What do Catholics think about on The Day After Epiphany?
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Question 1: “What do Catholics think about after realizing God made it clear that we who believe in The Messiah-Predicting Prophecies are God’s only ‘heirs’ to The Kingdom of God?’”
Answer: “‘Beloved: We receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.’”
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Question 2: “What ‘commandments’ of Jesus do His ‘heirs’ strive to obey?”
Answer: “He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies left Two Commandments: ‘And His Commandment is this:
we should believe in The Name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as He commanded us.’”
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Question 3: “How do Catholics know we are obedient enough to be ‘heirs of God’?”
Answer: “‘Those who keep His commandments remain in Him, and He in them, and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit Whom He gave us.’ Catholics know that we who are blessed to obey The Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated 14 times, ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’ have Him ‘remain in us’!”
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Question 4: “The world is full of ‘spirits’. How do we know which to follow?”
Answer: “St. John knew we would ask that Question! ‘Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.’
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Question 4: “How can we ‘test a spirit’?”
Answer: “‘This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh belongs to God, and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God.’”
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Question 5: “What ‘spirit’ guides those who do not recognize that Jesus has ‘come in the flesh’?”
Answer: “‘This is the spirit of the antichrist who, as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the world.’”
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Question 6: “What can keep our soul from being taken by the ‘anti-Christ’?”
Answer: “St. John tell us three things in Today’s Reading:
1. ‘You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them, for the one who is in you (Catholic Communion!) is greater than the one who is in the world.’
2. ‘They belong to the world; accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world, and the world listens to them.’
3. ‘We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us. This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.'”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme:
“May God bless me to understand / and be as Catholic as I can!
Then, His Body and His Blood / Lets me be more than stinking mud.”
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