Mind of christ

2 corinthians 2:10-16; Psalm 145 The Lord is just in all his ways; Luke 4:31-37


What a bold statement put forth by St. Paul, "we have the mind of Christ."

How many of us would stand up and face the world and proclaim such a statement? how many of us would have the audacity to let those words echo forth from our larnyx?

Hopefully, many of us would, especially those who are in union with the Catholic church. The church is the one who recieves the deposit of grace, the gift of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus reminds us, "I will send the paraclete to remind you all that I taught and did" and again "I will not leave you orphans" and again, "I will be with you to the end of the age" and again in the upper room to the aposltes, "receieve the Holy SPirit, whose sins you forgive are forgiven whose sins you retain are retained" and finally at the great commission "go forth to baptise, to teach, to make disciples."



St. Paul is not speaking personally in the above statement, rather he is speaking with the voice of the Church, "We have the mind of Christ." The Church has been entrusted with this deposit of grace, this deposit of faith, this treasure of the ages, beyond any price.

"We have the mind of Christ" the collective and universal, one, holy, catholic, apostolic, "we." How glorious, how beautiful, how marvelous is our God to give us such a mother who bears the "mind of Christ" for all.

As we say at mass, "look not on our sins but on the faith of your church."

So we have the mind of Christ...our audacity,our boldness comes from the Church...what relief, what a gift, what great joy, more importantly what a mind to have, to think with the church is to think with the mind of Christ.