Scripture and Tradition with Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ

the time we were one of the first callers one of the first to go through with this like in the first ten maybe and my son was born perfectly healthy and he is eight almost nine years old now what an empowering beautiful story and just to close out what do you say to companies organizations and pro-abortion advocates who claim abortion pill reversal is not based on science and does not meet clinical standards right i think that we have to trust women and if they trust women so much to make the choice to have the abortion they should be able to trust women enough to make the decision to reverse it and of course progesterone has been used for decades it's been used to sustain pregnancies that have a tendency to miscarry for women who have serial miscarriages and so we know progesterone is safe and it's perfectly safe to be used in this way rebecca hagan mission advancement officer for heartbeat international thank you absolutely that does it for this edition of ewtn pro-life weekly i'm 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item number 41303 [Music] ewtn live truth live catholic [Music] [Music] do [Music] welcome to scripture and tradition i'm father mitch pacquiao this is a program where we talk about sacred scripture and do so in light of the tradition now we would love to have you be part of the show by adding your questions and comments during the live program which is at 2 p.m eastern time you can call in at 1-800-221-9460 1-800-222 if you are not in north america that number will not work so you can call country code 1 area code 205 271-2980-1-205-271-2980 also you can send us your questions and comments via email by writing to scripture and tradition at ewtn.com or if you know how to do all this stuff you can follow us and parse participate with the show on facebook and on youtube today we're moving closer to the end of our series on listening to god and discerning his will the book is still available it's called how to listen when god is speaking a guide for modern day catholics that's available at ewtnrc.com where it is item number 1830 but in the next couple weeks we'll be starting a new book and topic that is trying to take these principles we've been discussing and apply them very concretely to the gospels this series will be based on a book that would i did about the life of christ it's actually a couple of books i did where i take various events in the life of christ and develop some meditations our goal will be able to help all of us spend more time on specific events in the life of christ so that we can get to know him better the top priority is that by listening to the gospels and coming to know christ in the gospels you can improve your relationship with jesus you can allow it to grow deeper and develop more so for that new series we have one of two books that we'll be using one of them is going to be called praying the gospels jesus launches his public ministry now this book is available also at catalog which is ewtnrc.com it is item number 52687 item 52687 praying the gospels jesus launches his mission i hope that it's a helpful guide and remember that if you miss some episode of scripture and tradition our shows are available online you can either go to ewtn.com or our youtube channel which is youtube.com slash ewtn youtube.com slash ewtn and you can watch it whenever it's convenient for you and see if that helps you with your prayer over these passages from the gospel all right well let's get back to what we're discussing in how to listen we're in the last chapter and we are dealing with a section about integrating a wide variety of elements into our prayer talked about how important it is to keep a balance of everything christ has done you don't focus on the birth of christ to the exclusion of the crucifixion you don't focus on the crucifixion to the exclusion of the resurrection and so on that's one element that's a that is a catholic approach that you don't say all i need is this and it is only this that's not the way the gospel is that the gospels are so rich why would you want to exclude things from the truth of the gospel by saying i just need this all by itself i need this alone is enough no that's not correct okay so now i'd like to further deal with this because one of the components that we need to integrate is human intellect human intellect this is a very important thing i was critical last time of some scholars and you know i think that that's sometimes deserved but i'll explain why i think that criticism is deserved by going first to the positive aspect of intellect that first of all sacred scripture the bible itself attributes great importance to the role of our human intellect intellect the ability to reason and think is one of the qualities that sets us apart from the other animals they can be taught a lot of good things and they can learn a lot of cool tricks and they have a lot of wonderful instincts but they act by instinct not by reason we can think through basic principles in a way that never would be the case for any animal so as a matter of fact somebody had once said that if you set a monkey to a typewriter he would eventually be able to type out all of shakespeare well somebody let a monkey try that and but based on as much as was done by that monkey after quite a number of hours they figured it would take a few trillion years before the monkey could type out shakespeare it's not going to happen and then it would be an accident not something on purpose so this is a very important element and the scripture especially puts the role of the human mind in terms of wisdom not just knowledge you can accumulate lots of knowledge but you also need wisdom which is the mind's ability to make sense out of a wide variety of experiences you see how things come together now where does the bible promote this well very clearly in the wisdom books there's a whole class of books in the bible that are oriented towards wisdom the book of proverbs is a wisdom book the book of ecclesiastes in hebrew known as kohelet the book of sirach is another book of great wisdom um some of the wisdom also has a bit of a of pessimism about it it's dealing with the shadowy sides of life as in the book of job and the book of ecclesiastes so proverbs sirach the wisdom of solomon those focus on the positive elements of wisdom but the negative aspects of life's difficult moments are also found in the wisdom books as with job and ecclesiastes or all