hadn’t had anything to eat for 32 days. He was alarmed and asked what was going on she hadn’t eaten for 32 days. She said it was because she didn’t want to have a mouth full of food in case he would call. How’s that for giving someone a guilt trip? Well, in case your mother or father are still alive and you haven’t called your recently, give them a call today. Remember fathers need love and affection as much as mothers do. They just try to be tough and don’t say they do.
I was thinking fathers (and mothers) sometimes have a difficult job. They have to try to convince their children that vegetables do them more good than ice cream, that turning off the TV and going to bed early is important, especially on school nights, that they need to brush their teeth, go to school, be nice to others, share their things, do their chores and do dozens of other things that children are not inclined to do.
God the Father has the same difficult job. He tries to convince us that we are going to be happiest when we do what he tells us to do. One of the hard things he has to do, is to try to get us to to take on faith many things we cannot see. He wants us to believe in him, to believe in his love (even though we do not see it at times), to believe in his Son Jesus, to believe that death is not the end of life but for those who faithfully follow Jesus but it is the beginning of eternal life. One of the things we cannot see but have to take on faith is the Eucharist.
We heard in today’s gospel the one miracle, other than the resurrection of Jesus, that is reported in all four gospels. It wasn’t necessarily mentioned by all four because it was the most spectacular of Jesus miracles, but because it foreshadows the ongoing miracle of the Eucharist through which Jesus continues to feed his people with his own Body and Blood. When a child who is told to eat spinach and carrots instead of ice cream or cake which they might prefer, they may not see benefit in doing that. We may not see anything special about this small wafer and sip from a cup that we receive in Communion. We just have to take it on faith, a faith that is founded on one thing: the very clear words of our Lord: “This is my Body” and “This is my Blood.” “Do this in remembrance of me.”
I was encouraged recently when I read in the Catholic Telegraph that a recent study reported that 91% of young Catholics (ages 20-39) believe the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ at Mass. But I was sorry to see in the same report that only 77% say they can be a good Catholic without attending church every Sunday. It’s like saying I believe that a healthy diet and exercise are really important, but I can be healthy without it.
Most of us nourish our bodies three or more times a day. Yet we’re going to have to leave that part of behind us some day. What are we doing to nourish the spiritual part of us, the part of us that will live forever? Christ gives us himself because he knows we need him. “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.” Jesus lost a lot of his followers because of that line. But he didn’t back down on what he said. The Church tells us to be a good Catholic we must come to Mass at least once a week. This is the way we Catholics observe the third commandment to keep holy the Lord’s day. The Church encourages our full participation at Mass, which includes the reception of Communion but says we must receive the Eucharist at least once a year to be in good standing.
When we were young and didn’t feel like eating our vegetables we did it because we had to. Hopefully as we matured we got to the point that we saw the value of a good diet and followed it. So the Church makes rules about Mass and about the Eucharist to help us when we don’t feel like doing what is beneficial for us, but hopefully most of us have gotten beyond that point to where we are able to be nourished in faith and joy by the bread of life and the cup of eternal salvation.
Things are not
always as they appear to be
one is good for health
one is candy
We need to feed our bodies with food
as we need to feed our soul with
spiritual food.
Fr. Joe has a holy hour twice a week with
benediction.
Keep Christ alive in all we
say and do all week —
Live His life, death and resurrection
in our lives
Jesus: I gave Myself for You
I suffered for your sins of pride and
selfishness — Your denial to the truth
about yourself —
If you lie to yourselves about
your misbehavior and use others to
provoke them to anger you are doing
this to Me —
Games, I am love — I was whipped
for your ways to manipulate others —
denial of the truth about your
sinful ways — I cry blood — I long
to be close to you — I am the way,
the truth and the life — Unless you
strip yourself of your manipulative
ways, you will continue operating
in deception and cease to really
live in intimacy with your God —
First to thine own self be true —
To be one with Me, you must not lie
about your sinful ways — possessiveness,
control — changing things to have power —
when the way is to be one with others
in My Heart doing the Father's will in
love —
Love gives, love wants to give
as God wants — not holding back
what God wants so you can prove
you are right — they are not appreciating
you — Is it about your performance
and your being vindicated or is it
about the souls — I carried My cross and
the souls I suffered for and died for — Is it about
you — proving you are okay — or about
the fact you go deeper into darkness
seeking to prove your perfection when
in fact, anyone who says they love God
and hates his brother is a liar —
how can you love God who you do not
see when you do not love your brother
who you see —
I came and I gave Myself for your
sins of pride and jealousy and
manipulation — The Holy Spirit will
impart to you wisdom to learn how
to really love as you should and not
act in hateful ways to your brother —
You must want to change your stone
hearts and ask God to help you be
the one who repairs the breach in
your relationships where you have
sinned.
