Exodus 12 lays out the requirements of the Passover meal in great depth. It’s divided into two parts: (1) you sacrifice the lamb, and (2) you eat it. So, for example, Exodus 12:5-6 says that: The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the… Continue reading Jesus and the Passover
Tag: apologetics
Malachi 1 and the Eucharist
After complaining of the insufficiency of the Jewish sacrifice in Malachi 1, God provides a fascinating foretaste of the New Covenant in Malachi 1:11: “My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because… Continue reading Malachi 1 and the Eucharist
Happy Feast of the Holy Family!
Sunday is the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. The Gospel for this Sunday is Luke 2:41-52: Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they… Continue reading Happy Feast of the Holy Family!
Merry Christmas!
I hope everyone’s having a wonderful Christmas, getting plenty of family time in, and all that. If you find yourself on the computer today, I’ve got a few suggestions: Pope Benedict’s Christmas Homily These homilies are always good. Here’s the full thing, and here’s a taste: The first thing we are told about the shepherds… Continue reading Merry Christmas!
Simply Incredible!
A relatively short video (subtitled) on a couple of Eucharistic videos, with descriptions of the expert testimony. It’s just stunning. h/t Fr. Gregory at Subimonk.
The Unanimous Consent of the Fathers
I mentioned earlier that I’ve been a bit under-impressed with Keith Mathison’s The Shape of Sola Scriptura, and that he doesn’t seem to have a good grip on the topic he’s written a book on. The book attempts to take the creedal Protestant sola Scriptura view, and show its alleged superiority to both the Evangelical… Continue reading The Unanimous Consent of the Fathers
Learning from the Irish Sex Scandal
The Irish, if you’re not aware, are going through a sex abuse scandal similar to what we faced in the US, only compounded by the fact that these abuses often occurred at boarding schools with plenty of other problems (including physical abuse). All of this was sort of dumped on a relatively unsuspecting Irish public… Continue reading Learning from the Irish Sex Scandal
Sow the Seeds of Abortion…
…Reap the crop of infanticide. A woman murdered her newborn baby, but because the umbilical cord was still attached, it was just a postnatal abortion. She won’t be charged. This is that nightmare scenario pro-lifers have been warning about, where legal abortion leaves the womb.
A Good One-Sentence Kicker
Chris commented on my Thursday post. The comment’s good, but the kicker’s great: “Is it logical to say that because heretics questioned a doctrine, the doctrine itself was therefore ill-defined?” That sentence, had I thought of it earlier, would have been great. It explains the reason that the Catholic Church doesn’t require “universal and continuous… Continue reading A Good One-Sentence Kicker
St. Clement, Sola Scriptura, and Mary
After a post I wrote about sola Scriptura, John Armstrong suggested that I read The Shape of Sola Scriptura by Keith Mathison. The book is written by a creedal Protestant – that is, he believes in sola Scriptura, but believes that any interpretation of the Bible which falls outside of the historic Creeds is wrong.… Continue reading St. Clement, Sola Scriptura, and Mary