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To: annalex
No. I read the Fathers of the Church every day.

Well, there's your problem right there... Scripture would do you more good.

Psalm 119:11 11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

537 posted on 12/11/2012 6:25:35 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom

The reason I pointed to patristic writing was to prove the Catholicity of the First Century Church, which was the question another poster raised. Of course I read the scripture every day as well, — check, for example, my daily Mass gospel originals on FR.

Scripture alone is not telling me how the holy Apostles understood the scripture. Luther, poor idiot, thought polygamy was OK because the scripture taught it. That is the peril of Sola Scriptura.

Unless you read the fathers of the Church alongside the holy Scripture, you do not understand the Holy Scripture.


540 posted on 12/11/2012 6:34:50 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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