Yes! when I was at Mass this morning and heard the first reading , I said yes it prefigures our Eucharist.! Thanks to the St Paul Center teachings and reflections.
I truly appreciate St. Paul Center's teachings. Along with all the other Catholic sites such as Brant Pitre's, Matt Fradd's, Trent Horn's, Bishop Barron's, Fr. John Riccardo's...and many more. All together they keep me grounded in the Faith!
Thank you so much for this video. I have been beating myself up because I have no success converting my loved ones. I never thought about the fact that Jesus did not convert too many people. I can only live my life in accordance with God’s commandment to love and hope that my example will bring people to Jesus. It’s been a heavy burden that I hope to ease from now on.
When we consider that approximately two million people left Egypt to follow Moses, the miraculous nature of God's provision for His people should help deepen our faith in the true nature of the Eucharist. God can provide for our natural needs in a miraculous way. How much greater then is the provision for our supernatural needs. If we are led by belief in what God did for His people in the Old Testament to a belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist surely we can extend our faith to believe that God will provide for our natural needs and not worry about them so that we can truly live for God. The "I" in live can be stretched out, as Jesus was stretched out on the cross, to embrace what God allows to happen in our daily lives so that "i" in live is turned into an "o" in love.
Question! When we talk about the need to rid ourselves of conflicting things in our lives which we may be addicted to, Is it ok to be in head over heels love with a woman? Or even just love thinking about them? Also is it wrong to be thinking lots about the sport you play and how to improve, or about work or something like that? As in, is it ok to do these things so long as we think about God just as often and do what He asks of us? I'm just always a bit confused on this. Thanks!
The Mana sustained the Israelites during their journey to the promised land, the Eucharist sustains us on our pilgrimage journey to the heavenly promised land. Yes we return to that moment of redemption every time we assist at mass. And like the Jews understand their returning back in time to the Exodus at every Passover meal, they know as we should that it is not a wheel of time. It is a spiral. We return to the same point but at a higher level by our continued observance. This is Jacob’s spiracle ladder to heaven. The todah was the one of the most important and popular sacrifices of the Jews. An old Rabbinic dictum states: “In the coming Messianic age all sacrifices will end but the thank offering (todah) will never cease. The todah sacrifice is what links and underlies the Passover and the Mass. Introduced in the Old Testament, the todah-in contrast to the yearly celebration of Passover-was a continual sacrifice of thanks and praise to God for His saving actions: "A todah sacrifice would be offered by someone whose life had been delivered from great peril." Just as the Passover was a sacrifice in memory of when the Jewish people had been saved from death during their exile in Egypt, so too, the Mass is a continual sacrifice of thanksgiving for our salvation.
Thanks to you beloved Dr J Bergma and your colleagues at St. paul’s centre for all the eye opening and mind blowing interpretations of the daily mass readings. I so much enjoy them and I follow up every day
