00:00The Nazarenes and they were the followers of Jesus the Nazarene, and all his
00:09The followers were the Nazarenes; the first church was the Church of the Nazarenes; they were the followers
00:17of Jesus the son of God, as time went on, these Nazarenes grew in
00:25number and the book of the Acts of the Apostles tells us in chapter 11 in verse 26 that
00:32It was precisely in the city of Antioch that they were first given the name Christians
00:39The Nazarenes, the followers of Jesus Christ, would now begin to be called Christians; they would no longer be called that.
00:49Nazarenes and from there Christianity was born essentially the first communities did not
00:58They would not identify with any church, they would only identify with Jesus the teacher; they stopped calling themselves
01:06So the Nazarenes began to call themselves Christians, so now all the
01:13We Christians, followers of Jesus Christ, the son of God, have left over time.
01:21giving rise to certain divisions within the church due to different beliefs and various aspects that exist today
01:30It would not be appropriate, nor is it the right time, to discuss it, and so different churches of Saint Paul began to form in
01:38In his various letters he tells the church that meets at so-and-so's house, to the church of
01:46Ephesus to the church and thus began the idea of church which comes from the Greek word ecclesia which is a
01:55This gathering of the faithful is how the idea of churches began to take shape, and within the churches, who
02:04The first community brought together all these small churches that were emerging; it was therefore
02:11Specifically, the Catholic Church, that is, the universal Church, the Church that covered the Church that was
02:19He gathered in the house of Carpus the church that met in Ephesus, the church that met in
02:25Antioch, etc. That's how we came to call it the church, and that's how the church was born.
02:33Catholic, but one thing they were perfectly clear about was that they were Christians.
02:41Is it perhaps that today we Catholics identify ourselves as Christians when someone tells us
02:50The question is, what religion are we? Let's say Catholics; we belong to the Catholic Church.
02:59When we ask a Muslim what their religion is, they say "I am a Muslim," meaning "I follow..."
03:08Muhammad, who was the founder of this church, or I am Buddhist because I am a follower of Buddha.
03:17We Christians must identify ourselves to everyone else as Christians. We are Christians.
03:26Catholic Christians who belong to the Church of the Holy Cross or
03:32Catholic Christians who belong to the church of Monterrey, and that is how the word is generated and the
03:41We are essentially Catholic Christians in the Catholic Church; in 1521 the great break with the
03:53the church that we today call the separated brethren or the Protestant church of which today
03:58More than 2000 different groups have emerged, including both sects and genuinely established churches, and then
04:05We can talk about evangelical Christians, or Pentecostal Christians, or other Christians.
04:13Finally, everyone claims to follow Jesus Christ, the son of God; that's why it's important to begin our
04:21Reflecting on our own personality, we are Christians, and returning again to the beginning
04:30How does a Christian become a Christian? Well, for that, he had to go through a long period that
04:40We called the catechumenal period approximately three or four years of formation where the one who
04:49If he wanted to become a follower of Jesus Christ, he had to receive a complete training, just like they did.
04:56The first Christians, like the first apostles, received it directly
05:02From Jesus Christ, then the apostles taught others, and so on, the great church was formed.
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05:17Yeah