Pride is the problem, turning
inward on yourself in selfishness
rather than giving My light and My
love to the world —
Giving a beautiful witness of
real Christian love from the heart —
Song: Give Me Your Heart oh Jesus
Jesus: I loved those who whipped Me —
You see with tainted eyes — yourselves
and focus on yourselves being perfect,
seeking affection for yourselves
I cry to stop using your brothers in
hateful ways —
Seek the Kingdom of God, with all your
heart, all your soul, all your being —
Give as God wants you to give — what
others need to do My work — Don't
control things to manipulate others
blocking My work —
Give with an open heart, like I
spread My arms on the cross — I gave
My all — I loved those who whipped
My body and made Me bleed and My
Heart of love — How in My Perfect
Heart of burning love — I suffered
for your deceptive and manipulative
ways — Is that love — When you use others
and do not recognize the dignity God
gives to all God's children —
You are wounded and in your attempts
to cover up the truth about your sins
of anger and revenge and bitterness —
you drive yourself from Me and when
you are miserable from this distance
from Me because of sin and manipulation
you are miserable inside — What
makes you happy is humility, is
giving, is forgiveness, is LOVE —
I am love and in Me there is no
darkness — only pure love — I know
the Father's love — the more you fix
yourself in love to My Heart — the more you
see your faults, they are like planks
that hurt your relationship with Me
and you cry to the Holy Spirit for wisdom to
change — to be converted to a humble
holy heart — to love and not put up
a wall around your old wounds that
have closed you down — while you
punish others, acting out in misery
the darkness and unloving ways
of your heart —
I cried blood on the cross — In my
physical pain — I saw the love given
to you in My Body and My Blood every
day at Mass and I saw your focus
on the here and now — closed down
heart — when My Heart is a roaring furnace
of love to heal your wounds and My
love is sufficient for you to open your
heart as My instrument of love in
this world — rather than closing - in,
in your old habits of anger and punishment —
anger - revenge; let go of your sins
now — acknowledge the darkness of
your hearts — be compassionate and
rooted in the Consecration to My Heart
and My Mother's Heart — the Hearts of
perfect love —
My Movement, My Blue Book
messages are for men who want to
be likened to My Heart — not people
who close-in and hurt others for
their misery —
The opening up that is needed in
your failure to give your will to God and
to operate from His Plan in love —
you reason to get things for your
tainted heart — possessing others,
jealousies, control, seeking dominance
for dominance sake
Let go of your agenda, your schedule,
trying to please others who have hurt
you and win their affection — in
reality — in projection with those
who have never ever hurt you —
using others as your scapegoat for
your own unforgiveness and anger —
Let go to God — Pray to the Holy Spirit
As you give your heart to Mary to mold you
in My image and likeness —
I know My own and Mine know Me —
they hear My voice and follow Me —
they don't listen to the hired man —
they lay down their lives in love of God
and love of others —
You use My work like a little
surprise — I'm good — your bad —
if you wanted to give — you would
give to further My Kingdom — you
come from your woundedness to
rescue, to see yourself as looking
good before men — others your scapegoats
you heap your sins of selfishness —
Give love — like I gave on the cross —
I died for your sins of pride and anger —
Seek purity —
Seek a humble heart —
Give to God what is His due —
Give to men what I desire — being a
witness of Christian love and
holiness —
In an alcoholic home — the one addicted
is in denial — they need their alcohol —
they size up other alcoholics to
see that they are better —
They are in denial —
It is a Merry-Go-Round —
You are here on earth to die to your
ways not likened to Me — to
live the resurrected life — to
bring My love and vibrancy to
others —
A person who sees themselves as perfect,
judges others — they are not even
in touch with their own heart — They may
have been wounded so they overlook
themselves — provoking, rescuing
and fixing others —
Life is to be lived as you die to your
rebellious ways and live more holy
lives — Consecration means you grow
in holiness, thus conversion as Mary,
the heavenly Mother, spoke of at
Fatima — It is two-fold — You seek
to die to the unloving, pompous,
prideful, jealous, controlling ways —
to live more and more the resurrected
life from your heart growing
in greater purity — a heart Consecrated
to My Heart is a heart in process —
a heart dying and rising in Me —
A person who has lived their whole life
proving they are right, they are perfect
is living a lie — You are tainted in
your hearts and your journey here is
work, forgiveness, stripping yourself
of pride and unloving ways, control,
seeking dominance for dominance sake —
this is what Eve did in the garden —
Cain shed the blood of his brother —
The martyrs of today cry out to you
for they shed their blood for the
Church, for you today — they suffered
having their heads cut off —
I watch punishment by self-righteous
people and you don't get the Mass —
it begins with the Penitential Rite —
It is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally
make present — You tell God you are sorry
for your sins — you are filled with
gratitude to receive the grace to live
a more holy life — you die to your ways
not likened to Me — You rise as you
receive Me and put on Christ —
Coming to the altar angry and being
there with anger at your brothers is
missing the boat —
To offer a sacrifice — you come
with a heart of sorrow — to be fed
by My Word and My Body and Blood —
You come empty — you leave full —
You live the Pascal Mystery of
death/resurrection —
You are members of the mystical body —
I am the head — you are united to all
the Masses going on around the world —
You are examining yourselves, as Fr. Carter
did twice a day —
You are to live a life of holiness —
Consecration means to make holy
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Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.
