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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Greetings:

Since you quoted Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, I thought I would link one of his Catechetical Lectures, Number 23. In it, you will see what is the same structure of the Catholic Liturgy that I just attended tonight with my wife at 6 pm Mass. In fact, many of the Liturgical prayers are exactly the same. So while Cyril of Jerusalem would most likely be using the Divine Liturgy of St. Mark or Saint James, an Eastern Liturgy, it is in essence the same as all the major Liturgies of the Catholic Church since all come from 3 major sources, Rome, Alexandria or Antioch.

His Notion of Priestly ministry and consecration of the Eucharist doesn’t sound Calvinist or even Lutheran to me, certainly not any Protestant group beyond that because then you get to no concept of sacraments what so ever. He also states hold on to these Traditions that I taught you. So for Cyril of Jerusalem, there is no conflict between Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition since the Church received both via Apostolic Tradition. Very Catholic and to be fair, Eastern Orthodox theology by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem. Again, in the sense of not linking a Catholic translation, I linked the one from ccel that was done by P. Schaff.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf207.ii.xxvii.html


208 posted on 05/24/2014 7:45:33 PM PDT by CTrent1564
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He also states hold on to these Traditions that I taught you. So for Cyril of Jerusalem, there is no conflict between Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition since the Church received both via Apostolic Tradition.

I can't help but to notice that after poorly attempting to distract from sola scriptura, that your one comment on Cyril is a total invention of your imagination. Cyril directly explains that tradition is the summarized content of scripture (he also rejected the Papist apocrypha, FYI), not a separate entity working in tandem. He also makes it clear that his own teachings must not be accepted as doctrine unless they are brought out of the holy scriptures. Just like the Cultist I've been dealing with, all of a sudden simple sentences and words are rendered invisible, and new things are invented out of thin air. You can deny it all you like, but his quotation destroys the sad pretension the Catholics make of having a 2000 year old universal tradition!

210 posted on 05/24/2014 8:01:38 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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