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Show 253: Religious Associations · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The Fish of b Hey, y'all welcome this week's show. Well,
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first of all, the big announcement, as I have been
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hinting over the past few months, I have a new
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book coming out. It's called Herbs at Hill Catholic Home Remedies.
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It's published by Sophia Press, co authored with Steve Cunningham,
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with the Census Fidelium podcast and YouTube channel and everything.
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Steve's got a huge audience. It was released like two
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days ago, May nineteen, and it's just kind of been
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a whirlwind since, you know, articles, interviews, a whole bit.
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It turned out so great, I mean, beautifully illustrated. It
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is just like a super useful guide to what we
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call kitchen medicine taken care of. Not serious stuff, but
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you know, minor elements colds and flus and coughs and
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different things, you know, minstrual cramping and fever and sore
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throats and et cetera at home using herbs you probably
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either already have on hand or maybe growing in your
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backyard already, or you can easily get them. Very common stuff.
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We're not using like a lot of exotic herbs. This
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is like really basic stuff, but it's very well grounded
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in the Catholic tradition of herbal medicine, starting with the
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Benedictines and Abbott Strabo and Saint Hildegarde and Fathers Nape
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and Counsel and Brother Aloisious and Maria Trebin and I mean,
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we just it's a good book. It's going to be
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useful for anyone of really any level, whether you're a
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beginner or you're an advanced herbalist. It's just a really
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easy go to guide. I give instructions on growing all
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the herbs as well, So if you want to check
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that out yet. Sophia Press Herbs at Heel by Judson
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Carol and Stephen Cunningham Steve Cunningham beautifully illustrat It just
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turned out so nicely, and yeah, we're excited about it,
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so you know, check it out. Be sure to share
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it with friends, family, and loved ones. They might be
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interested in it, even if you you know already if
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you don't have a need for it, I don't know.
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I can't imagine anybody not having a need for it.
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We're all going to have minor ailments. I've had extreme
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sinusitis for the past week or two that I've had
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to treat and it's just starting to abate. You know,
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herb Let's get sick too. That's why we need herbs.
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I don't know if this was allergy or viral or what,
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but it's been Wow has it been painful. But it's
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settling down. So herbs are good. Be sure to use herbs. No, seriously,
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God made everything. God called it good. God gave us
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some of this herbs for our use, for our health.
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Because cirrax says despise, not the physician, because his knowledge
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was given him, given to him by God. The physician
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at that time would have, of course been an rbal
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because all medicine was plant based into about the nineteen twenties,
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with a few exceptions. So yeah, I hope you'll check
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it out. And it's a fun read as well as
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being very informative. Steve and I are both just who
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we are. We're Southern guys. We cracked jokes, you know,
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we're Catholics, and we included information on saints that are
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associated with various elements and prayers and different things and
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a lot of interesting history. But then you know, we
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have fun with it too, and it's really it's a
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fun read. I think you'll really enjoy it, and yeah,
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I hope I finds a place on your shelf. Now
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let's get into the show. We will pick back up
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with radio replies. The questioner asks asks the priests what
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is the sacrament of extreme function? And they answered it
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is a sacrament instituted by Christ, in which the priest
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anoints with bless story all those who are sick and
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engraved danger of death. This sacrament gives grace, which is
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of great spiritual assistance to the dying, and even at
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times affords relief from physical illness. We now call that
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the annoying of the sick. It used to be called
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extreme function, and people thought they had to wait till
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the end of their life to do it. No, in fact,
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that well, as we discussed I think a couple of
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months ago, that teaching has really evolved over the past
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one hundred years or so since so Sparago wrote this book,
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people people were encouraged to have the last rites or
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annoying of the sick at the end of their life.
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I don't know why we weren't encouraged to do it beforehand.
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Maybe it was just lack of priests and time. I
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don't know. But people got to the point where they thought, well,
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I couldn't get it in less I'm about to die.
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But it's not true. You can get it whenever you're
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in serious illness. In Sparago's time eighteen nineties, people going
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on trips or soldiers going into war were discouraged from
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receiving the annoying of the sick. That's not case anymore,
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at least not in my diocese, not according to what
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the priest has told me they. I mean, he really
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wants people to get in there and get annoyed as
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often as possible, because you never know when your last
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day is going to come, and you may not have
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a priest on hand. Now, maybe that's because you know,
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in North Carolina, in most of the United States, we
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don't have a lot of priests, and they can be
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far and few and far between. I mean, I can
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think of five counties around here that just within a
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thirty minute drive of where I am right now, they
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don't even have a Catholic church one that does. The
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priest comes over like for thirty minutes on a Saturday,
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and he goes I mean it's a mission church, and
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he goes back to the next county over. You know,
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be pretty darn hard to get in touch with the
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priest and get it in time. And most of your
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doctors and nurses around here are not Catholic. There is
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no guarantee they're going to call a priest. Some of
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them would probably purposely not call a priest because they
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are so anti Catholic in their biases. Maybe that's why
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we've become encouraged more to use the sacrament more often
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rather than wait until the last minute. I'm not sure,
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but yeah, anyway, that was what's called the extreme function.
