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Marcus
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| Joined: | Thu Jan 4th, 2007 |
| Location: | Dresden, Ohio USA |
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| First Name: | Marcus | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Lutheran, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic |
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Posted: Sun Jan 14th, 2007 09:26 am |
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I'm really enjoying following this guide again. It's been a few years. My one regret is that every morning as I read each reading, I wish I or especially some faithfl biblical scholar could post a daily study guide. But my plate right now is far too full and i don't know of anyone I could ask who plate also is overflowing.
So, please any of you, as you read, share your questions--we'll all post our asnwers--and share your reflections--and don't worry whether there are any responses to your posting. More often than not, people read without giving a response. We help each other.
I'm particularly enjoying re-reading the Catechism from the beginning. It's a great confirmation of my conversion to the Church 14 years ago. As I'm reading, I find myself asking, "IS there a better alternative understanding?", comparing it to what I believed & taught as a Protestant pastor, and it continually astounded by the wisdom & clarity of the Church guided by the Holy Spirit.
in Christ,
Marcus Grodi
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Marcus
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| First Name: | Marcus | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Lutheran, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic |
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Posted: Sun Jan 14th, 2007 09:30 am |
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| One quick note, though, as far as the interpretation of SCripture: tomorrow's readings from the Catechism, 109-119, outline the correct parameters for interpreting Scripture.
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Luke12:48
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| Location: | Southeast, Pennsylvania USA |
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| First Name: | Kate | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | cradle catholic, left for many years, returned June 2006 |
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Posted: Sun Jan 14th, 2007 03:35 pm |
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I don't know of any bible scholars but perhaps we could send everyone to the same link or get permission from the author to include a link for each day here.
How about http://www.cin.org/guide.html
This one covers the bible in order but there is not a link for every single chapter.
When you get to the new testament, there is a mediatation link that is searchable for the appropriate passages at this site http://www.rc.net/wcc/readings/
I am sure there are others on this board that may have better links.
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Maria
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| Joined: | Fri Jul 27th, 2007 |
| Location: | Vermont USA |
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| First Name: | Hal | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Baptized Catholic. Followed parents thru Episcopal, then Congregational. ... |
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Posted: Fri Jul 27th, 2007 10:47 pm |
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Marcus,
This response takes off on the question in your 01-14-07 posting, "Is there a better alternative understanding?"
As a complementary and motivational -- but not necessarily a daily -- aid to a deeper understanding of what the catechism or the Bible are about, I have found it important to know who I am specifically as the child of God that He made me to be.
With that self-knowledge, which comes from Christ revealing Himself in a personal relationship with Him and using simple idioms of speech that He deems best in my interior life with Him and his mother, Mary, Mother of God, always with me on my path to Him, I go to the Catechism or the Bible to find transcribed there, as it were, how this personal 'love language' fits into the gold standard of Scripture and doctrine.
Thus, for example, I wrote some personal reflections on the Most Holy Rosary with each mystery 'pegged' to various citations from scripture or paragraph numbers from the Catholic Catechism, as done in tabular format. My personal experiences, as pulled together and ordered sequentially in forty reflections within the framework of the twenty mysteries (and fruits) of the Rosary, led me to see how powerfully the Rosary is based on Scripture, and how my own little 'gospel' has parallels in the Gospels, especially that of John.
Or, knowing that I just am, having given my all to Christ, He having given his all to me, and we having become one, I sense and feel a special solidarity with Him in his utterances of "I AM" in Jn 8 and Jn 18, for example.
In that everything that I have is his, I also sense a kind of continuous liturgy in his Triduum and Resurrection, starting with the first Eucharistic meal in the upper room that is celebrated in the Catholic liturgy on Holy Thursday evening, in which He offers up Himself as a living priestly sacrifice, then continuing on with consummation of that sacrifice on Good Friday with his own Body and Blood on the Cross. And, He lets us know by his Resurrection on Easter Sunday that his soul and divinity were and are also part of that sacrifice, and that God the Father had accepted his priestly sacrifice as He was and is, the Son of the Father, serving the Father with perfect filial piety.
In sum, He is "I AM" forever and ever, and I, too, shall always be who I am as He made me -- not even betrayal or death will take away what He wishes me to have forever, eternal life in Him which I find in Him when I come to Him as I really am.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church seems to sum all this up in its Paragraph 226 on "making good use of created things" as an implication of "faith in One God," which is followed by apt quote of a remarkable remark by St. Nicholas of Flue:
"My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you.
My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you.
My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you."
[Italics mine]
Possibly others who reference from time to time their lives, too, to the truths contained in the Catechism and in the Bible, perhaps in a manner along the the lines of the preceding, may find comfort and consolation, and the strength and courage, to come ex corde out into the open in their own encounters with Jesus Christ and his mother Mary with who they irrepeatedly really are, as He had made them to be, even, say, in the final analysis, like a latter-day (St.) Paul of Tarsus.
Sincerely,
Hal Frost
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CajunRick
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| Location: | Houma, Louisiana USA |
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Posted: Fri Jul 27th, 2007 10:54 pm |
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I'm not Marcus, Hal, but I would like to take a moment to welcome you to the Coming Home Network, and particularly to the forums. We are happy to have you here with us, and we look forward to hearing your faith story when you're ready to share it with us. Your journey is a rather unique and circuitous one, and I'm sure it's a story that will benefit all of us. Meanwhile, please feel free to participate in our discussions. Each person's insight is unique, and we are all better for having as many different perspectives as possible within the broad umbrella of Catholic teaching.
Once again, welcome to the Coming Home Network, and welcome home.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. - Augustine
Rick Luquette
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