Catechism

And we'll see that in chapter 7 as we move through Luke in the coming days.

So normally at this point we have a look at the Catechism to see how the Catholic Church understands this passage and what it can teach us about the Catholic faith.

There's actually no references to it here, interestingly, although it is a very rich source for moral teaching.

A lot of Luke's version of the Sermon doesn't get referenced in the Catechism.

On the other hand, Matthew's version of the Sermon on the Mount gets a lot of references in the Catechism.

So we'll finish it there for today.

If you've learned something new and you believe there's others who would benefit from the kind of emphasis that we have in this podcast, then please share it with them.

She herself withdrew among the bons and the other mamans to the back row to share with them the instruction of the children.

This consisted, as Marie soon discovered, of learning by heart some of the Gospels and Epistles, the daily prayers and the doctrine of the Church, which is called the Catechism.

The teacher explained the meaning of the lesson and talked over the new assignment.

Now and then, the curate of the church would come in to see how the young priest was succeeding with his pupils.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

In the 16th century, the Council of Trent, in its Catechism, formally recommended this entire prayer as we have it today to the faithful.

It's also providential to note that the date of September 12th falls shortly after we celebrate the feast of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on September 8th.

When the Romans ruled Palestine, it was customary that newborn daughters were given their names at birth or shortly afterwards.

Welcome to the Forgotten Way and our Friday Faith Formation class.

We wanted to go through the Catechism so that we could bring our family and yours some of the details of the doctrine of our faith so that we may say, I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible, in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, the only begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages, light of light, true God from true God, begotten not made of one essence with the Father by whom all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man.

and was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried.

I, I'm sorry, it just is.

But, I mean, to pick up on something that, uh, that you said, Anne, about the Catechism, it is true that mo- the modern Catholic Church is very skeptical of all of this, but in the past it was not.

Mm.

And if you read Tom Holland's book, uh, Millennium, he makes the point that up until the year 1000, the church was basically in prepping mode.

He says, catechize your kids.

What is catechize? What is that verb? He acknowledges that catechisms can sound daunting or outdated, but then he says, enduring practices endure because they work.

For someone who has never used a catechism with their kids before, Christopher says, Explain to that person what exactly is a catechism and why can it be such a helpful tool?

Sure.

A catechism is an ancient question and answer method of teaching basic doctrine.

So some famous catechisms that you may or may not have heard of would be the Westminster Shorter Catechism and the Heidelberg Catechism.

Luther and Calvin also both used this method.

Of course, it's been used by the Catholic Church as well.

