Three things I pray:
to know Jesus more personally,
to love Him more ardently,
and to follow Him more closely.
Some statements about Jesus from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
v “Jesus Christ is true God and true man, in the unity of his divine person; for this reason he is the one and only mediator between God and man.”
v “Christ, being true God and true man, has a human intellect and will, perfectly attuned and subject to his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common with the Father and the Holy Spirit.”
v “No one, whether shepherd or wise man, can approach God here below except by kneeling before the manger at Bethlehem and adoring him hidden in the weakness of a new-born child.”
v “By his obedience to Mary and Joseph, as well as by his humble work during the long years at Nazareth, Jesus gives us the example of holiness in the daily life of family and work.”
v “The temptation in the desert shows Jesus, the humble Messiah, who triumphs over Satan by his total adherence to the plan of salvation willed by the Father.”
v “The Kingdom of heaven was inaugurated on earth by Christ. The church is the seed and the beginning of this kingdom. Her keys are entrusted to Peter.”
v “Jesus went up to Jerusalem voluntarily, knowing well that there he would die a violent death because of the opposition of sinners.”
v “Jesus freely offered himself for our salvation. Beforehand, during the Last Supper, he both symbolized this offering and made it really present: ‘This is my body which is given for you.’
v “The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came ‘to give his life as a ransom for the many’ and that he ‘loved his own to the end’ so that they might be ransomed from the futile ways inherited from their fathers.”
v “By loving obedience to the Father, ‘unto death, even death on a cross’ Jesus fulfills the atoning mission of the suffering servant, who will ‘make many righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities.’
v “Faith in the Resurrection has as its object an event which is historically attested to by the disciples, who really encountered the Risen One. At the same time this event is mysteriously transcendent insofar as it is the entry of Christ’s humanity into the glory of God.”
v “Christ, ‘the first-born from the dead’ is the principle of our own resurrection, even now by the justification of our souls, and one day by the new life he will impart to our bodies.”
v “On Judgment Day at the end of the world, Christ will come in glory to achieve the definitive triumph of good over evil.”
“When he comes at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, the glorious Christ will reveal the secret disposition of hearts and will render to each man according to his work and according to his acceptance or refusal of grace.”
Quotations takes from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, pp 121, 145-146, 161, 171, 178