"What I say to you in the dark, tell in the day-
light; what you hear in whispers, proclaim
from the housetops." (Matthew 10:27)
Jesus Has Come to Give Us Life
Jesus: "This is the day celebrating My Resurrection (Easter). The day of newness of life. I am Lord and Master. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Tell My people to come to Me if they wish to experience life in abundance. I want to give all an ever greater share in the life of My Resurrection. Without Me you cannot be happy, nor have peace, nor have real joy. Tell My people to surrender to Me more and more. The more they do so, the more they will experience My love, wisdom, power, peace, joy, happiness, mercy, and goodness. Within My Heart My people will find these riches. I am Lord and Master! Please listen to My words."
Reflection: Through His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus has come to give us life, and to give us this life in abundance.
When we were baptized, we were incorporated into Christ and His Church. When we were baptized, we received the life of sanctifying grace. This life is a created sharing in the life of the Trinity. Truly, we are called to live a God-like existence according to the teaching and example of Jesus! It is our duty and our privilege to develop our life of grace—our Christ-life—through our participation in the Mass, through the reception of the sacraments, through prayer, and through all other good works. Indeed, we are called to love God and neighbor more and more.
What a glorious life has been given to us! In a spirit of thanksgiving, and together with Mary our Mother, let us always strive to know Christ more intimately, to love Him more ardently, and to follow Him more closely, so that He will always bring us to a closer union with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Age of the Two Hearts
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of the age of the Two Hearts.
"After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give them this message!"
Reflection: This is the Age of the Two Hearts! The surest road to sanctity in these our times is through consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In making this consecration, and striving with God's grace to live it as best we can each day, we are contributing to the establishment of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and to the arrival of the reign of the Sacred Heart.
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Deuteronomy 30: 19-20
Today, I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends the length of time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give them.’
Jesus: Do you follow Me to the table at Mass,
but fail to really drink from the
cup of My bitter passion — ?
Do you go to Mass and not empty
yourself of your unloving ways
and leave in anger and pride — ?
Matthew 5: 20-26
‘For I tell you, if your uprightness does not surpass that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of Heaven.
‘You have heard how it was said to our ancestors, You shall not kill; and if anyone does kill he must answer for it before the court. But I say this to you, anyone who is angry with a brother will answer for it before the court; anyone who calls a brother "Fool" will answer for it before the Sanhedrin; and anyone who calls him "Traitor" will answer for it in hell fire. So then, if you are bringing your offering to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar, go and be reconciled with your brother first, and then come back and present your offering. Come to terms with your opponent in good time while you are still on the way to the court with him, or he may hand you over to the judge and the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison. In truth I tell you, you will not get out till you have paid the last penny.
Jesus: Do you love Me only in controlling
your life and implementing your
own plan, not the Father's Plan,
about what I teach?
The hatred I experienced from men
in My public life grew and
the plot to kill Me developed —
My beloved Judas betrayed Me —
I know betrayal — how can
you meditate on the scriptures,
the rosary and hate your brother — Do you
rise up, by putting others down —
under your feet —
Ezekiel 18: 31
Shake off all the crimes you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why die, House of Israel?
Jesus: Rid yourself of all your sins and
make a new heart and a new spirit.
