Pope Paul VI writes in one of his homilies: "Not to preach the Gospel would be my undoing, for Christ Himself sent me as His apostle and witness. The more remote, the more difficult the assignment, the more my love of God spurs me on. I am bound to proclaim that Jesus is Christ, the Son of the living God. Because of Him we come to know the God we cannot see. He is the firstborn of all creation; in Him all things find their being. Man's teacher and redeemer, He was born for us, died for us, and for us He rose from the dead...
I can never speak of Christ for He is our truth and our light; He is the way, the truth and the life. He is our bread, our source of living water who allays our hunger and satisfies our thirst. He is our shepherd, our leader, our ideal, our comforter and our brother...Jesus Christ is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, Lord of the new universe, the great hidden key to human history and the part we play in it...
Remember it is Jesus Christ I preach day in and day out. His name I would see echo and reecho for all time even to the ends of the earth."
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
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