No, Jesus is God, and God doesn’t have need of any help. That’s inherent in the definition of God. If God needed help, He wouldn’t be perfect, and so He wouldn’t be God.
No, Jesus is God, and God doesn’t have need of any help. That’s inherent in the definition of God. If God needed help, He wouldn’t be perfect, and so He wouldn’t be God.
During Rick Santorum's run, we created a Facebook Page called "Adoration for Santorum," whereby people who joined up agreed to offer some of their Eucharistic Adoration time (that's time in a chapel where Christ is exposed in a monstrance), for Rick's campaign. We met the most prayerful people on that page. One such person was Cheryl McDonough, a young wife and mother (in her 40s) who had eight living children (one misscarry at 12 weeks), ranging from very young to one who was married with her own child.
During the course of Rick's campaign, Cheryl visited her doctor to receive some medication for what she thought was pneumonia, but came back to Facebook to tell us all that she was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. (She was given until January or February 2013 to live.)
After my husband and I were able to meet her personally in the summer of 2012 [her family lives in Minnesota], her "concerned" husband, her two youngest children, and an older one who was attending college in a town next to ours [in Illinois], we walked away even further touched by her sweet love of Jesus, and according to her Facebook commentary, she affected all who met her --whether in person or not-- in much the same way.
Holly Elizabeth Wilborn What a role model. I didn't even know you, but I miss you so much. October 10, 2012 at 8:10pm
On the day she died (October 8, 2012), crying buckets of tears, not understanding why Christ would take such a saintly woman with such young children and a beautiful family, who was doing so much Good on this earth, (as a way of offering consolation) my husband replied, "maybe Jesus 'needed' Cheryl." Hence my reply to you.
Cheryl's FB albums (and inspiring commentary) can be viewed by the public at this address:
https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.mcdonough.9?hc_location=timeline
Saints walk among us ♥ Cheryl McDonough, please pray for us...
“Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats 19 my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum
Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?
What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.
And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”
As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him
Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?”
He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve.” [John 6: 49-71]