Posted on 09/30/2020 7:14:44 PM PDT by Hieronymus
Devotion to sacred Scripture, a living and tender love for the written word of God: this is the legacy that Saint Jerome bequeathed to the Church by his life and labours. Now, on the sixteen hundredth anniversary of his death, those words taken from the opening prayer of his liturgical Memorial[1] give us an essential insight into this outstanding figure in the Churchs history and his immense love for Christ. That living and tender love flowed, like a great river feeding countless streams, into his tireless activity as a scholar, translator and exegete. Jeromes profound knowledge of the Scriptures, his zeal for making their teaching known, his skill as an interpreter of texts, his ardent and at times impetuous defence of Christian truth, his asceticism and harsh eremitical discipline, his expertise as a generous and sensitive spiritual guide all these make him, sixteen centuries after his death, a figure of enduring relevance for us, the Christians of the twenty-first century.
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This is a rather pleasant ending to a huge feast for me. (My screen name is the Latin version of his name.). While I might have phrased a few things differently, at least on first read nothing drove my blood pressure off the map—which is probably a first for anything of any length that Francis has written which I have read.
A timely and eternal post. Thank you.
Have you charge of Salvation’s Catholic ping list? I know that she had handed the Oregon list over to someone during her recovery. While this is a bit more of ebb’s domain, the letter is actually something that promotes the faith and shouldn’t provoke a war, so it might belong on both lists.
We sang the Phos Hilaron this evening and gave both consideration and thanks to God for St. Jerome’s contributions to the Church. We do not all have the same abilities and tasks, but we belong to one Body.
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Of course. Thanks for posting.
I’ve now read through it more slowly. Whoever did the draft is very good—my guess would be Benedict, but I’m probably wrong. Francis has made it his own for sure—there are a couple of paragraphs that are eminently in his style, but even they make good points.
There are some new insights that haven’t been expressed on a higher level of magisterial teaching before (this is only an Apostolic Letter) but are good to see—and this is still far more authoritative than nearly everything else Francis has turned out (the encyclical count sits at 2 and the Apostolic Exhortation at 5).
If you are going to read anything by Francis for spiritual edification, I would recommend this.
Perhaps y’all in the east may find this edifying as well. I’m guessing that if one of you isn’t the keeper of the Orthodox ping list, you can give a heads up to whomever is and a judgment may be passed on giving this further circulation.
Without negating accomplishments as a translator, his skill as an interpreter of texts includes his eisegesis in forcing Scripture to support his imbalanced view on virginity versus marriage such as in asserting:
If ‘it is good for a man not to touch a woman,’ then it is bad for him to touch one, for bad, and bad only, is the opposite of good. (''Letter'' 22).
See more here, by the grace of God, before responding.
St. Jerome's invective against some of his enemies isn't very admirable, either.
Just because someone is a canonized saint doesn't mean they were always correct, or always perfect, or that they didn't have opinions of their own, good, bad, or indifferent. The Apostles were sinners, too, and admitted as much.
I saw here.
I’d be more interested in a page on quotes from the OT consoling those who are childless.
Both states can be gifts from God—if one is given the higher state, take it—he who marries his virgin does well, he who does not does better.
I could go on, but I would spare you this.
So, did he accept evolution and the documentary hypothesis, which every good Catholic must do to prove he wasn’t born in a trailer park?
Nope, not mentioned at all.
There are only a few dogmatic type points mentioned, and he comes across as fairly kosher. Silence is golden.
I printed the thing out, and it came to 17 pages, which is about 10% of a standard major document. This isn’t in the super-major category, but I’d expect that with it out there is zero chance he will release a major document on scripture.
And which is actually written to fathers as regards his decision for his daughter (back when they were virgins) under his care, who, "having no necessity but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better." (1 Corinthians 7:37,38) This means that he will take care of her all his life, and see that she is taken care of afterward. And with the ca
Then we have,
But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. (1 Corinthians 7:28)
And indeed, as said, with the catastrophic judgment 70AD and persecutions that followed then being single certainly had its advantages, besides the transcendent spiritual benefits. Maybe if celibacy was the norm for spiritual purposes then the church would have grown mainly by converts. Meanwhile, in the modern age believers marrying and not having as many kids as the Lord gives in a life of temperance, and raising them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord has had a profound negative effect.
Nor Luther's.
Just because someone is a canonized saint doesn't mean they were always correct, or always perfect, or that they didn't have opinions of their own, good, bad, or indifferent.
True, esp, of me, although all believers are called "saints."
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