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Person asks when did Christ institute such a sacrament, and
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they answer that is not known, but the fact that
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he did so is evident from the words of Saint James.
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Is any man sick among you, let him bring in
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the priests of the church, and let them pray over him,
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anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
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And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man,
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and the Lord shall raise him up. And if he
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be in sins, they shall be forgiven him. James five
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fourteen through fifteen. When Saint James says that he must
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be annoyed in the name of the Lord, that he
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shall be saved, that the Lord will raise him up.
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He shows clearly that Christ himself was the author of
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the commission to administer the sacramental rite. Person says, my
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spirit is quite out of sympathy with that kind of thing,
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and they answer, I do not think so. Extreme unction
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is the same kind of thing as baptism. If you
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agree that grace can be given by the application of
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water and baptism, as you do, you should find no
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difficulty admitting that grace could be given by the application
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of oil, should the same Christ decide to institute such
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a sacrament. Person says, my future depends on Christ, not
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upon being annoyed with oil, and they answer, it depends
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upon Christ. It depends upon the means appointed by Christ
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for the communication of his grace. He at least says
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that He wants to save you by baptism. He who
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believes and is baptized shall be saved. That is one condition.
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The inspired Word of God also tells us anyone is sick,
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he should call the priests the church and be annoyed
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with oil in the name of the Lord. If your
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spirit is out of sympathy with that kind of thing,
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then it is out of sympathy with the Christian religion.
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And it is a fact that the more a man's
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spirit is out of sympathy with the Catholic Church and
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her rights, the more it is out of sympathy with
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Christianity itself. Person says, I do not expect to win
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a race when it is over, and they answer, nor
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do I. But the race is not over until the
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soul has definitely left the body, and no one knows
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with absolute certainty just when it does leave the body.
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If the soul has gone, when the sacrament of extreme
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function is administered, the sacrament cannot avail, But if the
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soul still be there, it certainly can avail until salvation.
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The person says, you annoyed even the unconscious. Yet a
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medical friend tells me that, in his opinion, death takes
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place with final unconsciousness and before the heart stops beating.
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And they answer, that may be the opinion of your
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medical friend, but it is no more than his opinion.
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The Catholic Church says that a man may be annoyed
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within a half hour to two hours of apparent death
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according to the type of death, not that a man
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is certainly still a living, but that there is a
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probability that the soul has not yet departed from the body,
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and the benefit of doubt must be given to the
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unconscious man. Your medical friend has no certainty. The only
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certainty that a man has really dead on the admission
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of the highest medical authorities is cadaveric cadaveric rigidity of
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the initial decomposition. So we're talking rigormortis That's what I'm
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looking for. All the other signs of death have probably
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only unless, of course, a man has been smashed to pieces.
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Oh have probability only unless a man, of course, be
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smashed a piece, as in a violent accident. This probability
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is shown by the fact that expert doctors, after the
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most diligent examination, have pronounced people dead who have later
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regain consciousness. I am very glad the law prevents doctors
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from giving certificates of death as soon as final unconsciousness
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appears and before the heart stops beating. Until the heart
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does stop, one could not know whether a particular lapse
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into unconsciousness is to be final or not. And even
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when the heart is stopped, there is no absolute certainty
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that the soul was actually departed in that moment. There
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is but a solid probability which does not exclude all doubt,
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and the Church rightly gives the benefit of doubt to
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the subject. Okay, now let's get into folowish for Rago's
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exhaustive explanation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. We
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sip of water, and here we go. We are up
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to religious associations. The Church makes use of religious associations
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as a further means of promoting the salvation of souls.
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In the present day, when the enemies of the Church
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are so numerically strong, it behooves her loyal children to form,
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as it were, into ranks with united forces to withstand
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the foe. Only in this wise can victory be ensured.
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Few men, says Mirabeaux, acting conjointly, can make one hundred
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thousand isolated individuals tremble. This language may appear somewhat exaggerated,
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but there's much truth to it. Union is strength. We
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cannot raise a weight without single threat, but a twisted
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cord is not easily broken. Religious associations are voluntary societies
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formed among the faithful with the object of furthering their
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own salvation or the salvation of their fellow men. Religious
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associations have much the same aim as secular associations. The
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object of the latter is to promote their own earthly
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advantage or the public will or wellbeing that of the
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former to promote, the first place, their own spiritual interests
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or those of their fellow men, and for the most
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part is the secondary consideration the temporal welfare of the neighbors.
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Asociations may be divided into confraternities, sodalities, and charitable societies.
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Confraternities are, as a rule, exclusively for the purpose of devotion.
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Charitable societies are for the relief of spiritual and temporal
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needs of others. Thus, the members of confraternities make their
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own spiritual advancement their primary aim, while charitable societies seek
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the good of their neighbor. Religious societies have nothing to
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do with politics, but friendly intercourse and innocent amusements are
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encouraged as a means of promoting the main object of
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the association and preventing the members from taking part in
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undesirable dissipation. Religious associations are in all spiritual matters subject
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to episcopal authority. In some countries the legislature exercises certain
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control over them, and all that concerns religion. The Church
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has exclusive right over confraternities and sodalities. Only the Bishop
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or General of the order has the power to erect them,
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and their rules must be submitted to him for approval,
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unless they have already been approved by the whole Sea.
