Today’s Catholic Reading from Isaiah 49:1-6 predicts that Catholics will be especially blessed in Heaven, forever!
“Hear me, O islands, listen, O distant peoples. The LORD called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name… He made me a polished arrow and He hid me in His quiver. ‘You are My servant.’, He said to me, ‘Israel, through whom I show my glory.'”
That is a “Hidden Prophecy” of every Catholic who would love our neighbors enough to encourage them to get the “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” that He Who Fulfilled the Messianic Prophecies would give His Life to leave on earth by speaking His 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.”
Every person who loves their neighbors enough to encourage them to “Be Catholic and get the Seven Catholic Sacraments that are ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’!” is a “Hidden Prophecy” of all who strive to be among the “polished arrows in God’s quiver”:
Enthusiastic Catholics are Prophesied to find frustration and its eternal cure:
“Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly spent my strength, yet my reward is with the LORD, my recompense is with my God.
For now the LORD has spoken Who formed me as His servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; And I am made glorious in the sight of the LORD, and my God is now my strength!”
God’s blessed Catholic priests, religious, and all bright, shining Catholics are again described in this “Hidden Prophecy”:
“It is too little, He says, for you to be My servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that My salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
Today’s Gospel from John 13:21-33, 36-38 tells us that the First Catholic Pope and 11 of his Bishops would be “polished arrows in God’s quiver” and “a light to the nations” who would follow the “Hidden Prophecy” of Psalm 71:1-6, 15, 17 and “Sing of Your salvation” while asking God “to “let me be never put to shame” and to be “rescued from the hand of the wicked”.
Catholics are blessed with the intelligence to connect Isaiah’s “Hidden Prophecies” with Today’s Gospel! We see that Judas was the first “unpolished arrow” in God’s New “quiver” to not be “rescued from the hand of the wicked”!
John 13:21-38 explains that “30 pieces of silver” and a desire for worldly approval led Judas to the fate worse than death that comes to all who spend their lives in willful disobedience to the First Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.”
Catholics are blessed to see that receiving The Body and Blood of Jesus at the Last Supper/First Catholic Mass was, and would always be, the high point of human life in this “Hidden Prophecy”!
“When Judas had left, Jesus said: ‘Now is The Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.”
May all be blessed to do what is necessary to receive The Body and Blood of Jesus in Catholic Communion and be “glorified” by The Catholic Miracle of Transubstantiation that turns bread and wine into The Body and Blood of Christ at every Catholic Mass since The Last Supper.
Catholics are still the “polished (That word is a “Hidden Prophecy” of Catholic sins being forgiven by Confession/Absolution.) arrows in God’s quiver”. We are living connections between Isaiah, Jesus, and “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”!
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Catholics are blessed to be / Living in God’s Prophecies!”
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