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St. Augustine and the Doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ Stanislaus J
ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST STANISLAUS J. GRABOWSKI, S.T.D., S.T.M. Catholic University of America N THE present article a study will be made of Saint Augustine's doc I trine of the Mystical Body of Christ. This subject is, as it will be later pointed out, timely and fruitful. It is of unutterable importance for the proper and full conception of the Church. This study may be conveniently divided into four parts: (I) A fuller consideration of the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ, as it is found in the works of the great Bishop of Hippo; (II) a brief study of that same doctrine, as it is found in the sources which the Saint utilized; (III) a scrutiny of the place that this doctrine holds in the whole system of his religious thought and of some of its peculiarities; (IV) some consideration of the influence that Saint Augustine exercised on the development of this particular doctrine in theologians and doctrinal systems. THE DOCTRINE St. Augustine gives utterance in many passages, as the occasion de mands, to words, expressions, and sentences from which we are able to infer that the Church of his time was a Church of sacramental rites and a hierarchical order. Further, writing especially against Donatism, he is led Xo portray the Church concretely in its historical, geographical, visible form, characterized by manifest traits through which she may be recognized and discerned from false chuiches. The aspect, however, of the concept of the Church which he cherished most fondly and which he never seems tired of teaching, repeating, emphasizing, and expound ing to his listeners is the Church considered as the Body of Christ.1 1 On St. -
REFORMATION VIEWS of COMMUNION John 6:47-59 INTRODUCTION
REFORMATION VIEWS OF COMMUNION John 6:47-59 INTRODUCTION I am calling the month of October at Corntassel “Reformation Month.” Actually October 31st is Reformation Day, since it is on this day in 1517 that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to Wittenberg church door to debate the issue of penance and indulgences. Many count this event is what gave birth to the Protestant Reformation. Usually the Sunday closest to October 31 is called “Reformation Sunday.” But since this year is the 500th year anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, I’m going to call October “Reformation Month.” One thing we will be doing to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation is that I will be preaching on the 5 Solas of the Reformation. Since today is also World Communion Sunday I will be preaching on the Reformation View of the Lord’s Supper. THE TRANSUBSTANTIATON VIEW The Lord’s Supper was one of the key focuses of the Reformation. The Reformers believed that the Church of their day had totally distorted the meaning of it. In short, the Catholic view is that the elements, the bread and the cup, are miraculously changed into the actual Body and Blood of Christ through the priest’s blessing. Since the elements become the literal Body and Blood of Christ they can be elevated, revered and even worshipped for they are the actual Body and Blood of Christ. This is called the “Transubstantiation View.” The Protestants believed that this was a form of idolatry and close to being magical incantations which led to many superstitions. -
Unidad Educativa Particular Javier Bachillerato En Ciencias Monograph How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence the Catholic
UNIDAD EDUCATIVA PARTICULAR JAVIER BACHILLERATO EN CIENCIAS MONOGRAPH HOW DID THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION INFLUENCE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES BROUGHT ON BY THEM 500 YEARS LATER? STUDENT: JUAN SEBASTIAN VILLALBA GUARDERAS TUTOR: LAURA ORTUÑO THIRD BACCALURETTE - SECTION “C” 2017 – 2018 I ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I want to thank God, I have made this monograph because I love Him and the Church, both are my reasons for living. I also want to thank my parents for all their support, Ms. Laura Ortuño, for her love and patience while correcting this work. I am grateful as well to Father Pedro Barriga for the time he spent with me during our interview. “Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis.” This monographic work was completed on October 31, 2017, 500 years after the Augustinian monk Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses on the doors of the church in Wittenberg, Germany; beginning the Reformation. May God help us to reunify the Church. May God help us to reunify the Church. II SUMMARY The Reformation was the point of division in the history where the Middle Ages end, it divided forever Europe and Christianism and its effects are still sensed. The Reformation initiated by Luther in 1517 was the cause for the Trent Council and all the changes for diverse areas that it brought such as architecture, painting and liturgy. The figure of the Pope and the importance of the Mass was reinforced during the Counter-Reformation in the Catholic Church before Luther. The division of the Church still continues today, which is cause for God’s saddening. -
