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Show 52: Why all Christians should love the Mother of God · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. Sorry, I have missed a
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couple of podcasts. I have been on the road, been traveling, and
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I only got about fortnight four hours sleep last night, and probably less than
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that the night before. So that maybe a little spacey for today's show,
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but I think I can pull it off. Let's get into our radio replies
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for the day and then we'll get on to the main topic. Remember this
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comes from the nineteen thirties book Radio Replies, where non Catholics and often Communists,
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would send in questions to two priests when Australia, when in America,
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challenging them about all aspects of the faith. And it's a really classic apologics
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book, basic apologics book, kind of question answer format, a little dated.
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You know, the church teaching unbaptized infants, for instance, has changed.
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You'll find that in any old book. It's been clarified. We now
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do believe that babies go to heaven, and basically believe that all along.
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But there was this question about limbo and all that. Don't worry about it.
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That's all been cleared up. The Blessed Virgin Mary takes care of every
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infant, whether in the womb or dies, you know, after birth,
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in their early days, she personally escorts them to heaven and make sure they're
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okay. And as as one has had well, I got a brother and
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a sister in heaven. So it's a it's a comforting teaching and it's always,
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I think important to to remember that. So, um, let's see
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what does the communist accost them with today? He asked, why does he
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that means God permit those who serve him to live in poverty while the godless
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have a smooth path through life? And they answer this is not always the
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case. However, when this does occur, it is not difficult to understand
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the godless did not deserve to be invited to share with Christ and the life
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of suffering. It's an interesting concept. Isn't invited to share a life of
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suffering with Christ? And that is it's what Jesus says. If you are
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a Christian, you will suffer, take up your cross and follow me.
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You will be rejected as I was rejected. You'll be abused as I was
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abused. There is nothing prosperity doctrine aside, which is an absolute heresy.
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There is nothing in God's promise that says the life on earth of a Christian
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is going to be easy, not a bit he actually promises suffering. Is
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it not amazing that, with all the religions and philosophies of the world,
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the one that has spread the most, the one that literally changed history,
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the one that one being. Of course, Christianity does not promise earthly happiness,
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but promises earthly suffering. It's not well, it's not the only religion
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so to do, but it doesn't promise an escape from earthly suffering. Whereas
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say, Buddhism, does you know, Buddhism says all life is suffering.
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Suffering is caused by attachment. Through detachment, we can not suffer. Christianity
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offers nothing like that. Christianity I actually offers actually, inherently, implicitly and
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explicitly says, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, your life is
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going to be hard. The easy road is wide, the path to heaven
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is near. A well, they go on. Also, all men do
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some good in life. Sometimes no one is entire higherly evil. That's true,
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even of it's unintentional. Not everyone everything they do is bad. I
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mean, I'm sure even Charles Manson the most evil person I can think of.
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I'm sure even Charles Manson was kind to somebody at some point in his
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life. As a sociopath, he was probably very kind to certain people.
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You know this will sociopaths, do you know? They use people That means
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they have to be nice to him sometimes. Anyway, God's justice rewards natural
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good, thereby therefore by natural prosperity, and that maybe God's justice rewards natural
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good therefore by natural prosperity, and that may be all that such men will
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receive. You have had the reward of such good as you did, may
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be said at their judgment, and now answer for the evil of your irreligious
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lives. On the other hand, those who love God are not been worthless
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and perishable rewards. But we will receive a full return of supernatural happiness,
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the only kind that really matters. If Christ promised us happiness in this world,
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then let us murmur when we see the infidel prosper But what did he
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promise? He promised what he himself received, suffering here and happiness hereafter.
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The disciple was not above his master. Very well said, and the final
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question from this communist, which tomorrow wee's star a new chapter. Isn't that
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fun? Actually, yes, it's a severe well written book, and sometimes
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the priests were quite witty and sometimes quite cutting in their responses as well.
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It's no wonder it was. The forward was written by the venerable Fulton Sheen.
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I'm sure he was a huge fan of this radio show. In all
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these replies to difficulties, you were postulating free will, the sinful state of
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man, redemption by Christ, grace, and eternal destiny of man. So,
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of course they say, yes, that is so. These things are
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facts, and no problem can be fully solved except in the light of all
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the facts. I am quite prepared to justify these facts. Meantime, without
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them, no reasonable solution to the problems of God's providence can be found at
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all, And with them, the solution, even though inadequate, is at
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least rational and intelligible. The world with its miseries may be a problem difficult
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to reconcile with the existence of God, but that same world without God is
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a far greater problem, leaving exactly the same miseries to be endured in hopeless
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despair. Christianity does not deny the existence of suffering, but it can give
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happiness in the midst of suffering, and this practical solution is the true solution
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God gives to men of goodwill. All right, let's get into the main
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topic. There is an excellent substack newsletter that I am going to recommend.
