Gospel
April 25, 2017
Mark 16:15-20
Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them:
"Go into the whole world
and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;
whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe:
in my name they will drive out demons,
they will speak new languages.
They will pick up serpents with their hands,
and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them.
They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
Then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them,
was taken up into heaven
and took his seat at the right hand of God.
But they went forth and preached everywhere,
while the Lord worked with them
and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.
, OCTOBER 8, 2010
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters Lk 11:15-16: homily today refers only to Jesus and the Kingdom and not the Catholic Churchhttp://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2010/10/whoever-is-not-with-me-is-against-me.html
Dominus Iesus tells us that we cannot separate Jesus from the Kingdom of God and neither can we separate the Catholic Church from the Kingdom of God.
John 3:5 tells us that we need to baptized with water into a community, the early Church. There was no independent baptism of water without a Church. At that time the only Church that existed was the Catholic Church. There were no Protestant or evangelical churches and the Orthodox Church had not been formed yet through their schism.
Jesus used two words when speaking to St. Peter: “my church”. Thou are Peter and upon this Rock I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.
So Jesus as the Saviour cannot be separated from the Church and the Sacraments of that Church which He instituted, including the Baptism of water.
We also know that he who does not believe will be condemned.(Mk: 16:16). Those who do not believe who are not with us and who scatter or are scattered are those who have rejected Jesus Christ and His Church.
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