
The Three Offices of Christ
As Prophet, Priest and King, Christ shares God with man and identifies with us in our humanity.
As Prophet, Priest and King, Christ shares God with man and identifies with us in our humanity.
Though we may have lost time in following God, though we may have punishments for our past sins, we are not without hope of becoming great saints.
In both Benedict and Newman we have models of kindness, a kindness rooted in commitment to truth, to reality. Secure in the knowledge that they were loved by God and in the truth that had set them free, they were at liberty to love others.
Newman teaches us how to have deep conversations with others.
Salvation is not a prize for effort or a free pass to live as we will; it is a Person with Whom we relate. Salvation is not a grade, a review or a paycheck. Because it is a relationship with God, it must be fostered with the love that every relationship on earth also requires – attention, time, effort.
We grow in sympathy for one another when we see each other as brothers and sisters.
We need supernatural vision if we want the peace of God that passes all understanding.
In praying for God’s kingdom to come, we face our fear of judgment and anticipate the mercy God gives so abundantly.
From the disciples’ experience of Pentecost we can learn to “profit by what every day and hour teaches us, as it flies.”