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Purgatory .............................................................. 6
Contents Hell ............................................................................ 6
THE CHURCH ........................................................................ 2 Original Sin .......................................................... 6
The Church is the body of Christ ............. 2 THE SACRAMENTS.............................................................. 7
The Church must be one ............................... 2 Infant Baptism................................................... 7
Apostolic Church ............................................... 2 Real Presence of Christ in the
Authoritative Church .................................... 2 Eucharist ............................................................................ 7
Infallible Church............................................... 2 Confirmation ....................................................... 7
Perpetual Church ............................................. 3 Confession .............................................................. 7
PAPACY & APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION ........................ 3 Anointing the Sick ........................................... 7
Primacy of Peter............................................... 3 Holy Orders .......................................................... 7
Apostolic Succession ........................................ 3 Matrimony ............................................................ 8
SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION ......................................... 4 SOCIAL TEACHINGS ........................................................... 8
Bible Alone or Bible Plus Tradition? ... 4 Divorce and Remarriage ............................. 8
Tradition Condemned? ................................. 4 Contraception ..................................................... 8
Deuterocanonicals ........................................... 4 Homosexuality ................................................... 8
SALVATION, FAITH AND WORKS ................................ 4 Drinking Wine .................................................... 8
Faith Alone or Faith plus Works? .......... 4 SAINTS, RELICS, AND STATUES ..................................... 8
Have You Been Saved? ................................. 4 Communion of Saints ..................................... 8
Past Event (I have been saved) ................................ 4 Intercessory Prayer of Saints .................... 8
Present Process (I am being saved) ......................... 4 Veneration of Saints ....................................... 9
Future Event (I will be saved) ................................... 4 Relics ......................................................................... 9
Good Works .......................................................... 4 Statues ..................................................................... 9
Judged According to Deeds ........................ 4 Scandals in the Church .................................. 9
Assurance of Salvation?................................ 5 Fasting..................................................................... 9
Regenerative Baptism .................................. 5 Divinity of Jesus................................................. 9
Health and Wealth Gospel ........................ 5 Time of Second Coming Unknown ......... 9
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY .................................................... 5 Holy Spirit a Person, Not a Force ........... 9
Mary .......................................................................... 5 Repetitious Prayer ........................................ 10
Mother of God ..................................................... 5 Verses marked with an asterisk are objector verses you
The Assumption ................................................. 5 should know

The Immaculate Conception ..................... 5

Perpetual Virginity ........................................ 5
THE PRIESTHOOD .............................................................. 6
Call No Man Father......................................... 6
Celibacy .................................................................. 6
PURGATORY, HELL, & SIN .............................................. 6

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body, in which our whole company in joined and united.

