Sunday, February 10, 2019

more information!

Hello again,

I forgot to send you this helpful reference about Augustus Caesar, emperor worship in the time of Christ, and other information to give you a sense of the context/background: https://www.gotquestions.org/Augustus-Caesar.html

God bless,
Krishna Smith
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Upcoming Sessions and Other Items!

Hello All,

Beginning this coming Friday, Feb 15, we begin studying the New Testament with Lesson 18-Messianic Fulfillment-Part 1. We have 6 sessions remaining-Messianic Fulfillment Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Gospel of Luke) and The Church Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Acts). 

If you've found it difficult to keep up with the voluminous amount of unfamiliar, but fascinating, Old Testament reading (as I have!), we can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as our upcoming readings will be very familiar to us from the Mass. But I think we've all gained alot from all of this background as we move into studying the birth of the Lord and His life on earth.

Two sessions ago, I mentioned that Catholic World Report www.catholicworldreport.com has weekly commentaries on the Sunday Mass readings-here is the one from 1/26 when the OT reading was from Ezra: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/01/26/today-this-scripture-passage-is-fulfilled-in-your-hearing-2/. Here is the one from today: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/02/09/we-are-called-to-be-fishers-of-men/. If interested, you can sign up to receive them on the website.

This past Friday, we studied 1 and 2 Maccabees. I said I would send out a nice summary of the Maccabean period from the Catholic Answers website: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/1-2-maccabees.

A question that came up on Friday was: why isn't there more in the bible regarding Caesar Augustus being called "son of god" and how the gospel of Christ is actually "politically perilous and subversive" as described in this article: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/jesus-versus-the-son-of-god? It is such important information and most of us have only heard about this through this bible study! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find an answer to this very good question. If others are able, please send to me for distribution.

For your reading for our remaining sessions, here is some information about the King Herods (there is more than one) we read about in the gospels and Acts that might be helpful to you: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/death-dynasty.

Finally, on Friday I had mentioned a book by Jeff Cavins about suffering. It might make for good Lenten reading along with the other book by Jeff Cavins that Kathy had kindly recommended. Here are both:  



Thanks and see you Friday!

God bless,
Krishna Smith


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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Announcements

Hello All,

As long as St. Jerome School is not closed tomorrow, we will have bible study at 9am! 

Thank you to Joyce Lex for facilitating last week's discussion! And thank you to Joyce Lex in advance for facilitating tomorrow's session. (I just got back from Florida-sorry-this afternoon, so haven't had time to prepare). 

At last week's discussion, Joyce referenced the United States Catechism for Adults. Here is the information. It looks like there are plenty of used copies available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Catholic-Catechism-Adult/dp/1574554506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548976174&sr=8-1&keywords=united+states+catechism+for+adults.

Also, thank you to Ann Sarnowski for generously offering to make coffee for our group every Friday! Please consider making a free will offering for supplies.

God bless
Krishna Smith


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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

questions from last Friday

Hi All,

Here are a couple of answers to questions from last Friday:

1. When did Manasseh repent? (I think you will want to read 2 Chronicles as referenced below. Also this is not a Catholic source, but I think pretty reliable).


2. Why did Hezekiah show his treasures?



I am not totally satisfied with these answers. If anyone finds another better answer, please send to me and I will distribute in early February.

Also, several people have asked for the procedure to watch Jeff Cavins' lectures:

2. Log in. If this is your first Ascension Press study, you'll need to create an account with a user name and password.
3. Click on "Join a Study"
4. Click on "REDEEM CODE" and enter L2NKSQ and the other information required. You will now be able to watch the lectures!

Finally thank you in advance to Joyce Lex for facilitating this coming Friday. I viewed Jeff's lecture for Friday's lesson and it is excellent as always.

God bless
Krishna Smith


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Thursday, January 17, 2019

Bible Study Questions & A Lenten Book Recommendation!

Hello All,

Here are answers to two recent questions:

1. What was contained in the Ark of the Covenant at the time the Jerusalem Temple was built?

2. What was the relationship between Egypt and the Divided Kingdom (Israel and Judah)?


Also, Kathy has passed along an EXCELLENT book written by Jeff Cavins that I would like to recommend for your Lenten reading. It dovetails very well from our Bible Timeline study and has many practical recommendations for becoming a disciple of Jesus: "The Activated Disciple: Taking Your Faith to the Next Level". Here is a link with a short video from Jeff: https://shop.ascensionpress.com/products/the-activated-disciple.

See you tomorrow!
Krishna






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Friday, January 4, 2019

Fwd: The Bible Timeline resumes next Friday!



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From: fkdcsmith <fkdcsmith@wi.rr.com>
Subject: The Bible Timeline resumes next Friday!
Date: January 4, 2019 at 10:07:36 AM CST
To: Franklin Smith <fkdcsmith@wi.rr.com>

Hello All,

I hope you've had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019.

We will resume The Bible Timeline bible study on Friday January 11 at 9am with Session 13-Divided Kingdom, Part 1. We'll meet every Friday for a total of 11 sessions.

If you haven't been able to attend for awhile or have found it difficult to complete the reading, please rejoin the study!

Beginning with Session 18, Messianic Fulfillment, Part 1, the reading becomes much easier and much more familiar with the Gospel of Luke. Beginning with Session 21, The Church, Part 1, we will be reading the book of Acts-again much more familiar. And both are very good Lenten preparation.

Looking forward to seeing you next Friday,
Krishna Smith

Sent from my iPad

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Saturday, December 1, 2018

For all interested: Thursday Evening Bible Study at St. Jerome's starting January 10, 2019-facilitator is Joanne Burnett






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