I have noticed that during the Sanctus prayer at mass, there will be a few Catholics (typically those that I would identify as being more “trad”) make the sign of the cross when “Benedictus” is sung. Is this supposed to be done (like when the priest says “have mercy on us” after the confiteor), o...
The existence of Holy Scripture not contained in the present-day Bible editions can hardly be debated against, since there are numerous references to Scriptures we do not have within the Scriptures that we do have. It is understood that this may be partly a question of what qualifies as canon, or...
The more I study scripture the more I realise that all those proof texts for the deity of Christ can also be interpreted in another way that points more in the direction that Jesus is an Elohim but not YHWH. John's gospel for example makes it very clear that when Jews accused Jesus of making him...
We hear Jesus saying in Lk 4:18:
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
< We see a number of chosen persons in OT getting anointed for specific purposes for instance, Aaron in Exodus and David in 1 Samuel. There was a prescribed procedur...
