New American Bible and Douay-Rheims comparison - An eye opening video series

Thanks for these links Carol.

This is precisely why the Protestant idea that anyone can pick up a Bible and interpret it correctly for themselves is so flawed. That is why there are 30,000+ Protestant denominations. It is essential to have an authorized body (The Church) given the task of researching and disseminating the proper teachings to the faithful. One unified understanding is what makes Catholicism different from all of the other heretical and schismatic branches of Christianity. That is why it is so important that those in power now who are attacking this unity of teaching not be allowed to succeed.

 

Another thing to consider regarding Isaiah and Babylon is that not only was the King of Babylon a King after Satan and Lucifer but the system of Government that the people took part in itself was and is represented as a Beast. It was the first representation of this in fact. Much like what we see in the US with lefists and their one world government plans and in the EU with their blatant symbolism everywhere of the tower of Babel and one united Europa propaganda.

 

Thanks Don. I have Douay Rhein’s on my E reader. I must switch my scripture reading.

 

Excellent Don. Thankyou for this. Very clear.

 

The DR bible is my choice bible along with its Douay - Rheims Version textual concordance. It is the only bible that has a literal translation from the Latin Vulgate. Genesis 3:15 is but one very important passage that has Mary crushing Satan's head: [15] I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

 

A great online source for the DR + Latin Vulgate is

http://drbo.org/drl/index.htm

At the top of the page are some links to choose whether to display only the DR or the DR + LV together for study purposes. There are also some great articles, videos, and MP3's further down the page.

 

I have not been able to figure out who the commentator is Carol. It looks like the YT channel was created as a walk through of the book by Saint John of the Cross; Ascent of Mount Carmel originally and then took off from there discussing various topics. There are several playlists on various topics which DM mentioned. I am watching the series now on the Smoke of Satan which has been very informative. His first name is Kirk and that is all I have gathered. I don't use FB so I can't really dig around there too much but it too looks to be the same Ascent of Mount Caramel page also.

 

Don, If his first name is Kirk I saw the name Kirk Hansen associated with something linked on the video but I couldn't find anything to confirm that is the name of the commentator and I couldn't find any additional information about him at all. I thought that you or DM might have more information about him, thanks anyway.

 

Waiting,

The differences in Genesis 3:15 are caused, in part, by linguistic constraints. The DR is an English translation of St. Jerome's Vulgate. The Vulgate was a translation from the original languages into Latin, done at the request of the Pope. Thus the footnote in my 1961 Douay Version:

ver.15 She shall crush. So divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum. viz., the seed. It is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the head of the serpent.

Here is another explanation by Jimmy Akin:

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/who-will-crush-the-serpents-head

Safe Under Mary's Mantle!

 

Don_D,
Did you know, Protestants are hearing about Mary in prophecy? There is a famous Protestant prophet, Kim Clement. God speaks of Queen Esther to Kim but because of ant-Marianism is actually referring to the Blessed Mother. See the last couple paragraphs of the message given on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25th, 2011 in Nashville, TN. Check Kim’s prophecy database for the message: https://www.houseofdestiny.org/prophecy/

“I have crowned her,' says the Lord, 'as I crowned Esther.“ and the prophetic, “And God says, 'they will say 'we hated her, but now we love her.” One other Catholic revealing, wow, the first sentence of the message:

“The Spirit of God says, 'There is going to be a constant praise going on and it's going to begin to erupt, and all over the world I shall restore the Tabernacle of David, where there shall be constant praise in the house of the Living God.”

 

I was reading through my most recent delivery of The Catholic Inquisitor and came across an article by Kirk Hansen of the YT Ascent of Mount Carmel channel titled Detachment from the Desire for all Things. I thought I would post his article here for others. Catholic Inquisitor is a very traditional catholic paper that was started last year.

https://inquisitorpress.com

Detachment from the Desire for All Things By: Kirk Hansen

Most of us are unlikely to blaze new territory in the realm of mystical theology. On the other hand, at least some of us have experienced something that didn’t seem to come from a natural source. St. John of the Cross is an extraordinary resource for answers for those of us who have had some unexplainable moments in our lives, whether or not they came from God. However, if we are reading Ascent of Mount Carmel with the expectation that we’ll find shortcuts for having visions and those sorts of things, we’ll be sorely disappointed. There aren’t any shortcuts in the book. Though St. John talks about visions and provides explanations, he offers us an alternative path – the straight path, without the dead end of wishing for spiritual favors or gifts.

As St. John explains, true spiritual progress requires total commitment and self-denial. Once a person concludes that there truly and certainly is a God, that person will likely come to the realization that life is very fleeting, but eternity... well, it lasts forever. Once a person KNOWS that God is real, if he is sane, he will do everything he can to obtain God in some way. In the pursuit of God, there is no room for lukewarmness. Lukewarmness is opposed to faith. It is a numbness - a stupor of the soul. Lukewarmess is opposed to the sacred and the sublime. It is a state of inactivity that takes on an inertia. Once it sets in, our souls become slothful and difficult to awaken. If we truly desire to strengthen our relationship with God, we need to summon the commitment to do so. Desires for anything other than God should seem unimportant. In order to obtain God, our care ought to be directed inward. We can choose to either master our desires for the outward things – the things of our senses - or let ourselves become slaves to our misdirected desires. Self-denial is the greatest safeguard of purity and holiness.