Treatise 62,13

THE CHURCH
Mt 16:18-19 - upon this rock I will build my Church
Mt 18:17 - if he refuses to listen even to the Church… • Apostolic Church
Mt 28:18-20 - go baptize and teach all nations Jn 15:16 - Jesus chose special men to be his Apostles
Mk 16:15-16 - go to whole world and proclaim gospel Jn 20:21 - Jesus gave the Apostles his own mission
Lk 10:16 - whoever hears you, hears me; rejects you, Lk 22:29-3 - Jesus gave them a kingdom
rejects me. Mt 16:18 - Jesus built Church on Peter, the rock
Jn 14:16, 26 - Holy Spirit with you always, teach/remind you Jn 10:16 - one shepherd to shepherd Christ's sheep
of everything Lk 22:32, Jn 21:17 - Peter appointed to be chief shepherd
Jn 16:13 - Spirit of truth will guide you to all truth. Eph 4:11 - church leaders are hierarchical
1Tim 3:15 - Church is the pillar and foundation of truth. 1Tim 3:1, 8; 5:17 - identifies roles of bishops, priests,
deacons
Tit 1:5 - commission for bishops to ordain priests
• The Church is the body of Christ
Col 1:18 - He is the head of the body, the church. • Authoritative Church
1 Cor 12:20-27 - you are Christ's body, individually parts of Mt 28:18-20 - Jesus delegates all power to Apostles
it. Jn 20:23 - power to forgive sin
Eph 5:30 - we are members of His body.
1Cor 11:23-24 - power to offer sacrifice (Eucharist)
Rom 12:4-5 - though many, we are one body in Christ
Lk 10:16 - power to speak with Christ's voice
1 Cor 6:15 - Don't you know your bodies are members of
1Rom 5 - bringing obedience
Christ?
Mt 18:18 - power to legislate
Mt 18:17 - power to discipline
St Irenaeus (c. 200 AD) “…the Church having received this
• The Church must be one preaching and this faith, although she is disseminated
Jn 10:16 - there will be one fold and one shepherd. throughout the whole world, yet guarded it, as if she
Eph 4:3-6 - one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and occupied but one house. She likewise believes these
Father things just as if she had but one soul and one and the same
Rom 16:17 – avoid those who create dissensions heart; and harmoniously she proclaims them and teaches
1Cor 1:10 - I urge that there be no divisions among you them and hands them down as if she possessed but one
Phil 2:2 - be of same mind, united in heart thinking one thing mouth.
Rom 15:5 - God grant you to think in harmony with one Eusebius of Caesaria (4th c.): “But the brightness of the
another Catholic church proceeded to increase in greatness, for it
Jn 17:17-23 - I pray that they may be one, as we are one ever held to the same points in the same way and radiated
Jn 17:23 - that they may be brought to perfection as one forth to all the race of Greeks and barbarians the reverent,
1Cor 12:13 - in one spirit we are baptized into one body sincere, and free nature, and the sobriety and purity of the
Rom 12:5 - we, though many, are one body in Christ Divine teaching as to conduct and thought.” Ecclesiastical
Eph 4:4 - one body, one Spirit, called to be one hope history 4, 7, 13.
Col 3:15 - the peace into which you were called in one body Saint Augustine (392 A.D): “The Catholic Church is the
Mt 16:18-19 - upon this rock I will build my Church work of Divine Providence achieved through the
(singular) prophecies of the prophets through the incarnation and the
Mt 18:17 – tell it to THE Church; if he refuses to listen even teaching of Christ, through the journeys of the apostles,
to THE Church… (must be visible) through the suffering, the crosses, the blood and death of
St. Cyprian (250 A.D): God is one and Christ is one, and the martyrs, through the admirable lives of the saints….
one is the Church and the faith is one, and His people When, then, we see so much help on God’s part, so much
welded together by the glue of concord into a solid unity of progress and so much fruit, shall we hesitate to bury
body. Unity cannot be rent asunder nor can the one body ourselves in the bosom of that Church? For starting from
of the Church through the division of its structure, be the apostolic chair down through successions of Bishops,
divided into separate pieces." On the unity of the church even unto the open confession of all mankind, it has
23. possessed the crown of teaching authority.” The
Tertullian (197 A.D): “We are a society with a single Advantage of Believing 35.
religious feeling, a single unity of discipline, a single bond
of hope” Apology 39: 1.
Saint Hilary (4th c.) “In the scriptures our people are shown
to be made one so that just as many grains collected into
one and ground and mingled together, make one bread, so
• Infallible Church
in Christ who is the heavenly Bread, we know there is one Jn 16:13 - guided by Holy Spirit into all truth
Jn 14:26 - Holy Spirit to teach & remind them of everything

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Lk 10:16 - speak with Christ's own voice

1Tim 3:15 - Church called "pillar and foundation of truth" PAPACY & APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION
1Jn 2:27 - anointing of Holy Spirit remains in you
Acts 15:28 - Apostles speak with voice of Holy Spirit
• Primacy of Peter
Mt 28:20 - I am with you Mt 16:18 - upon this rock (Peter) I will build my church
Saint Irenaeus (c. 200): “For where the Church is, there is Mt 16:19 - give you keys of the kingdom; power to bind &
the Spirit of God; and where the spirit of God, there the loose
Church and every grace. The Spirit, however, is Truth.” Lk 22:32 - Peter's faith will strengthen his brethren
Against Heresies 3, 24, 1 Jn 21:17 - given Christ's flock as chief shepherd
Mk 16:7 - angel sent to announce Resurrection to Peter
Lk 24:34 - risen Jesus first appeared to Peter
Acts 1:13-26 - headed meeting which elected Matthias
• Perpetual Church Acts 2:14 - led Apostles in preaching on Pentecost
Is 9:6-7 - of Christ's government there will be no end Dan Acts 2:41 - received first converts
2:44 - God's kingdom shall stand forever Acts 3:6-7 - performed first miracle after Pentecost
Dan 7:14 - His kingdom shall not be destroyed Acts 5:1-11 - inflicted first punishment: Ananias & Saphira
Eph 3:21 – to him be glory in the church to all generations Acts 8:21 - excommunicated first heretic, Simon Magnus
for ever and ever. Acts 10:44-46 - received revelation to admit Gentiles into
Lk 1:32, 33 - no end to Christ's kingdom Church
Mt 7:24 - Jesus is like a wise man who built his house on Acts 15:7 - led first council in Jerusalem
a rock Acts 15:19 - pronounces first dogmatic decision
Mt 13:24-30 - let wheat & weeds grow together until Gal 1:18 - after conversion, Paul visits chief Apostle
harvest *Gal 2:11-14 - I opposed Cephas to his face for his
Mt 16:18 - gates of hell will never prevail against Christ's hypocrisy Peter's name always heads list of Apostles: Mt
church 10;14; Mk 3:16-19; Lk 6:14-16; Acts 1:13
Jn 14:16 - Holy Spirit will be with you always "Peter and his companions" Lk 9:32; Mk 16:7
Mt 28:19-20 - I am with you all days Spoke for Apostles - Mt 18:21; Mk 8:29; Lk 8:45; 12:41; Jn
6:69
Peter's name occurs 195 times, more than all the rest put
together

