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01/10/2021

01/10/2021

Viva Nuestro Padre Hesus Nazareno Amen

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01/08/2021

Epiphany 2021 ♥️🌎♥️🙏

01/08/2021

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus demonstrates his control over nature by walking on the sea.

What we see here on vivid display is Jesus the miracle worker. Modern thinkers tend to be put off by this dimension of the Gospel. Thomas Jefferson took a razor to the Gospels, cutting out everything that smacked of the supernatural. But he had to make an absolute mess of Mark’s Gospel, which is positively chock-a-block with such things.

Jefferson’s contemporary, the great modern philosopher David Hume, claimed that since the laws of nature were set, miracles were, strictly speaking, impossible. Following these Enlightenment-era prompts, an awful lot of contemporary Christian theologians and Bible commentators have tried to explain away Jesus’ miracles as spiritual symbols.

But as N.T. Wright argues, it’s hard to explain the enormous popularity of Jesus apart from this fascination with his wonder-working. More to it, though God typically lets the universe run according to its natural rhythms and patterns, what is to prevent God from shaping it and influencing it occasionally in remarkable ways in order to signal his purpose and his presence?

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010621.cfm