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Show 185: A Hurricane Update and THE COMPARATIVE MAGNITUDE OF SIN · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The A B.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome this week's show. We'll get back right in
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where we left off. But since many people have asked, yes,
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let me tell you we are still recovering from the hurricanes.
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I've been here in western North Carolina and well, the
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power's out at my house again. I kid about two
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bars on the cell phone, so it takes wow an
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hour and a half two hours just to upload a
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little podcast. It's cool, you know, we're getting by. Uh,
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there are a lot worse places to be. I'd much
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rather be in the mountains after a hurricane in you know,
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a big old house built from real wood. I guess
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they started building the House of the twenties. It started
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out as like a mountain cottage, like a hunting and
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fishing getaway for a you know, fairly wealthy furniture family.
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Then they don't. I think it's stayed in the same
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family actually, for almost one hundred years. Got added on
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to some of the forties, got added on to some
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of the sixties, big stone fireplace, and now I have
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tons of free firewood, and I always have water because
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you know, one of the permaculture principles is having at
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least three ways to accomplish any goal. This is especially
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important when it comes to water and heat, obviously. But
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I have my well, which they did restore power to
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the pumphouse, which is shared among you know, a few
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families in the area, so that's cool. But without power
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of my house, it's you know, I got a spring,
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and I can always collect rain water, and there's a creek,
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and if I had to, I can go across the
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road and up about one hundred yards and get water
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out of the river. So I appreciate everyone's concern. Yeah,
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it's sort of like primitive conditions. But you know what
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if I got to complain about I've got a roof
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over my head, I got food to eat, I got water.
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It's actually beautiful fall weather. Many people, many people have
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it a lot worse off than I do. A lot
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of people's homes were swept away. I mean just I
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don't know, a half mile from my house. You know,
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there are several vehicles still in the river, turned upside
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down and covered in mud. It's how much how would
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I put it. I'm grateful for what I have, and
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I'd still rather be here in the life I chose
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than in a city with everything dictated by other people.
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You know, That's what it comes down to. For me.
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I chose this lifestyle, and it's a lifestyle I had
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dreamed of. It's a lifestyle and my grandparents and great
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grandparents grew up with it's not I mean, you know,
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I worked in DC. I lived in Georgia, Athens, and
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in the Atlanta area. I remember very distinctly. I was
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probably twenty two and I was working in a little
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guitar shop down Athens, Georgia. One of the best times
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in my life. Actually loved it, okay, but I did
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not like city life. I remember thinking one time I
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was wearing boots, you know, just Aria cowboy boots. I
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always wear Ariots, by the way, if you want to
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know a really good, dependable, long lasting, comfortable boot, it's
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Ariot A R I A T. I love them. I've
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been wearing them for most of my life. Now, I
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usually get the more the western work boot style now,
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which is you know, rubber sol that's very sturdy, but
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it's a Western style boot, so it looks like cowboy boots,
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but it doesn't have like a you know, a tall
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hard heel. Well, I'm walking down the street to go
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to my job, I had to park like a mile
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and a half away, actually, and I'd walked down the
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city streets past the courthouse and deal with the same
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panhandlers and everything every day. And you know, Athens is
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a college town, and there's a bar like every ten
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feet and you never really get away from the smell
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of pew ca and beer. Okay, but I remember one
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time thinking, you know, I don't belong here, and I
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can definitely tell you I'm stuck in traffic going up
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to d C or whatever. I knew I didn't belong there.
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So I can build a fire in the fireplace and
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get warm. There's obviously plenty of free firewood due to
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the hurricane. I've got spring water and I've got well water,
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and you know it's it's been going below freezing. Uh
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several nights. Haven't had to worry about food spoilage. I
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can't complain. Uh, you know, things are hard, but things
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are not normal. My post office was completely flooded out
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and tons, I mean, like all my mail was damaged.
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So I've had to get on the phone and get
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bills recent to me and spent an hour on hold
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with the IRS just to find out they never sent
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me a check they were supposed to send me. You know,
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that's just whatever. You know, yesterday I was watching an
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interesting program, historical food. I love historical food. And you know, yeah,
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I can't get like TV at my house right now
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or anything. But if I'm really, really patient, I can
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unload some videos off of YouTube and such. So there's
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this guy tasting history dude out in California do some
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really great programs, and between him and the old episodes
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of Midnight Special and Julia Child and all that, you know,
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I can download him and I've got something to watch
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in the evening. Charge up the phone in the car
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if I have to, because you know, power's out again.
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The line between the pole and my house just finally fell,
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so I'll probably not have power at my house for
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another month with the way things are going. That's cool,
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you know, I often don't have power. I have kerosene lamps,
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I have a fireplace, I have candles. Can I honestly
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say it's really peaceful, you know, I think. I think
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in modern America we're so addicted to convenience, whether it's
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convenience food, where it's living in a city and being
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able to get delivery or be wherever you need to
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be in like ten fifteen minutes. I think people kind
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of miss out sort of. And when a big disaster
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comes through, and it could be a hurricane or the
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economic collapse of two thousand and eight right or after
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the terrorist attacks in nine to eleven, people kind of
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get back to basics. And that's kind of when you
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realize what's important in life and what is essential and
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what you can do without. And I think everybody should.
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I would never wish a natural disaster on anyone, or
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an economic collapse or the loss of a job or
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something like that. If you can voluntarily go through a
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little bit of hardship, you know, that's actually a Catholic thing.
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That's why we fast, That's why we do our penances
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in different ways. You learn a lot about the value
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of a family, you learn a lot about the value
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of neighbor. But but you just put this in contrast.
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You know, my old house was built almost one hundred
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years ago. It's made of real wood. I can fix
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or have fixed. I may actually have to hire some help.
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I can only do so much as a single guy. Comparatively,
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you know, my mom's house was built in the nineties
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and something's always tearing up and breaking. I probably have
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spent more time in the last ten years fixing things
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at her house than I have maintaining my house. So
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just to sit on the on the porch on a cool,
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crisp all evening, you know, the fall leaves we would
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count on are gone. The wind blew them all off.
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It looks like winter, but it feels like fault. And
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you realize how simple life can be and how much
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God does really bless us. All the modern conveniences kind
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of get in the way of that. I mean, when
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you can pick up a phone and just you know,
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order of sandwiches to be brought to your door, do
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you really is that your daily bread? You know, when
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you say the prayer, give us this stay our daily bread.
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If you haven't made that sandwich. And of course our
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ancestors would have actually had to grow the wheat, harvest it,
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grind it. I like to do that, but for me
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that's a luxury. I grind my own grains because I
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like the flavor and you get some more nutrition out
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of them. For me, that is a luxury. It's an option.