• Apostolic Succession
2 Chr 19:11 - high priest is over you in everything of Lord's
Mal 2:7 - seek instruction from priest, he is God's
messenger
Eph 2:20 - Church built upon foundation of apostles &
prophets
Eph 4:11 - God gave some as apostles, others as
prophets…
1 Cor 12:28-29 - God designated in church: apostles, …
Acts 1:20 - let another take his office
Acts 1:25-26 - Matthias takes Judas' apostolic ministry
1 Tim 3:1, 8; 5:17 - qualifications for: bishops, priests, &
deacons
1Tim 4:14 - gift conferred with the laying on of hands
1Tim 5:22 - do not lay hands too readily on anyone
Acts 14:23 - they appointed presbyters in each church
2Tim 2:2 - what you heard from me entrust to faithful
teachers
Titus 1:5 - appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed

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SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION SALVATION, FAITH AND WORKS

• Bible Alone or Bible Plus Tradition? • Faith Alone or Faith plus Works?
1Cor 11:2 - hold fast to traditions I handed on to you Jam 2:24 - a man is justified by works and not by faith alone
2Thess 2:15 - hold fast to traditions, whether oral or by Jam 2:26 - faith without works is dead
letter Gal 5:6 - only thing that counts is faith working in love
2Thess 3:6 - shun those acting not according to tradition 1 Cor 13:2 - faith without love is nothing
Jn 21:25 - not everything Jesus said recorded in Scripture Jn 14:15 - if you love me, keep my commandments
Mk 13:31 - heaven & earth shall pass away, but my word Mt 19:16-17 - if you wish to enter into life, keep
won't commandments
Acts 20;35 - Paul records a saying of Jesus not found in 1Tim 5:8 he who doesn't provide for family worse than
gospels unbeliever.
2Tim 1:13 - follow my sound words; guard the truth
2Tim2:2 - what you heard entrust to faithful men
2Pet 1:20 - no prophecy is a matter of private interpretation • Have You Been Saved?
2Pet 3:15-16 - Paul's letters can be difficult to grasp &
interpret Past Event (I have been saved)
1Pet 1:25 - God's eternal word = word preached to you Rom 8:24 - for in hope we were saved
Rom 10:17 - faith come from what is heard Eph 2:5, 8 - by grace you have been saved through faith
1Cor 15:1-2 - being saved if you hold fast to the word I 2Tim 1:9 - He saved us, called us according to his grace
preached Tit 3:5 - He saved us through bath of rebirth, renewal by
Mk 16:15 - go to the whole world, proclaim gospel to every Holy Spirit
creature
Mt 23:2-3 - chair of Moses; observe whatever they tell you Present Process (I am being saved)
St. Athanasius (360 AD): “let us note that the very Phil 2:12 - work out your salvation with fear and trembling
tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from 1Pet 1:9 - as you attain the goal of your faith, salvation
the beginning which the Lord gave, was preached by the
Apostles, and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was
the Church founded, and if anyone departs from this, he Future Event (I will be saved)
neither is nor any longer ought to be called a Christian….” Mt 10:22 - he who endures to the end will be saved
Four Letters To Serapion of Thinius 1, 28. Mt 24:1 - he who perseveres to the end will be saved
Origen (c. 230 AD) “The teaching of the Church has indeed Mk 8:35 - whoever loses his life for my sake will save it
been handed down through an order of succession form Acts 15:11 - we shall be saved through the grace of Jesus
the Apostles, and remains to be believed as the truth which Rom 5:9-10 - since we are justified, we shall be saved
is in no way at variance with ecclesiastical and apostolic Rom 13:11 - salvation is nearer now than first believed
tradition.” Fundamental Doctrines 1, preface 2 Cor 3:15 - he shall be saved, but only as through fire
1Cor 5:5 - deliver man to Satan so his spirit may be saved
Heb 9:28 - Jesus will appear second time, to bring salvation
• Tradition Condemned?
*Mt 15:3 - break commandment of God for your tradition
*Mk 7:9 - set aside God's commandment to uphold tradition • Good Works
*Col 2:8 - seductive philosophy according to human Mt 7:21 - not Lord, Lord but he who does the will of father
tradition Mt 19:16-17 - to have life, keep my commandments
1Cor 11:2 - commends them for following Apostolic Jn 14:21 - he who keeps my commandments loves me
tradition Rom 2:2-8 - eternal life by perseverance in good works
2Thess 2:15 - commands them to keep traditions Gal 5:4-6 - nothing counts but faith working through love
2Thess 3:6 - shun those acting not according to tradition Eph 2:8-10 - we are created in Christ Jesus for good works
Phil 2:12-13 - work out salvation with fear and trembling
Jam 2:14-24 - a man is justified by works & not faith alone
• Deuterocanonicals
Heb 11:35 - 'Women received their dead by resurrection.
Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they • Judged According to Deeds
might rise again to a better life' refers only to 2Macc 7 Rom 2:2-8 - eternal life by perseverance in good works
2Cor 5:10 - recompense accord to what did in body
2Cor 11:15 - their end will correspond to their deeds
1Pet 1:17 - God judges impartially according to one's
works
Rev 20:12-13 - dead judged according to their deeds
Col 3:24-25 - will receive due payment for whatever you do

