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In my research into why priests are incorrectly taught not to teach the faith from the catechism but only give a commentary on scripture, I finally gave up reading theologians and scholars and studied ONLY Church documents intended for all christians that were approved by the Popes, or written by the Popes and therefore were infallibly taught.
This would mean that to teach and preach the Gospel, we must teach and preach the Catholic faith and we this must be done based on the Catechism, “a sure norm” for teaching the faith.
I could not understand this, until after months in the adoration chapel, (since Father Hardon says Jesus educates our minds during Eucharistic Adoration), I finally understood.
The Church sees the Gospel as everything the apostles taught and preached, and not just that part written in the Gospels about what Jesus said.
Since no book of the bible claims to be a summary of the Gospel that the apostles taught and preached, then we must look to the beliefs of the early Christians as to what the apostles taught and preached. As anyone knows who studied the early Fathers, we know that everything they claimed they learned from the apostles, the Church teaches today. In other words, the early Christians were fully Catholic. The only explanation for this is that they were fully Catholic, because the Gospel the apostles taught and preached was and is the Catholic faith. In other words, when a pagan came to Peter and asked him to tell about this Jesus he worshipped, Peter did not start by reading
" The book of the genealogy of
Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham.
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,
and Isaac the father of Jacob, and
Jacob the father of Judah and his
brothers,…etc
When the pagan asked about who was this God who created the world, Peter did not start reading Genesis.
The apostles did NOT teach the Gospel by reading scripture and then give an explanation of what they just read.
No, they simply gave an explanation of the Creed, the Trinity and the other articles of the creed. To explain how we receive the grace of salvation, they taught the sacraments. To explain how do we live our lives to enter heaven, they taught the commandment. To explain how we pray to our God, they taught prayer.
That is why the content of what the early Christians said they learned from the apostles is the is the same content of the Catholic faith today.
And since it is a living Gospel there is progression in how this Gospel expresses itself, in how the Church teaches the Gospel today
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I began to discover in them something that I could not understand at first. **This was the idea, repeated over and over that the Gospel and the Catholic faith were one and the same**. At first I thought, how can the Popes make the Catholic faith, with its specific and detailed teachings on the commandments, with the teachings on the sacraments, on grace and mortal sin, venial sin, confession, prayer to the saints, confirmation, purgatory, praying the rosary, etc be made equivalent to the Gospel, when Jesus hardly mentions any of these. How can the Popes make teaching the Catechism equivalent to presenting the Gospel? How could the Popes make sharing the Gospel the same as professing and living the Catholic faith? Yet, they did this over and over.I could not understand this, until after months in the adoration chapel, (since Father Hardon says Jesus educates our minds during Eucharistic Adoration), I finally understood.
The Church sees the Gospel as everything the apostles taught and preached, and not just that part written in the Gospels about what Jesus said.
Since no book of the bible claims to be a summary of the Gospel that the apostles taught and preached, then we must look to the beliefs of the early Christians as to what the apostles taught and preached. As anyone knows who studied the early Fathers, we know that everything they claimed they learned from the apostles, the Church teaches today. In other words, the early Christians were fully Catholic. The only explanation for this is that they were fully Catholic, because the Gospel the apostles taught and preached was and is the Catholic faith. In other words, when a pagan came to Peter and asked him to tell about this Jesus he worshipped, Peter did not start by reading
" The book of the genealogy of
Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham.
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,
and Isaac the father of Jacob, and
Jacob the father of Judah and his
brothers,…etc
When the pagan asked about who was this God who created the world, Peter did not start reading Genesis.
The apostles did NOT teach the Gospel by reading scripture and then give an explanation of what they just read.
No, they simply gave an explanation of the Creed, the Trinity and the other articles of the creed. To explain how we receive the grace of salvation, they taught the sacraments. To explain how do we live our lives to enter heaven, they taught the commandment. To explain how we pray to our God, they taught prayer.
That is why the content of what the early Christians said they learned from the apostles is the is the same content of the Catholic faith today.
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Thus, to evangelize, we must profess the whole Catholic faith. To teach and preach the Gospel, priests and bishops must teach and preach the whole Catholic faith. The apostles did it this way. Why did we stop today? Why do we only get a commentary on the Gospels? **We stopped, because everyone in this country makes the error of reducing the Gospel to only the written words of Jesus in the four Gospels, instead of including everything the apostles taught and handed down as the full Gospel, that is, the entire Catholic faith.**