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Show 203: The Means of Grace, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, part 1 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, welcome to this week's show. Today, we're beginning
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a new topic in Father of Spirago's exhaustive explanation of
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the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and it's the means
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of Grace. And we're going to start by talking about,
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you know, the most important thing to us as Catholics,
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the holy sacrifice of the Mass. So you're going to
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And we're going to start, of course, with Radio Reply.
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And the questioner has been asking the priest about doctrine.
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He's a modernist, probably a Marxist, what we would call
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a liberal these days. And liberalism is completely incompatible modern liberalism, modernism,
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socialism essession essentially is entirely incompatible with Catholicism. Okay, you
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can only be a liberal Catholic in name only, and
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why is that. Well, to be a modern liberal you
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have to endure abortion. You have to support abortion, and
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the support of abortion means you are de facto excommunicated
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from the Catholic Church. When one of our liberal politicians
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Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, or whatever they're goes and receives
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the Eucharist in that state of mortal sin for promoting
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and supporting abortion, they actually become guilty of the body
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and blood of Christ is what it says in the Bible.
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They become guilty of murdering she and any priest that
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encourages or enables that is going to have a lot
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to answer for we need. I mean, these are mainly
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not ideologically liberal priests, so some are and that's you know,
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incredibly sinful on its own right. But they're cowards. They're
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cowards that won't stand up to politicians. They don't want
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to create scandal. Well, they're actually facilitating this person going
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to hell and providing a bad example to the rest
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of the parishioners and probably leading people astray. And I
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really wouldn't want to be in that priest or bishop's shoes. Now,
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we do have some very liberal socialist priests. At its heart,
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these are secularist atheist ideologies, and that really needs to
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be cleaned out of Catholicism. There is no place for modernist, secularist,
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atheistic liberalists socialism in Catholicism, it's incompatible. Now, it's not
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a matter of economic system. Although socialism and communism are
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also condemned by Father Spirago himself in this exhaustive Catechism
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of the Catholic Church, and by any rational thinking Catholic
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because dear ideology is based on theft and envy and greed,
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which are you know, moratal sense. Again, these are really
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not good things. But any political ideology that embraces endorses
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supports abortion and gay marriage. There's another example, and we
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could go on and on is purely evil on its face,
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and it has no place in Catholicism. Now. So the
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person says, is it consciousness of weakness that makes the
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Catholic Church dread free inquiry and they presensor? She does
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not dread free inquiry into her truth and authority. At
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the same time she knows the great capacity of the
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human mind for going astray. She dreads therefore prejudice, ignorance,
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and the fantastic conclusion of the logical and half educated.
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He continues, if it be a sin to doubt Catholic dogma,
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how can you weigh evidence for and against it? Saint
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Paul tells us to prove all things and the presnswer.
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To admit the christis God, and then to doubt an
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exact statement of his teaching is certainly a sin, for
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that implies either denial of his knowledge or of his
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veracity truthfulness. In other words, but we do not need
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to doubt a thing before we can begin to study it.
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I do not doubt the fact that the earth moves
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around the sun. Yet I am perfectly free to weigh
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all the evidence for or against that proposition. Saint Paul
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believed in the dogma of the Trinity, yet he could
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not prove that dogma save by proving that God had
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revealed it, and it must be accepted on God's authority.
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And the man says, if a man changes from Protestantism
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to to Catholicism, does he not do so by his
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own judgment? And the answer, of course, he must judge
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that Protestantism is false and Catholicism is true, But that
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judgment is preliminary to faith. Having made that judgment and
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acted upon it, he becomes a Catholic, and from that
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moment on he is guided by what he believes, not
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by his own human judgment or opinion, but what Christ
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has actually revealed as taught to him by the Catholic Church.
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And he says, what is your opinion of rationalism? And
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the answer it is the name of a system accepted
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by illogical people who wish to imply, by the self
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chosen title, that they are really guided by reason. And
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he says, has not rationalism made havoc of Christianity reducing
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the Bible to a myth and quenching the fires of
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hell by humanitarian principles? Yes, I would say he is
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definitely a modern day liberal. And they answer, it is
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not made havoc of Christianity. It is, however, making havoc
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of Protestantism. But Protestantism is not really Christianity. Now there's
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a bold statement. Let's say that again, Protestantism is not
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really Christianity. Church alone is the true representative of Christianity,
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and she is not affected by rationalism. The Bible is
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as authentic as ever, and humanitarianism has not affected the
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fires of Hell, even as it had nothing to do
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with their creation. As has been well said, the only
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way to abolish hell is to abolish one's own by
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leading a good life and serving God. The man continues
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is not rationalism on the increase people becoming indifferent to
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your Christianity and the answer outside of the church, yes,
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the principle do not be told by the Catholic Church
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what to think on religion, but be free to think
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for yourself is proving fatal to Protestantism. And that is
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very true. As I've discussed many many times, Protestanism is
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in decline decline worldwide, but especially in America. Men have
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simply asserted their freedom to think Protestism itself and indeed
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all religion useless. Catholics who do not accept the principles
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of free thought are not affected to any great extent.