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• Assurance of Salvation? BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Mt 7:21 - not everyone saying "Lord, Lord" will inherit
Mt 24:13 - those who persevere to the end will be saved • Mary
Rom 11:22 - remain in his kindness or you will be cut off Lk 1:28, 30 - angel: "full of grace, found favor with God
Phil 2:12 - work out your salvation in fear and trembling Lk 1:42 - Elizabeth: "most blessed among women"
1Cor 9:27 - drive body for fear of being disqualified Lk 1:48 - Mary: "all generations will call me blessed"
1Cor 10:11-12 - those thinking they are secure may fall
Gal 5:4 - separated from Christ, you've fallen from grace
2Tim 2:11-13 - must hold out to the end to reign with Christ • Mother of God
Hb 6:4-6 - describes sharers in Holy Spirit who then fall Lk 1:43 - Elizabeth calls her "mother of my Lord" = God
away Mt 1:23 - virgin bear a son, Emmanuel = "God is with us"
Heb 10:26-27 - if sin after receiving truth, judgment remains Lk 1:35 - child born will be called holy, the Son of God
Gal 4:4 - God sent his Son, born of a woman

• Regenerative Baptism
Jn 3:5, 22 - born of water & Spirit: Apostles begin baptizing
• The Assumption
Tit 3:5 - saved us through bath of rebirth & renewal by Holy Gn 5:24 (Hb 11:5) - Enoch taken to heaven without dying
Spirit 2Kg 2:11 - Elijah assumed into heaven in fiery chariot
Acts 2:37-38 - repent, be baptized, receive gift of Holy Spirit Mt 27:52 - many saints who had fallen asleep were raised
Acts 22:16 - get selves baptized and sins washed away 1Thess 4:17 - caught up to meet the Lord in the air
1Cor 6:11 - you were washed, sanctified, justified 1Cor 15:52 - we shall be instantly changed at the last
Rom 6:4 - baptized into death; live in newness of life trumpet
1Pet 3:21 - baptism…now saves you Rom 6:23 - for the wages of sin is death
Heb 10:22 - heart sprinkled, bodies washed in pure water Rev 11:19-21 - ark in heaven = woman clothed in sun
(also see The Sacraments) Ps 132:8 - Arise, O Lord & go to thy resting place, thou &
the ark of thy might.

• Health and Wealth Gospel • The Immaculate Conception

Mk 10:28 - no "take cross and follow me" = not worthy of Lk 1:28 - hail full of grace[highly favored] Lord is with you
me Lk 1:30 - you have found favor with God
Rom 8:16-17 - heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him Lk 1:37 - for with God nothing shall be impossible
Rom 8:18 - present suffering nothing compared w/future Gn 3:15 - complete enmity between woman & Satan, sin
glory Ex 25:11-21 - ark made of purest gold for God's word
Phil 1:28-29 - granted to believe, also to suffer for him *Rom 3:23 - all have sinned & are deprived of God's glory
Col 1:24 - filling up what is lacking in Christ sufferings *Lk 1:47 - my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
Heb 12:5-7 - whom God loves, he disciplines as sons
Heb 12:11 discipline seems painful, but brings
righteousness • Perpetual Virginity
1Pet 1:6 - for a while you must suffer various trials Lk 1:34 - how can this be, since I do not know man
1Pet 2:19-21 - suffering = grace; Jesus suffered as our Lk 2:41-51 - age 12, Jesus evidently only son of Mary
example Mk 6:3 - "the son of Mary" not "a son of Mary"
*Mt 13:55-56 - brothers James, Joseph, Simon & Jude
Mt 27:56 - Mary the mother of James & Joseph also
Jn 19:25 - Mary the wife of Clopas
Jn 19:26 - entrusted Mary to John, not a younger sibling
Jn 7:3-4 - brothers advise like elders: "go to Judea,
manifest self" unthinkable for younger siblings (see next
verse)
Mk 3:21 - set out to seize him, "he is out of his mind"
*Mt 1:25 - Joseph knew her not until she bore first-born
Mt 28:20 - I am with you always, UNTIL the end of the age
1Tim 4:13 - until I arrive, attend to reading, teaching…
1Cor 15:25 - he must reign until has enemies underfoot Lk
1:80 - John in desert until day of his manifestation
Ex 13:2; Nb 3:12 - consecrate first -born that opens womb
Ex 34:20 - first-born among your sons you shall redeem

