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1 Peter 5
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech who am myself also an ancient and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre’s sake but voluntarily:
3 Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart. CCC · Fathers
4 And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory. CCC
5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace. Fathers
6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:
7 Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.
8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. CCC
9 Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.
11 To him be glory and empire, for ever and ever. Amen.
12 By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace of God, wherein you stand.
13 The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you. And so doth my son, Mark.
14 Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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- CCC 893 “The bishop is "the steward of the grace of the supreme priesthood," especially in the Eucharist which he offers personally or whose…”
- CCC 1551 “This priesthood is ministerial. "That office . . . which the Lord committed to the pastors of his people, is in the…”
“… God, which the Serpent cannot reach, and to which deception does not approach; nor is Eve then corrupted, but is trusted as a virgin; and salvation is manifested, and the Apostles are filled with understanding, and the Passover of the Lord advances, and the choirs”
Quoted in Letter to Diognetus, Unknown author (2nd century), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 754 “The Church is, accordingly, a sheepfold, the sole and necessary gateway to which is Christ. It is also the flock of which…”
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“For God," saith [the Scripture], "resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.”
Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter XXX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2849 “Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter,…”
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