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Show 256: The end of the world - The signs, part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The Fish of By all, Welcome to this week's show.
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We will continue this week chapter one of the end
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of this present world and the mysteries of the life
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to come, all about the end times, as they say.
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But before we do, as usual, we'll start with a
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few questions and answers from the classic work radio Replies,
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and the question asks the priests, did not Christ promise
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that we should reign on earth with him for a
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thousand years and that during this millennium Satan would be bound?
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And the answer that has no reference to a further
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probation on this earth. The thousand years are to be
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interpreted in the Hebrew sense of a long and indefinite
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period of time. Even today we say I could listen
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to such music for a week without intending precisely seven days.
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The thousand years refer to the long period between the
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advent of Christ and the end of the world. The
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supply of grace is more plentiful in God's mercy, more copious,
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so that Satan's power is truly diminished, and those who
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for the love of Christ have learned rise above the
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things of the earth and live for God truly reigned
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with Christ. This is perfectly appropriate for our subject of
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the day, the armageddon, the end of the world. I mean,
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you know, in other words, we're actually in that time, okay,
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And no, you cannot say that it's a thousand years,
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because it's been two thousand years since the resurrection of
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Christ and very likely it will be at least another
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thousand years before the end of the world, as we've
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been discussing. I mean it, you know, the Blessed Virgin
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Mary says she's going to convert all Muslims to Christianity
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before the end of the world, and we're nowhere near
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that that's going to take up very now. Could they
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all convert in the next hundred years? Maybe? I doubt it.
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And that's just one example. There are many things which
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we'll discuss really quite in depth today when we get
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to the end of this present world and the mysteries
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of life to come. The true signs at the end
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times are not here now. As I mentioned, I guess
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last week or the week before, Christ's apostles fully thought
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the end of the world was at hand every moment
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of their lives following the resurrection. And the reason is
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Jesus kind of intertwined the fall of Jerusalem, the fall
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of Israel, the destruction of the temple, the dramatic natural
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events or earthquakes and eclipses and such that happened well
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during his crucifixion and following there for the next few
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decades until Rome absolutely destroyed Israel and it was gone.
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There was no Israel for almost two thousand years. So,
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I mean they every day they thought the end was
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at hand. We're two thousand years before beyond that. And unfortunately,
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many Christians today keep saying it's the end. The world's here,
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the end of the world's here, the end of the
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world's here. It hasn't been every time chicken littles run
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around and said the sky was falling for the past
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few hundred years, and it's not here now. But there's
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no doubt that chronologically we're closer to it than they
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were two thousand years ago. But we're still got a
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ways to go. So the person says Saint John tells
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us blessed is he that hath part in the first resurrection,
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and these the second death has no power Revelations twenty six.
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And the answer the first resurrection is the mystical resurrection
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from death of sin. We rise with Christ in baptism,
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and those who die still retaining the grace of their
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baptism will rebirth possess a permanent title to the glorious
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second and actual resurrection of the body in the last day.
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On such as On such as these, the second death
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well have no effect. The first death is the dissolution
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of the body of the soul and body. The second
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death is the eternal living death and hell. Person asked
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what do you mean by hell? And they say, Hell
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is the eternal lot of misery awaiting those who die
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in a state of grave sin and at enmity with God.
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Before the general resurrection, the soul alone experiences this misery.
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After the resurrection, the body will be reunited the soul
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and will share in the misery being tormented by created elements,
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even as the person forsook God during life for the
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enjoyment of created things. The chief misery will be the
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sense of having lost the happiness of the vision of God.
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The other will be the torment of fire. And the
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person says, what evidence do you have that such hell exists?
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And they answer the very best, The God who made
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us tells us that he has also made a hell.
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There is a hell, in which both the bodies and
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souls of the loss will be afflicted. Thus, the General
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Christ himself warns us, it is expedient for thee that
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one of thy members perish, rather than thy whole body
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go into hell Mark nine nine. Remember that all shall
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rise someday, the good and bad of life, the body sharing,
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and the fate of the souls. All that are in engrave,
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and all that are engraves shall hear the voice of
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the Son of God. And they that have done good
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things shall come forth into the resurrection of life, and
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they that have done evil into the resurrection of judgment.
