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Show 159: THE VENERATION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. What a beautiful day
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it is. We had a big rainstorm yesterday. It's cooled things off,
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so I've been outside all day doing yard work and trying to get caught up,
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and I let my writing slide a little for the day. I'm gonna
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have to see if I can work a little later tonight. You know,
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that's the thing about being self employed. People say, oh, it must
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be so nice, you know, to be your own boss. I'm like,
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yeah, it is, it's great, but you know what, you
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have to be an absolute tyrant with yourself. I don't get off work at
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five o'clock if the work's not done. It's got to be done before I
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call it a day. So, but in today's podcast, we're gonna talk
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about one of my favorite subjects, which I guess was somewhat surprising when I
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converted to Catholicism. It's the veneration of the Mother of God. Nothing I
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ever experienced as a Protestant, only learned about it when I became Catholic.
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I guess was a little reluctant at first, but now it's just as much
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a part of my life and faith as you know, go into Mass or
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anything else is that a Catholic does. So let's talk. Let's start with
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radio replies. And now we have an English nationalist, an outspoken Anglican,
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an Englishman who thinks that all Catholics are traders to the crown. You actually,
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that was really It's still common in England. Actually, I'm on the
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upper class especially. It was really calm in the United States until Kennedy was
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president, because he said he'd do whatever the Democratic part Democrat Party platform was
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before he'd listened to the pope. And that did not make him a good
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Catholic. And I don't think he was a very good president at all,
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although I do appreciate his anti communist sentiments. Now, of course we have
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Biden, who is an absolute apostate, promoting abortion and transgendering gay stuff and
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a truly evil man. But does he even have the mental clarity to know
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that he's evil? I mean, did you see the debate the other week?
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Last week? It was that was a train wreck and slow motion?
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That was eh, And I'm not entertained. Bob Dylan. Actually, Joe
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Biden, we beat better care. Women are raped by their sisters, and
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you know, incoherent, babbling, senile, desiccated corpse that's barely still walking,
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so barely did you see his wife lead him off the stage? Do
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you how comfortable do you feel knowing this man's walking around with the nuclear football?
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And that was then? I think it's depends on where the missiles launched.
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You know, if the Russians and Chinese and such are putting missiles in
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Cuba and Panama, they could hit us in like nine minutes. I think,
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you know, if they're actually launched from China and Russia, we could
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be hit by nuclear missiles in like sixteen minutes, if my memory is correct.
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And the White House staffers are saying Biden's not even coherent before ten am
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or after four pm, so hey that I'll make you sleep well at night,
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right? You know? Trump may offend you sometimes, you may not
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like every one of his positions, but if it's a oh, I don't
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know, midnight and putin I mean, you know, China, Kim Jong
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on, whomever watches an attack, who are you going to feel more confident
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about being coherent and able to respond appropriately. I know who I'm picking.
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I am droking Trump all the way, and I cannot wait till he's back
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in office. You know, people say, well, what about Kennedy.
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You know Robert Kennedy Jr. Well, he's very pro abortion, partial birth
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abortion, late term abortion. He's a bad Catholic as well. He's also
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has said that anyone who disagrees with global warming should be put in prison.
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I like him on some issues, but I can't support this man. I
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can't support any politician that promotes abortion. And Donald Trump's not perfect on the
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issue, but his heads and shoulders better than any of the other ones.
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And let's look at it this way. I heard all my life from President
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Reagan, from George H. W. Bush, from George W. Bush,
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from Bob Dole, from Mitt Romney, from John McCain that they were
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opposed to abortion and they were going to overturn roversus way. When President Trump
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first ran, I was really hesitant to support him. I back Cruise on
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the primary without a doubt. Ted Cruz was my guy. You know,
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I mean that was a lot because the things he said in the past about
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abortion. He's had a change of heart. No, he's not perfect on
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the issue, but consider that all those presidential candidates I just pointed out,
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never once attend to March for Life. Even George W. Bush would not
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attendant in person. Donald Trump did. Donald Trump overturned Roe versus Wade.
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He put the judges on the court that actually got the job done. Don't
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let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Well, anyway, let's
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get on to this. The person says, does your allegiance to the Pope
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conflict with your duty as a British subject? Remember that your church is controlled
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by a foreign temporal king. That's how well the British think of themselves.
