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
Matthew 4:5
...he said, throw yourself down. For it is written:
He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
No!
I am SHOCKED!!! Just WHO would do a thing like that???
I told you to eat the wafer; but "NO!!!" you said...
And I thought that you were the mad hatter!
Don’t know where to go now.
Thanks for posting that!
I was going to cut it out and scan it, but this is way better.
Keep reading.
There are MANY examples of such hypocrisies exhibited regularly on this very forum.
Maybe they are Protestants like Pelosi is Catholic.
Indeed, as it is true that actual evidence from Scripture is not needed for RC doctrine, only that it does not contradict Scripture, but which Rome is the autocratic judge of. Meanwhile RCs have much liberty to compel Scripture to support Rome, following her presumption.
I know it isn't your main thrust, but the parallels to Temple era Pharisaical Judaism are an astonishment - and not only on the subjects that you have defined herein. It brings Isaiah 28 to mind.
Theirs is the very same spirit that allows penumbras in our Constitution (since their method allows anything that is not explicit, even if they eventually destroy the explicit by the sheer weight of their additions). It is the spirit and definition of iniquity - Lawlessness.
For as with the Eucharist (and bind and loosing), in which "The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows His head in humble obedience to the priest's command." (John A, O'Brien, The Faith of Millions, Our Sunday Visitor (1938), p. 235; has Nihil obstat & Imprimitur) , so what Rome autocratically declares is truth must indeed be Truth, not because of Scriptural substantiation, by which the church established its claims.
The irony of it does not escape me - Though it seems to be a matter of logic wholly lost upon our Romanist FRiends (and Mormons too, for that matter). One cannot claim an authority higher than the authority upon which one's establishment is claimed (or plainly, where one's evidences lie), as one will inherently damage destroy the very authority one claims to have.
Thank you for your reply - I was beginning to think no one got the message - and as to the mythical, magical, most highly sainted 'Butcher of God', as with all mythical saints, relics are available upon request (for a nominal fee, of course). :P
Perhaps we should ping him next time Prots are called ignorant self worshipers, etc.
It does seem that RCs even at their highest levels did think about Prots much. Something about Trent and anathemas.
But you HAVEN’T spoken the truth. We are not bigots. We disagree with you and your church. That does not make us bigots. Unless you are falsely accusing us of something just because you don’t like what we say. Wouldn’t that make YOU a bigot?
The truth and only the truth.
God subservient to man. Catholicism in a nutshell.
And in the above sense is affirmed more broadly by a man (Alphonsus Ligouri) whose writings were declared free from anything meriting censure by Pope Gregory XVL (1839) in the bull of his canonization,
With regard to the mystic body of Christ, that is, all the faithful, the priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from hell, of making them worthy of paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God.
And God himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of his priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon, according as they refuse or give absolution, provided the penitent is capable of it. " Such is," says St. Maximus of Turin, " this judiciary power ascribed to Peter that its decision carries with it the decision of God." 2 The sentence of the priest precedes, and God subscribes to it. . Dignity and Duties of the Priest, St. Alphonsus Ligouri, Vol. 12, p. 2. http://www.archive.org/stream/alphonsusworks12liguuoft/alphonsusworks12liguuoft_djvu.txt
And like as including everything not Catholic as Protestant, even cults who deny the most basic of doctrines which Protestantism historically held, thus even sola ecclesia cults are included, so it seems being an “anti-Catholic bigot” would includes anyone who posts any substantiated thing that impugns Rome in the least, and seeks to engage in reasonable and civil exchange. I have been trying to for years.
Did you make that?
It would certainly seem that way, Daniel. We’re the “bigots” because we do not adhere to what the “bigots” say. Strange world we’re in, there is NO way to communicate in this twisted ridiculous “logic” they have. It is hopeless.
Again, I strongly agree that the Scriptures you provide here do say that Jesus is the only way for salvation. There is no other, as it says under heaven whereby we must be saved.
And for those who believe, Jesus saves because they believe.
Praise be to God, that we know Him as our Lord and Savior.
However, how can one believe what one has never been told about?
God has written His law into the hearts of all men and desires that all men be saved. Would that we could reach everyone with that message.
But that is not the case. There are those who never hear it or never heard it. Are they therefore condemned without ever knowing Jesus?
I don’t believe so. I believe that all people have desired and searched for God. How could it be otherwise. He is the creator of all. How could anything in His creation not feel His pull?
Jesus is the way and the Scripture you gave makes that clear, but it doesn’t say ONLY those who believe will be saved. It says that if you believe you will be saved.
Yes, it is amazing that Prots are accused of being like Pharisees or following them because we hold some things in common with them, as did the NT church, while it is the scribes and Pharisees who are most like Rome.
And in fact, as said before, under the Roman model souls are to submit to the magisterium which is the steward of Divine revelation and the inheritor of promises of God's presence, and having historical descent. Which thus invalidates the church which began in dissent from such, while in reality is validates warranted dissent from such, as a means by which truth and faith is preserved. And thus the needed and continuing need for the Reformation.
For the decision of their Scribes, or "Soferim" (Josephus, σοπισταί; N. T., γραμματεἴς), consisting originally of Aaronites, Levites, and common Israelites, they claimed the same authority as for the Biblical law, even in case of error (Sifre, Deut. 153-154); they endowed them with the power to abrogate the Law at times (see Abrogation of Laws), and they went so far as to say that he who transgressed their words deserved death (Ber. 4a). By dint of this authority, claimed to be divine (R. H. 25a), they put the entire calendric system upon a new basis, independent of the priesthood. They took many burdens from the people by claiming for the sage, or scribe, the power of dissolving vows (Ḥag. i. 8; Tosef., i.). http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12087-pharisees
Wait,,,,,,,what???? Werent we told not too long ago that the Holy Spirit guides the Bishops in their election of the pope? As I remember it the discussion was along the lines of the majority is what indicates it was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Now they are not protected from electing an idiot?
Yup: Mary is dead.
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