tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55789807530631543882024-03-17T20:03:49.284-07:00The New Theological MovementFather Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.comBlogger946125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-67607298193413881762021-05-03T10:22:00.001-07:002021-05-03T10:22:06.353-07:00High School Youth Group, May 2nd -- The Dogma of the Trinity, Session 17 - Dante and the Trinity, Last Class (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> We conclude our year of High School Youth Group, discussing the final canto of the Divine Comedy in which Dante describes a vision of the Trinity.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-05-02-high-school-youth-group-the-trinity-session-17-dante-and-the-trinity-last-class" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-05-02-high-school-youth-group-the-trinity-session-17-dante-and-the-trinity-last-class&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-78337081111253379552021-05-03T10:08:00.000-07:002021-05-03T10:08:07.808-07:00High School Youth Group, April 18th -- Dogma of the Trinity, Session 16 - The Trinity and the Mass, and the Incarnation (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> We discuss the how we pray to the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit in the Mass. Further, the relation of the Humanity of our Savior to the Trinity, and the threefold relationship of Mary to the Trinity.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-18-high-school-youth-group-session-16-dogma-of-the-trinity-the-trinity-and-the-mass-and-mary" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-18-high-school-youth-group-session-16-dogma-of-the-trinity-the-trinity-and-the-mass-and-mary&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">High School Youth Group – Spring 2021 – The Dogma
of the Trinity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">April 18<sup>th</sup> - Session 16 – The
Trinity and the Mass, and Mary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” -Deuteronomy 6:4<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Calendar: Next week, April 25<sup>th</sup>,
Eucharistic Procession and Confirmation Reception. May 2<sup>nd</sup>, Last
Class!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Review the Dogma of the
Trinity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Trinity: Three persons in one God. All three persons are equal and co-eternal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. The Father and the Son and the
Holy Spirit are distinct in relation to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. When God acts in the world,
all three persons are acting/causing/creating/etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D. Why can’t we prove the Trinity
the way we can prove God exists? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">III. The Trinity and the
Incarnation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Communication of Idioms.” Because Jesus is a single person, fully God
and fully man, we can say “Jesus was born, therefore God was born” or “Jesus
died on the Cross, therefore God died on the Cross.” We can even say that the dead body in the
tomb was divine – because united to a divine person.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">However, although all three
persons are active in the mysteries of Jesus’ life, we cannot say that “the
Holy Spirit was born” or that “the Father suffered on the Cross” etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. The Trinity and the Blessed
Virgin Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Mary is the Mother of Jesus, the
Mother of Christ, and the Mother of God. However, she is not the “Mother of the
Trinity”. Daughter of the Father,
Mother of the Son, Spouse of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">V. The Trinity and the Mass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Mass is offered in adoration
of all three persons. However, in his humanity, Christ is the priest offering
the sacrifice to God and calling down blessings upon the world. Furthermore,
the Holy Spirit sanctifies the offering and transforms the bread and wine into
the Body and the Blood of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-27544143975304427702021-04-12T19:18:00.002-07:002021-04-12T19:18:51.693-07:00Divine Mercy Sunday Sermon, April 11th -- St Thomas the Apostle, and Easter Graces (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> [long pre-sermon note on Divine Mercy Sunday, the Theology of the Divine Mercy Image, and the specifics of the promise of Jesus to St Faustina for special graces on this day as well as of the indulgence offered by the Church]</p><p><br /></p><p>St Thomas the Apostle is a central figure of the Gospel for this Sunday. We consider who he was, and how this encounter with the Risen Lord transformed him. We also discuss why he was called "The Twin" and how his likeness to Christ moved him to preach the Gospel to the Far East.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-11-st-thomas-the-apostle-and-easter-graces-divine-mercy-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!<br /><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-11-st-thomas-the-apostle-and-easter-graces-divine-mercy-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-48659060533895402872021-04-12T19:14:00.001-07:002021-04-12T19:14:05.316-07:00Easter Sunday Sermon, April 4th -- Proofs of the Resurrection, and What It Means for Us<p> There are physical proofs of the Resurrection: The tomb was sealed, and the angel rolled back the stone to reveal that Christ had been raised and miraculously passed unnoticed through the sealed walls during the night just before dawn.</p><p>There are also moral proofs of the Resurrection: Consider how St Peter was totally transformed by his encounter with the risen Jesus. He who had been afraid of the questions of a servant girl on Good Friday, would be so bold as to proclaim Christ before courts and executioners!</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-05-proofs-of-the-resurrection-and-what-it-means-for-us-easter-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-05-proofs-of-the-resurrection-and-what-it-means-for-us-easter-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-74764377902537952102021-04-12T19:09:00.000-07:002021-04-12T19:09:00.762-07:00Good Friday Sermon, April 2nd -- Our Lady at the Foot of the Cross (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> The greatest sorrow of our Lord was to see his mother weeping at the foot of the Cross. Her sorrow was greater than all other saints, for her heart was so intimately united with the heart of her Son.</p><p>Mary gave Jesus to the world as a beautiful baby boy. We gave him back to her, a bloody corpse. What brought about this change? My sins. Mary, pray for me - Lord Jesus, never let me offend you again!</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-02-our-lady-at-the-foot-of-the-cross-good-friday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-02-our-lady-at-the-foot-of-the-cross-good-friday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-60445510583112431942021-04-12T19:04:00.003-07:002021-04-12T19:04:13.901-07:00Holy Thursday Sermon, April 1st -- The Logic of the Triduum, and Christ's Presence in the Church (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> During the Triduum, the Church commemorates the mysteries of salvation not only in the manner of a sacrament, but after the manner in which they historically occurred. Thus, on Holy Thursday we commemorate the foot washing, the Last Supper, and the Agony in the Garden. On Good Friday, the Crucifixion and Death of Jesus. At Easter Vigil, the anointing of his sacred body, and his Resurrection on the third day.</p><p>Further, we consider the presence of Christ in the Church until the end of time: He is present in the charity of believers (the mandatum, or example of charity, the foot washing); he is present in the priests (whom he ordained at the Last Supper); and he is present in the Blessed Sacrament (which he first consecrated on this night).</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-01-the-logic-of-the-triduum-christs-presence-holy-thursday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-04-01-the-logic-of-the-triduum-christs-presence-holy-thursday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-83942997144046583562021-04-12T18:57:00.003-07:002021-04-12T18:57:51.374-07:00Palm Sunday Sermon, March 28th -- Hosanna to Christ the King (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> "Hosanna to the Son of David, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest."</p><p>We consider the meaning of the word "hosanna" and how the children of the Hebrews and the crowds of Jerusalem declared that Christ is King.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-28-hosanna-to-christ-our-king-palm-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!<br /><br /></p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-28-hosanna-to-christ-our-king-palm-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-35281402078882875752021-03-22T11:31:00.002-07:002021-03-22T11:31:26.889-07:00High School Youth Group, March 21st -- The Dogma of the Trinity, Session 15 -- Poems about the Trinity<p> We discuss various poems and creeds about the dogma of the Trinity.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-21-high-school-youth-group-the-trinity-session-15-poems-about-the-trinity" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-21-high-school-youth-group-the-trinity-session-15-poems-about-the-trinity&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>The Athanasian Creed</p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Whoever wishes to be saved must, above all, keep the Catholic faith.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">For unless a person keeps this faith whole and entire, he will undoubtedly be lost forever.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">This is what the Catholic faith teaches: we worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Spirit.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">But the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit have one divinity, equal glory, and coeternal majesty.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">What the Father is, the Son is, and the Holy Spirit is.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, and the Holy Spirit is uncreated.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">The Father is boundless, the Son is boundless, and the Holy Spirit is boundless.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Nevertheless, there are not three eternal beings, but one eternal being.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">So there are not three uncreated beings, nor three boundless beings, but one uncreated being and one boundless being.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Likewise, the Father is omnipotent, the Son is omnipotent, the Holy Spirit is omnipotent.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Yet there are not three omnipotent beings, but one omnipotent being.</div><p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Thus the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">However, there are not three gods, but one God.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">The Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit is Lord.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">However, there as not three lords, but one Lord.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">For as we are obliged by Christian truth to acknowledge every Person singly to be God and Lord, so too are we forbidden by the Catholic religion to say that there are three Gods or Lords.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">The Father was not made, nor created, nor generated by anyone.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">The Son is not made, nor created, but begotten by the Father alone.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">The Holy Spirit is not made, nor created, nor generated, but proceeds from the Father and the Son.</div><p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">There is, then, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">In this Trinity, there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less. The entire three Persons are coeternal and coequal with one another.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">So that in all things, as is has been said above, the Unity is to be worshipped in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">He, therefore, who wishes to be saved, must believe thus about the Trinity.</div><p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">It is also necessary for eternal salvation that he believes steadfastly in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Thus the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and man.</div><p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">As God, He was begotten of the substance of the Father before time; as man, He was born in time of the substance of His Mother.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">He is perfect God; and He is perfect man, with a rational soul and human flesh.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">He is equal to the Father in His divinity, but inferior to the Father in His humanity.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Although He is God and man, He is not two, but one Christ.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">And He is one, not because His divinity was changed into flesh, but because His humanity was assumed unto God.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">He is one, not by a mingling of substances, but by unity of person.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">As a rational soul and flesh are one man: so God and man are one Christ.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">He died for our salvation, descended into hell, and rose from the dead on the third day.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">He ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty. From there He shall come to judge the living and the dead.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">At His coming, all men are to arise with their own bodies; and they are to give an account of their own deeds.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Those who have done good deeds will go into eternal life; those who have done evil will go into the everlasting fire.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">This is the Catholic faith. Everyone must believe it, firmly and steadfastly; otherwise He cannot be saved.</div><p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">Amen.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Cantar del alma que se huelga de conocer a Dios por fe<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> (Song of the soul that rejoices in knowing God by faith)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For I know well the spring that flows and runs,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1. That eternal spring is hidden,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">for I know well where it has its rise,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2. I do not know its origin, nor has it one,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">but I know that every origin has come from it,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3. I know that nothing else is so beautiful,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and that the heavens and the earth drink there,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4. I know well that it is bottomless<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and no one is able to cross it,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5. Its clarity is never darkened,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and I know that every light has come from it,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6. I know that its streams are so brimming<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">they water the lands of hell, the heavens, and earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7. I know well the stream that flows from this spring<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">is mighty in compass and power,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8. I know the stream proceeding from these two,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">that neither of them in fact precedes it,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9. This eternal spring is hidden<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">in this living bread for our life's sake,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10. It is here calling out to creatures;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">because it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">11. This living spring that I long for,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I see in this bread of life,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">although it is night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -1em;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-11090413787482784412021-03-22T11:26:00.002-07:002021-03-22T11:26:14.851-07:00Sunday Sermon, March 21st -- Adoration of the Cross and Carrying our Cross Daily (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> "When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself."</p><p>By the sign of the Cross, all men will be judged. We worship the Cross, and the sign of the Cross is not only everywhere in our Liturgy but is even the sign by which the priest bestows blessing upon the world.</p><p>If we truly love and adore the Cross, then we must carry our own crosses daily.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-21-adoration-of-the-cross-and-carrying-our-cross-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-21-adoration-of-the-cross-and-carrying-our-cross-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-32581734338576131322021-03-22T11:20:00.001-07:002021-03-22T11:20:03.937-07:00High School Youth Group, March 14th -- The Dogma of the Trinity, Session 14 -- A "Proof" of the Trinity (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> We discuss the philosophical and theological reasonings about the greatest mystery of our Faith, The Holy Trinity.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-14-high-school-youth-group-the-trinity-session-14-a-proof-of-the-trinity" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-14-high-school-youth-group-the-trinity-session-14-a-proof-of-the-trinity&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">High School Youth Group – Spring 2021 – The Dogma
