43 “If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered, 44 the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean. 45 It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and taken out of the town to an unclean place.
Please pray to Jesus for my friend’s niece Zaniya. The girl was shot in the head twice last night. Lord Jesus please help her and her family. Everything for your glory. Amen.
Just learned that one of Caitlin Doughty’s (AskAMortician’s) childhood memories of her paternal grandmother was walking out of bed in the middle of the night to find her crying because she was thinking about how there were people in the world who didn’t know the love of Jesus. Maybe say a prayer for her soul, and that all may come to know that love, today?
I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.
Can people please pray with me for the people of Palestine . All the nationals and refugees for not only their safety but also that they receive all the aid they can. Especially those with illness and disability.
One of the best things I've done for my faith is learn about the nuances in the original meaning of "Kyrie, eleison."
It's almost always translated as "Lord, have mercy," and while this made sense in the way the word "mercy" was used centuries ago, it doesn't really line up with the contemporary English meaning. Today, "have mercy" feels pretty solely like pleading to a judge to be pardoned for a crime and can make the church feel like a courtroom rather than a hospital for sinners.
However, the original English (and Greek) meaning was far broader and quite far from this legalistic meaning. "Eleos" was the Greek translation in the Septuagint for the Hebrew word "חֶסֶד," or Chesed, which refers to a steadfast love grounded in the covenant. Furthermore, while we now know they aren't actually etymologically related, "eleos" sounds a lot like "elaion" (olive oil, used for light and medicine), and the Church Fathers (like St. John Chrysostom) associated the two deeply.
When early Christians prayed "Kyrie, eleison," what they meant was something closer to: "Lord, pour out Your healing grace unto me and soothe me." They weren't so much pleading for a mitigation of punishment as they were pleading for God to hold to His Covenant with His people, which entails the treatment of sins and comfort through distress.
So mentally, when I hear or say it, I translate it internally to "Lord, heal us," or "Lord, be gracious." This really helps me genuinely mean it and put my heart into it when I say "Kyrie, eleison" during the Divine Liturgy, or another liturgy.
Here is a compilation of various resources for Catholics and other Christians to begin digging into the perennial beliefs regarding the historicity of the creation story laid out in the First Book of Moses. A lot of this was originally sourced by Gideon Lazar but I have tweaked some things and added imbedded links to all of the works cited. This is not a finished product and will continue to be a work in progress. I hope that people find this interesting and helpful.
Fathers and Doctors of the Church
Saint Theophilus of Antioch
Letter to Autocylus, Book II Chapters 10-32 (x)
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
Adversus Haereses (specifically Book V Chapter 23)
Origen of Alexandria
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Victorinus
On the Creation of the World
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
Commentary on Genesis
Saint Basil the Great
Homilies on the Hexaemeron
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
On the Making of Man
Saint Ambrose of Milan
Hexaemeron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel
Saint John Chrysostomos
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Augustine
Confessions, Books XI and XII
On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis
City of God, Books XI-XVI
Selpicius Severus
Sacred History
Venerable Bede
The Reckoning of Time, Chapter 66
Saint John of Damascus
Exposition on the Orthodox Faith, Book II (x)
Saint Bonaventure
Breviloquium, Parts II and III
Collations in Hexaemeron
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars Questions 44-46, 65-74, 90-92, and 102
Conciliar Magisterium
Council of Carthage (AD 419)
Canon 109
Fourth Lateran Council (AD 1215)
Confession of Faith
Council of Trent (AD 1545-1563)
Session IV, Decree concerning the use of the Sacred Books
Session V, On Original Sin
Professio Fidei
Catechism of Trent, On the Production of Man (pg 42)
Second Vatican Council (AD 1965)
Dei Verbum, Chapter III
Roman Martyrology
December 25th
Papal Magisterium
Pope Leo XIII
Arcanum Divinae, Paragraph 5
Providentissimus Deus
Pope Benedict XV
Spiritus Paraclitus
Pope Ven. Pius XII
Divino Afflante Spiritu
Humani Generis
Pope Saint John Paul II
Laborum Exercens, Chapter IV
Evangelium Vitae, Chapter 34-36
Pope Francis
Laudato Si, Paragraph 65-67
Pontifical Biblical Commission
The commission was granted explicit papal approval as authoritatively binding by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907 (Praestantia Scripturae) until that authority was rescinded by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1971 (Sedula Cura). The rescinding does not retroactively make the previous issued decrees non-binding but merely removes that prerogative from further decrees by the commission. Much of the decrees are only available in Latin and Italian but the first 50 years are in English here.
Miscellaneous
Fr. Chad Ripperger
The Metaphysical Impossibility of Human Evolution
Dr. Henry Morris
The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution
Fr. Seraphim Rose
Genesis, Creation, and Early Man
Fr. Victor Warkulwiz
The Doctrines of Genesis
Drs. John Bergsma and Brant Pitre
A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament (I don’t have a PDF)
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