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Stephen Colbert on the Problem of Evil
2008-02-13 19:02:00
I saw this episode last night and I was blown away. Watch Stephen Colbert put the theological smack-down on this guy. It's starts to get good at about the 3:30 mark. Also, as a word of caution, there's a curse word that they have to bleep out at the end:He never ceases to amaze me. For more of what makes Stephen Colbert great, see The WØRD: A Colbert Blog for Catholic It-Getters.Pax Christi,phatcatholic
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/13/08
2008-02-13 08:35:00
Let it never be forgotten that a hypocrite is a very unhappy man; he is a man who has devoted himself to a most delicate and arduous intellectual art in which he may achieve masterpieces which he must keep secret, fight thrilling battles and win hair-breadth victories for which he cannot have a whisper of praise. A really accomplished impostor is the most wretched of geniuses: he is a Napoleon on a desert island.-- G. K. Chesterton, Browning- - - - - - - - - -In God's plan the poor serve the advantage of the rich, for the rich are saved by the poor when no other door to salvation is open to them. The rich do not fast, they do not toil, they are not persecuted, they do not endure harsh conditions, and they do not pray, being ensnared by their interests. The Lord therefore takes thought: What else is there? What is left for you? Give alms, and, behold, everything is clean for you; and the wise man says: The rich and the poor have met; the Lord is Creator of them both. He created the ...
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What's Wrong with What's "Normal"?
2008-02-13 05:59:00
Thanks to the new Topical Index, some of my old posts are getting new attention. For example, an anonymous reader recently left the following comment in response to a post from last year on the sinfulness of masturbation:That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Masturbation a sin? Not at all! It is perfectly normal behaviour, and everyone should learn about and enjoy their sexuality! And there is no need to go "confess" to anyone about it. You have done nothing wrong, it is normal behaviour. Use your own judgement people!!Notice that this person basically has two reasons for approving of masturbation:it is "perfectly normal behavior""everyone should learn about and enjoy their sexuality"He ends with the implication that anyone who thinks that masturbation is sinful is simply not thinking for himself (cf. "Use your own judgment people!!"). He seems particularly adament on that last point. Let's disect what this person is saying.As for his first argument, which he says twi...
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Responding to the "Haight"-ers
2008-02-12 23:45:00
An anonymous reader left the following comment in response to this post (also see Parts 2 and 3), in which I announced that my Christology professor was preparing us to critically engage and respond to the weaknesses and doctrinal errors in Haight's book Jesus Symbol of God:I have not read Haight but I believe that low Christology in the style of Hans Kung is basically the most credible Christology today, and that it can rejoin the essence of Christian orthodoxy. I think that Haight's critics are uncritically applying the categories of St Athanasius and St Cyril and Aquinas in a quite different epistemic context, failing to assess those categories themselves with a view to their adequacy to deal with the human, historical Jesus as understood in contemporary theology and scriptural study.As the Sobrino notification shows, the CDF is very likely to be influenced by an atypical coterie of very conservative theologians such as Jean Galot.I would like to say a few things about this. Fi...

Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/12/08
2008-02-12 23:34:00
The British Empire may annex what it likes, it will never annex England. It has not even discovered the island, let alone conquered it.-- G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles- - - - - - - - - -We must persevere patiently in the course we have begun, without growing faint or discouraged. Let us run the race that lies ahead of us, the apostle urges. Then, as the highest encouragement, the supreme exhortation, the first and last of all the examples he proposes to us, he goes on to say: We must keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection. Our Lord himself continually taught his disciples the same lesson. For this reason the apostle tells us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. Keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus means that we must observe the example Christ gave us if we are to learn to run our race. In all arts and athletics the skill of our instructors is impressed upon our minds as we watch them, and we ourselves become proficient by observing these ma...
