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Speaker 1: The all, Welcome to this week's show. We will begin
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a new section in the exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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We're going to talk about the very interesting and well
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fart far less often spoken of than it should be,
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topic of Christian perfection. Christian perfection is a very well
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it's an ancient Catholic teaching. The saints and doctors of
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the Church have written on it quite a bit. There
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are Protestant denominations that also speak of Christian perfection in
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a way that is not at all in keeping with
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Catholic dogma, and that's where we're a really good place
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to start. We'll start with the question of Catholic doga.
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We'll turn to radio Replies, the great old book by
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fathers Rumbo and Cartney written in the early part of
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the last century, where callers and letter writers would get
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in touch with them on their radio show and these
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were usually very anti Catholic people and whether they were
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Protestants or atheist or communists, and the priests would defend
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the Catholic faith. These arguments are still used today by
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communists and atheists and Protestants and you name it. Okay,
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so really very relevant and this is a great place
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to start. So the questioner asks for the priests or states, actually,
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dogma will not save a single soul, and they answer alone,
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it will not. But since the Catholic Church is the
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true Church which Christ commands us to hear, the conscious
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and deliberate rejection of her dogma can forfeit salvation. Person continues,
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a man could be orthodox on every question and yet
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be lost, And they say that is true. For Saint
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James tells us clearly that faith without works is dead,
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but that does not give any man permission to be unorthodox.
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He says, people will never know the dogma of the
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Church to be t true unless she changes them again.
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Today they want the Catholic Church to change the doctrines
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and dogmas against things like divorce and homosexuality and abortion
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and all that stuff. And the presnswer if the people
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do not know the dogmas of the Church to be true,
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it is not because of any fault of the dogmas,
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but because of the fault in themselves. They are either
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inadequately informed or wrongly informed. Certainly, they would never know
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the dogmas of the Church to be true if she
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did alter them. Any alteration of them would be at
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the expense of truth. There is some hope for people
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so long as the church keeps her dogmas intact, as
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she will do. Of course, the person continues. Your unchanging
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dogmas are an insult to a man's evolving intelligence. Very
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progressivest charge that you will hear nearly every college professor
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in any secular institution say, and unfortunately far too many
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in Catholic universities from what I found out. Amazingly, they answer, Rather,
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do you insult reason when you suggest that the truth
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must change before intelligent men can accept them. If what
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was true in religion two thousand years ago is not
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true today, it was never true. If I can disbelieve
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it now it should have been disbelieved. Then Christ taught
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absolute truth, and his doctrine will remain itself for all eternity.
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If the dogmas of Christianity change, every intelligent man should
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abandon Christianity. Intelligent men are rapidly abandoning Protestantism with its
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constantly shifting positions, and we've talked about that quite a bit.
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I mean the well, the Anglican Episcopal Church is down
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well over seventy five percent of its membership since say
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it admitted a female vicars. I guess they call him
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and normalize gay marriage and gay vicars. People were just
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leaving it. They know it to be untrue. I think
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if you saw that spectacle of the Episcopal bishop lecturing
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President Trump the other day, you could see, Yeah, that's
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someone not holding close and true and fast to the truth.
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The Catholic Church refuses to change her dogmatic teaching, and
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she is daily receiving intelligent men into her fold. And
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that's also true. The Catholic Church is basically the only
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mainline denomination growing worldwide. The rest are losing numbers. The
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Protestantism is dying out. Now. You may say, well, the
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Pentecostals are getting a lot of numbers. Yeah, they are
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in mostly places where people are very uneducated and often illiterate. Yeah,
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they can convince people to fall for just about anything.
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That's how Pentecostalism is always spread. Its started in the
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poorous communities, mostly in the American South, where charismatic preacher
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would be a good example, a Jim Baker type he
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was Pentecostal, could come in and shout and you know,
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pound on the Bible and pound on the table and
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get people all worked up into a frenzy, and that's
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you know, yeah, sorry, that's what it is. Now, that's
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not true of all. Pentecostals said many times, there's some
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really good religious people in every Christian denomened nation and
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delby judged by what they know of the truth. By
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what process of reasoning do you hope to win men
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of clean lives and unshackled intelligence to your dogma? And
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they answer, the process is this Catholic dogmas being the
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truth set the minds of men free from human errors
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on the subject of religion. And I argue that most
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normally intelligent men wish to be free from error. Again,
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I reason that men of clean lives are well fitted
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to the application of lofty moral standards of Catholicism. The
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only type of which I despairseed the man of whose
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intelligence is the man whose intelligence is shackled by prejudice
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or by inability to rise us above crude notions usually
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taught in the name of so called rationalism. First, and continues,
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we'll get maybe two or three more short questions and
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answers here, do you think your old fashioned dogma has
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any appeal? And I say, the dogmas of the Catholic
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Church clearly express the exact teachings of Jesus Christ, the
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Son of God. If they seem old fashioned to some men,
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these men have simply outgrown the truth to their own detriment.