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It's called Pope Hit Yes, Pope Space h A D. I don't know
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why it's called that. It's an odd name. I was a little leery
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of it is to start, until I started reading it, and I started
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finding some of the most well reasoned, well researched Defense is a castle Catholic
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doctrine, and articles on other Catholic topics that well, frankly, they're a'm
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on the best I've ever come across. I cannot recommend this newsletter more strongly.
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I think it is absolutely fantastic. The article that popped up in my
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inbox, I guess yesterday, what's called in Defense of the Virgin the Queen
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of Heaven. I'm going I asked the author's permission. He said I could
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share this with you. I'm going to just run through some of the key
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points. It's a very long article. Well I wouldn't say very long,
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but it's going to take you, you know, ten fifteen minutes to read,
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far too long for me to read word for word on my show,
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and it's not my well, that's not my intent anyway. I'm not here
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to rip somebody off. I'm here to share something that I thought was really
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good. And I am absolutely recommending that you subscribe to the pope Head newsletter
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on substack, and you're not going to regret. I think this guy knows
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how to make very well reasoned, reasoned, cogent arguments. Whatever his name
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may be, do not know his name, even though we have communicated online,
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he says, he begins. I noticed there exists a malignant sentiment among
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both converts and quadile Catholics in regard to the Virgin Mary, due in part
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to human concute since and partly due to the germ of Protestantism that has infected
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the church in the last couple of decades. Modern Catholics seem to shudder at
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any perceived over emphasis on marry and devotion. I think, well, I
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think we can probably most of us agree on that. I know many Catholics
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who have a very strong devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary, but Protestants,
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of course do not, and get very angry about it for no apparent reason.
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They seem to think somehow, by insulting Jesus's mother and insulting people who
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have a fondness for his mother, they somehow glorified Jesus, which you know,
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get that. Try sometime go insult somebody's mother and see how they react.
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I don't really understand. I've never understood why, even when I was
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a Protestant, I did not understood stand why some people got so angry that
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Catholics have a respect for the Mother of God. Yea, many really do.
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And he says, anxiety over committing any accidental idolatry by venerating the Mother
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of God seems to be common. In fact, I admittedly struggled with this
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when I first began the Return of the faith. And he talks about that
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a little bit. He says, the Catholic emphasis on Mariology terrified Protestants and
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even elicits protests, protests from our Eastern Orthodox cousins who recoil at what they
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call Roman Marian excess. So he starts to get into this, they say,
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as he says, he says, the other day I was extolling the
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virtues and spiritual benefits of a daily Rosary recitation, and an individual innocently asked,
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but why are there so many Hail Mary's in it? Isn't the focus
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supposed to be on Christ. Such a question would have been alien to most
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Catholics of the last two millennia. Another stumbling block seems to be the Marian
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apparitions that are ubiquity in Catholicism. And of course many most Protestants accuse Catholics
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of worshiping Mary and being a pagan cult, which is of course idiotic.
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But you know, many of them truly do believe that. He says the
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reason why the Virgin has venerated a unique way, why marrying devotion has precedence
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in both the Old Testament and justification for marrying prophecy I will only be just
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barely scratching the surface. Well, he does a pretty good job of just
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barely scratching the surface. He says, in the Catholic tradition, the Virgin
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Mary is above all the saints, but infinitely below God. She is the
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greatest fully human being ever to live. This is the most important point in
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understanding why marrying devotion is not idolatry. Many Catholics, he caught up in
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her occasional title co redempt trics with her son, wrongly assuming this implies some
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form of equality with God. But redemptrics is a ministerial function. That a
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very important point. It is a task, not a state of being.
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Think about it this way, all right, I'm just summed this up.
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Jesus decided to come into the world being born a baby with a human mother.
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Without marries, yes her assent, without her agreeing to be the mother
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of God, Jesus could not have come in the world the way he did.
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Therefore, there's no Jesus without Mary, and there's no well, obviously
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there's no Mary without Jesus. She is and in fact the coredemp tricks because
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of her role as facilitating the redeeming of man through Jesus. Without her,
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there's no Jesus, not in human form. The Word of God would have
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been, you know, intangible. We know Jesus as a human being born
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of a human mother. Saint Louis de Montfort tells us, we must take
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great pains not to conceive this dependence as any abasement or imperfection in Jesus Christ.
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For Mary is infinitely below her son, who is God, and therefore
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she does not command him, as a mother here below would command her child
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who is below her. Mary, being altogether transformed into God's grace and by
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the glory which transforms all the saints into him, asks nothing wishes, nothing,
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does nothing contrary to the eternal and immutable will of God. So he
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asks, what about Mary so special? Well, like I said, her
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guess made it all happen. She said, behold the ham and of the
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Lord. Be it done to me according to thy word. It was through
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the humble flesh of a virgin that God became man, so that man could
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become like God. That's saint. I have trouble with this name? Is
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it Athanasius? Sorry, I've never been able to pronounce Salon. She's the
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vessel that God used to perform to transform the human race. For it was
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through her womb and her flesh that God conjoined his own. In the words
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of Pope Benedict sixteenth, the moment when the Angel of the Lord came to
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Mary with a great announcement of the incarnation, she gave a reply. Then
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transpired the greatest event in history, the incarnation. The word became flesh She's
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placed her entire being at the disposal of God's will. The will of Mary
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coincides with the will of the Sun, and the follows unique project of love,
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and in her Heaven and Earth united. God the Creator is united to
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his creature. John the twenty third issued an invitation to contemplate this mystery,
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to reflect on the union of heaven and Earth, which is the purpose of
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the incarnation and redemption. The union. As he says in this article,
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he's a nice sentence. The union of heaven and Earth begins with one unhumble
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woman's consent. It's really, yeah, pretty amazing. And he he goes
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on to say, not in a vague spiritual way, but to have his
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flesh and bones grow within her. How can such a being not have power
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and precedence over every creature? For nine months, she and God were physically
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joined, he says. Every mother knows the intimate connection between themselves and a
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child growing within them. Imagine feeling the heartbeat of God within you. The
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mere thought transcends language, and it's for this reason that marrying paintings and drawings
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are the blessed virgin of marrying iconography. There we go to always depict her
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either pregnant or holding the Christ Child, usually seated on a throne, or
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see it next to him in heaven. Her greatest glorious in union with with
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Christ. And there's certainly no deification for her a lunch. She's the mother
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of God, She's not God. And then he, you know, he
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makes a very another very obvious point. She raised God as a son and
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accompanied him throughout his life, and then watched him torture and killed on a
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cross without complaint. She never looked away, she never abandoned him. I
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mean, that's perfect. She was perfectly in accordance with God's will, perfect
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humility, perfect submission to God. He then quotes Saint Maximus, and many
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many Catholic writers have said this. Her guests Undid, Adam and Eves no,
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you know, they said, no, we want to by God.
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She said yes, I will. And that is how she's the co redemptrics
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because through her yes, and only through her yes, do we receive eternal
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life through her son Jesus Christ, our Lord. She had free will.
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God does not violate anyone's free will. She could have said no. Imagine
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if if if the Mother of God has said no, I mean that is
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literally the hinge on which the entire fate of humanity throughout all history into all
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future is pinned right there her. Yes, and then he explains that,
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you know, the Rosary is very biblical. I've discussed this before. We
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don't need to get into it a whole lot. I mean, the Hail
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Mary is the angel's greeting, Hail Mary, full of grace. Right,
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the Lord is with thee comes from Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist.
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Blessed aren't down among women, and blessed us the fruit of thy womb,
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you know. And the final lines, the Holy Mary, Mother of
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God, pray for us centers now of our death. Is doing nothing but
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asking the Mother of God to pray for our own souls now at the moment
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of our exit from this world. And so this prayer, far from displace
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in Christ and exalting Mary above him, is in fact radically focused on Christ.
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And not only that. Another good point he makes, you know,
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obviously, as we're saying these prayers were meditating upon events in the life,
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the earthly life of Jesus, but we're praying with Mary through the eyes of
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the human who knew him best. It's he said, you were having his
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mother to guide you. This is Mary's role, just as is the role
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of the saints of Heaven. Mary was there throughout his life, throughout his
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trials. So what better person to accompany you in this meditation of Christ's life
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than her? And he quotes see Saint o faunsis, a single act of
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humanformity with the divine wheel suffices to make a saint, etcetera, etcetera.