of them want to say attain wisdom through a wide variety of life's experiences and then there are also a number of psalms in the book of psalms that commend wisdom very highly like psalm 100 and 19 is the longest psalm in the whole psalter and it's all dedicated to wisdom and psalm 1 and a few other psalms are wisdom psalms plus when you look at the historical narratives of the bible you see a number of people like solomon are portrayed with demonstrating wisdom sometimes the prophets especially amos demonstrates the use of wisdom even wisdom forms of speech wisdom is in hebrew is a feminine noun because in semitic languages like hebrew all abstract nouns are feminine so they portray wisdom as a lady they personified as a woman a beautiful woman but they also personify folly that is you know being a fool as a woman because folly is also a feminine abstract noun and this is a way to portray wisdom as very attractive and folly as unattractive and lady wisdom addresses the students in the book of proverbs in particular and invites them to forsake folly give up being a fool and follow wisdom this is a good thing stop being a simpleton and stop being a fool these are very good admonitions and you see various promises are laid out now something about the wisdom that is set forth in the book of proverbs and some of the instructions if you look at the first nine chapters of the book of proverbs it's not proverbs that you see there the little instructions to us to the students exhorting them to be wise and not to be foolish or immoral and immorality is folly what the wisdom books try to do is show that if you do immoral actions that which goes against god's commandment you will suffer the consequences because breaking the commandments makes you stupid that's all there is to it and this is something that ask most of the people who go to prison most of them will tell you they were dumb and they got caught eventually not the first time they did something wrong but eventually now in the proverbs they are very short two line statements and that's a different kind of speech they don't tell you what to do they just say this is the way life is and they put in very succinct forms in hebrew oftentimes it's just six or seven words maybe eight sometimes usually six or seven and they can just be very very short the topics that the books of wisdom cover apply to all areas of life respect for your parents training your children well how to deal with wealth how to deal with political powers not that they're against wealth or power but don't be a fool when it comes to wealth and political power there's a lot about hard work and as well as honesty and business also the relationships between husbands and wives is a very important part of dealing with it and these are just among some of the issues that are laziness is a great great thing that they deal with and when you get to some books the book of sirach is a bit later it was written around 196 bc and in sirec they treat those same topics but also in a new way they treat friendship it's got some of the best passages on how to be a good friend what to expect from friendship it all sirac also has a section on the wisdom of the various professions you find in life including the only treatment in the old testament on being a medical doctor so you have a lot of things like that and when you see a proverb you see again that it just makes a statement like in proverbs chapter 10 verse 2. it makes a statement treasures gained by wickedness do not profit but righteousness delivers from death it's not telling you to do anything is it it's stating a principle of life that if you get rich by being a wicked person it will ultimately consume you it will destroy you it won't profit ultimately you may think it will but it undoes you ask some of the drug lords who have become multi-billionaires but then end up in prison you know this is the way that it goes this is what scripture is saying it won't profit but if you do that which is righteous it'll deliver you from death now sometimes being righteous gets you into trouble lots of people get cancelled on the internet because they say morally good and true things that happens but ultimately by maintaining that righteousness you eventually will get through it and even if you are martyred your martyrdom gives you eternal life and usually the people who marty you are the ones forgotten and the martyrs are the ones remembered by humans but most importantly remembered by god and this is something that when we take a look at these proverbs we have to then ask ourselves um you know what do i do how do i best respond with wisdom to these various statements and that means you have to think about them you have to reflect on the experience of people around you i wrote a book that on the book of proverbs and everyday living you know that you can get also from ewtn.com just going through these proverbs and seeing some of the wisdom and reflecting on what that means and this use of human thinking human reason and observation of experience is how you can gain insight through the proverbs this idea that you can use your mind to gain wisdom permeates all the wisdom literature but you need to think and reflect this is a good thing and the bible is not against thinking it wants us to think but here's another aspect we also see in the wisdom in proverbs chapter 1 verse 7 there's a very important verse it says the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge fools despise wisdom and instruction so this fear of the lord is the beginning wisdom is it the ultimate end no ultimately it's love but fear is the beginning of wisdom and this principle is stated elsewhere in proverbs chapter 9 verse 10. you see it also in uh psalm 111 verse 10 and job 28 verse 28 and in the book of ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 13 and many times in the book of sirach this is a commonly stated principle wisdom begins with fear of the lord what is that talking about it is helping us understand that wisdom begins with faith whether you're whether you are using faith in science which is an act of faith or you are using faith in god another act of faith hopefully the two go together but you want to have a commitment to faith as the start of wisdom and then your mind can build upon your act of faith now we're going to take a break and we'll come back and talk more about what does that mean to say that you start with faith but then you build on faith to gain wisdom so please stay with us we'll be right back [Music] many