Todays readings Mark 9:29

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I have looked at several sources online for todays readings and felt it was missing a key piece of the scripture. Online sources from EWTN and USCCB leave out the final two words “and fasting”. I went to both my Catholic bibles and it has “This kind can only come out through prayer and fasting.”

Especially here at Lent and prior to Ash Wednesday when fasting is required, why would they leave off those final two words?

I am really feeling the USCCB is trying to water down Catholicism in the US 😟
 
The words “and fasting” are not in some of the oldest Bible manuscripts and so Bible scholars tend to think they were later additions to the original text. For instance, it is my understanding, the words are not in the Codex Sinaiticus nor the Codex Vaticanus. More info on this can be found here.
 
For this reason, I have a reference collection of bibles. Comparison is frequently illuminating. Alternate translations are über cheap on eBay, Amazon, ThriftBooks or in thrift stores.

As well, for all we know, Mark may have penned “and fasting” in his long ago lost “original” manuscript - but it was inadvertently omitted over the centuries in one of the hundreds of copies hand made after that. Since Mark is essentially the Gospel of Peter, I sincerely doubt that Peter omitted fasting as a spiritual good.

The Archangel Raphael’s words in Tobit 12 stand as evidence of that.
 
edward_george1 said:
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dee_burk:
Online sources from EWTN and USCCB leave out the final two words “and fasting”.
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EWTN and the USCCB don’t leave out the words “and fasting.” Mark’s Gospel does.
dee_burk said:
I am really feeling the USCCB is trying to water down Catholicism in the US 😟
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Be careful with thinking like that.

-Fr ACEGC
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Thank you, you are correct to say this.
 
Thank you everyone. I had always heard it this way. I am very satisfied with the explanation.
Blessings to you all.
 
dee_burk said:
I have looked at several sources online for todays readings and felt it was missing a key piece of the scripture. Online sources from EWTN and USCCB leave out the final two words “and fasting”. I went to both my Catholic bibles and it has “This kind can only come out through prayer and fasting.”
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Because the earliest Greek manuscripts do not have the words “and fasting.” These words were likely later additions that made their way into the manuscript tradition. The USCCB is not trying to water down the faith here, rather they are trying to be faithful to what the scripture actually says.
 
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ShemGoodfield said:
Mar 9:29 (9:28) And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
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yes… And Fasting …

Fasting … Must never be minimized…

Jesus Prayerfully spent 40 days in the wilderness Fasting - Famished - before meeting with Satan

Why?
 
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Each would has its own medicine, which must be applied to it; that which is used for the heel will not cure the eye; by fasting, the passions of the body, by prayer, the plagues of the soul, are healed.
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Any books or resources that deal with this topic in depth? I really like the idea of a spiritual cure book.
 
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Sursumcorda1 said:
Any books or resources that deal with this topic in depth? I really like the idea of a spiritual cure book.
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Jesus is the Divine Physician… It behooves one to Pray - in Faith - and not Doubt

If Troubles come your way - Jesus is the ultimate Answer

Call on His very Name… JESUS!

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