Universality of The Church

Universality of The Church

Catholic etymology

The Greek roots of the term “Catholic” mean “according to (kata-) the whole (holos),” or more colloquially, “universal.”

Apostles Creed

St Ignatius of Antioch

110 AD Oldest surviving use of the word Catholic to refer to the church. His letter to the Smyrnaeans

See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.```

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0109.htm

Cyril of Jerusalem

350 AD from his Catechetical Lectures

[The Church] is called catholic, then, because it extends over the whole world, from end to end of the earth, and because it teaches universally and infallibly each and every doctrine which must come to the knowledge of men, concerning things visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly, and because it brings every race of men into subjection to godliness, governors and governed, learned and unlearned, and because it universally treats and heals every class of sins, those committed with the soul and those with the body, and it possesses within itself every conceivable form of virtue, in deeds and in words and in the spiritual gifts of every description (Catechetical Lectures 18:23 [A.D. 350]).

https://www.catholic.com/tract/what-catholic-means

Salvation In The Spoilers

Use This Gospel lyrics

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Closed on Sunday lyrics

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Kanye West’s first album

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_College_Dropout

Last verse of Jesus Walks

I’m just tryna say the way school need teachers The way Kathie Lee needed Regis, that’s the way I need Jesus So here go my single dog, radio needs this They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus That means guns, sex, lies, videotape But if I talk about God my record won’t get played, huh? Well if this take away from my spins Which’ll probably take away from my ends Then I hope this take away from my sins And bring the day that I’m dreamin’ about Next time I’m in the club, everybody screamin’ out (Jesus walk)

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