When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days,it became known that he was at home.Many gathered together so that there was no longer room for them,not even around the door,and he preached the word to them.They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd,they opened […]
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“Again, and again, St. John of the Cross returns to the inexhaustible Mystery of the Incarnation. ‘That knowing’, he says is not the smallest part of our blissfulness and he reminds (us) of God’s own words: ‘In this exists eternal life, knowing You, the only true God and Your Son, whom You have sent Jesus
Today, January 13, is the memorial of Saint Hilary of Poitiers. Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Hilary, whose name in Latin means happy, was born in 310 in Pictavium, Gaul (now modern-day Poitiers, France). His parents were well-known pagans, and so Hilary was raised and educated in a pagan environment. Hilary would later convert
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A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said,“If you wish, you can make me clean.”Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand,touched the leper, and said to him,“I do will it. Be made clean.”The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.Then
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“‘In this union’, so (John of the Cross) continues, ‘that which is communicated is God himself, who gives Himself to the soul, while simultaneously transforming it into unparalleled glory. Both have then become one, just like, so to say’ – and pay attention here to the return of the image given earlier – ‘just like
On leaving the synagogueJesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever.They immediately told him about her.He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up.Then the fever left her and she waited on them. When it was evening, after sunset,they brought to him all who were
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“We have here actually a double image: the image of the Incarnation of God’s Son in us and that of his divine slumber in our womb. Both images, however, run over into each other. The image of the overshadowing placed beside it leaves no cause to doubt whether the exterior image of falling into slumber
Jesus came to Capernaum with his followers,and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught.The people were astonished at his teaching,for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit;he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?Have
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“While Mary is thus our example in this aspect, St. John paints for us the glory of the divine Motherhood as image of the mystical life even further. It is as if the Holy Spirit in the highest phases of the mystical life bears his Bride towards the Bridegroom, so that they embrace and entwine.
After John had been arrested,Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God:“This is the time of fulfillment.The Kingdom of God is at hand.Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” As he passed by the Sea of Galilee,he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea;they were fishermen.Jesus said to them,“Come after
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