HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Text Monday, September 14, 15 1
MATTHEW 16: 13-20 WHEN JESUS WENT INTO THE REGION OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI HE ASKED HIS DISCIPLES. “WHO DO PEOPLE SAY THAT THE SON OF MAN IS?” THEY REPLIED, “SOME SAY JOHN THE BAPTIST, OTHERS ELIJAH, STILL OTHERS JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE PROPHETS.” HE SAID TO THEM, “BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?” SIMON PETER SAID IN REPLY, “YOU ARE THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.” JESUS SAID TO HIM IN REPLY, “BLESSED ARE YOU, SIMON SON OF JONAH. FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO YOU, BUT MY HEAVENLY FATHER. AND SO I SAY TO YOU, YOU ARE PETER, AND UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF THE NETHERWORLD SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT. I WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN; AND WHATEVER YOU LOOSE ON EARTH SHALL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN.” THEN HE STRICTLY ORDERED HIS DISCIPLES TO TELL NO ONE THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH. Monday, September 14, 15 2
HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Monday, September 14, 15 3
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EPHPHATHA Monday, September 14, 15 5
IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? Monday, September 14, 15 6
THE SEEDS OF FOUNDATION • Endow the Church with an Eternal Structure • Choose the Apostles • Choose Peter as the Head of the Church • A New Commandment - Love One Another • The Power to Forgive Sins • Baptize all Nations • The Power to Make Laws Monday, September 14, 15 7
• THE INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST • THE CHURCH MUST BE A LIGHT TO THE WORLD Monday, September 14, 15 8
• EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD SEEN HIM, TALKED WITH HIM, LIVED WITH HIM, THE APOSTLES STILL HAD DOUBTS • INSTRUCTIONS TO WAIT FOR THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (I AM SENDING THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER UPON YOU, STAY IN THE CITY UNTIL YOU ARE CLOTHED WITH THE POWER FROM ON HIGH) Monday, September 14, 15 9
PENTECOST • GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT • WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING • PIETY, COUNSEL, FORTITUDE, FEAR THE LORD Monday, September 14, 15 10
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT • LOVE, JOY, PEACE • PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GENEROSITY • FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, SELF- CONTROL Monday, September 14, 15 11
THE CHURCH AFTER THE SPIRIT • APOSTLES NOT EDUCATED OR BRAVE • THEY CAME OUT OF ROOM FULLY CHARGED AND FEARLESSLY THEY TOLD THE STORY OF THE LIFE, DEATH, RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS • THEY SPOKE IN TONGUES AND EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE Monday, September 14, 15 12
• THEY SPOKE WITH CONVICTION, AUTHORITY, AND BRAVERY • THE PEOPLE WERE ASTONISHED • 3000 PEOPLE WERE CONVERTED AND BAPTIZED • NOW THE CHURCH WAS UP AND RUNNING, BUT MAYBE NOT SO FAST Monday, September 14, 15 13
• TONIGHT, WE WILL DISCUSS THAT CHURCH • PERSECUTION FROM WITHOUT, AND THERE WERE MANY (CHRIST PREDICTED THIS) • DESPITE THE HERESIES FROM WITHOUT AND FROM WITHIN, THE CHURCH CONTINUES TO GROW • BECAUSE CHRIST PROMISED THAT THE GATES OF HELL WOULD NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT, BECAUSE THE SPIRIT WHICH HE SENT TO PROTECT IT IS STILL WITH US TO GIVE US THE FULLNESS OF TRUTH Monday, September 14, 15 14
THE EARLY CHURCH ACTS OF THE APOSTLES • THEY ELECTED A NEW TWELFTH APOSTLE TO TAKE JUDAS’ PLACE AND HIS NAME WAS MATTHIAS (ACTS 2-15) • HOW DID THE APOSTLES LIVE? (ACTS 3-42) • THEY LIVED TOGETHER CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER, SHARING THE WEALTH • EVERYDAY WAS DEVOTED TO THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTLES Monday, September 14, 15 15
• PRAYER • BREAKING OF THE BREAD. THE APOSTLES WERE ABLE TO WORK MANY MIRACLES • BECAUSE OF THE TYPE OF LIFE THEY LIVED, THEY BECAME A LIGHT TO THE WORLD. EVERYDAY THE LORD ADDED MORE NUMBERS TO THEIR GROUP Monday, September 14, 15 16
THE CHURCH TODAY • ESTIMATED 38,000 DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TODAY • SO, THIS MEANS THERE ARE 38,000 DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORDS OF CHRIST • BUT CHRIST ONLY FOUNDED ONE CHURCH AND HIS WORDS HAVE ONLY ONE MEANING • THE MEANINGS OF HIS WORDS ARE GIVEN TO US THROUGH HIS APOSTLES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS THROUGH THE POPE Monday, September 14, 15 17
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE ONLY CHURCH THAT CAN TRACE ITS ORIGINS BACK TO THE APOSTLES (SEE HANDOUT) Monday, September 14, 15 18
NEW TESTAMENT (A GIFT FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH) • ST. MARK’S GOSPEL - FIRST NEW TESTAMENT WRITTEN AROUND 70 AD • LAST GOSPEL WRITTEN 100 AD • THESE BOOKS WERE WRITTEN BY HAND ON ANIMAL SKIN’S MANUSCRIPT Monday, September 14, 15 19
