The New Creation
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- What is the New Creation? Did the New Creation begin already? What does Easter have to do with the New Creation? And what are the readings at Mass for the Easer vigil telling us about this new creation?
If you've ever wanted to get a better grasp of this concept of the New Creation, or perhaps if you've ever wondered why Christians now worship on Sundays (the "New Sabbath", in the New Order of Creation), or perhaps why we baptize new Catholics at Easter, check out this video with Dr. Brant Pitre where he will discuss these topics and more.
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You have a gift from God to explain so clearly
Phew! So many layers of enlightenment to God’s Word! Thank you for increasing our faith during this Holy Week. God bless you 🙏🏼❤️
Easter vigil Mass is extraordinary, beautiful, spiritual and I will miss going this year! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Great words... JESUS THE TRUE LIGHT
Praise Be To Jesus Christ Amen
John 12:46 Jesus said: I have come as a light to shine in this dark world.
Great Exegesis of the verses....you bring it all to light...thanks Dr. Pitre....Peace of Christ.... There should be a Million followers of this Channel
Thank you
1Corinthians 13:4-13
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perservers.... When I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me..... And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Makes pretty good sense. The baptism on ressurection day, thru the spirit and water, gives the new borns True Light at the beginning of creation.
Dr. Pitre is a priceless gift to catholic faith. God bless you!
an article I had published in the Greensboro, NC News and Record, 12 years ago..
Baptism provides path for rebirth, salvation
• By Glenn Lanham Special to the News & Record
• Sep 8, 2008
Are you born again?
Living here in the Bible Belt, someone will almost surely ask you this before you die. Usually they mean, “Have you given your heart to Jesus to make him your personal Lord and Savior and have you stepped out in faith?”
This is a wonderful and even necessary thing to do. It is also an action based on their interpretation of John 3:1-21, but it doesn’t have much to do with the text or context of the passage.
The early church, in fact, focused on John 3:5: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.” The early church unanimously interpreted this passage as referring to baptism and has continued to do so for 2000 years. Any other interpretation is very recent, in church years.
Look at the context: In John 1:33, John the Baptist speaks of baptism in water and Spirit. Look as well at John 7:38-39, or John 9:7, where the man born blind went and washed, and then he could see; or John 13: 8, where Jesus says, “Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.” (We receive our inheritance as adopted sons and daughters of God when we are justified, or freed, from our sins). You can also play some “Bible trivia”: Count how many times the words water, baptism, baptized or Spirit appear in the first nine chapters of John’s Gospel.
Other passages in the Bible uphold this, as well. Titus 3:5 says, “Not because of any righteous deeds we had done, but because of His mercy, He saved us through the bath of rebirth, and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” Note the three themes of water, Spirit and rebirth, just like in John 3.
In Ezekiel 36:25-26 we read: “I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities.” In 1 Peter 3: 20-21, we read about Noah’s ark: “This prefigures baptism, which saves you now.”
The early church fathers understood this clearly, and unanimously declared this interpretation of the Scriptures. Irenaeus of Lyons, a grand-disciple of St. John the Evangelist, wrote: “Naaman ... was purified upon his being baptized. ... For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord ... being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes ...” He then goes on to quote John 3:5. (Letters, 190 A.D.)
Athanasius of Alexandria, the great defender of the Trinity against the Arian heresy, wrote: “As we are all from earth and die in Adam, so being regenerated from above of water and spirit, in the Christ we are all quickened.” (Four Discourses, 360 A.D.)
St. Augustine of Hippo, some 200 years after Irenaeus, wrote, “Those who, though they have not received the washing of regeneration, die for the confession of Christ - it avails them just as much for the forgiveness of their sins as if they had been washed in the sacred font of baptism. For He that said ‘if anyone is not reborn of water and Spirit, he will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” (City of God, 419 A.D.)
Of course, baptism is the sacrament of faith, and faith is necessary for salvation, as well. See Mark 16:16 and Acts 16:31.
So when someone asks you, have you given your heart to Jesus, I hope you say, of course! If they ask, “Are you born again?” say yes, I was baptized and I believe! I was born again in baptism!
Glenn Lanham lives in High Point.
Thank you so much Dr.Pitre..🙏😇❤️
Dr Pitre
You make the difficult easy to understand.
