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It's the Feast of St. Jerome, 3rd Class, with the color of White. In this episode: the meditation: "Our Spiritual Healing", today's news from the Church: "A Banner Addressed to Leo XIV in Support of the SSPX", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

Sources Used Today:

• "Our Spiritual Healing" — From the Assumption to Advent
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "A Banner Addressed to Leo XIV in Support of the SSPX" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/paris-banner-addressed-leo-xiv-support-sspx-61327
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint Jerome is one of the great Doctors of the Church, but he may also be one of the saints you'd least want criticizing your work.

He was brilliant, sarcastic, argumentative, occasionally hot-tempered, and absolutely obsessed with getting the words of Scripture right.

Jerome was born around the year 347 in Stridon, somewhere near the borderlands of the Roman Empire in the Balkans. His family sent him to Rome for an excellent education, and Jerome became fascinated with classical literature. He loved Cicero and the great Latin authors so much that, according to his own account, he once had a terrifying dream in which he stood before God's judgment seat and was accused of being "a Ciceronian, not a Christian."

That got his attention.

Jerome eventually embraced a much more serious Christian life and spent several years living as an ascetic in the Syrian desert.

But he brought books.

Lots of books.

He studied Greek, and then did something unusual for a Western Christian scholar of his time: he learned Hebrew, reportedly receiving lessons from Jewish teachers. That decision would eventually change the Bible used by Western Christianity.

In the 380s, Pope Damasus I asked Jerome to revise the existing Latin translations of Scripture, which varied considerably from place to place.

Jerome didn't simply tidy up the wording.