Rebuild my church
In imitation of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with his servant, Francis, "we pray
for the grace to serve God, free from fear, to transform the Church and to conform it to that Body, Christ's own, to which it belongs."
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BeatitudesOf The Lord’s Body.
The Lord Jesus said to His disciples: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No
man comes to the Father, but by Me. If you had known Me you would, without
doubt, have known My Father also: and from henceforth you shall know Him, and
you have seen Him. Philip said to Him: Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for
us. Jesus said to him: Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known
Me? Philip, he that sees Me sees [My] Father also. How can you say, Show us the
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er?”1 The Father “inhabits light inaccessible,”2 and “God is a spirit,”3 and “noman has seen God at any time.”4 Because God is a spirit, therefore it is only by the
spirit He can be seen, for “it is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing.”
5 John 14. 6-9;
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Francis quotes Jesus as saying “if you had known me” as in those who know Jesus
know the Father, implying that those who do not know Jesus do not know His
Father.
Despite his years as Jesus’ disciple, Philip
seems not to have known Jesus because he does
not know the Father. Jesus then tells Philip
that in seeing and knowing Jesus he will both
know and see the Father.
Perhaps,
in analysing the Trinity as the Triune God and
in attempting to organise the three person’s of
God in an acceptable monotheistic form, we may
miss the whole point. Namely,
that God was in Christ reconciling the world to
Himself, not counting (our)trespasses against
(us), and He has committed to us the word of
reconciliation. (2
Corinthians 5:19 NASB)
I rather think that
Francis was unknowingly leaning towards
Panentheism,
seeing God
as both very nearby in Creation and yet much
greater than it, we only need to read his
Canticle of the Creatures to discern this:
There is only God whether in Jesus or the
Spirit, our Deity can be seen and perceived in
Jesus, and in the wind, blowing wherever it
pleases (John 3:8); in the tallest trees and the
deepest seas, in the hottest fire, our God is
everywhere and in everything.
We
shall stop with this because if we try to
explain it further we return to the sticky web
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Updated Updated Thursday, 26. May 2011
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi before the Blessed Sacrament:
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We adore You, O Lord Jesus Christ, in this church and all the churches of the world, and we bless You, because, by Your holy Cross You have redeemed the world |
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