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If you do not fear rationalism, why do you forbid
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Catholics to read rationalistic writings? And the pres answer, we
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do not fear rationalism. We do fear lest some individual
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Catholics be taken in by its sophistries, thinking that because
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they themselves do not see the solution to difficulties proposed
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that there is no solution. Rationalistic writings constitute a danger
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for shallow and untrained minds, and rather a waste of
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time for educated men. And finally, he says, we rationalists
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can never become Catholics, and they answer, but rational men
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can do so if you are not a Catholic. It
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is not sound reasoning that keeps you outside of the
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Catholic Church. Defective information, mere want of thought, prejudice, moral cowardice, heredity, environment,
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and one hundred other factors may conspire to keep men
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outside of the Catholic Church, but sound reason never does.
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Sound reason is the greatest ally of the Catholic Church
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in the natural order, all right, And I am going
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to try to get through this one without editing at all.
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So if I stumble over a word, I'll try to
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repeat it more clearly, because I don't know how long
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the computer is going to last. And I just can't
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use my phone for recording podcasts. I know some people do.
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I don't know if it's my phone or if it's me,
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but I am far more comfortable speaking into a microphone
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and using a quality sound editing program then you know,
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just doing you know, a phone call. It's just just
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it just doesn't work for me. So have been taking
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a sip of a beverage. I will now embark upon
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Father Spiago's explanation of the Mass, the Holy sacrifice of
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the Mass, and he begins with the topic on sacrifice
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in general. That's where we have to start. Because the
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Mass is a bloodless sacrifice. It is a representation, a representation,
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let's break that word down, representation of the sacrifice of
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Christ in the crucifixion. Since the most important of all
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the means of grace, the Holy Mass, is a sacrifice,
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it is necessary first of all to speak of the
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sacrifice in general. The word to sacrifice means to offer
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something valuable in some person to some person as a
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token of affection for or dependence on that person, or
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to surrender something that we prize for the sake of another.
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If a father gives all he has to his sons
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to enable them to pursue their studies, and himself lives
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in straightened or difficult certain circumstances, he is said to
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have made a great sacrifice for his children. When a
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soldier marches to battle for the defense of his country,
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at the risk of his life and limb, he is
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said to sacrifice himself for his country. By a sacrifice
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to God. Is signified something given up to God out
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of love to him. The poor widow casts money into
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the treasury the last two mites which she possessed. In
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doing so, she made a great sacrifice for God's sake.
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That's Mark twelve forty three. Tobias did the same when
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in captivity he distributed alms to his poor fellow countrymen
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at peril of his own life, and the bodies buried,
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the bodies of the slain Tobit won several reasons Martin
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Luther cut the books of the Book of Tobat from
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the Bible. One he said that all works were evil.
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He said, faith the one that was all that mattered.
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Charity didn't matter. In fact, charity was just as bad
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as anything else. You could do sacrifices for another person,
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any good work, he said, had no merit at all. Well,
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we see in the Book of Tobit that Tobias is
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rewarded for his sacrifices, his works of charity, his acts
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of charity. There's also the intercession of the archangel. I
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guess was Rafael, And yes, Raphael, And yeah, it's a
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very Catholic book, even though it's a Jewish book of
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the Old Testament, and he had to cut it out
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of the Bible or his followers, his Protestant followers would
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have seen that his teachings were not in accord with
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the Bible, which he said was the sole authority on
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the faith. So really pretty amazing how blatant he was
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in his graft, his con artistry. I guess I mean
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he was an antichrist and a very bad man who
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has led millions of people astray. So let's see, I'm tod.
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The Jews made sacrifice when after giving of the law,
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they brought gold, silver, precious stones, purple, etcetera to Moses
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for the making of the tabernacle in Exodus. I guess
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it's Exodus thirty five. We are told in holy scripture
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that to keep the command to depart from injustice and
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to do mercy is to offer sacrifice Ecclesiasticus thirty five
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twenty four. And that's what we call the Book of Sirac.
