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Not to preach the Gospel would be my undoing, for Christ himself sent me as his apostle and witness. The more remote, the more difficult the assignment, the more my love of God spurs me on. I am bound to proclaim that Jesus is Christ, the Son of the living God. Because of him we come to know the God we cannot see. He is the firstborn of all creation; in him all things find their being. Man’s teacher and redeemer, he was born for us, died for us, and for us he rose from the dead.
All things, all history converges in Christ. A man of
sorrow and hope, he knows us and loves us. As our friend he stays by us
throughout our lives; at the end of time he will come to be our judge;
but we also know that he will be the complete fulfillment of our lives
and our great happiness for all eternity.
I can never cease to speak of Christ for he is our truth and our light; he is the way, the truth and the life.
He is our bread, our source of living water who allays our hunger and
satisfies our thirst. He is our shepherd, our leader, our ideal, our
comforter and our brother.
He is like us but more perfectly human, simple, poor,
humble, and yet, while burdened with work, he is more patient. He spoke
on our behalf; he worked miracles; and he founded a new kingdom: in it
the poor are happy; peace is the foundation of a life in common; where
the pure of heart and those who mourn are uplifted and comforted; the
hungry find justice; sinners are forgiven; and all discover that they
are brothers.
The image I present to you is the image of Jesus
Christ. As Christians you share his name; he has already made most of
you his own. So once again I repeat his name to you Christians and I
proclaim to all men: Jesus Christ is the beginning and the end, the
alpha and the omega, Lord of the new universe, the great hidden key to
human history and the part we play in it. He is the mediator – the
bridge, if you will – between heaven and earth. Above all he is the Son
of man, more perfect than any man, being also the Son of God, eternal
and infinite. He is the son of Mary his mother on earth, more blessed
than any woman. She is also our mother in the spiritual communion of the
mystical body.
Remember: it is Jesus Christ I preach day in and day
out. His name I would see echo and re-echo for all time even to the ends
of the earth.
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