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About this Week's Poll
2008-02-11 22:26:00
Since I didn't get very many votes in last week's poll, I have decided to let it run for another week. I really want to get a good impression of whether or not you all like the Topical Index before I do anything about it.If you haven't voted yet, see the poll in my sidebar.Pax Christi,phatcatholic
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Lent and the Sunday "Loophole"
2008-02-11 20:11:00
I recently received the following question from "Little Sister" via email:I know that the 40 days of Lent do not numerically include Sunday s, but don't we have to maintain our fast on Sundays anyway? I heard that we do have to maintain the fast from pre-Vatican II sisters, but the opposite from a friend. Who is correct?Well, neither of you are correct, but I think you are both on to something ;) Let me explain.First of all, recall that to "fast" is to, at the very least, have one meal a day, and two smaller meals which if added together would not exceed the main meal in quantity. This also includes no eating between meals. The only days that we are required to fast during Lent are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. So, you don't have to fast on Sundays.Now, what you may be thinking of instead is the self-imposed abstinence that many people perform during Lent. For the sake of the penitential character of these 40 days, they'll give up chocolate, or caffeine, or cursing. But, they'll...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/11/08
2008-02-11 20:06:00
The chaos of habits that always goes with males when left entirely to themselves has only one honourable cure; and that is the strict discipline of a monastery. Anyone who has Seen our unhappy young idealists in East End settlements losing their collars in the wash and living on tinned salmon, will fully understand why it was decided by the wisdom of St. Bernard or Benedict that if men were to live without women, they must not live without rules.-- G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World- - - - - - - - - -In the veiled words of the parable I see there a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. When one of them became separated from the flock and wandered away lost, that shepherd did not stay with the sheep who remained together grazing, but set out to look for the lost one. He crossed many chasms and ravines, he climbed high mountains, he endured great hardship in the wilderness, searching until he found his sheep. Then when he found it he did not beat it or roughly drive it back, b...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/10/08
2008-02-11 05:59:00
He said 'If these were silent the very stones would cry out.' With these words He called up all the wealth of artistic creation that has been founded on this creed. With those words He founded Gothic architecture. For in a town like this, which seems to have grown Gothic as a wood grows leaves -- anywhere and anyhow -- any odd brick or moulding may be carved off into a shouting face. The front of vast buildings is thronged with open mouths, angels praising God, or devils defying Him. Rock itself is racked and twisted, until it seems to scream. The miracle is accomplished; the very stones cry out.-- G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles- - - - - - - - - -Let all creatures bless you, O Lord, since you are the salvation of all of us. Let your angels bless you, they who are ever valiant executors of your orders, let your armies bless you, as well as your ministers, always ready to follow your instructions. Let all your created works praise you, all over the horizon, as far as your empi...
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Repent, and Do What?
2008-02-09 22:21:00
I recently received the following question: Ok, so I'm still confused about this but has some idea, but need clarification. Mk 16:16-17 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;Acts 2:38-39 And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him."For the word baptized from these verses, do they mean the same? What does be baptized mean? I've recently heard some bad interpretation of this and I don't know how to properly explain it to them. They use it as a backup that it is God's will that every Christian be baptized in the Holy Spirit (Baptism in the Holy Spirit w...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/9/08
2008-02-09 22:15:00
The modern writers who have suggested, in a more or less open manner, that the family is a bad institution, have generally confined themselves to suggesting, with much sharpness, bitterness, or pathos, that perhaps the family not always very congenial. Of course the family is a good institution because it is uncongenial. It is wholesome precisely because it contains so many divergencies and varieties. It is, as the sentimentalists say, like a little kingdom, and, like most other little kingdoms, is generally in a state of something resembling anarchy. It is exactly because our brother George is not interested in our religious difficulties, but is interested in the Trocadero restaurant, that the family has some of the bracing qualities of the commonwealth. It is precisely because our uncle Henry does not approve of the theatrical ambitions of our sister that that the family is like humanity. The men and women who, for good reasons and bad, revolt against the family are, for good reas...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/8/08