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Two hundred years ago, our ancestors would have gone crazy
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over wonderbread. I mean, you know, they would have thought
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that was like the best things. It's like spread obviously,
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as they used to say. But when we get so
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far away from the elemental things, do we really appreciate
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the blessings that God's given us. I mean, if it
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comes down to the money we earn, and you know
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how much credit we've got on our credit cards, and
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how fast can someone bring us food from door dash
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or something, we don't have that in my area. By
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the way, It's like not even an option for me.
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I'm a home cook, not only because I prefer to
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cook my own food and I cook better food than
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I can buy in most restaurants, but where I live,
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you know, home delivery is not an option. In fact,
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a few years ago, probably about ten years ago, I
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got a notice from my I guess it was my
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insurance company that said my address didn't exist. You know,
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I live in a national forest, and they're like, you know,
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your address is whatever. I'm not gonna give my address
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on air, but you know you can understand that. But
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it was in this town. They said your address doesn't
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exist in this town. You should be in this town
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over here, an unincorporated community so I put that in.
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They said, your address doesn't exist, We're going to cancel
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your insurance. And so I was actually forced to pay
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off my mortgage. Huge sacrifice, all my savings and a
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lot more. I had to pay off my mortgage because
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my home owners insurance was canceled. That was really that
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made me very angry at the time. And now I'm
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sitting here, you know what in Katrina. When the storm
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came up from Katrina and it floyed everything out and
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damaged my home, FEMA said, first of all, you know,
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you can't even apply for a FEMA assistance until you
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file acclaim with your homeowers insurance. I think it actually
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has changed a little bit now. I think you can
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do both. I want to be as accurate as I
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can in case and was listening to this that needs help. Well, anyway,
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my Homer's insurance came in. I had like twenty thousand
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dollars worth of damage and they gave me like twelve
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hundred bucks and I couldn't apply for FEMA after that.
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FEMA said, your insurance company took care of you. And
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I'm like, no, no, it didn't, but well apparently it did.
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So when my Homer's insurance was canceled. I just took
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that same amount I paid every month and put in savings.
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You know, I figure, if another storm comes through or
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I have a fire, I'll just take money out of
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my own account and pay for it. You can only
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do that if you don't have a mortgage. So I
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had to pay the mortgage, and then I had to
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start saving up. And now with this storm, FEMA may
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actually help me a little bit. So y'all if you
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want to say a prayer for please for people who
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need it more than I do, but you know, pray
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that all of us up here get the assistance that
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our tax dollars are supposed to pay for. I filed
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my claim quite a bit of go now and they
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haven't done a dang thing. They did say I could
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go to get a free motel room somewhere. That's that's awesome.
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I mean, if people are flooded out and they can't
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be in their home, a free motel room would is
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a lifesaver. But you know, now every single room within
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one hundred miles is probably booked, and you know I
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don't even want it because well, I don't really like motels.
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That's another story that goes back to what I used
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to work in journalism, and I was on the road constantly,
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and a lot of the motels I went to had
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bed bugs. And I now have an issue with motels.
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I don't like them very much at all. But you know,
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how blessed am I to have a roof over my
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head that's dry with heat and food and water. When
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we get down to those elemental things, When we get
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down those elemental things, that's when we begin to understand
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our Father. We pray for our daily bread. We don't
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pray for tomorrow's bread. We don't pray for a storage
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of bread. Jesus said about the you know, the rich
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merchant who stored up all kinds of provisions. You fool,
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tonight your life will be required of you. You know,
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the Bible says called no one a fool. Jesus called
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that man a fool. No Anything you have can be
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gone in the blink of an eye. In the blink
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of an eye, and my message to you would probably be,
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don't go out on a limb. You know, it's really
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easy in today's society to buy more than you can
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afford using credit. When something happens, you'll lose it all
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in the blink of an eye. Pay cash when you
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can put actual real money in the bank, you know.
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I mean, we can talk about that another day. I'm
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not going to get into monetary policy in the Federal
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Reserve and what is real money and not. Food is
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always more valuable than money. By the way, fuel is
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always more valuable than money. I don't care if it's gold.
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Gold will not if I was sitting here in this
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house with ten thousand dollars worth of gold bars, that
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would not put food on my table. I cannot take
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a gold bar and go to the grocery shore and
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buy food. I cannot take a gold bar and go
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to the gas station and put gas in my vehicle.
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It's worthless. Money is always only worth what it will buy, Okay,
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So always remember that prioritize food, water, shelter, heat, fuel
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for your vehicle vehicle in decent conditions so you can
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drive out people. Preppers are always talking about buying all
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kinds of guns and doing all this mess with radio.
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No know, what you actually need is a garden, which
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you actually need. Well, you know, if I didn't have,
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like I said, we've been going down a freezing so
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I don't really have to worry about what's in the freezer.
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My ancestors would have used a larder or a seller.
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Ways to keep food cool, meat from spoiling, salt curing
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without electricity. That is worth more in a disaster than
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all that gold and silver and all your guns and AMMO.
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And you know, I'm just telling you, get life down
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to the elemental level and you realize what's actually valuable.
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And three weeks into a hurricane disaster, three plus, now
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what's essential is really clear. And yeah, I could live
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without internet, but I couldn't continue to do my job
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because this is my job. I do these podcasts to
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help me sell my books. Amazon sells my books mostly
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a few other outlets now several other outlets, but Amazon's
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like ninety percent of the market these days. And you
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know that's great. There are a lot of people here
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that their jobs are gone, and even if they still
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have a job, they can't get to it and work it.
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And pray for them. Uh yeah, they say, FEMA and
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the Small Business Administration, the SBA is going to help.
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It'll be after the fact, and a lot of people
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are going to need a lot of help between there
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now and then, as you know, I write books for preppers.
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Sometimes I say I'm not really a prepper. I'm a homesteader.
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And that's kind of what I'm saying to you long
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time ago. Jack Spirico said, a homesteader as opposed to
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a prepper. Okay, a prepper prepares for a disaster and emergency.
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Whatever homes their houseworks for them. And so I'm sitting
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here in a very solid house, in a protected from
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the wind, protected from the water environment. And meanwhile, people
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making exponentially more money than iver will in my entire life,
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have really nice, fancy homes that were overlooking the river.
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And those homes have been swept away, and they are
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lucky if they're alive. Let's get back to the elementals
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and the basics, and now let's get on with the show.
