How is The 4th Day of Epiphany a Great Help to Catholics?
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Question 1: “What makes Wednesday, The Fourth Day of Epiphany, a great help to Catholics?”
Answer: “Today celebrates The Great Miracle when Jesus fed 5,000 people with a few loaves of bread and two fish mentioned in Mt. 14:14-21; Mk. 6:34-44; Lk. 9:12-17; Jn. 6:5-13.”
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Question 2: “Does Today’s Reading from 1 John 4:11-18 remind us that Catholics are among The Chosen People?
Answer: ‘God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the day of judgment because as He is, so are we in this world.’”
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Question 3: “After The Miracle of Feeding The Five Thousand, what did those who would be The First Catholic Bishops do?”
Answer: “Mark 6: 45-52 tells us they began to row across The Sea of Galilee ‘toward Bethsaida’. ‘When it was evening, the boat was far out on the sea and He was alone on shore. Then He saw that they were tossed about while rowing, for the wind was against them.’”
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Question 4: “Did that ‘wind against them’ symbolize the hatred of all those who saw the threat to funding that Jesus brought to The Roman/Jerusalem Establishment who ‘had no God but Caesar’?”
Answer: “A God with The Power To Provide Free Food to Five Thousand People worried all but those who received it!”
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Question 5: “How did Jesus calm the winds ‘tossing the boat around’?”
Answer: “‘He got into the boat with them and the wind died down.’”
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Question 6: “Does that symbolize that Jesus is still in The Only Church He Spoke Into Being with His Church-Creating Word to The 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.’”
Answer: “Yes. When Catholics are led to do as Peter did, and ‘walk on the storm-tossed waves’, Jesus is always there to get us in His Boat and keep us from sinking.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Epiphany lets Catholics see / How God can be with you and me.”
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