2008-02-08 09:40:00
That which is large enough for the rich to covet is large enough for the poor to defend.-- G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill- - - - - - - - - -The fear of the Lord is taught, so it has also to be learned. It is a matter of instruction, not of terror. It springs not from our natural timidity but from obedience to the commandments, uprightness of life, and knowledge of the truth.Our fear of God comes entirely from love, and perfect love brings it to perfection. It is our love for God that makes us listen to his counsels, obey his laws, and trust in his promises.The ways of the Lord are many even though he himself is the way. He calls himself the way and explains the reason when he says: No one can come to the Father except through me. We must search out the many ways and follow them so as to find through the guidance of many teachers the one good way, the way of eternal life. These ways are found in the law, in the prophets, in the gospels, in the writings of the apostles...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/7/08
2008-02-07 17:00:00
We are able to answer the question, 'Why have we no great men?' We have no great men chiefly because we are always looking for them. We are connoisseurs of greatness, and connoisseurs can never be great; we are fastidious -- that is, we are small. When Diogenes went about with a lantern looking for an honest man, I am afraid he had very little time to be honest himself. And when anybody goes about on his hands and knees looking for a great man to worship, he is making sure that one man at any rate shall not be great. Now the error of Diogenes is evident. The error of Diogenes lay in the fact that he omitted to notice that every man is both an honest man and a dishonest man. Diogenes looked for his honest man inside every crypt and cavern, but he never thought of looking inside the thief. And that is where the Founder of Christianity found the honest man; He found him on a gibbet and promised him Paradise. Just as Christianity looked for the honest man inside the thief, democracy l...
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Resources for Ash Wednesday and Lent
2008-02-06 07:09:00
Today is Ash Wednesday , which marks the beginning of Lent . So as to enrich your mind and answer any questions you may have about this season, I have constructed the following Q&A, as well as a list of resources with which you can learn more. If anyone has any questions, just let me know.Pax Christi,phatcatholic - - - - - - - - - -Question #1: What is Lent?Answer: From the Pocket Catholic Dictionary, we read: LENT. The season of prayer and penance before Easter. Its purpose is to better prepare the faithful for the feast of the Resurrection, and dispose them for a more fruitful reception of the graces that Christ merited by his passion and death.In the Latin Rite, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and continues for forty days, besides Sundays, until Easter Sunday. Ash Wednesday occurs on any day from February 4 to March 11, depending on the date of Easter.Originally the period of fasting in preparation for Easter did not, as a rule, exceed two or three days. But by the time of the Cou...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/6/08
2008-02-06 07:00:00
If you have composed a bad opera you may persuade yourself that it is a good one; if you have carved a bad statue you can think yourself better than Michelangelo. But if you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have got him off.-- G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw- - - - - - - - - -Was it not God whose first request to us is that we should show generosity in return? Having already received so much from him and hoping for so much more, we should surely be ashamed to refuse God the one thing he asks of us, which is to show generosity to others. When he, our Lord and God, is not ashamed to be called our Father, can we repudiate our own kith and kin?Let us follow the first and most important law of God. He sends down rain on the righteous and on sinners and makes his sun rise for all alike. For creatures that live on land he has spread out the earth, the springs, the rivers, and the forests. He has given the air ...
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Gene Bridges on the Holy Water Debate
2008-02-05 21:53:00
Gene Bridges , from Triablogue recently had this to say about my use of Scripture in the holy water debate. I would like to respond to him in full. Hopefully, this can remain a charitable discussion. Normally, I would reserve comment for after the debate, but given DA has been helping Nick in the Holy Water debate, and that fact that DA has yet to actually, you know, exegete any of the texts in his list of Scriptures allegedly justifying the use of holy water in the NT church, I couldn't resist.Just to be clear, all of the arguments in the formal debate itself are mine. He has only "helped me" insofar as he defended my opening statement against others (such as yourself) who were commenting on the debate while it was taking place.Nick writes, responding to TF:Turretinfan: If we were trying to make unclean spirits clean, sprinkling holy water on them might make sense. But we are not, so it doesn?t. Ritual uncleanness for which the OT prescribed washing is unlike spiritual uncleanness,...
