The Original Church
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The Original Church, with Dr. James L. Papandrea, is an ecumenical Christian community exploring our common roots in the early Church for the purposes of spiritual growth and practicing the Christian faith. No politics, debates, or proselytizing, just "faith seeking understanding" from the perspective of the early (and medieval) Church and the Church fathers. Jim Papandrea is an author and Professor of Church History and Historical Theology.
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Good morning! And Welcome to new folks!

I had a great conversation with Fr. Mitch last night on EWTN Live - it's always fun talking with him, and always goes way too fast! Now I'm sitting in the Birmingham airport waiting to board my first of two flights to get home.

I see we have some new folks here - thanks for checking out the Original Church community - the whole purpose of this is to give people a place to make comments and ask questions, because I don't have comments active on my YouTube videos, and because I'm not on social media. So this is the place to interact with me! EVERYONE should feel free to post here - observations, questions, even prayer requests. We're glad you're here. We are still a relatively small community, but we are growing!

And please join us for The Journey - our ongoing, indepth Bible study - live every Saturday morning at 10 am Central Time; 11 am Eastern Time. And if you can't watch it live, you can watch it later.

Blessings!

  • Jim

P.S. All Christians are welcome here, but we do operate on the assumption that the Original Church was the Catholic Church, that the Catholic Church of today is the heart of the universal Church, and most faithfully expresses the intentions of Jesus when he said, "On this rock I will build my Church." So this is not a place for controversy, drama, politics, or even debate, per se, but we do want people to learn how to defend their faith when it's challenged out in the world.

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Sneak Peek into my NEW OFFICE!

I'm back, up and running, and ready to go - I should have a new JOURNEY episode within the next week or so - and because you are my loyal peeps, here is an exclusive, just-for-you, behind the scenes SNEAK PEEK into my new office:

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In case you missed it, here's my Gospel Reflection

This was for March 24th, recorded for the Ascension App

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The Journey is BACK!

Thanks for your patience - here is our next installment of The Journey - it's session # 96, but I'm also calling it PART 1 of a "miniseries" on John chapter 6.

Whoever watches it first, please let me know if it looks good or if there are any problems with it - I get through the first two sections of the text on the feeding of the 5,000.

Enjoy!

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Here's another song... Come Let Us Climb the Lord's Mountain

I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:

In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!

I hope you like the song!

Here's another song... Come Let Us Climb the Lord's Mountain
Here's the Latest from The Way of the Fathers

The second episode on St. Anthony of Padua

IT WAS THE 18th OF JULY... (1,961 years ago)

So begins a song I wrote back in the day, to commemorate the martyrs of Rome - which was the point of the name of the band I had for about 20 years - the band was called Remember Rome. The song was called Midnight Light. At about midnight on the night between July 18th and 19th, in the year 64 AD, the emperor Nero's men started the great fire in Rome, which would be blamed on the Christians, starting the long trajectory of Roman persecution of the Church. Here's a video of Remember Rome playing the song - do I look younger? This was recorded right around the turn of Y2K, about 25 years ago.

I just listened to this podcast - it's really good!

I highly recommend this podcast in general, but this concept of "Transhumanism" is really important to understand, and in my opinion is not unrelated with the whole AI thing - check this out:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1yWsl8gEtPGzeUcikBhWzd?si=u3NsVmBJR_ad0JRX-qMl3g&nd=1&dlsi=eafe0412ccfd4882

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