Issue 2 - December 19 2015
Dayly Knightly On Earth as It is in Heaven
For Greater Glory The True Story of The Cristeros Ordinary People Rising Up To Defend The Faith This special presentation chronicles the history of the Cristero War with interviews from leading historians, several cast members, and Catholic leaders. To see the program, please click on the YouTube link herein below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPi5cXlVHo Continued on
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Synod Final English Report Published True Marriage is Defended Sacred Tradition Stands Those worried about the homosexual agenda of certain Church prelates on the structure and meaning of true marriage and family need not be as concerned now with the release of the English version of the final report of the ‘Synod on the Family’, held in Rome in October 2015.
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Basically, the Synod has strongly endorsed traditional Catholic doctrine while emphasizing compassion for those afflicted with same-sex attraction. There is to be no change in traditional marriage roles, marriage remains a sacred sacrament.
“Quite appropriately, we can use a Christocentric hermeneutic to understand the natural properties of marriage, which make up the goods of the spouses, namely, union, openness to life, fidelity and indissolubility. …We maintain that these forms—still based on the true and stable relationship of a man and woman—are ordered to the Sacrament of Matrimony.” To read more, click this link, http://www.ncregister.com/bl og/gstanton/the-synodsremarkably-strong-final-report
The Spiritual Battle of Our Time Pope St. John Paul II said many times during the 26 years of his pontificate that we are living at the time of the greatest battle between good and evil that the world has ever seen. He would often make the observation that one of the worst things about this spiritual battle is that relatively few people even seemed to know that it is even taking place, precisely because the spiritual
blindness so characteristic of this age is so pervasive, growing wider and deeper with every passing year. To read this article in full, please go to the ‘The Fathers of Mercy’ website at, http://fathersofmercy.com/cul ture/spiritual-battle-time/ [Article by, by Fr. Bill Casey on December 11, 2014]
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Contemplative Prayer - Father Benedict Catholic Meditation through a deepening prayer life Groeschel Fr. Benedict Groeschel teaches about the Catechism and the bible with an emphasis on prayer. His discussion of prayer is based on the premise that an essential condition of prayer is devotion- the belief that God is listening and cares for us. In "Prayer in the Catechism", Fr. Groeschel discusses the various kinds of prayer, including a special emphasis on using scripture when praying. The catechism contains basic Christian teaching formatted for learning and understanding. Fr. Groeschel, CFR, was a Catholic priest, retreat master, author, psychologist, and activist. Sadly, he passed away in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMheOdU 3
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Pray to Our Lady of Guadalupe (Pope John Paul II, January 25, 1979) O Immaculate Virgin, mother of the true God and mother of the Church! You, who ‌ revealed your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that we address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer. Mother of Mercy, teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you ‌ we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love. We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities, and our sorrows. Grant peace, justice, and prosperity to our people, for we entrust to your care all that we have and all that we are, our Lady and Mother. We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ and his Church: hold us always in your loving hand. Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls. Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of our children. Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come to us from your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever and ever Amen.
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In fact, when Jesus addressed the Diaspora Jews (who spoke Greek) he quoted from the Septuagint version of the scriptures.
So why does the Catholic Bible have 73 books, while the Protestant Bible has only 66 books? Some protestants believe that the Catholic Church added 7 books to the Bible at the Council of Trent in response to Luther’s Reformation, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In about 367 AD, St. Athanasius came up with a list of 73 books for the Bible that he believed to be divinely inspired. This list was finally approved by Pope Damasus I in 382 AD, and was formally approved by the Church Council of Rome in that same year. Later Councils at Hippo (393 AD) and Carthage (397 AD) ratified this list of 73 books. In 405 AD, Pope Innocent I wrote a letter to the Bishop of Toulouse reaffirming this canon of 73 books. In 419 AD, the Council of Carthage reaffirmed this list, which Pope Boniface agreed to. The Council of Trent, in 1546, in response to the Reformation removing 7 books from the canon (canon is a Greek word meaning “standard”), reaffirmed the original St. Athanasius list of 73 books. So what happened? How come the King James Bible only has 66 books?
Well, Martin Luther didn’t like 7 books of the Old Testament that disagreed with his personal view of theology, so he threw them out of his bible in the 16th Century. His reasoning was that the Jewish Council of Jamnia in 90 AD didn’t think they were canonical, so he didn’t either. The Jewish Council of Jamnia was a meeting of the remaining Jews from Palestine who survived the Roman persecution of Jerusalem in 70 AD. It seems that the Jews had never settled on an official canon of OT scripture before this. The Sadducees only believed in the first 5 books of the Bible written by Moses (the Pentateuch), while the Pharisees believed in 34 other books of the Old Testament as well. However, there were other Jews around from the Diaspora, or the dispersion of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity, who believed that another 7 books were also divinely inspired.