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Exclusive Offer for Phatcat Readers
2008-02-05 21:18:00
From now until 3-26-08, whenever you buy a DVD from the History Channel (in the "Christianity" category), you get free shipping! As far as I know, no other blog or website is providing this offer. All you have to do is access the store via this link. You can also click on the picture to the right.Note that when you visit the store via that link and make a purchase, I receive a small percentage. I hate pandering for money, so posts like this really irk me. I didn't even like selling sausage and cheese back in high school. But, the lady in charge of marketing at A&E made this banner specifically for my blog, so I thought I should call some attention to it. It will be in my sidebar until the offer expires. Your support would be greatly appreciated.Pax Christi,phatcatholic
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My 2 Minutes of Fame
2008-02-05 20:47:00
Yesterday, I was video-taped for a show on the Holy Spirit that will appear on EWTN sometime in June. It's sort of a word-on-the-street type of segment....although I'm not on the street, I'm in a studio, all dressed up, with a nice brick wall and some icons behind me. Dr. Alan Schreck (head of the Theology dept. at FUS, author of Catholic and Christian, The Essential Catholic Catechism, Vatican II: The Crisis and the Promise, etc.) is the host. Apparently, they asked him if he knew of any students who would be good to interview and he gave them my name! :D I didn't think I made much of an impression on him, so I was shocked that he chose me. The Public Relations person sent me several questions on the Holy Spirit to prepare answers for. They included the following:The Holy Spirit has been described as a bird, fire, wind, wind that fills our sails, wind that fills the Church's sails. How do you describe the Holy Spirit?What role does the Holy Spirit play in your life?Talk about ...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/5/08
2008-02-05 20:31:00
Whatever else the worst doctrine of depravity may have been, it was a product of spiritual conviction; it had nothing to do with remote physical origins. Men thought mankind wicked because they felt wicked themselves. If a man feels wicked, I cannot see why he should suddenly feel good because somebody tells him that his ancestors once had tails. Man's primary purity and innocence may have dropped off with his tail, for all anybody knows. The only thing we all know about that primary purity and innocence is that we have not got it.-- G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered- - - - - - - - - -Let us walk in Jesus' ways, following the paths he has shown us; above all let us pursue the way of humility, since he himself became the way of humility for our sake. By his teaching he indicated it to us; by suffering for us he has blazed the trail. Only by abasing himself was he able to suffer. Could anyone have put God to death, if he had not abased himself? Christ was the Son of God, and a...
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Poll-Release Monday #44
2008-02-05 03:31:00
Here is this week's poll question:"What do you think of the topical index at the top of my blog?"YayNayDon't forget to click the "Explain your answer" link below the poll and tell me why you voted the way you did. Especially if you don't like it, I am curious to know why.That said, here are the results from last week's poll:"What is your opinion on the new 'Daily Dose of Discernemt' series that I have been posting on this blog?"Yay: 16 (76%)Nay: 2 (10%)"Daily with De Sales" was better: 2 (10%)Get rid of the "Great Catholic Writers" portion: 1 (5%)Get rid of the G. K. Chesterton portion: 0 (0%)It looks like the majority of you like what I have been doing with that, so I'm gonna keep on keepin on.Thank you all for your continued support of this blog.Pax Christi,phatcatholic
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Audience Questions from the Holy Water Debate
2008-02-05 02:49:00
Here are my answers to the questions from the audience after the formal debate on holy water was finished.1. Dan asks:Please correct me if I am wrong but it seems that none of the quotations you have provided would be considered, by Catholic standards, an infallible affirmation of the resolution. Nor do they seem to quote an infallible authority as a ?principle that informs the practice? in support of the resolution. If that?s correct, please explain the relative weight the quotations have on this debate?When you say, "the quotations," I'm assuming you mean the quotations from the early Church, or from more recent authors about the early Church. Now, I realize that none of the works from which these quotations were taken are "infallible", per se, but I also don't think that's anything I need to worry about. You don't need the charism of infallibility in order to make a true statement, and, infallible or not, these works show that the use of holy water against demonic activity wa...