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Mary is the most perfect of all his saints because she most perfectly embraced the
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divine will. Then he gets into a really interesting topic. Scott Han wrote
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a whole book on this, The Queenship of Mary. He says, let's
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look at the title Queen of Heaven. Evangelicals will shriek and shout over the
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idolatry occurring in this term. But and they say that that title isn't in
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the Bible. They claim all kinds of stuff, This is paganism, this
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is you know, all kinds of crazy Catholic stuff. But Christ is indeed
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a king, the new David. The Gospel of Matthew opens with a genealogical
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descent lining Christ to King David. This is a fulfillment of prophecy, etc.
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Let's see, Oh, he quotes a lot from a book Jesus and
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the Jewish Roots of Mary. I have not read it, but it looks
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like one I need to read. And it says taken as a whole,
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the New Testament clearly depicts Jesus is the long away that Davidic king also knows
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the Messiah or in Greek Christos. Jesus isn't just a new Adam or a
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new Moses. He is a new David. The reason he's also a new
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David, I should say, the reason all this matters for us can be
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expression a single question. If Jesus is the new Davidic king, who is
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the new queen? Although modern day readers may think of a queen would be
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the wife of the king, actually, in the Hebrew tradition it was the
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king's mother, he says, unlike modern day kingdoms, however, the Queen
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of Israel was not the king's wife, but his mother. She was known
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as the Queen Mother. Her royal title queen mother is the feminine form of
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the word master, can also be translates great lady. We don't need to
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get into all that, but the queen mother in the Hebrew tradition of loyalty
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had great influence. She was an advocate. People could ask her to do
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things like when Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak with her on behalf of
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Adanaya Ada Nijah, the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her.
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And then she said, on his throne and the throne, and had
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a throne brought for the king's mother, and she sat on his right You
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know, sitting on the right hand of the king is a major symbol of
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influence that comes from first kings. By the way, the queen mother also
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had an official position in the kingdom, ranked second only to the king himself.
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In Psalms Psalms forty five six through nine, your throne of God indoors
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forever, your royal scepter or a scepter of equity, your love and righteousness.
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You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore, God, your God,
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has annoyed you with the oil gladness above your fellows. Your robes are all
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fragrant with mur and aloes and cassia from Ivory Palace's string of instruments. Make
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you glad. Daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor. At your
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right hand stands the Queen in gold of uphur. The fact that she stands
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at the King's right hand that she has a share in his authority, just
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as the King sits at the right hand of God, shares in God's authority.
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In the words of one Old Testament expert, after the monarch himself,
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the Queen Mother has the place of highest honor, so he says. To
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those of you reading this who have never heard any of this before, you
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must be in a state of shock. Catholics who are devoted to the Virgin
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yet struggle with the constant insults of our ladies Majesty by prickly Protestants insisting that
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the Queen of Heaven is mere Popish paganism, you must be feeling overjoyed,
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as was I when I first learned this. Why didn't we learn this in
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Catechism? Well, as a convert, I never had Catechism. I did
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have that wonderful Scott Han book, which I absolutely recommend. Title of it
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does not come to me. I think it's mere Queen of Heaven if I
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remember correctly. But he gets into a lot of this history of royalty.
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Essentially, if Jesus is our king. Then Mary is the mother of Jesus.
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Not only is Mary the mother of God, Mary is the queen of
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Heaven, the absolutely most influential saint. And as the Bible says, God
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is the God of the living, not the dead. You know, Saint
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John said, are you not aware? We were surrounded by so great a
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cloud of witnesses? And he gets into this as well, the role of
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the saints very well done. The saints are there to pray for us and
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advocate for us, and our best advocate is the Mother of God. Because
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Jesus said to Saint John in some of his final words, man behold your
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mother, Mother, behold your son. He made Jesus our brother. First
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of all, we're adopted into God through to the people of God through Jesus.
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We have Jesus's Lord, God, brother King. If Jesus is our
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brother and we're brothers and sisters in Christ, his mother is by definition our
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mother. But he also made very clear he didn't say, John, take
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care of my mother, Mary, Mary go with John. He said,
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man, behold your mother, woman, behold your son. I mean he
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used those terms which are actually formal titles, but very clearly relate to the
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whole the entirety of mankind. I mean, if we are the family of
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God and Mary is the mother of God, then she is also our mother
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and more alive in heaven than we are here on earth. So praying to
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her and asking her to ask her son a favor, just as she did
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at the wedding piece of Cana. And that's an point he makes somewhere in
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this article. I may have actually missed it, but he did a very
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good job with it. She didn't say, you know, Jesus, could
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you do this? She didn't even ask. She just said, they have
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no wine. She knew he'd take care of it. Jesus will never refuse
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a request from his mother. And she wasn't saying on behalf of herself.