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THE PRIESTHOOD PURGATORY, HELL, & SIN

• Purgatory
• Call No Man Father Mt 5:48 - be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect
Acts 7:2 - St. Stephen calls Jewish leaders "fathers" Heb 12:14 - strive for that holiness without which cannot
Acts 21:40, 22:1 - St. Paul calls Jerusalem Jews "fathers" see God
Rom 4:16-17 - Abraham called the father of us all" Jam 3:2 - we all fall short in many respects
1Cor 4:14-15 - I became your father in Christ through Rev 21:27 - nothing unclean shall enter heaven
gospel Jam 1:14-15 - when sin reaches maturity gives birth to
1Tim 1:2 - my true child in our common faith death
Heb 12:7-9 - we have earthly fathers to discipline us 2Sam 12:13-14 - David, though forgiven, still punished for
Lk 14:26 - if anyone comes to me without hating his his sin
father… Mt 5:26 - you will not be released until paid last penny
1Thess 2:11 - we treated you as a father treats his children Mt 12:32 - sin against Holy Spirit unforgiven in this age or
Philem 10 - whose father I became in my imprisonment next
1Jn 2:13, 14 - I write to you, fathers, because you know him Mt 12:36 - account for every idle word of judgment day
2Macc 12:44-46 - atoned for dead to free them from sin
• Celibacy 1Cor 3:15 - suffer loss, but saved as through fire
1Pet 3:18-20; 4:6 - Jesus preached to spirits in prison
*1Tim 4:1-3 - forbidding marriage is a doctrine of 2Tim 1:16-18 - Paul prays for dead friend Onesiphorus
demons 1Cor 15:29-30 - Paul mentions people baptizing for the
*1Tim 3:2 - bishop must be married only once dead
Eph 5:21-33 - marriage is good: holy symbol of Christ &
church
Mt 19:12 - celibacy praised by Jesus, who was chaste • Hell
Jer 16:1-4 - Jeremiah told not to take wife & have children
Is 33:11, 14 - who of us can live with the everlasting flames
1Cor 7:8 - St. Paul was celibate
Mt 25:41 - depart, you accursed, into the eternal fire
1Cor 7:32-35 - celibacy recommended for full-time
Mt 25:46 - these will go off to eternal punishment
ministers
Lk 3:16-17 - the chaff will burn in unquenchable fire
2Tim 2:3-4 - no soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits
2Thess 1:6-9 - these will pay the penalty of eternal ruin
1Tim 5:9-12 - pledge of celibacy taken by older widows
(also see Apostolic Succession and the sacrament of Holy
Orders) • Original Sin
Gn 2:16-17 - the day you eat of that tree, you shall die
Gn 3:11-19 - God's punishment for eating of the tree
Rom 5:12-19 - many became sinners through one man's
sin
1Cor 15:21-23 - by a man came death; in Adam all die
Eph 2:1-3 - we all once lived in the passions of our flesh

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St Irenaeus of Lyons (195 AD): “He [Jesus] has declared

