Faith Blog: My God and My All, Let Thy Name Be Glorified!

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"Behold the Lamb of God!" Rev. Deacon Luchesi  proclaims from the pulpit of OLPH Church on 2nd ordinary Sunday of the year. His homily followed by the Gospel, which explained the perspectives of John the Baptist witness to messiah. He broke the phrase, "Behold the Lamb of God" in various dimensions of scripture, history, Aramaic language, authorities at the time, people and their beliefs at the time. He further, explained what it means to us today in applying gospel to our time. He zoomed on three conceptual meaning of behold the Lamb of God, including, Child of God, Servant of God, and lamb of God. As he was breaking down the meaning of the gospel reading on Sunday, I visualized the beauty of the family, the majesty of the family, the dignity of the family, which is elevated and ordained to the function of presentation of the gospel to the people, which is the service modeled by the holy family, presentation mystery. The mind blowing concepts he explained that

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10 Quotes o f Pope John Paul II at World Youth Day 2002 1.  “People are made for happiness . Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness.  Christ has the answer  to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.  True joy is a victory , something which cannot be obtained without  a long and difficult struggle . Christ holds the secret of this victory.” (Welcoming Address, 2) 2. “The joy promised by the Beatitudes is the very joy of Jesus himself: a joy sought and found in obedience to the Father  and in  the gift of self to others . … By looking at Jesus  you will learn  what it means  to be poor in spirit, meek and merciful; what it means to seek justice, to be pure in heart, to be peacemakers.” (Welcoming Address, 4, 5) 3. “To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.” (Welcoming Addres

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Pope John Paul II on his vist to India in 1986, paid a visit to the Shrine. This was the first time that a Pope had visited Chennai. Address of John Paul II on occasion of the visit to the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Thomas the Apostle (Courtesy : www.vatican.va) Madras (India) Wednesday, 5 February 1986 Dear Archbishop Arulappa, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It is an honour and special grace for me to come to the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Thomas the Apostle here in Madras. As so many pilgrims before me have done, I too come to venerate the Tomb of the Apostle to India. This  holy  place speaks of the history of the Church in this beloved land. It calls to mind, not only Saint Thomas and his martyrdom, but all the others after him who have dedicated their lives to the preaching of the Gospel, all those who have borne witness to Christ both in word and in deed. I  pray  that our faith will be strong like theirs, and that our love for Christ may inspire us to love a

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http://www.news.va/en/news/canonization-date-announced-for-blessed-popes-john Canonization date announced for Blessed Popes John Paul II and John XXIII 396   4148 Print 2013-09-30 Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday morning held the Public Ordinary Consistory for the forthcoming Canonization of Blessed Pope John XXIII and Blessed Pope John Paul II. During the course of the Consistory in the Vatican's Consistory Hall, the Pope decreed that his two predecessors will be raised to Sainthood on April 27, 2014, the day on which the Church celebrates the Second Sunday of Easter and Divine Mercy

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