Is your faith alive?

Fr. Christopher Etheridge, IVE
Memorial of St. John Bosco

Christ Pantocrator, Mosaic in the Baptistry of San Giovanni of Florence, ca. 1300.

How well do you know Jesus Christ? After hearing this Gospel, we should all take a moment to seriously ask ourselves this question. Our condition as religious, or even as Christians for that matter does not guarantee that we have a living faith in Jesus Christ.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus’ “very own”, “his fellow countrymen” hardly knew Him at all.
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Sure, they knew His profession, they knew His mother, they knew His relatives—they knew Him “superficially” from the outside—but they did not know Him—true God and true man.

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