Today, St. Paul tells us Catholics have “The keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”.
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Question: “One of Christ’s greatest Apostles was St. Paul. Did he tell us in Hebrews 19-25 that Catholics have ‘keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’?”
Answer: “These ‘keys’ are clear to his Catholic ‘Brothers and sisters: Since through the Blood of Jesus we have confidence of entrance into the sanctuary by the new and living way He opened for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have ‘a great priest over the house of God’ (Heb 3:6) let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.’”
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Question 2: “Do those blessed with ‘absolute trust’ in Jesus live in accord with His Sacrament-Providing, Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’?”
Answer: “Catholics are blessed with such ‘sincere hearts’ and ‘absolute trust’ that we are grateful to be Baptized with ‘pure water’ and receive ‘His flesh’ in The Only Church Whose priests are empowered to provide The Miracle of Transubstantiation that He died to leave on earth.”
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Question 3: “What do Catholics do?”
Answer: “‘We hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for He Who made the promise is Trustworthy.’ Then, we do more! ‘We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works.’ so that more may obey The Call to Catholic Communion Jesus repeated 12 times in the second half of John 6 and twice more at The Last Supper: ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blook you do not have life in you.’”
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Question 4: “How do Catholics get the strength to obey Jesus?”
Answer: “‘We should not stay away from our assembly, as is the custom of some, but encourage one another, and this all the more as you see the day drawing near.’”
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Question 5: “What ‘day is drawing near’?”
Answer: “Two days are ‘drawing near’! The first is the day our soul leaves our body and goes to Christ’s Judgment. Then, there is His Day of Final Judgment. Both are ‘drawing near’!”
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Question 6: “Does Today’s Psalm help Catholics be Catholic?”
Answer: “Psalm 141-6 tells us: ‘Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.’ and identifies us as ‘the race that seeks for Him that seeks the face of The God of Jacob’. Then, Psalm 119:105 lets us know: ‘A lamp to my feet is Your Word, a light to my path.’”
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Question 7: “What does Jesus tell us in Today’s Catholic Reading?”
Answer: “Jesus divides all people into Two Groups in Mark 4:21-25! ‘Anyone who has ears ought to hear.’ Catholics are the Psalm’s ‘race’ that does what we ‘ought’ and are in The Only Church He Spoke Into Being! The other ‘race’ thinks they know more than Jesus. No one ‘ought’ to do that after reading: ‘Take care what you hear. The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you and still more will be given to you.’
If we do not ‘measure’ ourselves by this simple fact: “Jesus knows more than I do about getting my immortal soul into Heaven!‘, this ‘measure’ will be applied to us: ‘from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.'”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “The Catholic “race” / has this grace: / Measure up / Treasure up!”
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