Christ

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Apr062022

He spoke this way

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.” They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,  because I always do what is pleasing to him.” Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.

Gospel of John

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Sep052020

Mother of Sorrows

But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.
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And his father and mother were wondering
at those things which were spoken concerning him.
And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother:
Behold this child is set for the fall,
and for the resurrection of many in Israel,
and for a sign which shall be contradicted;

And thy own soul a sword shall pierce,
that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed.
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And all that heard him (Jesus) were astonished
at his wisdom and his answers.
And seeing him, they wondered.
And his mother said to him:
Son, why hast thou done so to us?
behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
And he said to them:
How is it that you sought me?
did you not know,
that I must be about my father’s business?
And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth,
and was subject to them.
And his mother kept all these words in her heart.
And Jesus advanced in wisdom, and age, and grace with God and men.

Gospel of Luke: chapter 2

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