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John five twenty eight. Those who are lost will go
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to everlasting fire. Christ calls it an unquenchable fire, Mark
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ninety four. He tells us of the grim sentence, depart
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from me. You curse it into everlasting fire, which was
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prepared for the devil and his angels. Matthew twenty five
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forty one. Such a solemn utterance of the judicial sentence
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demands the little sense judges not speak in metaphors at
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such moment. Let him be hanged, but of course only metaphorically,
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and it would be it will be conscious suffering. Our
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Lord says, their worm dieth not and the fire is
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not extinguished Mark nine forty three. And again there should
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be weeping and gnashing of teeth Matthew thirteen forty nine, continued,
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conscience of suffering is the fate of the lost and
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reason de man such a faith. When a man sends gravely,
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he chooses between God and a thing forbidden by God.
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He cannot have both, and he prefers to or announce
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God rather than the created good. If he dies without repentance,
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his will is still alienated from God. He would do
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the same thing again if he got the chance. And
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as long as these dispositions last, he must do without
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God and happiness, these dispositions lasting forever. Once this probationatory
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life is a probationary life has ever meant to say probationary.
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So will the penalty. And now let's get into our
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main subject of the day, and we have been talking
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about Let me see, well, this is a title of
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this chapter again, the ind of the world, the signs
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which will precede it, and the circumstances which will accompany it.
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We went through part one of this chapter last week.
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We got to do part two today. I don't recall
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how many parts there are, but they really should be
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treated separately. You want to really think about this, meditate
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on it, and I mean this is heavy stuff. You know.
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The first of the events foreshadowing the end of time
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is the one to which the Savior refers in Matthew
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twenty four when he says, and this Gospel of the
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Kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a
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testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come.
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The second of these signs will be the appearance of
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the man of sin, the Antichrist, and the third the
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conversion of the Jewish people, who will adore the Lord
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and recognize him as the promised Messiah. Until then, says
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Saint Paul, led, no man deceive you by any means,
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as if the day of Lord were at hand. Now,
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we had wonderful news just this past week that the
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Catholic population of the world has grown to grown to
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over one point four billion. That's fantastic, but consider they're
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what nine billion people in the world. Am I right
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on that? I think that's right. I think that's the number.
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I read. It surprised me. I thought it was only
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like three or four but actually when I looked it
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up last night, I think it was nine billion. Could
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be wrong, but you can check that yourself. That means,
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by no means has the Gospel of the Lord been
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preached to all people. Not that everyone will accept it.
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But we're definitely not seeing a lot of Jews converting
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to Catholicism right now, and we're not seeing a much
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of Muslims convert to Catholicism right now. We're seeing a
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great deal of Protestants return to the Catholic Church and
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people who were not affiliated become Catholic. But you know,
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even though the Catholic Church is actually now larger than
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it has been in the entire history of Christianity, to
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go long ways to go. So let no man deceive
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you by any means. As if the day of the
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Lord were at hand, it is evident that the last
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two events which Saint Paul declared are to mark the
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approach of the Great Tribulation and have not so far
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been fulfilled. Antichrist has not yet appeared, as we shall
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show in the next discourse. The Jews as a nation
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have not yet cast off the thick veil which prevents
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him from acclaiming God, excuse me, which prevents them as
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acclaiming as God him whom they crucified. It remains to
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be ascertained whether at the present time the Gospel has
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been preached all over the earth and given for a
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testimony to the totality of nations. Well, we could look
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at what a billion people out of that population, almost
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as many people who are members of the Catholic Church
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who live in China and North Korea, where Catholicism is
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essentially prohibited. Yes, China is allowing some practice of Catholicism,
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you know, the Vatican's been working with them, trying to
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give some freedom to have you know, valid masses in China.
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But China is an atheist communist country, and to the
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extent that they do allow it, everything has to be
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essentially approved and sanctioned by the Chinese communist government. Really
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not good at all. There are you know, underground churches
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in China, people who literally worship God at risk of
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their life. So the vast majority of people in China
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and North Korea, probably even more so, the Gospel has
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not been preached to them. So, you know, we've still
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got a long ways to go, a very long ways
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to go. Japan, which was once becoming a Catholic nation.
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For some reason during World War Two, when we bombed them,
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we hit their main Catholic population centers. Why is that
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We didn't hit their capital city, we didn't hit their
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main military installations, we didn't hit their rulers. We hit
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the poor practicing Catholics in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Was that
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because our war department was full of Freemasons or Protestants
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who had a bias against Christianity. Ever since, Catholicism has
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been a very small minority in Japan. In fact, most
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Japanese are atheists. And we're talking about one of the
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most civilized, cultured, intelligent, educated people on the face of
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the earth. You know, their traditional religion is Shinto, but
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Shinto is not incompatible with Catholic belief whatsoever. I mean,
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you know, there's certain things that have to be reconciled.