Love you books. Your work has deepened my faith. I share your insights with my CCD students.
Happy Easter
Thank you for the amazing content Dr.Pitre. Your videos are very informational and very helpful.
easy to understand. Thank you Dr. Pitre.
Amen.
Thank you, I enjoy watching your videos
eye opening Thank you God bless
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Wish I had your knowledge for our faith! Haha!
I m very jealous and zealous of your proficiency. You are endowed. God bless you sir.
Hello Catholic Productions, would you please consider moving the camera so that Dr. Pitre looks like he's talking to the viewers and not an invisible audience?
Jericho Leon : “how about listening to this precious piece with eyes wide shut.”
I actually like the way it’s POV gives it a 3 eye view which I’ve admired about this production, not like any others that’s for sure, but yes please try to consecrate on the message!
@@cornelio7694 Sorry Jose and Horna, you are both right.
Jesus is also the light in the new beginning because according to Book of Revelation, there will be no more suns or stars....God will be the light that shines from the throne...So God was the light in the beginning, when he came to the world, and also in the new world to come
Why does the Church read Genesis 1 on the sabbath and not on the first day?
Incidentally, Sunday is the first day of the week.
What about the sun bbeen made around the 3rd or 4th day. ??
Sun was made to mark the day, which so far of genesis is the time for God’s each specific work of creation. That sounds work is over = ‘day’ is over. In hindsight, He effectively demonstrated us that day is for work and night is for rest.
Though scientists may disagree one can argue that God maintains light of the day and sun separately but in sync, just as God singlehandedly manage 75 billion souls ‘independently’ on earth.
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Amen
The last sentence is sort of concerning. Did Dr Pitre mean God created Jesus who is the Light of the world? Isn't Jesus existing with God the Father and is not made.
Also light on the first day are angels. Thus Lucifer who was the bearer of light as he was the leader if the angels?
Sun was made to mark the day, which so far of genesis is the time for God’s each specific work of creation. That sounds work is over = ‘day’ is over. In hindsight, He effectively demonstrated us that day is for work and night is for rest.
Though scientists may disagree one can argue that God maintains light of the day and sun separately but in sync, just as God singlehandedly manage 75 billion souls ‘independently’ on earth.
yea ok- i can t accept the parallel of new creation on sunday as the first day.. ; he was put to death on the eve of the shabbath and resurrected 3 days later... no 3 days there. unless he died on th-or day ze-us day thursday.
Peace be to you... I know I heard Brant Pitre talk about this very topic a year ago. I just did a quick search over at the Catholic Answers website and found this which might help you...
“When Scripture indicates that Jesus rose on the first day of the week, therefore, it means that he rose on the day that began at sunset on Saturday and lasted until sunset on Sunday. Since we are told his tomb was found empty “after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week” (Matt. 28:1), he must have risen between sunset Saturday and dawn Sunday. Whether this was before or after midnight Scripture does not say. He might have risen either Saturday night or Sunday morning before dawn, though, for purposes of determining when he was crucified, it doesn’t matter.
“In the Bible, parts of time units were frequently counted as wholes. Thus a king might be said to have reigned for two years, even if he reigned for only fourteen months. In the same way, a day and a night does not mean a period of twenty-four hours. It can refer to any portion of a day coupled with any portion of a night. The expression “three days and three nights” could be used as simply a slightly hyperbolic way of referring to “three days.”
As Protestant Bible scholar R. T. France notes: “Three days and three nights was a Jewish idiom to a period covering only two nights” (Matthew, 213).
Similarly, D. A. Carson, regarded as one of the deans of conservative Protestant Bible exegesis, explains: “In rabbinical thought a day and a night make an onah, and a part of an onah is as the whole. . . . Thus according to Jewish tradition, ‘three days and three nights’ need mean no more than ‘three days’ or the combination of any part of three separate days” (Expositor’s Bible Commentary, 8:296).”
The article I read is here:
www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/crucifixion-wednesday
Why Keep showing ARTs thati mslead??? Is really ART about nakedness must be included ???? The teaching of Chosen Man of GOD was great just corruptef by lovers of the unseen spirit of this world used to confused the Mankind.. Art is Art but Man invented imaginations provoked GOD.. No Man is great only Words comes out from Man came from GOD
God bleds Dr. Pitre..
1Corinthians 3:18
Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.