Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places... This is a wonderful proclamation of God's purpose and plan for the whole work of redemption.
The Scripture passage quoted in the first sentence of the Prologue of the Catechism is from the Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians (1:3): "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places."
The entire sixth chapter of St. John's Gospel is about the Eucharist. The first half of that chapter is the story of the Feeding the Five Thousand, which is a symbol for the Eucharist, which Our Blessed Lord then explains in the second half of that chapter.
The first believers in Christianity lived in Jerusalem and in the area around the Sea of Galilee.
God is the father of believers and non believers. He is the father of all mankind. The first creation ADAM is the father of mankind.
Roman Catholic AnswerCatholic means universal, in this sense it means universal Christianity. The first believers were the Apostles and the disciples.
Andrew and John.
The bread. We are told that he took the cup "after supper" and blessed it.
The first work of fiction to be blessed by the Pope was "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by Lew Wallace. It was blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1890.
First of all, many passages in Ephesians seem to be directly copied from the presumably somewhat earlier Colossians.Ephesians is supposedly addressed to a community of only Gentile Christians, but some scholars doubt whether such a community existed in Pauline times, or even by the eighties, when Ephesians was written.The oldest and best manuscripts of Ephesians do not have the address to the Ephesians. The opening address to the Ephesians is probably a late addition.Apart from the the opening address, the epistle reads like an encyclical, not a letter to an individual community.
You will find your answer in the book of Ephesians, in chapter 6. There it is written: Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother: (which is the first commandment with promise;) The it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Genesis is the first BOOK of the Bible.Genesis 1 is the first chapter.
There are 26 pages in the first chapter.