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Cannot men persuade themselves to accept any so called truth
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in matters of religion? And they answer, they can, and
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they do. This accounts for the rationalistic position, whether it's
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refusal to believe in any save irreligious notions. But Catholics
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do not persuade themselves to think their own religious doctrines.
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They accept them from the Church established and guaranteed by
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Christ as a matter of hard historical fact. And finally,
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he asks or states are a crime of hostility to
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freedom of thought and expression? And they answered, simply, hostility
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towards freedom to do wrong or express false blasphemies and
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irreligious doctrine is not a crime. It would be a
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crime to be indifferent to these things. True religion gives
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freedom from error and freedom to love and serve God.
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And we'll talk a little bit more next week. This
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guy goes on for quite a bit, and like I said,
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you sit in any college classroom, you're going to hear
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these same arguments today. Probably in a high school classroom
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these days, I know, I got a ton of But
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it went to a very liberal hippie high school, probably
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not surprisingly to anybody that knows we're boon, North Carolina is.
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And yeah, there were some good Christian folks there, but
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a lot of the teachers were leftover hippies from the
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sixties and seventies that were as communist as communists could be,
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and they took it as their duty to try to
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turn their students to towards their ideology, especially politically, but
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also in terms of religion. And look at the books
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that the left is pushing, all the books on you know,
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gay stuff and trans stuff and all that. In elementary schools,
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they are still very much trying to undermine the faith
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of children before they ever get to a point of reason. Really,
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all right, now we talk about Christian perfection, and father
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Sparrago begins with the topic the aspiration after Christian perfection.
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No builder leaves an edifice half finished, and edifice is
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a building. In case you didn't know that, if he
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has begun to construct a house, he does not rest
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until is completed. An artist is not handing the portrait
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he is painted until every feature is faithfully delineated. Well,
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remember Father Sparago was right of this in the eighteen nineties,
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and of course that was before some of the more
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modernist paintings. So but still, you know, any artist worth
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his assault takes care in his work. Christians do likewise. Whinin.
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Once he has undertaken the work of his own sanctification
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and is in a state of grace, let him strive
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to bring the edifice of virtue to completion and form
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himself to a true image of God. Our aim should
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be to make progress every day. God requires of all
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the just that they should aspire to Christian perfection. God
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desires the sinner to be converted, the just to strive
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after perfection. The duty of aspiring after perfection is included
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in the precept of charity, for it requires us to
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love God with all of our strength. And what else
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does that mean but continual advancement in the path of virtue.
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He that has just, let him be justified still, and
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he that has holy, let him be sanctified still. That's
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from Apocalypse or Revelations twenty two to eleven. Our Lord
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lays this injunction upon us. Be you therefore perfect as
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your heavenly Father also is perfect Matthew five point forty eight.
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The will of God is that none other is none
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other than our sactfy ocasion. He who does not aim
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at the attainment of Christian perfection is in danger of
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losing his soul. The vessel that does not stem the
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stream will drift downwards. Where there is no progression, there
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is retrogression. No man can stand still on the path
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of virtue as soon, says Saint Augustine, as thou art
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content with thyself and thinkest thou hast done enough, thou
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art lost. We should aim at the highest degree of sanctity,
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imitating the trader who is wont to ask the highest
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price possible for his wares. The most sublime example Christian
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perfection is found in our Lord. After him, the Saints
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are also patterns of perfection. Christ says, I Am the Way,
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the Truth, and the Life John fourteen six. When the
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rich youth ask Our Lord what was he to do
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in order to be perfect? The answers given him follow me.
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Matthew nineteen nineteen. Was at first twenty one. I guess
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Saint Paul bids us put ye on the Lord, Lord
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Jesus Christ Romans thirteen fourteen. As an apprentice watches his
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master at work, that he may learn to work like Kim,
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so we ought to keep our eyes fixed on the
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Master of Christ. The Saints meditate unceasingly on the life
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and passion of our Lord. He is the Christian's pattern.
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The Saints are also examples of perfection, for they imitate Christ.
