the holy spirit and the magisterium [recovered]
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THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE MAGISTERIUM
CARRYING ON THE FAITH
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PASSING ON THE GOOD NEWS
• DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE FIRST CENTURY, THE ORIGINAL APOSTLES, “THE EYEWITNESSES OF JESUS”, BEGAN BEING MARTYRED OR DYING OF OLD AGE.
• JUDAS ISCARIOT- COMMITTED SUICIDE RIGHT AFTER JESUS' ARREST
• JAMES THE GREATER-BEHEADED IN 44 AD(FIRST APOSTLE MARTYRED)
• BARTHOLOMEW-SKINNED ALIVE AND BEHEADED IN THE FIRST CENTURY
• ANDREW-CRUCIFIED IN 60 AD IN PATRAS, GREECE
• JAMES THE LESSER-STONED AND BEHEADED IN EITHER 62 OR 69 AD
• SIMON THE ZEALOT-MARTYRED BY SAW IN ABOUT 65 AD
• PETER-CRUCIFIED IN ABOUT 67 AD
• THOMAS-LANCED AND DIED 3 DAYS LATER IN INDIA 72 AD
• MATTHEW-SOME TIME IN THE FIRST CENTURY, MARTYRED, BUT ACCOUNTS ARE DIFFERENT ON HOW
• PHILIP-CRUCIFIED IN THE YEAR 80 AD
• JUDE THADDEUS-MARTYRED BY SAW/AX IN 1STCENTURY
• JOHN-DIED OF OLD AGE IN APPROX. 95AD
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THE GOSPELS
• UP TO THIS POINT, THE STORY OF CHRIST WAS PASSED DOWN AS ORAL TRADITION
• AS THE APOSTLES STARTED DYING OUT, EARLY CHRISTIANS REALIZED THE NEED TO WRITE THINGS DOWN.
• THE FIRST GOSPEL WRITTEN WAS THE GOSPEL OF MARK, WRITTEN ABOUT 70 AD
• MATTHEW AND LUKE WERE WRITTEN BETWEEN AD 80-90
• THESE THREE GOSPELS ARE RELATED AND HAVE MANY COMMONALITIES AND ARE OFTEN CALLED THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS (FROM THE GREEK--- SYN-SAME AND OPTIC-VIEWPOINT)
• THE GOSPEL OF JOHN WAS WRITTEN LATER (JOHN LIVED LONGEST) AND HAS THE COMMONALITIES OF THE EARLIER GOSPELS, BUT HAS OTHER HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS NOT IN THE OTHER THREE
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THE NEW TESTAMENT
• THE REST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS ALSO WRITTEN DURING THIS TIME PERIOD.
• THE OLDEST BOOKS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ARE THOUGHT TO BE THE 14 EPISTLES TO THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WRITTEN BY SAINT PAUL
• THE OTHER SEVEN EPISTLES AND THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION WERE WRITTEN AFTER
• THESE BOOKS, ALONG WITH THE GOSPELS, MAKE UP THE 27 BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
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HOLY SPIRIT AS AUTHOR
• AS CATHOLICS, WE BELIEVE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED THE WRITERS OF THESE BOOKS, SO THAT HE, NOT THE HUMAN SCRIBE, IS THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE.
• THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO WORKED WITH THE CHURCH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITION WHICH ARE THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BELIEFS THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE PASSED DOWN FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST.
• SO AS CATHOLICS, WE RELY ON THE FAITH PASSED DOWN FROM THE SCRIPTURE OF THE BIBLE AS WELL AS THE TRADITION WE HAVE RECEIVED AS A GIFT FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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THE MAGISTERIUM
• THE APOSTLES LED BY SAINT PETER WERE THE LEADERS OF THE EARLY CHURCH. CHRIST CHOSE HIS SUCCESSOR AND HIS PRIESTS.
• OUR POPE AND BISHOPS ARE THE DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF PETER AND THE APOSTLES AND AS SUCH, WE FOLLOW THEIR TEACHINGS.
• THE “TECHNICAL” WORD FOR THEIR TEACHINGS IS THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH.
• THROUGH LETTERS(EPISTLES!!), STATEMENTS AND DOCUMENTS THAT COME FROM THE POPE AND FROM COUNCILS AND SYNODS, THE MAGISTERIUM CONTINUES TO TEACH US JUST AS THE APOSTLES DID FOR THE EARLY CHRISTIANS.