Friday Frivolity: Catholic Education
Category: Catholicism
Hey Jude!
A while ago, I listed the questions and answers which I run through at the beginning of every Bible study, all of which relate to the New Testament. Since writing that series of posts, we have read through more books of the Bible: Jude, Colossians and Ephesians. It is therefore time to supplement the list of questions. Today I’d like to cover the questions surrounding Jude:
53. Who wrote Jude?
Jude, the brother of James (probably the bishop of Jerusalem) and kinsmen of Jesus.
54. When was Jude written?
Probably sometime in the 50s or 60s
55. With what other New Testament book is does Jude have a literary relationship?
Second Peter
56. What are themes of Jude?
There are two main themes:
1. Warning against false teachers
2. Exhortations to hold fast to the faith.
57. Jude gives lots of examples to drive home his points. From where does Jude draw these examples?
They come from three sources:
1. Old Testament stories
2. Stories found in non-canonicals works:
(a) The Assumption of Moses
(b) 1 Enoch and Jubilees
3. Apostolic Teaching
Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be adding questions for Ephesians and Colossians too. When those are done I’ll produce a vlog entry going through all of them 🙂
1-16 | 17-27 | 27-42 | 43-52 | 53-57 | 58-67 | 68-71
All Questions
The Epistle of Joy – Episode #12 (Video)
In the previous episode we read all of Paul’s accolades and achievements. In today’s text he speaks about how he now views them since coming to Christ…
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith; that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. – Philippians 3:7-11
Here’s my reflection…
For an audio-only version of this video, please click here.
Are religious debates pointless?
I recently came across the Catholic Contrast video channel. It’s rather good. Here’s their response to the question “Are religious debates pointless?”…
Something beautiful
Something beautiful to begin the weekend…
Virgin Regret on the Goretti Group
I couple of weeks ago I posted my “Virgin Regret” series, my response to the story of a girl who remained a virgin until her wedding night and now regrets her decision. This series was actually a piece I originally wrote for the Goretti Group and I completely forgot to post a link to it when it was published on their website. So, to remedy that, here’s the link:
Online Dating as a Catholic: Part 3
Today is the final post in our series on on-line Catholic dating. It is written by my friend Matthew Grivich, author of the book Rational Faith…
As I mentioned in the first post, Catholic Match “how we met” stories are not helpful because they are more advertisements than anything and don’t really help single people. For this reason, I will give our “how we met” story and I’ll leave in a lot of the little details (and things that could have derailed the relationship). It gets to be a long story, but I would have valued these types of stories when I felt like I had no idea what I was doing.
