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December 20, 2019 - January 24, 2020
St. Justin Martyr: I and every other orthodox Christian feel certain that there will be a resurrection of the flesh[2] followed by a thousand years in a rebuilt, embellished, and enlarged city of Jerusalem, as was announced by the Prophets Ezekiel, Isaias and others… A man among us named John, one of Christ’s Apostles, received and foretold that the followers of Christ would dwell in Jerusalem for a thousand years,[3] and that afterwards the universal and, in short, everlasting resurrection and judgment would take place. (Dialogue with Trypho. Ch. 30)
“Every tongue shall confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:11)
As Padre Pio said, “work as if everything depended upon you, pray as if everything depended upon God.”
no gardener pretends that his own tilling of the soil is what causes the growth of the plants
Our Lord only really details the final three years of His thirty-three-year life on earth? Not often enough! And yet, He could have easily simply come to earth miraculously as a fully-grown man and achieved all He needed to very quickly.
Saint Bonaventure went so far as to say that human beings, before sin, were able to see how each creature “testifies that God is three”.
“The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood.” (Revelation 12:15)
there is simply no other possible scenario for the course of the future than the Chastisements
Servant of God Sr. Lucia of Fatima rightly said, “All people of good will can, and must say the Rosary every day.”[31]
the genealogy in the Gospel of Luke makes it impossible to claim that there are tens-of-thousands (much less hundreds-of-thousands) of years standing between the present day and Adam and Eve's begetting of their first son, Cain.
