1. If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
  2. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  3. Authentic proclamation, then, is the love of Christ for our souls, which we have seen and experienced through the under-shepherd’s pastoral care put into the words of Christ Himself.
  4. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  5. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  6. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
  7. Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
  8. Jesus speaks His Word, and a new world order emerges, with the possibility of uniting disparate parties in the true faith.
  9. The Word and the Spirit go together. The Spirit, the breath of God, illumines and makes alive through the Word of God; both written and external, that is, preached and sacramented.
  10. Paul is talking about military-level allegiance here, the strongest kind of allegiance sworn to a king.
  11. By making a big deal of every baptism, of every confirmation, of every rite of matrimony, the Church takes a stand against the intrusion of consumerism, secularism, identity politics, subversive subcultures, gender dysphoria, and the like.
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