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General Catholic Discussion / Re: Happy Feast of the Annunci...

Last post by Mr. Mysterious - Today at 08:43:41 PM

When the angel Gabriel announced the will of God that the Virgin Mary should become the mother of the Son of the Most High, Mary never gave a thought to the possible cost to herself.

Without question or hesitation, without assurance of comfort and without pause before danger, she put at the unqualified service of God that life which God had intended once and forever for His own service and glory, as He has intended our own lives for His service and for His glory.

God designs each creature to perform a particular task set up by Him without consultation with any of His creatures. Our choice, not to select the task, but to meet it or to shirk it.

https://www.fisheaters.com/customslent6.html

http://www.catholictradition.org/Annuncia/annunciation3.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Annuncia/annuncia.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Advent/advent11.htm

http://www.salvemariaregina.info/SalveMariaRegina/SMR-151/Annunciation.htm

https://www.roman-catholic-saints.com/the-annunciation.html

http://sanctoral.com/en/saints/annunciation_of_the_blessed_virgin_mary.html

http://www.archbishoplefebvre.com/blog/feast-for-today-the-annunciation

https://www.crusaders-for-christ.com/saint-of-the-day/category/annunciation-of-mary

https://365rosaries.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-joyful-mystery-annunciation.html

https://www.catholicireland.net/saintoftheday/the-annunciation-of-the-lord/

https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j121sdAnnunciation_3-25.htm

http://www.nobility.org/2011/03/24/march-25-of-his-kingdom-there-shall-be-no-end/

http://www.nobility.org/2014/03/24/king-by-right-and-conquest/

https://catholicism.org/the-annunciation-by-father-leonard-feeney-micm.html

#2

General Catholic Discussion / Re: Christ The King Content Th...

Last post by TheCatholicState - Today at 02:43:52 PM

In this podcast episode, "On The Jewish Influence Behind Nostra Aetate", I will be going over how there was unambiguously direct influence by Jews and crypto-Jews to change the Church teaching on the Jews in the drafting of the Second Vatican Council document, Nostra Aetate.

https://rumble.com/v6r8sgy-christ-the-king-podcast-episode-58-on-the-jewish-influence-behind-nostra-ae.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

#3

Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Study Bible

Last post by martin88nyc - Today at 12:00:44 PM

Several posters commented on the tiny print in the Douay Rheims with Haydock commentary. We bought ours long ago, but there are two huge books, one for the Old Testament and one for the New. Even for my weak old eyes, I can easily read the print in the commentary (with glasses). For some, it might be worth it to look for an old version like ours.

Of course, there's always DRBO.org.

But the old version is no longer available.

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Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Study Bible

Last post by TradGranny - Today at 11:35:30 AM

Several posters commented on the tiny print in the Douay Rheims with Haydock commentary. We bought ours long ago, but there are two huge books, one for the Old Testament and one for the New. Even for my weak old eyes, I can easily read the print in the commentary (with glasses). For some, it might be worth it to look for an old version like ours.

Of course, there's always DRBO.org.

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Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Study Bible

Last post by Melkite - Today at 07:59:28 AM

They should just use the Vulgate, and translate it to Greek or Old Church Slavonic or the vernacular. Anything that is in the Vulgate is in there for a good reason, and what is not in there is not in there for a good reason. We must not forget that it is the Church who gives the authority to the Bible, not the other way around. Other bibles, Protestant (and to a lesser degree, Orthodox), are not composed with the authority of the Church, so they cannot be considered infallible.

From a linguistic perspective, that doesn't make any sense. Why use a translation of the original language into a secondary language translated back into the original language?  Just use the original.

There seems to be a similar veneration of the Vulgate among trad Latins as there is of the Septuagint among the Orthodox.  "It's a divinely inspired translation!  It is more clear than the original!  The translator/s had access to documents that we don't anymore!"  Meh, I'm unimpressed.  Christ and the Apostles used the Septuagint.  Or a Hebrew edition that the Septuagint accurately translates.  That the OT of the Vulgate differs from the Septuagint in places shows that St. Jerome didn't have access to the best documents, even if they were better than what is available to us today.  Any argument for the superiority of the Vulgate can be made for the LXX, and any argument for the inferiority of the LXX can be made for the Vulgate.

All that said, if Eastern Catholics were to make use of the Vulgate to create a translation, and it included the Vulgate appendices of 1 and 2 Esdras and the Prayer of Mannaseh, the only thing that would be missing is 3 Maccabees and Psalm 151.  3 Maccabees isn't a very big book to begin with, so a Vulgate based EC Bible could be made that would not pose a substantial loss to the Eastern canon.