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So in radio replies the questioner, which we may remember
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as an anti Catholic Anglican, said, of the Anglican Church,
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the Anglican Church has retained bishops, and the priest's answer
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omitting for the time the question of the validity of
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the episcopal consideration. Anglican bishops are not even conspicuous, are
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not even conscious of the apostolic authority, nor can they
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claim uninterrupted legitimate succession. To rebel against the lawful authority
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of the Church is to abandon it, and to set
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up for oneself is in no way to succeed by
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lawful title the transmitted juridiction jurisdiction. In other words, the
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Anglican Church is not Catholic to pit regardless of what
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many Anglicans believe. They abandoned the church and they don't
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have apostolic succession anymore, and not all of their sacraments
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are valid. Marriage certainly as baptism is, but they cannot
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legitimately give the Eucharist or hear confession. One time, I
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remember I was going to call the church and see
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when confession was, you know, and I inadvertently saw the
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wrong phone number in the phone book and I end
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up calling the Anglican Church and the vicar was very nice.
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He said, I can definitely hear your confession, but we
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don't have confession as you know, a regular sacrament in
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our church. And I was like what, and he said, well,
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we're Anglican. I was, oh, oh my gosh, I dialed
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the wrong number. I'm so sorry, And he was a
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really nice guy. Nothing against him whatsoever. And he said,
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you know, you know, understandable, understand, I understand what you're saying. No,
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if you're Catholic, you know you need to go to
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the Catholic Church. But if it was an emergency, I
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would absolutely come in and do this for you. And
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I was like, thank you so much. But he said,
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you understand, we don't have the same view of the sacrament.
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He was saying, I'll listen to your confession, but I
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cannot absolve your sins as a Catholic priest would do.
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You're really rarely going to find someone that honest in
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the Anglican or Lutheran Church or anything like that. Great guy.
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I'm sure he would have been a wonderful advisor and counselor.
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But he was honest and I appreciated it. The same
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would be true an Orthodox Church and many of their priest.
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Orthodox priests are really fantastic, but to be honest, they
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know they cannot stand in the person of Christ and
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forgive sins. The person continues. The old Catholics are as
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Apostolic as your church, and some Anglicans do call themselves
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old Catholics. You will find this again in Orthodoxy and
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they said, the old Catholics are really as new as Protestants,
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and they only date to eighteen seventy. Even though their
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orders be correct, they lost Apostolic jurisdiction by leaving the
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Catholic Church. Person continues, the very name of my church
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is the Catholic Apostolic Church. I am actually not sure
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that still exists. I have not encountered it. If you're
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English and you're listening to the show, you may go
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to an Anglican church that calls itself the Catholic Apostolic Church.
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But I've never encountered that in my life lifetime. And
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they answer, your difficulty would be to prove your right
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to this title. To prove your right to this title.
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Not you are, but your possessive right. The name alone
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proves nothing. The church owes its origin to This church
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owes its origin to Reverend Irving, an ex Presbyterian minister,
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so not even Anglican in in the early part of
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the nineteenth century. It is neither Catholic nor Apostolic. Despite
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its title and claims to be a revival of the
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Apostolic Church which had perished. The idea is quite foreign
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to the true notion of apostolicity being apostolic in other words,
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which means, you know, the Catholic Church gets its authority
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being passed down generation to generation from Jesus' original apostles.
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You walk away from that, and you don't have apolicity.
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Apostolicity the authority of the apostles given to them by
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Christ when he said, those who hear you hear me.
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Those who reject you reject me. Which you bind on
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earth will be bound in heaven. Which you reject on
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earth would be I'm sorry. What you loose on earth
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will be loosed in heaven. The Catholic Church alone is
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truly apostolic, and she alone rejoices in all those notes, marks,
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and characteristics which Christ manifestly intended his true Church to possess.
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She alone is therefore the Catholic Church. He continues, You
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have often hinted that the Catholic Church is indefectible and
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that she will last forever? Is she not? Rather, in
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her death throes being written one hundred years ago, it's
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a little laughable now, isn't it. But people still say that,
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And they answered, no, she has scarcely ever been in
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a stronger position, and she will last till the end
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of the world. Even then, instead of going into oblivion,
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she will merge into the Church triumphant in heaven. Person says,
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you cannot know that the Church will last to the
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end of time, and they answer. If I replied, if
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I relied solely upon my finite intelligence, as you do,
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I would not know. But I know precisely because the
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eternal and omniscient God, who made me and the world
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and the Church, tells us that the Church will indeed
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last until the end of time. Person says, your church
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began in paganism, has lasted two thousand years, and can
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claim but a mere fraction of the time the world
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has existed. And they answer, the Catholic Church should not
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begin in paganism. It is, and ever was, the most
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bitter opponent of paganism, and paganism does not intend its
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own destruction. The Catholic Church was established by Christ, the
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Son of God, when the greater part of the world
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happened to be pagan. But this merely chronological connection does
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not prove derivation. Again, the fact that the world is
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much older than the Catholic Church proves nothing concerning the
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future of the Church. Your soul has been in existence
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a mere fraction of the time that the world has existed.
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Yet it will last forever. As a matter of fact,
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if the Church has not the power to last till
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the end of the world, she would not have lasted
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till now. There can scarcely be greater obstacles for her
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in the future than those she has already met. And yeah,
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we'll stop that there, and I'll do a little bit FROMS.
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Farrago's Exhaustive Catechism the Catholic Church. You know, I like
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to keep these around a half hour. I've gone twenty
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five minutes. I apologize, but we will start with Boosh
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Farrago's the Comparative Magnitude of Sin from the Exhaustive Catechism.
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All sins are not equally great. Our Lord compares some
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sins to camels, and others to gnats Matthew twenty three,
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twenty four. Or again he appears compares some to moats,
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and there's to beams. In Matthew eight three, he contrasts
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the depths of ten thousand talents with that of one
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hundred pence Matthew eighteen, et cetera. He said to pilot
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he that hath delivered me to thee hath greater sin
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John nineteen eleven. Very big important point. I prodest say
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all sin is equal for God. That is not what
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the Bible says. The Bible says the exact opposite. A
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sin is all the greater, the more important the object
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it injures, the clearer the knowledge of the sinfulness of
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the deed, and the greater the liberty of the action
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of the doer, or employed by the doer. I think
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he said in the first place, much depends on the
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value and importance of the object against which the evil
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is directed. If God is thereby offended, is much more
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sinful than if the offense were against our fellow man.
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Or if it be directed against a man's life, it
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is worse than if against his property, or if his
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property a loan was attacked. A great deal depends on
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the knowledge possessed by the sinfulness of the action. Sin
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is much greater in a Christian than in a Heathen.
