A collection of various works taken from online resources in fidelity to the teaching of the Magisterium and by the authority of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church.

The Church is Catholic




http://www.salvationhistory.com/homily_helps/english/may_5th_2013_-_6th_sunday_of_easter
*The first Church council, the Council of Jerusalem
*Jewish Christians had wanted Gentile converts to be circumcised and obey all the complex ritual and purity laws of the Jews.
*council called this a heresy, again showing us that the Church in the divine plan is meant to be a worldwide family of God, no longer a covenant with just one nation.
*The Church is Catholic, or universal, making known God’s ways of salvation to all peoples, ruling all in equity
*the Church, as John sees in the Second Reading, is Apostolic - founded on the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
*Paul, looks to “Jerusalem [and] ...the Apostles” to decide the Church’s true teaching.
*we see the Spirit guiding the Apostles in all truth. Notice how they describe their ruling: “It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and of us.”
*the Church is the Lord’s, watched over and guarded by the Advocate, the Holy Spirit sent by the Father in the name of the Son.

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- Decretal on Penance (D. II., cap. Si quis semel)