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To the Bishop, it belongs to direct to direct the
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devotional exercises of the confraternity, to prohibit anything peculiar or extraordinary.
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It is for him to prescribe the manner in which
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the funds would be raised and how they would be
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expended when collected. He can attend their meetings or send
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someone to represent him. He can also appoint the parish
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priest to be director of the confraternity. It is also
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necessary to obtain ecclesiatical ecclesiastical sanction for the forming of
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charitable societies. The formation of religious associations has always been
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highly commended by the Holy See, and large indulgences have
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been granted to them because they are of great benefit
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to the individual members and the community in general. Our
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Holy Father Leo the thirteenth, in his Encyclicals of eighteen
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eighty four. In eighteen ninety one, expressed high approval of
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religious associations, especially the Society of Saint Vincent of Paul
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and the Guilds of Artisans and Workingmen Pope Pius and
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Knights says. They are in armies set in battle array
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to combat with adversaries of the faith, not with the
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class of arms, but with the silent weapons of prayer.
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Confraternities may be compared to Noah's art because persons living
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in the world seek them a refuge from the rising
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tide of crime and corruption. The members of these confraterneyes,
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as a rule, lead a more devout and well ordered
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life than the rest of the world. They are not
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as apt to neglect prayer because their rule prescribes a
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certain prayer spew sided daily. They approach the sacraments more
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frequently because days are marked for them on which a
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plenary indulgence may be gained. They learned obedience when they submit,
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when they submit to the decisions of the director. They
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spend more time in religious exercises than in running after
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excitements and worldly amusements, and the observances of the regulations
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cultivates in them a salutary habit of self restraint. They
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tend to keep up a high standard of faith and
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morals and the perish to which they belong, and by
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their good example, leads others to frequent the sacraments. They
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assist in the good diffusion of good and useful books.
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They all contribute their might for ecclesiastical purposes. For the
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most part they are discharged. They discharge the obligations of
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their calling with great conscientiousness regularity, and the parish priests
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often finds them a great help in the duties of
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his office. And if some members give scandal the rules
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of the confraternity or not to blame but the neglect
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of them. And it must be remembered that the cockle
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always grows amongst the wheat. Cockle always grows among the wheat.
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They are always going to be weeds among the wheat,
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in other words, and the cockle. What an interesting parallel
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that is. I think I may have mentioned this before.
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I know it's in my books. There is a weed
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called darnell, darnel or darnell, which commonly grows among wheat,
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especially in the Middle East and parts of Europe. And
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it looks like wheat. It is in the biblical parable
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of the enemy sold tears among the wheat. Sometimes it says,
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cockles among the wheat, that's Darnel. And the interesting thing
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about Darnell is it's quite poisonous and hallucinogenic. And so,
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you know, civilization essentially began when people realized they could
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grow grain on the Nile River and make bread and
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beer right in amongst the wheat. If one was not
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very very careful, one could get Darnell and start seeing
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ghosts and think, which is to put curses on them
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and such, and demons are coming after him. So there's
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that really interesting parallel of the good wheat with the
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weeds that the enemy sowed and all that. And then
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of course there's also ergot fungus. If wheat stored properly,
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if it gets damp, it can grow fungus, which is
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actually produced as LSD. So bread was really kind of
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an if ify thing for our ancestors. Well. On the
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one hand, it was the staff of life and they
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needed it. On the other hand, it could actually poison
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them and make them insane. So yeah, I mean, I
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just find it really interesting that that relationship when you
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think that Jesus is the bread of life, and you
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think their terrors some among the wheat, and we know
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you know they're going to be bad people in any
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church should go to. I mean even out of the
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twelve Disciples, one of them was Judas, so very interesting
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parallel to me. Yeah, I'm probably talking enough about it,
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but I always just just find that very interesting. I
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guess it's an herbalis is a foodie, you know, you know,
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I think about such things. I don't know anyway. Charitable
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societies are also most useful, though combined. Through combined action
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was those who are like minded with themselves. The members
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are encouraged to profess their faith openly and carried into practice,
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carry into practice the maxims of the Gospel, and be
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ready to take part in all good works. It is
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remarked that in parishes where there are no confraternities or sodalities,
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religion is generally at a low ep. There is this
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advantage in such associations that the rules enjoying their performance
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of certain good works are not binding under pain of sin.
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Saint francis Is sal was a member of several confraterneys.
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He gave as a reason for this, that one might
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gain much from them and lose nothing. However, the rules
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are not observed the individual individual indulgences and graces are lost.
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This is often the case if one joins too many confraternities.
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Let no one think of it as a market predestination
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to be inscribed in the book of a number of societies.
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For by a holy life alone can we hope for heaven.
