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Gospel Reflection for The 27th day of October in the year of Our Lord, 2026 · The Uncensored Catholic

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  Speaker 1: Gospel reflection for the 27th day of October in the
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  Speaker 1: year of our Lord, 2026. This comes from the Ephesians,
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  Speaker 1: our first reading for the day, 5, 21 through 33.
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  Speaker 1: Second reading for the day, perhaps. But anyway, Ephesians 5,
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  Speaker 1: 21 through 33. Being subject one to another in the
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  Speaker 1: fear of Christ, let women be subject to their husbands
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  Speaker 1: as to the Lord. Because the husband is the head
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  Speaker 1: of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church.
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  Speaker 1: He is the Savior of his body. Therefore, as the
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  Speaker 1: church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives
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  Speaker 1: be to their husbands in all things. Husbands, love your wives,
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  Speaker 1: as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up
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  Speaker 1: for it, that he might sanctify it, cleansing it by
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  Speaker 1: the labyrinth of water and the word of life. That
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  Speaker 1: he might present to himself a glorious church, not having
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  Speaker 1: spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it
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  Speaker 1: should be holy and without blemish. So also men ought
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  Speaker 1: to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
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  Speaker 1: loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever hated
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  Speaker 1: his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it. And also
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  Speaker 1: Christ does the church, because we are members of his body,
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  Speaker 1: of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause
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  Speaker 1: shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall
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  Speaker 1: cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in
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  Speaker 1: one flesh. This is a great sacrament, but I speak
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  Speaker 1: in Christ and in the church. Nevertheless, let every one
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  Speaker 1: of you, in particular, love his wife as himself, and
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  Speaker 1: let the wife fear her husband. And fear, of course,
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  Speaker 1: I mean fear in the modern sense. It's like fear
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. It means obedience. The Dewey Reams explains, Well,
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  Speaker 1: could there be any more unpopular words in the entire
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  Speaker 1: Bible in our time? Feminism, of course, teaches the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of Christian doctrine. We've run up on television shows in
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  Speaker 1: which husbands and fathers are portrayed as morons. The woman's
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  Speaker 1: always right. She runs the home and treats him like
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  Speaker 1: an idiot child. All he's good for is bringing him
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  Speaker 1: a paycheck, and even that is not valued. That's not
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  Speaker 1: God's plan for humanity. God made man and woman as
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  Speaker 1: very different people. The man is intended to be strong, responsible, protective,
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  Speaker 1: and kind. The woman is intended to be loving, empathetic,
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  Speaker 1: and submissive to her father and then to her husband,
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  Speaker 1: a daughter, wife, and mother above all else. And this
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  Speaker 1: teaching is entirely foreign to our culture. When I was
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  Speaker 1: in college, I met an Irish priest who had left
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  Speaker 1: the church to marry. I was surprised that he had
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  Speaker 1: converted to Anglicanism. Being, you know, mostly Irish myself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't convert to Anglicanism. We tend to blow things
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  Speaker 1: up when somebody tries to convince us to convert to Anglicanism. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he left the priesthood entirely, and he did not become
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  Speaker 1: an Anglican clergy. He was working at a community college
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  Speaker 1: teaching basic English. And I asked him why he left
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, and his answer was very honest. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: I joined the church founded on divorce because I betrayed
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  Speaker 1: my vows. Wow. Is it any wonder our culture is
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  Speaker 1: in disarray when the most basic unit of society is
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  Speaker 1: so broken? Let's say a prayer for him. I do
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  Speaker 1: not remember his name, but that he reconciles and returns
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  Speaker 1: to the Catholic Church. But what a statement, huh? He
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  Speaker 1: met a woman. He was a priest. Decided he needed
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  Speaker 1: to leave the priesthood and marry and realized he had
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  Speaker 1: so betrayed his vows that he couldn't even be in
