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This Month's Source Materials
The Fleet Sources – 26 July, 2026 – 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 37-A
Pierson Education 1996-2010, Rules For Thinking (accessed 8 March 2014). *see specifically Rule #15: “Fifteenth Rule. We ought not, by way of custom, to speak much of predestination; but if in some way and at some times one speaks, let him so speak that the common people may not come into any error, as sometimes happens, saying: Whether I have to be saved or condemned is already determined, and no other thing can now be, through my doing well or ill; and with this, growing lazy, they become negligent in the works which lead to the salvation and the spiritual profit of their souls.” Thuesen, Peter J. Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
**see specifically pps. 52-53.
Congregatio de Auxiliis was the commission established to settle the dispute about grace between the Jesuits and the Dominicans. See the New Advent account of this very perplexing theological topic: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04238a.htm
The Fleet Sources – 12 July, 2026 – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 35 – A
Chasing Holiness (N)
re: “paroikoi“ Irvin, Dale T. and Scott W. Sunquist. History of the World Christian Movement, Volume I: Earliest Christianity to 1453. New York: Orbis Books, 2001. *See specifically pps. 69-71; 95-97.
Cavins, Jeff and Sarah Christmyer. Matthew, The King and His Kingdom. West Chester, Pennsylvania: Ascension Press, 2011. *See specifically the Introduction, pps. 1-3. Scriptural Secrets (N)
Branick, Vincent P. Understanding Paul and His Letters. New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2009.
*See specifically p. 260 for insight into Paul’s vision of what it meant to be ‘filled with the Spirit.’
