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ST. MARY OF GRACE, ST. AGATHA, & ST. BRIGID CHURCHES: Reflections On A Catholic Personal Relationship With Jesus Christ, Part I

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Press release submission Sep 13, 2020

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St. Mary of Grace, St. Agatha, & St. Brigid Churches recently issued the following announcement.

1) In Catholicism there is no one-size-fits-all, formulaic, programmatic experience of finding Jesus, and then having a personal relationship with Him based on it. St. Peter and St. Paul had a relationship with Jesus. St. Benedict knew and loved Jesus, and so did St. Theresa of Avila; as did St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Calcutta. They are all different personalities. They all found, knew, and had a relationship with Jesus out of who they were.

2) Our personal relationship with Jesus always includes being drawn into His communion with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and so it leads to our sharing in the life of the Blessed Trinity as “adopted sons.” Jn 14:6; Rm 8:1516; Gal 4:67 “What did Jesus actually bring, if not world peace, universal prosperity, and a be"er world? What has He brought? The answer is very simple: God. He has brought God. He has brought God. . . . And now we know His face and we can call upon Him. Now we know the path we humans must take in the world. It is only because of the hardness of our hearts that we think this too li"le.” “Jesus is only able to speak about the Father as he does because he is the Son, because of his filial communion with the Father. . . . The disciple who walks with Jesus is thus caught up with him into communion with God.” 

3) The operative model or image for a relationship with Jesus often held implicitly cannot be that He is just another human being. Our relationship with Jesus is personal and through His humanity; but He is the Son of God risen, glorious, and reigning in heaven. So our relationship with Him must be open to the Personhood of God Who realizes personhood beyond what we can conceive it to be. We must, then, be open to a mystical relationship with Jesus; and through Him with God who is beyond word and speech. 

4) For those brought up in Catholicism, Jesus is everywhere: Catholicism is all Christcentered.  a) Our very relationship with God and the understanding of Him that we have and live every  day is from Jesus. b) The Seven Sacraments are all Christ-centered. 

c) The Church is the body of Christ. 5) Jesus came to save the human family as a whole, not just me individually. “The unity of the Mystical Body of Christ, a supernatural unity, supposes a previous natural unity, the unity of the human race. So the fathers in their treatment of grace and salvation, kept before them the Body of Christ, and in dealing with the creation were not content only to mention the formation of individuals, the first man and the first woman, but delighted to contemplate God creating humanity as a whole.”

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