Hey everybody welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show today we're going to be talking about one of the most ancient Christian texts that did okay

That's right. We're going to look at this early Christian document that goes back to the time of the church fathers and show how much proof that it shows

of the early church's Catholicity.

Did it okay? The apostles, I would say they did okay. heh heh heh. All right. This is going to be an interesting episode. I know this is a text that has been put together since the beginning of Christianity.

It's one that we still use today in reference to Christian morality in our church, so looking forward to unpacking this a little bit.

Yeah, you know, the Didikay is one of the most fascinating documents from Antiquity that's out there.

In fact, the Didikay, according to most scholars, predates even some of the books of the New Testament. That's how old it is. But one of the most fascinating parts of it, and we'll get into this more is that when you

start to crack into you say wow this sounds pretty familiar to what we still

do today whether it's for the Eucharist whether it's very specific teaching on morality whether it's for the Eucharist, whether it's very specific teaching on morality, whether it's on the different sacraments,

it shows how much continuity there is between the early Apostolic Church and the Church fathers and the way that we celebrate the

Catholic faith today. No doubt and the amazing thing is that it was lost for centuries.

That's right. Oh really? Yeah, that's the impressive thing. They didn't find it. I think

it was until the late 1800s, you know.

That's cool. So let's start with, okay, what is the Didicke, right? So the Didicke is an ancient early church manuscript.

The Diddicke is not actually its proper name.

Didicke is a Greek word meaning teacher,

okay, or the teachings. The proper name for the didicate is the Lord's teaching through the

12 apostles to the nations. So it's a much longer name. And, you know, scholars aren't really sure.

Originally scholars kind of thought

that it dated back to maybe the second century.

But when they were analyzing it more,

they said, look, this was written to a Jewish community of the early church

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