Question 1: “What are the ‘Big and Small Catholic Mysteries in Today’s Reading?”
Answer: “Today is The Feast of St. James, the Apostle. A ‘Small Catholic Mystery’: None of Today’s Catholic Readings come from either St. James among The Disciples of Jesus!”
Question 2: “What is the solution to that ‘Small Catholic Mystery’?”
Answer: “The First Reading from St. Paul in 2 Cor 4:7-15 introduces ‘Big Catholic Mysteries’ that place every person who ever lived in perspective: ‘Brothers and sisters: We hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.’”
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Question 3: “Do ‘earthen vessels’ describe every Son of Adam whom God made from clay?”
Answer: “‘Earthen vessels’ also describe every Catholic woman made of the ‘refined clay’ God took from Adam’s rib!”
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Question 4: “What is ‘this treasure’ that is a Bigger Catholic Mystery?”
Answer: “‘This treasure’ is the immortal soul God gave to every person who ever lived.”
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Question 5: “Are there more ‘Catholic Mysteries’ in Today’s Reading?”
Answer: “Every Catholic’s Life is described in One Mysterious Sentence!
‘We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained;
(we are) perplexed, but not driven to despair;
(we are) persecuted, but not abandoned;
(we are) struck down, but not destroyed;
(we are) always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.'”
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Question 6: “That is a Mystery! How can we be ‘carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus’?”
Answer: “Catholics hear and obey The Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated 12 times in John 6 and two more times at The Last Supper: ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’
For we who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.’”
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Question 7: “Do Catholics solve the ‘mystery’ in the next Verse: ‘So death is at work in us, but life in you.’ How can both ‘death’ and ‘life’ be at work in every Catholic?”
Answer: “Every human body, mind, and spirit is ‘dying‘. Catholic souls have ‘life’ in them from the everliving Body and Blood of Jesus provided by those Ordained in Living Link with The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic priests and Cardinal-Bishops who founded parishes and Dioceses through and beyond The Roman Empire:
‘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.’
Then, Every Catholic Mystery is solved in Today’s Reading! ‘Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we too believe and therefore speak, knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and place us with you in His presence.'”
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Question 8: “Is ‘The Big Mystery of Life’s Purpose’ solved?”
Answer: “It is for Catholics! ‘Everything indeed is for you (Catholics!),
so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people
may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.’”
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