avenues of god_s revelation
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What do we reveal?-personality withaccompanying humanqualities and traits
-talents and strength
-Dreams and visions
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What can help us know others andourselves?
Words
Signs and SymbolsFeelings Attitudes and Values
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ow do we reveal ourselves?
Actions
elping
Visiting
Sharing!i"t giving
Words
#$plaining%alling
Writingdrawing
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ow does !od reveal?
&rincipal Avenues o" !od's (evelation
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A2 !od reveals imsel" in%reation“The heavens declare the glory of
God, and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.” Psalm 19!
"#ea$ty, a#$ndance, goodness andma%esty reveals the kind of &reatorwho s$pports o$r life on earth.
" He shares his creativity with $s #y
allowing $s to have dominion onother creat$res he made.
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*he #ucharistic &rayer V e$presses thisrecognition o" !od's sel" 6(evelation7
8Father in heaven4 you are the one !od4 livingand true2222Source o" li"e and goodness4 /ou have created all things
*o "ill /our creatures with every blessing And lead all men to the 5oy"ul vision o" /ourlight2222Father4 we acknowledge /our greatness9 All /our actions show /our wisdom and love4
/ou "ormed man in your own likeness and sethim over the whole world to serve /ou4 his%reator4 and to rule over all creatures2:
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12 Word01ible*he 1ible records !od's
entering into a special covenantrelationship with is chosen
people4 the race o" Abraham4 thepeople o" srael2
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“' will dwell in the midst of the 'sraelites and will #e their God.”
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#ucharistic prayer V
“(ven when man diso#eyed yo$ andlost yo$r friendship , )o$ did nota#andon him to the power of death, *$t
helped all men and find yo$. +gain and again yo$ offered acovenant to man, and thro$gh the prophets ta$ght him to hope for
salvation.”
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%2 &ersons
1.The &h$rch #y her life and works proclaim the “Good ews- of es$s.
Thro$gh chosen men and women,kings, %$dges, prophets, and priests, wise men preached the planof God for his people and in modern
times we have saints and martyrs ofthe &h$rch.
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!. es$s &hrist who himself is
the $ltimate revelation of theinvisi#le God.
D2 ,iturgy and Worship o" the%hurch
God contin$es to #e present in the
world today thro$gh the &h$rch in itswitness of loving service and thro$ghthe cele#ration of its &hrist" given /acraments.
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!od communicates to usthrough the Scriptures4
%hurch4 &ersons especially the&erson o" %hrist and in ourliturgies where we meet the
(isen %hrist2
#$position7
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%learly indicates the purposeo" !od "or revealing imsel"2e wants us to share in hisdivine li"e and bring us to ourawareness that we are
created "or him to know4 toserve and to love him2
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!od reveals to us imsel" 7
his good nature 4 hisdesires4 @loving plan4 how
this plan is "ul"illed in3esus %hrist and his "inalgoal o" being in "ellowship
with all o" us2
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3ohn =7B-C - 3esus and the Samaritan Woman
1ackground7
SAEA(A @Sychar- SAEA(*A)Sout casts o" the 3ewish society because they were mi$ed blood
&alestine was a divided society longing "or thecoming o" the Eessiah to "ree them "rom the(oman mperialism2
*he encounter o" 3esus and the Samaritan is anencounter o" !od revealing himsel" to man2
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Signs o" !od's (evelation
)atural Sign-,anguage o" uman #$perienceEx. Spring of Living Water
1iblical Signs- ,anguage o" Words and #vents
Recollection of the patriarchal period where
Jacob brought his cattle to water them . The land wasgiven to Joseph.
#cclesial Sign 6,anguage o" Formulation
You are a prophet
essiah,iturgical Sign- ,anguage o" Symbolic Words
and !estures
!"onversion! intimate relationship with #od
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ow does !od reveal?
&rincipal Avenues o" !od's (evelation
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