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And that's another one he cut from the Bible because
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he couldn't have that in there. The essential part of
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sacrifice is the surrender or renunciation of some object that
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will be highly prize of old. If anyone desired to
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accentuate his surrender of the object he valued, he used
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to destroy it completely, thus rendering it impossible for him
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ever to be able to recover possession of it. The
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sacrifice is offered by Cain. Abel and Noah were of
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this nature. Abel slaughtered and burned the first things of
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his slock. His brother Cain offered the fruits of the
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earth as a gift to the Lord Genesis four three
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through five. Noah, on leaving the arc, took some of
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the animals and offered them as holocaust upon the altar
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he had built. That's the Genesis as well, and that's
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I guess six twenty. Hence the word sacrifice signified as
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the voluntary surrender or the destruction of an object which
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we value to give honor to God as our supreme Lord.
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It is no uncommon thing among men to present a
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valuable present to someone as a sign of respect or
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an act of homage. Subjects not unfrequently offer their best
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produce and their skill to the monarch. So we ought
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to give to God what we most value. And as
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in a state, there are certain honors which it is
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the exclusive prerogative of the ruler to receive, so the
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offering of sacrifice is an act of homage which can
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be paid only to God. There are bloody and unbloody
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sacrifices as may be seen from the sacrifices of canaan Abel.
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The oblation offered in sacrifice varied according to the nature
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of the possessions of him who offered it. Either a
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victims such as an ox slamb a dove was taken
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from the animal kingdom. This was a bloody sacrifice because
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the blood of victims was shed, or an ablation was
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taken from the vegetable kingdom some species of food such
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as flour, fruit, or drink wine, for instance, This was
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an unbloody sacrifice because it was without the shedding of blood.
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The animals used to be slaughtered, their blood poured on
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the altar, and their flesh either or consumed entirely by
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fire or eaten in part by the priests and levites.
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Once again, if you actually read the Bible, you know
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that Judaism and Christianity are not vegan religions. Regardless of
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what you may have been taught in college. The fruits
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of the earth were either burned or eaten. Wine was
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poured out a libation on or before the altar. And
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also we use wine. We're not teetotalers either. Whatever they
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call that reform, whatever that's a Protestant thing, and mainly
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the reason they tried to outlail alcohol was because they
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wanted to outlaw the masks. You know, in a lot
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of cases. So anyway, the intention of sacrifice may be
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to give honor to God, to give him thanks, or
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to intreat favor, or to make propitiation. The offering of
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a sacrifice gives outward expression to the feelings of the heart.
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And who has a due knowledge of God, who knows
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him to be the all my Creator, the wise and
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bountiful preserver and ruler of the world, will be penetrated
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with sentiments of respect, of gratitude, of confidence, and contrition.
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And since it belongs to the nature of man to
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manifest outwardly what he feels inwardly, he will evince these
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sentiments by the surrender, the renunciation, or destruction of some
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object that he values. These sentiments are equal to a sacrifice.
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Without them, it would be mere hypocrisy. Consequently, the sentiment
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of compunction is of itself sometimes designated a sacrifice. It
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means you know when your conscience is condemning you for
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what you've done wrong. Sacrifices of praise used to be
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offered daily in the temple. Noah's sacrifice was a sacrifice
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of thanksgiving, one of the sacrifices of Judas Maccabeus caused.
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These sacrifices which Judas Maccabeus caused to be awe before
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going to battle were deprecatory sacrifices. Those offers for the
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warriors who fell in the flight were expiatory sacrifices. Another
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book Martin Luther had to cut from the Bible because
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one it's again you're seeing these sacrifices, but two because
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Judas Maccabeus or in the books of Maccabees, the Maccabees
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emphasized prayers for the dead, expiatory sacrifices for the warriors
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who fell in battle. And of course Martin Luther didn't
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believe in prayers for the dead. He didn't believe in
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purgatory or anything like that. And yeah, he had changed
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the words of the Bible to fit his doctrine. The
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custom of offering sacrifices has existed in all times and
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among all nations of the world. Sacrifices have been customary
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from time immemorial. They were offered by Cain and Abel,
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the children of the first man and the first woman,
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they are found among the Jews and Gentiles. The Jewish
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high priest offered an oblation mourning and e evening in
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the name of the people. He first he burned incense
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upon the altar, and he offered an unbloody sacrifice consisting
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of flour, oil, and frankincense Leviticus six fourteen, and finally
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a sacrifice in which the shedding of blood, the victim
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being a lamb of one year old without blemish, together
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with an oblation of food and drink Exodus twenty nine
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thirty eight. On the Sabbath day, two lambs a year old,
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together with the bread and wine were emoliated or burned.
