The Holy Apostles Church community demonstrated strong support for the vision of the school by raising over $ 11 million to fund the construction of a state - of the - art school building.
About the School: In August,
Holy Apostles Church opened the doors of St. Ignatius Catholic School, the first new Catholic School in the Treasure Valley in over 50 years.
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Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors of the
apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the
Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the orthodox tradition — enables the
Church to explicate the truth of
Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.
The marks of the Catholic
church are: One - In doctrine, sacraments, and head (the pope);
Holy - its sacraments and teachings lead men to holiness; Universal - meaning the same doctrine and sacraments and head throughout the world; and Apostolic - can be directly traced to the
Apostles and Jesus Christ.
''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the
Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired
Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian
Church.
Not only had he found the Bible - adhering
church he sought, but he was also convinced that it was the one
holy church founded by Christ and the
apostles.
Lumen Gentium, the Constitution on the
Church, reads: «This is the one
Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one,
holy, catholic, and apostolic, which our Savior, after his Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other
apostles to extend and direct with authority, which he erected for all ages as «the pillar and mainstay of the truth.»
Clearly, the NT as written by the
apostles and writers under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit is the authoritative source for the
church.
In context, he refers to the «
holy apostles» (Eph 3:5), as a way of speaking about the
apostles who were called and sent by Jesus Christ to lay the foundation for the
church by teaching and writing about Jesus Christ and the gospel (Eph 2:20).
The early
apostles also knew, however, that the
church would be restored in the latter days and in anticipation of that great day they spoke directly to you and me in Acts 3, «19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of rest itution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world began.»
God revealed through Jesus» words and life and through the life and witness of the
Apostles and
Church Fathers who God is, Three Persons in One God, Father, Son and
Holy Spirit and that Jesus is God Incarnate, the Word made Flesh.!
Only the
apostles, and Peter supremely, bear the charism to define what is and what is not of Christ in the Faith, but all who listen to the voice of truth in the
Church open themselves up to the riches of understanding that only God's
Holy Spirit can give.
As I mentioned earlier, at Renovatus we recite the
Apostles» Creed weekly, so it is ever before us that we are part of «the
holy catholic
church.»
That is why a man must be chosen of God through revelation to represent him and to preach his
holy word — a thing that protestant
churches totally lack because they apostatized from the Catholic
church and which the catholic
church can not claim either because the first pope was a bishop, not an
apostle, and to this day can claim no authority from living
apostles.
Jesus himself was baptized by John (Mark 1:9) and the
church claimed that the Risen Christ had commanded the
apostles «to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit» (Malt.
In the
Apostles» Creed the words «I believe in the
holy catholic
church» are followed immediately by «the communion of saints.»
Christ was clear that He was revealing the Father's word to mankind and that the
Holy Spirit would indeed guarantee the teaching of the
apostles and the
Church as they hand on this word (cf. Jo hn 14:24 - 26).
For almost 400 years the Catholic
Church thrived and grew without the Bible; then the
Holy Spirit prompted the
Church to gather all the inspired - by - God - Books of the Old Testament and New Testament but the
Holy Spirit did not say to throw out anything that He had already told them thus far through His
Apostles and Successors... no!
This tradition which comes from the
apostles develops in the
Church with the help of the
Holy Spirit.
However, Ineffabilis Deus says: «All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin» in the all fair and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world: in her who is the glory of the prophets and
apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who, with her only - begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, impregnable stronghold of the
holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers.»
The
Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures... inspired by God and committed once and for all to writing, they impart the word of God Himself without change, and make the voice of the
Holy Spirit resound in the words of the prophets and
Apostles.
Cyprian's ideal is likewise a martyr bishop, but because he must counter the rival claims of the confessors to bind and to loose by virtue of their witnessing to Christ, Cyprian must, unlike Ignatius, reach back explicitly to the prerogatives of the
apostles and notably Peter.87 Cyprian called Peter a bishop88 and regarded every bishop as filled with the
Holy Spirit89 and as the vicar of Christ, succeeding by vicarious ordination to the
apostles.90 Thus Cyprian found the essence and fulfillment of the
Church in the bishop:
In thus individualizing ordination Augustine witnesses indirectly to the extinction in the West c. 400 of the older catholic feeling for the corporate ministry of the local
church.51 Within four centuries the hereditary priesthood of Israel had been replaced by the indelible priesthood of Christendom, valid not by inheritance and birth but through a kind of rebirth in the solemn rededication of ordination in the descent of the
Holy Spirit, an action which also represented a tactile succession going back to the
apostles.
Herein, in contrast to all other
church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the
holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament
apostles.»
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