Dave Earbum

Quotes from Dei Verbum and the Catechism of the Catholic Church

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

However, since God speaks through men in human fashion, the interpreter of Sacred Scripture, to see clearly what God wanted to say to us,should carefully investigate what the sacred writers really intended, and what God wanted to manifest thru their words.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

Therefore,they should gladly put themselves in touch with the sacred text itself,…thru instructions suitable for the purpose and other aids which,in our time,with approval and active support of the shepherds of the Church,are commendably spread everywhere.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

Furthermore, editions of the Sacred Scriptures, provided with suitable footnotes, should be prepared also for the use of non-Christians and adapted to their situation.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

Consequently it is not from Sacred Scripture alone that the Church draws her certainty about everything which has been revealed.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

Those divinely revealed realities which are contained and presented in Sacred Scripture have been committed to writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

It is clear, therefore, that sacred tradition, Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority of the Church, in accord with God's most wise design, are so linked and joined together that one cannot stand without the others,…#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

For the correct understanding of what the sacred author wanted to assert, due attention must be paid to the customary and characteristic styles of feeling, speaking and narrating which prevailed at the time of the sacred writer, …#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

This is to be done so that none of them will become "an empty preacher of the word of God outwardly, who is not a listener to it inwardly" since they must share the abundant wealth of the divine word with the faithful committed to them,especially in the sacred liturgy.#DeiVerbum

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

For the Sacred Scriptures contain the word of God and since they are inspired, really are the word of God; and so the study of the sacred page is, as it were, the soul of sacred theology.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

Through the same tradition the Church's full canon of the sacred books is known, and the sacred writings themselves are more profoundly understood and unceasingly made active in her;#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

The interpreter must investigate what meaning the sacred writer intended to express and actually expressed in particular circumstances by using contemporary literary forms in accordance with the situation of his own time and culture.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

For both sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a unity and tend toward the same end.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

Hence there exists a close connection and communication between sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

The ministerial priesthood differs in essence from the common priesthood of the faithful because it confers a sacred power for the service of the faithful.#Catholic #Catechism

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

Therefore, she also encourages the study of the holy Fathers of both East and West and of sacred liturgies.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

It devolves on sacred bishops "who have the apostolic teaching" to give the faithful entrusted to them suitable instruction in the right use of the divine books, especially the New Testament and above all the Gospels.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

The sacred synod encourages the sons of the Church and Biblical scholars to continue energetically, following the mind of the Church, with the work they have so well begun, with a constant renewal of vigor.#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

The sacred synod also earnestly and especially urges all the Christian faithful, especially Religious, to learn by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures the "excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ". "For ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ."#DeiVerbum #Catholic

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

1/2 The essential rite of Confirmation is anointing the forehead of the baptized with sacred chrism (in the East other sense-organs as well), together with the laying on of the minister's hand and the words:…#Catholic #Catechism

[Dave Earbum @DeiveEarbum]

…since ev’ything asserted by the inspired authors…must be held to be asserted by the HolySpirit…the bks of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching …faithfully & w/o error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation.#DeiVerbum #Catholic