Homiletic and Catechetic Studies; According to the Spirit of Holy Scripture and of the Ecclesiatical Year (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...as (0.) The Son of God, Who rises through His own power. Resurrexit, non est hic: videte locum ubi posuerunt eum. The Gospel announces this fact: Christ Himself announces it in the Introit. The Church puts the words of Psalm 138 in a proper and deeply significant sensus accommodal'/us, into the mouth of the risen Christ Who announces His own deed. Christ announces Himself solemnly as the victorious Son of God. He addresses, as it were, at His resurrection, the Father in Heaven and man on earth in the words: resurrexi et adhuc sum tecum, alleluja: I rose up (oh God ) and am still with Thee (in spite of the dreadful suflering and death, united to Thee, oh God ) Alleluia Thou hast placed thine omnipotent hand upon mezl Alleluia. Wonderful is thy wisdom, thy divine knowledge, thine intelligence, thy plan and thy designs (in my resurrection). Alleluia, alleluia Lord, Thou hast proved me (in sufiering and in death). But Thou hast known me (the Son of God and the Son of Man). Thou hast known my rest (in the grave) and my resur 1 In the Messianic resurrection the " 3050 " the "Divine glory," the "hand" of the Father and of the Son is revealed. The Father raises the Son by His all-powerful hand, that all may believe in Him; this is for Him the greatest testimony of the Father. The Son Himself arises, through His own power, because He is Godand just through the resurrection the splendid rays of the previously given proofs of the divinity are transformed into a full, resplendent sun: Oriens ex alto. (See Acts of the Apostles 2: 32; 3: 15; 4:10; Rom. 4: 24; 6:4; 8:11; I. Pet. 3: 10; John 16: 7, 5. Grimm, Zahn, Leben Jesu, VII. B. p. 327, note.) Once upon a. time, in a glorious series of miracles: Naim, ...