The Eucharist Is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ
The Eucharist Is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ UNIT 7, LESSON 2 Learning Goals Connection to the Catechism ӹ The miracle of the multiplication of the Catholic Church of the loaves and the fish ӹ CCC 547-548 ӹ CCC 1392-1397 foreshadows the institution of ӹ CCC 1335-1336 ӹ CCC 1411-1412 the Eucharist at the Last Supper. ӹ CCC 1360 ӹ CCC 1415 ӹ Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper as a memorial of ӹ CCC 1365 ӹ CCC 1417 His Death and Resurrection, and ӹ CCC 1373-1376 He commanded His Apostles to celebrate it until His return. Vocabulary At Mass, the bread and wine ӹ ӹ Eucharist ӹ Essential are changed into the Body and ӹ Chalice Elements of the Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Eucharist Christ in the Holy Eucharist. ӹ Real Presence ӹ State of Grace ӹ The Eucharist is a sacrifice of ӹ Last Supper thanksgiving. BIBLICAL TOUCHSTONES While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples never hunger, and whoever believes in me will said, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Then he took never thirst. a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, JOHN 6:35 “Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.” MATTHEW 26:26-28 653 Lesson Plan Materials ӹ Feeding the Five Thousand ӹ Appendix A: My First ӹ The Real Presence Communion Journal ӹ The Last Supper and the Mass ӹ Crayons, markers, and/ or colored pencils ӹ The Eucharist ӹ Paper plates ӹ Teacher Resource: The Multiplication of the Loaves ӹ Scissors and the Fish Comic Strip ӹ Glue ӹ Teacher Resource: ӹ Blank paper Loaves and Fish ӹ Small tablecloth ӹ Teacher Resource: ӹ Flameless candle The Last Supper Prayer Soul of Christ, sanctify me. -
Catholicism Episode 6
OUTLINE: CATHOLICISM EPISODE 6 I. The Mystery of the Church A. Can you define “Church” in a single sentence? B. The Church is not a human invention; in Christ, “like a sacrament” C. The Church is a Body, a living organism 1. “I am the vine and you are the branches” (Jn. 15) 2. The Mystical Body of Christ (Mystici Corporis Christi, by Pius XII) 3. Jesus to Saul: “Why do you persecute me?” (Acts 9:3-4) 4. Joan of Arc: The Church and Christ are “one thing” II. Ekklesia A. God created the world for communion with him (CCC, par. 760) B. Sin scatters; God gathers 1. God calls man into the unity of his family and household (CCC, par. 1) 2. God calls man out of the world C. The Church takes Christ’s life to the nations 1. Proclamation and evangelization (Lumen Gentium, 33) 2. Renewal of the temporal order (Apostolicam Actuositatem, 13) III. Four Marks of the Church A. One 1. The Church is one because God is One 2. The Church works to unite the world in God 3. The Church works to heal divisions (ecumenism) B. Holy 1. The Church is holy because her Head, Christ, is holy 2. The Church contains sinners, but is herself holy 3. The Church is made holy by God’s grace C. Catholic 1. Kata holos = “according to the whole” 2. The Church is the new Israel, universal 3. The Church transcends cultures, languages, nationalism Catholicism 1 D. Apostolic 1. From the lives, witness, and teachings of the apostles LESSON 6: THE MYSTICAL UNION OF CHRIST 2. -
The Body of Christ and the Origin of Modernity
The Body of Christ and the Origin of Modernity More than ever before, Catholic theology at this time [AD 1190- 1250] was a statement about light. In order to combat the temptations offered by the Albigensian heresy, the best of the theologians harked back to the system of hierarchies described by Dionysius the Areopagite, and sought to shore up that monument with sturdier reasoning and enrich it with the progress that had been made in physics. Robert Grosseteste, who founded the first schools in Oxford, the nucleus of the future university, read Greek fluently; he was familiar with Ptolemy and the new astronomy and with the Arabs' scientific commentaries on Aristotle's Treatise on the Heavens. In Grosseteste's philosophy, God was still light, and the universe was a luminous sphere that radiated outward from a central source into the three dimensions of space. All of human knowledge stemmed from a spiritual irradiance of uncreated /ight. Were it not that sin makes the body opaque, the soul would be able to perceive the blaze of divine love directly. It was in the body of Christ, both God and man, that the corporeal universe and the spiritual universe reverted to their originaJ oneness. Hence Jesus was designated—and, along with him, each of the cathedrals, as so many symbols of Jesus— as the center from which all things proceeded and received their light: the Trinity, the Word incarnate, the Church, mankind in general, and all of creation. Duby 1981: 147 26 • The European Modernity The Body of Christ • 27 I in turn produced the new man and the new secular philosophy, the sciences of man and the sciences of nature. -
