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The priest is the minister of Divine worship, and especially of the highest act of worship, sacrifice. In this sense, every religion has its priests, exercising more or less exalted sacerdotal functions as intermediaries between man and the Divinity (cf. Heb., v, 1: "for every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things ...
Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more — all for only $19.99... The Crusades were expeditions undertaken, in fulfilment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny. The origin of the word may be traced to the cross made of cloth and worn as a badge on the outer garment of those who ...
In the Old Testament , the Hebrew means essentially steadfastness , cf. Exod., xvii, 12, where it is used to describe the strengthening of Moses' hands; hence it comes to mean faithfulness , whether of God towards man ( Deuteronomy 32:4 ) or of man towards God (Ps. cxviii, 30). As signifying man's attitude towards God it means trustfulness or ...
FREE Catholic Classes. [Hebrew Nôah , "rest"; Greek Noah ; Latin Noah ]. The ninth patriarch of the Sethite line, grandson of Mathusala and son of Lamech, who with his family was saved from the Deluge and thus became the second father of the human race ( Genesis 5:25 - 9:29 ). The name Noah was give to him because of his father's expectation ...
We know on the authority of Scripture that there are nine orders of angels, viz., Angels, Archangels, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Dominations, Throne, Cherubim and Seraphim. That there are Angels and Archangels nearly every page of the Bible tell us, and the books of the Prophets talk of Cherubim and Seraphim. St.
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Heresy is a sin because of its nature it is destructive of the virtue of Christian faith. Its malice is to be measured therefore by the excellence of the good gift of which it deprives the soul. Now faith is the most precious possession of man, the root of his supernatural life, the pledge of his eternal salvation.
