THE SUMMA

MUSIC

TO MY “EAR”S

SAINTLY LIMERICKS

PAUL’S LETTERS

JP II AND J XXIII

THE SUMMA MUSIC TO MY “EAR”S SAINTLY LIMERICKS PAUL’S LETTERS JP II AND J XXIII $200 $400 $600 $800 $1000

THE THIRD PART OF THE SUMMA INCLUDES A TREATISE ON THESE VISIBLE SIGNS OF GOD’S INVISIBLE PRESENCE

REFERRED TO AS “THE MASTER” IN THE SUMMA, PETER LOMBARD WROTE THIS COLLECTION OF BOOKS WHICH SHARES ITS NAME WITH THE PLURAL FORM OF A COLLECTION OF WORDS WITH A SUBJECT AND A PREDICATE

IN THE SUMMA, ST. THOMAS AQUINAS REFERS TO THIS STUDENT OF PLATO AS “THE PHILOSOPHER”

MANY PEOPLE REMEMBER THE SUMMA FOR ITS ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD KNOWN AS THE QUINQUE VIAE, WHICH TRANSLATES TO THIS MANY “WAYS”

DANTE’S MOST FAMOUS WORK, THIS EPIC POEM HAS OFTEN BEEN CALLED “THE SUMMA IN VERSE”

AMONG THE CLASSICAL PIECES COMPOSED BY THIS AUSTRIAN PRODIGY ARE “GREAT MASS IN C MINOR”, “CORONATION MASS”, AND HIS OWN “REQUIEM MASS”

1 SAMUEL 16:23 RECOUNTS: “WHENEVER THE SPIRIT FROM GOD CAME ON SAUL, DAVID WOULD TAKE UP,” THIS INSTRUMENT, “AND PLAY”

THE SONG “RESTLESS” BY AUDREY ASSAD WAS INSPIRED BY A QUOTE FROM THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOK BY ST. AUGUSTINE

DURING WORLD YOUTH DAY 2013, THIS GREY-HAIRED CANADIAN CATHOLIC SANG HIS HIT SINGLE “LORD, I NEED YOU” IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

FR. MICHAEL JONCAS COMPOSED THIS POPULAR LITURGICAL HYMN WHICH REFERENCES A NATIONAL BIRD IN ITS TITLE

THE LANCE THAT PIERCED JESUS’ SIDE AFTER HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS IS SOMETIMES CALLED THIS WEAPON “OF LONGINUS”

POPE BENEDICT XVI PROCLAIMED AS “ANNUS FIDEI”, WHICH TRANSLATES TO THIS IN ENGLISH

TWO-WORD ANGELIC PROCLAMATION THAT PRECEDES, “FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY.”

BEFORE HIS ELECTION, POPE FRANCIS PUBLISHED HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH ARGENTINE RABBI ABRAHAM SKORKA IN A BOOK TITLED “ON HEAVEN AND” THIS; IN SPANISH, IT TRANSLATES TO “SOBRE EL CIELO Y LA TIERRA”

THE BOOK OF REVELATION DESCRIBES THE NEW JERUSALEM AS CONSISTING OF TWELVE GATES, EACH MADE OF THIS VALUABLE MATERIAL

WE ALL KNOW ABOUT JESUS’ MOTHER; MARY IS WHAT WE CALL HER; BUT IN THEIR HOLY HOUSE; ALSO LIVED THIS MAN, HER SPOUSE; WHOSE WORK IS THAT OF A CARPENTER

IN THE HEART OF THE RIVER JORDAN; STOOD PEOPLE FROM MANY A CLAN; WITH WATER, MOST PRIZED; BELIEVERS GOT BAPTIZED; BY THIS COUSIN OF THE SON OF MAN

IT DOESN’T TAKE LONG TO ESTABLISH; THAT HE WAS ROMANO-BRITISH; BUT SO OFTEN HE’S SEEN; WEARING THE COLOUR GREEN; YOU MIGHT AS WELL CALL HIM IRISH

DECLARED AS A CHURCH DOCTOR; SHE LIVED IN A CARMELITE CLOISTER; WHEN SHE GOT THE HALO; MANY STARTED TO FOLLOW; THE LIFE OF THIS “LITTLE FLOWER”

THERE ONCE WAS A SPANISH PRIEST; WHO CARED FOR EVEN THE LEAST; WITH COMMENDABLE PIETY; HE FOUNDED A “SOCIETY”; IN JULY, WE CELEBRATE HIS FEAST

PAUL’S EPISTLE TO THESE PEOPLE IS HIS LONGEST, AND IT DIRECTLY FOLLOWS THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

ALTHOUGH IT SOUNDS LIKE THE NAME OF A COUNTRY WHOSE CAPITAL IS MANILA, THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THIS EPISTLE IS ADDRESSED REFERS TO THOSE LIVING IN AN ANCIENT CITY IN EASTERN MACEDONIA

OF CORINTHIANS, TIMOTHY, AND COLOSSIANS, THE ONE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A “SECOND” PART IN THE BIBLE

EPHESIANS 6:11 STATES, “PUT ON THE WHOLE,” THIS, “OF GOD, SO THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL.”

WHILE IN PRISON, PAUL WROTE A LETTER TO THIS CHRISTIAN FROM ASIA MINOR, WHOSE WIFE IS NAMED APPHIA

AS HE WAS OF THIS DESCENT, JOHN PAUL II BECAME THE FIRST NON-ITALIAN TO BECOME POPE SINCE DUTCHMAN ADRIAN VI

DUE TO JOHN XXIII’S EFFORTS – PRIOR TO HIS PAPACY – TO SAVE JEWS DURING THIS GENOCIDE THAT TOOK PLACE IN WORLD WAR II, PETITIONS ARE BEING MADE TO CONFER UPON HIM THE TITLE “RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS”

IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS DEATH, MANY PEOPLE STARTED REFERRING TO JOHN PAUL II WITH THIS TITLE AT THE END OF HIS NAME – A TITLE COMMONLY GIVEN TO ONLY THREE OTHER POPES

THE LAST ENCYCLICAL THAT JOHN XXIII WROTE WAS CALLED PACEM IN TERRIS, WHICH IS TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH AS THIS “ON EARTH”

THE DOUBLE CANONIZATION WAS HELD ON APRIL 27, 2014, WHICH COINCIDED WITH THE FEAST DAY KNOWN AS “DIVINE” THIS

FINAL JEOPARDY CATEGORY: CATHOLIC AUTHORS

APOLOGIST PETER J. KREEFT COMMENTED THAT THIS AUTHOR REMOVED “CHURCHES” IN HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK BECAUSE THE CHURCH “IS NOT ONLY AN ORGANIZATION BUT ALSO A ‘FELLOWSHIP’”