Of Heaven and the promise of a bodily resurrection Sin so that we may also share in His glory in receiving the eternal blessings In our divine election, we become joint-heirs with ChristĪnd willing partners in His mission, sharing His suffering in the conquest against They are resurrection with Christ,īecoming sanctified and reborn into the family of God as adopted children of Through the Sacrament of Christian baptism,Ĭhristians die to sin and the world. Partner's obligation to return God's love by living in obedience to His commandments.Ĭhristians also are divinely elected to be dedicated toĬhrist as His New Covenant people. This is to be a reciprocal love affair, and Moses emphasizes the covenant To Abraham, and his descendants are the fruit of that passionate love. It is a love that began with the oath God swore The bond that tied Israel to God was a covenant based upon God's faithfulĬovenant love, a more profound love than a father's love for his child, or a Them to be His holy people was because of His promise to Abraham and because of God's purpose in revealing Himself to Israel and choosing Moses emphasizes that God did not choose Israel for Yahweh divinely selected them from among all the nations of the earth to be a In the First Reading, Moses tells the children of Israel that The Theme of the Readings: The Lord Has Set His Heart on You See St.īonaventure's reflections on this Solemnity. The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Church's calendar. In 1765, Pope Clement XIII approved this devotion and set the date of Loving heart of Jesus and composed a liturgy for the Feast of the Sacred Margaret Mary Alacoque testified that in a vision, Christ chose her to Said was pouring forth from His Sacred Heart. Gertrude His wounds, and He taught her about His love, which she The 13 th century, had a vision of Jesus appearing to her the same Passion of Christ in which the faithful remembered Jesus' suffering to help It became an echo of Good Friday as a day of devotion to the On the third Friday after Pentecost to remember and venerate the precious

In the Middle Ages, Roman Catholics began observing this Solemnity TheĬatechism teaches that the Liturgy reveals the unfolding mystery of God's planĪs we read the Old Testament in light of the New and the New Testament in light

History contained in the Old and New Testaments in the Church's Liturgy. Testaments, and that is the reason we read and relive the events of salvation God reveals His divine plan for humanity in the two Letters is, in the Hebrew text, God's Divine Name YHWH (Yahweh).

The word LORD or GOD rendered in all capital CCC designates a citation from theĬatechism of the Catholic Church. SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS (Cycle A)Ībbreviations: NJB (New Jerusalem Bible), IBHE (Interlinearīible Hebrew-English), IBGE (Interlinear Bible Greek-English), or LXX (Greek

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