of the Trinity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">March 14<sup>th</sup> - Session 14 – A
“Proof” of the Trinity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” -Deuteronomy 6:4<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Calendar: Classes continue
until May 2<sup>nd</sup>. No class on March 28<sup>th</sup>, April 4<sup>th</sup>,
and 11<sup>th</sup>. Students encouraged to join for parish stations on March
28<sup>th</sup> (Palm Sunday) and to make confession on April 11<sup>th</sup>
(Divine Mercy Sunday).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Note: The class originally
scheduled for April 11<sup>th</sup> will be moved to March 21<sup>st</sup> –
Poems on the Trinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Review of Introduction to the
Trinity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Trinity: Three persons in one God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Person answers “who?” – Nature
answers “what?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. The word “Trinity” is not in
the Bible, but was developed in the early Church.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">III. Can the Mystery of the Trinity
be known by natural reason alone?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">St Thomas Aquinas, Summa
Theologica I, q. 32, a. 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hilary says (De Trin. i),
"Let no man think to reach the sacred mystery of generation by his own
mind." And Ambrose says (De Fide ii, 5), "It is impossible to know
the secret of generation. The mind fails, the voice is silent." But the
trinity of the divine persons is distinguished by origin of generation and
procession (I:30:2. Since, therefore, man cannot know, and with his
understanding grasp that for which no necessary reason can be given, it follows
that the trinity of persons cannot be known by reason.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And again,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“It is impossible to attain to
the knowledge of the Trinity by natural reason. For, as above explained (I:12:4
and I:12:12), man cannot obtain the knowledge of God by natural reason except
from creatures. Now creatures lead us to the knowledge of God, as effects do to
their cause. Accordingly, by natural reason we can know of God that only which
of necessity belongs to Him as the principle of things, and we have cited this
fundamental principle in treating of God as above (I:12:12). Now, the creative
power of God is common to the whole Trinity; and hence it belongs to the unity
of the essence, and not to the distinction of the persons. Therefore, by natural
reason we can know what belongs to the unity of the essence, but not what
belongs to the distinction of the persons.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Therefore, we must not attempt
to prove what is of faith, except by authority alone, to those who receive the
authority; while as regards others it suffices to prove that what faith teaches
is not impossible.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. A “Proof” of the Trinity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. This is not a strict “proof”
but rather an explanation or the hint of an explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. In man, there is both intellect (knowing) and
will (loving). If man can know and love, surely God must know and love.
Therefore, even before/apart from any created things, in God alone there is
knowledge and love. This knowledge and love must not be creatures, since we are
speaking of God in himself apart from creation. Therefore, this knowledge and
love must be divine persons together with God. Hence, we have the Father (God),
the Son (the knowledge/word of God), and the Holy Spirit (the will/love of God).
And all three are yet one God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. God must surely know himself.
When he knows himself, he forms a perfect idea of himself. However, if this
idea of himself is truly perfect, then it cannot be a mere creature (like our
ideas) but must be divine (like God himself). Also, because God knows himself
without any creation, then this knowledge of himself must not be a part of
creation but must be truly divine. However, if this knowledge/idea of himself
is divine, then it must be a true person (for an inanimate object or flighty
daydream clearly cannot be divine). But,
if this knowledge which God has of himself is a true person, then it must be a
divine person who likewise knows and loves.
Now, God must not only know himself, but also love himself and love his
perfect image/knowledge of himself.
Further, this love cannot be a mere creature (because we are thinking of
God in himself apart from creation), but must be divine. Again, this means that
this love must be a person. And so, we have the Father (God), the Son (the
knowledge of God), and the Holy Spirit (the love of God).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">V. How we speak of God<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5 Notions: The Father is the
unbegotten (1), the Father of the Son (2), and the common source of the Holy
Spirit (3); The Son is the begotten of the Father (4) and the common source of
the Holy Spirit (3 again); The Holy Spirit is the one who proceeds from the
Father and the Son (5).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4 Relations: The Father is the
Father of the Son (1), and the common source of the Holy Spirit (2); The Son is
begotten of the Father (3) and the common source of the Holy Spirit (2 again);
the Holy Spirit is the one who proceeds from the Father and the Son (4).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3 Persons: The Father is the
Father of the Son (1); the Son is the begotten of the Father (2); the Holy
Spirit is the one who proceeds from the Father and the Son (3).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Processions: The Son is the
begotten of the Father (1) and the Holy Spirit is the one who proceeds from the
Father and the Son (2).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 God: God knows himself and the
Father begets the Son, God loves himself and the Father and the Son breathe
forth the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-36493105036687809072021-03-22T11:14:00.002-07:002021-03-22T11:14:39.573-07:00Sunday Sermon, March 14th -- Perfect Joy and Immense Sorrow in Our Lord's Passion (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> Throughout his Passion as in every moment of his life, our Lord enjoyed the beatific vision. He always remained perfectly united with his heavenly Father and his human soul experienced beatitude. However, likewise, he suffered intensely during the Passion, even to the point of experiencing feelings of abandonment. </p><p>If we look honestly at the Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross, we see a man in immense suffering but also perfectly at peace. This is a model for us, to maintain peace and even joy in the midst of suffering.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-14-perfect-joy-and-immense-sorrow-in-our-lords-passion-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-14-perfect-joy-and-immense-sorrow-in-our-lords-passion-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-92000788120415474472021-03-22T11:09:00.000-07:002021-03-22T11:09:00.721-07:00Sunday Sermon, March 7th -- Encouragement for Making Confession (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> Many people are fearful of confession because they are unsure about the mechanics of how to confess their sins. The faithful really do not need to worry about this, the priest should be able to help! What we need to work on when confessing our sins is being truly sorry for sin and firmly resolved to avoid sin in the future.</p><p>Don't worry about how long your confession is (the priest can help with that), and know that confession most certainly is a good time for some basic spiritual direction.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-07-encouragement-for-making-confession-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-03-07-encouragement-for-making-confession-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-86471937501450222782021-03-22T11:00:00.004-07:002021-03-22T11:00:31.298-07:00Sunday Sermon, February 28th -- The Transfiguration Strengthens Us To ConversionOur Lord revealed his glory on Mount Tabor to strengthen his disciples (Peter, James, and John) before his Passion. The Church brings this mystery before us early on in Lent to strengthen us to complete our Lenten penances. Furthermore, the thought of heaven inspires us to conversion!<div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-28-the-transfiguration-strengthens-us-to-conversion-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-28-the-transfiguration-strengthens-us-to-conversion-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-56629573565742744592021-02-27T21:44:00.004-08:002021-02-27T21:44:48.198-08:00Sunday Sermon, February 21st - Our Lenten Fast and Our Lord's Temptations in the Desert (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p>[Pre-sermon Note regarding the Lenten Fast as well as Prayer and Almsgiving. Fasting opens the soul to true prayer. Fasting also brings Catholics into solidarity with the poor.]