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So the English literally think they should rule the world and should be able to
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override the Pope, the vicar of Christ, the representative of God on earth.
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Well, you know, I'm not real big on the monarchy of England,
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the Protestant monarchy of England, or a lot of a lot about Protestant
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England before the birth of the Anglican Church. Four be King Henry the Eighth,
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I could argue very strongly that it was the greatest nation on earth,
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especially since my ancestors were its kings. I mean, I'm directly descended of,
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you know, Saint Edward the Confessor, King Richard Lyonheart. A lot
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of guys in the House of Essex, Wessex, I'm sorry, the House
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of Wessex, whose names I can't even pronounce, like Aerro, Awaith and
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such. You know, I'm directly descended from them through my relationship to Lord
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Cheshire, who was like my great great great great grandfather or something, very
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proud of Catholic England. It was like they had the best universities, the
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best hospitals. I mean, you know, it's only rival is France,
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Rome, was it even? I mean, if you were to go back
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to before, you know, fifteen hundred and compare the country, trust me,
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you'd much rather live in England than well, Italy because it was very
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hot, of course, but Ingland was also much more modern and comfortable,
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as odd as that may seem to our thinking now, I mean would be
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primitive for us, but you know, it was a lot more modern than
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the what do they call it the Eternal City or whatever? All right,
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so they answer to British Catholics. The church is not controlled by a foreigner.
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She's controlled by the Vicar of Christ. It would be just the same
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if Saint Peter was still there today and he was a Palestinian Jew. Let's
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talk about what is a Palestinian Jew. Okay, there was no country you
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get called Palestine until after the Romans expelled the Jews from Israel, and they
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named it Palestina as an insult to the Jews, naming it after their rivals,
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the Philistines. All he means is that Saint Peter was Jewish from the
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area we now might refer to as Palestine. There is no legitimate claim to
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Israel by the Palestinians. It was never their home, it was never their
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country. I wish Rome had not named Israel Palestina, but they did and
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created out of whole cloth, as they say, made up a people called
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the Palestinians. They were never Palestinians before then, most I mean, yep.
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They just moved in after the Jews were removed, basically, and you
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know, took over what was already built, which you know, what do
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you do if a Frenchman or an Englishman were elected, No Italian Catholic would
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regard the pope as the pope in the light of foreign nationality, by which
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they just mean that Italians wouldn't consider his nationality. He'd be the Pope.
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He'd be Pope, like you know, John Paul, the Second was Polish,
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and Pope Benedict was a German Bavarian, I guess, but he was
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still the Pope. I cannot be at once subject to two opposed monarchs,
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such as national sovereigns. I can be subject to my earthly ruler in the
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temporal and to the representative Christ in the spiritual. Until the Reformation so called,
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all Englishmen were subject to the Pope, yet were filled with great love
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for their country. You would not presume to say that there was not a
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single loyal Englishman at the time of Henry the fifth. Yet all of England
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was Catholic then, and any Catholics can do today what Catholics could do then.
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The only Catholics in the world who owe temporal allegiance to the Pope are
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those who actually reside in Vatican City, over which and over which only he
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has full rights as a temporal ruler. If though unjust ambition, if through
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an unjust ambition, the Vatican City state were to dispatch an immense army to
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invade Tralia, it would be the duty of the Australian Catholics who join the
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Australian army and defend the country that ought to make clear, the spiritual allegiance
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to the pope does not interfere with our citizenship. Person says, I still
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maintain, you cannot be loyal by law. The king is the head of
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the Anglican Church, a law you must ignore. And they said, Catholics
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are perfectly loyal to the Protestant King. They admit that he is head of
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the Anglican Church, as the law declares, since by law is the head
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of that church. Every Catholic says, right, he is the head of
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the Anglican Church, and loyalty demands know more. It certainly does not demand
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that I accept the church of which he is the head in religious matters.
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My loyalty is concerned with God. In earthly matters, I respect the laws
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of my nation. That law does not say and every citizen must belong to
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the Anglican Church. If it did, it would be an unjust law.
