#12366 What Are the Earliest Writings About the Mass, Healing, and Justification? - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What are the earliest writings about the Mass?” Discover the historical roots of this central Catholic practice, along with discussions on the early Church’s interpretation of 1 John 5:13 and the significance of healing in the Bible. Join us as we explore these foundational topics and more in this enlightening episode.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:00 – What are the earliest writings about the mass that we have?
- 04:30 – Would you consider writing a book on justification?
- 12:26 – What are the earliest Catholic Church buildings and where was the altar located in those churches?
- 16:25 – Jesus promises to heal in the bible but people deflect and say that healing happens in the next life. What are your thoughts on that? Does God want you to suffer here to get more reward in heaven?
- 22:34 – What was the early Church’s interpretation of 1 John 5:13?
- 28:30 – Continued – Jesus promises to heal in the bible but people deflect and say that healing happens in the next life. What are your thoughts on that? Does God want you to suffer here to get more reward in heaven?
- 44:26 – What are the earliest writings about the mass that we have?
- 50:38 – Did the writing of the same Shepard Hermas hold the same weight as the Didiache, writing of St. Clemente of Rome and others?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, Catholic Answers live. I am Sykelet, your host, our guest, Joe Heschmeier, and our topic, the early church. |
| 0:19.3 | We want to talk about the first two centuries of Christianity? |
| 0:23.7 | Joe knows a lot about it. |
| 0:24.5 | He wrote a book about it. |
| 0:25.4 | The early church was the Catholic Church. |
| 0:27.9 | Right there, that tells you Joe's view on what you find when you read the documents and are exposed to the history of the early church. |
| 0:35.7 | But you can dispute that with them or you can just |
| 0:37.9 | seek a, you know, maybe you have a curious question and you just like an answer. |
| 0:43.2 | You're welcome to do that as well. 888-3187-884. I'm glad Joe is back with us for a second |
| 0:50.0 | hour. The first hour we took a little time to talk about the horrible violence in Utah today, |
| 0:55.2 | the killing of a young man. Really? I wasn't terribly familiar with Charlie Kirk. I knew, |
| 1:01.9 | I had, you know, he was within my, I knew of him, but didn't know a great deal about his work, |
| 1:06.6 | but he's a 31-year-old man. This is a very young man to cut down right when he was getting going. |
| 1:13.3 | And someone said, you know, you didn't mention in all that talk you had about the violence |
| 1:18.4 | and that he was a pro-life activist, that he was a Christian man himself. |
| 1:23.1 | So I think, fair enough, we didn't mention that. |
| 1:26.1 | And so I do want to mention that. |
| 1:29.4 | It wasn't, it wasn't intentional. |
| 1:33.5 | Edgar, who's behind the scenes here, had a good conversation with him, I want to say a year or two ago when he went to a Charlie Kirk event. |
| 1:40.8 | Okay. |
| 1:41.6 | So he seemed to be someone who is warm to Catholics, someone who was often on |
| 1:47.6 | the right side of issues that we care strongly about. |
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