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Their life is a copy of his life. Saint Paul
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exhorts the Corinthians be he followers of Me one Corinthians
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four to ten, and he enjoins on the Hebrews the
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necessity of imitating the Saints Hebrews six twelve. The Church
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commemorates one or more of the Saints on each day
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of the ecclesiastical year, in order to incite us to
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their imitation. The Saints stand in the same relation to
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Christ as the stars. Due to the Sun, He surpasses
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them all in perfection. Thus it is easier for us
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to imitate the Saints. We know that it is impossible
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for us ever to attain the perfection of which Christ
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sets us an example. But the sanctity of the Saints
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is within our reach. And here it must be remarked
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that on almost every saint excelled in the practice of
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one particular virtue. Also that the actions of each were
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suited to and in conformity with their circumstances, the environment
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in which they are placed e. G. They're calling their means,
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their bodily strength, and natural temperament. Everyone ought to choose
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for his own model a saint whose position and calling
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were similar to his own the perfection of Christian. The
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perfection of the Christian consists in charity towards God and neighbor,
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and an attachment of heart from the things of this world.
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Love is fulfilling the law Romans thirteen ten. Charity is
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the bond perfection Colossians three fourteen. Saint Augustine, when asked
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how sanctity of life was to be attained, answered, love
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God and do as thou wilt, meaning that he who
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truly loves God will do nothing that displeases him. Saint
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Francis Dessalle says that the only true perfection is to
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love God with our whole heart and our neighbor as
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ourselves all other perfections spurious. Saint Thomas Aquinas define sanctity
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as the firm surrender of one's self to God. Sanctuary
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does not consist in the outward observance of religion, in
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long prayers and fasting, in almsgiving. But these are means
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to attainment. By the way, I think today's Saint Thomas
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Quinas is the day of his memorial, and it was
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Saint Francis de Sala two three days ago, and I
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think Saint Augustine's coming up. So these these are good
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to listen to you right now. The saincts need does
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not consist in the outward observances of religion. We'll see
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where we got that. Nor does sanctity consist in complete
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freedom from sin. It is events rather by constant and
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energetic resistance to sin, for God frequently permits even saints
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to fall into sin to keep them humble. Least of
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all does sanctity consist in extraordinary works, which the world
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regards with astonishment and admiration. We do not read of
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the Mother of God ever having performed extraordinary works, or
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Saint Joseph, the foster Father of Christ. In the ranks
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of the saints, a great number will be found who
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never shown in the sight of the world, their life
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was hid with Christ in God. Colossians three three. The
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love of God is always accompanied by hatred of the
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world and abhorrence of its sinful and sensual delights. If
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any man loved the world, the charity of the Father
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is not in him one John two point fifteen. The
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love of God and the love of the world are
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like the scales of a balance. As one rises, the
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other falls. As charity increases in the heart, sinful affections
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die out. As one who had climbed to the top
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of a tower must have send the steps to lead
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to it. So if we would reach the summon perfection,
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we must attach our hearts as completely as possible from
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earthly things. The greater our hatred of the world and
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our proportionate charity towards God and our neighbor, the greater
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the degree of perfection we have attained. And of course,
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when he says hatred of the world, he doesn't mean
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to hate the world and the people and trees and
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birds and stuff in it. He means to prefer the
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things of the spirit than the things of the physical.
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He who makes Christian profect his aim will attain it surely,
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but slowly, our Lord says, Blessed are they that hunger
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and thirst after justice, For they shall have their feel
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Matthew five six. A sincere desire for perfection and an
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untiring effort to attain it will not be unsuccessful. The
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desire for it is already half the battle. For an
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energetic desire gives force and courage, makes labor light daunts
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the enemy, makes man pleasing to God, and attains grace
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on Saint Thomas Aquinas, being asked how one can make
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sure of attaining sanctity, replied by a resolute will. No
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one has ever attained sanctity without fervently desiring it, any
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more than proficiency in art or science has been acquired
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by one whose wishes were not equally set upon it.
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But progress towards Christian perfections is very slow. Our sanctification
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is not the work of a single day. No one,
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unless he be particularly privileged by God, can reap perfection
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in a short time. It is the same in the
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spiritual as it is in the natural order. A plant
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does not spring up and blossom in a night. The
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infant does not grow to man's estate in a single day.