I spoke with authority — You can be
free from your slavery to pride and
jealousy and malice to your brother —
but not looking at yourself will
steep you deeper into darkness
and misery —
Look at all the blindness in the
scripture — the man who fails to
recognize his faults and grow
in deeper and deeper vices is
a blind - man walking —
Walking into a pit of his own enslavement —
to his sin —
John 8: 31-43
To the Jews who believed in him Jesus said:
If you make my word your home
you will indeed be my disciples;
you will come to know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.They answered, ‘We are descended from Abraham and we have never been the slaves of anyone; what do you mean, “You will be set free?” ’
Jesus replied: In all truth I tell you,
everyone who commits sin is a slave.
Now a slave has no permanent standing
in the household,
but a son belongs to it for ever.
So if the Son sets you free,
you will indeed be free.I know that you are descended
from Abraham;
but you want to kill me
because my word finds no place in you.
What I speak of
is what I have seen at my Father’s side,
and you too put into action
the lessons you have learnt
from your father.They repeated, ‘Our father is Abraham.’ Jesus said to them:
If you are Abraham’s children,
do as Abraham did.
As it is, you want to kill me,
a man who has told you the truth
as I have learnt it from God;
that is not what Abraham did.
You are doing your father’s work.They replied, ‘We were not born illegitimate, the only father we have is God.’ Jesus answered:
If God were your father,
you would love me,
since I have my origin in God
and have come from him;
I did not come of my own accord,
but he sent me.
Why do you not understand what I say?
Because you cannot bear to listen
to my words.
Genesis 17: 3-9
And Abram bowed to the ground.
God spoke to him as follows, ‘For my part, this is my covenant with you: you will become the father of many nations. And you are no longer to be called Abram; your name is to be Abraham, for I am making you father of many nations. I shall make you exceedingly fertile. I shall make you into nations, and your issue will be kings. And I shall maintain my covenant between myself and you, and your descendants after you, generation after generation, as a covenant in perpetuity, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. And to you and to your descendants after you, I shall give the country where you are now immigrants, the entire land of Canaan, to own in perpetuity. And I shall be their God.’
God further said to Abraham, ‘You for your part must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation.
Psalm 105: 4-9
Seek Yahweh and his strength,
tirelessly seek his presence!
Remember the marvels he has done,
his wonders, the judgements he has spoken.Stock of Abraham, his servant,
children of Jacob whom he chose!
He is Yahweh our God,
his judgements touch the whole world.He remembers his covenant for ever,
the promise he laid down for a thousand generations,
which he concluded with Abraham,
the oath he swore to Isaac.
John 8: 51-59
In all truth I tell you,
whoever keeps my word
will never see death.The Jews said, ‘Now we know that you are possessed. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead, and yet you say, "Whoever keeps my word will never know the taste of death." Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? The prophets are dead too. Who are you claiming to be?’ Jesus answered:
If I were to seek my own glory
my glory would be worth nothing;
in fact, my glory
is conferred by the Father,
by the one of whom you say,
‘He is our God,’
although you do not know him.
But I know him,
and if I were to say, ‘I do not know him,’
I should be a liar, as you yourselves are.
But I do know him, and I keep his word.
Your father Abraham rejoiced
to think that he would see my Day;
he saw it and was glad.The Jews then said, ‘You are not fifty yet, and you have seen Abraham!’ Jesus replied:
In all truth I tell you,
before Abraham ever was,
I am.At this they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.
R. We can be troubled by our neighbor —
God asks us to carry the cross, many times
to rely on Him —
We can be a burden to ourselves, by
rejecting the Father's Plan and
making our own plan and schedule
opposed to the Father's Plan —
God allows us to suffer without
comfort — so we will still give
ourselves completely to Him in
duress —
We identify with the Passion of Christ —
We embrace the cross of Christ —
We drink from the table of the Lord —
We live more the resurrected life —
HOLY SACRIFICE of the Mass
We die to our sinful ways
To live more the resurrected life —
We are fed with His Word
We are fed with His Body and Blood —
The hatred against Christ grew until
they put Him to death —
We are to die to the sins we committed,
for Jesus shed His blood for
our sins —
Don't rescue others and ignore your
own sins
Psalm 31: 10, 16, 18
For my
life is worn out with sorrow,
and my years with sighs.
My
strength gives way under my misery,
and my bones are all wasted away.
let your face shine on your servant,
save me in your faithful love.
muzzles on their
lying mouths,
which speak arrogantly against the upright
in
pride and contempt.