THE TYPICAL SERVICE (236 AD) • MET IN THE HOMES OF BELIEVERS • USUALLY ON SATURDAY • THE ORDER OF THE SERVICE • READING FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE APOSTLES - (NT) • OR A READING OF THE PROPHETS - (OT) • THE PRESENTER URGED EVERYONE TO PRACTICE WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD • ALL STOOD AND RECITED PRAYERS Monday, September 14, 15 20
• THE PRIESTS MIXED WATER AND WINE, BROKE THE BREAD AND GAVE TO EVERYONE, AND ALL SAID, AMEN • THE BODY AND BLOOD WAS THEN DISTRIBUTED TO EVERYONE PRESENT, THEN A DEACON WOULD BRING A PORTION OF WHAT WAS LEFT TO THOSE ABSENT • THOSE WITH WEALTH WOULD GIVE WHAT THEY WILLED - GIVEN TO THE PRIEST TO BE GIVEN TO THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS • PRAYERS WERE FREE STYLE NOW - LATER PROMINENT LEADERS WROTE PATENTED FORM PRAYERS. THESE WERE USED AS A MODEL FOR CHURCH WORSHIP Monday, September 14, 15 21
(THE OLDEST LITURGICAL FORM OF PRAYER) Monday, September 14, 15 22
CHURCH ORDER OF HIPPOLYTUS (d.236) (THE OLDEST LITURGICAL FORM OF PRAYER) Monday, September 14, 15 22
CHURCH ORDER OF HIPPOLYTUS (d. 236) THE OLDEST LITURGICAL FORM OF THE MASS IS FOUND IN THE CHURCH ORDER OF HIPPOLYTUS (d. 236). IT IS EVIDENTLY THE BASIS OF ALL EUCHARISTIC PRAYERS THAT HAVE SINCE BEEN COMPOSED. THE BISHOP LAYS HIS HANDS UPON THE BREAD AND WINE AND WATER OFFERED UPON THE ALTAR TABLE AND BEGINS THE FOLLOWING DIALOGUE: Monday, September 14, 15 23
Bishop: The Lord be with you. Congregation: And with thy spirit. Bishop: Hearts up. Congregation: We have them to the Lord. Bishop: Let us give thanks to the Lord. Congregation: It is meet and right. Bishop: We thank thee, God, through Thy beloved Servant Jesus Christ, whom in the last times Thou hast sent us as Savior and Redeemer and Messenger of Thy counsel, the Logos who comes from Thee, through whom Thou hast made all things, whom Thou wast pleased to send from heaven into the womb of the virgin, and in her body he became flesh and was shown forth as Thy Son, born of the Holy Spirit and the virgin. To fulfill Thy will and to prepare Thee a holy people, he stretched out his hands, when he suffered, that he might release from suffering those who have believed on Thee. Monday, September 14, 15 24
And when he delivered himself to a voluntary passion, to loose death and to break asunder the bands of the devil, and to trample hell and to enlighten the righteous and to set up the boundary stone and to manifest the resurrection, he took a loaf, gave thanks, and spake, “Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you.” Likewise also the cup and said, “This is my blood which is poured out for you. As often as you do this, you make my commemoration.” Remembering therefore his death and resurrection, we offer to Thee the loaf and the cup and give thanks to Thee that Thou hast counted us worthy to stand before Thee and to do Thee priestly service. Monday, September 14, 15 25
And we beseech Thee, that Thou send down Thy holy Spirit upon this offering of the church. Unite it and grant to all the saints who partake of it to their fulfilling with holy Spirit, to their strengthening of faith in truth, that we may praise and glorify Thee through Thy Servant Jesus Christ, through whom to Thee be glory and honour in Thy holy Church now and ever. Amen. Monday, September 14, 15 26
CHURCH HIERARCHY • DEACONS • PRESBYTER - PRIEST • EPISCOPI - BISHOPS • EACH TOWN HAD A BISHOP - MANY SMALL TOWNS HAD AN ARCHBISHOP - CHIEF BISHOP Monday, September 14, 15 27
PRIESTS SELECTION • 1 TIMOTHY 3: 1-13 ( READ ) • SOME PRIESTS WERE APPOINTED BY LOCAL BISHOPS • SOME BY SUPREME AUTHORITY BY THE SUCCESSORS OF THE APOSTLES Monday, September 14, 15 28
PERSECUTIONS Monday, September 14, 15 29
• BUT THIS HELPED SPREAD THE CHURCH • THEY TOOK THEIR FAITH WITH THEM • AND TOLD THE STORIES OF LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST • THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS WAS FERTILIZER FOR SEEDS OF FAITH Monday, September 14, 15 30
PERSECUTIONS LASTED FOR TWO CENTURIES • BUT THIS HELPED SPREAD THE CHURCH • THEY TOOK THEIR FAITH WITH THEM • AND TOLD THE STORIES OF LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST • THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS WAS FERTILIZER FOR SEEDS OF FAITH Monday, September 14, 15 30
NERO (54-68) Monday, September 14, 15 31
• HE KILLED HIS OWN MOTHER • HE KILLED HIS SISTER • HE KICKED HIS PREGNANT WIFE TO DEATH • HE HATED ALL CHRISTIANS • HE HAD A GRAND PLAN FOR A SPORTS ARENA • HE BURNED ONE THIRD OF THE HOUSES OF ROME AND BLAMED IT ON THE CHRISTIANS Monday, September 14, 15 32
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HE KILLED ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL Monday, September 14, 15 33
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666 SENATE PASSED A RESOLUTION - NERO WENT TO HELL Monday, September 14, 15 35
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