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In the addition of the daily ablation Numbers twenty eight nine,
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special sacrifices were also appointed for certain feasts. The Heathen
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nations also offered sacrifices, but their ideas on the subject
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were perverted, for they offered human sacrifices, and not to
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the true God, but to idols. Hence, Saint Paul says,
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the things which the Heathen sacrifice they sacrificed to devils
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and not to God. One Corinthians ten to twenty. We
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read in Holy Scripture that the King of Moab took
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his oldest son and offered him for a burnt offering
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upon the wall in order to obtain help against the Israelites.
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That's four Kings three twenty seven. The Phoenicians and other
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Asiatic people used to yearly emoliate young children to their
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god Moloch, the brazen statue of the deity being made
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red hot and the children cast into its arms. The
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custom of offering sacrifice is formally prevailed to a great
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extent in Mexico. Very true, very true. Yeah, a lot
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of human sacrifice among the native tribes of the Americas,
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a lot of cannibalism. We need to remember this when
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people attack Catholicism, for you know, conquering the native religions
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and taking away a lot of their religions were really evil,
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really evil. Some aspects of it were good. You know,
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God makes every person, He puts the truth in everybody's heart.
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But they were very very led astray by demons, and
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you know that is the truth. You want to know
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what happened to the minds where the Aztecs mostly ate them,
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kept them in cages, fattened them up, and ate them. Okay,
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Columbus and the other explorers that usually brought priests with
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them and taught Christianity, Catholicism specifically to the native tribes
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of the Americas, brought them peace and prosperity and happiness
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and helped. Yes, they were mistreated by the governments that
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those people represented, but not by the Church. The Church
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was really really good to them. You know, you may
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have remembered there was this big scandal in Canada, oh
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probably what two years ago now, where they said all
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these like unmarked graves were being found at all these
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schools and orphanages where Catholics were caring for native the
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children of native tribes, and people went crazy. You know,
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the Church is so bad, Cathosism so evil, they just
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killed these children. Been totally disproven, totally disproven. Those graves
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don't exist, those graves. That was a lie that was
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published in the press. That part hasn't really gotten out.
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What got out was to lie and on a lot
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of churches were vandalized and priests attacked. And you know,
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we really do need to know and be proud of
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our Catholic history, and we've made mistakes, acknowledge them, but
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don't let people just condemn I mean, we should celebrate
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Columbus Day. What's been taught in our schools is horrible,
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and it's false as well. It's lies, it's false. So anyway, Yes,
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the custom of offering human sacrifice formerly prevailed to a
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great extent in Mexico. Is said that a number of
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victims slaughtered in a year amounted no less than twenty
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thousand people. Twenty thousand people killed in human sacrifices in
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Mexico every year. That was in a time where the
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population of Mexico is not that big either. So anyway,
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human sacrifice are not yet entirely abolished. They are still
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customary among savages, notably among some African and Indian tribes.
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Remember this was written in the eighteen nineties. I don't
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know that's still true, but still be pretty violent anyway.
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How sad is the condition of man without the Christian faith.
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The chief motives which urge mankind to offer sacrifice are
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the consciousness of sin and the desire for reconciliation with God.
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And because God often required or sanctioned the sacrifice, the
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consciousness of sin was a powerful incentive to man to
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offer sacrifice. Saint Paul says, in them there is made
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a commemoration, sorry congestion here today in them there is
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made a commemoration of sins every year. Let me just
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sip of this drink again, and that's Hebrews ten to three.
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And again without the shedding of blood, there is no
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remission Hebrews nine twenty two. God not equently shows his
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approbation of sacrifice. He testified his acceptance of Abel's offering
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in Genesis four to four, and of Noah's and Genesis
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eight twenty one of the Holocaust offered by the prophet
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of Lice. Holocaust means sacrifice essentially, which was consumed by
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fire from heaven three Kings, eighteen thirty eight. On many
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occasions God required a sacrifice, as of that of Isaac
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Genesis twelve. He gave minute directions concerning the sacrificial offerings
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to the Jews by Moses, Lips and Leviticus several passengers there.
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The knowledge that God approved of and even demanded sacrifices
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from man was a potent motive in inducing him to
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offer them. The sacrifices of the Jewish nations, more particularly
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that of the pastial Lamb and the victim of expiation,
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were typical of the Great sacrifice that the Redeemer was
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to offer on Mount Calvary, so a type of foreshadowing
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up in the Old Testament everywhere of blood. This was
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typical of the blood of Christ, whereby we are purified.
