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Magisterium Ping!

There have been questions about The Magisterium. Perhaps this will help to answer some of them.

thanks Salvation.

watch how all the protestants who aren’t in any way subject to the Magisterium get their underwear all bundled.

I think it’s because in their nightmares they wake to find themselves Catholic.

why else would they be so worried about the Magisterium?

For the Greater Glory of God

If I could make a comment on teaching on the time of Jesus. From: Judaism: The Oral Law -Talmud & Mishna

The Oral Law is a legal commentary on the Torah, explaining how its commandments are to be carried out. Common sense suggests that some sort of oral tradition was always needed to accompany the Written Law, because the Torah alone, even with its 613 commandments, is an insufficient guide to Jewish life.

Without an oral tradition, some of the Torah's laws would be incomprehensible. In the Shema's first paragraph, the Bible instructs: "And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes." "Bind them for a sign upon your hand," the last verse instructs. Bind what? The Torah doesn't say. "And they shall be for frontlets between your eyes." What are frontlets? The Hebrew word for frontlets, totafot is used three times in the Torah — always in this context (Exodus 13:16; Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18) — and is as obscure as is the English. Only in the Oral Law do we learn that what a Jewish male should bind upon his hand and between his eyes are tefillin (phylacteries).

Finally, an Oral Law was needed to mitigate certain categorical Torah laws that would have caused grave problems if carried out literally. The Written Law, for example, demands an "eye for an eye" (Exodus 21:24). Did this imply that if one person accidentally blinded another, he should be blinded in return? That seems to be the Torah's wish. But the Oral Law explains that the verse must be understood as requiring monetary compensation: the value of an eye is what must be paid.

Sacred tradition was used in the time of Jesus. Would it not follow that the Church He founded on earth require the same accompaniment as the Law given to Moses in the above example? He was angry at the Pharisees for using the letter of the Law, without the heart of the Law. Each wanted to make a name for himself in the Sanhedrin. Some I imagine, wanted to raise themselves up to be one of those Rabbis quoted throughout the centuries. It became about them- not out of concern for their flock, for which Jesus also admonished them.

Gamaliel, teacher of Saul of Tarses, was a contributor to the written teachings- only the most expected of the Rabbis were quoted. It was not for each individual to decide, but for therm to follow Scripture as taught by the cream-of-the-crop among the Rabbis.

Take a look at the link above... Jesus Himself learned, not simply by Scripture, but tradition as well. Why would His Church be any different? Moses was spoken to directly by God, as were the Apostles with Jesus.

The Magisterium of the Catholic Church

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We love you as a child loves a mother and you love us as mother loves her children.

Please guide us, your little ones, to our Eternal and Almighty Father God through our prayers and through your love for us.

Many in this world may slander and degrade you while still claiming to exalt God, please forgive them and pray for them for they may dishearten your devoted children.

May we be made worthy of the promises of Christ through your prayers.

You love us so freely and we are so unworthy of it.

You love us because God and Christ loved us first.

Mary, Mother, I love you.

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