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This Month's Source Materials
The Fleet Sources – 27 September 2026 – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 46-A
Branick, Vincent P. Understanding Paul and His Letters. New York: Paulist Press, 2009.
*specifically pp. 113-117 for explanation of letter integrity.
Hurtado, Larry W. How On Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005.
“Lex orandi, lex credendi” (“As we pray, so we believe.”) With this as a premise, Hurtado mines the practices of early followers of Christ for the authentic beliefs that moved and motivated them, see specifically pp. 2-6.
*see pp. 31-42 for development of argument that devotional practices were already well established by Paul’s conversion
*see pp. 83-107 for a detailed analysis of the Christological Hymn found in Philippians and it’s significance in pointing to the early Christian recognition of Jesus’ divinity
Scriptural Secrets (N)
Brown, Raymond E., SS. Joseph A Fitzmyer, S.J., and Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., Eds. New Jerome Biblical Commentary. New Jersey: Prestice Hall, 1990.
*specifically pp. 664-665.
Fordham University~ de Voragine, Jacobus, Archbishop of Genoa. The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints, 1275. [First Edition Published 1470.
‘Englished’ by William Caxton, First Edition 1483, Edited by F.S. Ellis, Temple Classics, 1900 (Reprinted 1922, 1931). http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend
Ratzinger, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth, From Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
*especially pp. 1-8, “An Initial Reflection on the Mystery of Jesus”
