Saint Irenaeus, Doctor of the Church[& Martyr]

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[Lady In Blue]

St.Irenaeus was a disciple of St.Polycarp,who knew and was a disciple of St.John the Evangelist.

[Lady In Blue]

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[Siobhan]

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[Siobhan]

a saintly bump

[COBOL2Java]

Thanks for the bump! An excellent read...

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks for coming on! I'm breaking now to get dinner.I'll be back on in a bit.

[Polycarp]

Ah yes, I remember him well...

Thanks for the bump, siobhan!

We need a pro-life/Catholic apostolate named after him now too.

Of course, this is my personal favorite (as well as a subject dear to my heart): Polycarp Research Institute

[nickcarraway]

Who will be the St.Irenaeus of today?

[Lady In Blue]

Ah yes, I remember him well...

hehehe!

[Lady In Blue]

That's a good question! I wish I had an answer.

[Salvation]

I also posted a shorter version on the Daily Readings thread.

We have so many unbelievers today, we really do need another St. Irenaeus for these times. But like my son just said to me. "Who knows, there are saints going to Mass in their churches today!"

[Lady In Blue]

What your son is so true! Who knows,one of them might be a great saint or even a Pope one day!

[Siobhan]

Your son is so right! There are many great saints alive today, and it would not surprise me in the least if some of those great saints come out of your own family, Salvation. You are such a blessing as is Lady in Blue.

[IGNATIUS]

A good read for Eastern and Western followers of the Historic Church--when we were one!One reads herein how early Christians relied almost completely on oral Tradition--long before printing presses and corner Bible bookstores.

Thank you Lady for the ping. Bob

[Salvation]

It is amazing what you say because I have one divorced daughter, one daughter with two unbaptized sons 3 and 1, another daughter who is trying to get pregnant and is not attending church regularly, a son and his wife who are attending a Presbyterian Church in Portland, OR and a son who did the whole circle -- no God, then People's Church, Assembly of God, and now has come back to the Anglican Catholic Church.

I continue to pray weekly for all of them to return to and actively participate in the church of their Baptism, the Roman Catholic Church. And now I am crying.

Please pray for all the children who are momentarily lost in their faith journey.

Another note, here, after my husband's death from lung cancer, I (and my kids) went through the deaths of my mother-in-law,
father-in-law (suicide)
brother-a priest who died from AIDS (You can draw your own conclusions there without any explicit language on my part.), and
my mother.

I believe that these traumatic 10 years did wreak a certain amount of havoc on the spiritual life of me as well as my children. But I have always believed that the foundation is in place, and that they will return to the Church.
God bless -- and the tears are gone now. Thanks for listening.

[Salvation]

BTTT on June 28, 2004!

[Salvation]

BTTT on June 28, Memorial of St. Irenaeus. A very prolific writer and doctor of the church.

[Salvation]

American Cathlic's Saint of the Day

June 28, 2005

St. Irenaeus

(130?-220)

The Church is fortunate that Irenaeus was involved in many of its controversies in the second century. He was a student, well trained, no doubt, with great patience in investigating, tremendously protective of apostolic teaching, but prompted more by a desire to win over his opponents than to prove them in error.

As bishop of Lyons he was especially concerned with the Gnostics, who took their name from the Greek word for “knowledge.” Claiming access to secret knowledge imparted by Jesus to only a few disciples, their teaching was attracting and confusing many Christians. After thoroughly investigating the various Gnostic sects and their “secret,” Irenaeus showed to what logical conclusions their tenets led. These he contrasted with the teaching of the apostles and the text of Holy Scripture, giving us, in five books, a system of theology of great importance to subsequent times. Moreover, his work, widely used and translated into Latin and Armenian, gradually ended the influence of the Gnostics.

The circumstances and details about his death, like those of his birth and early life in Asia Minor, are not at all clear.

Comment:

A deep and genuine concern for other people will remind us that the discovery of truth is not to be a victory for some and a defeat for others. Unless all can claim a share in that victory, truth itself will continue to be rejected by the losers, because it will be regarded as inseparable from the yoke of defeat. And so, confrontation, controversy and the like might yield to a genuine united search for God's truth and how it can best be served.

[Salvation]

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