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The Third Orders are, however, in every way more important
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than ordinary religious associations. The Third Order is not to
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be classed with confraternities, as is affiliated to one of
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the great monastic orders the religious States has sought, Saint Alphonsis.
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Alfonsis is preferable to all the dignities and riches of
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the world. Else getting drag in here, the Third Order
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of Saint Francis. A third order was founded by Saint
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Francis of Assisi for the sake of seculars, in order that,
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by the observance of certain rules, they might, while still
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living in the world, obtained speedily and easily to the
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sanctity of life. After Saint Francis of Assisi had already
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founded the Orders of the Friars miner and the Poor Claires,
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he was requested by a wealthy Italian merchant to furnish
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him with a rule by following which he could be
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unable to lead a holy life. Although his calling obliged
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him to hold constant intercourse with men of the world.
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The Saint gave him a rule which was soon adopted
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by other persons. Thus, the Third Order of Saint Francis
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originated about the year twelve twenty. Its members lived in
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the world and wore a gray habit fastened around the
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waist by a cord. This third Order was, with some alterations,
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confirmed by the Sea and spread rapidly throughout Christendom. It
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is intended for those who live in the world and
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are not of the world. The Third third Order is
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distinguished from ordinary confraternities by the fact that its members
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are entitled to wear a habit and are subject to
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a religious superior tertiaries I AM. Members of the Third
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Order wear as small scapular under their upper garment as
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a part of their religious dress, and a cord or
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a girdle as a token of penance. These things are
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given to the postulant when he is clothed. No one
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is admitted before the completion of the fourteenth year of
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his age. He must be of good morals and a
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peaceful disposition. After a year of probation, he is profess,
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and he takes a solemn promise to keep the law
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of God and the rule of the Order with all fidelity.
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The Director of the Third Order is a is a
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Franciscan monk appointed to the office by the General of
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the Franciscan Order. This office, which gives power to receive
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new members, to give dispensations, to examine aspirants, and to
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exercise supervision over profess, may be filled by a secular
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priests appointed by the provincial. In every parish there is
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a zelator, I guess that's what it's called, xelator, whose
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duty is to see that the members live conformably to
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the spirit of the rule. The Third Order is distinguished
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from the First and Second Orders because it does not
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impose the obligation of keeping the evangelical councils, but only
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the commandments of the Gospel. Moreover, the rules of the
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Order are not binding under pain of sin. The obligation
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of the rules are very light. They were considerably mitigated
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in eighteen eighty three by Popelio the thirteenth and adapted
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to the requirements of the time. The rule enjoins upon
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tertiaries to obey God's commandment and the precepts of the Church,
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to avoid faction and quarreling. To observe moderation food, drink,
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and clothing, to avoid luxury, to refrain as far as
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they can from the dangerous seductions of dances in the theater.
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They are also required to fast on the eve of
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the feasts of Saint Francis and of the Immaculate Conception,
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the approach to thea, to approach the sacraments every month,
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to recite twelve potters or our Father's Aves or Hell
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Mary's and glorious or glory be to the Father you know daily.
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To hear mass, if possible, every day, To attend monthly meetings,
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to assist those of their fellow members who are sick
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or destitute, and to pray for deceased members. Anyone who
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is unable to perform one or more of these obligations
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can be dispensed. Special privileges are conceded to priests. The
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members of the Third Order have greater graces with other
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reach than members of almost any other existing confraternity. They
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can obtain a plenary indulgence on the ordinary conditions once
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a month, on any day. They may choose and the
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day of the monthly meeting, besides some other days, and
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at the hour of their death once some months. By
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reciting the paternostros Ave Maria the Glorious, they may obtain
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indulgences of the holy places in Rome, Jerusalem, Compostella and
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Portal portiuncola. I have trouble down portiuncola. These and many
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other rich indulgences attached to various prayers and good works,
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are all applicable to the soul's in purgatory. Every Mass
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said for departed member has an indulgence of a privileged altar.
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The Third Order enjoys the benefit of the intercession of
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many eminent saints belonging to the Order, especially that of
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their Holy Father of Saint Francis. The members are all
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assisted by prayers of the numerous saints of the Franciscan
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Order and of the poor Claires. Before the Throne of God.
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The Third Order has counted among its members many distinguished
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personages and eminent saints. It would be impossible to enumerate
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in these pages the crowned heads and the servants of God,
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whose names are familiar to all Christians who have been
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enrolled in the Third Order of Saint Francis. Our holy
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father Leo the thirteenth is and his predecessor in the
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chair of Peter was a tertiary tertiary of this order.
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If this order were once more to flourish among us,
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as it did in the days of your are the
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words of our Holy Father, the lawless greed for temporal
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things would be weakened. Men would obey their lawful rulers.
