Wednesday 10 January 2018

7 Princes of the Church - Axioi


I have been wondering at times if I am on God's rugby team.

What rugby team?

"And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men."
[Micheas (Micah) 5:5]

Last time I checked, 7 and 8 make 15. Last time I checked, rugby teams are raised against each other and are 15 men (don't tell me feminism has introduced female rugby?).

I was actually recalling the verse from another version, some apocalyptic video had been citing King James (I cited Douay Rheims, as I am Catholic).

5:5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Hmmmm ... KJV Micah also has seven sheperds and eight principal men. I recalled it as "seven princes and eight learned men".

Now, this is not quite as bad for my point as I supposed.

A bishop is a prince of the Church, but he is also a shepherd.

In other words, either way the passage could denote "seven bishops" taken at its most literal. I was considering myself as among the eight learned men ...

Now, watch this.*

His adherence to the profession brings the total number of signatories up to seven. On Friday, Cardinal Janis Pujats, Emeritus Archbishop Metropolitan of Riga, Latvia, signed the document. On Thursday, former U.S. apostolic nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and Emeritus Archbishop Luigi Negri joined their names to the profession of “immutable truths about sacramental marriage.”


I
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan

II
Archbishop Tomash Peta, Metropolitan of Astana

III
Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga of Karaganda, Kazakhstan

IV
Cardinal Janis Pujats, Emeritus Archbishop Metropolitan of Riga, Latvia

V
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

VI
Emeritus Archbishop Luigi Negri

VII
and - here is the news : Bishop Andreas Laun, Emeritus Auxiliary of Salzburg, Austria


Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
Monomah1389 | 20.VII.2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06643umEJZg


'The Hills are Alive' - The Sound of Music
RollerGirlMeli | 2.VI.2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQSAdU4Qb4


Das Gauklermärchen - Lied 12 - Elis Lied
schaumkuss | 24.III.2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IyqNrlGao


And what has the last one to do with Austria and Salzburg? Well, as Monsignor Laun will know, it was on Elisabethbühne in 1986 (I think that was the year), and in the Church nearby, not surprisingly St. Elisabeth Church, I prayed my first Rosary. It was a Friday. I went to Church while waiting for the show.

Now, we do not need to worry there will be only a rugby team.

Look on the Haydock comment for the verse! Or of the latter part:

Seven, &c. The pastors of God's Church, and the defenders of the faith. The number seven, in Scripture; is taken to signify many; and when eight is joined with it, we are to understand that the number will be very great. (Challoner) — See Ecclesiastes xi. 2., and Ruth iv. 16. (Calmet)

Christ always preserves a great number, not withstanding the attacks of persecutors enabling bishops to feed them with a power which the people must revere, Hebrews xiii. (Worthington)

Eight. Eschylus places Artaphanes between Smerdis and Hystaspes, the former of whom was one of the seven magi, and the latter one of the seven conspirators, (Calmet) or rather chief princes, who attacked the usurper. (Haydock)

They always retained great privileges, so that they seemed all to govern. (V. Max. ix. 2.; Herodotus iii. 65.) See 1 Esdras iv. 7., and Esther i. 14., where we find that the kings did nothing of importance without their seven counsellors. (Calmet)

Principal. Septuagint, "bites (Symmachus, Christ's) of men," or people of the old as well as of the new law. (St. Jerome)


MICHEAS - Chapter 5
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859 edition.
http://haydock1859.tripod.com/id591.html


So, whether I am or am not on God's rugby team, they are. Or so it would seem from the context.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Nicanor on Cyprus
10.I.2018

* Austrian bishop signs statement calling Pope’s reading of Amoris Laetitia ‘alien’ to Catholic faith
Catholic ChurchMon Jan 8, 2018 - 11:53 am EST | Diane Montagna
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/austrian-bishop-signs-statement-calling-popes-reading-of-amoris-laetitia-al

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