The Holy Spirit and Sacramentality
God has willed, in the Incarnation, that the Word be made flesh and he has not unwilled that in the Ascension. Jesus retains his glorified humanity precisely so that he
God has willed, in the Incarnation, that the Word be made flesh and he has not unwilled that in the Ascension. Jesus retains his glorified humanity precisely so that he
Mysteries and paradoxes flow from this which I can only hint at with my puny mind and blathering tongue. The first of these is that, as Paul says, “No one
You may have seen cars with fish stickers on them. This is a symbol of Christ dating back nearly two thousand years. It was a sort of code by which
As we shall see in more detail presently, the Holy Spirit, since he is God, is present from the very beginning. And since he is present and is, indeed, the
Pentecost having been celebrated on Sunday, I thought it would be good time to take a look at the Creed’s teaching on the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. What
Continuing from yesterday… *** In all this, Jesus, “seated at the right hand of the Father” and reigning as the King to whom “all authority in heaven and on earth
Two thousand years of Christian culture has kneaded into the western mind the idea that Heaven is something like a civil right. “Dying and going to Heaven” is a phrase
Continuing from yesterday… *** Jesus Ascended in His Full Humanity by the Power of His Full Divinity Some people have the notion that the Ascension signifies the moment that Jesus
Continuing from yesterday…. *** Perhaps the best thing to do is take Jesus at his word and look at his behavior in his Resurrection appearances. Mary Magdalene’s perfectly natural response
Why an Ascension? We know from the Resurrection narratives that while Jesus possesses a body that is in some sense physical and in continuity with the body that was buried
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