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They would learn to conquer their natural propensities to evil,
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They would outrage no one's rights, and the relations between
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rich and poor would be satisfactorily arranged. By means that
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the Third Order of Saint Francis, the Kingdom of God
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would triumph upon the earth, and the Kingdom of Satan
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be overthrown. So you know, when I say, being a convert,
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people don't tell you everything. No one ever mentioned the
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Third Order of Saint Francis to me, only learned it
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from reading Poshmarraga's book. If for no other reason it
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sounds like a pretty good thing, right, maybe we ought
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to all look into joining the Third Order of Saint Francis.
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I am a member of the Rosary Confraternity. The Holy Face,
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Miraculous medal, Brown scapular. It's certainly not burdensome. They don't
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give you too many prayers to say. It takes just
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a few minutes each day. Actually, all right, so the
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more widespread confraterneys. No confraternity can be established in a
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parish without the permission of its bishop. Affiliation to an
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arch confraterney is also necessary. The object of the Society
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for the Propagation of the Faith is to aid and
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support the work of missions to the Heathen by means
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a prayer and arm alms. The members of this confraternity
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are required to recite one Our Father and a Hell
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Mary daily with the inification Saint Francis Xavior, pray for us,
26:53
and to pay a small weekly or monthly sum. Among
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the indulgences granted to the members of this confraternity, the
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principal is a plenary indulgence on a two days of
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the month, which they may choose, and one at the
27:05
hour of their death. This work was found in eighteen
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twenty two and Leon, where it still has its center.
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The contribution amount is nearly two million dollars annually in
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eighteen ninety. That's pretty impressive, half of which is collected
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in France, chiefly from the working classes, and the course
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of forty years, no less than one hundred and fifty
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episcopal sees have been erected in different parts of the world,
27:27
and millions of heathens have been converted to the faith
27:30
of Christ. Some say, well they are playing at Port Hume.
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Let these remember that there is no work so meritorious
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as one which contributes to the salvation of souls, or
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one to which such abundant blessings are promised. The object
27:44
of the Confraternity of the Child Jesus is to provide
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funds to enable missionaries to receive and educate in a
27:50
Christian manner heathen children who are abandoned by their parents.
27:53
The members of this association are required to recite a
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Hell Mary daily with a prayer Old Blessed Virsion Mary,
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pray for us and for the unhappy heathen children. No
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one is admitted in this association who is not under
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twenty one years of age. Oftentimes a mother would enroll
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her child in this confraternity and her self performed the
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obligation attached to it. Thus, by helping to rescue an
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unknown child from eternal destruction, she obtains a special blessing
28:20
for her own offspring. This association was originally founded in China,
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where sickly children, where those of whom their parents would
28:28
fain be rid, are ruthlessly exposed and left to perish.
28:33
The object of the Confraternity of Saint Michael is to
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assist a supreme pontiff by the prayer and alms of
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the faithful. The members of this association required to recite
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one of our Father, One Hell, Mary and the Creed
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daily for the intentions of the Holy Father, and to
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contribute not less than twenty five cents yearly to the
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Pope's pets. Twenty five cents yearly. Say that to someone
28:54
who says Catholic seeks, they can buy indulgences one it's optional,
28:58
and then it's twenty five cent. This confraternity is under
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the protection of the Archangel Saint Michael. A plenary indulgence
29:06
is granted to the members of the hour of their death.
29:09
The object of the Confity of the Blessed Sacrament is
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the adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Ultar.
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In the present day of the Confraternity, the perpetual adoration
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is being widely propagated each member pledges himself to spend
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an hour every month in adoration of the blessed sacrament.
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The members watch in turn Julian Sundays and Holy Days.
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The chief indulgences are a plenary indulgence once a month,
29:32
the day being optional on the first Thursday the month,
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on the feast of Corpus Christi, or the Octave, or
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on the five principal feasts of Our Lady, besides other festivals,
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and in the hour of death it is meet or appropriate.
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That's what that means that our Lord present under the
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eucharist veil, under the Eucharistic veil should be perpetually adored.
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Just as there is no hour of the day or
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night in which, in some place on earth the Holy
29:57
sacrifice is not offered a in heaven the host of
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angels and a company of the Redeemed unceasingly seeing the
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Tara sanctus terra sanctus. So it is right that on
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earth the inscriptions of praise should be insistent, should incessantly
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resound Old Sacramento O seton. I think it's a molarier.
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One thing Father Sprago did not do was write in
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a way that was easy to read aloud. I'll put
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it that way, Old Sacrament, most Holy, Old Sacrament, divine,
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all praise and all thanksgiving, be ever moment thine. In
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addition to the Confraternity of Perpetual Adoration, there are besides
30:42
in every town tabernacle or altar society's, the object of
30:45
which is to honor the adorable sacrament of the altar
30:49
by doing sacrecy work and providing ultralin investments, et cetera
30:53
for poor churches. Every member of these society pledges him
30:56
herself to spend an hour in the church every month
30:59
watching before the bus sacrament. We're still not where we
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have them in all towns in America. I mean eighteen Nicee, Czechoslovakia.
31:07
Very different place in twenty twenty six North Carolina. I
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can tell you that much. The object of the Confraternity
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of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is to venetrate and
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adore the Sacred Heart of our Lord and participate in
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the imbanic graces he promises to those who practice the devotion.