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She was saying it on behalf of the people. And he's even though he
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said I'm not ready to start my public ministry, he did it anyway.
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My time is yet night come. He just did it, and she turned
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she knew he was going to do it. There was no conversation. She
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said, they have no wine, and then she turns around and says,
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do whatever he tells you. Do. You know that is that is her
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role. You ask you present her need. She will then say to her
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divine Son, this person needs something. Your brother is in need. And
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if you know, the Bible says that God hears the prayer of the righteous.
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We are not always righteous enough to get our prayers answered. I mean,
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that's that's a hard truth of Christianity. The Bible says God hears the
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prayers of the righteous. Man a lot of pride as to say, just
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pray directly, as Jesus, you should pray directly. Well, okay,
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but what if I'm not good enough? Yeah, what if I'm not righteous
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enough? Well, I know who is righteous, And those are the saints
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that are with God in heaven. And are you not aware we're surrounded by
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so great a cloud of witnesses, as Saint Paul said, And you look
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in the Book of Revelations, and you see the role of the martyrs and
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the saints in advocating and judging even the people on earth. You say,
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Saint so and so, please pray for me. Well, the greatest of
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all the saints is of us, Virgin Mary, and Jesus will never refuse
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her. I may not be good enough, she is. He goes on.
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According to the old Testament, the queen mother was a powerful intercessor with
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her son. This makes sense if you want to obtain a request from the
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king, having his mother as your advocate is a very good idea. Consider
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the story of Adonia show that if you want to look that up. That's
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um. You know. First King's two thirteen through fourteen, seventeen eighteen,
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the miracle wedding feast of Cana, Today's Thursday. By the way we pray,
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we pray the luminous mysteries when we do the Rosary, and you know
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that's the second one all and what is the fruit of that mystery to Jesus
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through Mary? I know, Protestants, we'll get all upset about that,
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but you cannot get to Jesus without Mary, because without her, her guests,
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without her giving birth to Christ, the person of Jesus, Christ would
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never have entered this world. Well, you could say, well, he
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could have gone to someone else, Okay, he could have been born to
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another mother if that was God's will, But he wasn't. Not only wasn't
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he before she was even presented with the question of will you give birth to
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God? Which I mean, I'm glad nobody ever asked me a question on
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those that much gravity, I'd be like, God wants me to do what
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now? Okay, but you know what I'm saying, gender aside, he
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preserved her from all sins. She's the only two people, two human beings
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have been born in this world without original sin, the Blessed Virgin Mary because
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God prevented her from all stain of sin, because he could not be born
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to an impure mother. You know, it's like the Ark of the Covenant
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and the other shot in the Baptist because he was baptized in the womb when
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he the baby leapt. When you know, the pregnant Blessed Virgin Mary encountered
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the her pregnant aunt who had Saint John the Baptist. Other than that,
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everybody's come into the world since Adam and Eve with the original sin. So
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where as you could say, well, Jesus could have been born to any
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woman, what was so special about her? She was literally chosen and picked
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out from before she was ever born. This is all part of God's plan,
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and his plan doesn't work without her. He didn't have like, Okay,
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let's pick ten women and we'll preserve them all from the saying of original
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sin. Nope, nope, only one, only one who was assumed into
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heaven at her death because she did not have the stain of original sin.
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She was not subject to it was a word for it, decay, essentially
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corruption, that sword which we all are because the wages of sin are death
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and disease and sickness and degeneration. She was preserved from all that. And
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you know, she lived to be fairly old. They are actually letters back
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and forth between her and we think was it Saint polycarp I believe that's right.
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And apparently she never really aged over the age of forty, because again
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she was preserved from all corruption. Protestants are gonna scream your hands off over
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this, but hey, look, go to Europe, go to some of
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the cathedrals. See some of the saints that are actually have been exhumed and
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their bodies have been prevented from all corruption. They may have been dead for
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a couple hundred years. They looked like they're asleep. And it's not chemicals.
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They're not embalmed. They actually smell of roses. If God can do
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that for his saints, how much more well you do for his mother?