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General Catholic Discussion / Re: "Wind Phones" Gateway to t...

Last post by drummerboy - Today at 07:49:54 AM

Stupid yes.  But a disconnected phone and wishful thinking?  The imagination is the devil's playground.  It'd be way too easy for a demon to impersonate a loved one over this "phone."

#7

The Bookstore / Re: Normandt' Catholic Meditat...

Last post by Normandt - Today at 04:27:35 AM

57. No consequences for sin?


Are there no consequences for sin? Absolutely not. Because sin is lacking, separating from the Love of God. Sin is an action and evil is its consequence.
Through sin, the person hurts himself and can destroy himself. The only decision of the person to turn to sin causes him evil.

This is being unfaithful to the Love of God. Leaving God, which will cause us evil, leads to suffering. Without the love of God, we sink into the mud of evil.
Let's continue with the next passage of the Exodus, which is not easy to understand, since it seems to contradict the message of Jesus:
"Love your enemies." Matthew, chapter 5, verse 44

Let's continue immediately with what is written in the Book of Exodus:
"I will be an enemy to your enemies." Exodus, chapter 23, verse 22

For a people who are often at war, we can assume that he did not understand the message that God is transmitting to him. How can God be an "enemy" since he is Love?
It's easy to conclude that God would hurt someone. But Jesus sets the clock back on time. He confirms that God loves even enemies.

The new American Bible, 2011-2014
Book: Let's reveal God, Normand Thomas

#8

Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Bible translations

Last post by KreKre - Today at 12:17:35 AM

Any edition printed before 1965, which has been given imprimatur by a Catholic bishop should be fine. And faithful reprints of it.

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General Catholic Discussion / Re: "Wind Phones" Gateway to t...

Last post by KreKre - March 25, 2025, 11:42:32 PM

The content is blocked in my region, but if I understood it correctly, it's just a disconnected phone that supposedly helps people grieve, by letting them say into it what they failed to sail to their loved ones while they were alive.

Yeah, its utterly stupid and patronizing.

It's like when my boss says: "you're free to complain to anyone"

#10

Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Study Bible

Last post by KreKre - March 25, 2025, 11:33:04 PM

I see absolutely no reason to use a non-Catholic Bible.

For Byzantine Catholics, there are no Catholic Bibles that contain our entire Old Testament canon.  We either have to use an Orthodox Bible or a Protestant Bible with the expanded Apocrypha.

This seems like a real failing on the part of the Byzantine Catholic church.

They should just use the Vulgate, and translate it to Greek or Old Church Slavonic or the vernacular. Anything that is in the Vulgate is in there for a good reason, and what is not in there is not in there for a good reason. We must not forget that it is the Church who gives the authority to the Bible, not the other way around. Other bibles, Protestant (and to a lesser degree, Orthodox), are not composed with the authority of the Church, so they cannot be considered infallible.

It's not an unwarranted presumption, but the text that you quoted specifies Protestant bibles, so it is possible that this is all that was intended.

Well the last sentence pretty much includes all non-approved bibles:

It is for that same reason that the Church even forbids translations of the Holy Scriptures already approved by her which have been reprinted without the footnotes approved by her.

In that case you'd have to burn most of the library of any Eastern Rite monastery!  And yet, I'd call them amongst the most loyal of Catholics, since for them it'd make life far easier to just go Orthodox than adhere to Rome.

They carry their crosses. In general, what makes this life easier is very often not what brings one to God. That's true for all of us, not just the Eastern Rite Catholics. I suspect that most Catholics who think about their faith have been tempted at least once in their lives by some devil to go Orthodox. It would certainly make some things easier in this life, but that defeats the whole purpose of being Catholic.

And no, I don't think entire libraries should be burned. It's just that laity have no place using non-Catholic bibles, that's dangerous to faith. In fact, reading any Bible can be dangerous to faith if read without knowledge of the correct interpretation, that can only be given by the Church. In that case, it would better not to read the Bible at all. This is why St. Pius X insists on footnotes.

Before he was excommunicated, Luther was reprimanded by his superior and brothers for reading the Bible too much, while neglecting praying the Divine Office. That certainly contributed to his fall. Later, he demonstrated that, with small, to most people barely noticeable edits to the Bible, one can make a justification for pretty much any heresy.