told that Jesus would "be called Son of the Most High" (Lk 1:32), "Son of God" (Lk 1:35). John the Baptist's mission is to "bring back many of the Israelites to the Lord their God" (Lk 1:16). Jesus' mission [...] John the Baptist and Jesus (Luke Chapter 1) In the Announcement to Zechariah, the unborn John the Baptist is described as follows: "Your wife Elizabeth is to bear you a son and you shall name him John [...] Zechariah is told that John "will be great in the sight of the Lord" (Lk 1:15). Mar y is told that Jesus, for his part, "will be great" (Lk 1:32), without a term of comparison or limit. The epithet "great"
Then Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him, with the words, 'It is I who need baptism from you, and yet you come to me!' But Jesus replied [...] clothed in Christ Jesus’ cousin and the son of Elizabeth and Zechariah, John the Baptist, was baptising with water, announcing the coming of the Messiah, of whom he was the "Precursor." When Jesus arrived at [...] that day the mission to announce. This explains his response to Jesus: "It is I who need baptism from you." By accepting John’s baptism, Jesus, the One in whom every man will now receive the true baptism
Sacred Heart of Jesus, to ask him to protect the world from all disease. This novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was written by Father Simon Chouanard, pastor of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Parish (Coeur [...] e de Jésus) in Paris, in collaboration with the Marie de Nazareth Association. Why pray a novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus? In 1899, Leo XIII consecrated the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. All [...] Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the healing of all disease June 2-10,2021 Sign up today and pray with thousands of people around the world to ask Jesus to free us from all disease. From June 2-10
“Mother”: By virtue of which, Jesus chose to obey Mary and to be brought up by her. Mary is all powerful over the Heart of her Son and she is also the Mediatrix of divine graces: Jesus chose Mary to inaugurate [...] Who is Mary for Jesus? The Divine Word became man through Mary: The Son of God took flesh in the womb of the young immaculate Virgin of Galilee; He received that human body and blood from her which, once [...] become one body, the mystical body of Christ... Mary alone witnessed the whole of Christ’s life: From Jesus’ birth to Golgotha, she is the one who spent the most time with Him. She was His most intimate confidante
called "the mother of Jesus." The emphasis is on Jesus, not on Mary. She is the mother of Jesus, not only because she is the source of his human life (Jn 16:21), but also because she directs us to him [...] The mother of Jesus in the Gospel of John "The mother" The other gospels call her Mary, but in John’s gospel she is "the mother," the mother of Jesus. Of the 11 times that the word "the mother" appears [...] appears in John, 10 times it refers to "the mother of Jesus." The only other text containing the word "mother" is the dialogue of Jesus with Nicodemus: "How can a man be born again when they are old? Surely
Matthew's Gospel talks about the Mother of Jesus essentially in chapters 1 and 2—passages that also mention Saint Joseph. That same Gospel also talks about Mary during Jesus' public ministry, in chapters 12 and
gentium, n. 58). The beginning of Jesus' mission also meant separation from His Mother, who did not always follow Her son in His travels on the roads of Palestine. Jesus deliberately chose separation from [...] Mary faithfully put Jesus' words into practice Nevertheless, Mary sometimes heard her Son's preaching. We can assume that she was present in the synagogue of Nazareth when Jesus, after reading Isaiah's [...] in Jerusalem, which Jesus called His Father's house and for which He was consumed with zeal (cf. Jn 2:16-17). Finding herself later among the crowd and not being able to approach Jesus, she hears Him replying
the period of Jesus’ public life, whose name is mentioned several times in the Gospel (in the passages about the Passion in particular), was Pontius Pilate. He is the one who condemned Jesus to death. Historians [...] "Israel" is the name given to the Hebrew people who lived in Palestine at the time of Jesus. The Old Testament tells the story of the beginnings and the long history of the Hebrews, especially after they [...] 4,000 years ago. The wait for the Messiah ended in that very land of Palestine, with the birth of Jesus, the son of Mary and Joseph from Bethlehem of Judea, who had traveled from Nazareth to Judea to answer
right and duty with regard to Jesus. The principle which holds that all the rites of the Old Testament are a shadow of the reality (cf. Heb 9:9f; 10:1) serves to explain why Jesus would accept them. As with [...] circumcision too is "fulfilled" in Jesus. God's covenant with Abraham, of which circumcision was the sign (cf. Gn 17:13), reaches its full effect and perfect realization in Jesus, who is the "yes" of all the [...] child "Jesus." This is the only name in which there is salvation (cf. Acts 4:12). Its significance had been revealed to Joseph at the moment of his "annunciation": "You shall call the child Jesus, for he
