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What is the power of the Holy Spirit and why is He so often in the background?
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What is the power of the Holy Spirit and why is He so often in the background?
Sometimes it is called The Three Kings or the Visit of the Magi. This feast is familiar to us. It conjures up colorful pictures of a journey, a search, with only a star as a guide. It is placed in the liturgical cycle to deepen and broaden an understanding of incarnation. The chosen Scripture texts are inspirational as they open us up to the needs of the world, and the wisdom of nature.
If the cross is already a victory, the resurrection remains a passion. That's the paradox of the palms, and the lesson Palm Sunday.
REFLECTIONS TODAY Reflections today In the original setting, we wonder what the two blind men really thought of Jesus. They called him “Son of David,” that is, the Messiah. Did they think that the Messiah had the power to bring healing? Most probably, the faith of the blind men consisted mainly
A Messiah to combine the different messianic visions Nanine Charbonnel [NC] has been exploring various ways the Jesus figure of the gospels was drawn to embody certain groups of people and now proceeds to discuss the way our evangelists (gospel authors) also found ways to encapsulate the different Jewish ideas about the Messiah into him as well. I have posted many times on Second Temple messianic ideas and questioned a common view that there was “a rash of messianic hopes” in first-century Palestine. I post links to some of these posts that illustrate or expand on NC’s points. Various M...