31:24
The members of this confraternity are required to recite and
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Our Father, Hell, Mary and the Creed daily with the
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prayer Old Sweetest Heart of Jesus implore that I may
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ever love thee more and more. They are more over
31:36
to approach the sacrament every month, if possible, in the
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first Sunday or Friday of the month, to keep the
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feasts of Sacred Heart on the Friday or Sunday after
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the Octave of Corpus Christi with allsolemity so leminity, and
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to pray for the members of the association, both living
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and dead. Many rich indulgences are attached to this confraternity
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among others, and indulgence of sixty days is granted for
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every good work performed during the day. In order to
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belarn his confraternity. Is not necessary that it should be
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erected in the place where one lives. Anyone who once
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enrolled is once enrolled, can gain all the indulgences by
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complying with the obligations imposed on the members. Our Lord
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appeared to Blessed Mary alec Coquay. He made known to
32:18
her the great abundant Grace's vouchsafe to all who honor
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His Sacred Heart with particular devotion. The object of the conforterry.
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The rosaries promote the promote the devotion of the Rosary
32:31
to form the Living Rosary. Fifteen individuals unite every month
32:35
to a portion among themselves, generally by drawing lots the
32:38
fifteen decades of the Rosary. Each one recites a decade
32:42
which falls to his share daily throughout the month. Thus,
32:46
between them they recite the whole Rosary every day. This
32:49
confraternity is under the direction of the Dominicans. Of Plenary
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indulgence may be gained by the members on the third
32:54
Sunday of every month, on Trinity Sunday, on the principal
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feasts of Our Lord and His Blessed Mother. The rest
32:59
ofation of the Rosary is also indulgence in a special manner.
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The Confraternity the Holy Rosary was established in the lifetime
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Saint Dominic. The members are required to recite all fifteen
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decades of the Rosary every week, but not all on
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one on the self same day. This confiternity is affiliate
33:17
with the Dominican Order. Its members share in the good
33:19
works of the whole Order and are placed on a
33:21
special protection of Our Lady. A plenary indulgence is granted
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the first Sunday of the month, on all feasts of
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Our Lady and the Three Great festivals of the Church,
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in the hour of and at the hour of death. Confortrary,
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the rosary is a little less fringent now. Actually, we
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just pray the rosary for the intentions of all members
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of the confraternity, and only required to do one decade
33:48
of the rosary a day. Obviously you try to pray
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all five, but only required pray one decade, and there's
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no penalty if you don't. It's just good if you do. See,
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the object of the confraternity the Holy Scapular is to
34:03
implore the protection and intercession of the Blessed Mother of
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God in all the perils of this life, in the
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hour of the death, and in the flames of purgatory.
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And I a remember that one as well. This confraternity
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was found in twelve fifty by Saint Simon Stock, then
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General of the Carmelite Order. The Mother of God appeared
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to him and gave him a scapular with the promise
34:23
that everyone who wore it and lived piously should escape
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eternal death, should experience her protection the season of danger,
34:30
and should be speedily released from purgatory. An aspirant will
34:34
be admitted into the confraternity by a priest who has
34:37
the necessary faculties from the Provincial of the Carmelites, his
34:41
name will be entered in the register of the confraternity
34:44
and a scapular hung around his neck. Now, any priest
34:47
can enroll you in the brown scapular. Just go to
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their website and you can print out the prayer of
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the priest is supposed to say, and the prayers are
34:56
supposed to say every day. Super easy. And there are
34:58
a lot of people that donate money to give people
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free scapulars. It's great. There's one really nice, high quality scapulars.
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You get like ten of them for five bucks or something,
35:09
you know, and just hand them out to people with
35:12
cards telling them what to do. Really very important devotional.
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The scapular consists of two small pieces of brown cloths,
35:21
fashion together by a braid, so that one piece hangs
35:23
on the breast on the other over the back. It
35:26
must be worn night and day, and that does take
35:28
some getting used to. Members of the Third Order of
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Mount Carmel are obliged to recite the little Office of
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our Lady, which may if necessarily, be commuted to a
35:36
certain number of potters and aves to faster on every Friday.
35:40
We're no longer required to do the little office. Good
35:43
if you can, it's great. I really like the Little Office.
35:46
I don't always have time for it, but definitely should
35:49
make more time for it. Fast on every Friday throughout
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the year. Now it's just abstain if you can. Good
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if you can fast besides other specified days, to make
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daily meditation of at least half an hour and observe
36:07
certain other rules. Yeah, it's not as hard as it
36:13
used to be. Maybe it should be, I don't know.
