Epiphany gives obedient believers reasons to “Be Catholic!”
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Question 1: “What ‘Catholic Connections’ are revealed during Epiphany?”
Answer: “Words of Isaiah predicting The Coming of Jesus are read today in Is, 42:1-7 or 40:1-11. And, we also see in Psalm 29:1-10 that ‘The Lord will bless His people with peace.’ Then, Acts 10:34-38, God has Peter give us The Catholic Connections revealed in Epiphany!
‘In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears Him and acts rightly is acceptable to Him.’ The First Pope makes it clear that anyone who ‘fears’ God enough to ‘act uprightly’ can get to Heaven.’!”
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Question 2: “Why should we be guided by Peter’s words?”
Answer: “Words of Peter are important because he was chosen to be The First Pope of The Only Church Spoken Into Being by The Prophesied Messiah! ‘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.’
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Question 3: “What can those who are not Catholic learn from that?”
Answer: “Everyone can understand! It is impossible to ‘act uprightly’ while willfully and intentionally rejecting what was Spoken Into Being by The Church-Creating Word of Jesus Christ!”
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Question 4: “Does Today’s ‘Alleluia’ recognize that?”
Answer: “See John 12:29 for yourself! ‘The Heavens were opened and The Voice of The Father thundered: ‘This is My Beloved Son, listen to Him.’ May all be as blessed as Catholics to ‘listen’ to His Son’s Church-Creating Word!”
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Question 5: “Does The Father tell us anywhere else to ‘Be Catholic!’?
Answer: The last verse of Luke 3:1-22 lets those Echo in our minds: ‘After all the people had been Baptized, and Jesus also had been Baptized and was praying, Heaven opened and The The Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove.
And a voice came from Heaven, ‘You are My beloved Son; with You I am well pleased.’”
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Rhyme: “May no one ignore / the ‘keys’ to the door / of Heaven.”
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