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At variance was God's law and not binding in conscience. Of course, it
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did once say that, and they slaughtered who knows how many thousand English Catholics
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because they refused to submit to the Anglican Church. Last week, I guess,
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was the memorial for Saint Thomas Moore. One of the most famous of
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the Christian martyrs, the Catholic martyrs under Anglicanism. As a person says,
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still, you are subject to Rome, and yet content to remain under the
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protection of the British flag. And they say, Catholics are subject to the
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Bishops of Rome and questions of religion, but they are not subject to him
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in national affairs. This distinction naturally flows from the doctrine region that the religion
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of Christ is not an affair of the British Empire, but for all men
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Britishers should be Christians. But Christianity is not necessary, is not necessarily British.
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We Catholics are not so foolish as to confuse the two things. As
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Catholics and as citizens, we are content to remain under the British flag and
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to shed our blood in defending it. Why should we not be. We
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are not Italians or Frenchmen or Germans, and we have as much right to
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love our country and die for it if necessary as any other citizens. And
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the guy gets apparently a little ruffled at this point and says, why do
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you hate everything English? And the priest responds, I do not. I
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am a purely English descent, and I acknowledge no other loyalty than that to
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the British Empire. I do not like English faults them. Love of my
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own mother is not demand that I call all her faults virtues. I am
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opposed to unjust laws which inflict disabilities on Catholics just because they are Catholics.
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I do not like the law which deprives the king a freedom of conscience insisting
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upon his being a Protestant. But that does not affect my loyalty. And
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we will finish the subject of loyalty the Pope or loyalty to the King.
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I guess that's the way he used to phrase it. Tomorrow. We'll wrap
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that up. And because I want to go ahead and get into the veneration
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of the Blessed version Mary, one of the most important doctrines of the Catholic
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Church, and one in which we agree with the Orthodox Churches. There very
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fond of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Even Martin Luther had a special devotion to
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the Blessed Virgin Mary, believe it or not. As thoroughly evil as the
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man was, even he, the founding Protestant, still believed in the very
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special nature of the Mother of God. Turning to Filer Sparago's exhaustive Catechism of
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the Catholic Church, we find there are many types or figures of our blessed
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Lady to be found in the Old Testament e. G. Or, for
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instance, Eve, the mother of all mankind, Noah's ark, wherein the
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human race was preserved from extinction. The Ark of the Covenant contained the Manna
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and also the word of God. You know on the tablets given to Moses,
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that's the word of God. And Jesus is also the word of God.
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So very in very many ways, the blessed Virgin Mary became the ark
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of the New Covenant, sure who was exempted from the universal law. As
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Mary was exempted from original sin and by her mediation rescued her people from death.
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The mother of the Maccabees, who witnessed the death of her seven sons,
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and whose heart, like Mary's, was pierced with seven swords, etc.
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The Gospels have little information respecting the life of our Lady. More concerning
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it may be learned. More concerning it may be learned from the revelations of
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the saints. Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ is usually called Mother of
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God or most blessed Virgin. Elizabeth was the first to call Mary mother of
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God in Luke one forty three. The Council of Ephesus in four thirty one
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confirmed this title d a genetrix that's Latin for mother of God, and condemned
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the contrary doctrine asserted by the heretic Nestorius. Mary gave birth to him who
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is God and Man in one person. A child does not receive its soul
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from its mother, but from God. Yet she of whom it is born
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is called its mother. In like manner, Mary is justly termed the Mother
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of God. Although Christ did not derive from her a divine nature, Mary
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is also rightly called the blessed Virgin. The words she spoke to the angel
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announced her determination to preserve her virginity and violet Luca one four. In the
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tints of that her saying that she had not known a man, it was
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implied that she would not. That's something our language doesn't. English doesn't really
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have those, like you know, means of conveying intent, but Aramaic does.
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Many ages before the prophet Isaiah's foretold that a virgin should conceive and bear's
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son Isaiah seven fourteen, in her conception, in child bearing, and after
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the birth of Jesus, Mary remained a virgin as the bush burned with fire
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and was not consumed. So Mary's virginity was not impaired by the birth of
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Christ, as her Lord appeared in the midst of the apostles, although the
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doors of the room where they were assembled were shut, so he came into
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the world and her chastis remained intact. So the Shun's sun shines through glass
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without any ways changing it. Mary is the window of heaven through which the
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true light came into the world. Those who are spoken of in the Gospels
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as brethren of Christ Matthew thirteen fifty five are his blood relatives. It was
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customary among the Jews to term their near relatives brethren, so they were cousins.
