the summa music to my “ear”s saintly limericks

THESUMMA

MUSIC

TO MY“EAR”S

SAINTLYLIMERICKS

PAUL’SLETTERS

JP IIAND

J XXIII

THESUMMA

MUSICTO MY“EAR”S

SAINTLYLIMERICKS

PAUL’SLETTERS

JP IIAND

J XXIII

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THE THIRD PART OF THE SUMMAINCLUDES A TREATISE ON THESE

VISIBLE SIGNS OF GOD’SINVISIBLE PRESENCE

REFERRED TO AS “THE MASTER” INTHE SUMMA, PETER LOMBARD

WROTE THIS COLLECTION OF BOOKSWHICH SHARES ITS NAME WITH THEPLURAL FORM OF A COLLECTION OF

WORDS WITH A SUBJECT AND APREDICATE

IN THE SUMMA, ST. THOMAS AQUINAS REFERS TO THIS STUDENT OFPLATO AS “THE PHILOSOPHER”

MANY PEOPLE REMEMBER THESUMMA FOR ITS ARGUMENTS FOR

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD KNOWN ASTHE QUINQUE VIAE, WHICH

TRANSLATES TO THIS MANY “WAYS”

DANTE’S MOST FAMOUS WORK,THIS EPIC POEM HAS OFTEN BEEN

CALLED “THE SUMMA IN VERSE”

AMONG THE CLASSICAL PIECESCOMPOSED BY THIS AUSTRIAN

PRODIGY ARE “GREAT MASS IN CMINOR”, “CORONATION MASS”, AND

HIS OWN “REQUIEM MASS”

1 SAMUEL 16:23 RECOUNTS:“WHENEVER THE SPIRIT FROM GODCAME ON SAUL, DAVID WOULD TAKEUP,” THIS INSTRUMENT, “AND PLAY”

THE SONG “RESTLESS” BY AUDREYASSAD WAS INSPIRED BY A QUOTE

FROM THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICALBOOK BY ST. AUGUSTINE

DURING WORLD YOUTH DAY 2013,THIS GREY-HAIRED CANADIAN

CATHOLIC SANG HIS HIT SINGLE“LORD, I NEED YOU” IN FRONT OF

THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

FR. MICHAEL JONCAS COMPOSEDTHIS POPULAR LITURGICAL HYMN WHICH REFERENCES A NATIONAL

BIRD IN ITS TITLE

THE LANCE THAT PIERCED JESUS’SIDE AFTER HIS DEATH ON THECROSS IS SOMETIMES CALLEDTHIS WEAPON “OF LONGINUS”

POPE BENEDICT XVI PROCLAIMED2012-2013 AS “ANNUS FIDEI”, WHICHTRANSLATES TO THIS IN ENGLISH

TWO-WORD ANGELIC PROCLAMATIONTHAT PRECEDES, “FOR, BEHOLD, I

BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREATJOY.”

BEFORE HIS ELECTION, POPEFRANCIS PUBLISHED HIS

CONVERSATIONS WITH ARGENTINERABBI ABRAHAM SKORKA IN A BOOK

TITLED “ON HEAVEN AND” THIS; INSPANISH, IT TRANSLATES TO “SOBRE

EL CIELO Y LA TIERRA”

THE BOOK OF REVELATIONDESCRIBES THE NEW JERUSALEM AS

CONSISTING OF TWELVE GATES, EACHMADE OF THIS VALUABLE

MATERIAL

WE ALL KNOW ABOUT JESUS’ MOTHER;MARY IS WHAT WE CALL HER;BUT IN THEIR HOLY HOUSE;

ALSO LIVED THIS MAN, HER SPOUSE;WHOSE WORK IS THAT OF A

CARPENTER

IN THE HEART OF THE RIVER JORDAN;STOOD PEOPLE FROM MANY A

CLAN;WITH WATER, MOST PRIZED;BELIEVERS GOT BAPTIZED;

BY THIS COUSIN OF THE SON OF MAN

IT DOESN’T TAKE LONG TO ESTABLISH;THAT HE WAS ROMANO-BRITISH;

BUT SO OFTEN HE’S SEEN;WEARING THE COLOUR GREEN;

YOU MIGHT AS WELL CALL HIM IRISH

DECLARED AS A CHURCH DOCTOR;SHE LIVED IN A CARMELITE CLOISTER;

WHEN SHE GOT THE HALO;MANY STARTED TO FOLLOW;

THE LIFE OF THIS “LITTLE FLOWER”

THERE ONCE WAS A SPANISH PRIEST;WHO CARED FOR EVEN THE LEAST;

WITH COMMENDABLE PIETY;HE FOUNDED A “SOCIETY”;

IN JULY, WE CELEBRATE HIS FEAST

PAUL’S EPISTLE TO THESE PEOPLEIS HIS LONGEST, AND IT DIRECTLY

FOLLOWS THE ACTS OF THEAPOSTLES

ALTHOUGH IT SOUNDS LIKE THE NAME OF A COUNTRY WHOSE CAPITAL

IS MANILA, THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THIS EPISTLE IS ADDRESSED REFERS

TO THOSE LIVING IN AN ANCIENT CITY IN EASTERN MACEDONIA

OF CORINTHIANS, TIMOTHY, ANDCOLOSSIANS, THE ONE THAT

DOES NOT HAVE A “SECOND” PARTIN THE BIBLE

EPHESIANS 6:11 STATES, “PUT ON THEWHOLE,” THIS, “OF GOD, SO THAT

YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STANDAGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL.”

WHILE IN PRISON, PAUL WROTEA LETTER TO THIS CHRISTIAN

FROM ASIA MINOR, WHOSE WIFEIS NAMED APPHIA

AS HE WAS OF THIS DESCENT,JOHN PAUL II BECAME THE FIRST

NON-ITALIAN TO BECOME POPE SINCEDUTCHMAN ADRIAN VI

DUE TO JOHN XXIII’S EFFORTS –PRIOR TO HIS PAPACY – TO SAVE

JEWS DURING THIS GENOCIDE THAT TOOK PLACE IN WORLD WAR II, PETITIONS ARE BEING MADE TO CONFER UPON HIM THE TITLE

“RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS”

IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS DEATH,MANY PEOPLE STARTED REFERRINGTO JOHN PAUL II WITH THIS TITLE AT

THE END OF HIS NAME – A TITLECOMMONLY GIVEN TO ONLY

THREE OTHER POPES

THE LAST ENCYCLICAL THAT JOHNXXIII WROTE WAS CALLED PACEM IN TERRIS, WHICH IS TRANSLATED IN

ENGLISH AS THIS “ON EARTH”

THE DOUBLE CANONIZATION WASHELD ON APRIL 27, 2014, WHICH

COINCIDED WITH THE FEAST DAYKNOWN AS “DIVINE” THIS

FINAL JEOPARDY CATEGORY:

CATHOLIC AUTHORS

APOLOGIST PETER J. KREEFTCOMMENTED THAT THIS AUTHOR

REMOVED “CHURCHES” IN HIS MOSTFAMOUS WORK BECAUSE THE

CHURCH “IS NOT ONLY ANORGANIZATION BUT ALSO A

‘FELLOWSHIP’”