What “Catholic” actually means

追加: 2026-05-12

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[00:00:11]Hey y'all, welcome to your morning offering. My name is Father Brad Doyle and today is May 10th. It's the 6th Sunday of Easter. Let's pray.

[00:00:20]In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

[00:00:24]O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of your sacred heart. In union with the holy sacrifice of the mass throughout the world, for the salvation of souls, the reparation of sins, the reunion of all Christians, and in particular the intentions of the Holy Father this month.

[00:00:45]Amen.

[00:00:46]In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

[00:00:49]I'm jacked today. I got to go to confession today. If I died, I'd be like You know, have you ever thought about that when you go to confession? You like leave, you're like Hit me with a car.

[00:01:02]Take me out.

[00:01:04]>> [laughter] >> Oh, it's hard as a priest when you're about a parish by yourself. You got to take advantage when you go into the chancery or you have some like Dawson meeting, you're like, I'm going to hit up confession right now. So, you should go to your parish right now and ring the doorbell of the rector and go to confession.

[00:01:21]Actually, don't. Just talk to your priest after mass.

[00:01:26]Uh cuz it's Sunday. 6th Sunday. Last week we talked about we're going through the marks of the church. Last week we talked about the church is one, then we have holy, then Catholic and apostolic. I'm skipping over holy for now and we're going to go to Catholic because those two go together. And they're seeming opposites, like one and then universal.

[00:01:49]It's In metaphysics, they call this a problem of the one and the many.

[00:01:53]Right?

[00:01:54]So, how can something be unified and one and yet diverse and universal.

[00:02:01]Well, the Catholic both and the seek at seek at at, okay? And in fact it is the universality of the church, it's malleability and being able to not be particularly a culture the but to purify all cultures that means that makes it able to be one unified body.

[00:02:24]Right? So in the scriptures today in Acts of the Apostles Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.

[00:02:34]With one accord, I love that word it means like one heart with one heart.

[00:02:41]The crowds paid attention to what was said by Philip.

[00:02:44]And so Philip is going down to the Samaritans.

[00:02:48]He [sighs] already talked to the unique, the Ethiopian unique.

[00:02:54]And when I read the word Samaritan or Samaria Samaria Samaria Samaria Samaria I thought of Jesus's words or the woman at the well's words to Jesus when she says, "For Jews have nothing in common with Samaritans."

[00:03:13]And the irony is that in the Christian church the church has everything to do with the Samaritans.

[00:03:19]Right? The church in the Acts of the Apostles is spreading out.

[00:03:24]And it's going to all the nations.

[00:03:27]Um shout joyfully to God. This is the song for today. Shout joyfully to God half the earth.

[00:03:35]No.

[00:03:36]Shout joyfully to God 3/4 of the earth.

[00:03:41]Nine.

[00:03:42]Shout joyfully to God all the earth.

[00:03:45]Yes.

[00:03:46]Sing praise to the glory of his name.

[00:03:48]Proclaim his glorious praise. Say to God how tremendous are his deeds?" And literally the church will speak all languages. At Pentecost they speak and all languages hear them.

[00:04:02]And as the church goes out into these nations and the people and the missionaries, we will speak all languages. You can experience this if you go to Israel and you go to Mount of Olives Mount of Olives and on the top that's where Jesus ascended, but it's also where tradition says that Jesus gave the apostles the Our Father. So, I looked up the Our Father.

[00:04:21]Listen to this. What language is this?

[00:04:23]This is a trivia trivia podcast right now.

[00:04:26]Our Father, who art in heaven. Okay, that's English.

[00:04:29]Our A Fadir Pat Art in Heavenas.

[00:04:35]That's Middle English. I love saying Heavenas.

[00:04:39]Pater Noster Qui es in caelis. That's Latin. Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo.

[00:04:48]Spanish.

[00:04:50]Notre Père qui est aux cieux.

[00:04:55]French.

[00:04:57]Avinu shebashamayim.

[00:05:01]I messed that up so bad. That's Hebrew.

[00:05:04]Guys, it's so cool.

[00:05:06]Pater hemon ho en tois ouranois. Greek.

[00:05:12]Abana alathi fi samawat.

[00:05:15]Arabic. Guys, I could go on and on on the where he gave the Our Father to the apostles. There's the monastery of the Paternoster and you have the Our Father in all these languages.

[00:05:27]See the catholicity of the church, one of the marks, one of the things that shows that it is the one true church is its universality.

[00:05:39]I think that's what catholicity is. And the church isn't just made up of the Latin Church.

[00:05:44]That's one right of 24 different churches they're in communion.

[00:05:49]Right? So, you you have the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. The mass is said in Syriac. Uh we have the Ethiopian Catholic Church.

[00:05:58]The mass is said in Ethiopian.

[00:06:00]We have the Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church in in Arabic.

[00:06:05]Right? So, all these languages, all these rites, all these different liturgical traditions, they're all mark, a sign of the one true church.

[00:06:15]When you have uniformity, it creates division.

[00:06:20]When you have unity, it's shown by its diversity. This has been your reflection for today. If it was helpful for you, go to morningoffering.com and sign up.

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