</p><p>The temptation of our Lord in the desert presents us with a violent entrance into the Lenten Season. Our Lord is crushed under his forty days fast in the wilderness, and so the devil comes to tempt him. However, perfect man and perfect God, he fully resists all temptation and completely overcomes evil. </p><p>In Christ we have been tempted, and in Christ we have already won the victory!</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-21-our-lenten-fast-and-our-lords-temptations-in-the-desert-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-21-our-lenten-fast-and-our-lords-temptations-in-the-desert-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-4256759928539333782021-02-27T21:33:00.003-08:002021-02-27T21:33:48.974-08:00Sunday Sermon, February 14th -- The Message of Our Lady of Lourdes (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Sunday Sermon)<p> Last Thursday, February 11th, was the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. As Jesus heals the leper in today's Gospel, we consider the message of Our Lady of Lourdes which has been the source of so many thousands of miraculous healings.</p><p>The essential message of Lourdes is penance and prayer (especially the Rosary) for the conversion of sinners. The 18 apparitions from February 11th to July 16th, 1858 center around the Rosary and penance. St Bernadette is a saint most dear and inspiring.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-14-the-message-of-our-lady-of-lourdes-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-14-the-message-of-our-lady-of-lourdes-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-60802257838726072402021-02-27T21:22:00.002-08:002021-02-27T21:22:49.728-08:00High School Youth Group, February 14th -- Dogma of the Trinity, Session 13 -- Introduction and History (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi)<p> We begin the second portion of High School Youth Group for 2020-2021, the Dogma of the Trinity. We review the early development of the dogma and the heresies which forced the early Church to clarify our belief in God.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-14-high-school-youth-group-session-13-dogma-of-the-trinity-introduction-and-history" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-14-high-school-youth-group-session-13-dogma-of-the-trinity-introduction-and-history&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">High School Youth Group – Spring 2021 – The Dogma
of the Trinity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">February 14<sup>th</sup> - Session 13 – Introduction
and Historical Development<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” -Deuteronomy 6:4<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Calendar: Classes continue
until May 2<sup>nd</sup>. No class on March 7<sup>th</sup>, 28<sup>th</sup>,
and April 8<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">II. What does “Trinity” mean?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Tri – three; unity – one. Three in one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Three persons in one God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. This is the greatest mystery
of our Faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">III. What do we mean by “Persons”
as compared to “Nature”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Nature answers the question of
“what”? What is this thing? What kind of
thing is this? Nature. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Person answers the question of
“who”? Who is this? Person.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. Trinity in the Scripture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. The word “Trinity” is never
used in the Bible – and the dogma is not as explicit as one might think. The Bible is very clear that God is one.
However, even in the Old Testament there were hints.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Trinitarian formulations in NT
-- Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 1 Corinthians 12:4-5, Ephesians 4:4-6, 1
Peter 1:2 and Revelation 1:4-5.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-1475596031353903652021-02-27T21:15:00.001-08:002021-02-27T21:15:06.479-08:00High School Youth Group, February 7th, Catholic Response to Atheism -- Session 12, Review<p> We conclude the first portion of High School Youth Group for 2020-2021. Review of the Catholic Response to Atheism.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-07-high-school-youth-group-catholic-response-to-atheism-session-12-review" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-07-high-school-youth-group-catholic-response-to-atheism-session-12-review&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-33610952722205062282021-02-27T21:07:00.001-08:002021-02-27T21:07:09.530-08:00Sunday Sermon, February 6th -- Physical Health, Mental Health, Spiritual Health, and COVID (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> When we place physical health first, not only do we lose mental and spiritual health, we even lose physical health. In the past year, the American people have experienced roughly a 25% decline in mental health, with one in four teens contemplating suicide. However, devout people who attend Mass at least once a week have not only not declined but have even improved in mental health generally. Furthermore, devout traditional Catholic parishes have flourished in the midst of the crisis.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-06-physical-health-mental-health-spiritual-health-and-covid-19-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-06-physical-health-mental-health-spiritual-health-and-covid-19-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-75854344994106985832021-02-27T21:01:00.002-08:002021-02-27T21:01:32.210-08:00Adult Faith Formation, February 16th -- Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton, Session 6 -- Chapters 7, 8, and 9 (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> Note, Session 5 was cancelled due to extreme cold temperatures. Session 6 covers the material from session 5 as well as the final chapter and review.</p><p>GK Chesterton shows that any true reform or revolution requires a fixed ideal and objective truth. Furthermore, Christian Orthodoxy provides this ideal and truth which can reform the world. Chesterton's apologetic or proof or Christianity is that it alone makes man truly joyful!</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen to part one online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-16-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-gk-chesterton-session-6-chapters-7-8-and-9" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p>Listen to part two online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-16-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-gk-chesterton-session-6-chapters-7-8-and-9-part-2" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-16-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-gk-chesterton-session-6-chapters-7-8-and-9&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-16-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-gk-chesterton-session-6-chapters-7-8-and-9-part-2&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Adult Faith Formation Series – Spring 2021 – Orthodoxy
by GK Chesterton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">February 16<sup>th</sup> – Chapters 7&8&9
– The Eternal Revolution, The Romance of Orthodoxy,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and Authority and the Adventurer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Christian ideal has not been tried and found
wanting. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It has been found difficult; and left untried. - GK
Chesterton <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Chapter 7: The Eternal
Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. In order for there to be true
progress, there must be a fixed goal or ideal toward which we strive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Moreover, this ideal cannot be
simply the exaggeration of only one thing. Rather, the goal must be a complex
idea which is artistically combined – everything held together in proper
proportion and balance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Finally, for true progress, we
must always be on the lookout for the tendency toward corruption. Things left
alone do not remain pure, but decay. Thus, even when we have progress, there
must always be the continual effort for renewal and reform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, the Eternal Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[compare this with the last book
of Ballad of the White Horse, “Scouring of the Horse”]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D. Chesterton notes that
Christianity and Christian doctrine is the only thing that brings about the
“liberal ideal” (of equality, love of neighbor, peace, etc).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Chapter 8: The Romance of
Orthodoxy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Chesterton continues his
argument that only Christianity can bring the world true progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. He argues against some common
heresies of liberal theology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1.