Jeremiah was victimized —
His heart was pure
He was obedient to God
He was persecuted and disobeyed
He suffered —
They planned to murder Jeremiah —
From then onwards Jesus began his proclamation with the message, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is close at hand.’
When we sin we are unfaithful
to God — We choose ourselves
over God
John 8: 12-20
Jesus, the light of the world
When Jesus spoke to the people again, he said:
I am the light of the world;
anyone who follows me
will not be walking in the dark,
but will have the light of life.A discussion on the testimony of Jesus to himself
At this the Pharisees said to him, ‘You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not true.’ Jesus replied:
Even though I am testifying
on my own behalf,
my testimony is still true,
because I know
where I have come from
and where I am going;
but you do not know
where I come from or where I am going.
You judge by human standards;
I judge no one,
but if I judge,
my judgement will be true,
because I am not alone:
the one who sent me is with me;
and in your Law it is written
that the testimony of two witnesses is
true.
I testify on my own behalf,
but the Father who sent me
testifies on my behalf, too.They asked him, ‘Where is your Father then?’ Jesus answered:
You do not know me,
nor do you know my Father;
if you did know me,
you would know my Father as well.
He spoke these words in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple. No one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Let us go before God on our knees and
recognize our faults —
Jesus gave us confession —
Jesus is merciful,
But we must recognize our sins —
Acknowledge our sins before God —
Repent
Make reparation
Seek conversion
Want to be made more holy —
Die to our rebellious ways to God's
commandments —
We are to have sorrow for offending
God and others and make a
firm purpose of amendment
not to sin again —
We have the best resolution and
intentions —
Numbers 21: 4-9
They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? For there is neither food nor water here; we are sick of this meagre diet.’
At this, God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. The people came and said to Moses, ‘We have sinned by speaking against Yahweh and against you. Intercede for us with Yahweh to save us from these serpents.’ Moses interceded for the people, and Yahweh replied, ‘Make a fiery serpent and raise it as a standard. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will survive.’ Moses then made a serpent out of bronze and raised it as a standard, and anyone who was bitten by a serpent and looked at the bronze serpent survived.
Psalm 102: 2-3, 16-18, 19-21
Do not turn away your face from me
when I am in trouble;
bend down and listen to me,
when I call, be quick to answer me!For my days are vanishing like smoke,
my bones burning like an oven;when Yahweh builds Zion anew,
he will be seen in his glory;
he will turn to hear the prayer of the destitute,
and will not treat their prayer with scorn.This shall be put on record for a future generation,
and a people yet to be born shall praise God:
Yahweh has leaned down from the heights of his sanctuary,
has looked down from heaven to earth,
to listen to the sighing of the captive,
and set free those condemned to death,
to proclaim the name of Yahweh in Zion,
his praise in Jerusalem;
John 8: 21-30
And I said to them:
I am going away; you will look for me
and you will die in your sin.
Where I am going, you cannot come.So the Jews said to one another, 'Is he going to kill himself, that he says, "Where I am going, you cannot come?"'
You are from below;
I am from above.
You are of this world;
I am not of this world.
I have told you already:
You will die in your sins.
Yes, if you do not believe that I am He,
you will die in your sins.So they said to him, 'Who are you?' Jesus answered:
What I have told you from the outset.
About you I have much to say
and much to judge;
but the one who sent me is true,
and what I declare to the world
I have learnt from him.They did not recognise the he was talking to them about the Father. So Jesus said:
When you have lifted up the Son of man,
then you will know that I am He
and that I do nothing of my own accord.
What I say
is what the Father has taught me;
he who sent me is with me,
and has not left me to myself,
for I always do what pleases him.As he was saying this, many came to believe in him.
Jesus refers to lifting up —
We think of the crucifixion on Calvary —
We think of the resurrection to
come —
John 12: 32
And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I shall draw all people to myself.’
Colossians 1: 13-14
Because that is what he has done. It is he who has rescued us from the ruling force of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son that he loves, and in him we enjoy our freedom, the forgiveness of sin.
Jesus says He is greater than Abraham —
He is divine —
They wanted to kill Him for
blasphemy —
John 8: 51-59
In all truth I tell you,
whoever keeps my word
will never see death.The Jews said, ‘Now we know that you are possessed. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead, and yet you say, "Whoever keeps my word will never know the taste of death." Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? The prophets are dead too. Who are you claiming to be?’ Jesus answered:
If I were to seek my own glory
my glory would be worth nothing;
in fact, my glory
is conferred by the Father,
by the one of whom you say,
‘He is our God,’
although you do not know him.
But I know him,
and if I were to say, ‘I do not know him,’
I should be a liar, as you yourselves are.
But I do know him, and I keep his word.
Your father Abraham rejoiced
to think that he would see my Day;
he saw it and was glad.The Jews then said, ‘You are not fifty yet, and you have seen Abraham!’ Jesus replied:
In all truth I tell you,
before Abraham ever was,
I am.At this they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.
We see the unity of Jesus and His Father —
John 10: 31-42
The Jews fetched stones to stone him, so Jesus said to them, ‘I have shown you many good works from my Father; for which of these are you stoning me?’ The Jews answered him, ‘We are stoning you, not for doing a good work, but for blasphemy; though you are only a man, you claim to be God.’ Jesus answered:
Is it not written in your Law:
I said, you are gods?
So it uses the word ‘gods’
of those people to whom
the word of God was addressed
—and scripture cannot be set aside.
Yet to someone
whom the Father has consecrated
and sent into the world you say,
‘You are blaspheming’
because I said, ‘I am Son of God.’
If I am not doing my Father’s work,
there is no need to believe me;
but if I am doing it,
then even if you refuse to believe in me,
at least believe in the work I do;
then you will know for certain
that the Father is in me
and I am in the Father.They again wanted to arrest him then, but he eluded their clutches.
He went back again to the far side of the Jordan to the district where John had been baptising at first and he stayed there. Many people who came to him said, ‘John gave no signs, but all he said about this man was true’; and many of them believed in him.
Ezekiel 37: 21-28
...say, "The Lord Yahweh says this: I shall take the Israelites from the nations where they have gone. I shall gather them together from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil. I shall make them into one nation in the country, on the mountains of Israel, and one king is to be king of them all; they will no longer form two nations, nor be two separate kingdoms. They will no longer defile themselves with their foul idols, their horrors and any of their crimes. I shall save them from the acts of infidelity which they have committed and shall cleanse them; they will be my people and I shall be their God. My servant David will reign over them, one shepherd for all; they will follow my judgements, respect my laws and practise them. They will live in the country which I gave to my servant Jacob, the country in which your ancestors lived. They will live in it, they, their children, their children’s children, for ever. David my servant is to be their prince for ever. I shall make a covenant of peace with them, an eternal covenant with them. I shall resettle them and make them grow; I shall set my sanctuary among them for ever. I shall make my home above them; I shall be their God, and they will be my people. And the nations will know that I am Yahweh the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary is with them for ever." '
John 11: 45-57
Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees to tell them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting. 'Here is this man working all these signs,' they said, 'and what action are we taking? If we let him go on in this way everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and suppress the Holy Place and our nation.' One of them, Caiaphas, the high priest that year, said, 'You do not seem to have grasped the situation at all; you fail to see that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people, rather than that the whole nation should perish.' He did not speak in his own person, but as high priest of that year he was prophesying that Jesus was to die for the nation -- and not for the nation only, but also to gather together into one the scattered children of God. From that day onwards they were determined to kill him. So Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but left the district for a town called Ephraim, in the country bordering on the desert, and stayed there with his disciples.
The Jewish Passover was drawing near, and many of the country people who had gone up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves were looking out for Jesus, saying to one another as they stood about in the Temple, 'What do you think? Will he come to the festival or not?' The chief priests and Pharisees had by now given their orders: anyone who knew where he was must inform them so that they could arrest him.
John 11: 52
and not for the nation only, but also to gather together into one the scattered children of God.
Isaiah 42: 1-7
Here is my servant whom I uphold,
my chosen one
in whom my soul delights.
I have sent my spirit upon him,
he will bring fair judgement to the nations.
He does not cry out or raise his voice,
his voice is not heard in the street;
he does not break the crushed reed
or snuff the faltering wick.
Faithfully he presents fair judgement;
he will not grow faint,
he will not be crushed
until he has established
fair judgement on earth,
and the coasts and islands
are waiting for his instruction.
Thus says God, Yahweh,
who created the heavens
and spread them out,
who hammered into shape the earth
and what comes from it,
who gave breath to the people on it,
and spirit to those who walk on it:
I, Yahweh, have called you
in saving justice,
I have grasped you by the hand
and shaped you;
I have made you a covenant of the people
and light to the nations,
to open the eyes of the blind,
to free captives from prison,
and those who live in darkness
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