The Body of Christ Church Strengthening Process
THE BODY OF CHRIST CHURCH STRENGTHENING PROCESS MUSCULAR SYSTEM INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM Work Together Unity and Identy URINARY/EXCRETORY SYSTEM SKELETAL SYSTEM Eliminate Distracons Organizaonal Framework RESPIRATORY SYSTEM CIRCULATORY SYSTEM Breathe the Spirit Transport Nutrients DIGESTIVE SYSTEM LYMPHATIC SYSTEM Hunger for Righteousness Spiritual Disciplines ENDOCRINE SYSTEM NERVOUS SYSTEM Body Movement Coordinaon Transmit Informaon REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM SENSORY SYSTEM Birth to New Believers Interprets Outside Environment THE BODY OF CHRIST Acknowledgements This set of resources has been the prayerful product of a wonderful team of dedicated men and women who love the Lord and His church. They are the members of the Waco Regional Baptist Association's Church Strengthening Team. Our Association functions through the various ministry teams comprised of members from diverse churches who share a passion, expertise, and experience in the mission of that ministry team. The following members worked and prayed and met for a year to compile these resources with the desire that they would bless the Lord’s churches here in Central Texas and beyond. We dream of seeing every Body of Christ full of vitality, energy, unity, and fruitfulness. In other words, we hope these tools help your church to be healthy! Team members: Charlie Dodd, Hulitt Gloer, Matt Snowden, Marcy Smith, Judy Staples, Mario Sandoval, Gary Williams, and Director of Missions, Tim Randolph. WACO REGIONAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION Strengthening the Church: An Introduction “What is the Church?” It’s a question that children in Sunday School have addressed for generations. The discussion usually results in the following answers: The Church is a building. The Church is a group of people who gather together locally to worship. -
The Finger of God (Exodus 31:18) Expository Lessons from the Book of Exodus ______
The Finger of God (Exodus 31:18) Expository Lessons from the Book of Exodus ______________________________________________________________________________ I. Review from the Previous Lessons a. Moses and his assistant Joshua had gone up Mount Sinai (Read Exodus 24:9-15). i. They were called up by the Lord, Who said He would be giving Moses the 10 Commandments on stone tablets. ii. They left the elders behind and left Aaron and Hur in charge, with the instructions “wait for us until we come back”. b. Moses fasted for 40 days during this time. c. While up on the mountain, the Lord showed Moses the pattern for the tabernacle and gave very specific instructions for constructing it, as well as for anointing and clothing the high priest (Aaron) and the priests (his sons) who would serve there. i. We have spent the past several lessons discussing that in detail. ii. It explains in Hebrews that the tabernacle is a physical representation of spiritual realities (heaven, the church, Jesus foreshadowed by the High Priest, etc.). d. Now Moses is about to descend the mountain and return to his people. II. Written with the Finger of God a. Read Exodus 31:18. b. Then let us also read Exodus 32:15 and 34:27-28, which provide more details regarding the stone tablets. c. Details we learn regarding the stone tablets: i. At the end of speaking with Moses, the Lord gives him the two stone tablets. ii. The tablets are engraved with writing on both sides. iii. From the second time that the stones are created (Exodus 34:27-28), we know that the 10 Commandments are written on them. -
Subject List