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In other words, we know what's right and wrong, and
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we have a greater duty to do what's right and wrong.
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If a priest commits a sin, it is worse for
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him than an ordinary man. Little versed, perhaps in religious
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matters because the priest has a closer knowledge of the
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will of God. Our Lord says, the servant who knew
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the will of his Lord and did not according to
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his will shall be beaten with many stripes. But he
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that knew not and did things worthy of stripes shall
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be beaten with few stripes. Luke, twelve forty seven forty eight.
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The greater your knowledge, the more rigorous will be you
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will be judged. If your life is not wholly in
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proportion to your knowledge. The more abundant the graces bestowed
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upon you, the more heinous your transgressions. Finally, much depends
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upon whether a man has not been perfectly a perfectly
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free agent. In other words, if you're not in charge
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of your own will, someone forces you to do things,
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Anyone who was intimidated or was exposed to fierce temptation
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is far less culpable than one who is free to
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act as he pleased. Saint Peter's denial was consequently a
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lesser sin than Judas's betrayal of the Lord. Circumstances a
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person calls times, place, means, objects, or the evil consequences
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of sin may enhance its guilt. For instance, it is
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worse for a monarch to sin openly than for one
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of his subjects. Offenses committed in the presence of several
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persons are graver than if they were done in secret.
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To work hard all day long on Sunday is more
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sinful than to work for one hour only. Robbery with
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violence is a greater sin than the surptitiousness purloining secretly. Stealing,
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as we would say it in modern types, to take
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from poor man is a greater sin than to steal
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from a rich man. It is far more wrong to
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steal in church than out of it. Well, he uses,
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of course old complicated language, but he's saying that it's
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worse to steal from the church than it is from
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a secular institution surreptitiously. I wish people still talk like that.
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Imagine if in normal conversation someone would use that word.
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The only person in my life they ever did such
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things was William F. Buckley Jr. And I remember as
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a small child, I was absolutely fascinated by him. It's
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funny that I guess it was in the seventies, maybe
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early eighties. There was an article written about him by
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someone that was kind of like parroting his use of
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big words, arcane words, we might say. And he said
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he doth reduce his opponents to paroxysms of obloquy of that.
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Speaker 1: But it just means that uh, people would begin like
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sputtering when they were trying to to answer his arguments.
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Speaker 2: He was brilliant. I would not be Catholic were it
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not for William F. Buckley. In fact, my book Confirmation
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and Autobiography Autobiography of Faith, the title is a tribute
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to William F. Buckley's religious book, His Story of Catholicism,
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which was nearer my God and Autobiography of Faith. And
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he used a Southern Protestant hymn, And so I just
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decided to as a Protestant converting Catholicism. Being a Southern,
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and he was somewhat of a Southern, having been schooled
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in South Carolina, even though he was from a very
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blue blood, you know, New England family, I decided that
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would be a nice tribute to him, even if no
32:04
one ever understood the meaning. I think he got the
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inside joke, as we might say. Yeah, a man, he
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was something, he was something else. If you ever get
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a chance, just look up some old William F. Buckley
32:20
junior videos on YouTube or read his books. Wow. Yeah,
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he was really amazing and eccentric and brilliant, probably about
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a one eighty IQ and barely of this world. And
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he was a scholar, He was a writer. He was
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a brilliant musician. He liked to build sailboats and sail
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around the world. He liked to have a peanut butter
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and honey sandwich every morning for breakfast. He smoked like
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a freight train. He was in every way, shape and form.
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He was like the political religious version of I don't
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know Sherlock Holmes in our time. He was so cool. Honestly,
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Buckley was so cool really, But anyway, continue the Father
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of Sparago. Many sins are so great that they separate
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us entirely from God and deprive us of his friendship.
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They are called mortal or deadly sins. This is something
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Protestants totally do not agree with, but it's very true.
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Sins of lesser moment or importance are called venial sins.
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Some diseases only weaken the bodily strength, others destroy life.
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It is the same with sins. Some sins only impede
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the soul in her efforts to attain her final end.
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Others again extinguish within her sanctifying grace the life of
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the soul. In intercourse with our friends, it often happens
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that some differences arise. If the offense is but slight,
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it does not seriously affect our friendship. If it is grave,
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it puts an end to the friendship. Holy Scripture speaks
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of some sins whereby the grace of God is completely lost,
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as in David's sin, and others in which the just
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man may fall seven times, that is frequently Proverbs twenty
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four sixteen, without ceasing to be a just man. And again,
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and he gives a reference to the Council of Trent
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six ' eleven. By the way, again it speaks of
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sins which exclude from heaven, by which eternal punishment is incurred,
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and others which have not these fatal consequences. Saint Paul
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reckons among mortal sins idolatry, murder, covetousness, and drunkenness. Yeah, actually,
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drunkenness First Corinthians sixteen nine, Egualationians five nineteen. It's not
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so much because the person gets drunk, by the way,
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it's because when you're if you purposefully try to get
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drunk as opposed to just having a couple, you know,
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and then indulge in sinful behavior, which is pretty common.
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When you're really blasted. You're out of your rational mind
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and cannot prevent yourself from doing things that would be
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far worse than things you would do while you're sober.
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And anybody who's ever been on Twitter after three or
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four drinks or Facebook probably knows what I'm talking about. Yes,
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I'm guilty of that, and sir, most of us are.
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You know, I'll admit to it, And that's something when
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I go to confession. That's usually the reason I have
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to go to confession. Anyway, in the present day, there
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is no sense so grievous, but it finds someone some
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really ready to palliate and excuse it. Palliate means to
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make it okay, basically, palliative actually is an old word
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for healing. You can see. It's like a kind of
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a soulve, a salve. Whatever he's going to say makes
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it all right. Beware lest you be led astray by
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the false maxims of the world. Hold fast by the
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word of God, the teachings of the Church. God, not
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the world, will one day be your judge. Mortal sin
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is so called because it causes the death of the soul,
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and the soul does not, it is true, cease to exist,
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but it loses the presence of the Holy Ghost. As
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the body dies when the soul departs from it, the
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soul does when God departs from us, departs from it. Thus,
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mortal sin, maybe to a certain extent, be said to
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be a spiritual suicide. Venial sin is so called because
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it is easily forgiven. Yet menial sin must not be underrated.
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It cannot withdraw from us the way which leads from God,
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but it can arrest our progress in that way. Venal
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sin is moreover an offense again the Infinite Majesty of God.
