Catholics are grateful because Jesus gives us a more comfortable “yoke” than this!
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Question 1: “In Mt. 11:25, Jesus tells us what His Father has done: ‘Blessed are You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the kingdom.’ What ‘mysteries’ has Jesus ‘revealed’?”
Answer: “The first ‘mystery’ is revealed in Mt 11:25-30:
‘At that time Jesus exclaimed: ‘I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to little ones. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.’
One ‘mystery’ is that God hid His Truth from the ‘wise and learned ones’ and revealed it only to the ‘little ones’. That ‘mystery’ is solved by understanding that ordinary people know more about God than the ‘wise and learned ones’ who think they know more than God.”
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Question 2: “Was Jesus right to offend the ‘wise and learned ones’ by telling them that we know more about God than they do?”
Answer: “Every Word of Jesus Christ is Truth! The ‘wise and learned ones’ have always hated That Word of Jesus!
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Question 3: “What do we ‘little ones’ understand better than the ‘wise and learned’ among those whose interests are limited to earthly concerns?”
Answer: “We understand what Jesus said next! ‘All things have been handed over to Me by My Father.’!”
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Question 4: “Does Jesus help us understand that?”
Answer: “That is so important that He made it even clearer! ‘No one knows The Son except The Father, and no one knows The Father except The Son and anyone to whom The Son wishes to reveal Him.’”
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Question 5: “What does Jesus tell us to do with That Truth?”
Answer: “He tells us! ‘Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves.’”
Then, He shares a Great Truth that only His ‘little ones’ can understand!
‘For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.’”
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Question 6: “Is ‘light’ a ‘burden’?”
Answer: “His ‘burden’ is ‘the light’ of His Truth that Catholics carry when we ‘little ones’ obey This Word and have His life-giving Sacraments in our lives:
‘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.’
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Question 7″ “What is the ‘burden’ that Catholics carry?”
Answer: “The ‘burden’ that Catholics carry with His ‘yoke’ is in The Next Sentence of Jesus!
‘I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.'”
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Question 8: “What if we refuse to be Catholic?”
Answer: “Our ‘yoke’ has to pull the ‘burden’ of unforgiven sins that keep many souls from ever ascending into Heaven.”
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