Universal Utterings®
for April 17, 2022
God’s son resemble forever priest farther
Letter to the Hebrews Seven v- One thru Four
1 This “Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High,” “met Abraham as he returned from his defeat of the kings” and “blessed him.” 2 And Abraham apportioned to him “a tenth of everything.” His name first means righteous king, and he was also “king of Salem,” that is, king of peace. 3 Without father, mother, or ancestry, without beginning of days or end of life, thus made to resemble the Son of God, he remains a priest forever. 4 See how great he is to whom the patriarch “Abraham [indeed] gave a tenth” of his spoils.
Jesus Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Happy Easter and Resurrection Sunday. Today makes the world a better place to live establishing peace over pain progress over pestilence and patience over parody. Amen. I pray Jesus has become the Resurrected you able to practice, pray and proclaim what makes you feel Spirit-led God-inspired and Christ-fed. Today I celebrate being One with Christ Jesus living to share His Kingdom first and foremost in every aspect life has to offer- are you? Live God First! Amen.
Catechist Paragraph 1546 Christ, high priest and unique mediator, has made of the Church “a kingdom, priests for his God and Father.”20 The whole community of believers is, as such, priestly. The faithful exercise their baptismal priesthood through their participation, each according to his own vocation, in Christ’s mission as priest, prophet, and king. Through the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation the faithful are “consecrated to be . . . a holy priesthood.”21
Catechist Paragraph 1547 The ministerial or hierarchical priesthood of bishops and priests, and the common priesthood of all the faithful participate, “each in its own proper way, in the one priesthood of Christ.” While being “ordered one to another,” they differ essentially.22 In what sense? While the common priesthood of the faithful is exercised by the unfolding of baptismal grace –a life of faith, hope, and charity, a life according to the Spirit–, the ministerial priesthood is at the service of the common priesthood. It is directed at the unfolding of the baptismal grace of all Christians. The ministerial priesthood is a means by which Christ unceasingly builds up and leads his Church. For this reason it is transmitted by its own sacrament, the sacrament of Holy Orders.
Join me as we pray our daily prayer of forgiveness. I am sorry Lord. I believe You died and rose for me. Please forgive me as I forgive others. I share You as my Lord and Savior seeking to live your Will in all things. Prayers for our children especially our two oldest Alexandra & Allen; Julian, Gabriel and Jeffrey and our grandchildren Oliver, Julian and Elliott. We pray for those we’ve said we’d pray for and those who’ve asked us to pray for them. We pray for the dying as we do each day. Lord give them peace in their last breath. Silence for the prayers of others. Holy Spirit and St Joseph CC & Holy Mother Church. In Jesus Precious Blood by His Name we pray. Amen.
I am a poet obedient to Christ,
Evangelist Thomas Cruz†Wiggins
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Ephesians 6:17-20
04-17-2022 Hebrews Seven 0104
**God’s son resemble forever priest farther**
High priest Salem’s king Melchizedek
Returning Abraham met at kings defeat return
Him blessed apportioned kingdom’s tenth
King righteous meaning his name stern
Peace’s king of Salem’s son
Ancestry none mother or father
Life’s ending or beginning none
God’s son resemble forever priest farther
His greatness see
Abraham’s patriarch indeed
Tenth kingdom receive
Spoils his concede
© Thomas Joe Cruz†Wiggins
April 17, 2022 @ 6:13 AM EST
Catechist footnotes by number
15 2 Tim 2:5.
16 Heb 5:10; cf. 6:20; Gen 14:18.
17 Heb 7:26.
18 Heb 10:14.
19 St. Thomas Aquinas, Hebr. 8,4.
20 Rev 1:6; cf. Rev 5:9-10; 1 Pet 2:5,9.
21 LG 10 § 1.
22 LG 10 § 2.
23 Cf. LG 10; 28; SC 33; CD 11; PO 2; 6.
24 Pius XII, encyclical, Mediator Dei: AAS, 39 (1947) 548.
25 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III,22,4c.
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