THE SACRAMENTS the cup, a part of his creation, to be His own Blood, from
• Infant Baptism which he causes our blood to flow; and the bread, a part of
his creation, he has established as his own Body, from
Jn 3:5; Mk 16:16 - baptism required for entering heaven which he gives increase to our bodies.” Against Heresies
1Cor 15:21-22 - in Adam all die, in Christ all made alive 5, 2, 2
Mk 10:14 - let children come; to such belongs the kingdom Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (350 AD): “He himself, therefore,
Lk 18:15 - people were bringing even infants to him… having declared and said of the bread, “This Is My Body”,
Col 2:11-12 - baptism has replaced circumcision who will dare any longer to doubt? And when he himself
Jos 24:15 - as for me and my house, we will serve Lord has affirmed and said “This Is My Blood”, who can ever
Mt 8:5ff. - daughter healed because of centurion's faith hesitate and say it is not his blood” Catechetical Lectures:
Mt 15:21ff. - daughter healed because of Canaanite Mystagogic 4, 22, 1.
woman's faith St. Cyril again: “Do not, therefore, regard the bread and
Lk 7:1ff. - just say the word, and let my servant be healed wine as simply that, for they are, according to the Master’s
Acts 16:31 - believe in Lord Jesus you & house will be declaration, the body and blood of Christ. Even though the
saved senses suggest to you the other, let faith make you firm.
Acts 16:15 - she was baptized, with all her household Do not judge in this matter by taste but be fully assured by
Acts 16:33 - he and all his family were baptized at once faith, not doubting that you have been deemed worthy of
1Cor 1:16 - I baptized the household of Stephanas the Body and Blood of Christ.” ibid 4, 22, 6
St. Hippolytus of Rome (c. 215 AD): “Baptize first the
children, and if they can speak for themselves, let them do
so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for
them.” The Apostolic Tradition 21
Origen (post 244 AD): “the Church received from the
• Confirmation
Acts 19:5-6 - Paul imposed hands on baptized, received
apostles the tradition of giving baptism also to infants.”
Commentary on Romans 5, 9. Holy Spirit
In 252 AD, the council of Carthage condemned the Acts 8:14-17 - laid hands upon them, they received Holy
opinion that infants must wait until the eighth day after birth Spirit
to be baptized, as was the case with circumcision. St. 2Cor 1:21-22 - put seal on us and given Holy Spirit in our
Cyprian of Carthage, Letter 64 (59), 2 hearts
Eph 1:13 - you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit
Heb 6:2 - instruction about baptism & laying on of hands
• Real Presence of Christ in the
Eucharist • Confession
Jn 6:35-71 - Eucharist promised Mt 9:2-8 Son of Man has authority to forgive sins
Mt 26:26ff (Mk 14:22ff., Lk 22:17ff.) - Eucharist instituted Jn 20:23 - whose sins you forgive/retain are
1Cor 10:16 - Eucharist = participation in Christ's body & forgiven/retained
blood Jn 20:22 - breathed on them, "receive Holy Spirit" [recall
1 Cor 11:23-29 - receiving unworthily his body & blood Gn 2:7]
Ex 12:8, 46 - Paschal lamb had to be eaten 2Cor 5:17-20 - given us the ministry of reconciliation
Jn 1:29 - Jesus called "Lamb of God" Jam 5:13-15 - confess your sins to one another
1 Cor 5:7 - Jesus called "paschal lamb who has been Mt 18:18 - whatever you bind & loose on earth, so it is in
sacrificed heaven
Jn 4:31-34; Mt 16:5-12 - Jesus talking symbolically about
food
1Cor 2:14-3:4 - explains what "the flesh" means in Jn 6:63 • Anointing the Sick
Ps 14:4; Is 9:18-20; Is 49:26; Mic 3:3; 2Sm 23:15-17; Rv Mk 6:12-13 - anointed with oil many sick, cured them
17:6, 16 - to symbolically eat & drink one's body & blood = Jam 5:14-15 - presbyters pray over sick, anoint, sins
assault forgiven
St. Ignatius (110 AD) “[heretics] abstain from Eucharist
and from prayer because they do not confess that the
Eucharist is the Flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ." Letter
• Holy Orders
to Smyrnaeans 6, 2, 2. Acts 20:28 - Holy Sprit appointed you overseers, to tend
Saint Justin Martyr (150 AD): “…not as common bread Church
nor common drink do we receive these; but as we have Lk 22:19 - do this in memory of me
been taught the food which has been made into the Jn 20:22 - As Father sent me, I send you...receive Holy
Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him and by Spirit
the change of which our blood and flesh in nourished, is Acts 6:6 - the apostles prayed and laid hands on them
both the flesh and blood of that incarnated Jesus." First Acts 13:3 - they laid hands on them & sent them off
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1Tim 4:14 - gift received through laying on of hands of