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church anymore for the shame of what he
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  Speaker 1: had done. And so he became anguished. and that's just, um,
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  Speaker 1: it compounds the tragedy. Um, fortunately, the Anglican Church is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely on its last legs. The Anglican churches in England
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  Speaker 1: are empty, and the Episcopal churches in America are closing,
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  Speaker 1: and Anglicanism will very likely cease to even be a denomination,
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  Speaker 1: if not within my lifetime, within the next 70 years
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  Speaker 1: or so. Um, Yeah, Lutheranism's not far behind, and the
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  Speaker 1: Presbyterian denomination is essentially gone already. There are only about 1,400,000
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  Speaker 1: or so Presbyterians left in the entire United States. So
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  Speaker 1: to put that in context, in the 1990s, when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, there was one of the largest churches
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  Speaker 1: in every town in North Carolina was Presbyterian. We had,
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  Speaker 1: I think, five Presbyterian colleges, all of which have closed
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  Speaker 1: except two in the There were more Presbyterians actively attending
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  Speaker 1: Presbyterian churches in North Carolina in the 1990s now than
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  Speaker 1: there are in the entire United States. There are more
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  Speaker 1: Presbyterian ministers ordained, so-called, than there are Presbyterian churches. That's
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  Speaker 1: how quickly the collapse of the Presbyterian church has happened.
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  Speaker 1: And the Anglican church is right in there, and the Lutherans,
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  Speaker 1: except for the, like, really, what do you call them?
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  Speaker 1: evangelical Lutherans they have a certain title that's the only
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  Speaker 1: one that's kind of holding in there your traditional Lutherans
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  Speaker 1: are dying just as quickly and why why does this
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  Speaker 1: happen one reason divorce yep we went through you know
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  Speaker 1: past several hundred years of Protestantism where children went to
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  Speaker 1: church with their parents and they became parents and so
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  Speaker 1: you'd have grandparents and Great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, children, and grandchildren
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  Speaker 1: all sitting on the same pew. And divorce, the very
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  Speaker 1: thing upon which the Anglican Church was founded, it has
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  Speaker 1: destroyed the Protestant churches. I mean, since we legalized no-fault
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  Speaker 1: divorce in the 1960s in America. When COVID happened, the
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  Speaker 1: doors closed, people didn't go back. Why should they? They
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  Speaker 1: moved far away from their parents and grandparents. There are
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  Speaker 1: strangers in that church. There's no family connection. There's no,
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather sat on this pew. No, they left and
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  Speaker 1: they never came back. And the children are not being
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  Speaker 1: raised in those churches. Raise your children in the Catholic church, folks.
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  Speaker 1: If you can, live as close as you can to
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  Speaker 1: your parents and grandparents and make sure they have an
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  Speaker 1: active role in your children's lives. And go to mass
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  Speaker 1: every Sunday. Make sure those kids are well catechized. Don't
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  Speaker 1: count on the church to do it because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not every teacher in the Catholic church is talented, skilled,
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  Speaker 1: or even qualified. You know, our Catholic universities have been
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly infiltrated by leftists and liberals and socialists and people
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  Speaker 1: who really aren't Catholic at all. You need to get
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  Speaker 1: a catechism and you need to talk with your Don't
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  Speaker 1: count on Catholics. How many times do you run into
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  Speaker 1: a Protestant who says, well, I was raised Catholic and
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  Speaker 1: went to Catholic school. Hey, Martin Luther said the same thing. Right? No,
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  Speaker 1: your responsibility is to make sure your children know the faith.
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  Speaker 1: And more Catholic parents doing that will make all the difference.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, America will be a majority Catholic nation within
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  Speaker 1: the next 70 years or so. And we need those
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  Speaker 1: Catholics to be active, educated, They need to be firm
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  Speaker 1: in their beliefs. They need to be able to explain
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  Speaker 1: their beliefs. And they need to take their faith into
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  Speaker 1: public life. All right. We're running a little long on
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  Speaker 1: this one. Have a good one, and I will talk
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  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.