January 2013 – Page 5 – Restless Pilgrim

Growing in understanding

January 14, 2013 pilgrim 2 comments

Question: “How do we grow in knowledge and understanding of Scripture?”
Answer: “Ask more questions”.

If you want to grow in knowledge and understanding of anything, asking questions is a great way to go about it! The sure and true way to stagnate in anything is to simply be satisfied with your current level of development and understanding and let yourself slowly atrophy.

So, if you want to grow in your knowledge and understanding of Scripture, ask questions about it! If you read a passage which contains lots of things in it that you don’t understand, get a good study Bible, find a Bible geek and keep asking questions until you’re satisfied with the answers!

Catholicism

Hippolytus Of Rome…Saint and Anti-Pope

January 13, 2013 pilgrim Leave a comment

Hippolytus was an Early Church Father who lived in 3rd Century Rome and the story of his life is a particularly colourful one. He was the first Anti-Pope of the Catholic Church, setting himself up as Bishop of Rome in competition with with Pope Callixtus, and later with his successors Urban and Pontianus.

Yet, despite all this, we also call him Saint Hippolytus. How did the first Anti-Pope also manage to be declared a Saint of the Catholic Church? Good Question! Jimmy Akin has the Catholic answer…

Quite some time ago in the JP2 Group we read through Apostolic Tradition, a work attributed to St. Hippolytus. I have just finished recording the text onto MP3:

Apostolic Tradition – St. Hippolytus of Rome

Many thanks to the members of the JP2 Group for being my congregation! 😉

Smelling the conciliar coffee

January 12, 2013 pilgrim 2 comments

coffee Since this Year of Faith marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, I’d like to publish more posts concerning the Council this year.

Today I would like to share a little anecdote concerning the Council I came across in Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s autobiography, Treasure In Clay:

“Under the two great tiers which seated about 1,200 bishops on each side of the basilica, there were two coffee bars. It was not long before the Fathers found names for them. One was called Bar-Jona, which was part of the Hebrew name for St. Peter” – Fulton Sheen, Treasure In Clay, Page 302

How adorable is that?! Archbishop Sheen later writes that there was a lot of humour at the Council and that there were little poems written and passed around throughout the gathering. At the close of the Council, Bishop John P. O’Loughlin wrote the following:

As we bishops depart from old Roma
We can proudly display our disploma
At the Council’s finale
We say “buon natale”
And “goodbye” to Bar-Jona’s aroma

Humour

Trent Horn

January 12, 2013 pilgrim Leave a comment

Trent Horn is one of the newest apologists at Catholic Answers and recently took up residence in the greatest city in America, San Diego. He recently launched a new blog TrentHorn.com:

It’s a bit bare at the moment, but I’d invite you to subscribe to his blog now as I’m sure the upcoming content will be top notch. If you want to get a feel for the kind of stuff which will be appearing there in the future, you can check out his appearances on Catholic Answers, as well as find many videos of him on YouTube discussing pro-life issues and debating atheists.

Oh yes, and it’s his birthday today. Happy birthday Trent 🙂