Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:01 Hi, Marie Christina, and the name of the father son, the Holy spirit. Amen. Today, the prayer for the people is enlight. Our minds would be your Lord with the light of thy brightness, then may be able to see what we ought to do and have strength to do what is right. So it's Amber Wednesday and lamp. The Amber days come around four times year, roughly at the beginning of the season. And I say like her mind people, there's two purposes, their days of semi abstinence and pass the penance. We're already in that. So it doesn't change much, but, uh, they're there to sanctify the season upcoming season and especially in a particular way to pray for holiness and the men that are going to be ordained in that season. So it would be important to pray for that in the gospel today. There it speaks of Jonah.
Speaker 0 00:00:52 Now this last year I was in st. John Lateran with some people and we're looking st. John ladder and has all these beautiful marble carvings going down the side of the NAPE where they'll have an old Testament type and then a new Testament, fulfillment hop Christ fulfilled it. And those one I was staring at, went through all of them and I couldn't figure out one of them. And finally, somebody said it was Jonah, but it wasn't a whale. It looked like some con it looked like some kind of sea monster. You're looking at it going, Oh, I guess it is Jonah. But that looks, that doesn't look anything like, well, I mean, when they carved horses, they look like horses, everything they do looks like that, except this thing looks really weird. And in fact, you can do an image search to see that st.
Speaker 0 00:01:33 John Lateran. So I did to look at it some more than that. I fought, there's a whole bunch of ancient images and they all look the same of Jonah and this creature, it doesn't look anything like a whale, this big, big kind of dog headed thing with frills. Uh, and, and then like a serpent almost. So in the course of the search, I discovered something interesting. So I'll read it to you today. So in the old Testament was translated and Alexandria, and the second century BC was translated from Hebrew into Greek. It's called a <inaudible> cause it was 70 scholars. And you know, that, that translated it. And that was the, the, the, the Bible, the old Testament Bible that the pastas quoted from referred to a news. And, and that they, uh, translated the Hebrew word, whatever the Hebrew word was there into the Greek gourds, uh, Katie Magalia, which is, which means a mega side Kato's.
Speaker 0 00:02:32 And our Lord says in w in the gospel, he says, uh, so Jonah was at three days and three nights in the belly of the Kato's is what he actually is saying in that. So he's talking about that. So they use specific words for specific creatures. Why did you know I'll just now start reading from a cometary font. Why didn't Matthew's gospel not use the common words for fish, shark or whale? Why did they use this word? Kato's and dr. Bill Cooper, who's not a Catholic Becky's nano Catholic, but he's an English scholar identified an array of sources from outside the Bible that pinpoint the Cate hosts as a sea dragon, a ponderous weight of historical evidence shows those who bested the Mediterranean sea consistently use Kato's to mean a sea serpent Cooper wrote the Kato's dog had its sea dragon appears in comps from 700 BC all the way up to 8,500.
Speaker 0 00:03:28 Here's a, here's some of the historians that mentioned the Kato's Palmer night to eighth century, BC, your equities here's Stephanie. The call for on Marcus trends is viral. Now he's a 160 to 27 BC. Did he RSA close 60 BC to 80, 30 <inaudible> first century, 80 Hassani's second century 80 Claritas Eliana's in is on the nature of animals. 81 75 to two 35 RPN of Amelia, 200. You staff use 300 to three 77, the CQS fifth century. And you honest Maspeth sixth century a D as if it were needed. Additional visual evidence, identify as a caterer as a seed serpent artists in Rome. And not just there. If you, if you look at the image search, you'll see panties in the catacombs, it looks the same way. The paintings in the catacombs as this carbon artists in Rome, Africa, Turkey, Turkey, Asian, England, painted, carved, and modeled the Kato's what consistent anatomy again, and again, it depicted it's doglike head with prominent teeth and plume like flaps or frills above the head and neck.
Speaker 0 00:04:34 They also consistently rendered it's huge body of slender and often. And so you see this, when you, when you, when you look get the images of that particular creature and planning, the elder in his book talks about a skeleton of a cake. It was, it was on display in Joppa and shop. In fact as the, that Joan has sailed out and a job. And I can't remember the name of, but an aide of, one of the Roman officials took from JOP and actually built a stadium just a, about 60 BC or something to display this creature. So it was by the time Penny's re writing, it would have been within one or two generations of it is 40 feet long with the ribs larger than an Indian elephant. So of course they had a very good idea of what the creature even looked like. Skeletally. So that's just a little bit of a, of interest on it that it's a Kato's, even though we translate an English as, as, as a whale, if you look at the ancient monuments and art, you're not going to see a well, you're going to see something that looks like a sea serpent.