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Saint Jerome's says that no offense against our Lord God,
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however slight, is to be thought of little. The destruction
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of the heavens and earth would be a lesser calamity
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than one venal sin. Wow. Many theologians assert that the
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blood of all mortals, I'm sorry, all martyrs and all
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their merits would not suffice to make satisfaction to the
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Divine Majesty for one venial sin. Only the precious blood
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of Christ can do this, and I am stumbling over
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my words, not because of any mortal or venial sin
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or too much alcohol or anything like that. It's benadryll.
37:45
After the hurricane came through, we had a bloom of
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ragweed like you would not believe. And yeah, antihistamins are
37:53
making my mouth very dry. Anyway, Mortal and venial sin
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differs essentially from each other. Mortal sin is like a
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severe wound from which a man rarely recovers, whereas venial
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sin is a slight one which at most makes him ill.
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By mortal sin, the axe is laid to the root
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of the tree. By venial sin, a cut is made
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in the bark, which may perhaps prove prejudicial to its growth.
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Is exceedingly difficult and dangerous matter to decide whether sin
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is mortal or venial. Only one thing is certain. Mortal
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sin is not possible unless God is no longer the
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final end toward which our intention is directed. In other words,
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mortal sin is something very serious which you do knowing,
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basically knowing if you die in that sin, you're going
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to go to Hell, and you're not worried about what
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God thinks about it or not. Sometimes sometimes that justification
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is very human and understandable. Okay, if someone has hurt
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you or your family are stolen, and out of revenge,
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you go to kill that person. You know, by doing so,
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you're probably going to go to hell, and if you
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get killed in the act of doing it, you'll definitely
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go to hell. And if you don't repent afterwards, you
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know what's going to happen. But your anger is very
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human and very understandable. Okay, anybody could probably fall into that,
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but I mean it's saintly to say, Okay, you killed
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my brother or daughter or sister. I mean, come on,
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you know, and I'm going to turn the other sheek.
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That is superhuman. Anyone would seek revenge obviously, but that's
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still a mortal sin. That is still a mortal sin.
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And I think it's a pretty good example of how
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hard it can be to combat our human nature with
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what we know to be right and wrong, because that's retribution.
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It's not stopping somebody from killing somebody. It's not necessarily justice.
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If there was no court system, one could maybe say
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it was justice, but still the Christian should forgive. Now
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if the person was going to kill again, if they're
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going to come back and attack you again. You have
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to do your duty to protect your own life and others.
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Another person might justify. You know, my employer kind of
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cheated me here and there, so I'm going to steal
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some money again. That's a a natural human response. In
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no way would that be justified. I mean, that's saying
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I am going to commit a mortal sin to make
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up for someone else's sin against me. You know, you
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got to think those things through our natural knee jerk
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reaction is more than often not the right reaction at all.
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Or if you're married and you know, some attractive young
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person gives you some attention, and yeah, that's a mortal sin.
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If you follow those inclinations, you have to resist them,
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even though human nature would say otherwise. Sometimes it's almost impossible.
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It's an actual, you know, act of like saintly grace
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when someone can avoid a mortal sin. Other times it's
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just saying right's right and right wrong's wrong, and I've
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got to do us right even if it hurts, and
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a lot of times it does, a lot of times
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it really does. Anyway, it is difficult and danger decide
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what is a mortal sin and a venial sin. It
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is often impossible to determine about any act whether it
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is immortal or mental sin. Let no one presumes, says
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sat alfonsis to ask to assert any sin to be
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mortal unless he is quite certain about it, Otherwise he
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may lead men into despair. So we also have to
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be very careful about being overly judgmental when it comes
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to other person sins and our own, because we don't
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want to fall into despair where we think we have
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no chance of forgiveness. And you know that was Judas
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committed mortal sin and betraying Christ, and then instead of
42:33
seeking forgiveness, he committed suicide. Saint Peter committed a mortal
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sin and a denying Christ and then sought forgiveness three
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times he asked our Lord for forgiveness. So that is
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a very important point. We cannot just condemn someone. They
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should be given every opportunity to repent and receive forgiveness. Anyway,
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despair that may even cast them into hell instead of
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raising them out of the mire, as he will plunge
43:06
them deeper into it. No man can be guilty of
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mortal sin unless God has ceased to be the sinner
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toward which all his affections converge. Mortal sin is a
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turning away of her whole being from God and a
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turning of creatures, turning to creatures as our ultimate end.
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He commits a mortal sin. Who consciously and out his
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free will does grievous grievous honor to God, or wrongs
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his neighbor in a weighty matter, who does not know,
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who does injury to his own life, or to the
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life or the property or the reputation of his neighbor, idolatry.
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Hereby no idolatry, heresy, blasphemy, perjury. Serious desecrations of Sundays
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and Holy Days come under the category of morel sin
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because they are direct affront to the majesty of God.
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So it's Sunday, do you really cut the grass modolo
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on that day? Do you really have to if you
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own a business, have your employees come in. If you
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know it's wrong, and you do it anyway and it's
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not really going to help you. I mean, you could
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do it the next day, but you choose to do
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it anyway, that's a moratal sin. You're choosing that. A
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man who beats his neighbor commits a venial sin. But
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he he injures his body to any great extent, it
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is a mortal sin. To steal a halfpenny is of
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anial sin. To defraud one's neighbor of a large sum
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of money is a mortal sin. To disclose the faults
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of another without necessity is a venial sin. But to
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lodge a lodge a false accusation against him is a
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mortal sin, because in that case the wrong done to
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him is an important matter. We cannot commit a mortal
44:56
sin unless we are conscious of the sinfulness of the
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app So a non Christian or someone who's not instructed,
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who works on Sunday, for instance, doesn't commit a moral sin.
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Catholic who does when they know that he don't have
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to does, and unfortunately a lot do. It's really very
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unfortunate does. Children who have no conception of the abominable
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nature of some act, which as a rule is immortal sin,
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cannot be guilty of a grievous sin. It is also
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requisite that a man should not act of his own
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free will. One who perhaps does a very sinful deed
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under the mastery of intense fear, having been intimidated by threats,
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can scarcely be said to have committed a moratal sin.
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A man may also be so distracted in consequence of
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illness that he scarcely knows what he does. Beware, then,
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how you pass judgment upon your neighbor's misdeeds. You are
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not omniscient. Very always keep that in mind. We should
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be far harder on ourselves and on other people. Human
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nature is the opposite. We tend to be self righteous.
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We should always remember that we are not omniscient, and
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God is the judge. We're not. He commits a venial
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sin who only injures something of trifling consequence, or who,
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though he injures something of great importance, injures it very slightly,
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or does so almost unconsciously, and to some extent unwittingly.
