The Church as teacher

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The Church as teacher

• Chapter 4 lesson 5
• pp. 125-129
• HW. P. 141 20, 23, 24, 25

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What is the magisterium?

• Ordinary and universal teaching authority of the
  Pope, and Bishops in communion with him, which
  guides the Church without error in matters of
  Faith and Morals by interpreting Sacred Scripture
  and Sacred Tradition.
• Read p. 134 Reading 2 and discuss.
• Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition together
  are known as the Deposit of Faith.
• The Magisterium does not reveal new truths,
  Revelation ended with the Apostles.

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The Deposit of Faith

• There is only one source of Revelation God
• The content of revelation is found in Sacred
  Tradition and Sacred Scripture.
• Sacred Tradition is the Word of God, received
  from Christ and passed on without error by the
  Church with the assistance of the Holy Spirit.
• Sacred Scripture is the Word of God written down
  under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

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Three stages of forming the Gospels

• The actual life and teaching of Jesus.
• Oral Tradition The apostles and their
  representatives continued to teach and baptize
  orally well before the New Testament books were
  written and brought together.
• Written Gospels Under the influence of the Holy
  Spirit the sacred authors selected from among the
  many things Christ said and did and committed
  them to writing.

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Infallibility and Indefectibility

• Infallibility The inability to teach error
• Pertains to Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture,
  the teaching of the Apostles and their successors
  on matters pertaining to Faith and Morals.
• We are expected to hold fast to these teachings
  with obedience of faith.
• Indefectibility The Church will always teach the
  Gospel of Christ without error even in spite of
  the defects of her members, both ordained and lay.

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Doesnt Tradition Change?

• Wasnt Marys Immaculate Conception defined in
  1854?
• Wasnt her assumption not made a dogma until
  1950?
• No and No.
• The concepts were always there. The Pope spoke
  infallibly and used the terms in those years to
  define what was always a truth.