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That's all it means. Abraham called his nephew Lot by his name Genesis
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thirteen eight. Had Mary had other children who could have taken care of her,
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our Lord upon the cross would not have committed her. As Saint John
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Christausen remarks to the beloved disciple, Christ was called the first born to indicate
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the fact that he was According to Jewish law, sanctified to the Lord Exodus
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thirteen to two. Christ was in fact the first born among many brethren see
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Romans eight twenty nine. That is, all Christian people who are besides who
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are also the children of Mary. Mary was espoused to Joseph by God's commandment
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in order that she may not be stoned after the birth of Christ, and
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also in order to provide a guardian for her in the Divine Child. The
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name Mary is a Hebrew word meaning lady or mistress. We pay greater honor
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to marry the mother of Christ than to any other saint. Even in her
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lifetime, Mary had a great honor paid to her. At the annunciation,
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the Angel addressed her as full of grace and blessed among women Luke one eight.
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It is a great honor if an angel appears to mortal men and affords
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him an opportunity of showing him reverence. Yet at the denunciation it was not
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a man. It was not man who reverenced the angel, but the Angel
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who reverence man. Hence, Saint Thomas Aquinas says, we conclude that Mary
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excels the angels in dignity. How respectfully Elizabeth treated Mary. She called her
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blessed, or never have known which is right at which time, I'm just
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going to go with blessed, and gave her the title Mother of her Lord
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Luke one forty two and forty three. Mary herself foresaw that she would be
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praised by posterity, for she said, from henceforth all generations, she'll call
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me Blessed Luke one forty eight. The Church invites us to honor the Mother
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of God with special devotion. The hell Mary is almost invariably added to the
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our Father three times a day. The Angelus bells remind us of the mysteries
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of the incarnation and bids us to invoke the name of Mary. Many festivals
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have been instituted in her honor. The Litany of Loretto is recited at public
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services of the Church. The month of May, the fairest month of the
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year, is dedicated to her, and during October the rosaries recited daily.
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Moreover, numerous churches are erected in all lands in honor of the Mother of
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God, not a few of those being in being renowned places of pilgrimage,
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where signal graces and favors are obtained and the most glorious titles are given to
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her, such as Channel of Grace, Mother of Mercy, refuge of sinners,
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help of Christians, Queen of Heaven, etc. Yet the veneration we
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pay to Mary is distinct from the adoration due to God. Exalted honor is
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due to Mary. But the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost
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alone do we adore. We hold Mary in such great veneration because she is
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the Mother of God and our Mother. Whoever truly loves God must assuredly honor
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the Mother of God, and honor her too, far above all the saints,
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the friends of God. The honor paid to the Queen Mother is reflected
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upon the King her son. One may judge the measure in which a man
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loves God by his devotion to Mary. In fact, the greater the saint,
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the more intensely does he love Mary. She is actually our mother,
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for our Lord gave her to us upon the cross, when he said to
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Saint John, behold thy Mother, John nineteen twenty seven, John representing on
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Calvary all the followers of Christ. Mary is the second Eve, the mother
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of all mankind. As the disobedience of Eve brought upon the human race,
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so the obedience of Mary restored it to a state of grace. Through one
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woman, death came into the world and through another life. And since Mary
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is our mother, our salvation is more a matter of concern to her to
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any than to any of the saints. After Christ, no one cares more
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for us as she does. Saint Bernard declared that the love of all mothers
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in the world does not equal the love of Mary bears to each one of
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her children. And the reason she cares so much for us is because her
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love for God, and consequently her charity toward her neighbor, exceeds out of
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any saint. As the glory of the moon surpasses that of the stars,
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so the love of Mary for us exceeds all the angels. It is a
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boundless ocean of love. Mary knows all of our circumstances. This even the
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angels do Luke fifteen seven, and it cannot be supposed that they know more
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than does their queen. A dutiful child delights to be with its mother,
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and the devout Christian rejoices to address Mary, the Mother of God his loving
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supplications. Another reason why Mary is so highly honored throughout Christendom is because God
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has exalted her above all men. And angels monarchs grant privileges to the towns
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where they were born or where they were crowned. So the King of Heaven
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has conferred special privileges and prerogatives on the mother who bore him. Mary was
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in fact chosen by God to be the mother of his son, preserved from
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the stain of original sin, raised gloriously from the tomb, and crowned queen
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of Heaven. No angel, not even the most perfect and greatest of the
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heavenly hosts, can say to God as Mary, can thou art my son,
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Oh, what a marvelous privilege this is. Mary is indeed the matter
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admirabilus, admirabyllus, the admirable mother. That's Latin, and that not alone
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because she is at one and the same time virgin and mother, nor because
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she is mother both the creature and of the Creator, but pre eminently because
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she gave birth to Him who is the author of her being. Mary is
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the wonder of wonders, and nothing in the universe God only accepted, is
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more glorious than she is. Mary's spotless purity, her sinlessness was first proclaimed
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by God in Paradise Genesis three point fifteen and afterwards by the archangel Gabriel Luke
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one twenty eight, God said to the serpent, she shall crush thy head.
