Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, and died in Jerusalem. His non-threatening approach attracted people from various walks of life. He was a man who acted on a local level with a global vision.
Jesus was an innovator for his time by what he believed and the way he lived: he treated women with the same dignity as men, he appreciated children in a society which treated them as unimportant, he spoke against divorce when this practice was widely accepted since thousand of years before, and promoted religion as a way of loving rather than as a set of rules to be followed. Beyond words, he preached these concepts mostly by living them in his daily life.
In the Catholic faith Jesus Christ is believed to be the Son of God, a term originating in the Old Testament have the connotation of ‘belonging to God’. Anglican Bishop Arthur Michael Ramsey once said that “The importance of the confession ‘Jesus is Lord’ is not only that Jesus is divine but that God is Christlike.”
Further reading:
- Jesus: A Pilgrimage, James Martin, 2016.
- Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict, 2007.
- Jesus the Christ, Thomas G. Weinandy, 2003.
- The scandal of service:Jesus washes our feet, Jean Vanier 1997.
- Life of Christ, Fulton J.Sheen, 1977.
- The gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, c.50AD.
TOP POPES' QUOTES ABOUT FOLLOWING JESUS CHRIST
“THE PROGRAMME OF JESUS is “a heart which sees”.
This heart sees where love is needed and acts accordingly.”
JESUS' WORDS
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?
For even sinners love those who love them.
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you?
For even sinners do the same."
Luke 6:32-33
POWERFUL QUOTES ABOUT JESUS CHRIST
"It is no longer enough to say, as in the past: “God became man so that man might become God.” It must also be added that God was made man so that man might remain human, and so that in being divinised he might still be even more human."
Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection, 2016
Some days ago, it became known that some department within the Ministry for Health in Malta had ordered the removal of crucifixes, statues, and other religious items of a Christian character from health centres and departmental offices.
While our faith does not depend on whether or not a crucifix is allowed in public places, for were they removed, faith should still be alive and kicking in us...
Our humanity was joined to and made one with God … in order that I too might be made God as truly as He is made human:
He was born – but He had been begotten eternally...
He hungered, but He fed thousands...
He was wearied, but He is the rest of those who are weary and carrying heavy burdens....
Gregory of Nazianzen, Theological Oration 3.