Materialism – the denial of miracles is not a truly liberal/liberating thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2.
Pantheism/Immanentism – here, Chesterton points out how different Christianity
is from <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Buddhism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>3.
Monism – if all are one, then there is no love of others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>4.
Unitarianism/Mohammedanism – The “Lonely God” destroys society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>5.
Fatalism/Determinism – if there are no consequences for our actions, then there
can never <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>be
true reform<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>6.
Arianism – If Christ is not God, then man has not be elevated. Human suffering
and trial is <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>left
below, and there is no path for true victory over death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">III. Chapter 9: Authority and the
Adventurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Here, Chesterton attempts to
answer the question, “Why not just take what is good in Christianity, but leave
the dogmas?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or “Why do we need the
dogmas? Aren’t the good morals enough?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. The Church reveals herself not
merely to have been right about many and varied truths, she shows herself to be
a “Truth-telling thing.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Chesterton responds to common
objections to the Church: Men are just like any other beast. Religion comes
from primitive darkness. Priests make society sad. Christianity is weak.
Christianity would drag us back to the dark ages. Christian people (like the
Irish) are backwards and impractical. There is not reason to acknowledge the
supernatural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– Chesterton replies to
all of these.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D. The great “proof” or
“apologetic” for Christianity is that it makes man and the world joyful. Why be
Christian? Because Orthodoxy Christianity is the only way to gain true joy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-43285509820880535902021-02-03T21:39:00.004-08:002021-02-03T21:39:54.240-08:00Adult Formation, February 2nd -- Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton, Session 4 - Chapters 5 and 6 (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> We discuss Chesterton's classic Orthodoxy. Chapters 5 and 6: The Flag of the World and The Paradoxes of Christianity.</p><p>Chesterton points out that we all owe a loyalty to the world which is best characterized as a sort of patriotism. We must hate the world enough to want to reform it, but love it enough to believe it is worth reforming.</p><p>In chapter 6, Chesterton presents the paradoxes of Christianity -- this one religion is criticized on every side and from every angle. At one too pompous and too humble, too obsessed with sex and too repressive of sex, too rich and too poor, too womanly and too much a woman's religion, too pacifist and too violent, etc. And suddenly, it occurred to Chesterton that the Church is either miraculously wrong or miraculously right, either straight from heaven or straight from hell. Either way, Christianity is nothing like any other religion. And, as it turns out, the extremes of Christianity happen to fit perfectly the extremes of real life - like a lock to a key, Christianity is the religion of the Creator.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online part 1 <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-02-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-4-chapters-5-and-6-part-1" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p>Listen online part 2 <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-02-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-4-chapters-5-and-6-part-2" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-02-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-4-chapters-5-and-6-part-1&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-02-02-adult-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-4-chapters-5-and-6-part-2&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Adult Faith Formation Series – Spring 2021 – Orthodoxy
by GK Chesterton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">February 2<sup>nd</sup> – Chapters 5&6 – The
Flag of the World & The Paradoxes of Christianity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Christian ideal has not been tried and found
wanting. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It has been found difficult; and left untried. - GK
Chesterton <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Review of Chesterton’s Ethics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Chesterton’s “Doctrine of
Conditional Joy” – a foundation for morality based on joy and wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. The realization that all that
exists is most precious, it might not have been and was saved as from a great
ship wreck. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. The beauty of the world
inspires us to be good, this is how we give thanks to the Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Chapter 5: The Flag of the
World<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Optimism vs Pessimism, and the
failures of each. The optimist,
especially the rational optimist, is tempted to white wash the world or his
nation without really fixing or reforming it. The pessimist doesn’t believe the
world is worth reforming. Chesterton is
decidedly opposed to pessimism – for him, it is the greatest sin. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Note his poem, The Ballad of
the White Horse – the pagans move from hedonism, to war/violence, to
pessimism. That was the great sin of the
pagan, that he no longer believed in anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. We ought to feel a patriotism
for the world, an allegiance with it, as belonging to it. We love the world
with all that is wrong in it, and this inspires us to make it better.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D. To hate the world enough to
want to change it, to love it enough to think it worth changing. Irrational
optimism is to love the world because it is ours and because we belong to it –
not for any one reason, but more the way a parent loves a child or a woman her
husband.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">E. The Martyr vs the Suicide: The
martyr loves life enough to risk losing it, and so gains true life. The suicide hates life and has no loyalty to
the world, and so loses everything. This is the model of courage, to be willing
to throw one’s life away in battle out of love for life and all that is good in
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">III. Chapter 6: The Paradoxes of
Christianity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. The apparent logic of the
world is surprisingly found to be illogical in the most unusual ways. Take the
example of a man who has two hands, two lobes of the brain, but not two hearts.