of 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most of the gospel based on scholarship but here's the thing that was important about it they started off with an act of faith that jesus cannot do miracles he does not do miracles today and he cannot do them in the future and he never really did him in his own time if he doesn't do them today he didn't do them back then that's their act of faith and once you start with that act of faith that jesus doesn't do miracles then you will say well therefore the miracle stories were all made up they were all lies and of course that means the resurrection is false see in other words however you start off your basic act of faith and whatever principles you make an act of faith in those principles lead you to logical conclusions you will use your mind to think logically if you begin though with believing in what god has said and accept in faith what he says then there's another logic that develops because you are using the principles of faith you're using your reason to base your ideas on faith i cannot emphasize what a difference it is these scholars did not prove that jesus did not rise from the dead as many of them claimed to do they started off with a principle from a philosopher named martin heidegger who taught that the authentic faith only comes when you face death to believe in the resurrection gives you a way out of death therefore faith in the resurrection of jesus is not authentic faith you see how that starts off with the principle that authentic faith faces death and if it takes you out of death it can't be authentic that was his basic act of faith and that affected all kinds of modern scholars in the 20th century like rudolph bolton and others whose books were taught in many many protestant seminaries and some of them were also taught in catholic seminary so the church had prohibited them officially many times they were used anyway and it was a different act of faith an existentialist act of faith not a christian one so you have a starting point that is an act of faith even if you are an atheist an atheist cannot prove that god exists the more they can the most they can say is that i don't have evidence that god does exist and they therefore make an act of faith that there is no god and they think it's a good one they go from that point forward so these are acts of faith wanting to not believe in god or to believe in god and you have to take a look at the act of faith that makes the most sense out of life and and reflection and this is uh your starting point it's like the the building uh on you're building something on ground that's why our lord jesus said at the end of the sermon on the mount in matthew chapter 7 verse 24 to 27 everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock the rain fell the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock and everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand the rain fell the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell and great was its fault i know of a case of a house built on sand that fell the jesuits had bought an old apartment building and uh you know it was had a basement all this nobody realized that it had been built on the original b uh beach of lake michigan the beach today is a couple blocks to the east but after the chicago fire in 1871 they took all the rubble from the city put it in the lake as landfill covered it over and made a park then they built on the old beach and we bought a house that was built on that beach there were some construction guys next door who were pounding a pylon into the soil and the pounding shook the house for a couple of weeks and then because they're doing one pile and after another and finally one day the house collapsed because it was built on sand that is by the way the people who did that just happened to go out of business went bankrupt so they didn't pay for the house be that as it may this is a good example of what it is like to build on sand and when you take a look at some of the acts of faith even made recently in our country acts of faith apart from god that if you just take away the police and let people you know trust them to be good let their own innate goodness come out then they will act better when there are no police to curb them how's that working out in the cities that defunded the police and reduced the sizes of the police forces check into look at their crime rates in those cities and see as an example that it was an act of faith that people would just act better if you took away the police and trusted them and that act of faith was like that house built on sand it is collapsing whereas an act of faith in god also includes an act of faith and a commitment to his commandments and you build upon the things that he has revealed about himself including his moral law and you can build solidly on that you take a look at the sermon on the mount you can build on that and this is a very basic principle that the mind has a very important function of building upon your act of faith you make your act of faith first and i hope you make it in the good god but if you do then you use your mind to build on that using the principles god has revealed so you start with faith and you build on it and develop your ability to listen to god better and better you use various principles um you know one of them is this is the most important principle that's the basis of all logic it's called the principle of non-contradiction what does that principle mean it means that you cannot say this is a computer and at the same time it is not a computer you're contradicting yourself you cannot say that i am a man and at the same time say i am not a man on one or the other you cannot logically contradict yourself now people are rejecting that principle today that's one of the reasons that you have people who don't like god's commandments until they get robbed all of a sudden it's a good idea but if other people are being robbed then you know it's it's negotiable no you can't contradict yourself either thou shalt not steal applies to everyone or it doesn't you can't contradict yourself and you use from that first principle develops the rest of your logic that's what's key here so you start to use syllogisms a syllogism is a very simple statement where you say as an example all dogs are mammals then as a a minor premise you can say well my pet fido is a dog and therefore you can conclude that my pet fido is a mammal if all dogs are mammals and phyto is a dog then phyto is a mammal