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Thou shalt take charge over my home and family.

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A Biblical Theology of the Invocation of Saints

This was a response to a question I received, which is why it is addressed to a particular person. But I spent too much time writing it to not post it here.

This deals with why the invocation of Saints is justified from the grand story of the Bible, not just one or two passages. I start with Genesis 1 and end with Revelation 20. Due credit goes to James Jordan for many of the insights that went into this, though he would despise his insights being used to argue for the intercession of the Saints.

My argument starts with the nature of a prophet. Most people think of prophets as those who proclaim the words of God, whereas priests are intercessors. While both, of course, do both, I actually think the emphasis here is backwards. Priests are appointed as teachers of the people, but prophets have a special role before God as intercessors. They are filled with the Holy Spirit and elevated to a position on God’s heavenly council. Let’s set the foundations here.

The heavenly council, in the Old Testament, is the host of angels surrounding God and “advising” Him. You see this in Job 1-2, 1 Kings 22, and so on. The theme begins in Genesis 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth- but only the earth was without form, void, and dark. God spends six days forming, filling, and brightening the earth, bringing it closer to the fullness of its heavenly model. Man is called in Genesis 2:4 the “generations of the heavens and the earth.” He is the son of the Spirit of God (heaven) and the dust of the ground (earth). As he grows in communion with God, he will pull the material creation with him. This is why Christ in 1 Corinthians 15 is the heavenly man. God made a soulish body in Genesis 2, but the resurrected body is a spiritual body. It is fully animated by the Holy Spirit, and Christ as Last Adam brings the whole creation up with him.

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Today at Disneyland - Blast to the Past 5-2 to 5-6, 1988

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Noel by Prof. J. R. R. Tolkien

Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains’ teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a sword leapt from its sheath.

The lord of snows up-reared his head; His mantle long and pale Upon the bitter blast and spread And hung o’er hill and dale. The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All the ways and paths were wild: Then the veil of cloud apart was rent, And here was born a Child.

The ancient dome of heaven sheer Was pricked with distant light; A star came shining white and clear Alone above the night. In the dale of dark in that hour of birth One voice on a sudden sang: Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth Together at midnight rang.

Mary sang in this world below: They heard her song arise O’er mist and over mountain snow To the walls of Paradise, And the tongue of many bells was stirred In Heaven’s towers to ring When the voice of mortal maid was heard, That was the mother of Heaven’s King.

Glad is the world and fair this night With stars about its head, And the hall is filled with laughter and light, And fires are burning red. The bells of Paradise now ring With bells of Christendom, And Gloria, Gloria we will sing That God on earth is come.

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Prayers for Charles Coulombe, who was taken to the hospital today.

oh no, of course i will i love that man

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AI generated art of Ancient Rome

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Golden Age Hollywood was “a Jewish-owned business selling Catholic theology to American Protestants”

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King Arthur, his knights of the Roundtable and Pentecost

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Romeo and Juliet, Frank Dicksee, 1824 / Romeo and Juliet, Julius Kronberg, 1886.

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Children reenacting Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem during the Children’s Holy Thursday Procession in Tunja, Colombia. (Photographer: unnamed - Associated Press)

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CHRIST IS RISEN! HAPPY EASTER!

¡CRISTO VIVO! Feliz Pascua de Resurrección!

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“Why do you seek the Living One among the dead? He is not here but He has been raised.”

- Luke 24

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“The whole earth keeps silent because the King is asleep.”

Happy Holy Saturday

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A Good Friday procession in Magelang, Indonesia. (Credit: Citta Yowati - AFP/Getty)

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He was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; by His wounds we are healed.

-Isaiah 53

Have a Blessed Good Friday.

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