The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-10

breferS his own honor ana VIII 10
the honor and will of God.
When he is more solicitous for his
body and for temporal things than
Tor his soul and eternal salvation;
and when he seeks his own welfare
10 the unlawful injury OF his nelSf-
hor. For thus it is written: Aen
shall be lovers Of themselves, cove
tous. naughty, proud blasphemers,
Cisobedicnt to parents ana loV-
ers Of pleasures more than OF God.
e. Tim. iii. 2-4).
Is the Knights of Pythias a secret
lodge? Can a Catholic girl marry a
member of that lodge?
The Knights Of Pythias is secret
lodge and was condemned for Catho-
lies in the year 1891. No Catholic
qnl should contemplate marriage with
member of that society. 4 dis
ueusatiOn must be obtained to marry
any non-Catholic, and the fact that he
was a member OF the Knights OF
Pythias would initiate against the
granting Of the dispensation.
Kindly interpret for me Acts VII,
IS, Sc, where the vision and martyr
dom of ST. Stephen are described.
Your difficulty IS how, since the
Father Son and Holy Ghost are
one. could st. stephen see Jesus
standing at the right hand of God
There is little real difficulty in the
verse referred 10. The three divine
persons are one in nature and three
in person: there is but one God, but
there are three persons in that one
God. This is OF course a great mys-
tery which man would never have
known except through divine revela-
ton. Even with that light, the mys-
terry far surpasseS our understanding.
We shall only begin 10 understand
it when we see God face TO face, that
is when we are granted the beatific
vision. 1t is precisely that vision that
ST Stephen enjoyed in the supreme
hour OF his life. That is one reason
why he could have seen the second
person OF the Blessed Trinity. How
ever. it was the Goldman that St.
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