Fourth Sunday of Easter (3)

No death one in Christ

Considering THAT seems opposite

shall never perish

no take them out hand

They will put you to death...

but not hair on head be destroyed (Lk 21:18)

Of Old

reflected Israel OT

Joseph

chosen head of the tribes of the people

seemed suffer even for being good

suffer, but all turned for good self and even brothers sold pieces of silver

preserved head and body

given bad and good leaders

always persevere till coming of messiah

even exile was for their good

Reflected individual Athens

Socrates, no harm come good man (drinks Hemlock sentence)

important identity is first in soul

what harms something is what corrupts it

unhealth corrupts body

but vice corrupts soul

but vice only comes within

good person therefore unharmed in soul

nothing outside us can take our immortal souls

God’s body and the individual cannot be snatched from God

Both visions (individual and Church) united in Christ

Church

not just soul but entire self, body and Church all

Church of Christ will never fail (Matt 16:18)

individual

Nothing from outside defiles, but only that comes from our heart: “evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder (Mk 7:21).

not destroyed by lack of food or bad food, but destroyed by immorality

For us

Individually

nothing external to fear

none can snatch you

the only thing fear reject Christ in your life,

No man, no prince, not even the devil can snatch you from a life lived in Christ

and what is that,

live in communion and doctrines of Church

Pope Leo XIV “people who think they can follow Christ "in their own way" without being part of the body, are, unfortunately, living a distortion of what is really an authentic experience.”

Church

Compare Church to many many many many human organizations b4

here we stand leo xiv, 267th Pope of the flock of Christ

so many hope it will reject millenia old faith

the gates of hell have not prevailed, not now not ever

many many times seemed brink of it, but no

death never claims his flock either in the individual or the whole

live in Christ, live in Church, and know peace.

no death one in Christ

Notes

Me:

‘No harm can come to a good man’

impossibility of lack of divine protection in important things.

not snatched but can leave

know my voice

quid est veritas

Father and I are one

“Every race, people, and tongue”

heaven

but must wash in blood

Commentators:

Pitre

claiming to be God

fulfills Divine shepherd prophecy (Ez 34:11-12)