The genius of Christianity is that it predicts just where the world goes weird.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Christianity is not only
denounce for being wrong, but for being wrong in every way – even in ways that
would seem contradictory. At once, too
much at war and too much at peace; too extravagant and too plain; too
pessimistic and too optimistic; too dismissive of women and too much a woman’s
religion; etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. If Christianity is wrong, it
is wildly and even miraculously wrong – if it is right, it is wildly and
miraculously right. Perhaps it is not
that the Church is wrong in every way, but she is right and all the critics
were wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D. The Church holds the middle,
not be blending and softening the two extremes, but by holding them in a fierce
paradox. The lion is not the lamb, and
white and red do not blend to pink.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">E. The thrill of orthodoxy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-67231705970244541482021-02-03T21:29:00.004-08:002021-02-03T21:29:31.884-08:00Adult Faith Formation, January 27th - Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton, Session 3 - Chapters 3 and 4 (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> We discuss chapters 3 and 4 of Chesterton's classic Orthodoxy: The Suicide of Thought and The Ethics of Elfland. </p><p>In these chapters, Chesterton speaks first of the crisis of thought which is prevalent also in our day - not so much to reject what has come before, but to pretend like the genius of previous ages never existed. If a man does not love the Medieval Theologians, he should at least hate them - but modern man commits the suicide of thought by pretending there were no theologians in the middle ages, and that no one until our modern day has anything to contribute to philosophy, theology, or reason.</p><p>In The Ethics of Elfland, Chesterton puts forward his own apologetic for morality. This is a most compelling chapter -- Why should we be good? Because the world is beautiful, and being good is a way of expressing our gratitude to the Creator.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online part 1 <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-27-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-3-chapters-3-and-4-copy" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p>Listen online part 2 <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-27-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-3-chapters-3-and-4-copy-2" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-27-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-3-chapters-3-and-4-copy&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-27-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-3-chapters-3-and-4-copy-2&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Adult Faith Formation Series – Spring 2021 – Orthodoxy
by GK Chesterton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">January 26<sup>th</sup> – Chapters 3&4 – The
Suicide of Thought & The Ethics of Elfland<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Christian ideal has not been tried and found
wanting. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It has been found difficult; and left untried. - GK
Chesterton <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Chapter 3: The Suicide of
Thought<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. The false humility of doubting
absolute truth, and doubting the ability to know truth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Modern skepticism is a
skepticism against all thought – which is the death of thought<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Chesterton notes that religion
and religious authority (indeed, he mentions many of the traditional forms of
authority) were established not so suppress reason or free thought, but to
defend it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D. Chesterton is a strong critic
of evolution. This refers not so much to the actual science of evolution of
living organisms (although he was suspicious of that too, especially because of
the eugenics claims of his day), but more especially to the claim of the
evolution of thought and of truth. Loving progress for the mere sake of
progress without any reference to absolute truths.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">E. There must be objective truths
and moral standards which are valid through all ages and for all peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Chapter 4: The Ethics of
Elfland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. What does Chesterton mean when
he states that he is a “liberal”? It has a different meaning in his time,
referring to the idea of democracy and voting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. GK Chesterton has a charming
comparison of democracy and tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Fairytales help us to regain
that original wonder and even surprise at the world. That we might delight in
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D. When Chesterton criticizes
scientific laws, he is speaking on a philosophical level. Granted, there are
certain “laws of nature” and scientific principles that order the world, but
that still doesn’t get to the deeper philosophical question of why things are
the way they are and even why anything exists at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">E. Chesterton’s “Doctrine of
Conditional Joy” – a foundation for morality based on joy and wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">F. A God who is eternal young,
and perfectly creative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">G. The realization that all that
exists is most precious, it might not have been and was saved as from a great
ship wreck. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">H. Overview of the five points
made at the end of this chapter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">III. Looking ahead to next week<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A. The Flag of the World: A good corrective to nationalism as well as
to disloyalty. Note Chesterton’s discussion of suicide, which perhaps strikes
us a somewhat harsh.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. The Paradoxes of Christianity:
Chesterton is famous for his presentation of paradoxes. His aim is to show that
Christianity is wholly unique and really nothing like any other religion or
philosophy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-64368206916719974922021-02-03T19:51:00.002-08:002021-02-03T19:51:18.665-08:00Sunday Sermon, January 31st -- St Thomas Aquinas, Model of Purity and Eucharistic Devotion (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Sunday Sermon)<p> St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is without question the greatest theologian in the history of the Church as well as the brightest intellect in human history (excepting only Our Lord, his Mother, and St Joseph). He is called the Angelic Doctor both for his superior intellectual insight and for his perfect purity. And the crowning jewel of his theological teaching is his doctrine on the Holy Eucharist.</p><p>In this sermon, we consider this great Dominican Priest as a model of what St Paul praises in the second reading from the First Letter to the Corinthians, "An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord." St Thomas loved God with an undivided heart, and was favored with the highest graces. He is a spiritual father to us all, and especially to Corpus Christi Parish - because he wrote the Liturgical Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-31-st-thomas-aquinas-purity-and-eucharistic-devotion-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-31-st-thomas-aquinas-purity-and-eucharistic-devotion-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>For more information on the Angelic Warfare Confraternity, look here: <a href="http://www.angelicwarfareconfraternity.org/" target="_blank"> https://www.angelicwarfareconfraternity.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The two prayers to be said every day, together with 15 Hail Mary's in honor of the original mysteries of the Rosary:</p><p><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: futura-pt, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Dear Jesus, I know that every perfect gift, and especially that of chastity, depends on the power of Your providence. Without You a mere creature can do nothing. Therefore, I beg You to defend by Your grace the chastity and purity of my body and soul. And if I have ever imagined or sensed anything that could stain my chastity and purity, blot it out, Supreme Lord of my powers, that I may advance with a pure heart in Your love and service, offering myself on the most pure altar of Your divinity all the days of my life. Amen.</span></p><p><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: futura-pt, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Chosen lily of innocence, pure St. Thomas, who kept chaste the robe of baptism and became an angel in the flesh after being girded by two angels, I implore you to commend me to Jesus, the Spotless Lamb, and to Mary, the Queen of Virgins. Gentle protector of my purity, ask them that I, who wear the holy sign of your victory over the flesh, may also share your purity, and after imitating you on earth may at last come to be crowned with you among the angels. Amen.</span></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-32922606858501148102021-02-03T15:33:00.004-08:002021-02-03T15:33:42.198-08:00Sunday Sermon, January 24th -- Jonah, Foreshadowing Prophet of Jesus Christ (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> An overview of the book of Jonah in the historical context of the history of salvation. Also, the many ways in which Jonah foreshadows our Lord both in his resurrection and also in the preaching of the Gospel of Salvation to the Gentiles.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-24-jonah-foreshadowing-prophet-of-jesus-christ-sunday-sermon" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-24-jonah-foreshadowing-prophet-of-jesus-christ-sunday-sermon&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Outline of the Prophetic Books of the Old