Cum prio elegio ad impremendum solum, anno domini, 1551. this prayer-book is exceedingly rare the british museum possesses no copy but has to content itself with photographs showing the title colophon etc of that in the library of trinity college dublin emmanuel college cambridge has one which formerly belonged to archbishop sandcroft cotton in his typographical gazetteer says that powell's prayer-book is most creditable to the early irish press it is in the english language and printed in black letter the first book printed in the gaelic language though in roman type has already been spoken of the first gaelic type was exhibited to the world in a tiny volume of fifty-four pages printed at dublin in fifteen seventy one and entitled irish alphabet and catechism this was compiled by john o'kearney and contained the elements of the irish language the catechism some prayers and archbishop parker's articles of the christian rule the following is a facsimile of the title-page to which a translation is added irish alphabet and catechism precept or instruction of a christian together with certain articles of the christian rule which are proper for every one to adopt who would be submissive to the ordinance of god and of the queen in this kingdom translated from latin and english into irish by john o'kearney awake why sleepest thou o lord arise cast us not off for ever psalm forty four verse twenty three printed an irish in the town of the ford of the hurdles at the cost of master john usher alderman at the head of the bridge the twentieth day of june fifteen seventy one with the privilege of the great queen fifteen seventy one this book was produced by john o'kearney sometime treasurer of st patrick's cathedral and his friend nicholas walsh chancellor of st patrick's and afterwards bishop of ossory and the john usher who defrayed the expense was then collector of customs of the port of dublin its appearance was considered a momentous event by those concerned with it for great benefits were anticipated for the irish people as soon as their national tongue and its own dear alphabet were reduced to print as o'kearney states at some length in the preface he also tells us that the types from which this volume was printed were provided at the cost of the high pious great and mighty prince elizabeth in this connection it is worth while to notice two extant records one among the state papers irish series and the other among the acts of the privy council from the first made some time in december we gather that queen elizabeth had already paid sixty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence for the making of characters for the testament in irish and that this testament was not yet in the press the second august fifteen eighty seven states that the new testament was translated into irish by walsh and o'kearney but never imprinted partly for want of proper characters and men of that nation and language skillful in the mystery of printing and partly on account of the cost i can find no other record of the provision of a font of irish types at the queen's expense and having no more definite information at hand on this point and taking into consideration the contents of the book an irish alphabet and directions for reading irish and a catechism etc by way of exercise its diminutive size and the imperfection of its print i venture the suggestion that o'kearney's work was printed as a trial of the new types given by the queen and intended for printing the new testament this view is supported by the first words of the preface here o reader you have the first value and fruit of that great instructive work which i have been producing and devising for you for a long time that is the faithful and perfect type of the gaelic tongue the conclusion seems to be that the types were inadequate for the larger work and that for some reason there was a difficulty about supplying more or finding any one to undertake the printing the preface further says after requesting corrections and amendments as regards the typography and it is not alone that i am asking you to give this kind friendly correction to the printing but also to the translation or rendering made of this catechism put forth as far back as fifteen sixty three of the age of the lord and which is now more correct and complete with the principal articles of the christian faith associated therewith this has led some to think that there was an earlier edition of the alphabet and catechism but it seems plain that o'kearney refers to the catechism only not to the whole book, and equally plain that the 1563 work, whatever it was, was not printed in Irish type, for there would have been no special occasion to glorify the 1571 alphabet and catechism.

Since nothing is known of the catechism of 1563, it is very possible that it existed only in manuscript and never went to press.

I have gone into this matter of the Irish Alphabet and Catechism of 1571 somewhat at length because I am not aware that it has ever yet received detailed attention.

The quotations I have given from the preface are from an anonymous manuscript translation inserted in the British Museum copy.

o'kearney's irish alphabet and catechism is so rare that only three copies are known to exist one being in the british museum one in the bodleian library and one in the library of lincoln cathedral the font of types from which it was printed was not quite correct for instance the small roman a is used and an h is introduced a letter foreign to the gaelic alphabet during the seventeenth century and even later most of the irish books were sent to be printed on the continent or in england several books by irish authors chiefly catechisms works on the language and dictionaries bear the names of louvain antwerp rome or paris such as the Catechism of Bonaventure Hussey, printed at Louvain in 1608 and reprinted in Antwerp in 1611 and 1618.

End of Chapter 13 End of Section 7 section eight chapters fourteen and fifteen an author's postscript of the story of books by gertrude burford rawlings recording by adam marcetich august two thousand ten chapter fourteen book bindings a book as we know it is usually contained in a case or cover intended primarily for its protection the fastening together of the different sections of the book and the providing it with a cover and incidentally the decoration of that cover come under the head of book binding or bibliopegy as the learned call it the process of binding consists of two parts first the arrangement of the leaves and sections in proper order their preparation for sewing by beading or pressing the stitching of them together and the fastening of them into the cover this is called forwarding the other half of the work is the lettering and decoration of the cover and is called finishing with the decoration of the cover only can we concern ourselves here The art of binding books is far older than the art of printing.

The first known attempt to provide a cover by way of protection for a document was made by the workmen who devised a clay case for the clay tablet books of Babylonia.

And I gave you guys homework.

For those who missed it, it's going to your Catechism of your Catholic Church, paragraph 328, 329, all the way to 337.

So I would encourage you to still do that because it's important to have a great devotion to your guardian angel.

As I always say, the unemployment rate is way too high.