presbyterate
• Homosexuality
Gn 1:27 - complementarity of sexes reflects God's inner
2Tim 1:6 - gift of God you have through imposition of hands
Tit 1:5 - appoint presbyters in every town as I directed you unity
(also see The Priesthood) Gn 2:21-24 - transmission of life through total self-donation
- one flesh
Gn 19 - original sin deteriorates to Sodom's sin, destroyed
• Matrimony Lv18:22 - called abomination, cut off from people (v.29)
Mt 19:5-6 - leave father & mother, join wife, 2 become 1 Lv 20:13 - both shall be put to death for abominable deed
flesh Rom 1:27 - called unnatural, shameful, and a perversity
Mk 10:7-12 - what God joined together, no man separate 1Cor 6:9 - active homosexuals won't inherit kingdom of God
Eph 5:22-32 - union of man & wife image of Christ & Church 1Tim 1:9-10 - those who engage in such acts called sinners
Heb 13;4 - let marriage be honored among all
• Drinking Wine
Gn 27:25 - Isaac brought Jacob wine, and he drank
Dt 14:23-26 - spend money on sheep, wine, & strong drink
Prov 20:1 - wine is a mocker, unwise to be led astray by it
Eccl 9:7 - drink your wine with merry heart - God approves
Is 25:6 - God will provide feast of rich foods & choice wines
Is 5:11 - woe to those who rise early & run after strong drink
SOCIAL TEACHINGS Is 5:22 - woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine
Luke 7:33-34 - son of man eats & drinks: behold glutton &
• Divorce and Remarriage drunk
Mal 2:14-16 - for I hate divorce, says the Lord Jn 2:2-10 - miracle at Cana: water turned into good wine
Mt 5:32-33 - to divorce or marry divorced wife is adultery Eph 5:18 - do not get drunk with wine, that is debauchery
Mt 19:4-6, 9 - to divorce wife and remarry = adultery 1Tim 5:23 - drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach
Lk 16:18 - to divorce & remarry or marry divorced = adultery
Rom 7:2-3 - wife consorts = adulteress if living, but not if
dead
1Cor 7:10-11 - if wife separated, stay single or reconcile SAINTS, RELICS, AND STATUES
• Communion of Saints
• Contraception Eph 1:22-23 - he is head of the Church, which is His body
Gn 38:9-10 God killed Onan for spilling seed [see next] Eph 5:21-32 - Christ is the head of the Church, Savior of
Dt 25:5-10 - penalty for defying Levirate law: not death the body
Gn 1:27-28 (Gn 9:1, 35:11) - be fruitful and multiply Col 1:18, 24 - He is head of the body, the Church
Ps 127:3-5 - children gift from God, blessed is a full quiver 1Cor 12:12-27 - if I suffer, all suffer; if I am honored, all
1Chr 25:5 - God gave 14 sons & 3 daughters to exalt him rejoice
1Chr 26:4-5 - God indeed blessed Obededom with 8 sons Rom 12:5 - we are one body in Christ, individual parts of
Hos 9:10-17 - Israel is punished with childlessness one another
Ex 23:25-26 - blessings promised: no miscarrying, Eph 4:4 - one body, one Spirit, called to one hope
barrenness Col 3:15 - you were called in one body
Lev 21:17-20 - crushed testicles is called a defect & Rom 8:35-39 - death cannot separate us from Christ
blemish Rom 12:10 - love one another with mutual affection
Dt 23:1 - no one castrated shall enter the assembly 1Thess 5:11 - encourage, build up one another
Dt 25:11-12 - punishment for potential damage to genitals Gal 6:2 - bear one another's burdens
Rom 1:25-27 - natural function of women = childbearing Gal 6:10 - let us do good to all, especially those in family of
1Tim 2:11-15 - women saved through the bearing of faith
children
Acts 5:1-11 - Ananias/Saphira slain - withholding part of gift
Gal 6:7 - God is not mocked - accepting pleasure, denying • Intercessory Prayer of Saints
fruit Rom 15:30 - join me by your prayers to God on my behalf
Mt 21:19, Mk 11:14 - Jesus cursed fruitless fig tree Col 4:3, 1Thess 5:25 - pray for us
Gal 5:20, Rv 9:21, 21:8 - Greek pharmakeia = abortifacient 2Thess 1:11 - we always pray for you
potions 2Thess 3:1 - finally, brothers, pray for us
1Cor 6:19-20 - body temple of the Holy Spirit, glorify God Eph 6:18-19 - making supplication for all the saints & for
with body me
Tob 12:12 - angel presents Tobit & Sarah's prayer to God
Ps 148 - David calls upon angels
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Mk 12:25, Mt 22:30 - men in heaven are as the angels

