[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[Scott Knitter]

I was the server (and lector) for a weekday Mass one year on the weekday
when the whole story (in the Apocrypha) of Susanna and the Dirty Old Men
came up. Whew!

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:17 AM Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

> On 2019-08-22 03:24, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> > The Episcopal Church also uses the Apocrypha, and it shows up in the
> > lectionary from time to time.
>
> The general Anglican view (if there can be said to be such a thing) is
> that the OT Apocrypha are read for edification, but not to establish
> doctrine. If I recall correctly, the articles attribute this position to
> St Jerome.
>
> The point is that Judaism does not regard those books as canonical, and
> at the Reformation the protestant churches resolved to exclude the books
> from the canon, whilst the Roman Catholics decided, at the
> counter-reformation Council of Trent that they should definitely be
> included as the deutero-canonical books.
>
> It's a finely balanced position!
>
> simon
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> St Ives, Cambridgeshire
>


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA