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Show 189: Forgiveness of Sin · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. Been a
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few days since I've done one. I had to take
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a little time off, do some hurricane cleanup and little
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travel and all kinds of fun stuff, And of course
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we had the election, woo trump one. All right, So
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let's just jump right in here, try to get caught
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back up with where we were. We'll start with the
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questions and answers from radio replies, and today the person
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asks why does the Catholic Church? Why is the Catholic
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Church antagonistic to the Bible? When they answer, she is not.
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She protects it and defends it. But she does teach
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that the private reading of the Bible, with reliance solely
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upon one's own powers of comprehension, is no sure way
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to arrive at the truth taught by Christ. And experience
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bears out this teaching. And the question asked, was not
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the Bible unknown to the people before the Reformation? And
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they answer no. Beautifully illuminate copies of the script wrought
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by the monks were in the charge of the clergy
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in the churches, and from these the Word of God
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was carefully preached to the people. Before the inventu of
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the printing press, a wider diffusion was impossible. The asks
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did not the Catholic Church burn all Bibles and punish
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those who had copies? And they answered no. The Catholic
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Church would have been very foolish to have copies multiplied
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only to destroy them. When the printing press was invented
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by the German Catholic Gutenberg in fourteen forty five, the
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first book printed was a Bible before Protestantism had come
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into existence. And he continues, yet does not the Catholic
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Church regard the work of the Bible Society as a
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danger to Christianity and the answer She condemns the principle
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that Bibles should be distributed indiscriminately to people on the
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understanding that they will be able to attain the truth
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without the guidance of the Church and by their own
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unaided efforts. The wildest absurdities have resulted from the theory
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of private interpretations. And if it is not dangerous to
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Christianity to have some new pretended Christian Church arising every
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ten years from some mad cap reading of an isolated text,
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I would like to know your idea of what is
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really dangerous to Christianity and The person then says, does
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not she herself the Church forbid the reading of scriptures
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in the vernacular, and the answer no. There are various
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Catholic societies for the diffusion of the Holy Gospels in
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the vernacular that's the language of whatever country you happen
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to be in, such as the Society of Saint Jerome
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approved by the Church. Pope Pious the tenth granted special
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blessings to all those who would read scripture daily and
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recommend others to do so. But it is essential that
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the teaching of the Living Church be kept in mind
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as a key to the true sense of the Bible.
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All right, And you'll hear that kind of stuff a
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lot from Protestants. They'll say, the Catholic Church doesn't allow
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people to read the Bible, and that's not true. We
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actually gain an indulgence from reading the Bible thanks to
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what was pious the which one was it? You just said,
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I just said it? Uh, yeah, pious. The Tenth, of course,
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and the Catechism instructs us to read the Bible, and
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the Church says that, you know, knowledge of the Bible
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is knowledge of God, and very often, as a penance,
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shall be told to read the Bible. I mean we're
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supposed to read the Bible every day. That the Bible
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is a work of the Church. The Church wrote the Bible.
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Jesus didn't leave a book. He left a church that
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wrote the Bible, propagated the Bible, and has never forbid,
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forbade anyone knowledge of the Bible. The Bible was read
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to people before they were literate, and once why it spread.
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Literacy came about the Church's authorized Catholic Bibles, beginning with
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the Bibliosacra Vogada. I believe it's in what the four hundreds,
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And then you know the doing Reims is older than
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the King James and far more accurate. And you know,
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most Protestants don't even know that Gutenberg was Catholic. That's truth,
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all right. Now, let's get into Father Spirago's exhaustive Catechism
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of the Catholic Church, and today we will talk about
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the wonderful topic of the forgiveness of sin. There is
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no man upon earth without sin. Consequently, there is none
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who does not need forgiveness of sin. If we say
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we have no sin, the truth is not in us.
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First John one point eight. The just man falls seven
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times Proverbs. I guess it's twenty four to sixteen. God
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permits us to fall into venial sin again and again
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to keep us humble. As we sin daily, we must
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daily ask for forgiveness of sin in our in the
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our Father. Only by reason of an exceptional privilege, such
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as was bestowed upon God to his blessed mother can
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mortal man pass the period of his soul upon earth
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without committing venial sin. Nay more, without the succor of
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special grace. It is impossible to avoid venial sin for
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any length of time. The highest perfection of which human
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frailty is capable is this, not to commit any sin,
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even venial sin, with deliberate intent. We can obtain forgiveness
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of sin because Christ merited it for us by death
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on the cross, and because he gave the power to
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forgive sins to his apostles and their successors. There is
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nothing more consoling for mankind upon earth than the forgiveness
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of sins, For nothing causes us more misery than sin.
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Even in pagan time, Socrates look forward hopefully to the
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advent of a mediator who would teach mankind in what
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manner remission of sin was to be obtained. Christ earned
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the grace of forgiveness for us by his sacred passion
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and death upon the cross. Christ is the lamb of
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God who taketh away the sins of the world John
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one twenty nine. In him we have redemption through his
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blood and remission of sins Colossians one fourteen. Christ is
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a propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only,
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but also for those of the whole world. First John
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two two. Christ conferred the power to forgive sins only
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upon the Apostles and their successors. He himself exercised his
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power in the case of Mary Magdalen, said Chaus the
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good thief. When he healed the paralytic, he said expressly
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that you may know the son of Man hath the
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power on earth to forgive sins. I say unto thee arise,
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take up thy bed and go. Matthew nine. This same
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power which he possessed, our Lord gave to the Holy
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Apostles when after his resurrection he said to them, receive
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ye the Holy Ghost, who sends yourself forgive they are
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forgiven them, and who sends you retain they are retained.
