God reveals His Son!

“Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for to such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Mark 10:14
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Sunday, December 30, 2018 Volume 6, Issue 52 Orthodox Christian Network

God reveals His Son to us!

Have you ever found a word in the
Bible that you don’t understand? Sometimes
grown-ups even have to find out what a word
means.
In the epistle reading today, Saint Paul tells us
where the gospel, the good news, came from.
“For I did not receive it from man, nor was I
taught it, but it came through a revelation of
Jesus Christ.” Do you know what the word
“revelation” means? A revelation means some-
thing that is revealed, something that is shown.
Saint Paul means that God showed him something. God showed him the
way with Jesus Christ.
Later on, Saint Paul says that God “was pleased to reveal his Son to me.”
God showed Jesus to him. God showed him the way to our Lord, Jesus
Christ.

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Did you know that God can reveal His Son to us too? God shows us His
Son, Jesus Christ, when we read the Bible. He shows us His Son when we
go to church and receive Holy Communion. He shows us His Son when we
pray to Him, together with our friends at church, or when we pray alone.
Let’s ask God to reveal His Son to us, so we can be more like our Lord, Je-
sus Christ!
WORD SEARCJ H SAINT MELANIA, THE YOUNGER
W H K H R H L L R V N W S Y
Can you find these words THE NUN OF ROME
E R E W N T D A S N S P H H E
in the jumble? S H I Z L U S E N H I J H C T Have you ever ridden by some
U T H A Y Z Y V L H O U L F K super fancy, super huge houses, and won-
S L E U V A D E T H W W F A K
dered what it would be like to live there?
JERUSALEM C W E W S R I R P L Y Q R N Z
JESUS CHRIST H M N E T G E N O N X H R H Z Tomorrow we celebrate Saint Melania, a per-
LOVE FOR GOD R K U C M E R V A D O R D U M son who did live in one of those kinds of
MELANIA I L X V Q I E D M L X G J A X
houses, and she gave it all up. One historian
REVEAL S P M P V F E B E H E J A W Q
SAINT T N L I O H O O R O X M C K O wrote about her life, just a few years after
SHOW R Y R R I W Z V K H A E M F F Melania died. He wrote about how much
WEALTH Y H G P R Q Y O I N G W T I O money and land her family had when she was
Y O M E L A S U R E J X J P X a child. “On one side lay the sea and on the
D G R Q S A I N T C A R C P Y other some woodland with animals for hunt-
ing, so that when she was bathing in the pool, she could see ships
passing by and animals in the woods. The property also included 60
large houses, each with 400 servants.” Wow! 60 houses, and 24,000
servants. Can you even imagine that?
What’s in an icon? But Saint Melania wasn’t impressed! Saint Melania wanted to dedicate her
life to Christ. When she was a young woman, she got married, but sadly,
If you ever go to Jerusalem, you her two children died. She and her husband gave away all that treasure to
can visit a little chapel of Saint the church and to the poor. Then they traveled far away from Italy, to Af-
Melania. That is where her relics rica and later to the Middle East. They started convents and a church.
(her body) is.
Sometimes when we have something, we might want to have more and
In this picture, you can see a priest more. Saint Melania didn’t want to have more and more money. She
with an icon of Saint Melania. Do wanted to have more and more of Christ’s love! And isn’t that a better
you see how it is decorated with thing?
flowers for her feastday? We celebrate St. Melania on Monday, December 31st (Jan 13, OC).