LOVE STORY BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen looks at how the relationship between God and his people is one vast love story.

THE BRIDEGROOM, FAITHFUL HUSBAND TO HIS BRIDE

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen declares that God displays His unbounded spousal faithfulness by making a new, internalized covenant with humanity.

IF WE ARE FAITHLESS, HE REMAINS FAITHFUL

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen describes the history of God’s people as a continual cycle of forgetting God and being unfaithful to Him, while He in turn never ceases to call them to sincere repentance and the fullness of life.

THE KING BRIDEGROOM ON HIS WEDDING DAY

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen identifies the wedding day of the Son of God with His people as the day of His crucifixion, through which He gives the ultimate wedding gift of His life.

THE KING AND THE QUEEN MOTHER

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen links the Old Testament tradition of the wedding day of the king and the privileged role of the queen mother, with the New Testament miracle of Our Lord at the wedding at Cana.

THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE EVANGELIST

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen declares that humanity’s search for real love is satisfied only in God, just as John the Evangelist testified about Mary Magdalene encountering the resurrected Lord.

THE TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen discusses how the prophet Jeremiah's intense life was an example of living out God’s unending love for His people.

THE TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH, pt. 2

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen relates in the prophetic words of Isaiah that God loves His people in an everlasting covenant relationship, calling them to His life of righteousness.

THE TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH, pt. 1

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen recounts the prophecies of the prophet Isaiah, revealing that God is the bridegroom who rejoices over His bride, the people He created and calls His own, and with whom He wants to share His life forever.

IN THE BEGINNING

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen discusses how God calls His people to marriage with Him as His bride, relating that this wedded bliss was enjoyed by mankind in the beginning, and can be so again, if we listen to the voice of the Bridegroom.

THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, pt. 3

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen concludes his discussion of John the Baptist exhorting the people to listen to Jesus as the source of true, everlasting spiritual joy.

THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, pt. 2

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen continues his discussion of John the Baptist pointing the way to Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the people by laying down his life for them.

THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, pt. 1

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen discusses John the Baptist's announcement of Jesus as the heavenly bridegroom, who calls his people to his eternal wedding banquet.

GOD SPEAKS THROUGH SACRED SCRIPTURE

8/1/2014

Bishop Jan Liesen talks about how God communicates uninterruptedly with His Church, especially through Scripture, inviting His people to hear His voice in His own words, in order to love Him as their God.