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Well, to me it seems like a stretch -- that in writing a gospel for Greeks, the writer Luke, inspired by the Holy Spirit, in order to convey what the same Holy Spirit (through Elizabeth) meant, would retain phraseology from Hebrew that Greeks likely would not grasp. Or is it these Bible scholars tha...

It is important to understand that Hebrew does not have superlatives, "good, better, best," etc, so when they wanted to say that someone was the best, or the greatest, or whatnot, they would say "blank is blank among the blanks". For example, they couldn't say "Tom Brady is...

The words to Mary from the Holy Spirit out of the mouth of Elizabeth during the Visitation (Luke 1:42) are "Blessed art thou among women" in the Douay-Rheims translation. Many recent English translations render this as a comparative, such as "Most blessed are you among women". Bu...

Do you think Cardinal Fernandez had no hand in it?

What if God had made Eve out of the dust of the ground instead of from Adam's rib? Would Adam not feel incomplete without her? (I have noticed that chromosomes look like a rib cage and that indeed a man's sex chromosome (Y) is like the X missing one piece.)

Both paragraph 24 in Leo's Exhortation and #2055 in the Catechism speak of the two greatest commandments as constituting a single commandment, as if Jesus joined together what the Old Testament had held apart. It is good that he did lay them next to each other, but I think he purposely distinguished...

The place we need y'all is in Bible translations. Older English used to distinguish singular (thou) from plural (you). The Douay-Rheims (and the King James) reflect that. It made statements clearer, like "Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat, but I have pr...

Doom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 2:35 pm As I said, I think it is clear that we have been offered forgiveness on no other terms.

On no other terms than what?
As you said where?

As often, Doom makes some excellent points.

The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? Forgiveness implies the sinner may change. Satan, the father of lies, will never change. We're juggling two teachings here: 1. It is commonly said that unforgi...

Catholic Answers: It was absolved already. If it is a venial sin, you do not need to confess it. If it was a mortal sin, it was absolved, provided you at least implicitly intended to mention it if you had remembered it. What this means is that you confessed all known sins and would have confessed w...

The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? It's true that we don't get to blame him for our own sins, but I'm thinking that he has done as much damage in God's creation as Adam and Eve. So it can be natu...

No, that isn't what he meant, and I can't believe you just tried to give a serious answer to this joke thread When is a thread a joke? When people needle each other. ( :lalala People who needle people are the luckiest people in the world.) When is a joke a thread? When the punch line is hanging by ...

We have a daughter who leaned the way the world has been leaning about sexual identity. She came out as Lesbian during college and even "married" (in Canada which recognized such a thing before the U.S.). But before long she went on into "transition" and so has a groomed beard an...

Next time anyone has what might be an electrical problem, private message me. Troubleshooting home electrical, even remotely, was my professional niche. Sorry I didn't see this topic till now.

Around here "full, active, conscious" participation in the Mass is commonly touted as calling for singing all the hymns (and it doesn't help that my wife loves to sing and doesn't understand why I don't always). But I do sing the mass settings, once I get the hang of the latest one.

Depending on how you define it, hundreds if not thousands of musical settings for the Mass have been written. I'm happy to enjoy hundreds of settings, but the difference now is that we non-musician, non-choir people are expected to perform them (even while processing up for communion somehow, in th...

What prompts this question is that my parish has now led us into learning yet one more "mass setting" (of music). Yes, besides more than four mass texts that a priest may opt to use, there are in the U.S. now at least eleven ways for us to sing our parts of the mass, as well as the hundred...

Doom wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 7:54 am I literally have absolutely no idea what you just said, I do not understand a word of it.

Not a word of it? Not even "I'm happy for Providence ... to arrange my funeral"?
I'm raising the question of why one might want to arrange one's own funeral to any degree.

If you want to affect how people will remember you, get in their face now. (They shouldn't be fooled by something you chose for your funeral.) I'm 77 and don't see the end of the tunnel yet. I'm happy for Providence (including relatives and the parish priest) to arrange my funeral. If they don't do ...