Saturday of Week 28 in Ordinary Time - Luke 12: 8-12

<p>To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from <em>Logical Bible Study, </em>go to: <a href="https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p</a></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Luke 12: 8-12 </strong>- 'If you declare yourselves for me, I will declare myself for you.'</p><p><br /></p><p><em>Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:</em></p><p><strong>- 333 (in 'Christ with all his angels') </strong>- Again, it is the angels who "evangelize" by proclaiming the Good News of Christ's Incarnation and Resurrection. They will be present at Christ's return, which they will announce, to serve at his Judgement (abbreviated).</p><p>- <strong>1864 (in      'The Different Kinds of Sins') </strong>- “Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit. Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.</p><p><strong>- JPII's encyclical, </strong><strong>Dominum Et Vivificantem </strong><strong>(On The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World, paragraph 46):</strong></p><p>"Why is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit unforgivable? How should this blasphemy be understood ? St. Thomas Aquinas replies that it is a question of a sin that is "unforgivable by its very nature, insofar as it excludes the elements through which the forgiveness of sin takes place."</p><p>According to such an exegesis, "blasphemy" does not properly consist in offending against the Holy Spirit in words; it consists rather in the refusal to accept the salvation which God offers to man through the Holy Spirit, working through the power of the Cross. If man rejects the "convincing concerning sin" which comes from the Holy Spirit and which has the power to save, he also rejects the "coming" of the Counselor-that "coming" which was accomplished in the Paschal Mystery, in union with the redemptive power of Christ's Blood: the Blood which "purifies the conscience from dead works."</p><p>We know that th