Dear Family!

Saint Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica wrote, “There are many sciences dealing with different areas of reality, but only one wisdom. Structurally wisdom is itself a science, drawing conclusions from premises; but what is peculiar to wisdom is its power to judge about everything including its own premises. So, it is a more perfect virtue than science.” In our Abrahamic Family of religions, ‘Shalom’ (Solomon) or ‘Peace’ is always associated with Wisdom. We are blessed to be showered with God’s wisdom that longs for true peace.

Dear Family!

The ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Testaments have different views on the ‘Reign of God’. At the time of Jesus, the Old Testament concept of a ‘reign of God’ that was imminent, terrestrial, political and centered on ‘Israel’ and in ‘Jerusalem’, but the New Testament as a whole brings about the radical change, where the idea of a heavenly, eternal kingdom makes its appearance. (‘The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible’ - a PBC document)’.

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Reflection: The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the scriptures affirm the profound destiny of the material world and man. “The visible universe, then, is itself destined to be transformed, “so that the world itself, restored to its original state, facing no further obstacles, should be at the service of the just,” sharing their glorification in the risen Jesus Christ.” (CCC 1047)

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Reflection: The Catechism of the Catholic Church presents to us Christ’s whole life as a mystery (CCC 414-521). In CCC 517 we read, “Christ’s whole life is a mystery of redemption. Redemption comes to us above all through the blood of his cross, but this mystery is at work throughout Christ's entire life: