Saturday 8 March 2014
Catholics Confused about The Bible
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Supertradmum
I have been talking with some Catholics who do not believe in the Great Flood. I was suggesting we see Noah and compare it with the true story in the Bible. How amazed I was to find out that there is a certain group of Catholics who consider themselves good, but do not believe in the literal interpretation of the Flood. One person said to me that he thought the Old Testament was made up of stories.
In fact, most Catholics in this diocese never hear commentary from the pulpit on the Old Testament readings, as priests choose to emphasize the New Testament reading or the Gospel.
Without an understanding of the Old, we cannot understand the New.
Hey, Catholics. We have to believe in the stories of the Bible. We can interpret them as taught by the Teaching Magisterium, in several ways.
I remind all Catholics of the great encyclical Providentissimus Deus. If you have not read it, do so.
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18111893_providentissimus-deus_en.html
And here, in order to strengthen Our teaching and Our exhortations, it is well to recall how, from the beginning of Christianity, all who have been renowned for holiness of life and sacred learning have given their deep and constant attention to Holy Scripture. If we consider the immediate disciples of the Apostles, St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Polycarp - or the apologists, such as St. Justin and St. Irenaeus, we find that in their letters and their books, whether in defence of the Catholic Faith or in its commendation, they draw faith, strength, and unction from the Word of God. When there arose, in various Sees, Catechetical and Theological schools, of which the most celebrated were those of Alexandria and of Antioch, there was little taught in those schools but what was contained in the reading, the interpretation and the defence of the divine written word. From them came forth numbers of Fathers and writers whose laborious studies and admirable writings have justly merited for the three following centuries the appellation of the golden age of biblical exegesis. In the Eastern Church, the greatest name of all is Origen - a man remarkable alike for penetration of genius and for persevering labour; from whose numerous works and his great Hexapla almost all have drawn that came after him. Others who have widened the field of this science may also be named, as especially eminent; thus, Alexandria could boast of St. Clement and St. Cyril; Palestine, of Eusebius and the other St. Cyril; Cappadocia, of St. Basil the Great and the two St. Gregories of Nazianzus and Nyssa; Antioch, of St. John Chrysostom, in whom the science of Scripture was rivalled by the splendour of his eloquence. In the Western Church there were many names as great: Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Hilary, St. Ambrose, St. Leo the Great, St. Gregory the Great; most famous of all, St. Augustine and St. Jerome, of whom the former was so marvellously acute in penetrating the sense of God's Word and so fertile in the use that he made of it for the promotion of the Catholic truth, and the latter has received from the Church, by reason of his pre-eminent knowledge of Scripture and his labours in promoting its use, the name of the "great Doctor."(27) From this period down to the eleventh century, although Biblical studies did not flourish with the same vigour and the same fruitfulness as before, yet they did flourish, and principally by the instrumentality of the clergy. It was their care and solicitude that selected the best and most useful things that the ancients had left, arranged them in order, and published them with additions of their own - as did S. Isidore of Seville, Venerable Bede, and Alcuin, among the most prominent; it was they who illustrated the sacred pages with "glosses" or short commentaries, as we see in Walafrid Strabo and St. Anselm of Laon, or expended fresh labour in securing their integrity, as did St. Peter Damian and Blessed Lanfranc. In the twelfth century many took up with great success the allegorical exposition of Scripture. In this kind, St. Bernard is pre-eminent; and his writings, it may be said, are Scripture all through. With the age of the scholastics came fresh and welcome progress in the study of the Bible. That the scholastics were solicitous about the genuineness of the Latin version is evident from theCorrectoria Biblica, or lists of emendations, which they have left. But they expended their labours and industry chiefly on interpretation and explanation. To them we owe the accurate and clear distinction, such as had not been given before, of the various senses of the sacred words; the assignment of the value of each "sense" in theology; the division of books into parts, and the summaries of the various parts; the investigation of the objects of the writers; the demonstration of the connection of sentence with sentence, and clause with clause; all of which is calculated to throw much light on the more obscure passages of the sacred volume. The valuable work of the scholastics in Holy Scripture is seen in their theological treatises and in their Scripture commentaries; and in this respect the greatest name among them all is St. Thomas of Aquin.
to be continued.....and a grumble.