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Well he did. He assumed her body and soul into heaven. She never
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suffered the effects of original sin. You may not believe that because you say
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that's not in the Bible. Well, you know what, all the first
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Christians knew about it, and they were around her, and they saw all
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with their own eyes, and they wrote about it. So what are you
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going to do? I mean, you can choose to believe what's only only
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what's in the Bible. But hey, the Bible is not a history book
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and it's not a newspaper. It doesn't give you all the information. That's
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where sacred tradition comes in. That's what the apostles told to their their immediate
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successors, and they told their immedic successors. And you know, it's as
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reliable and actually probably more reliable than the Bible, because not all Bibles are
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accurate translations. If you're relying on, say the King James version is your
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Bible, you don't have a good Bible. You don't have a good translation,
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you don't have a complete Bible. At least switched to the Dewey Rheims
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English Bibles written about the same time, same kind of language. The Dewey
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Hims is actually complete and accurate. Yeah, anyway, and then he gets
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into Mary and apparitions the messages like at Fatima and Magic Gorgy, etc.
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Where Mary appears to people and give messages from God, and of course Protestants
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and Russian Orthodox, etc. Don't believe them. And it's a shame because
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the saints in heaven, Mary being the greatest saint of them all. Just
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as you know in the story of Lazarus and the rich Man, that rich
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man who's in purgatory while Lazarus is in the Bosom of Abraham, is calling
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out Abraham and he says, let me go back and talk to my brothers
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and tell them the ear of their way so they can go to heaven or
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to the Bosom of Abraham at that point, because Jesus not opened the gates
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of heaven, and that shows that the dead are intensely concerned with the well
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being of the living. The saints being in heaven, not confined to purgatory
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or certainly not Hell, they are even more intuned to us. They're that
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great cloud of witnesses. They're praying for us, they care about us,
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and many times they are messengers of God to speak to us. Yeah.
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Yes, actually, the Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared many times throughout the past
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two thousand years, usually with warnings, especially four World Wars, about communism,
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trying to warn and protect her family, her children here on earth.
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As I said, if Jesus is our brother, and we are brothers and
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sisters in Christ, we are all Mary's children. We really ought to heed
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her warnings. And had we, and if we do, there'll be a
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lot well, there would have been a lot fewer wars, and several million
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people not killed by communism, hundreds of million people not killed by communism,
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you know, just as a very good point that he makes, Just as
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the Bible says that nations have guardian angels, just as there's an angel signed
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to each church, you know, in the Book of Revelations. Those angels
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are advocates, their messengers. So are the saints. And again, who's
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the greatest of all saints. It's the Queen of Heaven. And generally speaking,
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well I even generally speaking, I mean say, specifically speaking, she
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is the one that communicates the the most profound prophecies our area in our era.
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Look up Fatima, look up Magic Gorgy. And in summary, he
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says it must be reiterated that God does not need Mary, no more than
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he needs his angels and saints. God freely chooses to share the amounts of
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his power with his celestial celestial administrators to advance his own glory. God the
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Son has communicated to his mother all that he is acquired by his life and
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death, his infinite merits, and his admirable virtues. And he has made
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her the treasurer of all that his father gave him for his inheritance. It
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is by her that he applies his merits to his members, and he communicates
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his virtues and distributes his graces. She is his mysterious canal. She is
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his aqueduct through which he makes his mercies flow gently and abundantly. So once
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again, that is a newsletter called pope Head. You will find it on
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substack. I think it is fantastic. This is only one of many great
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articles I've been reading by this anonymous writer. Do check him out and definitely
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subscribe to his newsletter. Very worthwhile. Now let's do Hell Mary, Hell
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Mary, full of grace, Lords with the blessed right now among women and
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blesses the fruit of Iwem Jesus, Holy Marry Mother of God. Pray for
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us centers now and at the hour of our death. Amen. All right,
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y'all. As always, I'm going to close with the words of Saint
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Padre Pio. Pray, hope and don't worry. And actually, if you
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read the prophecies at Fatima and such Medicagorgi as well, you can get a
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lot of hope. Things are going to get really bad between now and the
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end of the world. We all know that, we know how the story
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ends, as I always say. And you can get a lot of up
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comfort and hope from reading the words of the Mother of God. And you
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can get a whole lot more hope and comfort than even that just by talking
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with her a lot throughout the day. Pray your Rosary every day I do.
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It's changed my life. I cannot let a day go by without praying
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the Rosary now, been that way for several years and it's totally transformed me
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and it will you. And she promises to save the world through the Rosary.
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Anyway, y'all have a great one and I will talk to you tomorrow.