27 Dec – St. John Evangelist: “We must deny to Protestantism any right to use the Bible, much more to interpret it.”

Submitted by LocutusOP on Fri, 12/28/2018 - 23:31
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Henry Edwards,Chris Garton-Zavesky, AA Cunningham    

Date: 
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 22:45
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27 Dec – St. John Evangelist: “We must deny to Protestantism any right to use the Bible, much more to interpret it.”

 

Henry Edwards says:

27 December 2018 at 2:40 PM

“St. Jerome says this about the Evangelist. Priests read this in the Breviarium Romanum during Matins.”

Not to mention simple laymen who also pray the traditional Divine Office. Hmm … Is the idea that the Office (or the Liturgy of the Hours) is no longer restricted to clergy and religious one of the fabled “fruits of Vatican II”? If so, can anyone name another one?

 

 

Chris Garton-Zavesky says:

27 December 2018 at 3:30 PM

Henry,

The Office is required of clerics (not just priests and religious), and so what Father wrote “Priests read this in the Breviarum Romanum during Matins” isn’t in any way false or misleading. I would venture to say (but I don’t have proof in front of me) that back in a healthier time in the Church’s history, laymen prayed more parts of the Office more regularly than they do now, precisely because the Church played a larger and more central role in the life of ordinary Catholics.

 

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AA Cunningham says:

28 December 2018 at 11:42 AM

To paraphrase Cardinal Wiseman, put this in your ecumenical pipe and smoke it.

 

Own comment: 

The Bible is a Catholic collection of books, a large chunk of which was written by Catholics. I often get the impression that protestants do not understand this, and seem to think that the Bible dropped down from Heaven on its own.

Any discussion with protestants on the Bible needs to firmly establish the Catholic origins of the Bible before diving into the details of what certain passages mean when read properly.