WE MUST TAKE UP THE CROSS DAILY-THE TRANSFIGURATION -ELIAS. be rejected by the ancients and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day rise again. ... Go behind me, Satan; thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men. IF any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of man shall be ashamed, when he shall come in his majesty, and that of his Father, and of the holy angels. AMEN I say to you, that there are some of them that stand here, who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God coming in power-till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. Arise, and fear not. . . . Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead. ... ELIAS indeed shall come, and restore all things; but I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him not, but have done unto him what THE DEAF AND DUMB SPIRIT CAST OUT-THE SON OF MAN TO BE DELIVERED UP-JESUS PAYS TRIBUTE. soever they had a mind. So also the Son of man shall suffer from them. WHAT do you question about among you? ... O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? Bring him hither to me.... How long time is it since this hath happened unto him?... If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.... Deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee, go out of him. . . . Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, 39 you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you. -If you had faith like to a grain of mustardseed, you might say to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.-But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting. LAY up in your hearts these words, for it shall come to pass, that the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day. WHAT is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or MIRACLE OF THE FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES-PETER mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it. He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. And whosoever shall give to drink to one of those little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. ... COME apart into a desert place, and rest a little. ... They have no need to go: give you them to eat. Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?... How many loaves have you? go and Bring them hither to me.... Make them sit down by fifties in a company.... Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost. see.... BE of good heart: it is I; fear ye not....Come. ...O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? AMEN, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not MYSTERY OF THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST. ... because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God the Father sealed. . . . This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he hath sent. Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world. . . . I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger; and he that believeth in me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, that you also have seen me, and you believe not. All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out. Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. Now this is the will of the Father who sent me that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day. And this is the will that every one who of my Father that sent me seeth the Son, and believeth in him, may have life everlasting; and I will raise him up in the MYSTERY OF THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST. last day.... Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him;30 and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets: "And they shall all be taught of God." Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me. Not that any man hath seen the Father; but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it he may not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. . . . Amen, amen, I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.31 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I |