Posted on 09/30/2013 11:30:08 AM PDT by NYer
How do you read the Bible? Today is the feast day of Saint Jerome, who once quipped, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
It’s a running joke that if you want to find a Bible verse, you ought to ask a Protestant and not a Catholic. Protestants read the Bible. Catholics not so much.
This raises the question:
I think the answer lies in the fact that we Catholics go to Mass. The Holy Mass has at least two Bible readings every time. If you pray the Breviary or Liturgy of Hours, multiply that several times.
Joe Catholic says to himself, “Why should I study the Bible? I go to Mass. I hear it there. Check and check.”
There is something beautiful in this. For Catholics, Bible reading is liturgical. Hence, Bible reading remains chiefly a community experience.
It’s good to listen to the readings from the Bible at Holy Mass. However, we also need a personal (even private) encounter with God in the pages of Sacred Scripture. All of the saints breathed Sacred Scripture. Scripture served as the grammar for their souls. They couldn’t communicate without it.
Here are some basic spiritual needs that you have every single day of your life:
So when you wake up tomorrow, do the following:
What? You’re too busy. Sorry, you just got served a yellow card:
Doing these three readings will take you only 3-5 minutes. That’s the time of a commercial break. It will change your life for good. I promise. It takes 21 days to make a habit, so give it 21 days and see if you aren’t hooked. Put the Bible on your night stand and read it in the mornings. Start fresh.
“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” – Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church
since the Catholics were the only ones around....we get to name the date....not someone who dropped in on the party 1,600 years late!
WOW!!!!!!your brilliant list of naughty Popes again...I hadn't seen it in ...say a week or so...but it still proves nothing other than that there are sinners in the Catholic Church.....just like any other....and yes, every Pope mentioned was Catholic......but they, in declarations pertaining to faith and morals were.....get this.....infallible...If you don't believe it, YOU point out one, just one, instance where any of them issued a church teaching that was in error.....I didn't think so.
your post 1628 describes Protestantism prefectly
I have said repeatedly that it is absolutely impossible to have an intelligent discussion about theology/ religion/ Jesus with a protestant
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let me guess, you feel this way about more than one topic or group of people.
er....I thought that was the reason He came...to become one of us and offer us salvation in spite of the fact that we were stained....But He still wouldn't have arrived, as God, in a stained vessel when He could create a pure one.
Then why not make all of us pure and save the world a whole lot of suffering?
If He could do it for Mary, He could do it for EVERYONE.
to quote a prominant moslem "if you can do(did) it, it ain't bragging"
WOW, twice in a week or so you have made an intelligent posting....you're right in that the Catholic should be much more obvious in her admonitions to those who are....not less than perfect....but outright ignoring and blaspheming church teachings. some of our present day politicians fill the bill fully.
I need the true Eucharist, and I like the whatssoever you shann bind on shall be bound in Heaven reading....she is 2,013 years old, I'll stick by Her....she can"t be wrong and Christ promised to be with Her until the end of time......long enough for me!!
you don't "convert" from Catholicism....Convert indicated an advancement or upward movement. You deny true Christianity and follow a human founded sect when you fall away from the church.
which claims aren't supported by the scriptures given to you by the Catholic church???
rejecting following a religion founded by Christ Himself, on the Apostles.....for one founded by Luther, wesley, Calvin, Knox, Henry VIII, joseph Smith, Parkham, William Booth London, or maybe Aimee semple Mcpherson??????
doesn't really matter, does it?? As intelligent as Luther probably was, he didn't seem to know the difference between "reform" and "Revolt"....he revolted....didn't work out too well!!
The assumption of Mary to start with. You certainly ought to be able to find some verse of Scripture somewhere that tells us it happened, can't you?
That missing mass is a mortal sin.
That suffering pays for sins.
That there is no salvation outside of the Catholic church.
you have given it up....UNBELIEVABLE...
you think it is crackers and grape juice
Catholics believe that it is the Body and Blood of Christ....just as He said it was....more than once
yes, Sacraments like the Eucharist, Penance, Matrimony, Holy Orders.....and structure, so that we are all pretty much on the same page....not spouting thousands of various philosophies based on which of the Protestant "denominations" that we adhere to.
I think that He only did it four times, Adam, Eve, Mary, and Himself....could he have done it for everyone???, I think that was the original idea until Adam and Eve sinned
Once baptised Catholic,you are always Catholic. If you fall away from the Church you are a LAPSED CATHOLIC. I could care less what PROTESTant faith you might have joined. God will not hold that against you. Try putting your eternal soul before your own earthly interests and go to Confession and get back into your faith. AMEN.
AMEN.
Catholics believe the same as the Church Fathers that lived 2,000 years. The REAL PRESENCE! Amen.
Catholics believe the same as the Church Fathers that lived 2,000 years ago. The REAL PRESENCE! Amen.
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