HOW DID THE CATHOLICISM START?

 Origins of Catholicism

• The Catholic Church is a branch of Christianity that originated in the 1st century AD. It's the largest Christian denomination and the second-largest religion in the world. 

Origins

• The Catholic Church's history can be traced back to Jesus Christ's teachings in Roman-occupied Palestine around 30 CE. 
• According to the New Testament, Jesus appointed the twelve Apostles to continue his work. 
• St. Peter was the first bishop of Rome, and the current pope is the successor to him. 

Growth

• The church spread across the world after Jesus' death. 
• In 313 CE, Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire. 
• Missionaries spread the church's teachings to Latin America, Quebec, and other parts of the world. 

Challenges 

• The church split from the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054.
• The Protestant Reformation challenged the authority of the pope.
• The church lost political power and faced other challenges in the latter half of the 20th century.

Today 

• The Catholic Church's headquarters are in Vatican City, an independent nation-state within Rome, Italy.
• The pope is the head of the church and the supreme authority in belief and practice.

• How did the Catholicism start?

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ONESIMUS, THE SAINT

 

The name Onesimus is an Ancient Greek word that means "useful", "profitable", or "beneficial". It was often given to slaves in the New Testament. 

Explanation

• Onesimus was the name of a runaway slave who sought out Paul to resolve a conflict with his master, Philemon. 
• Paul wrote the Epistle to Philemon on behalf of Onesimus. 
• Paul used a pun with the name to explain how Onesimus became "useful" to him and his ministry after converting to Christianity. 
• Paul sent Onesimus back to Philemon with the Epistle to Philemon. 
• In the epistle, Onesimus asks Philemon to receive him as a "faithful and beloved brother". 

Significance 

• Philemon's acceptance of Onesimus as a brother in Christ helped lay the foundation for the abolitionist movement.
• Paul's payment of all of Onesimus's debts parallels Christ's payment for sins.

The name "Onesimus" appears in two New Testament epistles — in Colossians 4 and in Philemon. In Colossians 4:9[5] a person of this name is identified as a Christian accompanying Tychicus to visit the Christians in Colossae; nothing else is stated about him in this context. He may well be the freed Onesimus from the Epistle to Philemon.

The Epistle to Philemon was written by Paul the Apostle to Philemon concerning a person believed to be a runaway slave named Onesimus. The traditional designation of Onesimus as a slave is doubted by some modern scholars.] Onesimus turned up where Paul was imprisoned (most probably Rome or Caesarea Maritima) to escape punishment for a theft of which he was accused. After hearing the Gospel from Paul, Onesimus converted to Christianity. Paul, having earlier converted Philemon to Christianity, sought to reconcile the two by writing the letter to Philemon which today exists in the New Testament. The letter reads (in part):

I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains, who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me. I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel. But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary. For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave — a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

(Paul of Tarsus to Philemon, Epistle to Philemon 1:10-16 (NKJV))

Catholic Church

The traditional Western commemoration of Onesimus is on 16 February. But in the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology, Onesimus is listed under 15 February. There, he is described as "[a] runaway slave, whom the apostle Paul received to the faith of Christ while in prison, regarding him as a son of whom he had become father, as he himself wrote to Philemon, Onesimus's master".

(Wikipedia)

 

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