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Next Sunday is the Solemnity of Christ the King Year B
BENEDICT XVI
ANGELUS
Saint Peter's Square
Sunday, 26 November 2006
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On this last Sunday of the liturgical year we are celebrating the Solemnity of Christ the King. Today's Gospel proposes to us anew part of the dramatic questioning to which Pontius Pilate subjected Jesus when he was handed over to him, accused of usurping the title, "King of the Jews".
Jesus answered the Roman governor's questions by declaring that he was a king, but not of this world (cf. Jn 18: 36). He did not come to rule over peoples and territories but to set people free from the slavery of sin and to reconcile them with God. And he added: "For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice" (Jn 18: 37).
But what is the "truth" that Christ came into the world to witness to? The whole of his life reveals that God is love: so this is the truth to which he witnessed to the full with the sacrifice of his own life on Calvary.
The Cross is the "throne" where he manifested his sublime kingship as God Love: by offering himself in expiation for the sin of the world, he defeated the "ruler of this world" (Jn 12: 31) and established the Kingdom of God once and for all. It is a Kingdom that will be fully revealed at the end of time, after the destruction of every enemy and last of all, death (cf. I Cor 15: 25-26). The Son will then deliver the Kingdom to the Father and God will finally be "everything to everyone" (I Cor 15: 28).
The way to reach this goal is long and admits of no short cuts: indeed, every person must freely accept the truth of God's love. He is Love and Truth, and neither Love nor Truth are ever imposed: they come knocking at the doors of the heart and the mind and where they can enter they bring peace and joy. This is how God reigns; this is his project of salvation, a "mystery" in the biblical sense of the word: a plan that is gradually revealed in history.
The Virgin Mary was associated in a very special way with Christ's kingship. God asked her, a humble young woman of Nazareth, to become Mother of the Messiah and Mary responded to this request with her whole self, joining her unconditional "yes" to that of her Son, Jesus, and making herself obedient with him even in his sacrifice. This is why God exalted her above every other creature and Christ crowned her Queen of Heaven and earth.
Let us entrust the Church and all humanity to her intercession, so that God's love can reign in all hearts and his design of justice and peace be fulfilled.
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Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Dt 4:32-34, 39-40
Ps 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22
Rom 8:14-17
Mt 28:16-20
This Sunday in Mass we celebrate the Trinity, a true mystery.
Who can really say they understand the Holy Trinity?
It’s a Mystery
To believe in One God in three distinct persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – is a matter of
TRUE FAITH
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
The gifts of the Holy Spirit were manifested in such a powerful and remarkable way on Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended in tongues of fire upon Mary and the apostles. These early Christians were acquired by God and became a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, the people of God.
But even today, so many years later, our faith is still very much alive. The faith that Jesus – as head of the Church - passed down to Peter and the apostles is made real for us in the Church through the Unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We become members of the people of God through our faith in Christ and Baptism. Our Baptism makes us “born again” a birth of water and the spirit. Catechism of the Catholic Church 781-801
It is the Holy Spirit that makes the Church “the temple of the living God”.
Pentecost Sunday
Acts 2:1-11
Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25
Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15
Pentecost is the day the Church was born.
BIRTHDAY of The Church.
No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except…
by the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit is…
…love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, generosity,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.Free to be me – Francesca Battistelli
Jesus said to his disciples:
“When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father,
he will testify to me.
And you also testify,
because you have been with me from the beginning.
“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own,
but he will speak what he hears,
and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me,
because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine;
for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you.”
As you sent me into the world,
so I sent them into the world.
And I consecrate myself for them,
so that they also may be consecrated in truth.
Jesus ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. The kingdom is not of this world. Those who believe in Jesus are consecrated in him who is the truth.
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NOT that WE have LOVED GOD,
