Who do you say that I am?

Choose the Jesus you like and explain the reason why you choose that depiction of Jesus.

THE BABY JESUS

SR. SANTO NIO

The Boy Jesus w/ Joseph

THE BOY JESUS AT THE TEMPLE

The Man Jesus with the Samaritan Woman

The Man Jesus as a Carpenter

Jesus in His Public Ministry Let the children come to me.

Jesus, the Good Shepherd

Jesus in the Synagogue at the beginning of his Public Ministry

Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount

Jesus, in Union with the Father

Jesus, the Teacher and Master

Jesus, on the Way to Calvary

JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS

The Black Nazarene of Quiapo

Jesus, the Divine Mercy

Jesus, the Risen Lord

Jesus, the Christ-King of Kings

Jesus, the Sacred Heart

The Modern-Day Jesus

SHARING
Share to your seatmate why you have chosen that picture of Jesus.

Assignment:
Name: Mother: Father: Birthdate: Place of Birth: Date of Death: Cause of Death: Residence: Gender: Civil Status: Wife: Education: Skills: Accomplishments: Occupation: Languages:

Is he a man or a God?
He is a Man: He is God:

Who is He?
The word Jesus is the Latin form of the Greek Iesous, which in turn is the transliteration of the Hebrew Jeshua, or Joshua, or again Jehoshua, meaning "Jehovah is salvation."

 The word Christ, Christos, the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew Messias, means "anointed." According to the Old Law, priests (Exodus 29:29; Leviticus 4:3), kings (1 Samuel 10:1; 24:7), and prophets (Isaiah 61:1) were supposed to be anointed for their respective offices; now, the Christ, or the Messias, combined this threefold dignity in His Person.

Present or Contemporary Time Political Leaders Religious Leaders

President-Sovereign Head Senators Law makers Congress-Law makers Governors- Province Mayors - Towns Barangay Captain Barangay

Nuncio ApostolicoPopes Representative Bishops- Dioceses Priests - Parishes Religious Leaders

Religious Priests Religious Nuns

Time of Yeshua (63 BCE 135 CE) Political Leaders Religious Leaders Emperor Roman Empire Roman Procurator Country or Region Chief Priest of Jerusalem side by side with Local Kings as Vassals Herodians Sadducees- the Local Elite they usually make up the priestly aristocracy Chief Priest Administrator of Temple and all Religious Matters with his seat in Jerusalem Sanhedrin the highest tribunal or the Supreme Court Levites as Temple Servers Local Priests or Clergy and the Elders Scribes and Pharisess Essenes Zealots Publicans The Baptist Movements The people of the land Samaritans, Gentiles

What the Church Teaches

The Jesus of Faith

God has opened himself to us out of love. From creation on, through the patriarchs and the prophets down to the definitive REVELATION in his Son Jesus Christ, God has spoken again and again to mankind. In him he has poured out his heart to us and made his inmost being visible for us.

What does God show us about himself when he sends his Son to us? God shows us in Jesus Christ the full depth of his merciful love. [65-66, 73] Through Jesus Christ the invisible God becomes visible. He becomes a man like us. This shows us how far Gods love goes: He bears our whole burden. He walks every path with us. He is there in our abandonment, our sufferings, our fear of death. He is there when we can go no farther, so as to open up for us the door leading into life. 314

In Jesus Christ, God himself came to earth. He is Gods last Word. By listening to him, all men of all times can know who God is and what is necessary for their salvation. [66-67] With the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the REVELATION of God is perfect and complete. To make it comprehensible to us, the Holy Spirit leads us ever deeper into the truth. Gods light breaks so forcefully into the lives of many individuals that they see the heavens opened (Acts 7:56). That is how the great places of pilgrimage such as Guadalupe in Mexico or Lourdes in France came about. The private revelations of visionaries cannot improve on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No one is obliged to believe

INCARNATION (from the Latin caro, carnis = flesh, becoming flesh): Gods act of becoming man in Jesus Christ. This is the foundation of Christian faith and of hope for the redemption of mankind. In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son.Heb 1:1-2
Apart from Jesus Christ we do not know what God, life, death, and we ourselves are.

71 Why are the reports about Jesus called the Gospel, the Good News? Without the Gospels we would not know that God sends his Son to us men out of his infinite love, so that despite our sins we might find our way back to eternal fellowship with God. [422-429] The reports about the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus are the best news in the world. They testify that the Jew who was born in Bethlehem, Jesus of Nazareth, is Son of the living God (Mt 16:16) made man. He was sent by the Father so that all men might be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (cf. 1 Tim 2:4).

In the Roman catacombs we find an ancient Christian secret sign that was a profession of faith in Christ: the word ICHTHYS (= fish). If you spell the word out, each letter serves as the beginning of the Greek words Iesous, Christos, THeou (= of God), hYios (= Son), and Soter (= Savior). ICHTHYS ZONTON means: Fish of Life.

72 What does the name Jesus mean? Jesus means in Hebrew God saves. [430-435, 452] In the Acts of the Apostles Peter says, There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). This is essentially the message that all missionaries brought to people.

73 Why is Jesus called Christ? The brief formula Jesus is the Christ expresses the core of the Christian faith: Jesus, the simple carpenters son from Nazareth, is the longawaited Messiah and Savior. [436-440, 453] Both the Greek word Christos and the Hebrew word Messiah mean the Anointed One. In Israel kings, priests, and prophets were anointed. The APOSTLES learned that Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38). We are called Christians after Christ, as an expression of our exalted vocation.

Why did God become man in Jesus? For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven (Nicene CREED). [456-460] In Jesus Christ, God reconciled the world to himself and redeemed mankind from the imprisonment of sin. God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son (Jn 3:16). In Jesus, God took on our mortal human flesh (INCARNATION), shared our earthly lot, our sufferings, and our death, and became one like us in all things but sin. God is so great that he can become small. God is so powerful that he can make himself vulnerable and come to us as a defenseless child, so that we can love him.

What does it mean to say that Jesus Christ is at the same time true God and true man? In Jesus, God really became one of us and thus our brother; nevertheless, he did not cease to be God at the same time and thus our Lord. The Council of Chalcedon in the year 451 taught that the divinity and the humanity in the one person Jesus Christ are united together without division or confusion. [464-467, 469]