1. JESUS CHRIST
Saviour
Servant Messiah

2. The only person ever pre-announced
• Lots of people claimed to have come from God.
• Only one man was pre-announced.
– In the Old Testament
– The Roman poets
– The Chinese
– The Greeks

3. BC | AD

4. Every other person
who ever came into
this world came into it
to live.
He came into it to die.
–Fulton Sheen

5. Why did God become man?
• To save us from eternal separation from God.
• That we might now how much God loves us.
• To show us how to be holy.
• To allow us to partake in the divine nature
See what love the Father has given us, that we
should be called children of God; and so we are.
1 John 3:1

6. What’s in a name?
Yeshua
Iēsoûs
God saves Jesus

7. • Born of a woman, He was a man and could be
one with all humanity; born of a Virgin, who
was overshadowed by the Spirit and "full of
grace," He would also be outside that current
of sin which infected all men.

8. He was fully human

9. Just a good man?
• Cannot be.
• He cannot fit into the category of ‘good man’.
• He said he was God – the Word of God made
man. If he wasn’t that, he was a liar.

10. Not just a man
• Either worship Him or despise Him.
• If He was who He said He was – He is God.
• He s the only one who can save us, can change
our lives.

11. A life spent in redeeming mankind
• Childhood
• The ‘hidden years’
• The public ministry
• Torture and death

12. Consequences
• We are destined for heaven!
• We can call God ‘Father’ – and mean it. Do we
act as if God is our Father?
– Dignity
– Confidence
– Trust, hope
• No evil can have final victory over us.

13. Are we grateful?
• What can we do to show our gratitude?

14. Christ’s example: the servant messiah

15. "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles
lord it over them, and their great men
exercise authority over them.
It shall not be so among you; but whoever
would be great among you must be your
servant, and whoever would be first among
you must be your slave; even as the Son of
man came not to be served but to serve, and
to give his life as a ransom for many."

16. When he had washed their feet,
and taken his garments, and
resumed his place, he said to
them, "Do you know what I
have done to you?
You call me Teacher and Lord;
and you are right, for so I am.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet, you also
ought to wash one another's
feet.
For I have given you an
example, that you also should
do as I have done to you.

17. ‘Do as I have done to you.’
• Can you think of some who have lived this life
of service well?
– A parent? A teacher? Someone inspiring? A saint?

19. St Maximilian Kolbe
• “I am only a Catholic priest from
Poland. Let me take his place.
I am old. He has a wife and
children.”

20. Bl. Teresa of Calcutta

21. Bl.
Teresa of
Calcutta

23. • “God still loves the world and He sends you
and me to be His love and His compassion to
the poor.”
• “Come be My light…I cannot go alone.”
• People ask, ‘Where do the sisters get the joy
and energy to do what they are doing?’

25. St Damien of Molokai
When Joseph de Veuster was born in,
Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe
had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy
(Hansen's disease). By the time he died at the
age of 49, people all over the world knew about
this disease because of him. They knew that
human compassion could soften the ravages of
this disease.

26. Montserrat Grases
• Young girl who wanted to be holy and life a full
live.
• Normal intelligence. Liked athletics.
• Prayer.
• Talking to her friends.
Eager for her friends
to grow closer to Jesus.

27. Cancer
• At the age of 17.
• Serenity
• “I’m not afraid of pain because
I think that if I’m faithful to God
each day in what he asks of me, he will help me
when the hard part comes.”
• Natural, cheerful, joking about her illness.
• Faithful to her prayer even during the pain and
the times of anxiety.
• “I’m not afraid of pain because I think that if I’m
faithful to God each day in what he asks of me, he
will help me when the hard part comes.”

28. Inspired many people
around her to try to be
holy in their ordinary
lives. Everything we do
– our prayer, our work,
our study, our
friendships, our family
duties: all these are
wonderful offerings to
God, and instruments
to make others happy.

29. Pope Benedict XVI
• Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger
• Life of service as a pastor and a teacher.
• Ministering to the body (feeding the
hungry, etc.) is very important. Ministering to
the soul is even more vital.
• Helping others understand who God is, and
how to live a good life, is VERY important.
Leading others to God and to heaven.

30. “No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one
is saved alone. The lives of others continually
spill over into mine: in what I think, say, do and
achieve. And conversely, my life spills over into
that of others: for better and for worse. So my
prayer for another is not something extraneous
to that person, something external, not even
after death.”

32. The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were
not created for an easy life, but for great things,
for goodness. - Pope Benedict XVI

33. I am a link in a chain
God has created me to do him some definite
service; he has committed some work to me
which he has not committed to another.
I have my mission - I may never know it in
this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have
a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a
bond of connection between persons.
- Bl. John Henry Newman

34. Lent
• Spring, repentance, regrowth.
• Responding to the great love that Jesus
showered on us.
• Prayer, fasting, alms-giving.
• Learning to say ‘no’ to your desires. Learning
to trust in God. Getting closer to your brothers
and sisters who are suffering.

35. Some ideas

36. Prayer
• Spend 10 minutes talking with God – about your
friends’ needs, about yourself, your family.
• Read the New Testament for 3 minutes every
night, to get to know Jesus better.
• Wake up early and go for one weekday Mass each
week.
• Pray a decade of the Rosary every night.
• Pray for a friend in need.
• Pray for the Church.

37. Sacrifice
• Give up something you like (chocolates,
computer games, hand phone games)
• At meals, serve yourself with a bit more of the
food that you don’t like.
• At meals, finish everything on your
plate.
• Do not listen to music for a portion
of your study time

38. Service
• Lend a listening ear to a friend.
• Ask a friend how he/she is.
• Do something to cheer up a friend who is
stressed/unhappy.
• Invite a friend to Mass.
• Invite your family to pray together.
• Volunteer at an old folks’ home (Gift of Love
Home, for e.g.)
• Save up some money and donate it to charity.