Testament<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ignorance
of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ. –St Jerome<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Key Historical Notes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Divided Kingdom from after
Solomon (around 930 BC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1. The Northern Kingdom of Israel
was commonly tempted with idolatry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2. The Southern Kingdom of Judah
worshipped at the Temple, but still immoral <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">B. The Fall of the Northern
Kingdom to the Assyrians (about 722 BC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1. The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2. The Assyrians rose up to
become a great nation for just a small period of history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">3. Assyrian capital was Nineveh <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">C. The Fall of the Southern
Kingdom to the Babylonians (about 587 BC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1. The destruction of the Temple<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2. The near destruction of all
the people (as found in the book of Esther)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">D. The Return of the Jews to
Judea (about 539 BC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1. The Fall of the Babylonian
Empire to the great King Cyrus of Persia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2. The Jews were permitted to
return to Judea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">3. The Temple rebuilding was
completed in 515 BC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Four Major Prophets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Isaiah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Isaiah was among the earlier of
the prophetic books, written around 730 BC. However, the prophet foresees the
exile and even the return of the Jewish people which will not occur for over
150 years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[modern scholars do not think
Isaiah could have written the whole book of Isaiah, but we hold to the
traditional view that the prophet could have foreseen all these things and
written in varying styles in order to relate to the Jews at different points of
their history]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Isaiah is a prophet of the
Southern Kingdom, before the time of the Assyrian invasion of the North.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Fathers of the Church say
that Isaiah is like an Evangelist, because his book so clearly speaks of the
mysteries of our Lord’s life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Jeremiah (Lamentations,
Baruch)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Jeremiah preached and wrote
around the time of the 600 BC, but had the longest ministry of any of the
prophets (called in his young years [maybe as young as 14] and ministering into
old age)! He preached against the sins of the southern kingdom and warned against
the Babylonian invasion. He told the people to accept God’s punishment and not
fight the Babylonians – but they people refused. Thus the Temple was destroyed.
Tradition tells us that Jeremiah was taken captive by his own people and
brought to Egypt where he was killed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Jeremiah represents to us the
Lord Jesus in his sufferings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The book of Jeremiah is the
longest book in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Ezekiel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ezekiel was called as a prophet
while the people were in exile in Babylon. He is a prophet of hope, to encourage
the people in their great suffering – to tell them that God will redeem them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ezekiel also explains that the
Temple wasn’t destroyed by the power of false gods, but only because the True
God allowed it as a chastisement to call the Chosen People to conversion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ezekiel is most famous for
speaking of the resurrection, and also of the Temple of God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">D. Daniel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Daniel is a prophet of the time
of Exile and also encourages the people to be faithful in the midst of
trials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daniel is apocalyptic – pointing
to the end of time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In some ways, Daniel also
foretells the future sufferings of the Jewish people during the time of the
Maccabees when Antiochus Epiphanies will attack Judea and defile the Temple and
kill many of the people (about 160 BC). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">III. The 12 Minor Prophets: “Minor”
only because their books are much shorter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Northern Kingdom (all before
Assyrian Invasion):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amos, Jonah, Hosea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Southern Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Before the fall of the
Northern Kingdom: Joel, Micah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2. After the fall of the Northern
but before the fall of the Southern Kingdom: Obadiah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">3. After the fall of the Southern
Kingdom: Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">4. After the return from Exile:
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">C. The prophets who preach before
an invasion generally call the people to repentance and give warning of
destruction for the sins of the people. The prophets who preach during a time
of exile generally speak words of encouragement so that the people will not
lose hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prophets after the return
from exile preach most explicitly the New Covenant which will be established
and how all the gentile nations will find salvation through the Jews, since the
Messiah will come through the Jewish people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p><p> </p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-70365124710570840602021-02-03T15:29:00.004-08:002021-02-03T15:29:58.691-08:00High School Youth Group, January 24th -- Catholic Response to Atheism, Session 11, Why Be Catholic? (Father Ryan Erlenbush, Corpus Christi Parish)<p> We consider the philosophical arguments which show Christianity to be the most reasonable religion, and Catholicism to be the most reasonable and original version of Christianity.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-24-high-school-youth-group-catholic-response-to-atheism-session-11-why-be-catholic" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-24-high-school-youth-group-catholic-response-to-atheism-session-11-why-be-catholic&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">High School Youth Group – Spring 2021 – The Catholic
Response to Atheism<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">January 24<sup>th</sup> - Session 11 – Why Be Catholic?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no
God.” -Psalm 13:1<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Calendar: Classes continue
until May 2<sup>nd</sup>. No class on March 7<sup>th</sup>, 28<sup>th</sup>,
and April 8<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Review of whether atheists can go to heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. It is not our place to judge
either way, but the Lord has only revealed baptism as the means of salvation.
