Thursday, October 28, 2010

10/28/10 REAL MEANING OF CHURCH: "CALLED OUT"

10/28/10 REAL MEANING OF CHURCH: "CALLED OUT" St. Dominic [couldn't hear perfectly] "they...didn't go..in romance language..jude v judas..one the slayer the other son of james...zealot...insurrectionists..had a habit of killing people..took over jewish temples during the war..a lot of people dispossessed of land..economics..some sold into slavery..simon zealot & matthew same group like socialist & tea party together..2nd..in 1st cntury said u were going to replace the temple how would u be treated...it would be like destroying st. Peters...but in this time there was only one temple..more revolutionary..no longer a building..Jesus himself..think about that b/c of your oneness e/ Jesus..you're suppsd to be the temple..early church..real presence was the community..meaning of church.."called out"(?)...always carried Christ w/ you..u do..in a sense..in flesh & blood..u eat the body & blood of Jesus..so Jesus dwells in you..who else..Spirit..God ..shekinah..live the way the Lord lives..do u live for love, forgiveness, for turning the other cheek or regret, anger..feast of st. Jude..think about..bringing the "mandellion"(?)...do u cary the image of Jesus..notice st. Jude is holdiing an image.." 

Eph 2:19-22 Brothers and sisters: You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone. Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord; in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.  

Ps 19:2 R. (5a) Their message goes out through all the earth. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Day pours out the  
Luke 6.12-16 " Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus Simon who was called a Zealot and Judas the son of James and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor." 

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