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Had Mary been brought under the dominion of the devil by sin, she
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could not possibly have been his conqueror. Gabriel saluted Marius full of grace,
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the dignity of Christ alone demanded that his mother should be entirely free from sin.
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When God raises anyone to a high post, he fits him for it,
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And the Son of God, in choosing Mary to be his mother,
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rendered her, by the gifts of his grace, by the gifts of his
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grace, fit for this exalted dignity. According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, now
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we know that no one who built a house for his own use would first
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put his greatest enemy in possession of it, much less with the Holy Spirit,
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whose temple Mary was to be, allow the evil one to make her
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his own. The fathers of the Church and the children of the Church in
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all ages have given Mary the title of immaculate, both in their writings and
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their prayers, and in eighteen fifty four the Holy Father declared her immaculate conception
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to be a dogma of the faith. Mary was therefore free from original sin
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and actual sin. According to the Council of Trent, she is compared to
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a lily among thorns and canicals two mirror without a flaw Wisdom seven twenty six.
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She advanced in perfection rapidly and continuously, like divine Ecclesiastes twenty four or
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twenty three, that grows higher and higher until it attains the height of the
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tree to which it clings. She advanced all the more rapidly because she was
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near to the source of all grace, and was recipient of greater and more
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abundant graces than other men. Mary was the most holy imperfect all creatures,
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and her sanctity surpassed that of all other saints, as much as the light
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of the moon exceeds the brilliance exceeds in brilliance that of the planets. Even
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in the first moments of her existence, Mary's sanctity was greater than that of
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the most imminent saints at the close of her life at the close of their
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life. On account of her exhausted sanctity, she is compared to the Tower
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of David to Canticles four or four, which rose in Majestic state lines on
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the highest summit in the mountains of Jerusalem. She is also called the mirror
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of Justice of all created things, because none ever loved God so intensely as
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did Mary, or cared so little for the things of this earth. As
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the action of fire causes iron to glow with heat, so the Holy Spirit
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inflamed the heart of Mary with charity. On account of her great love,
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she is called the House of Gold. Mary was adorned with every virtue.
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She is the mystical rose. For as the rosa passes all their flowers in
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beauty of its coloring and fragrance of its perfume, so Mary exceeds all saints
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in the magnitude of her love for God and the sweet odor of her virtues.
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She is the queen of whom Psalmus speaks, clad in the golden garments
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of charity, surrounded by a variety of virtues. Thus Suarez declares she was
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dearer to God than all the other saints together. The body of the Blessed
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Virgin was assumed gloriously into heaven. It is said that the apostle Thomas,
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having arrived in Jerusalem too late to assist her at her interment, was desirous
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to see see her remains in the sepulture, but when it was open,
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nothing was found there but the grave clothes in which her body had been wrapped.
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Catherine Emmerich and her Emericacus and her Visions asserts that our blessed lady died
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forty eight years after the birth of Christ, at the age of sixty four,
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having gone from Ephesus to Jerusalem to follow again the footsteps of her son
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and the way of the Cross. She fell mortally sick and died of grief.
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Since her tomb was in Jerusalem, the feast of her assumption is kept
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throughout the whole church on the fifteenth of August. No one has ever claimed
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to possess a relic of her body. We keep relics of saints' bodies.
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That's very good proof that she was assumed bodily into heaven. Mary shines in
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heaven with unrivaled splendor. The sun, moon, and stars of our solar
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system are symbols of Christ, his mother and the saints. Mary is the
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queen of the angels and queen of all saints. In her, more than
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in any other creature, we gain a knowledge of the divine attributes. Most
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especially we see displayed in her glorious exultation the infinite goodness of God, who
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raises the poor man from the dunghill, that he may set him with the
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princes and elevate him among the choirs of celestial spirits. Finally, we entertain
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this great veneration for Mary because her intercession is more powerful with God than that
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of any other saint. Mary's intercession has immense power with God on earth.
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Her petitions we're all prevailing with Christ, is that the marriage feast at Gayana.
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And if Christ granted all to his mother's prayers on earth, how much
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more will he do so in heaven. When the general Coriolanus could not have
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prevailed upon the senate and priests of Rome to withdraw his army before the city,
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he yielded to the entreaties of his mother Virtuuria, although he knew that
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to do so would cost him his life. How much the more will Christ,
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the Great Lawgiver listen to the supplications of his mother. If the prayers
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of the saints his servants have so much power with God what most those of
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his mother have. Being the prayers of a mother, they are less like
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petitions than a command. Saint Bernard declares Mary to be omnipotent by means of
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her intercession. There is nothing that she cannot obtain for us. As at
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the court of an earthly monarch, he is sure to succeed for whom the
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Queen interests herself, So at the court of the King of Kings, those
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from whom marry the Queen of Heaven plead would not be disappointed of their desires.
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Thus Mary is our hope, because through her intercessions we hope to procure
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the blessings which our poor prayers cannot obtain. Hence the saints speak of her
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as the dispenser of graces, for all the favors we receive from Heaven come
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to us through her hands. God, Saint Peter Damien says, would not
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become man until Mary had given her consent. In order that we might see
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that the salvation of mankind rested in her hands. She stood beneath the cross
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that we might know that without her mediation, no one could be made of
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partaker in the merits of the blood of Christ. God the Father's sanctions Christ
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grants, and Mary distributes gifts of heaven to the mankind. Thus Mary is
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the Mother divine grace. No prayer she proffers or offers is unanswered. Who
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can doubt, exclaims Saint Bernard, that the son will listen to his mother.
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Such a son to such a mother. Remember how the Saints declare the
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Memorari that it is a thing unheard of for anyone to implore Mary's aid,
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and implore in vain. Even the least and shortest prayer to Mary does not
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go unrecompense. She rewards the slightest intention with the richest graces. Every time
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we salute her, she does not failed to return our greeting. She is
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the Virgin most Clement. There is not a trace of sternness about her.
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She is all clemency, loving kindness, and gentleness. He would be wrong,
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indeed, who approached her with trembling. From the time from time immemorial,
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Christians have been accustomed to have recourse to Mary in times of affliction and
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distress. In the year sixteen eighty three, when the Turks besieged Vienna,
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both the beleaguered city and throughout Christendom, the Rosary was recited to implore the
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aid of the Mother of God, and a signal victory was the result individual.
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Christians also appear to appeal to Mary for aid when private troubles press heavily
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upon them. She is called the help of Christians, the comfort of the
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afflicted, the health, the health of the sick. Christians call upon her
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in seasons of severe sickness. Is recorded that Saint John Damascene that when the
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Caliph, enraged with him for having written in defense of the veneration of images,
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caused his right hand to be struck off, the saint prostrated himself for
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a statue of our Lady and was immediately healed. Now think about this,
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Okay, this is the caliph, a Muslim who was at the time.
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I believe he's the same one who had basically taken over the Greek Orthodox Church
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and was having Christian images destroyed. Saint John Damascenes wrote about why it's so
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important to have images of Jesus and the saints, and he had his hand
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cut off, he prayed to the Blessed Mother and his hand grewbak was miraculously
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restored. And that's a fact of history that has been recorded that has never
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been disputed by any one that was there at the time. I mean,
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it's really amazing in the present day. How numerous are the miraculous cures affected
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Lords. Again, the atheists and anti Catholics have tried everything they can to
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disprove the miraculous healings at Lord's, and they can't. I know how many
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hundreds of thousands of people millions have been healed of uncurable illnesses through the intercession
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of the Blessed Mother at Lord's. To Mary also is to do the conversion
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of me sinners who desire to amend their lives, For upon those who invoke
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her, the light of the Holy Spirit is shed Mary's the morning star,
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as that planet heralds the sunrise. So devotion to Mary is the forerunner to
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divine grace, the gracious influence of the Holy Ghost. She is compared to
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the dawnchanicals six' nine, because as the shades of night vanished before the
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rising sun, so send aparts from the soul that is devoted to Mary.
