Episodes
Saturday Jul 06, 2019
Interpreting Scripture
Saturday Jul 06, 2019
Saturday Jul 06, 2019
If you were to do a math equation like 2/3(4+5), you would need to know something about the mathematical order of operations in order to arrive at the right answer. In a similar way, when we read the scriptures, we need to know the right way to read it to understand its meaning and lessons so we can apply them to our situation and way of understanding what it says. And, today we learn from the Catechism of the Catholic Church what that process we can use to do this the right way.
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Friday Jul 05, 2019
Inspired Truth
Friday Jul 05, 2019
Friday Jul 05, 2019
Talk with any King James Fundamentalist and they will tell you that the Bible is the Literal, Inerrant and Infallible Word of God, but is this accurate? Not entirely, but in a sense, yes. Because what we have as the sacred scripture is indeed the Word of God in written form and therefore is what God inspired to be recorded or written, it is also a document that a person wrote as they understood God. So we do have an authentic Word or revelation that literally is God's inspired revelation, it is therefore without error., but, also at the same time is also a human document that has limitations about that revelation that the Church in its teaching office must help us to properly understand so that this revelation is not corrupted or made fallible by false interpretations and errors of human persons.
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Thursday Jul 04, 2019
What is Scripture?
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
When we talk about sacred scripture, what are we talking about? The word itself comes from the Latin word scrīptūra, which simply means “a writing”. It is used in the biblical text and in the ancient writings of the Early Church Fathers to designate religious books, and eventually, this word evolved into describing a particular grouping of books that were uniquely the written Word of God, that we now have as part of our Bibles.
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Wednesday Jul 03, 2019
Feast of Doubting Thomas 2019
Wednesday Jul 03, 2019
Wednesday Jul 03, 2019
Today is the feast of St Thomas the Doubter. As such we depart from our usual examination of the Catechism and reflect on what we can know of the gospel by this great Apostle. And, what we can learn from him is how we are to believe. We are called to a faith that does not demand proof in a sensory or natural manner, we put faith in God and walk by faith, trusting in what our faith provides proof of.
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Monday Jul 01, 2019
Understanding What You Received
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
As we come to an "In Brief" section of the Catechism. We take a moment to reflect on just what we have received as the Deposit of Catholic Faith.
It can be simply defined as follows:
1. The teaching which Jesus gave the apostles that were transmitted orally and in scripture.
2. As it was transmitted in a verbal and written form, both makeup what we as Catholics accept to be the Word of God. Scripture alone is not the entirety of everything God has entrusted to us for faith and practice.
3. Both Tradition and Scripture are what we receive from the Church to guide us in what we are to think and do. Both form the basis for how we are to live and be Catholic Christians.
4. This "Deposit" is what Catholics everywhere accept, contemplate and live as the true faith. It is always recognized even where parts are rejected that this is that which we have that is authenticly Catholic.
5. The sole source from which we can determine just how any of this Deposit is to be lived or believed comes from the teaching office of the Church and not from false teachers, prophets or individuals who are not part of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church .... that is, only the pope and the bishops united with him and no others.
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Sunday Jun 30, 2019
13th Ordinary Sunday 2019
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
What does it cost? That is the question n today's readings. We all want heaven, but few want to pay the price that is demanded of us to be fit for heaven. Not in the sense that we earn it, for we do not merit our salvation. But, we are called to surrender our lives to service. We are called to cooperate with grace and give a response to God that shows we have nothing if we do not gain Him.
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