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Second Sunday of LentDivine Revelation

Opening Prayer

Come, 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.

The Second Sorrowful Mystery Scourging at the Pillar

Pilate said to him, So you are a king? Jesus answered, Yousay that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I havecome into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every onewho is of the truth hears my voice. Pilate said to him, What istruth? After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again,and told them, I find no crime in him. But you have a customthat I should release one man for you at the Passover; will youhave me release for you the King of the Jews? They cried outagain, Not this man, but Barabbas! Now Barabbas was arobber. Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

Luke 18:37 19:1

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Divine Revelation

In His goodness and wisdom, Godchose to reveal Himself and to make

known to us the hidden purpose of His

will by which through Christ, the Wordmade flesh, man might in the Holy Spirit

have access to the Father and come to

share in the divine nature. Through thisrevelation, therefore, the invisible God

out of the abundance of His love speaks

to men as friends and lives among them, so that He

might invite and take them into fellowship with Himself.

Dei Verbum, #2

The Bible Didnt Fall From The Sky

Who complied the Bible? The Church!

Oral Tradition came first. Jesus and the apostlespreached. Only later were some of the teachings writtendown by Paul, Luke, Matthew, John, Peter, etc

Only some things were written down, not all things.

There are also many other things which Jesus did.

Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that theworld itself could not contain the books that would be

written. (Jn. 21:25)

Early Christian Life

There was no New Testament canon in the earlycenturies of the Church.

First list of New Testament books was published in A.D.367 by the Bishop of Alexandria, St. Athanasius.

Affirmed by the Holy See in A.D. 382.

Criteria? Apostolicity, Orthodoxy, and Catholicity.

Question: without a New Testament, how did earlyChristians know how to be authentic Christians?

Sacred Tradition andSacred Scripture

We must respect Sacred Tradition just as much as we doSacred Scripture.

...It is not from Sacred Scripture alone that the Churchdraws her certainty about everything which has been

revealed. Both Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture

are to be accepted and venerated with the same sense ofloyalty and reverence. (Dei Verbum, #9)

Scripture and Tradition make up the depositum fidei.

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Magisterial Teaching

The Churchs teaching office has authority from JesusChrist. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations

teaching them to observe all that I have commanded

you. (Matt. 28:20)

The Church is not the master of the deposit of faith.

Instead, the Churchs Magisterium serves the faith andteaches only what has been handed to it. (CCC #86)

We have a duty to receive the teachings of the Churchwith docility. (CCC #87)

Three Legs of One Stool

God reveals Himself to us in SacredTradition, Sacred Scripture, and

Magisterial Teaching, no one of which

can subsist without the other two.

Recall the unity of the Trinity. Although

God is one, there are three divinepersons. Although they are distinct

persons, they cannot be divided. It is a

mystery.

So, too, revelation. Much like the unity of the Trinity, the individualmodes of Divine Revelation cannot subsist alone without the other

two modes.

Private Revelation

Public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle.However, there have been so-called private revelations, some of

which have been recognized by the authority of the Church as

worthy of belief.

Private revelation does not add to the deposit

of faith, and it is not binding on all the faithful.

There is no authentic private revelation that

claims to surpass or correct public revelation.

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