mysteries

[billcu1]

What are the petrine and pauline mysteries? I know who peter and paul were but what is meant by those mysteries they are commonly called?

 

[Vico]

Petrine mystery: the ministry of the Pope as the successor of Saint Peter and symbol of the unity and faith of all Christians.

Pauline Mysteries: heavenly revelations given by God to Paul. I have seen twelve listed.

 

[billcu1]

Petrine mystery: the ministry of the Pope as the successor of Saint Peter and symbol of the unity and faith of all Christians.

Pauline Mysteries: heavenly revelations given by God to Paul. I have seen twelve listed.

Paul is my favorite saint. What are those 12 mysteries?

 

[Vico]

1. Faith revelations of the Gospel (1 Tim. 3:9)
2. The Kingdom of God (Rom. 14:17, 2 Cor. 5:17, John 3:3)
3. God’s will in Christ (Eph. 1:10, Eph. 2:10, Col. 1:19-20)
4. The heirship in Christ of Jew and Gentile (Eph. 3:3, 4, 9)
5. Christ (Eph. 3:4, 3:9)
6. The union of Christ and the Church as His Body and Bride (Eph. 5 love and obedience)
7. Christ indwelling the believer (Col. 1:26-27, John 15:4)
8. God full of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Col. 2:2, 3)
9. The wisdom of God (1 Cor. 2:7)
10. The Rapture of the Church (1 Thess. 4; 1 Cor. 15)
11. The iniquity (2 Thess. 2:7, Rev. 13)
12. The partial hardening of Israel (Rom. 11:25)

 

[Glacies]

Further the Jesuit exegete Cornelius a Lapide (1597-1637) considers that St. Paul was honored by a very special appearance of Christ on the road to Damascus, where instead of a vision He personally descended from Heaven in bodily form.

The great commentary of Cornelius à Lapide (1908), Volume 7, pages 368-369:

It appears from this verse that Christ appeared to Paul, not by an
angel, as Haymo thinks (Comment. on Apocalypse, c. ii.), but in person;
not in a vision, as He appeared to him in Acts xxii. 18, nor in a
trance, as is recorded in 2 Cor. xii. 2, but in the air in bodily form ;
for it was in this way that Christ appeared to Cephas, James, and
the other Aposdes ; moreover, if it were any other kind of appearance
it would be no proof of the resurrection of Christ. The appearance
of Christ alluded to here is the one at Paul’s conversion (Acts ix. 3),
when he saw Christ before the bright light blinded him.

Hence it further appears that Christ then descended from heaven.
For, as S. Thomas and others say, S. Paul heard the voice of Christ
speaking in the air.

 

[billcu1]

1. Faith revelations of the Gospel (1 Tim. 3:9)
2. The Kingdom of God (Rom. 14:17, 2 Cor. 5:17, John 3:3)
3. God’s will in Christ (Eph. 1:10, Eph. 2:10, Col. 1:19-20)
4. The heirship in Christ of Jew and Gentile (Eph. 3:3, 4, 9)
5. Christ (Eph. 3:4, 3:9)
6. The union of Christ and the Church as His Body and Bride (Eph. 5 love and obedience)
7. Christ indwelling the believer (Col. 1:26-27, John 15:4)
8. God full of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Col. 2:2, 3)
9. The wisdom of God (1 Cor. 2:7)
10. The Rapture of the Church (1 Thess. 4; 1 Cor. 15)
11. The iniquity (2 Thess. 2:7, Rev. 13)
12. The partial hardening of Israel (Rom. 11:25)

What exactly does the church teach that #s 10 and 12 mean?

 

[Vico]

What exactly does the church teach that #s 10 and 12 mean?

That the faithful rise at the second coming of Christ (the Parousia).

Haydock Commentary on Romans 11:25:

Ver. 25-26. I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, this hidden truth of God’s justice and mercy, that blindness in part hath happened in Israel, or to part of them, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in, by the conversion of all nations: and then all Israel should be saved, when they shall submit to the faith of Christ: as it is written by the prophet Isaias, (lix. 20.) there shall come out of Sion he that shall deliver; that is, their Redeemer, Christ Jesus, who is indeed come already, but who shall then come to them by his powerful grace. This is my covenant with them. (Witham)