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Complete Holy Water Debate
2008-02-05 02:13:00
Here is the holy water debate, in full. You can also retrieve all of the posts in the debate by clicking on Turretinfan's Holy Water debate label and reading from the bottom to the top.Part 1: Phatcatholic Opening StatementPart 2: Phatcatholic Answers Questions 1, 2, and 3Part 3: Turretinfan Opening StatementPart 4: Turretinfan Answers Questions 1, 2, and 3Part 5: Turretinfan RebuttalPart 6: Phatcatholic RebuttalPart 7: Turretinfan Concluding StatementPart 8: Phatcatholic Concluding StatementPart 9: Turretinfan Answers Questions from AudiencePart 10: Phatcatholic Answers Questions from AudiencePax Christi,phatcatholic
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/4/08
2008-02-04 23:34:00
The curse against God is "Exercise I" in the primer of minor poetry.-- G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant- - - - - - - - - -Christ our Savior himself tried to show the people of Israel through many marvelous deeds that although for our sake he had become a man according to the divine dispensation, he was still God as he had always been. To help them to realize this he did things that were beyond the power of any human being?God alone could perform such miracles. He raised the dead from their graves when they were already in a state of corruption; like the Creator, he made the blind see the light of day; he rebuked unclean spirits with authority; he cured lepers by a word of command; and there were other things he did that were marvelous beyond description. Therefore, "If I am not acting as my Father would," he said to them, "do not believe in me. But if I am, even if you do not believe in me, accept the evidence of my deeds."-- Cyril of Alexandria, Paschal Homilies 26, 3: PG 77, 925.
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/3/08
2008-02-03 22:19:00
It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. It is always easy to be a modernist, as it is easy to be a snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps of error and exaggeration which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set along the historic path of Christendom -- that would indeed have been simple. It is always simple to fall: there are an infinity of angles at which one falls: only one at which one stands. To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame. But to have avoided them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect.-- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy- - - - - - - - - -The same is true of service given to God. God gains no advantage from it; he has no need of our service. Yet to those who follow and serve him he gives ...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/2/08
2008-02-02 20:15:00
But as I sat scrawling these silly figures on brown paper, it began to dawn on me, to my great disgust, that I had let one chalk, and that a most exquisite and essential one, behind. I searched all my pockets, but I could not find any white chalk. Now, those who are acquainted with all the philosophy (nay, religion) which is typified in the art of drawing on brown paper, know that white is positive and essential. I cannot avoid remarking here upon a moral significance. One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals is this: that white is a colour. It is not a mere absence of colour, it is a shining and affirmative thing: as fierce as red, as definite as black. When (so to speak) your pencil grows red hot, it draws roses; when it grows white hot, it draws stars. And one of the two or three defiant verities of the best religious morality -- of real Christianity, for example -- is exactly this same thing. The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a...
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New Topical Index Unveiled!