that's a logical conclusion and you know they get more complicated than that and you have to study logic which again pay attention to those people in our schools in particular who are against studying logic they try to forbid it they are canceling aristotle because he wrote the logic the the book on some of the most basic logical principles and this is something that is rejected because they don't want you to think about their principles they want you to make an act of faith in whatever they say even when they contradict themselves they want you to keep making an act of faith in them no matter what they say it becomes in their minds a game of simon says and they are simon that is not the way you build your faith you build your faith on god and on fear of the lord and fear to displease him fear to go against his will and you begin to build on that and move towards loving god as his will makes more and more sense and his commandments make more and more sense you move toward a love of god and this is a great gift it even makes possible arguments because you can base arguments on the same principles of logic you can have conversation because you agree on first principles including the use of reason and thought this is a great task for us and if we are going to move forward in listening to god we have to again start off with faith in him but use the gift of logic that god has given our minds and not the minds of other animals in order to build up what it means to that we have to do in listening to god this would be a very important uh set of tools well we'll we'll stop there next week we'll continue discussing those issues but i want to get to some of your questions and comments so let's do that now we'll start off with judy judy where are you i'm from lewisburg west virginia well you're something good to have you on the show thank you thank you thank you for having me yes ma'am so what's your question okay my question is this uh first of all i do believe in miracles but this question is sort of through me uh i saw a program saying that the home of the virgin mary had been moved to different locations to protect the home they said it was carried by angels would you please comment on this if there's been anything in church literature discussing this yes i can as a matter of fact this is something that's been researched the the blessed mother lived in nazareth and the people of nazareth lived in a number of caves some of which are natural some of which they carved a bit more they would start over the cave and carve into the limestone which is relatively soft and you can if you go to nazareth today you can see a number of those cave homes they when they built the new church back in the 1960s they found so many of our ladies neighbors homes you can even still see the smoke that that was the carbon from smoke and there's there's smoke stacks and things and lots of other items that were in their houses at the time of christ now in some of these caves like the one where our lady lived they would also put in front of the cave a part of a house so that the back of the house was into the cave but there would be a front because caves often times are wide open so they would add with stone an extension and by the way why did they live in caves so much because caves maintain the same temperature winter and summer but you can warm them up fairly easy in the winter so it was a good place to have people live and safe now it's that front part of the house that was made of stone that was moved the back of the cave is still in nazareth and i've offered mass in it any number of times so that the the just the natural rock is there the front part was moved now who moved it it came to italy and it is presently in the city of loretto in italy that's why you hear about our lady of loreto in fact the texas city of la redo is the spanish spelling of loretto so that's where that comes from now who moved it there well it was always said the angels but in the in that region the family who went on crusade was the family the anjali anji their last name was angels and what seems to be the case is that the angels were the angeli family who had gone on crusade to the holy land and they brought back the house all the stones they put them on ships and brought them to loretta which is on the adriatic sea and reassembled it just the way if you ever go to new york city and you see the cloisters museum there are a number of monasteries that were taken apart stone by stone in europe brought to new york and reassembled to form that museum by the rockefeller family and that's what the anjali family did so it's not the angels that you know are around the heavenly throne it was the crusaders of the anjali family and there are records of the angeli family in that area who had gone on the crusades they were the ones who brought it back but sometimes in oral tradition you have to be careful you don't want to make a miracle out of something that is a normal experience but you do want to understand what happened and that seems to be the case there okay all right let's take a break and we'll be back with more of your comments and questions so please stay with us [Music] hello family years ago i asked mother angelica what she thought the legacy of ewtn would be 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conversion of saint paul i was taken from being a persecutor to being a pro an evangelist of the gospel of christ and that's a big conversion and it's i was reflecting this morning as i was preaching over at saint elias church that you know there are about five times that saint paul descri or saint luke describes paul's conversion and that brings out how important conversion is and so it's good for us to reflect on our own experiences of conversion how we came to either start living the faith or to live it more seriously so it's a great feast for us all right i want to uh go over to um another email this one is from sammy it says dear father mitch a friend of mine recently suffered a miscarriage and a well-intentioned friend said to her that god didn't want that for her can it be that god truly doesn't want these sufferings for us but allows them for our sanctification and those around us sammy uh sammy um we have to be very very careful about how we interpret other people's suffering it's oftentimes difficult enough for them to understand it and it is espec i come across this a lot and certainly thought about in my own life there are a lot of times when i think it is a mistake to try and understand