As always, Dr. Pitre, thank you very sincerely for a clear and intelligible enrichment of our mission as laity, particularly at Mass. Thank you, thank you!
If the Greek term Presbyter is the word indicating ministerial priest, why is it used so often in Matthew in the phrase “chief priests and elders (presbyters).” Wouldn’t that be redundant?
Isn't this also what Paul means in Romans when he says, "Present yourselves as a living sacrifice?" That we when we unite ourselves to Christ in baptism and in communion, we are offering our worship to him? I remember studying that verse as a protestant, and it's so powerful now that I'm Catholic.
(12:08) These truths are why the ancient church used the expression of "assisting at Mass", instead of "attending Mass", or "going to church" as we do now. As Catholics we are not spectators at Mass only worshipping with songs and prayers, as protestants are, we offer ourselves - our daily lives - in union with Christ's offering of His Body and Blood to the Father. That is, we are making sacrifice! Very eloquent explanation, Dr. Petrie, thank you.
Good stuff. In Hebrews 13 we are exhorted to offer sacrifices of praise, good deeds, etc. Gary Anderson’s classic title Charity describes our sacrifices of alms, charity and mercy for the heavenly treasury. I love Cyprian’s sermon to offer alms to the poor as sacrifices on human altars.
Dr. Pitre! We realize from sacred scripture, that God used the number 40 to designate a period of purification and sanctification. 40 days and forty nights during Noah’s flood, forty years the children of Israel wandered in the desert and finally 40 years, from the death of Jesus Christ and the destruction of Jerusalem. God basically used 40 years or one generation for the Jews to convert to Christianity. The question is, if God gave the nation of Israel 40 years or roughly one generation to convert, how long would he give the rest of the world? An estimation of the population of Israel at the time of Jesus was approximately 1/70 of that of the world. Therefore, 40 years, times 70 would be 2,800 years. Is God giving us 70 generations or 2,800 years, to convert? Is He using 40 years as an equivalent of 1 year? Psalm 90:10 gives us 70 years as the fullness of life. But would God have left a clue to that theory? Dr. I think He did. He left a clue that only could have been realized after 1948. Leviticus 25, the year of Jubilee. The restoration of Israel to its ancestral home coincided with the 49th generation of 40 years. God is God and He could bring the world to an end anytime, but is He allowing us 70 generations of 40 years or 2,800. He didn’t give us the exact time but He may have given us a window. Dr Pitre please look into it. It’s in your line of thinking. Am your student!!!
(1) Why isn't this teaching taught by Clergy? Never before heard it. (2) Where is this teaching elsewhere in Magisterium (older Catechisms, Church Fathers, Doctors, Theologians, etc.)? Thanks. Pax Christi in regno Christi
Sadly the clergy wont teach this for what reason I have no clue but I learn more from Dr Brant than anyone else. I have learned so much from CP & Dr Brant.
I know it's in the catechism where the Church is described as in a pilgrimage (675 and on comes to mind) and it's all over the Fathers, I don't remember the specifics
Dr Pitre, you keep zigzagging between the CCC and the NT as your authority. Where in the NT is there any mention of or basis for a ‘ministerial priesthood’? Where does it say only presbyters are to celebrate the mass/consecrate the Bread and Wine?
I have enjoyed your videos even though I’m not Catholic. I see you are a serious student of Scripture. Have you considered that the church has been added to Israel and not replaced them? Grafted in. Even though God has created a new and better covenant does not mean he has done away with the old.
God bless! The end of the Old Covenant, the end of the Law, is Jesus Christ. Through his death, and through baptism, those who were under the Law are no longer bound to the Law. This is spoken of in Paul’s letter to the Romans. Romans 7:1-4 (NABRE): “1 Are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives? 2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband. 3 Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man. 4 In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.”
@@Plastikk2000 Consider God’s character, if God made a promise would he ever stop fulfilling that promise or change the conditions of it? Think of the marriage covenant, of how infidelity is likened unto idolatry. Would God ever divorce his wife and get a new wife?