Rev 5:8 – those in heaven offer prayers of the holy ones to
God *Saints dead, prayer is necromancy (Dt 18:10-11) • Scandals in the Church
Mk 12:26-27 - he is God of the living, not of the dead Jer 32:32-35 - OT leaders & priests offered child sacrifices
Mk 9:4 - Jesus seen conversing with Elijah & Moses 2 Kgs 23:7 - OT cult prostitutes in the temple of the Lord
Lk 9:31 - Elijah & Moses aware of earthly events Jn 4:22 - in spite of their infidelity, salvation is from Jews
Rev 6:9-11 - martyrs under altar want earthly vindication Mk 14:43-46 - Judas betrayed Jesus
Heb 12:1 - we are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses Mk 14:66-72 Peter denied him
Lk 16:19-30 - departed rich man intercedes for brothers Jn 20:24-25 Thomas refused to believe his resurrection
Rev 20:4 - saw the souls of those who had been beheaded Mk 14:50 - they all left him and fled in garden of
Wis 3:1-6 - the souls of the just are in the hand of God Gethsemane
2Macc 15:7-16 – the departed Onias & Jeremiah pray for Rom 3:3-4 - will their infidelity nullify fidelity of God? No!
the Jews 2 Tim 2 :13 - if we are unfaithful, God remains faithful
Jas 5:16 Prayers of righteous man Mt 13:24-30 - Parable of the weeds among the wheat
1 Cor. 13:12 - I shall understand fully Mt 13:47-48 - parable of net that collects good and bad
1 John 4: 20-21 whoever loves God must love his brother
1 Cor 12:21 - parts of Christ's Body cannot say to other • Fasting
parts, "I do not need you".
*1Tim 4:3 - condemns antiflesh heretics
*1Tim 2:5 - "One mediator between God and man"
Mk 7:19 - Christ declared all food clean
1Tim 2:1-7 - offer prayers, petitions for all men
1Tim 4:4-5 - everything created by God is good
1Pet 2:5 - be a holy priesthood to offer sacrifices through
Dan 10:3 - Daniel refused to eat choice foods for 3 weeks
Christ
Mt 9:15 - Christ's followers will fast once he is gone
Mk 10:18 - only God is good
Mt 6:16-18 - Jesus gave regulations concerning how to fast
Mt 25:23 - well done my good and faithful servant
Jn 10:11-16 - I am good shepherd; one flock I shepherd
Jn 21:15-16 - feed my lambs, tend my sheep • Divinity of Jesus
Eph 4:11 - He gave some as apostles…others as pastors Jn 1:1 - the Word was God
Heb 3:1, 7:24, 9:12-13 - Jesus eternal high priest; one Jn 1:14-15 - glory of Father's only Son, full of grace and
sacrifice truth
Rev 1:6, 5:10 - He made us a kingdom of priests for God Jn 8:19 - if you knew me, you would know my Father
Jn 8:58-59 - I assure you, before Abraham was, I AM
• Veneration of Saints Jn 10:30-33 - the Father and I are one (see Ex 3:14, 20:7;
Lev 19:12, 24:14-16)
Jos 5:14 - Joshua fell prostrate in worship before angel
Jn 10:38 - the Father is in me and I am in the Father
Dan 8:17 - Daniel fell prostrate in terror before Gabriel
Jn 12:45 - whosoever sees me sees the one who sent me
Tob 12:16 - Tobiah & Tobit fall to ground before Raphael
Jn 14:8-12 - whoever had seen has seen the Father
Mt 18:10 - angels in heaven always behold face of God (we
Jn 20:28 - Jesus accepts Thomas's "my Lord and my God"
venerate angels because of their great dignity, which
Col 2:9 - in him dwells whole fullness of deity bodily
comes form their union with God. Saints also are united
Acts 20:28 - church of God he acquired with his blood
with God)
Eph 1:7 - in him we have redemption by his blood
1Jn 3:2 - we shall be like him, we shall see him as he is
1Jn 1:7 - blood of his Son Jesus cleanses from all sin
1Thess 1:5-8 - you become an example to all the believers
Tit 2:13 - glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ
Heb 13:7 - remember leaders, consider/imitate their faith &
life
• Time of Second Coming Unknown
• Relics Mt 24:44 - be prepared, Jesus coming at unexpected hour
Mt 25:13 - stay awake, you know neither the day nor hour
2Kgs 13:20-21 - contact with Elisha's bones restored life
Mk 13:35-37 - watch, unknown when lord of house coming
Acts 5:15-116 - cures performed through Peter's shadow
Lk 12:46 - master will come like a thief in night
Acts 19:11-12 - cures through face cloths that touched Paul
1Thess 5:2-3 - day of Lord will come like a thief in night
• Statues 2Pet 3:9-10 - day of lord will come like a thief
Rev 3:3 - if not watchful, will come like a thief
*Ex 20:4-5 - do not make and worship any graven images Mt 24:36 - no one but Father alone knows day and hour
Ex 25:18-19 - make two cherubim of beaten gold
Num 21:8-9 - Moses made bronze serpent & put on pole
1Kgs 6:23-29 - temple had engraved cherubim, trees, • Holy Spirit a Person, Not a Force
flowers Jn 14:26 - "he will teach you all things"
1Kgs 7:25-45 - temple had bronze oxen, lions, Acts 8:29 - "and the Spirit said to Philip, 'Go up…"
pomegranates Acts 13:2 - "Holy Spirit said, 'Set apart for me…'"
(also see The Blessed Virgin Mary) Rom 8:27 - "Spirit intercedes for the saints…"

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1Cor 2:11 - no one understands the thoughts of God, but

Spirit
1Cor 12:11 - Spirit apportions to each as he wills Eph 4:30
- "do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God"

• Repetitious Prayer
*Mt 6:7 - do not babble like pagans with their many words
1Kgs 18:25-29 - example of vain repetition: call Baal for
hours
Mt 26:44 - Jesus prayed a third time, saying the same thing
again
Lk 18:13 - collector kept beating breast & praying: be
merciful
Rev 4:8 - repeat day & night, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord"
1Thess 5:17 - pray without ceasing
Ps 136 (26X 'his steadfast love endures forever')
Mt 6:9-13 Our Father

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