“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a big fishing net, let down into the sea, in which every kind of fish has been caught. When the net is full, it is dragged ashore. Then they sit down and gather the good fish into buckets, but throw the bad away. That is how it will be at the end of time; the angels will go out to separate the wicked from the just, and to throw the wicked into the blazing furnace, where they will weep and gnash their teeth.
JESUS asked, ‘Have you understood all these things?’ ‘Yes,’ they answered. So HE said to them , ‘Therefore, every teacher of the law, who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who can produce from his store things both new and old.’
When JESUS had finished these parables, HE left the place.” – Matthew 13:47-53
(The Church has given the kingdom to those who entered, but some of them belong to the visible family of the chosen ones, without having the spirit of the kingdom.
By speaking of the net, JESUS reminds us that the first activity of the Church must be mission: “to catch people.” Many of them surely will not persevere, but a Church that closes itself would die.
How we would like to have a perfect Church made of upright persons, in which each one would discover the gifts of GOD! CHRIST, however, did not want a Church like that, nor is that the way for the Church to save the world.)
By speaking of the net, JESUS reminds us that the first activity of the Church must be mission: “to catch people.” Many of them surely will not persevere, but a Church that closes itself would die.
How we would like to have a perfect Church made of upright persons, in which each one would discover the gifts of GOD! CHRIST, however, did not want a Church like that, nor is that the way for the Church to save the world.)
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