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Yet that which is ordinarily only a venal sin may
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become a moral sin if, that is to say, great
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scandal is given thereby, or great harm done, if the
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venial sin is committed out of contempt for the law. Okay,
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let's okay. What's a good example. The priest gives you
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the Eucharist and you drop it. Yeah, that's really bad.
46:52
We really, I mean, I think every faithful Catholic goes
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to every effort not to do that. But if it's
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done by an accident, it's not a mortal sin. If
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someone takes it and willingly throws it down and stomps
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on the body of Christ, oh yeah, that's a mortal sin.
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So we have to bear that in mind. Attacks upon
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religion or upon upon a man's good name in public
47:21
journals could scarcely be reckoned as venial sins, as they
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give rise a great scandal and occasion of no small mischief.
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You know, I used to work in journalism. This was
47:30
always a huge issue for me trying to you know,
47:35
you have to call out a politician or report a
47:38
crime when it happens, but you've got to be so careful,
47:42
so careful that you get the facts right. If a
47:45
man were to do wrong and say boastingly, I do
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a bit precisely because it's forbidden, he is then, of
47:52
course guilty of grievous sin. Venal sins, if repeated, may
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become mortal if they are the means of doing great harm.
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He who steals a trifling sum after a time for
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the same person does very wrong. If the small sums
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mount up to a considerable figure, as water that gradually
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filters who a tinily can a vessel finally causes it
48:14
to sink. So venial sins affect the destruction of the soul.
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Many fibers of hemp twisted together form a strong rope
48:22
fit to hold a mighty ship. So a number of
48:25
venial sins form a cord that keeps the soul back
48:28
from journeying toward Heaven. Most ropes use be made of hemp.
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By the way of not so much anymore, All mortal
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sins are not of equal magnitude, nor are all venial
48:40
sins of the same importance. The most heinous sins are
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against the holy ghosts and those that cry to Heaven
48:46
for vengeance. He commits the sin against the Holy ghost,
48:50
who persistently and willfully resists the action of the Holy ghosts.
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We've talked about so many times. Tot's see what fos
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Brogo has says. Say. It often occurs in the course
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of one's life that the Holy Spirit incites us to
49:04
pray or to do other good works, and by reason
49:08
of distraction or the cares of this world, we did
49:10
not obey his voice. That is not, however, the sin
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against the Holy Ghost. That sin is only committed when
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a man persistently and willfully withstands the inspirations of the
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Holy Ghost and dies in an attitude of resistance to him.
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The Pharisees and scribes were perfectly aware that Christ was
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the Messiah. They were convinced of it by the miracles
49:31
he worked, by the excellence of his doctrine, by the
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sanctity of his life, by the fulfillment of the prophecies,
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by his own utterances. But their arrogant pride did not
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allow them to recognize him, for they would have been
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obliged to alter their lives. Yes, we've talked about it
49:48
so many times. Although they knew better, they declared him
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to be possessed of the devil in John eight forty eight,
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his works to be the work of the devil Matthew's
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twelve twenty four, and persecuted him as much as was
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within their power. Thus they resisted the known truth. King
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Pharaoh knew the exit of the Israelites from Egypt to
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be the will of the true God. But the intrepid
50:15
conduct of from the intrepid conduct of Moses and the
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wonders he wrought. You know, Moses did a lot of miracles.
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That's really all he's saying, And he spoke the truth.
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Yet in spite of moses admonitions, he adhered to his
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own will. He hardened his heart against the salutary exhortations.
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Freemasons will not allow a priest to approach them when
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they are on their deathbed. Think about that. The members
50:45
of the Masonic Order have to swear that they will
50:48
not allow priests to give them last rites. That says
50:52
they know what the last rites are, but they refuse them,
50:57
refusing any salvation that could come through them. They stop
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their ears not to heat and make their heart as
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they stop their ears not to hear, and make their
51:10
heart as adamant as stone Zachariah seven eleven. They possess.
51:16
They persist of set purposes in impenitence. In other words,
51:23
they would not become penitent they've done anything wrong. The
51:28
Holy Ghost acts like a man who finds his enemy
51:32
asleep in the snow and wakes him lest he should
51:34
die of cold. But the sleeper, far from being grateful
51:37
from this act of kindness, thrusts away as a bit
51:40
of factor and settles himself again to sleep. Thus, he
51:44
who sins against the Holy ghosts refuses to be aroused
51:48
from his spiritual torpor towrpurre, being like paralysis, essentially by
51:53
the influence of grace. He may also be likened to
51:56
a sick man who not only will not have his
52:00
wounds healed, but accelerates his own death. The sin against
52:05
the Holy Ghost is, for the most part the result
52:08
of a wicked course in life. It belongs essentially to
52:11
mortal sin to darken the understanding and alienate the will
52:15
from God. The more sins a man commits, the more
52:19
his understanding is darkened, and the more his will, already
52:22
estranged from God, is hardened until the link, until at
52:26
length he finds himself in a deplorable state of blindness
52:29
and intemperance. Actually impenitence, that's what they were. Impenitence. The
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soul is like a room which the shutters were closed.
52:40
Sin prevents the light of the Holy Spirit from penetrating
52:43
into it. Holy scripture says a pharaoh God hardened his
52:48
heart Exodus nine to twelve. That is, he allowed his
52:52
heart to become obdurate, as this is the penity of
52:56
his sins. That means hardened, in other words, like it
52:59
will be which not merely continue what they are in
53:03
spite of fair weather and fertilizing rains, but grow all
53:06
the more rank an account of the favorable conditions. The
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wicked only become under gracious influences of the Holy Spirit
53:14
more wicked. A pillar that is straight stands all the
53:18
former on me all the firmer if weight be placed
53:21
upon it. But if once it leaves, the perpendicular pressure
53:26
upon it will cause it default. In other words, if
53:28
it gets to tilt a little bit, it's going to
53:30
fall over the more weaveless put on it. So if
53:33
the heart is upright, the teachings of wisdom confirm its integrity.
53:38
But the depraved heart only seeks lower in vice, a
53:42
neglected education, and by that means education in spiritual matters
53:46
in religion, bad books. And this would be, you know,
53:51
in the eighteen ninety so he only knew of bad books.