I cannot believe a city the size of the one I am in now has so much trouble with the Internet connections.
So sad and so irritating....on and off for two days now.
Is there anything more despicable?
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Supertradmum
Than a Catholic mom buying birth control pills and sending them to her daughter at a Catholic college?
Sad...
Sad...
More prayers, please
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Supertradmum
I have readers from Malaysia. Prayers, please.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html
More news from facebook...
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Supertradmum
https://www.facebook.com/my.malaysiaairlines/posts/514299315349933?cid=crisis_management_19726844&stream_ref=10
MEDIA STATEMENT released at 7.24am/8 Mar 2014 MH370 Incident
Sepang, 8 March 2014: Malaysia Airlines confirms that flight MH370
Sepang, 8 March 2014: Malaysia Airlines confirms that flight MH370
has lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am, today (8 March 2014).
Flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on 8 March 2014. MH370 was expected to
Flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on 8 March 2014. MH370 was expected to
land in Beijing at 6.30am the same day. The flight was carrying a total number of 227 passengers (including 2 infants), 12 crew members.
Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft.
The airline will provide regular updates on the situation. Meanwhile,
Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft.
The airline will provide regular updates on the situation. Meanwhile,
the public may contact +603 7884 1234 for further info.
Pray for this situation, now, please
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Supertradmum
BREAKING: Malaysia Airlines says it 'has lost contact' with plane carrying 239 people
I can see the hell in people...
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Supertradmum
Well, with the Net down most of the day and my eye is very tired, I did not get much done in the past 24 hours, as readers can see for themselves.
The world is turning into a quagmire of materialism and consumerism, run by tin-pot tyrants, who will be dropped as soon as their usefulness is over.
What strikes me daily are the many saints who say that most people actually go to hell. I can see the hell in people already:
the doctor who has not real care but only talks about how much money he can make with certain procedures; the mother who refuses to correct her children because she wants to be their friend; the grandmother who will not speak the truth to her grandchildren because she fears they will cut her off'; the wife who gives in to a rapacious husband and against her conscience practices birth control-these are all examples of people carrying hell around in their souls already.
What I hope I am doing is speaking to the few who are open and listening. That is all I can do.
Christ calls each and every one of us to evangelize in some way daily.
Sometimes, it is by dropping a hint, a seed.
Sometimes it is watering a little seed someone else has dropped.
Once in a while, it is harvesting the full-grown plant others have planted and watered.
But, work we must in the field, at whatever stage.
Do not carry hell around in your soul. Be a maker, a grower, and work for the Kingdom of God because you have heaven in your soul.
The world is turning into a quagmire of materialism and consumerism, run by tin-pot tyrants, who will be dropped as soon as their usefulness is over.
What strikes me daily are the many saints who say that most people actually go to hell. I can see the hell in people already:
the doctor who has not real care but only talks about how much money he can make with certain procedures; the mother who refuses to correct her children because she wants to be their friend; the grandmother who will not speak the truth to her grandchildren because she fears they will cut her off'; the wife who gives in to a rapacious husband and against her conscience practices birth control-these are all examples of people carrying hell around in their souls already.
What I hope I am doing is speaking to the few who are open and listening. That is all I can do.
Christ calls each and every one of us to evangelize in some way daily.
Sometimes, it is by dropping a hint, a seed.
Sometimes it is watering a little seed someone else has dropped.
Once in a while, it is harvesting the full-grown plant others have planted and watered.
But, work we must in the field, at whatever stage.
Do not carry hell around in your soul. Be a maker, a grower, and work for the Kingdom of God because you have heaven in your soul.
Nice down-home evangelization
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Supertradmum
Can you imagine other famous people saying that they were virgins when they got married?
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