Private and Public Revelation

EWTN ^ | Fr. William Most

[Pyro7480]

Good article. Thanks for posting it.

[NYer]

Good article!

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[Pyro7480]

That's a first, I think. We pinged our lists within seconds of each other. ;-)

[Talking_Mouse]

Thank you for a great article. My only real question is how are there 10 Our Fathers in a 5 decade (50 Hail Mary) rosary?

[AnAmericanMother]

Sounds like a lapsus linguae to me . . . actually there would be six, not ten.

[AnAmericanMother]

and of course there would be 53 Hail Marys . . .

. . . but who's counting?

. . . sound of slap from Sister Mary Attila . . .

[pravknight]

My major concern is that private revelations seem to take the place of devotion to the public revelation found in the Sacred Scriptures and Holy Tradition in the minds of many poorly catechized Catholics.

[FourtySeven]

Thank you for posting this! This was very helpful to me.

[pravknight]

The Byzantine Church is very anti-private revelation because of the risk that it could be Satan posing as an angel of light.

Our spirituality opposes contemplating images. There are Marian apparitions such as Our Lady of the Protection that are celebrated, but never any messages.

We place 100 percent of our faith in the deposit of PUBLIC revelation because private revelations seem frequently to crowd out the public revelations in the everyday live of many Catholics.

[FourtySeven]

Interesting. Currently, I would have to agree with the Byzantine Church there.

[Capn TrVth]

Interesting thread Ping!!!!

[Salvation]

And from a Roman Catholic source too! LOL!

[pravknight]

I developed my opposition to private revelations after reading St. John of the Cross's "Dark Night of the Soul."

[Capn TrVth]

I'm Catholic, and watching -way- too much EWTN, it's eating into my History and Discovery Channel viewing time!

If I happen to flip by and see a Historical or Biblical piece from the Holy Land, fuggetaboutit... I get mindlocked and can't look away ;>

[Pyro7480]

I developed my opposition to private revelations after reading St. John of the Cross's "Dark Night of the Soul."

We should oppose all private revelations that aren't approved by the Church. That said, the key passage from the article should be repeated. "It is not spiritually good to center one's life around private revelations. They are good when approved, and may be used, but the core is in public revelation, especially some of the things just mentioned."

Private revelations can enhance devotion, but a person's spiritual life should not center on them.

[GirlShortstop]

My major concern is that private revelations seem to take the place of devotion to the public revelation found in the Sacred Scriptures and Holy Tradition in the minds of many poorly catechized Catholics.

Take a step back and check yourself before you wreck yourself:  based upon *what* do you know "the minds" of any kind of Catholics and their devotions?  I have a concern p'knight that you seem hot 'n heavy to criticize Divine Mercy, and its devotees.  You've given no evidence that you know what Divine Mercy Sunday [or any devotion] is, yet you're freely spouting a critical opinion.   It is not difficult to make a connection spiritually between the celebration of the Second Sunday of Easter and Divine Mercy; by it one can appreciate more intensely, and grow closer to, The Word.

[anonymoussierra]

Thank you. Information religion ping