Subject List Author Title Subject Date Murphy, Richard T.A. Background to the Bible: An introduction to scripture study Bible 1978 Brown, Raymond Biblical exegesis and church doctrine Bible 1985 Brown, Raymond E. Biblical exegesis and church doctrine Bible 1985 Koterski, Joseph Biblical Wisdom Literature Bible Video Brown, Raymond Critical meaning of Bible Bible 1981 McKenzie, J L Dictionary of Bible Bible 1995 Corbitt, Sonja Fulfilled: Uncovering the Biblical foundations of Catholicism Bible 2018 Pritchard, James B. Harper concise atlas of the Bible Bible 1991 Catholic Biblical AssnHoly Bible: Revised standard version, Catholic edition Bible 1966 Stoddard, Sandol Illustrated children's Bible Bible 1997 Wigoder, G. Illustrated dictionary & concordance of the Bible Bible 2005 Anderson, Neil In search of the source: A first encounter with God's word Bible 1992 McGrath, Alister In the beginning: The story of the King James Bible and how it … Bible 2001 Baker, K S Inside Bible : an introduction to each book of Bible Bible 1998 Interpretation of Bible in Church Bible 1993 Jones, Alexander (Ed.)Jerusalem Bible: Reader's edition Bible 1968 Wald, O Joy of discovery in Bible study Bible 1975 Ginzberg, L. Legends of the Bible Bible 1956 Pt 1, 1-6 Dailey, T.L. Mysteries of the Bible: Explaining the secrets of the unexplained Bible 1999 Pt 2, 7-12 Catholic Biblical AssnNew American Bible Bible 1970 Pt 3, 13-18 New American Bible for Catholics Bible 1968 Pt 4, 19-24 New American Bible with revised New Testament Bible 1987 Pt 1, 1 – 6 New American Bible: New Testament Bible Audio Pt 2, 7 – 12 New American Bible: Old Testament, Part 1 Bible Audio Pt 1, 1-6 New American Bible: Old Testament, Part 2 Bible Audio Pt 2, 7-12 Ahern, B M New horizons; studies in biblical theology Bible 1965 Brown, Raymond, J. -
FINGER of GOD?: Claims and Controversies of Book of Mormon Translation 30 Kevin Cantera
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Religious Books -The Right One (Autosaved)
Title Author Subject Aging Gracefully: The Keys to Holier, Happier Golden Years Dymski, J. Daniel Aging Don't Call Me Old-I'm Just Awakening!: Spiritual Encouragement for Later Life Sinetar, Marsha Aging Good News Bible: Catholic Study Edition: copy 1 Thomas Nelson Bible Good News Bible: Catholic Study Edition: copy 2 Thomas Nelson Bible The American Bible Inside the Mysteries of the Bible Society Bible La Biblia San Pablo Bible New American Bible: St. Joseph Catholic Book Publishing Edition Co. Bible Fireside Catholic The Catholic Answer Bible: NAB Publishing Bible The Catholic Study Bible Oxford University Press Bible The Collegeville Bible Handbook The Liturgical Press Bible The Complete Bible Handbook: An Illustrated Companion Bowker, John Bible The New American Bible: Catholic Study Edition Catholic Bible Press Bible The New Testament of the New American Bible: Audio Cassette Hosanna Bible The Oxford Annotated Bible with the May, Herbert G. and Apocrypha Bruce M. Metzger Bible Campus Life The Way: Catholic Edition Publications Bible Dorothy Day: A Biography Miller, William D. Biography Even Unto Death: Wisdom from Modern Martyrs Kun, Jeanne Biography Heaven is for Real Burpo, Todd Biography John Paul II Giansanti, Gianni Biography Men in the Bible: The Good the Bad & the Ugly O'Grady, John F. Biography Mother Angelica Arroyo, Raymond Biography Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words: Conversations with Jorge Ambrogetti, Francesca Bergoglio and Sergio Rubin Biography Responses to 101 Questions About Jesus Cook, Michael L., S.J. Biography Saintly Deacons Cummings, Owen F. Biography Sinner Rulli, Lino Biography Strength of a Woman: Forgotten Heroines of the Bible LeBlanc, Amy Biography Teresa of Calcutta: A Pencil in God's Hand Zambonini, Franca Biography The Bible: 50 Most Important People Time Inc. -
A Bible Study of the Sabbath
A Bible Study of the Sabbath By Carl Lungstrum Version 2020-01 Copyright 2020 by Carl Lungstrum Permission is granted to reproduce for Bible Study purposes, both private and group studies Table of Contents Introduction .............................................................................................. 2 Lesson 1: Facts About the Sabbath (Part 1) ............................................ 3 Lesson 2: Facts About the Sabbath (Part 2) ............................................ 5 Lesson 3: The Sabbath Commandment is in the Law of Moses ............. 7 Lesson 4: The Christian’s Sabbath is a Promised Rest, Which is Not a Day of the Week .......................................... 10 Lesson 5: The Sabbath Observance Command is Taken Away ............. 12 Lesson 6: The Covenants Contrasted ...................................................... 15 Lesson 7: Jesus and the Sabbath ............................................................. 17 Lesson 8: The Apostles, Christianity, and the Sabbath ........................... 20 Lesson 9: Same Laws – Different Covenants ......................................... 22 Lesson 10: Sabbatarian Arguments Answered ....................................... 24 Lesson 11: Related Matters to Modern Sabbath Observance ................. 27 Series Conclusion..................................................................................... 30 Page 1 Introduction The Sabbath is a Bible subject which needs to be understood by Christians, as God teaches some great lessons through this subject in both