the meaning of suffering while it is going on or immediately after a terrible event overall i said you know we might say god why did you let this happen to me instead it's better for us to unders to take a look at the suffering and you know seek god in the midst of the suffering i find usually in the most serious kinds of difficulty and suffering it is reflection later on that helps us to understand it and that's a very important thing and we need to understand that in terms of our relationship with god in light of what he's done in our lives oftentimes these stories have to unfold before we can make sense give ourselves time before we interpret now in terms of your specific question it is true god's perfect will does not want people to suffer that would be his perfect will but his permissive will that is where he allows certain things to happen when you know the various decisions are made for a variety of reasons that contradict his perfect will but when we come that's a good principle to understand that he really wants everything good but he also permits evils and as archbishop sheen used to say that he may have had a certain symphony and sin or some other catastrophe is a sour note in the plan that god had but as we bring those sour notes to him our lord is capable of making new chords using those sour notes and changing them with a new chord into a new harmony that takes time so that would be my recommendation let's go over to susan susan where are you calling from i'm calling from evansville indiana nice to meet you it's nice to meet you too what can we do for you i was reading through genesis again fundament and i noticed that god created light but it doesn't say that god said let there be darkness so i wondered if darkness was always there or if it was the result of the creation of light and in the same way i noticed that god didn't say let there be waters he controls the waters he creates heaven and dry land and the waters were used in the flood and the disciples were afraid of the waters on the boat so i just wanted to hear your comments on that a couple yeah a couple of things hang on just so make sure uh we're with you here um you're right you know the vacuum of space was without light there was no light in the vacuum of space before the big bang theory before the big bang and the whole premise of that primary explosion which was according to this our physicist it was an explosion of pure light the whole universe was in a compact ball about the size somewhere between a baseball and a softball that's all the bigger it was but it was just pure light and then within seconds there was light everywhere and all the building blocks of the universe were present it's an amazing thing uh the big bang is a very important principle and so there was only darkness before that and then there was light but it also says that there's light and darkness now you're right he doesn't create the waters and this sense of water is you know i see this in one of my favorite uh arabic hymns that it says uh it's a good friday hymn it says today was hung upon the tree the one who hung the universe in space but the word that's used for space is the word meaning a word meaning water so that god had hung the world in the universe into space and this idea of the water is the ancient folks understanding of what we call outer space out they didn't have a word that would mean something like vacuum there's no word for that they had not experienced you know a vacuum maybe some relative ones but but no real vacuum and they had no idea that outer space is a relative vacuum it's not a pure vacuum by any means but it's a relative vacuum and this they thought of it as being more like water that's why it's not said to be created it is this pre-existing uh vacuum where there's nothingness but it's able to sustain the universe that's what they seem to mean by what and i still see it in this very wonderful um this hymn olika you can look it up if you're ever interested by uh phi rus does my favorite version of it um and it helps me to understand that kind of concept okay all right now let us go to an email from jack hello father mitch with all due respect how can you call the catholic church apostolic when in the inspired word the apostles never mentioned any of your mary isms like baptism of infants and no and never one example in the book of acts of confirmation well actually jack confirmation the term the latin word is not used but what you do have in acts of the apostles chapter 8 when the deacon philip baptizes the people of samaria he is not empowered to confer the holy spirit upon them he must call the apostles peter and john and they come and lay hand which is the action of confirmation and and they receive the holy spirit so there's a good example of receiving baptism first and then sometime later confirmation and so so it is an acts of the apostles and then um i don't know why you call baptism of infants ameriism uh it's just baptism of infants a good example of that would be in acts chapter 19 when we have this baptism of the jailer's household and the word used for household is the word that meant the parents and the children or kia not oikos they which would be the uh owner of the house and the slaves so in from baptism was practiced and there were some old women in the 140s who were baptized by the apostles as infants 70 years earlier the lord bless you all and keep you and causes face to shine upon you the father the son and holy spirit and we appreciate all the support you can give us by keeping us between the gas bill electric bill and cable bill so we can pay our bills too thank you and god bless [Music] from ewtn news nightly in washington d.c i'm tracy saber with an ewtn news link the stock market is volatile due to the ongoing pandemic and the possibility that russia will invade ukraine inflation is also a major concern to americans as they are seeing increases in consumer prices north korea launched two more missiles today this is the country's fifth round of weapon launches this month military officials say both south korea and the united states are analyzing the launches pope francis appoints the youngest bishop in the united states father joseph espion will be an auxiliary bishop for the archdiocese of new york once he is consecrated he is 45 years old and spreads god's message through his podcast and his youtube series sainthood in the city i'm tracy saba with ewtn newsnightly join us tonight [Music] you

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