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Black Catholic Voices Anchored in Christ, a lay ministry forum, focuses on the Gospel and faith sharing to keep ourselves grounded.

Sharing common ancestry we are the body of Christ. We remain united through the Eucharist and cannot forget who and whose we are.

01/06/2025
01/06/2025

The Presence of God – Loving God, grant us the grace to recognize you today as you pass by and the wisdom to say yes to your invitation to follow. May your invitation lead to friendship with you, newness of life and your gift of love. Help us with the strength to accept the challenge of conversion of heart and to believe in the Good News and proclaim it to all we meet by the living of life! Amen!

01/06/2025

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Matthew 4:12–17, 23–25), Jesus launches his ministry in Galilee.
According to Anglican Scripture scholar N.T. Wright, when Jesus said, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” he was not calling attention to general, timeless spiritual truths, nor was he urging people to make a decision for God.

He was telling his hearers that Yahweh was actively gathering the people of Israel—and, indirectly, all people—into a new salvific order. And he was insisting that his hearers conform themselves to this new state of affairs.

In this gathering, he was implying, the forgiveness of sins—the overcoming of sundering and division—would be realized. In a word, the proclamation of the kingdom was tantamount to an announcement that the Gatherer of Israel had arrived and had commenced his work.

What is most remarkable about Jesus, according to Wright, is that he not only indicated this fact but embodied it and acted it out, taking in his words and gestures the very role of the Gatherer. Origen said substantially the same thing when he described Jesus as autobasileia, the kingdom in person.

01/06/2025

"As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness."

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