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RevelationFirst Sunday of Lent

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Opening Prayer

Come, Holy SpiritCome, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful andenkindle in them the fire of Your love.V. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, by the light of the Holy Spirit, Youhave taught the hearts of Your faithful. In the same Spirithelp us to know what is truly right and always to rejoice inYour consolation. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.Amen.

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Revelation

Magisterium, Sacred Tradition, Scripture

Canon of Scripture

Scriptural Interpretation

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Inspiration

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Magisterium, Sacred Tradition,Scripture

Results from One News Now pollWhy do some denominations - or factions thereof -

deny the authority of scripture?

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Sacred Tradition

Historic PrecedencePentateuch was handed down orally by Moses

Criterion to Accept Teachings as Canonical

ApostolicityOrigin traceable to apostles or associatesOrthodoxy

Conforms with Christ's teachingsCatholicity

Applies universally, used universally

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Scripture

Septuagint ca. 280 BCOral Tradition begins 33 ADFirst Thessalonians 51 ADGospel of Matthew 70 ADRevelation 95 AD

Gospel of John 98 AD2 Peter last book entered into Canon ca 100

"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." St. Jerome

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Scientific Bible Study

Historical Critical Method -Looks at historical setting applies reasonmakes judgments

Textual Criticism -Attempt to recreate original text. No originalmanuscripts exist

Literary Criticism -Studies words, images, characters andrelationships, structure and progress of thought

Historical Criticism -Uses Literary Criticism to find out about originand growth of biblical documents

Archaeological Criticism -Dead Sea Scrolls

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Fruit of Scientific Bible Study, Ex 32:4

Vulgate First Days of the Faith, 1907 quas cum ille accepissetformavit opere fusorio et fecit ex eis vitulum conflatilemdixeruntque hii sunt dii tui Israhel qui te eduxerunt de terraAegypti

And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders'work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These arethy gods , O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Douay Rheims 1546, 1750, 1899 And when he had receivedthem, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them amolten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, thathave brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

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Fruit of Scientific Bible Study, Ex 32:4

Ignatius 1611, 1952, 2002 And he received the gold at their hand, hefashioned it with a graving tool, and made a molten calf, and they said:These are your gods , O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

NAB 1969,1990 who accepted their offering, and fashioning this goldwith a graving tool, made a molten calf. Then they cried out, " This isyour God , O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt."

Footnote to NAB The calf . . . a feast of the LORD: from this it is clear

that the golden calf was intended as an image, not of a false god, but of the LORD himself,

Catechism ( para 2577) 1994 It was an apostasy

Priest 2009 what Aaron did wasn't really bad.

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On The Eucharist

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