53:53
He didn't know about movies and videos and films and
53:58
everything that can now you know, really mess a person up,
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or pride or often the cause of the heart being
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closed against the action of the Holy Spirit. Do heathen
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persecute missionaries and put them to death because they are
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so blinded by idolatry that they were not renounced their
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foolish ideas. Anti Christian periodicals are the means of prejudice,
54:19
prejudicing many of their readers against the doctrines and practices
54:25
of the Holy Church. Pride caused the so called Old
54:28
Catholics to refuse the dogma of papal infallibility when it
54:33
was defined by the Vatican Council in eighteen seventy. And
54:36
we just talked about the so called Old Catholics, the Anglicans,
54:40
and I think there were some Orthodox that decided that
54:44
they were actually Catholic, but they could not accept the papacy.
54:51
So there you go. Whoever has committed sin against the
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Holy ghosts cannot obtain forgiveness or sin from God. And
54:58
for this reason because he thrusts from him the grace
55:03
of conversion. In other words, he refuses, he refuses his
55:12
own conversion. The Lord says, blasphemy against the Holy ghost
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shall not be forgiven, neither in this world nor in
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the world to come Matthew twelve thirty two. The sick
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man cannot be cured of his malady if he refuses
55:26
to take the remedy which is known to be unfailing.
55:29
Nor can the soul recover from its sickness if it
55:33
reject grace, the infallible means of cure. Finally, impenitence is
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the only offense which God will not pardon. It is
55:43
a greater insult to Him than the sin itself. Those
55:46
who sin against the Holy Ghost often come to a
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miserable end here and are consigned to eternal damnation. The
55:53
sin against the Holy Ghost is not a sin of frailty.
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It is a sin of diabolical malice, and therefore it
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is deserving of more severe punishment. King Pharaoh, with all
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his army, was drawn on the Red Sea in Exodus.
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The Jews, who rejected and even killed the prophets Matthew
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twenty three thirty seven, had to expiate their impenitence bitterly
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in the year seventy on the destruction of Jerusalem by
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the Romans, when there came upon them the tribulation of
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our Lord that there were predicted such as has not
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been seen since the beginning of the world, and neither
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shall be Matthew, I guess it's fourteen twenty one, and
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the Romans destroyed all of Jerusalem, put the Philistines in
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charge changed the name of it to Philistina, and now
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we have Philistines, a race that did not exist before
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that time, A clever physician, contumer of people. I shouldn't
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say a race of people. It doesn't matter. Palestinians, okay,
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And now we have Palestinians, of people that did not
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exist before again and continual wars against Israel, and Israel
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is continuing to suffer to this very day, some two
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thousand years later, because they would not accept Christ. It's
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not meant to be anti Semitic. I think that's just
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a very what would we say, a soberminded view of history.
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The Palestinians are not good people. Some are. I mean,
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I'm saying I don't mean the whole people. But they
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have been used as a tool of God to chastise
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the Israelites, and he did that throughout the Old Testament.
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Why would we think that's not the case now. I
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am very pro Israel. I mean, I don't have a
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particular fondness for the Palestinians. You know, Muslims are opposed
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to Christianity as they are to you. But we would
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have to say that had Israel accepted Christ some two
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thousand years ago this would not be happening. And I'm
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fully on the side of israel I. Hope they win
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the war and can live in peace. But yeah, God
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definitely puts thorns in the side to chastise people. And
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that's exactly what the Palestinians are to Israeli Jews, and
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you know, also very much to Christians who live in
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the area. Muslims are not real big on Christians, and
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I really don't understand why some Catholics side with the Muslims.
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That's you know, not right in any way, shape or form.
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We should pray that everybody becomes Christian, we should make
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peace with everyone who extends the hand of peace to us,
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and vice versa. But yeah, really bad stuff. You know
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what was it October seven, two years ago now or
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a year ago now? I mean, you don't go throw
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babies into ovens and slaughter thousands of people and call
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yourself a good person. No, what I mean? I always
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just compared to this. My sympathies are entirely with it
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with the Cherokee people in the way they were treated
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in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. They were terribly persecuted, genocide.
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But now the Cherokee people that live in Cherokee, North Carolina,
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and I know there are others in Oklahoma and all
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that really live in peace, and they're mostly Christian, pretty
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much all Christian, and they live in peace with all
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the European descendants of European settlers all around them, mostly
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you know Scott's Irish people in North Carolina and Tennessee
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and all that. If suddenly they were to rise up
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and start lobbing missiles into Asheville, North Carolina, the US
59:58
government would Mustard's troops and go wipe them off the
1:00:01
face of the earth. And that would be the right
1:00:04
thing to do, because in that case they'd be their aggressor.
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I'm not going to go back and say, you know what,
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two hundred years ago, their land was stolen, and they
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have every right to kill innocent men, women and children.
1:00:15
No they don't. They have every right to live in
1:00:17
peace with men, women and children, and they should be
1:00:19
treated as just as kindly and with respect. And I
1:00:22
say this is someone with a Native American blood. If
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the chair Key begin slaughtering the people of western North Carolina,
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then we'll go after them with everything we got until
1:00:34
they're no more, or until they give up their arms.
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I mean, that's that's what it comes down to, and
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I'm sorry if that offends people. Now, as an irishman
1:00:45
my last name is Carol, I don't approve of the
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IRA in its modern form. Now. When it started out, yeah,
1:00:53
it was the Irish Republican Army, sure, but when it
1:00:56
became a terrorist organization, you're going to walk away from that.
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You cannot support that. Even though those are Catholic Irish
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would have my full sympathies and respect. But not when
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they go start bombing innocent women and children and men
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who have nothing to do with anything that's not right.
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We have to reject that. That's murder, and murder is
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a mortal sin obviously, So anyway, let's see, so it
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should not being forgive the world. A clever physician continues
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to prescribe for his patient, although his medicines produce no
1:01:36
immediate improvement, trying to save him by every expedient of
1:01:40
his skill that he can devise. But if the patient
1:01:44
cannot be induced to swallow these drugs, and even goes
1:01:47
so far as to throw them out the window, the
1:01:50
physician dis continues his visit. God acts in a similar
1:01:54
manner toward the sinner who resists actual grace, he forsakes
1:01:59
him entirely to him. Maybe applied words of the prophet
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Samuel to King Saul, because thou hast rejected the word
1:02:07
of the Lord. The Lord hath rejected to thee first
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Kings fifteen twenty six. He who has committed the sins
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against the sin against the Holy Ghost cannot be saved,
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because at the hour of death he is without the
1:02:21
dwelling of the Holy Spirit and sanctifying grace. His spiritual
1:02:25
condition is that of the reprobate. Sins that cry to
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heaven are sins of great malice. They are a wilful murder,
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oppression of the poor, defrauding laborers of their wages, and
1:02:37
the sin of sodom. That's something you're not going to
1:02:42
hear preaching churches these days. But homosexual sex is a
1:02:48
grave sin. It is a mortal sin. Like it or not,
1:02:53
that's what God says. Your opinion really doesn't matter, and
1:02:56
neither just that of a psychologist or a politician. Okay,
1:03:00
and some would say, well, that's also sodom was inhospitable
1:03:04
to visitors. Well, okay, that's cool too, But yeah, they're
1:03:09
really talking about sodomy here, okay. So, and that means
1:03:15
between a man and a man, I guess, dido a
1:03:20
woman and a woman. We're talking homosexual sex here. We're
1:03:23
not talking about anything other than that. There are things
1:03:28
men and women do that are venial sins? What would
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not fall under that category to the best of my knowledge,
1:03:35
and you can check your catechism on that, because I
1:03:37
could be wrong. I don't know anyway, these sins are
1:03:41
of so abominable a nature that every man's and really,
1:03:44
when we're talking about this, we're usually talking the misuse
1:03:51
of young boys. Usually when that's condemned in the Bible,
1:03:55
it is homosexual men corrupting boys. And that's exactly what
1:04:02
our society in America is trying to make, okay these days.
