I opened the Bible one beautiful day and read: “And as they were coming down the mountain, he [Jesus] charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant” (Mk 9:9-10). “Tell no one what they had seen?” I asked myself, “Why the secrecy?”
The coming of Jesus 2000 years ago with His salvific Mission to redeem the fallen human race lost to sin was prophesied by Old Testament prophets throughout the centuries, so it should not have come as a surprise to those who were familiar with the Holy Scriptures; namely, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the scribes. But that is precisely what happened! And not only did they fail to recognize Him, they treated Him like a common criminal and had Him crucified.
QUESTION: “Why did these ‘experts in religion’ fail to recognize Jesus as the promised Messiah? Was critical information intentionally hidden from them?” After hundreds of years of prophecies about Him, what more information could they possibly have needed and wanted that was not given to them by the prophets – even by Jesus Himself? The answers to these intriguing questions, based on the obscure Messianic Secret, are revealed here in this fascinating and easy to read book.
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Juan Novo was born in Habana Cuba seven years before the communist Castro regime took totalitarian control of this burgeoning island paradise and turned it into an isolated, run down specter of her former glory. He came to the U.S.A. unaccompanied when he was nine years old through “Operation Pedro Pan,” a clandestine operation that succeeded in rescuing over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minor children from communist indoctrination and control by the communist Castro regime. The operation, which ended with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, was run and directed by Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh of the Catholic Welfare Bureau in Miami, Florida.
Deacon Jim McFadden was ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Sacramento in 2004. His parish ministries have included adult faith formation, baptismal preparation, spiritual direction, and prison ministry. He has taught theology on the secondary level since 1988. He has done TV work for the Shalom World Media, including a ten-part series on Salvation History. He has published for Shalom Tidings and Spirituality magazines. He received both his BA from the University of San Francisco and MA degree from Tulane University in philosophy. He currently lives in Fair Oaks, California, with Catherine, his spouse for fifty-two years and counting!
Father Éamonn Bourke was ordained to the priesthood in 1996 for the Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland and served as Vocations Director for the diocese, as well as Pastor in a number of its parishes. Trained as a spiritual director in the contemplative style, he now serves as Chaplain to University College, Dublin, the largest University in Ireland. Father Bourke also serves as a spiritual director for the Institute for Priestly Formation summer program for seminarians in Omaha, Nebraska.
