Risen with Him (2)

Purity of Christ Vs impurity of the world

Risen with Him

①Revelation Vs Knowlesge

②Purity of Christ Vs Impurity of the World

The Bread of LifeAnd Jesus said to

them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes

to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. Jn 6:35

St Cyril of Alexandria On Jn 6

For as if one took a spark and buried it amid much stubble, in

order that the seed of fire preserved might lay hold on it,

so in us too our Lord Jesus Christ hideth life through His Own Flesh, and inserts it as a

seed of immortality, abolishing the whole corruption that is in

us.

The Catholic Epistle

11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and

this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son

has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 1 Jn 5:11,12

St. Cyril of Alexandria

"He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same

way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that

has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two

candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and

Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is

in Christ and Christ is in him,”

Liturgy of St Cyril of Alexandria

Give your Ear, O Lord, and hear us, who now submit to you, cleanse our inner person as the purity of your Only

Begotten son, He who we wish to partake of.

Application

1. Ask yourself ; is the Purity of His Begotten Son is a Target in my life?

2. Does communion become a just a blessed habit I my life?

3. What about liturgy after Liturgy?

4. Resurrection is a true unity with the Risen Lord in the Eucharist? Where are you ?

St Cyril of Alexandria

“If the poison of pride is swelling up in you, turn to the Eucharist;

and that Bread, Which is your God humbling and disguising Himself,

will teach you humility. If the fever of selfish greed rages in you, feed on this Bread; and you will learn generosity …..and the spotless

Flesh of Christ will make you pure and chaste.”