The Richness of the Word 17th June, 2017 St Mark’s Servants’ retreat (Toronto)

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Through the Gospel who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 2 Tim 1:9,10

No Gospel 10 but has NOT now been revealed by the DISappearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has NOT abolished death and DID not bring life and immortality to light BECAUSE WE HAVE NO gospel, 2 Tim 1:10

St. John Chrysostom [Now you can see the power and the grace granted to us not by deeds but through the Gospel! This is the subject of hope that has been fulfilled in His Body –by the Cross- and how does It become fulfilled in us? Through the Gospel.]

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The Characters in 2 kings 7: The Prophet Elisha The King of Israel The solider The Four Lepers The guards of the Gate The Kings counselors The People ( the Israelites)

The People 16 Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord. 2 Kings 7:16

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No Death .. !!! 51 Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.” 52 Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’ 53 Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Who do You make Yourself out to be?” Jn 8:51-53

Tasted death for Everyone 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. Heb 2:9

He did not see you death 54 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

St Jerome  `Let us study while we are on earth that Reality which will stay in our minds also when we are in heaven.' 

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Our Home with him 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. Jn 14:23,24

You are the temple of God 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Cor 3:16

Scripture as an aspect of Incarnation Already in Scripture there is an aspect of incarnation, Scripture embodies the Word, and the incarnation of the Word completes the transformation into Eucharist of the hearing or reading the Word or reading of the Word. It is the Eucharist of the mind … Olivier Clement, The Roots of Christian Mysticism

The Eucharist of the Mind In truth, before Jesus, Scripture was like water, but since Jesus it has become for us the wine into which Jesus changed the water . Origen Commentary on St John's Gospel 13,60 (CGS 4, 294-5

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Fullness of God 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Eph 3:19

Fullness of Christ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; Eph 4:13

Filled with the Spirit 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, Eph 5:18

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The Days of Heavens above the Earth 18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. Deut 11:18-21

St. Athanasius (297-375) “But beyond these [Scriptural] sayings, let us look at the very tradition, teaching and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, which the Lord gave, the Apostles preached, and the Fathers kept." (Four Letters to Serapion of Thmuis, 1:28).

St Augustine "I (Christ) am the food of full-grown men. Grow and you shall feed on me. But you shall not change me into your own substance, as you do with the food of your body, instead you shall be changed into me“. Confessions, VII 10 (PL 32, 742) ed & trs. R.S. Pine-Coffin, Penguin 1971, p. 147.