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The progress the process of healing is a slow one. Indeed,
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the slower the sure So it is with our sanctification
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there are three degrees in the way of perfection. That
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of beginners who still retain a strong affection for mortal sin,
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that of advanced, who cannot abstain from venial sin, and who,
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because of attachment to earthly things, are still in a
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state of warfare. And the perfect whose heart is completely
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detached from earth and given to God, and who consequently
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are entirely at peace within themselves. And I will certainly
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state that I am certainly a beginner in disregard, and
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it is a constant and very hard struggle. These three
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degrees are also known as the purgative, the illuminative, and
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the unitive way. They correspond to the supernatural life of
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three stages of man's natural life childhood, the period of
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mental and physical weakness, adolescence, the period of deay, development
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and manhood and spiritual maturity, Saint ignacious and joydance. Upon
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beginners meditate on the last four things. The four last
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things he actually said, on the advance consideration of the
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passion of our Lord, on the perfect contemplation of divine
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goodness and celestial joys. There is no end to the
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way of Perfection, for the love of God is without limit.
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He who is just, letting be justified still, and he
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knows holy, letting be sanctified still. It is, however, within
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the power of man to approach very near, while still
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on earth, to the state of the blessed in heaven.
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There is no state or calling in life in which
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Christian perfection is not possible. Saints are formed in every class,
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from the highest to the lowest to the love of God,
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and one's neighbor is the luton. To love God in
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one's neighbor is within everyone's power. How easy a thing
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it is, says Saint Bonaventure, to love God. There is
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nothing laborious, nothing disagreeable involved in it. In fact, nothing
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is more delight to the heart than to love God.
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From other good works. A man may excuse himself saying
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I cannot fast, or I have not means to give alms,
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But no one can say I cannot love. Pious practice
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must be proportionate to the powers and adapted to occupations
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and duties of the individual. Saint Francis Desau compared piety
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to a fluid which takes the shape of the vessel
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in which is contained, So as you can see, Christian
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perfection is actually the means to sainthood. And the reason
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we have so many disagreements with other you know, with
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Protestant denominations and with certain political groups that profess their
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own means of Christian perfection, their own methods, so to speak.
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To reference one of them, is that so much of
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what they deny to be sinful is really truly sinful
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and puts a barrier between the persons saying to it.
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First of all, many Protestants to deny that there are
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or any saints whatsoever. I mean, I know they certainly do.
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At a certain Southern unis to Southern Baptist University I
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went to, they didn't want to hear any mention of saints.
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And even when you said, wait a minute, mentioned saints
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several times of the Bible, when you read the passage,
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they say, we don't believe in saints. Everybody is a
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Christians a saint. Okay, not true. So, first of all,
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there's a big problem those that deny there's anything wrong
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with divorce, you know, choosing to disregard Jesus's words in
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all four Gospels. I don't see how they can attain sainthood,
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because even if they are, you know, never marry or
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marry and stay married for life. They say they know
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better than God, and that is a sin against the
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Holy Spirit. That is making an idol of yourself. That
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is one of the most grave sins you can do.
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Any denomination that says it's okay to be practice homosexual sex,
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it's not matter of saying someone may be born with
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certain tendencies. That's different. Those that approve of homosexual relations, Nope, sorry,
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it's going to be impossible for them to become saints.
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And those who engage in adultery, divorced homosexual relations, how
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are they going to get there? Okay, now we all
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sin and we all fail, right, but we have to
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acknowledge it's a sin and a failure in order to
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go to confession and be forgiven or be absolutely truly
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contrite and pray to God for forgiveness. That's the whole
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part of the methods. So to call for Christian perfection.
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Those who deny the authority of the Pope, those that
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deny the authority of the Catholic Church, those that deny
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the sacraments. The most efficacious means to obtain Christian perfection,
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the fastest, the one that's going to get you there
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fastest are the sacraments. When you are baptized, you are
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cleansed of all original and actual. If you died the
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very moment after your baptism, you go straight to heaven.
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Those who deny baptisms such as well, the Baptists for one, now,
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probably not all of them, but again, the Southern Baptist
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University I went to, and the Presbyterian College that I
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went to for a couple of semesters, all said it
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was just symbolic and unnecessary. Now, I mean, and they
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are considered mainline. They're considered mainstream. Those who deny the Eucharist.
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Jesus said, if you're saved by water in the blood,
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the blood is the blood that we receive in the
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eucharust he said, you must be born again through that,
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he said, And the water, of course, is baptism. He said.