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On the Great Day of Atonement, one of the ceremonies
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consisting this, the High Priest laid both his hands upon
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the head of one of the goats which were to
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be offered up for the people, confessing at the same
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time the iniquities of the children of Israel, and praying
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that that they might light upon the head of the animal.
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Therefupon the goat turned was turned out into the desert.
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The express sims to express symbolically that the sins of
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the people were taken away out of God's sight. That's
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what's where we get the term escape goat. Since the
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Jewish sacrifices were but a foreshadowing of our Lord's expiatory sacrifice,
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they ceased after this was offered, as had been foretold
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by the prophet Daniel, by the prophets including Daniel and
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Hoseah Daniel nine twenty seven and Hoseiah three to four.
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Nor were the sacrifices of the Heathen anything more or
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less than seeking after the true sacrifice of atonement. The
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victims were without blemish, of pure and spotless oblation. Moreover,
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everywhere the persuasion seemed to prevail, that it is impossible
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that with the blood of oxen and goats, sin should
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be taken away Hebrews ten four, or that the deity
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should be propitiated by any other similar victim. A victim
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of infinite value was needed to reconcile God with man.
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And we'll stop there, and next week we'll talk about
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the sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross. We're going to
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get into very We're geting really deep into the sacrificial's meaning.
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It's not symbology, it's real in the Eucharist, it's a representation.
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And hopefully this will also give you a lot more
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insight into the Book of Revelations or the Apocalypse, which
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is also a form of the Mass. You can read
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the Apocalypse of Saint John in the context of the
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end of the world and end times, or you can
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actually see it as a really a symbology, a type
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of the Mass. So we'll get into that. Anyway, y'all
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have a going get a free book from me. Tell
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gets here on time so I can keep caught up
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with my writing and my podcasts. It's really hard to
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do when you only have a phone to work with
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basically right now, and I can't even open my word
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processing programs. You know, I got different ones, and I'm
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writing three books at one time. I can't even open
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them on my laptop for some reason right now. And
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I try to reboot it and it almost didn't come
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back on. It took like five or six tries. So
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it's just like holding on by a thread right now.
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from me. I always appreciate that. So y'all have a
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good one. Remember this. This is the time of Lent,
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and you know, I'll say one last thing. You know,
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as kids were taught to give up you know, sugar
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or sugar or candy for lentt a lot of adults
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might give up alcohol or cigars or you know, well,
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you may consider a bad habit, that's not really what
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Lent's all about. Now, if you have an issue, okay,
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if you have an addiction, definitely try to give it
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up for Lent. Whether it's a food, drink, drugs, pornography,
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whatever it is, you try to give it up. And
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God gives us special graces during lentt And after forty
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days that habit, well it may even be broken, but
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will at least be much strengthened against it. But that's
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not really what Lent's all about. Lentz a time of prayer, fasting,
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and alms giving. It's a time to draw closer to God.
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So really it's the time to look at what what
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in my life separates smoothing from God. Is it a habit?
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Is it a sin? For me? I have a real
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issue with thinking about the past and worrying about the future. Well,
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that's actually very sinful. Jesus said, be anxious for nothing,
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so we can't worry about the future. And you know,
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I've been reading Saint Faustino a lot lately, and she's
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just adamant that no one can change anything that happened
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in the past. So that's what I'm focusing on for Lent. Yes,
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I'm doing some dietary things, you know, I'm fasting and
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you know a lot of different things like that and
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making little sacrifices. But that's basically ask kids stuff, right.
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My resolution is not to think about the past or
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to worry about the future, but to try to live
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in the moment, relying on God doing the best I can.
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If there's something like that in your life, I would
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strongly urge you to consider thinking not so much. You know,
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I'm going to give up eating cookies for wint, But
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what is this thing I need to work on that
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is separating me from God? And say a prayer about it,
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pray on it a lot, ask the help of your
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guardian angel and all the angels and saints, especially the
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Blessed Mother as always. That I think is going to
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be far more efficacious as the as father Sparagao would
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have said. Then, you know, giving up soft drinks for
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wint or something like that, that's just, you know, that's
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not really what it's all about. It can be good.
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It can be good, especially if you have a dependance
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and addiction whatever. Maybe you need to drop a few pounds,
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that's great too, but that's not really what it's all about,
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So just bear that in mind. I think, you know,
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we tend to remember the way we were taught as kids,
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not ever really thinking that, you know, that was almost
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really symbolic, you know, that was making a little sacrifice,
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that was keeping you mindful of lent. That's not really
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what it's all about. So I'm just gonna leave it there.
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Y'all have a going and I'll talk to you next time.