The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 25, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 19, 1958 Page: 4 of 28
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prise of God appearing all of a sudden in the Gospels in
human form, it is necessary to read the Old Testament
where the grandeur of God is sung, where it is even af-
firmed that to see God, to represent Him or imagine Him
is impossible.
Savior of Men: When one has known the drama of the
Old Testament, where man was separated from God, con-
demned to death, it is possible to understand the grace
given us when Jesus reclaimed us from the empire of dark-
ness and transferred us to the Kingdom of Light.
We must understand the Old Testament in order to
see the New Testament shine in all its brightness. If we
wish to know we must look into the two testaments, as
into a stereoscope where we see two different images in
relief. Only the Christian who knows Jesus in the two
testaments will see the person of Christ in all His magni-
ficence.
HOW TO READ THE GOSPELS
1. The Four Gospels by St. Matthew, St. Mark, St.
Luke, and St. John are the four principal accounts of the
life of Christ. Since our Missal gives only selected por-
tions of the Gospels, we ought to have a book of the Gos-
pels for daily reading.
2. Preferably we should read each Gospel separately.
What is called the four Gospels in harmony is always an
imperfect compilation. Each evangelist has a special mes-
sage. St. Matthew will show that Jesus was announced in
the Old Testament. St. Mark, the disciple of St. Peter,
echoes the preaching of St. Peter. He recalls details which
the others omitted. St. Luke tells us that Jesus died for us,
that He had compassion for us. He alone of all the evan-
gelists tells us the story of the Prodigal Son. St. John shows
us the Son of God and introduces us to the very threshold
of the Trinity.
3. When you have become familiar with the Gospels,
compare them to each other and refer from one to the
other. Then you can use a Harmony of the Gospels, as
prepared by Father Hartdegen, Father Thompson, or Father
Steinmueller. In these, the Four Gospels are arranged in
four parallel columns. You can see how they harmonize
and how they differ.
BOSSUET
“There is no page in the Bible where Christ is not
found. He is in Paradise; He is in the Deluge; He is in the
mountain; He is in the passage across the Red Sea; He is
in the desert; He is in the Promised Land; in the cere-
monies; in the sacrifices; in the (Continued on page 14)
October 19, 1958
4 OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
Isaias, Jeremias, Simeon, John the Baptist and St. Peter in
Chartres Cathedral. We see how God gradually prepared man-
kind through the Old Testament religion of Judaism for the
great blessings He wished to give them in the New Testament.
Christ appears to His apostles, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
Christ Himself, beginning with Moses, explained to His apostles
everything in the Holy Scriptures that pertained to Himself.
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W HEN some lay people asked a certain priest to
direct them to a good life of Christ, he inquired whether
they had ever read the Gospels. Very often we do not
think of the Gospels as a life of Christ.
“What we have seen with our eyes, heard with our
ears, touched with our hands,” St. John said, “we announce
to you.” This is the way those whose mission it was to
inform us spoke. They wrote down the very best of what
they had to tell us; and yet we do not read it. How can
we make Christians understand that not only the New
Testament, but the entire Bible, is the Book of Christ?
Christ Himself set the example. To the disciples of
Emmaus who were shaken in their faith, He recalled what
the prophets had said. “Beginning with Moses, He explain-
ed to them everything in the Scripture that pertained
to Him.” These men knew the Scriptures; they knew the
letter but they had not caught the deeper meanings, and
all of a sudden those texts, so often heard before, took on
a new life: “Did not our heart burn within us whilst He
spoke on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?”
The Apostles believed that the Old Testament spoke
of Christ. Read the speeches of St. Peter and St. Stephen
and St. Paul in the Acts of the Apostles. They continually
recall that Christ fulfilled’the promises made to the pat-
riarchs and prophets of- old.
The Fathers of the Church, even those who did not
come from Judaism, understood that the Old Testament
helped them to understand Christ. At the doors of the
Cathedrals which .they built to the Glory of Christ, one
can see the scenes of the Old Testament: creation, the de-
luge, the meeting between Melchisedech and Abraham,
the Kings of Judea, etc. They realized that the Old Testa-
ment, after leading mankind to the time of Christ, was
still a means by which we know Christ better.
The liturgy is equally convinced of this. Take for ex-
ample, the missal for the Midnight Mass of Christmas.
Read the Introit: “The Lord said to me: you are my Son,
today I have begotten thee.” The Communion verse: “In
the splendor of the saints I have begotten thee in my womb
before dawn.” The Introit for the Mass at dawn: “The
light will shine today upon us, for a Savior is born to us,
and He shall be called admirable, God, Prince of Peace,
the Father of the world to come, whose reign there shall
be no end.” The Mass of the day, Introit: “A child is born
to us, a son has been given to us, He carries upon his
shoulder the mark of his empire.” These texts do not be-
long to the New Testament but to the Old Testament.,Who
will say, however, that they do not speak of Christ? Who
will say that they do not, like the Gospels, help us know
the Savior?
Not all the pages of the Old Testament, it is true, have
this direct reference. It would be false and dangerous to
seek the figure of Christ in every verse of the Old Testa-
ment. The Old Testament speaks to us of Christ in a dif-
ferent manner. It teaches us to understand what such
names of Jesus as Son of Man, Son of God, Savior of Men
indicate.
Son of Man: Genesis, the Book of Ruth, the Books of
Kings, the Chronicles tell us about the forebears of Christ.
We meet there men who are caught between sin and the
desire for sanctity. If the story of David and that of the
Kings of Judea tell us that these men did evil in the eyes
of Yahweh, we are moved by the knowledge that they
were the ancestors of Christ.
Son of God: In order to catch the wonder and sur-
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of Christ? Who were they written by? Is it surprising
that these lives of Christ don’t always agree in details?
2. When these eye-witnesses realized who Christ
was, where could they go for a “history of the case”?
3. Discuss: “Did not our heart burn within us
whilst He spoke . . .?” Had Christ been speaking of
things in the Old or the New Testament?
4. What always happens when God appears to men:
Moses on Mt. Sinai; Peter, James, and John on Mt.
Tabor; St. Paul on the road to Damascus? What will
happen in heaven when men see God?
5. Discuss the term: Son of Man. Were the fore-
fathers of Christ always holy men?
6. The Old Testament begins with: “In the begin-
ning God . . .” and St. John’s Gospel with: “In the be-
ginning was the Word . . .” Compare and contrast these
two statements. What is John trying to say in the first
part of his Gospel?
7. For what did the Old Testament prepare' the
people of God? Is it any different today?
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