Originally Posted by RoryMcKenzie56
It seems that the word master comes from magesterium and means more than a teacher, perhaps implying guide and disciplinarian too. Someone else can speak to this better than I. But for what it is worth The Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus refers to “Jesu, Magister Apostolorum” and “Jesu, Doctor Evangeliastarum”.
In any case, Fox, it is clear as your question implies, that a Master or Magister can be a living person or group of persons so assigned. But not necessarily so. When Catholics refer to the teaching magisterium of the Church, they are referencing how Church can guide us in all matters of faith and practice. The Church’s magesterium is composed of those teachings which are legitimate because they are rooted and faithful to the practices and teachings She has received as passed down from generation to generation.
There has not been a single person since Christ, or a committee since the Apostles, who would qualify as “the Magesterium”. Our magesterium was established and finalized with the death of the Apostles."
"The Catholic Magisterium consist of all the Bishops throughout the world who teach in full conformity as the occupant of the Chair of Peter".
Your position is short sighted and unsuppoeted by the Bible. **Matt. 28: 19-20 **Matt.28 Verses 19 to 20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” ***This task is nowhere near complete. Further God Himself gives the mandate, the authority and His personal assurence of these truths. **Matt. 16:15-19 especially v. 19, *****Matt 18:18
and these from John.
**John 14: 16-17 ** And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you."
**John 17: 14-19 **“I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one.They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth. As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.
2Tim.2: 13 " he remains faithful – for he [GOD] cannot deny himself. [Whta ever He ask]
In the present time and for all-time th Pope and the Magisterium cannot teach in error on matters of Faith and Morals. That friend is God’s own promise to His Catholic Church.
Can. 747 §1 It is the obligation and inherent right of the Church, independent of any human authority, to preach the Gospel to all peoples, using for this purpose even its own means of social communication, for it is to the Church that Christ the Lord entrusted the deposit of faith, so that by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, it might conscientiously guard revealed truth, more intimately penetrate it, and faithfully proclaim and expound it. §2 The Church has the right always and everywhere to proclaim moral principles, even in respect of the social order, and to make judgements about any human matter in so far as this is required by fundamental human rights or the salvation of souls.
Can. 749 §1 In virtue of his office the Supreme Pontiff is infallible in his teaching when, as chief Shepherd and Teacher of all Christ’s faithful, with the duty of strengthening his brethren in the faith, he proclaims by definitive act a doctrine to be held concerning faith or morals.
§2 The College of Bishops also possesses infallibility in its teaching when the Bishops, gathered together in an Ecumenical Council and exercising their magisterium as teachers and judges of faith and morals, definitively declare for the universal Church a doctrine to be held concerning faith or morals; likewise, when the Bishops, dispersed throughout the world but maintaining the bond of union among themselves and with the successor of Peter, together with the same Roman Pontiff authentically teach matters of faith or morals, and are agreed that a particular teaching is definitively to be held.
Love and prayers,
Pat