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But if you know, we say we venerate saints and
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you venerate your ancestors, we've got enough common ground to
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have a conversation. Obviously, we don't venerate the saints as gods,
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you know, we venerate them as saints, but there's enough
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commonality that Japan was quickly becoming Catholic before World War Two.
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And yeah, you could say this. I think Vietnam. Vietnam
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was probably the largest Catholic Asian nation before the Communist takeover.
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There's so much the Philippines, I mean, I you know,
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Philippines are still pretty strongly Catholic, but the Islamic influences
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is growing in that part of the world, just very much. No,
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we're not there yet, no matter what you say. We
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even though we may have once planted the flag of
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you know, Catholicism in some of these nations, it's gone.
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You know, Russia is majority non religious and mostly Orthodox.
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You know, we could say, well soon, and it looks
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like it may be soon. The at least the Greek
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Orthodox will reunite with the Catholic Church. Both sides are
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working to make that happen, but they have been for
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almost fifty years now. But they keep saying a little
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progress is being made here, a little progress being made there.
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The Russians are so their identity is so wrapped up
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in their nationality that the Russians are always the big holdout,
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the ones stopping the Orthodox churches that really would have
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rejoined the Catholic Church decades ago. It's always the Russian
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Orthodox that put the kaibash on it, as Kramer would say,
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off of Sigin failed, right. I mean the Anglican Church,
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Anglican Episcopal Church is essentially dead. I mean those churches
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will still be operating in England because it's the National
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Church of England, essentially funded by the taxpayers of England,
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even though they're empty. I mean, there's so few people
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that actually attend Anglican churches, and Episcopal in the United
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States is less than I think. Since nineteen seventy they've
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lost over seventy percent of their members. There are essentially
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dead churches, right, But it's a far acright to say
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that England is returning to Catholicism just yet. You know,
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even though you know, it is legal to be Catholic
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in England. Again, it wasn't when my ancestors left. That
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was one of the main reasons they left. But it
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is legal. There's you know, the percentage of Catholics practicing
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in England is not that big. I don't if it's
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a ten percent, I don't think it is. You know,
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at one point England was one of the most populous
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and powerful Catholic nations on Earth. France has never recovered
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from the French Revolution. At one point, France was a
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larger and more powerful Catholic nation than Italy and Rome
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Rome Italy, I guess, as sure said, but you know,
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even though at one point the Gospel was brought to
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those nations. So many generations have passed from the time
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of Saint Francis to Saul, you know, and Saint Francis
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is sal right around sixteen hundred, I guess, to the
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French Revolution in you know, the mid seventeen hundreds to now,
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when essentially France is a majority Atheists, Agnostic and Muslim nation.
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Christians are a minority. Now in America, the exact opposite
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has happened. Catholicism is now the largest Christian denomination in
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the entire United States. In America, where it was illegal
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to be Catholic for a good bit of our history.
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It was illegal to be Catholic in North Carolina until
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the Civil War, I mean just right before the Civil War.
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They finally allowed one church. But you couldn't vote or
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own property in North Carolina or most of the United
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States if you were a Catholic outside of Maryland and
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that was a carve out thanks to the Carroll family.
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Charles Carroll my ancestor. He also happened to be the
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richest man in the United States. And if the United
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States went to revolt against England, they had to allow
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Catholics to at least have one little corner, one little
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carve out, and they didn't like that. In fact, one
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of the causes of the American Revolution was that England
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had just taken over Canada and was going to allow
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the French in Quebec to practice Catholicism, and our great
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religiously tolerant founding fathers were all up in arms over it, saying,
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if England allows Catholicism in Canada, next thing you know,
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it's going to be allowed in the United States. We
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have to revolt. That was literally, like one of the
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three main causes of the American Revolution was because they
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did not want Catholicism practice in the United States whatsoever.
