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The meaning of the Sunday Mass Readings for October 2023 is made clearest by Catholic Doctrine. Let’s join the Psalmist in proclaiming, “O Lord, in all your precepts I go forward; every false way I hate” (Psalm 119:128). God’s precepts are most clearly found in Catholic Doctrine. Let’s learn doctrines in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that are supported by key verses from October’s Readings[1] so that we can go forward and hate false ways as the Lord wants us. Doctrines are the Magisterium’s authoritative clarification of Revelation and Faith that must be accepted as objectively true in order to be Catholic.
In this age of epicureanism and narcissism, it might be important to note that the Catechism relates the verse that Jesus “humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8) to our participation in Christ’s kingly office. We receive Jesus’ “gift of royal freedom” by having kingship over our bodies and passions and thus have “royal power” over ourselves so that we “will not let [ourselves] be imprisoned by sin, or thrown headlong into wickedness” (CCC 908). Our passions (emotions and desires) are not in themselves good or evil, but they must be governed by our free will, which in turn must be governed by our mind, in order to avoid sin (CCC 1763-1770).
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October 1, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Catechism uses a quote from both the longer and shorter versions of the Second Reading about having a “mind . . . that is also yours in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5) to assert that Baptism is meant to incorporate the baptized into “the life of the Risen Lord” by “conforming their thoughts, words and actions” to Him (CCC 1694[2]). The best way to be in conformity with Christ, and the reason to be baptized, is to act in harmony with all Catholic doctrine. Baptism is not simply a custom with whatever meaning one wants to give it.In this age of epicureanism and narcissism, it might be important to note that the Catechism relates the verse that Jesus “humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8) to our participation in Christ’s kingly office. We receive Jesus’ “gift of royal freedom” by having kingship over our bodies and passions and thus have “royal power” over ourselves so that we “will not let [ourselves] be imprisoned by sin, or thrown headlong into wickedness” (CCC 908). Our passions (emotions and desires) are not in themselves good or evil, but they must be governed by our free will, which in turn must be governed by our mind, in order to avoid sin (CCC 1763-1770).
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Catholic Doctrine and the Sunday Readings for October 2023 - Catholic Stand
The meaning of the Sunday Mass Readings is made clearest by Catholic Doctrine. God’s precepts are clearly found in Catholic Doctrine.
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