Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

 

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Exegesis means “drawing out” of the revealed text of Scripture the meaning intended by the Holy Spirit…Eisegesis is reading into the Biblical text what is not there.   Father John A. Hardon, S.J.

Photo©Michael Seagriff We should read our Lord’s Passion constantly; what great benefit we will gain by doing so.  Even if you are as hard as stone, when you contemplate that He was sarcastically adorned, then ridiculed, beaten and subjected to the final agonies, you will be moved to cast all pride from your soul.  St. John Chrysostom

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Don’t go astray in the mist and the fog, but rather listen to the voice of the shepherd. Fall back on holy Scripture, there you will find the delight of your heart; you will find nothing there that will harm or poison you; rich is the food you will find there.  St. Augustine

  If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.   St. Augustine