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Plenary indulgences may be gained by members of the Confraternity
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on all the festivals of Our Lady, on days when
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the principal Saints of the Order are commemorated on the
36:23
usual conditions, with a visit if possible, to a church
36:26
or chapel of the Order. Four other scapulars. They are
36:30
actually several others. Now, let's see that of the Holy Trinity,
36:34
the Seven Dolors, the Immaculate Conception of the Passion, the
36:38
five are often worn altogether. For each of these, certain
36:41
prayers are prescribed to be recited daily. Our Blessed Lady
36:45
acts for her children, as Rebecca did to her favorite
36:48
son Jacob. She arranged him in the garments of his
36:51
brother Esau, in order that he may obtain the blessing
36:53
of his father. So Mary closes with the scapular of
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the delivery of her divine son, to render us acceptable
37:01
in the sight of our heavenly Father and obtain for
37:03
us his benediction. Now we have the Green Scapo and
37:06
the White Scalpo, their bunch of them, they're all great.
37:10
The object of the Confraternity of Bona Moore's is to
37:13
obtain for its members who are yet on earth, the
37:15
privilege of a happy death, and for the departed a
37:18
speedy release from cleansing fires. The members of this confraternity
37:22
are bound to have a Mass said once every year
37:25
for the intention of they're fellow members, that the one
37:27
who is the next to I may have a happy death,
37:30
and those who are already gone may experience a mitigation
37:33
of the pains of purgatory. They are also exhorted to
37:36
approach the sacraments frequently, to entertain a special devotion to
37:40
the emmact of conception to Saint Joseph, the patron of
37:43
good Death, of a good death, and often to make
37:46
acts of theological virtues and contrition. This confraternity is very
37:51
richly indulgence. For every visit to a sick person twenty years,
37:55
for every meditation of a half hour's length sixty years,
37:58
for every visit to a church seven years. All these
38:01
indulgences are applicable to souls of purgatory. That's an excellent
38:04
to join, as Bona and morse bo in a Mrs.
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Happy Death, Good death. Yes, we should probably all join
38:15
that one. And finally we get to the Confraternity of
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the Holy Ghosts, the object of which is to besiech
38:21
the Holy Ghost, to multiply the numbers of priests and
38:24
enlighten him them with his divine light. The members of
38:28
this confraternity are required to repeat daily seven glorious and
38:31
one obvi for this intention, also to make an avena
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before Pentecosts and receive the sacraments frequently, among other indulgences.
38:39
They may gain one hundred days for every good work
38:41
they perform a plenary indulgence of Pentecosts on the Annunciation
38:46
or in the octaves of these feasts, and at the
38:48
hour of death. M h. You know, I probably ought
38:55
include the next one. It's the apostleship of prayer. This
39:01
is a league of prayers in union with the Sacred
39:03
Heart of Jesus. The Apostleship of Prayer is not a
39:06
confraternity or a sodality, but a pious organization whose object
39:10
is to give an apostolic character and power to all
39:13
our prayers, works and sufferings. This object it attains by
39:17
the union of its members with the unceasing pleading of
39:19
the Sacred Heart and the sacrifice of Mass. And this
39:23
union is accepted by the morning offering, which constitutes the
39:25
first degree of the apostolic of the Apostleship Prayer. There
39:29
will be the first degree of the Apostleship Prayer and
39:32
the only central duty of its members. The morning offering
39:34
is uswarded, Oh Jesus, from the immacted Heart of Mary,
39:37
offer the prayers, works and sufferings of this day and
39:41
union with the intentions of Thy divine art in the
39:44
Holy Mass. Two things are necessary for membership, one registration
39:48
of one's name by a local director and an affiliated
39:51
center to a certificate of admission. Sinners are affiliated by
39:54
diplomas to the Director General, the Father of the Society
39:57
of Jesus residing at Toulouse, France, and transmitted to them
40:02
by the Diocean Director, whom, with the license and in
40:05
accordance with the nomination of the Ordinary he is appointed
40:09
for that purpose. The second degree consists of the daily
40:12
recital of One Our Father in Tenhill Mary's for the
40:14
monthly intention of the Holy Father. And the third degree
40:17
had offered a communion of atonement to the Sacred Heart
40:20
once a week or at least once a month, on
40:22
a day or days fixed by arrangement with the Promoter
40:26
of the Apostleship of Prayer. The organ of the association
40:29
is called the Messenger of the Sacred Heart. That's their publication.
40:33
I don't know if they still do that. I haven't
40:35
even looked it up. I probably should. It's published by
40:37
the authorized editors in various countries under the direction of
40:40
the Director General. There are thirty seven distinct editions of
40:44
the Messenger against eighteen ninety, so I don't know. The
40:47
members of the Apostleship of Prayer in the whole world
40:49
number some twenty to thirty million. Ah, that was pretty big.
40:54
I mean, gosh, eighteen ninety twenty to thirty million. Wow.
40:57
All right, I'm gonna wrap it up there for now.
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Next week. We're going to get into charitable societies. You
41:05
know what, Let me just go and do charitble societies.
41:09
It's gonna take five more minutes. I'm gonna do it.
41:11
Why am I gonna do it? It's the last chapter
41:13
in Father Sprager's book. Why not. Let's go ahead. We've
41:17
been doing this for two years now. I believe we've
41:22
gotten through a lot, and we've learned a lot together.