@@jtadlock2698 It is true that God chose Israel as His people who would bring about the savior of the world. Once Christ came, the promise of God's chosen expanded beyond the boundaries of what Israel was. As Dr. Pitre stated, the Church became the new Israel. The prefigured twelve tribes are represented by the twelve apostles, the new "tribal leaders."
Hebrews 8:13: “In his saying ‘a new covenant,’ he has made the former one OBSOLETE. Now that which is made obsolete and growing old is near to vanishing away.”
@@SDJ992-q9t I know that is what your Bible translation says, but the basic definition of that word “obsolete” is also “old.” That old covenant was made to Israel. Jesus came for the lost sheep of Israel. Just because something is old does not means it ceases to exist. The old is near to vanishing because the new covenant is what the majority of people are taking hold of. The new is what God sent out to all nations.
Copied from my other reply: Consider God’s character, if God made a promise would he ever stop fulfilling that promise or change the conditions of it? Think of the marriage covenant, of how infidelity is likened unto idolatry. Would God ever divorce his wife and get a new wife?
Welcome back Brant Pitre.. Missing your explanations for some time..
Been waiting for another video; great info
Wow! Thank you Dr Pitre so well explained looking forward to the ministerial one. May Our Lord Jesus Christ bless you and your family always.
What an excellent explanation! Thank you, Dr. Pitre.
As always, Dr. Pitre, thank you very sincerely for a clear and intelligible enrichment of our mission as laity, particularly at Mass. Thank you, thank you!
Thanks be to God 🙏
Such a great explanation. Brings a whole new meaning to the mass. Thx Dr Brant.
Insightful spiritual teachings. God bless you, dr. Pitre.
Thank you, Dr. Pitre!
Dr Pitre back just in time for St Michaels Lent. Paz y Bien! 🙏🏽✝️❤️🔥
If the Greek term Presbyter is the word indicating ministerial priest, why is it used so often in Matthew in the phrase “chief priests and elders (presbyters).” Wouldn’t that be redundant?
Isn't this also what Paul means in Romans when he says, "Present yourselves as a living sacrifice?" That we when we unite ourselves to Christ in baptism and in communion, we are offering our worship to him? I remember studying that verse as a protestant, and it's so powerful now that I'm Catholic.
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(12:08) These truths are why the ancient church used the expression of "assisting at Mass", instead of "attending Mass", or "going to church" as we do now. As Catholics we are not spectators at Mass only worshipping with songs and prayers, as protestants are, we offer ourselves - our daily lives - in union with Christ's offering of His Body and Blood to the Father. That is, we are making sacrifice!
Very eloquent explanation, Dr. Petrie, thank you.
Thank you always. Could we please have some "shorts" made from these videos? Thanks again
Yes , this channel needs a lot of shorts
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Welcome back Dr Brant
Welcome back.
Thanks!
Good stuff. In Hebrews 13 we are exhorted to offer sacrifices of praise, good deeds, etc. Gary Anderson’s classic title Charity describes our sacrifices of alms, charity and mercy for the heavenly treasury. I love Cyprian’s sermon to offer alms to the poor as sacrifices on human altars.
Your videos are spiritually enriching. Please help me make sense of the documentary hypothesis, perhaps an educational video?
Dr. Pitre! We realize from sacred scripture, that God used the number 40 to designate a period of purification and sanctification. 40 days and forty nights during Noah’s flood, forty years the children of Israel wandered in the desert and finally 40 years, from the death of Jesus Christ and the destruction of Jerusalem. God basically used 40 years or one generation for the Jews to convert to Christianity.
The question is, if God gave the nation of Israel 40 years or roughly one generation to convert, how long would he give the rest of the world?
An estimation of the population of Israel at the time of Jesus was approximately 1/70 of that of the world.
Therefore, 40 years, times 70 would be 2,800 years.
