"Who is Jesus Christ? People have been asking this question for two thousand years. The search for the answer beings with the four Gospels, but how are they to be understood? Sunday after Sunday, Christoph Cardinal Schonborn explains the Gospel in an understandable way. By following the Gospels over the course of a year, there emerges in this book a comprehensive picture of Jesus."--BOOK JACKET.

Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, is a renowned spiritual teacher and writer. He was a student of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and with him was co-editor of the monumental Catechism of the Catholic Church. He has authored numerous books including Jesus, the Divine Physician, Chance or Purpose?, Behold, God's Son, and Living the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Foreword

11

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Introduction

13

(8)

Advent and the Christmas Season

First Sunday of Advent

21

(3)

Therefore You Must Be Ready

Second Sunday of Advent

24

(3)

One Who Pointed the Way

Third Sunday of Advent

27

(3)

Who Is the Savior?

Fourth Sunday of Advent

30

(3)

Christmas---No Fairy Tale

Christmas

33

(3)

God's Light Has Appeared

Feast of the Holy Family

36

(3)

Herod or Joseph

Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God

39

(3)

Astonishment in Bethlehem

Epiphany of the Lord

42

(3)

The Star of Bethlehem

Baptism of the Lord

45

(6)

In Our Midst

Ordinary Time

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

51

(3)

Mozart and the Lamb

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

54

(3)

So It Began

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

57

(3)

Happy, but Not Simple

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

60

(3)

Foolish Salt

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

63

(4)

A Different System of Values

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

67

(3)

Somebody Has to Begin

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

70

(3)

No One Cares Like That

Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

73

(3)

Build the House of Your Life!

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

76

(3)

I Desire Mercy!

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

79

(3)

The Harvest Is Great

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

82

(3)

Even the Sparrows

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

85

(3)

Love of Parents---Love of God

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

88

(3)

Come to Me

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

91

(3)

A Sower Went out to the Field

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

94

(3)

Weeds Do Perish

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

97

(3)

The Most Valuable Find

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

100

(3)

Much More Than I Have

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

103

(3)

Thank You, Peter!

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

106

(3)

Two Types of Mercy

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

109

(3)

On This Rock

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

112

(3)

Behind Me, You Satan!

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

115

(3)

Tell Me My Faults!

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

118

(3)

How Difficult Is Forgiving?

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

121

(3)

Sharing Another's Joy without Envy

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

124

(3)

The Prostitutes Will Enter before You Do

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

127

(3)

The Fruits Count

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

130

(3)

Invitation Rejected

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

133

(3)

. . . And to God, What Is God's

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

136

(3)

And Have Not Love . . .

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

139

(3)

The Best Seats

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

142

(3)

So Be Ready!

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

145

(3)

God's Trustees

Christ the King

148

(5)

Everything Is Decided Today

Lent and the Easter Season

First Sunday of Lent

153

(3)

The Devil Is Finished

Second Sunday of Lent

156

(3)

Unforgettable Hour!

Third Sunday of Lent

159

(4)

Give Me a Drink

Fourth Sunday of Lent

163

(3)

Seeing or Blind?

Fifth Sunday of Lent

166

(4)

Lazarus, Come Out!

Palm Sunday

170

(3)

Sorrow and Easter Joy

Good Friday

173

(3)

Thoughts on the Passion in the Gospel of John

Easter

176

(3)

He Is Not Here

Second Sunday of Easter

179

(3)

Doubting Thomas

Third Sunday of Easter

182

(3)

Life Goes On

Fourth Sunday of Easter

185

(3)

The Door to Life

Fifth Sunday of Easter

188

(3)

The Journey Is the Goal

Sixth Sunday of Easter

191

(3)

The Other Comforter

Ascension of Christ

194

(3)

Jesus Kept His Word

Seventh Sunday of Easter

197

(3)

To the Glory of God

Pentecost

200

(5)

Reason Enough to Celebrate!

Feasts in the Church Year

Trinity Sunday

205

(3)

Save, Do Not Condemn!

Corpus Christi

208

(3)

Jesus---Life-Giving Food!

Immaculate Conception of Mary

211

(3)

Mary, the Favored One

Assumption of Mary

214

(3)

A Celebration against Gravity

All Saints

217

(4)

The Stuff Saints Are Made Of

List of Illustrations

221

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Scripture Index

223

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