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Unless you eat of my body and drink of my blood,
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you have no life in you. I mean, those who again,
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the next quickest means to Christian perfection is regular reception
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of the Eucharist. Those who are in a state of
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sin can quickly be freed from that by going and
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giving their confession to a priest. Those who are confirmed
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to the Catholic Church, receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
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It's really, really, really hard to look at any and
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I mean, shoot, what would you just say? Another? One
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of the main ways you get through is through the
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works of charity. And Martin Luther changed the very words
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of Jesus to say by faith alone and said that
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all works were evil and charity was not even be done.
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He encouraged people commit adultery and murder. And I'm serious,
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I've done whole shows on that. His actual writings, he
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encouraged murder and adultery, even accused Jesus of adultery. I mean,
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really bad, dude. So I mean, how does a Lutheran
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have this this easy guide to saint to it. I'm
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not saying they can't get there. I'm not judging their hearts.
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But starting with Lutheranism, then going to the Anglican I
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mean a church built founded to supplant the role of
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the pope with that of the king and to legalized divorce.
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And then we get into the Presbyterians and the Methodists
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and the Baptist and down to you know, your non denominations,
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your Church of God, your Pentecostals, I'm not saying they
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can't get there. I know at least one Pentecostal who
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I believe fully got there, and that was my great grandfather.
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My great grandfather's mother founded a Pentecostal church. And he
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was devout, and he was saintly, and he was holy.
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And when he died, I saw three doves raised from
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his grave. He was not you know when he's speaking
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in tongues, rolling around on the floor type. He had
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a limited knowledge of religion, and he read his Bible
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and he prayed constantly, and he was a very very
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very very good man. And I'm sure God judged his heart.
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How much easier would it have been for him to
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have the access to the sacraments. I mean, he had
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a ninety four i think year old long life of
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constant sacrifice and struggle, and I think God rewarded him
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for it. So it's not exclusive. I mean, well, when
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we get to heaven and we meet the saints, we're
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going to meet people of the Catechism even says people
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of different religions who never were informed of Christianity but lived,
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you know, loving God with other heart and loving their
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neighbors themselves. I know there's some matter of controversy. That's
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a Vatican two catechism. A lot of more traditional Catholics
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deny that completely. But God made each person in his
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own image and loves each person and will draw them
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to Him as best they are able to respond. That's
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the best way to put it. So we're really looking
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here in the topic of Christian perfection on how to
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become a saint. And this is really important. So you're
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going to want to stay keep up with this series,
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share it with friends and family. It's really super important.
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And this is one from you know, Father Spraguer's exhaustive
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explanation of the Catechism. This is old, old cancut cases
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before a lot of the new changes and ideas came in.
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And it's very simple and straightforward and blunt and can
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be hard to read in places. You know, it can
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be hard when you realize you're not living up to
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what is demanded of you. You know, Jesus says, if
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you love me, you will follow my commandments. So to
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love God with our heart actually means to follow the
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commandments of Jesus. That's really difficult. And when one of
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his main commandments is, you know, to listen to those
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he put in positions of authority, the apostles, and the
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church that he founded. We got a whole lot easier
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shot of it than those outside of the church. But
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it's still going to take our entire lifetimes of struggle.
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I've been recently reading from Saint Francis Tosau and St Francis,
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I mean and say Teresa Avilla, and they struggled mightily
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throughout their lives and attain great, you know, levels of holiness.
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But we're still struggling to to the very end. So
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you know, these are the guideposts that we need to follow.
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And our next topic for the next show is the
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general means for the attainment of perfection. That's kind of important. So,
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like I said, share this one friend, family, loved ones,
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Let's get everybody on the same page here, and you know,
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let's let's work together and do the best we can
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because we are given a gift that really well, it
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was given to all Christians, but a lot of them
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have denied it, a lot of them have refused it.
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And you know, this is a grace freely given by God,
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and you can refuse that gift. You can refuse that grace,
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and that's a shame, but a whole lot do a
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whole lot do. Saint Padre Pia was very adamant on
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that point in his visions, and Father Groceel who used
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to be on AWTN, who had so many visions of
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hell and such. Yeah, if you ever get a chance
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to go back and listen to see some of his
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old episodes on EWTN from I don't know, ten fifteen
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years ago before he passed away, Venerable Fulton sheen very
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adamant on this point. Yeah. Anyway, remember it's never enough
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just as to be a member of the Catholic Church.
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It's not like I mean to the descendants of Abraham.
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You know, they were born Jewish. Right, you can be
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born into a Catholic family, but you're only a Catholic
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if you're practicing Catholic. And we're only going to get
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there if we're struggling and vehement, because Jesus said that
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the lukewarm, he would spit out of his mouth. So anyway, y'all,
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in the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and
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don't worry, and I will talk to you next time.