[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[Scott Knitter]

Susanna is appointed for Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent, for those who
were wondering.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:17 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA