I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” (1 Cor 11:23-24) In the above quotation …
“[The Spirit] will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine…” (Jn 16:14-15) In the political state known as “communism” everything allegedly belongs to “the people” because the people make up the state and the state owns all. In this theory …
“In the same way, the Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.” (Rom 8:26) Prayer is not as easy a thing as one might think. Some say that it is only a “conversation with …
“And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me; that they may be brought to perfection as one…” (Jn 17:22-23) Some pagan philosophies, including Plato’s, have put forward a didactic legend that the human race began as …
‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father… And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.” (Rev 21:3, 5) We are never inclined to rejoice when someone that …
“Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people… The One who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” (Rev 21:3, 5) The Holy Trinity is a thoroughly self-sustaining communion of three divine persons. To say this is of course true …
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them eternal life and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. ” (Jn 10:27-28) A close examination of our quotation from Sacred Scripture (above) seems to indicate a shifting metaphor. For if …
“… The high priest questioned them, “We gave you strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in that name….” But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:27-29) St. Luke tells us in his chronicle of the missionary activity of the Apostles, that the party of …
Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them. (Is 50:6:7) There are two kinds of shadow. The first gives respite from the hot sun. This is what we …
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb… While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them… They said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised. (Lk 24:2, 4, 5-6) St. Paul declared consistently …