Blessed Jesus Christ, true God and true Man: 5th Sunday of Lent

Listen to the homily here.

Notes:

Blessed Jesus Christ, true God and true Man

Jesus was a man

·      He was born from his Mother: Mary

·      He was a baby, a child, an adult

·      He had a body…a heart, lungs, digestion

This passage shows Jesus Christ as a man

·      “Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.”

o   Some of his best friends

·      “When Jesus saw [Mary] weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed and deeply troubled…”

·      “And Jesus wept.”  Or “Jesus wept.”

o   He cried…

o   He showed his humanity with every types of emotion

·      “So Jesus, perturbed again”

Jesus was God

·      Jesus said, "Take away the stone."

·      "Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days."  Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?"

·      "Father, I thank you for hearing me.  I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me."

·      “He cried out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"  The dead man came out, "Untie him and let him go."

·      Jesus brought a dead man back into life

In our history, we have human religious leaders

·      Buddhism: Buddha (6^th-7^th before Jesus Christ)

·      Islam: Muhammad (6^th century)

·      Joseph Smith: Mormons (early 19^th century)

·      Charles Russel: Jehovah Witnesses (later 19^th century)

·      These were men and no one was called a god too

In our history, we have gods

·      Greek, Romans, etc.

·      Dozens of gods…but not humans

Jesus Christ is both man and God

·      He himself is the middle of all history

Jesus asked Mary, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?"

·      Do you believe in Jesus Christ was both man and God?

·      Listen through or Creed that came together what we really believe as Catholics and Christians!