Is God giving us 70 generations or 2,800 years, to convert? Is He using 40 years as an equivalent of 1 year?
Psalm 90:10 gives us 70 years as the fullness of life.
But would God have left a clue to that theory?
Dr. I think He did. He left a clue that only could have been realized after 1948.
Leviticus 25, the year of Jubilee.
The restoration of Israel to its ancestral home coincided with the 49th generation of 40 years.
God is God and He could bring the world to an end anytime, but is He allowing us 70 generations of 40 years or 2,800.
He didn’t give us the exact time but He may have given us a window.
Dr Pitre please look into it.
It’s in your line of thinking. Am your student!!!
Hari, pari, propeta - which is weird because I’m neither a priest nor a king
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What day of mass readings is this talk about? It doesn't seem to be about this past Sunday's, Aug 13, 2023?
(1) Why isn't this teaching taught by Clergy? Never before heard it. (2) Where is this teaching elsewhere in Magisterium (older Catechisms, Church Fathers, Doctors, Theologians, etc.)? Thanks. Pax Christi in regno Christi
Sadly the clergy wont teach this for what reason I have no clue but I learn more from Dr Brant than anyone else. I have learned so much from CP & Dr Brant.
I know it's in the catechism where the Church is described as in a pilgrimage (675 and on comes to mind) and it's all over the Fathers, I don't remember the specifics
Dr Pitre, you keep zigzagging between the CCC and the NT as your authority. Where in the NT is there any mention of or basis for a ‘ministerial priesthood’? Where does it say only presbyters are to celebrate the mass/consecrate the Bread and Wine?
I have enjoyed your videos even though I’m not Catholic. I see you are a serious student of Scripture. Have you considered that the church has been added to Israel and not replaced them? Grafted in. Even though God has created a new and better covenant does not mean he has done away with the old.
God bless! The end of the Old Covenant, the end of the Law, is Jesus Christ. Through his death, and through baptism, those who were under the Law are no longer bound to the Law. This is spoken of in Paul’s letter to the Romans.
Romans 7:1-4 (NABRE): “1 Are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives? 2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband. 3 Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man.
4 In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.”
In Jeremiah God said he would make a new Covenant and that's in the OT so why would the old be in place still?
@@Plastikk2000 Consider God’s character, if God made a promise would he ever stop fulfilling that promise or change the conditions of it? Think of the marriage covenant, of how infidelity is likened unto idolatry. Would God ever divorce his wife and get a new wife?
@@jtadlock2698 It is true that God chose Israel as His people who would bring about the savior of the world. Once Christ came, the promise of God's chosen expanded beyond the boundaries of what Israel was. As Dr. Pitre stated, the Church became the new Israel. The prefigured twelve tribes are represented by the twelve apostles, the new "tribal leaders."
If Old Israel had accepted Jesus as The Christ…but it did not and still does not.
Is the old covenant still in effect?
If God makes a covenant, would it ever cease to exist?
Hebrews 8:13: “In his saying ‘a new covenant,’ he has made the former one OBSOLETE. Now that which is made obsolete and growing old is near to vanishing away.”
@@SDJ992-q9t I know that is what your Bible translation says, but the basic definition of that word “obsolete” is also “old.” That old covenant was made to Israel. Jesus came for the lost sheep of Israel. Just because something is old does not means it ceases to exist. The old is near to vanishing because the new covenant is what the majority of people are taking hold of. The new is what God sent out to all nations.
Copied from my other reply: Consider God’s character, if God made a promise would he ever stop fulfilling that promise or change the conditions of it? Think of the marriage covenant, of how infidelity is likened unto idolatry. Would God ever divorce his wife and get a new wife?
Apostolic endeavors? What is that?
So then women can become Pastors? (Not Priests)
I want to flip it and say that the people of God are the Church, IOW extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. I think that was the kid's point.
guilty as charged i never read encyclicals.
Yeah first comment 😄
Your ministry of The Word may have a profound effect far beyond your responses. Please keep casting the net?