The book, Ascent of Mount Carmel, is divided into three (sub)books. Book One consists of the first 15 chapters and describes the “dark night of the senses.” St. John tells us that this part of the dark night is nothing but the absence of light coming from worldly sources. It is dark, because we are darkening ourselves to the neon lights and desires of the outside world, where there is a perpetual sickly glow of ambient light. Not enough to truly guide us, but enough to blind our senses to what may be around us in the dark. The worldly night also blinds us to the self-evident splendor of God's work that is spread across the night sky. When we enter this night, we don’t really see or notice worldly objects because we are unoccupied and in darkness; cut off from worldly illumination. Our goal is to illuminate the darkness with light from another source – which is God. Far away from the edifices of man, this beauty will bathe us in a natural light and is breathtaking to behold.

In the first book, St. John describes the sort of self-denial that is necessary to achieve the necessary purity for us to advance. He tells us that “this first night pertains to beginners, occurring at the time when God begins to bring souls into the state of contemplation.”

St. Thomas Aquinas tells us that the state of contemplation is impossible for a man who does not hold a tight rein on his desires for self-indulgence. St. Thomas explains that the subjection of the body is eminently beneficial to the memory and is conducive to keenness of intellect, strength of will, and character development.

Contemplation in turn may lead to being united to the wisdom of God. Some writers call this wisdom knowledge of God, or cardiognosis(knowledge of the heart).

In the first chapter of Ascent of Mount Carmel, St. John describes the level of detachment that is necessary for advancement. It is “the privation and purgation of ALL sensual desires, with respect to all outward things of the world and to those which were delectable to its flesh, and likewise with respect to the desires of its will.”

When St. John refers to sensual desires, he isn’t only referring to sexual desires. He’s referring to anything related to the five senses. ALL sensual desires may seem like a high benchmark to reach. It may seem even harder for laypeople who want to provide their families with comforts. (Please note that though we may want to practice self-denial, we can’t force the rest of our family members to go on the same journey. Self-denial must be voluntary.)

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If all this sounds daunting, we should remember that all things are possible with God. We can still fulfill our responsibilities to our families and give them certain material things without our being attached to the material things that are an impediment to our connection to God. Attachments to things that are less than God essentially violate the First Commandment - "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me." There is a difference between having/partaking in something and being attached to it. A person has a natural need for sleep. However, if the person becomes fixated and attached to sleep, the person becomes slothful. However, we need to jettison our unnatural attachments. Every man can do so. We can succeed through prayer and the actual grace of God.

St. John tells us, “No man by himself can succeed in voiding himself of all his desires in order to come to God.

Most likely, the process of detaching oneself from worldly desires will need to be done gradually. It is easier to remove one attachment at a time. If we overwhelm ourselves, we risk frustrating ourselves and giving up – especially when we are beginners. How do we know when we have an attachment to something? It isn’t practical to try to give up everything in our lives. For instance, it’s not desirable for a child to resolve to give up his homework. However, if we give something up and we miss it badly, that thing was an attachment. If we give something up and didn’t miss it at all, it probably wasn’t much of an attachment in the first place.

When the soul deprives itself of the pleasure of its desire in all things of the senses, it remains unoccupied with worldly matters and in darkness. Being unoccupied is important because when we are unoccupied and in silence, it is then that God will more likely communicate to our souls in subtle ways and gently impart knowledge. We must not allow our senses cluttered up with sounds (such as the radio) and sights (such as television), so that we can allow God to communicate to us in very subtle ways. We can’t “hear” God when we aren’t in silence.

St. John tells us, “The soul that has denied and thrust away from itself the pleasures which come from all these things (of the senses), and has mortified its desire with respect to them, may be said to be in the darkness of night, which is nothing else but an emptiness within itself of all (worldly) things.”

Desires for worldly things may decrease, seemingly on their own, as we shift time and our focus on God. The attachments will seem less important than they did earlier. Other desires may hound us like an addiction when we try to cut it off. However, this second kind will also decrease in time.

St. John explains, “When God creates the soul, it is like a smooth, blank board upon which nothing is painted. Except for what it experiences through the senses, nothing is communicated to it in the course of nature from any other source... It is like one who is in a dark prison and who knows nothing, except what he is able to see through the windows of the prison; and if he saw nothing through the windows, he would see nothing in any other way. Thus, except for what is communicated to the soul through the senses, which are the windows of its prison, it can acquire nothing in any other way, in the course of nature.”

“...If the soul rejects and denies what it receives through the senses, it remains in darkness and empty; since in the course of nature, no light can enter it by any means of (natural) illumination. For although it is true that the soul cannot help hearing and seeing and smelling and tasting and touching, this is of no great importance. If the soul denies and rejects the object, it is not hindered any more than if it had never saw it, heard it, etc.”

A man who DESIRES to shut his eyes will remain in darkness. He will be like a blind man, even though he still has the faculty of sight. What is more important than purging ourselves of attachments, is to purge ourselves of THE DESIRES for those attachments.

St. John tells us that this is demonstrated in Psalms when King David said: “I am poor, and in labors from my youth” - Psalm 87:16 St. John explains, “He (King David) calls himself poor, although it is clear that he was rich. But because his will was not set upon riches, it was as though he was really poor.” King David may just as well have been poor because he was not consumed by any desire for wealth.

On the other hand, a poor man who has no material goods isn’t necessarily detached from material things, because that poor man might spend his entire day thinking about the material things that he desires. It is possible to have material things, but it is extremely important to not have any attachment to them. St. John tells us, “It is not the things of this world that either occupy the soul or cause it harm, since they do not enter the soul, but what is harmful is the will and desire for them, because it is these things that dwell within the soul.”

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