The Septuagint was a Greek translation by 70 translators of the Hebrew Word. The Septuagint includes the disputed 7 books that Protestants do not recognize as scriptural. Initially, Luther wanted to kick out some New Testament Books as well, including James, Hebrews, Jude, and Revelation. He actually said that he wanted to “throw Jimmy into the fire”, and that the book of James was “an epistle of straw.” What is strange is that Luther eventually accepted all 27 books of the New Testament that the Catholic Pope Damasus I had approved of in 382 AD, but didn’t accept his Old Testament list, preferring instead to agree with the Jews of 90 AD. To read this complete article, please check the following link from, CATHOLIC BIBLE !0! at, http://www.catholicbible1 01.com/thebible73or66bo oks.htm
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Spiritual Warfare Advice from the Saints
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St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina "Jesus permits the spiritual combat as a purification, not as a punishment. The trial is not unto death but unto salvation." St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina "The Spirit of God is a spirit of peace. Even in the most serious faults He makes us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident. This is precisely because of His mercy. The spirit of the devil, instead, excites, exasperates, and makes us feel, in that very sorrow, anger against ourselves. We should, on the contrary, be charitable with ourselves first and foremost. Therefore if any thought agitates you, this agitation never comes from God, who gives you peace, being the spirit of peace, but from the devil. St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina May it please His Majesty that we fear Him whom we ought to fear, and understand that one venial sin can do us more harm than all hell together; for that is the truth. The evil spirits keep us in terror, because we expose ourselves to the assaults of terror by our attachments to honours, possessions, and pleasures. St. John Vianney The devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them. St. John Bosco The strategy of our adversary can be compared to the tactics of a commander intent upon seizing and plundering a position he desires. The leader of an army will encamp, explore the fortifications and defenses of the fortress, and attack at the weakest point. St. Ignatius of Loyola After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if satan’s temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he’ll have an incentive to leave you alone. Saint Faustina Kowalska The evil spirits, because of their pride, anger, and envy, will attempt to turn your gaze away from God through either temptations or harassments. They seek to surround you with their temptations and harassments so that every thought and action you engage in might be in opposition to what the Lord desires for you. St. Padre Pio Do not listen or pay any attention to what the enemy suggests to you, telling you that God has rejected you, or that because of some hidden failure, God is punishing you and wants to chastise you until you eliminate those things from your soul. This is by no means true. St. Maximilian Kolbe How unhappy we are, my children, thus to be the sport of demons. They do whatever they please with us; they suggest to us evil speaking, calumny, hatred, vengeance; they even drive us so far as to put our neighbor to death.
St. Therese of Lisieux - Calm the tormenting anxieties of your heart, and banish from your imagination all those distressing thoughts and sentiments which are all suggested by satan in order to make you act badly. Source - http://www.catholicbible101.com/spiritualwarfare.htm#504073992
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Dr. Paul Thigpen on Spiritual Warfare Defeating Demonic Attacks Click presentation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aor1j9Dq9Vs
Put On The Armor – A Manual for Spiritual Warfare w/Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. The “Manual for Spiritual Warfare” can be found here Paul Thigpen, Ph.D, is the Editor of TAN Books in Charlotte, North Carolina. An internationally known speaker, best-selling author and award-winning journalist, Paul has published forty-three books in a wide variety of genres and subjects: history and biography, spirituality and apologetics, anthologies and devotionals, family life and children’s books, study Paul graduated from Yale University in 1977 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Distinction in the Major of Religious Studies. He was later awarded the George W. Woodruff Fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, where he earned an M.A. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1995) in Historical Theology. In 1993 he was named as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow by the U.S. Department of Education. He has served on the faculty of several universities and colleges. In 2008 Paul was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council for a four-year term. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings,speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. 8
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Pope Benedict XVI “No one wants to believe in evil, really, above all, not in an evil being, an evil spirit. Everyone wants to abolish the idea. To admit the existence of evil means a responsibility, and no one wants that responsibility. That is the opening through which the evil spirit crawls, stilling all suspicions, making everything seem normal and natural. This is the “thought,” the unwariness of the ordinary human being which amounts to a disinclination to believe in evil. And if you do not believe in evil, how can you believe in or ever know what good is?” 10
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Know Your Faith
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Introducing a new series "A Tour of the Catechism of the Catholic Church" given by Fr. Daniel J. Mahan, S.T.L., pastor of St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Bloomington, Indiana, and St. Jude the Apostle in Spencer, Indiana. The entire Catechism is covered in about 80 videos, 10-20 minutes long each, giving an outline of the content along with clear easy to follow explanations. It is based on the 2nd Edition of the Catechism. This first video introduces the series and covers the Prologue of the Catechism. This video: Prologue paragraphs 1-25 I. The Life of Man--To Know and Love God II. Handing on the Faith: Catechesis III. The Aim and Intended Readership of this Catechism IV. Structure of This Catechism V. Practical Directions for Using This Catechism VI. Necessary Adaptations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeZF0-J7r4Y
BOOKS of the CATHOLIC BIBLE New Testament Matthew Mark Luke John Acts of Apostles Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James 1 Peter 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John Jude Revelation
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Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Tobit Judith Esther 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees Job Psalms The Proverbs Ecclesiastes The Song of Songs Wisdom Ecclesiasticus / Sirach Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Baruch Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Source – Catholic Online -
http://www.catholic.org/bible/books_bible.php
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Jim Caviezel - Inspirational video
‘Passion of Christ’ actor speaks on his role as Christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0A6zyN37uw
A Prayer for our Protestant Brothers and Sisters The Church Militant - Bringing Catholic Back Authentic Catholicism is never outdated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTYp Z4kIg3Y
Catholic Faith and Catholic truth. Why You Should Be Catholic. Catholic beliefs, and Catholic traditions, Catholic questions and Catholic answers. A video by Steve Silvia – please click the image or link below.
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The Beauty of God’s Creation
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