Deposit of faith

So what is it? What is private revelation? So public versus private revelation.

Public revelation is the deposit of faith.

You know, the depositum fidei.

You find that word in the catechism.

He exercises a pastoral office, an authoritative office, but magisterium, the church's formal teaching office, is the bishops as a whole, the college of bishops, in communion with the bishop of Rome.

So that's magisterium.

So those are really the three, you probably remember that from in their OCIA or catechism class or catechism in a year, kind of the three legs of the stool of the deposit of faith is sacred scripture, sacred tradition, and the church's magisterium.

So public revelation, these are matters of faith and morals.

So not just the written word of God, but also the teachings and practices that have been handed on to us through sacred tradition.

These two considered together is what we call the deposit of faith.

So you can think of it as like, here's the gift of the Christian faith, the scriptures and the tradition and the practices of the church, the deposit of faith.

The magisterium of the church is what we call the guardian of the deposit of faith.

The teaching of the church, the teaching authority of the church, constituted by the pope and the bishops in accord with him, in union with him, are what we call the magisterium, the teaching arm, the teaching authority of the church.

We believe that they've been entrusted with authority to guard the truth and the purity of the faith.

They have been given the charism, not just the charism, but the authority from Christ to protect the deposit of faith.

So, say, right, someone's, you're playing the telephone game, and there's someone who walks, who heard the first word, and they're walking along the line, and every time they're checking it, they're leaning in and being like, okay, what word did you hear? Okay, what word did you hear? That is essentially what the magisterium does throughout the ages of the teachings of the church, of the faith.

was having a Latin class yesterday, so I've got day on my head now because we talked about it a lot.

So this is adapted from Fidei depositum.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.