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This is a book of wisdom and insight that explains how providential are the trials through which the Catholic Church is now passing. Topics covered include: • The need of the papal primacy to ensure Christian unity • The true meaning of the priesthood as a sacrament and not a mere ministry • The necessity of the Eucharist as the sacrifice of the Savior now offering Himself on our...

of God is part of this Kingdom. “Jesus’ very belief that the end was near would have made him desire to gather the eschatological people of God.”7 In postexilic prophecy, the coming of the Kingdom is preceded by the prophet Elijah or by the always anonymous “angel” who prepares the people for it. John the Baptist, precisely because he is the herald of the approaching Messiah, gathers and purifies the community of the end times. In an analogous fashion, Qumran had assembled as a community of the new
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