Today’s gospel may well be one of the most challenging to understand, accept and live by:“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once.”So we must rely on scri...
The "meaning" of any word, concept, or object is different for different individuals, depending on the information (knowledge) about the word, concept, or object currently available to them. All meaning is "contextual" and the most important context is what is currently in the individual's ...
on some occasions, Jesus linkedbar enashwith the heavenly son of man from Daniel 7 and its messianic connotations. But he also added a pattern of suffering and exaltation (possibly fromIsaiah 53). Therefore,
Jesus may also simply be the English version of the Greek version of the Hebrew name Joshua, which would hence be the name by which Jesus was known by his contemporaries. Note that when we reverse the two segments of the name Joshua (יהושע), we get the name Isaiah (י...
God is among us (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23). His sons are among us (Matthew 5:9, John 1:12). And his kingdom is within us (Luke 17:21). What the ancient Hebrews were thinking of when they spoke of the Cherub, or what the cover of the ark looked like, remains unclear, but...
12. Isaiah 65:17-20 “Anarcho-Preterism” is “the Gospel.”Let's start with the word "anarchism," which is even more offensive to most Christians than "preterism."In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10 (see more below), Jesus discovers His disciples arguing about who is going to be the ...
How many of us do this? How many of us “shout aloud and sing for joy”, as it says in the Canticle from Isaiah? Very few. That is because we are in exile, we haven’t arrived yet. And now we come to the nub of the matter. As Sarah bemoans her fate, Abraham turns to her...
1 And YHWH spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: 2 'This month shall be unto you thebeginning of months; it shall be thefirst month of the yearto you. Leviticus Chapter 23 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, in the first day of...
Seven is the number of gifts of the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 11:2-3). Seven is also the number of a plenitude. (Father Jordan Aumann, Spiritual Theology, Chapter 4 on The Gifts of the Holy Spirit) Teen refers to her perfect and infinite beauty. The Holy Mother has all of the gifts of ...
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