Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"There is absolutely no manuscript evidence—and thus no actual historical evidence—to support the claim that 'originally' the Gospels had no titles" (The Case for Jesus by Dr. Brant Pitre).
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"How can the man Jesus of Nazareth have such power and mastery over creation—a power that the Old Testament reserves to the LORD alone? The best explanation is that Jesus is the God of Israel come in person" (The Case for Jesus by Brant Pitre).
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"[T]he greatest care must be taken, while fulfilling the indispensable duty of research, to do no injury to the teachings of Christian doctrine."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"It is important in this respect to recall that, beyond scientifically verified phenomena, the intellect which God has given us reaches that which is, and not merely the subjective expression of the structures and development of consciousness."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"The mutual bonds which eternally constitute the Three Persons, who are each one and the same divine being, are the blessed inmost life of God thrice holy, infinitely beyond all that we can conceive in human measure."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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It is your duty as a Christian to pray for Pope Francis.
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"Thus in the Three Divine Persons, coaeternae sibi et coaequales, the life and beatitude of God perfectly one superabound and are consummated in the supreme excellence and glory proper to uncreated being..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"He ascended to heaven, and He will come again, this time in glory, to judge the living and the dead: each according to his merits—those who have responded to the love and piety of God going to eternal life, those who have refused them to the end going to the fire that is not extinguished."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"[The Holy Spirit's] action, which penetrates to the inmost of the soul, enables man to respond to the call of Jesus: Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:48)."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"We believe that in Adam all have sinned... We therefore hold, with the Council of Trent, that original sin is transmitted with human nature, 'not by imitation, but by propagation' and that it is thus 'proper to everyone.'"
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ, by the sacrifice of the cross redeemed us from original sin and all the personal sins committed by each one of us..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. He does not see that God’s commitment to the world is most absolute precisely at this point—across a chasm."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar in "A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen"
- Hans Urs von Balthasar in "A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen"
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"Baptism should be administered even to little children who have not yet been able to be guilty of any personal sin, in order that, though born deprived of supernatural grace, they may be reborn “of water and the Holy Spirit” to the divine life in Christ Jesus."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"In the course of time, the Lord Jesus forms His Church by means of the sacraments emanating from His plenitude. By these she makes her members participants in the Mystery of the Death and Resurrection of Christ, in the grace of the Holy Spirit who gives her life and movement."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"We believe all that is contained in the word of God written or handed down, and that the Church proposes for belief as divinely revealed, whether by a solemn judgment or by the ordinary and universal magisterium."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"[W]e entertain the hope that the Christians who are not yet in the full communion of the one only Church will one day be reunited in one flock with one only shepherd. We believe that the Church is necessary for salvation, because Christ, who is the sole mediator and way of salvation, renders Himself present for us in His body which is the Church."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
"One of the enemies of the spiritual life is forgetfulness... Therefore the Church wisely requires us to come to Mass weekly in order to remember God's salvation... Memory creates identity. A person with amnesia forgets who they are. The Church in her wisdom constantly encourages us to remember so that we know who we are."
— John Bergsma, The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year C
— John Bergsma, The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year C
"We believe that as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest are changed into the body and blood of Christ enthroned gloriously in heaven..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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