This inspires us to spread the Gospel to all peoples, and call all to the
sacraments!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. When an atheist lives a truly
good life (following the natural law etc), that is an indication that God’s
grace is working in his soul. Surely, God desires the salvation of all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">III. Monotheism compared to Polytheism<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. If God is the uncaused cause,
then he must be pure existence – his very nature is to exist. However, if he is
existence itself, unlimited existence, then he must be perfectly simple without
any parts and without any potency. This
means that there could not be two Gods, because there would be nothing to
distinguish the one from the other.
Hence, monotheism is proven by reason alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
B. Furthermore, note that the pagan religions do not claim that any of the gods
is the Creator, but all the gods are somehow born within an already existing
world. But the monotheistic God is
Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Again, if God created the
world and sustains it, then it is reasonable to think that he would reveal
something of himself to us. Not that he has to, but because he clearly loves
the world he has made.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. Christianity/Judaism compared
to Islam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Christianity/Judaism insists
that God must be the perfection of wisdom and reason. Therefore, God cannot
contradict himself nor can he deny himself. God could not one day define one
thing as true, and then the next day define it as false – because God’s nature
is the source of all reason/logic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. The God of Islam, although the
monotheistic God of Judaism and Christianity, is a God “above reason.” Islam so
emphasizes God’s transcendence as to claim that he transcends even logic. God
can deny himself, and he is not bound by reason. Reason and logic are subject to changing
Divine Will.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">V. Christianity compared to
Judaism<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Even as Man stands above every
animal, so does Christ rise above every man. Whether the Lord was speaking
truly or falsely, we must admit that he has claimed what no other man has ever
claimed – to be truly God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
B. Comparing Christianity to Judaism, we consider whether Jesus fulfilled the
prophecies of the Old Testament. And, if he did not fulfil them, then clearly
they have not been fulfilled – even after the line of David has been destroyed.
Thus, if Christ didn’t fulfill the Old Testament, it seems that no one every
will. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Modern Judaism and
Christianity are two rivals claiming to have fulfilled ancient Judaism. It is a
common mistake to think that modern Judaism is the same religion as ancient
Judaism – rather, we maintain that Christianity is truly the religion of
Abraham and Moses. This is why we do not
encourage participating in modern Jewish religious customs that explicitly
reject Jesus as Messiah.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">VI. Catholicism compared to
Protestantism<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. The Sacraments: If Jesus took
on our flesh, it is reasonable to believe that he would use material substances
and works to bring his grace to the world. This is the place of the sacraments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
B. The Order of the Church: If Jesus established a Church as his own body, it
is reasonable to think that he would establish a single Head for this single Body
– which is the Pope. Further, as a body
has order, so the Church has order through the Bishops and priests.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Historical proofs: Jesus must
have told his Apostles how he desired his Church to progress, and they surely
would have told their first disciples. But from the very early days of the
Church and even in the generation that was taught by the Apostles, we see both
the Eucharist and Holy Orders (bishops, priests, deacons). Therefore, the True
Church of Jesus Christ would have belief in the Eucharist and in the
Priesthood.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-86596412528077129122021-02-03T15:18:00.001-08:002021-02-03T15:18:04.655-08:00Adult Faith Formation, January 19th -- Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton, Session 2, Chapters 1 and 2<p> We discuss the first two chapters of GK Chesterton's apologetical classic "Orthodoxy." In Defense of Everything Else, and The Maniac -- in which Chesterton lays out the scope of his work, and begins his survey of what is wrong with modern thought.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Listen online to part 1 <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-19-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-2-chapters-1-2-copy" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p>Listen online to part 2 <a href="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-19-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-2-chapters-1-2-copy-2" target="_blank">[here]</a>!</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-19-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-2-chapters-1-2-copy&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="380" scrolling="no" src="https://archive.org/details/2021-01-19-adult-faith-formation-orthodoxy-by-chesterton-session-2-chapters-1-2-copy-2&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Adult Faith Formation Series – Spring 2021 – Orthodoxy
by GK Chesterton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">January 19<sup>th</sup> – Chapters 1&2 –
In Defense of Everything Else & The Maniac<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Christian ideal has not been tried and found
wanting. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It has been found difficult; and left untried. - GK
Chesterton <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I. Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Orthodoxy as a good
introduction to all of GK Chesterton.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2. Written while Chesterton was
still Anglican, describing his intellectual journey back to traditional
Christianity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3. Written as a follow up to
Heretics, in which he criticized the heresies against reason of his day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4. Some of the people Chesterton
frequently mentions in Orthodoxy: Shaw, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Wells.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">II. Chapter 1: In Defense of
Everything Else<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. “I will not call it my
philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.”
How Chesterton discovered the Christian Creed, and how it made sense of the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Orthodoxy “is not an
ecclesiastical treatise” and not a study of the development of doctrine, nor
even a consideration of which church is the true Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, Chesterton shows that the Christian
Creed “is the best root of energy and sound ethics” – that it resonates with
the nature of man, that it touches reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">III. Chapter 2: The Maniac<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. Chapters 2 and 3 offer a
review of what is wrong with modern thought and philosophy – essentially, that
it is a denial of objective truth that ends in the denial of thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. On fairy tales and modern
novels: “The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his
adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal. But in
the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal; the centre is not
central.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Who is the maniac? The one who
tries to understand everything, and who manages to account for everything, but
with too small a theory. “The lunatic’s theory explains a large number of things,
but it does not explain them in a large way.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here we see Chesterton’s emphasis
on reason and imagination – recapturing the sense of wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">D. The modern thinkers are mostly
maniacs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Materialism does explain, but
in such a small and dry way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even
worse, the radical sceptic who denies the existence of the external world can
explain everything, but he explains it away. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">E. But the religious man is a
mystic, and allows the paradox of the Cross to shed light on all reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. Looking ahead, Chapters
3&4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. The Suicide of Thought: Notice
how Chesterton speaks of religion as defending reason and safeguarding freedom
and thought, while modern skepticism destroys thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. The Ethics of Elfland:
Father’s favorite chapter!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elfland is
our world, seen with wonder!<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Father Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.com0