2008-02-01 21:25:00
I've done it! The new topical index is finally finished....for now. I'm sure I'll do some tweeking, but it's good enough to unveil.I really hope that you all like this new feature. Hopefully, this chart at the top of my blog will make it a lot easier for you to find what I have written on particular topics. As for the different "kinds" or "categories" of posts, that can still be found in my sidebar. Just click on the "Categories" button.Please let me know what you think! (or you can just wait for next week's poll)Pax Christi,phatcatholic
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Topical Index Page: Ecclesiology
2008-02-01 19:58:00
The Church: Two Bodies or One?Were the Nicolaitans Quasi-Catholic?Must Bishops Be Married?Can Any Church Claim to Possess the Fullness of Truth?The True Nature of Jesus and His ChurchWheat and Weeds in the Catholic ChurchFour Marks of the ChurchIsa 24:5 and the "Great Apostacy"Eight Key Points, Part 3: Ministerial PriesthoodFor more on the nature of the Church, see the following:Topical Index Page s: Church Authority and the Papacy -- Communion of SaintsCatholic Defense Directory: The Church (Ecclesiology) -- Communion of Saints -- Peter and the PapacyBiblical Evidence for Catholicism: The Church (Ecclesiology) -- The Papacy and Infallibility -- Saints, Purgatory, and Penance

Topical Index Page: Sin and Morality
2008-02-01 16:12:00
Q&A Potpourri (On Abortion, and Self-Defense)One Ending Your Own LifeWhat's Wrong with Contraception? Parts One -- TwoAm I My Brother's Keeper? On Fraternal Correction: Parts One -- Two -- ThreeQ&A Potpourri (On Sin, Ghosts, and Mary)The Torturesome Debate on TortureQ&A Potpourri (On God, Creation, and Evil)Doing Homework on Sunday: Parts One -- TwoWheat and Weeds in the Catholic ChurchHonor Your Father and MotherDid Augustine Invent Original Sin?Attachment to SinGod's Will and Our Rejection of HimSinning Against the Holy Spirit: Parts One -- TwoWhat to Do with RidiculeMeekness and Righteous IndignationWhat to Do When Your Friend Is a Bad InfluenceAm I Showing a Lack of Faith If I Take Medication?Is Theatre Appropriate for a Christian Female?Is Masturbation a Mortal Sin?Eight Key Points, Part 6: Drinking WineFor more on sin and morality, see the Catholic Defense Directory: Morality , Ethics, and Truth.
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/1/08
2008-02-01 16:04:00
Many modern Englishmen talk of themselves as the sturdy descendants of their sturdy Puritan fathers. As a fact, they would run away from a cow. If you asked one of their Puritan fathers, if you asked Bunyan, for instance, whether he was sturdy, he would have answered with tears, that he was as weak as water. And because of this he would have borne tortures.-- G. K. Chesterton, Heretics- - - - - - - - - -Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them and we will come to them. There is another passage of scripture which reads: those who fear God will do good, but of those who love something more is said: They will keep God's word. Where is God's word to be kept? Obviously in the heart, as the prophet says: I have hidden your words in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.Keep God's word in this way. Let it enter into your very being, let it take possession of your desires and your whole way of life. Feed on goodness and your soul will delight in its richnes...
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Topical Index Page: Sacred Scripture
2008-02-01 07:14:00
Criticizing the Lord's PrayerWere the Nicolaitans Quasi-Catholic? (On Rev 2:6,14-15)Ask and You Shall Receive (On Mt 7:7 and Jn 14:14)The Magisterium: Guardians of TruthQ&A on the Deuterocanonical Books: Parts One -- TwoDid Enoch and Elijah Ascend Into Heaven? (On Jn 3:13): Parts One -- TwoAre There "Apostles" Today?Is There Something Lacking in the Afflictions of Christ? A Look at Col 1:24-25: Parts One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- FiveR.I.P. to O.S.A.S.: Parts One -- TwoGod and the Priest: Who's Doing the Forgiving? (On Jn 20:21-23): Parts One -- TwoMust Bishops Be Married? (On 1 Tim 3:2)Samuel, Saul, and the Sorcerer (On 1 Sam 28:8-15): Parts One -- TwoIs Scripture Self-Interpreting? Parts One -- Two -- ThreeScripture and the Early Church FathersDebate with "Seal" on the Canonicity of the Deuterocanonical Books: Parts One -- Two -- Three -- FourIn the House of the Lord Forever (On the Psalms)Scripture Commentary by Fr. William G. MostThe Behemoth and the LeviathanDebate with "eve...
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