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For Not So Good Shepherds
« on: February 25, 2010, 10:45:51 AM »
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  • 3 Giving no offence to any one, that our ministry be not blamed.

    Commentary on Verse 3: In this, and the following verses, St. Paul shews his anxious solicitude not to give any, the least occasion of scandal, lest some reproach might fall upon the ministry of the gospel: for nothing is more likely to cast a blemish on the sanctity of religion, than the want of conduct in any of its ministers. If what they say be true, why do their own lives correspond so little with what they say. This will be the cry of all libertines. Calmet.
    "I receive Thee, redeeming Prince of my soul. Out of love for Thee have I studied, watched through many nights, and exerted myself: Thee did I preach and teach. I have never said aught against Thee. Nor do I persist stubbornly in my views. If I have ever expressed myself erroneously on this Sacrament, I submit to the judgement of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience of which I now part from this world." Saint Thomas Aquinas the greatest Doctor of the Church


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  • Oh yeah.  And this:

    4 But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,

    5 In stripes, in prisons, in ѕєdιтισnss, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

    6 In chastity, in knowledge, in long suffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned,

    7 In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armor of justice, on the right hand, and on the left:

    8 Through honour, and dishonour, through bad name and good name: as seducers, and yet true: as unknown, and yet known:

    Commentary on Verse 8: The apostles maintained the character, and fulfilled the duties of the ministers of Christ, equally in prosperity and adversity; they continued to speak the truth, though regarded by the Jєωs as seducers; exposed to all kinds of dangers, they relied on God, Who preserved them, though in the midst of dangers, and of death itself. Though they possessed nothing in this world, yet God never permitted them to remain in want: Gis providence procured for them all things necessary. Though they had nothing in their possession, yet they procured relief for others, by the alms, of which they were made the disposers, though this latter part is generally understood of the spiritual riches, which they bestowed upon the auditors. Estius.

    9 As dying, and behold we live: as chastised, and not killed:

    10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing, and possessing all things.
    "I receive Thee, redeeming Prince of my soul. Out of love for Thee have I studied, watched through many nights, and exerted myself: Thee did I preach and teach. I have never said aught against Thee. Nor do I persist stubbornly in my views. If I have ever expressed myself erroneously on this Sacrament, I submit to the judgement of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience of which I now part from this world." Saint Thomas Aquinas the greatest Doctor of the Church