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Set Apart in Truth

May 07, 2008 09:50

Today's readings for Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter are from Acts 20:28-38, Ps 68:29-30,33-36, John 17:11b-19"Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth." This is the prayer, or part of the prayer, that Christ makes to the Father for the Church just before being betrayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. It is such an interesting ( Read more... )

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underlankers May 7 2008, 20:17:15 UTC

Awesome, dude.

Great read. A very good explanation of sacramental theology in a short space. My hat's off to you. (Bows.)

catholic_heart May 7 2008, 20:31:48 UTC

I thought about you when I tried adding practical solutions. So you were part of this post, no doubt. See how the Body works together :-)

underlankers May 7 2008, 20:51:23 UTC

Yes, it does work together, indeed.

The explanations were good, and they'll only get better as you practice them. :)

catholic_heart May 7 2008, 21:00:57 UTC

Thanks :-) Fortunately I've got about six or seven more years of practice before I've got to do it live :)

cmaried May 8 2008, 00:36:13 UTC

αγιαζον

Is that a typo? That's the niftiest looking Greek word I've ever seen.

Anyways, what can I say besides "I completely agree". Oh yeah, Aristotle. With as much as his rationalism is admired within Christianity, I can't help but wonder if he has any writings about his thoughts on monotheism or ancient Judaism. I've only read a little bit of his work, and I don't remember anything of the sort.

catholic_heart May 8 2008, 06:30:56 UTC

Nope, that's just a truly cool word :-) Since I can't do accent marks on my computer there should actually be a rough breathing mark over the a, which would give it an "h" sound.

Nah, Aristotle doesn't comment on Judaism. In his proof of the existence of god, even though the conclusion drawn could certainly be applied to the Judeo-Christian God (as Aquinas ultimately does), he definitely has no concept of monotheism. I think he went back and forth in one of his works between there being either 47 or 53 gods, something like that. But he was definitely of a pagan culture, although he had nothing of the superstition surrounding typical Greek (and Roman) pagan religions.