1:04:07
So let's put that in perspective as well, sex, slavery, seduction, whatever. Okay.
1:04:16
These sins are so abominable in nature that if man
1:04:20
that every man's feelings must revolt against them. And in
1:04:23
the eighteen seventies people would be far more offended by
1:04:28
homosexuality than we are in America now because we've been
1:04:32
almost what actuated or normalized to it when it is
1:04:37
still the Bible says, you're going to go to hell
1:04:40
if you do this, okay, And we really do need
1:04:44
to tell people that for their own good, you're not
1:04:47
trying to hurt their feelings. You're trying to keep them
1:04:49
from going to hell. But anyway, when Cain killed his
1:04:53
brother Abel, God said to him, the voice of thy
1:04:55
brother's blood crieth to me from the earth Genesis nineteen.
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Every nation of the faiths of the earth either punishes,
1:05:04
every nation on the face of the earth punishes murder
1:05:07
with exceptional severity, generally by the execution of the criminal. Well,
1:05:12
that should be true in the case of abortion as well.
1:05:14
But now we act like, oh, poor poor things, she
1:05:17
just didn't know any better, and now she has a
1:05:20
right to it and kill your children with impunity. That's
1:05:25
not what the Bible says, and it's not what the
1:05:27
Church teaches. The oppression of the helpless Israelites in Egypt
1:05:31
was the sin that cried to heaven in Exodus three seven.
1:05:35
The Pharisees were guilty of this sin. They oppressed the
1:05:37
poor and prayed long prayers Matthew twenty three. God expressly
1:05:44
forbade the Jews to injure the widow and the orphan.
1:05:47
In Exodus and ecle whatever Ecclesiastes or syric one, to
1:05:53
keep back the wages of the needy and do romney
1:05:55
is a sin that cries to heaven, also on some pretexts,
1:05:59
or or otherwise, to defraud them of the whole amount
1:06:03
in James five to four. In the Middle Ages, an
1:06:07
action brought by a working man took precedence of all
1:06:10
others in court of law, and judgment was given within
1:06:14
three days. It's really important. I mean, I've been cheated
1:06:18
out of my wages before, and you know, yeah, that's
1:06:22
pretty bad. The sin of Sodom takes its name from
1:06:26
the inhabitants of Sodom, who were guilty of unnatural sin,
1:06:31
the reasons of which, the reason of which they were
1:06:35
destroyed by God, who rained down upon them brimstone and
1:06:39
fire Genesis nineteen twenty four. The dead Sea is to
1:06:44
a mournful memorial of their sin, one so shameful that
1:06:49
it might not be named among us. In other words,
1:06:52
in eighteen ninety it was considered so shameful you wouldn't
1:06:57
even talk about homicide, actual sex. And now it's like, well,
1:07:06
we've got a general who's a transgender. I mean, really,
1:07:11
what do you think he's doing at night? In the
1:07:14
present day, sins that cry to Heaven are sometimes committed
1:07:18
by employers in their conduct toward defensives workpeople. Many employers
1:07:24
make their people work in unhealthy or overcrowded rooms. This
1:07:29
is very true around nineteen hundred, I mean, far more
1:07:32
so than it is today, and really deplorable by the way.
1:07:37
I mean, I am not in favor of unions, but
1:07:40
the factory owners and mine owners were horrible, horrible the
1:07:46
conditions they imposed on people, especially the English against the Irish.
1:07:50
But then again here in America a lot anyway. Many
1:07:54
employers make their people work in unhealthy and overcrowded rooms,
1:07:58
unheeded in winter time, and do not allow them proper
1:08:02
integral for rest or for their meals. They do not
1:08:05
pay them enough to enable them to live decently. They
1:08:08
require of them more work than they can do, and
1:08:12
of a kind which they have no right to demand
1:08:14
of them. The exploitation and oppression of labors in our
1:08:19
day gives rise to the abuseful abuses of social democracy.
1:08:24
That's one of the most remarkable things against about Father
1:08:27
Sprague's book written in the eighteen nineties, he totally told
1:08:32
about the rise of socialism and communism and blamed it
1:08:36
as much on atheists as he did on those employers
1:08:42
who exploited their workers. And really the modern day equivalent
1:08:46
of slavery, that's what it was and it's what continues
1:08:50
to be to this day. We have more slavery in
1:08:52
America now than we probably did in the eighteen hundreds
1:08:55
due to illegal immigration. They come in, they have no papers,
1:09:00
they can't work legally. Therefore they can be forced to
1:09:04
do whatever somebody wants them to do, whether it's sex, slavery,
1:09:07
or working in a field. And any Catholic organization that
1:09:11
supports unfettered, unregulated illegal immigration is complicit in slavery. The
1:09:22
worst you can imagine, a lot of them die, all right.
1:09:27
A distinction must be made between venial sin and imperfections.
1:09:30
Imperfections or faults which are not due to bad will
1:09:33
but to human frailty. Uncivil manners, lies told in a joke,
1:09:39
in voluntary distractions in prayer, etc. Are imperfections. Venial sin,
1:09:44
says Saint Francis, to sell arise from a bad will.
1:09:48
Imperfections do not. But although imperfections are not actually sins,
1:09:53
yet they are wrong and ought to be avoided. And
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as a man full of many, many, many imperfections, I
1:10:00
can only pray that I do better, and I hope
1:10:04
we all strive to do better. Anyway, y'all, in the
1:10:08
words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope, and don't worry,
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and I will talk to y'all next time.