41:24
I know we have. The Society of Saint Vincent de
41:27
Paul is very widespread. Its object is to seek out
41:30
the destitute and afford them spiritual and temporal relief. The
41:34
work of the active members of this society is to
41:36
visit the poor in their own dwellings, to assist them
41:38
with money and the necessaries of life, necessities whatever, and
41:44
to make use of every means to ameliate their moral
41:46
and spiritual condition. They also collect voluntary donations and subscriptions
41:50
from those who are interested in the work. Conferences and
41:53
members of the members are held every week as a
41:55
rule for consultation respecting the most necessity cases and the
42:01
most necessary works of mercy, for visiting the poor, for
42:04
every alms distribution to them, as well as for everything
42:08
that has done in their service, a large indulgence is granted.
42:12
This society was started in Paris in eighteen thirty by
42:14
eight students after employing the help and guidance of Saint
42:18
Vincent of Paul, who remains whose remains rest in the
42:21
Church of Saint Lezare. It has spread with astonishing rapidity
42:26
throughout all the countries of Europe, and it is impossible
42:29
to estimate the amount of good effect by its means.
42:32
Mention may also be made of the Society of Saint Boniface,
42:36
to the object of which is to preserve German Catholics
42:39
living in Protestant surroundings from losing their faith by providing
42:42
them with priests of their own nations and establishing schools
42:46
for the education of their children. The Society of Saint
42:48
Raphael Institute for the purpose of affording council and protection
42:52
of German subjects emmigrating to America, as is leading up
42:56
to World War One. Remember, it is not intended to
42:59
encourage and promote immigration. On the contrary, any persons are
43:02
deterred from it. Wouldn't that be nice that the Catholic
43:05
Church still deterred people from immigrating, especially illegally and the
43:12
intending immigrant is warned of all the dangers awaiting him
43:15
in a strange land. Wouldn't that be nice? He is
43:17
exhorted to go to his religious duties before starting on
43:21
the voyage, and on his arrival in the United States,
43:23
he's provided with suitable shelter, and often employment is found
43:26
for him. And remember that is illegal immigration. It's not
43:30
just y'all sneak in. If you want to, we'll turn
43:32
a blind eye to it. And you know, maybe if
43:36
facilitated by giving you some clothing and housing and food
43:40
and all that, while you come break our laws and
43:44
in rich gangs and cartels and exploit children and create
43:52
a new level of slavery in a country where slavery
43:55
was once abolished. And anyway, the Catholic Society for friendless.
44:00
This is interesting, I thought. This proposes as its object
44:05
to lead young working men to follow a religious and
44:08
upright life, to encourage a spirit of industry and brotherly
44:11
kindness among them. A priest presides over the society. The
44:15
use are assembled of an evening for innocent entertainment, readings
44:20
and religious instruction. They are assistant in sickness or poverty,
44:25
and every endeavor is made to render them useful members
44:27
of society. What a great organization that is, that would
44:31
be quite useful and helpful everywhere. The working Man's Guild Disassociation,
44:36
as well as the one spoken of above, was originally
44:39
in Germany by Adolf Kolping, the so called apostle of
44:42
the working classes, who began his life as a shoemaker's apprentice,
44:46
and through diligent study and pious perseverance, fitted himself for
44:50
the office of the priesthood. A number of friendly societies
44:53
and charitable works for the improvement of laboring classes and
44:57
for the promotion of a kindly feeling between employers and employed,
45:00
owe their establishment to him very societies societies suited to
45:05
the needs of the people. It would be difficult to
45:08
enumerate the various associations sued to the exigencies of the
45:12
day in different countries and corresponding to the special needs
45:15
of the different classes of men and women, which the
45:18
Charity of Catholics as Institute Catholic Truth Society has for
45:22
its object to supply instructive and useful literature at a
45:25
low price. Its work is rapidly expanding and is productive
45:30
of most satisfactory results and the present day. As one
45:34
of our bishop re marks, then he has strongly felt
45:37
for a combination and centralization in all great undertakings in
45:41
the fields of politics, commerce and finance. Let us, then,
45:44
who are Catholics unite to form a healthy body, powerful
45:47
to promote and maintain the spirit of Christianity in our families.
45:51
The striving after union, now so strongly marked in every
45:54
department of social life, surely ought to play no less
45:57
a prominent part in our religious life. And there we
46:01
have it. We have just finally finished Father Spago's seven
46:05
hundred and forty nine page book on the Catechism. And
46:10
I know, I mean this is I've been through it
46:12
a couple of times and I'm still learning things. I
46:14
hope you've felt it very interesting. It was really this
46:19
book that inspired this podcast. You know, I kept reading
46:22
it and thinking I didn't know this? Did you know
46:26
that I didn't know this? And as good people, they
46:27
didn't know it. Well, Now, if you don't have time
46:32
to sit down and write and read, I mean, a
46:34
seven hundred and forty nine page book written in eighteen ninety,
46:38
you have my podcast and please share it, share it
46:43
with people. That's that's the best we can do. Really
46:47
try to live it and try to share it. All right,
46:49
y'all have a great week, and I will talk to
46:51
you next time.