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Oh, and I guess I should address that. You know, Father Sparaga
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right in the eighteen ninety uses the older names for several books of the Bible.
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As I've mentioned before, Canticles is now generally more well known as Song
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of Songs or Songs of Solomon. So still in the Bible, and I
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think, I mean, it's still in the Protestant and Catholic Bibles, but
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you probably won't see it named canticles anymore. It actually is in my Bible,
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so you know that I forgot to mention that earlier. So the month
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of May is dedicated to her, because nature then awakens to a new life,
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and devotion to Mary brings fresh life to the soul, dead and sin.
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Witness the miraculous conversion of the public ciner Mary of Egypt before an image
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of our lady in the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. Mary is
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ever so, Mary is ever desirous to affect our reconciliation with God, far
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more so than any earthly mother could be. To establish peace between two members
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of her family who were at enmity with each other. Through her intercession,
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our Lord's anger is easily appeased. Alexander the Great once said, a single
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tear from my mother's eye will blot out many death warrants. If a man
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in a heathen deboot will speak thus of his mother, what may we not
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expect from the divine son of Mary. She is the refuge of sinners,
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The Mother of mercy, and from her is from an olive tree, to
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which she is like in an Ecclesiastes twenty four to nineteen, the softening oil
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of mercy flows. She is our mediatrics. To her we fly in temptation,
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as the Jews to the entrance of the Promised Land numbers ten thirty five,
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and in their wars with the Philistines first Kings fourteen carried within the ark
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of the Lord to ensure victory. So through Mary, the ark of the
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Covenant of the New Testament, we are enabled to conquer our spiritual foes.
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As the Star guides the marrin are tossing on the storming sea to a safe
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haven, so Mary guides us over the tempestuous of life to the celestial port.
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She is compared in Holy Scripture to a plane tree in the streets Ecclesiastes
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fourteen nineteen, because as the tree protects the way, Because as the tree
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protects the wayfarer, fairer the wayfarer from the sun and rain, So Mary
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defends those who place themselves under her care from the assaults of the devil to
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the enemy of mankind. She is terrible as an army set in Arraychanicals against
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Songs six' three. Various titles are given to Mary to indicate the circumstances
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in which we may invoke her aid and trust her sucker, such as Mother
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perfetual sucker that means compassion and help, basically, Mother, good counsel,
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Mother of dolars. That means sorrows. That's Latin for sorrows. I think
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suckers. I don't think that's but anyway, not a word we use much
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anymore. S U c co r. Devotion to the Mother of God is
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an excellent means of attaining sanctity here below, an eternal happiness hereafter. No
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one can fail. No one can fail to observe the filial affection devotion which
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all saints have displayed toward the Mother of God, and the signal success with
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which God has rewarded this devotion on their part. Among the most prominent of
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these was Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and in later times Saint alfonsis Leguri,
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the author of the Glories of Mary. Mary is the Gate of Heaven,
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a latter connecting Heaven and Earth by which the Lord of Heaven came down to
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us, and by which we may accede up to God. Santa Fonsis declares
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it to be his persuasion that hell cannot boast of containing one single soul who
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ever had a true and heartfelt devotion to Mary. Saint Bernard asserts that those
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who honor her daily will assuredly be saved. Saint Francis boards I'll always feared
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for the salvation of that soul which had little or no devotion to the Mother
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of God. See, y'all, I am gonna wrap this one up here.
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Sorry, I've been a little tongue tied in this one. I'm not
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sure what's going on, maybe allergies making my mouth dry or something, but
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I'll try to clean it up as best I can in the editing, and
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I hope you will enjoy it and remember to pray your Rosary daily along with
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that, or if you forget or don't have time or whatever, try to
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pray the Angelus that only takes a few minutes, seven sorrows or seven dollars,
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or the Blessed Virgin Mary, another very brief prayer that you can do.
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And of course the Memorai is really good. So of course, here
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in America we're also doing a nine month novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary for
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the conversion of our nation, which is so very evil. So y'all,
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if you haven't joined in that novena yet, please do so. It was
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Cardinal Dolan that's doing that. You know. Prayers to Mary never go unanswered.
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She takes him directly to Jesus, and Jesus does exactly what his mother
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tells him to do, as in the wedding feast to Cana. So,
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in the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry,
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and I will talk to y'all next time.