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sirknightron
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Peace be with you
Today I was thinking about the word of God and how He speaks to us through the writers
and the traditions. Then I thought of how God speaks to us through other means such as nature, others doing for us and then I though of those who do not get it for one reason or another.
What about those who can not see nor hear nor speak or those who are illiterate?
How do they come to know the word of God? How does God touch their hearts?
Then I though of the authority of the Church and how she is to spread the word to everyone, not only in words, but in action.
The actions of the followers of Christ are expressed in our talents and is how we spread Gods word.
One of the Traditions of the Church of how she is to teach those of us who just don’t quite get it in the written words of scripture is in all the types of art depicted about all of man’s history.
They are the word of God in the form of another language.
The Church is just as scrutinizing about the art that goes into a church as it is the words into a Bible. Something other churches often leave out. Everything in the Catholic churches reminds of something in the Bible and in turn reminds of how much God loves us that He lived, died, and lives again in us.
So my thoughts on this are that the Church has handed down this form of teaching by Christ Himself when He left His images on Veronica’s veil and on the Shroud. From the earliest depictions of Christ’s face until today resemble one another all the way back to these two images.
So has the Church made some sort of decision that this is what Jesus truly looked like or is it just something that happens by chance? Even the art of today depicting Jesus in the images of our personal race do not stray to far from the earlier depictions with the exception of those who deface His image.
Take notice the next time you are in church and see how artwork speak to you the word of God just as if you are reading it from bible or hearing it from the Priest.
Ron
Today I was thinking about the word of God and how He speaks to us through the writers
and the traditions. Then I thought of how God speaks to us through other means such as nature, others doing for us and then I though of those who do not get it for one reason or another.
What about those who can not see nor hear nor speak or those who are illiterate?
How do they come to know the word of God? How does God touch their hearts?
Then I though of the authority of the Church and how she is to spread the word to everyone, not only in words, but in action.
The actions of the followers of Christ are expressed in our talents and is how we spread Gods word.
One of the Traditions of the Church of how she is to teach those of us who just don’t quite get it in the written words of scripture is in all the types of art depicted about all of man’s history.
They are the word of God in the form of another language.
The Church is just as scrutinizing about the art that goes into a church as it is the words into a Bible. Something other churches often leave out. Everything in the Catholic churches reminds of something in the Bible and in turn reminds of how much God loves us that He lived, died, and lives again in us.
So my thoughts on this are that the Church has handed down this form of teaching by Christ Himself when He left His images on Veronica’s veil and on the Shroud. From the earliest depictions of Christ’s face until today resemble one another all the way back to these two images.
So has the Church made some sort of decision that this is what Jesus truly looked like or is it just something that happens by chance? Even the art of today depicting Jesus in the images of our personal race do not stray to far from the earlier depictions with the exception of those who deface His image.
Take notice the next time you are in church and see how artwork speak to you the word of God just as if you are reading it from bible or hearing it from the Priest.
Ron
