Do we have “Fellowship with Christ?”

In 1 John 1-6 It says  “If we say that we have fellowship with him,(Jesus) and walk in darkness, we lie, and we are not practicing the TRUTH.   1 John. 1-6

UN-interpreted Truth Is as Useless as Buried Gold.
I read this statement in my local newspaper which was written by Lytton Strachey, an English Biographer (1880-1932). It’s one of those statements you would expect from some pope or from Christ Himself. Our Lord did teach “seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” On the other hand the church also teaches that there isn’t any new Divine Revelation and that the deposit of faith is contained in the Scriptures and oral tradition as defined by the Councils and the Popes when speaking ex cathedra. 

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Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost by Monsignor Patrick J. Perez

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Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – July 8, 2012 by Monsignor Patrick J. Perez  or Lady Help of Christians Garden Grove, Ca.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

In today’s gospel, we have Our Lord feeding the multitudes on the loaves of bread and the fish which He miraculously multiplied. And this is not only a prefiguring of the Blessed Sacrament, meaning it’s a foreshadowing of it because you look at the language they used. He took the bread and giving thanks He broke it. Right? It starts out exactly like what?, you know. Last Supper. But then He gave it to the disciples to distribute to the people. He didn’t pronounce the words of Consecration over it. But notice at the end they collected the fragments. What do we do? We put the hosts that haven’t been consumed back into the Tabernacle. It was a prefiguring of that.

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