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July 16, 2008, Wednesday Our Lady of Mount Carmel Read: Is. 10: 5-7, 13-16 Mt. 11: 25-27 "No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father but the Son—and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." (Mt. 11:27) Between the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Catholic Church there lies a huge chasm of difference. Our convictions and teachings are worlds apart. They do not accept that Jesus is God -- they define Him very differently than we. Yet the Bible is clear in its affirmation of Jesus’ divinity and the Most Holy Trinity. "No one knows the Son... no one knows the Father...." In the Holy Scriptures we have sufficient elements to be able to be sure that the Eternal Word, the Son, that came to be among us as Jesus of Nazareth, shares the same divine nature with His Father -- who Himself is the one Eternal God. Through the Son, the Father made the world that we enjoy, a world which the Son is the owner by inheritance. "In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was in God’s presence, and the Word was God.... Apart from him nothing came to be." (Jn. 1:1-3) "Their unbelieving minds have been blinded by the god of the present age so that they do not see the splendor of the gospel showing forth the glory of Christ, the image of God." (2 Cor. 4:4) "This Son is the reflection of the Father’s glory, the exact representations of the Father’s being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word." (Heb. 1:3) The truth of the Holy Trinity is not simply an idea. It is revealed truth. Reflection and commentary Psalm 19: "The law of the LORD is perfect,
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