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John twenty twenty three. And you will find the most proper.
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Since I have never read that verse, it always amazed you,
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I mean, people who've been to Bible colleges and such.
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The way the Bible is taught in Protestant churches and
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Sunday schools and Bible colleges and all that. It's very
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out of context and very you know, to take a
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passage here and explain it, preach on it whatever. If
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you ever hear a Protestant sermon, this is mainly way
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it is. So take like two sentences out of the
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Bible and talk about it for the next thirty minutes.
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Usually it has very little to do what they've actually
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just read out of the Bible. It's just like they're
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they consider it to be an inspired opinion. Well it's not.
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But when you start taking passages out of the Bible
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and you don't read things in context, it's really easy
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to skip over those verses that show the lie of
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Protestant doctrine. And I mean pretty amazing. Just a few
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months ago, I got in like a little minor debate
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online and the person said they had a doctor of
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divinity and been a minister and a teacher of all that,
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and they said, you know, a priest has no ability
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forgive sins. And I stated this verse and they said,
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where's that in the Bible. And I'm like, get your Bible,
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go to John. What was it. I'll say it one
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more time and it's John twenty twenty three. And they said,
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that doesn't mean that they can actually forgive. I said,
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but no, Jesus actually said, those who sends you forgive,
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they are forgiven. Those who sends you retain, they are retained. Well,
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they're just saying it's like the you know, the Lord's prayer,
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forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who are
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trespasses this week, for you those trespass against this, you know,
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depending on the translation, I'm like, no, no, no, that's
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asking God to forgive your sins, and you're required to
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forgive someone who sent against you. This is take the
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subject of verb. Let's go back to our old you know,
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English classes from when we're in third grade, and let's
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diagram this sentence. Jesus is specifically saying you, the apostles
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have the power to forgive the sins of others, not
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sins they've committed against you, but their sins that they've
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committed against anyone and anywhere, in any place, and far
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beyond that you have the power to retain their sins.
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They argued for a couple hours and basically gave up
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and that was the end of it. Absolutely unable to
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make them realize that the words of the Bible are
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in direct contradiction with what they were taught in their
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Bible college. Because the person has a PhD in Divinity
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studies or something, you know, and they can't accept that
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what they were taught was wrong. It would literally undermine
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everything for them, undermine their belief their doctrine, their theology,
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their credentials, their rear, they're standing in their community. If
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they had to admit that the Catholic Church was right
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and they're wrong, that's I mean, it's pride is the
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biggest obstacle. Human stubbornness based on pride is the biggest obstacle,
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all right. So anyway, he therefore, who would have his
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sins forgiven, must address himself to the bishop or the priest,
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whom in Christ has appointed. In the Catholic Church alone
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is the remission of sins, for she alone has received
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the Holy Ghost as a pledge of this grace. It's
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a reference to Saint Augustine. Something Saint Augustine wrote, he
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didn't give the exact verse on that may have been
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a direct quote. I'm not sure. Mortal sin is remitted
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by baptism and penance. Venial sin and the temporal penalties
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do it by good works done in a state of grace.
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These good works are prayer, fasting, almsgiving, hearing holy masks,
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receiving holy communion, use of the sacramentos, gaining indulgences, and
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forgiving offenses. Baptism is the ship in which we embark
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on our voyage to heaven. If we commit mortal sin,
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we are like men who are shipwrecked. The only hope
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for them of being saved is laying hold of a
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plank and clinging firmly to it. So for the Christian,
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the only means of reaching the port of eternal salvation
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is through the sacrament of penance. Not prayer, fasting, nor
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almsgiving in itself can procure for man the forgiveness of
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mortal sin. These can only lead to penance, by which
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sin is washed away. Angels and archangels have no power
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to alter this. Nay, the Redeemer himself does not forgive sin.
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Without penance, and that's says a direct Saint Augustine quote.
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Good works do, however, avail for the expiation of venial sin.
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Thus Saint Augustine declares a single pattern noster or our
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Father said from the heart, will obliterate the venial sin
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of a whole day. Venial sins can also be remitted
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by the use of holy water, indulgences, prayers, communion, the
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blessing of the bishop, etc. There is no sin too
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great for God to forgive here below, if it be
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sincerely repented of and humbly confessed. God makes his promise
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to the contrite sinner. If your sins be as scarlet,
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they shall be made as white as snow, And if
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they be as red as crimson, they should be as
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white as wool Isaiah one p. Eighteen. God makes no
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distinction between sinners. He permits the priest to forgive every
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sin without exception. Therefore, no man is so godless and wicked,
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but that he may yet hope to obtain forgiveness, provided
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he be sincerely sorry for his transgressions. In fact, God
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receives the sinner more graciously the greater his sin has been,
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just as the fisherman pursues his work more gladly the
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bigger fish he catches. The sin against the Holy Ghost
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is the only one which admits of no forgiveness, because
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the man who sins against the Holy Ghost is the
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man who will not amend. The fault does not rest
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with God but with the man. For even if he
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acknowledges his sin, he will not abandon it, and consequently
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does not bewail it without contrition and change of heart,
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there is no forgiveness. A sin once forgiven is a
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face forever, even if the sinner falls again into mortal sin.
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This is not the case with good works. They are
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reckoned again to a man's account if he makes his
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peace with God. See how merciful is God Almighty. All right,
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we will wrap it up there. It's a short one.
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Maybe I can do another one tomorrow, but it was
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a short passage. So y'all, I hope you enjoyed this one.
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Have a good one, and I will ohe never forget
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the word of Saint Padre Pio. Pray, hope and don't worry,
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and I'll talk to you next time.