Catholic Waters: A Journey into Mystery: Recent Episodes
Catholic Waters
Be prepared to enter into Absolute Mystery as we explore the mystery of the Catholic identity. In this appeal to intellectual integrity, a Catholic lay woman asks questions of her faith. Everyone is invited to ask why the Catholic Church has survived, despite massive attacks on her from both inside and out throughout her long history. Why are there today about 400,000active Catholic priests, over a billion people who still self-identify as Catholic around the world, innumerable people joining convents and monastaries. Why is the Catholic church still the largest provider of helath care in the world and why are people still flocking to Baptism? The speaker has several degrees in Catholic theology and has completed a three year ministry program. She asks you to join her informing our opinions. Does the Church really know your hunger? Does she know how to satishy it? Could that be why?
Continuation of immersion into Catholic Mystery.
- preparing the mind for mystery
- Who is Jesus and why do we want to be with Him
Hinting at the Communion which is Holy
**In this episode the conversation about the Mystery of the Catholic identity continues.
Topic: The Communion of Saints and the Mystical Body of Christ. The speaker begins to speak about an entrance into the deepest waters of reality. No scuba gear included.
Catechism of the Catholic Church: 945-962
Acts 2, Mt. 25:31, 1Cor 15:26-27Hebres3:6, The Council of Florence (1439)**
Continued discussion of the mystery of the Catholic identity
**review of previous episode
eternity penetrates the Church
This episode
Catholics abd our saints,**
- The Blessed Virgin Mary is not a minor deity, but is a Saint...the premiere Saint and Queen of Heaven. She is human and has a human history in the world.
- Catholics are not idolaters nor necromancers
- Some favorite saints and intercessory prayer
- invitation to share your favorite saint and/or you conversion experience.
Catechism of the Catholic Church: 956, 2084' Catholic Anwers web site.
A Catholic lay woman discusses the mystery of the Catholic identity.
this episode:
Review: what does the word "identity" mean?
do our senses tell us anything about what is real or true?
major discussion for this episode: What is the teaching office of the Church? What authority does the magiesterium **have to speak about what is real or true?
new words:
magisterium = teaching office of the Church
canonical literature-= the Bible
belief= intellectual assent to concepts or teaching (Aquinas)
eternity= contains no spatial nor temporal distinctions.
infiinity= never ending in breadth or time. God's power is infinite.**
Continuation of an exploration into the mysterious waters of Catholicity.
MYSTERIOUS FACTS:
- Throughout her history, the Catholic Church has withstood massive attacks from both inside and outside. She has survived.
- Approximately 400,000 men in 2022 have given themselves as celibate priests to serve God in the Catholic Church.
- The Catholic Church is the largest provider of healthcare in the world.
- Approximately 1 billion people world-wide have chosen to self -identify as Catholic. .
- Jesus of Nazareth is a historical person who was born into the world approximately 2000 years ago.
- The Apostles were the initial proclaimers of the Good News of Jesus' birth, death, resurrection and the presence of the Holy Spirit to the Church.
- All of the Apostles, except John, were killed, often gruesomely, for that proclamation.
- Each of the approximately 5000 Catholic bishops today can trace their hands on anointing in direct succession to one of the Apostles.
- ... and more
This episode:
continuatin of Genesis, the Fall, the Flood, the Tower of Babel.
This is the continued exploration into why approximately a billion people across the globe still want to self identify as Catholic; why today there are approximately 400,000 men who have chosen to serve as celibate priests for life; both men and women contnue to enter monasteries and convents, hundreds of parish ministries continue to serve the least fortunate; the Catholic church is the largest provider of heatlh care in the world, and
SHE HAS SURVIVED FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS DESPITE MASSIVE PERSECUTAIONS and ATTACKS ON HER FROM BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE.
DESPITE THE RAPID FIRE SPREAD OF FALSE NARRATIVES AND NEWS ABOUT BAD BEHAVIOR.
DO YOU WONDER WHY?
There is obviously something going on...what is
**TOPIC EPISODE 2
Looks at Genesis to discover how to find identity, truth and reality.**
EPISODE 6
**In this episode the speaker invites us to raise our supernatural antennae and enter deeper into Catholic mystery.
TOPIC: DISCIPLES & GOOD COMPANY
The Communion of Saints and the Body of Christ
Who are Saints? Are Catholics talking to the dead or worshipping graven images?**
**In this 5th episode, the speaker invites the listener into deepr waters as she beigns to articulate the onjucnt status of the Vatholic Church.
THECOMMUION OF SAINTS AND THE MYSTICA**
- Who are saints?
- Are Saints livinkg?
- Where are the Saints?
- Do we worship Saints
- Are we diol worshippers
- what do Catholic have to do with them?
See the "Nicene Creed" professed at every Sunday Mass.
**This is the 4th episode by a Catholic laywoaman who invites h thelistener to join her on her journey into mystery.
The task is to discover the Catholic identityt as the Churintorch defines herself and therefore her members are identified.**
- Intro
- recap: We cannot make anything real.
- The magisterium is the teadhing office of the Church
- the Communion of the Church with her past.
- Intro to the Communion of Saints...to be ontinued,.
This is hte 3rd episode of a new series which invites everyone to discover how the Catholic Church defines herself and therefore her members are defined.
Using the example of Genesis 11, the speaker attempts to illustrate the significance of a common language.
This episode introduces the word, Magisterium as the common language which articulates the Church's identity. Matthew 18 is used as an example of the Magisterium's authority.
Further Biblical Commentary: Thr New Jerome Biblical Cpmmentary.
This 2nd episode offers the take- away from episode 1,
The speaker then introduces Genesis.
The claim is made that Genesis offers a primordial injunction against the disjunct from reality.
- Introduction
- Prayer
- what is real and what is not
- the question: how do we know what is real and how to we get an identity?
- Introduction to Genesis
- Prayer
For further reading: ed., rev., Richard Clifford, S.J., Daniel Harrington, S.J., Lawrence Boadt, CSP, Reading the Old Testament- An Introduction (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2012).
The speaker is a Catholic laywoman who holds several degrees in Catholic theology and has completed a three-year ministry formation program. She rrefers to the depth and breadth of Catholic teaching to help us inform our opinions about the Catholic Church.
Subtitle episode one: WHAT are you thinking?!
- Meet Dr. Boxy and Dr. Expressive and how they went right ,,,. or wrong.
- Introduction to Genisis and the Hebrew root of Catholicism