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This has never been a land of religious plurality and freedom,
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as our document state, It just is, never was. It's
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a myth. And now it's a secular country. I mean,
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where Catholics can be prosecuted for praying the Rosary, else
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to have an abortion clinic. This has never been a
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place of religious freedom. But ironically, now Catholicism is the
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largest Christian denomination in the United States, and in the
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next thirty years, the number of Catholics in the United
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States will outnumber all Protestant denominations combined. All combined, America
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will be the largest and most powerful Catholic nation on
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earth within the next thirty years. And that is just
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absolutely amazing. It shows how, you know, God's always working
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things behind the scenes, you know, even using bad people
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for good purposes, even using the Freemasons to found a
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Protestant nation which within two hundred and fifty years would
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become a Catholic nation, which is absolutely amazing when you
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think about it. But anyway, let's give them onto it.
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So we would say then that even though in our
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day and time there have been missionaries that have gone
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to every nation and people, even once Catholic nations, you know,
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have generations who have never been taught the Catechism in
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any way, shape or form, may have never been the
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Bible's never even been read to them. You know, they
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know nothing of Jesus, you know, or his church. All right,
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So yes, the Jews have not yet converted. Obviously, on
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this point the fathers and doctors are divided. Some say
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that the words of Christ are to be interpreted morally
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and should be understood in the sense of a part
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of a partial summary preaching. For them to be fulfilled,
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it is enough that missionaries should have enlightened a certain
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number of individual minds in the various parts of the
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inhabited earth, and that on each dessert and remoted hillside
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the cross should have been raised at least once. Others,
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more numerous, like Saint Jerome and Beattie, insists that the
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words of the Son of God should be understood in
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the strictest and most literal sense. Cornelius, what is the
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word lapide lapede? Honestly, I've never seen that word before.
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Cornelius A Lapede, the most learned of the interpreters of
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the Sacred Books, expresses the opinion that the end of
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times would not come, and the Christianity has been not
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only proclaimed, but propagated and propagated. Sorry not only proclaimed
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and propagated, but established and organized, and has persisted at
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the level of a public institution among men of every
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race and nationality in such a way that before the
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centuries have run their course, there will not be a
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single Barbarian shore, not one island lost in the ocean,
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or any place at present unknown in the two hemispheres
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where the Gospel has not shown in all its splendor,
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where the Church has not made herself manifest in her legislation,
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her solemnities, and hierarchy, including the bishops and lower clergy.
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In a word, where the great prophecy there will be
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one fold and one shepherd has not been completely fulfilled.
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What does that mean? That means before the end of
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the time, the Catholic Church will be present in every country,
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and not just present, but the Protestants will have returned
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to the Catholic Church. Now, I don't know about you,
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but if you, I've talked with several Baptists and Seven
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day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons lately, and they
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hate Catholics. They hate Catholics. Was such a passion, There's
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no way we're close to that. But also that the holidays,
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the feast days of the Catholic Church would be celebrating
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all nations. Well, we just had Corpus Christie. Did your
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town come to a stop and celebrate a procession, a
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parade of Corpus Christie down Main Street, Wall Street, New
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York Times Square. I didn't see it. I mean, the
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stores were still operating, and you know, most people still
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going about their regular business. And only Catholics recognize that. Well, see,
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before the end of time, literally, according to Cornelius and
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Beattie and all that and all that. As I just said,
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the laws of nations will be in accord with Catholic morality.
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In America, divorce is not only legal, but more common
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than marriage. You know, unions that stay together. That wouldn't
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be now again that's a questionable point, but at least
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everyone would know the moral teachings of the Church and
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have been morally instructed for you know that prophecy to
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be fulfilled that there would be one fold and one
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shepherd means literally all Christians in one church. So the
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Orthodox schism has stopped. They have to come back in
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and all Protestants have to become Catholic again before the
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end of the world. And I'm telling you it's a
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long ways off. So you know, we're not there yet.
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No matter what somebody tries to scare you on television
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and say, send money for this book and about the
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end times or whatever. No, we're not there, so we
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incline to this latter opinion. It is more in harmony
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with the testimony of Holy Scripture. It is more in
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accord with the wisdom of the mercy of God, who
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makes no distinction between the civilized and the barbarie Greeks
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and Jews, but desiring the salvation of all men, to
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exclude any of them from the light and gift of redemption. Finally,
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it accords better with the ways of Providence, which shows
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an equal solicitude for all peoples and calls them in
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turn to the knowledge of its law and the time
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appointed by immutable decrees. One need only glance at a
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map to recognize that the Gospel law is far from
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having been promulgated to all the peoples. Yeah, just think
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about all the Muslim nations right now. God wants to
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save everybody. So Iran would have to cease being an
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Islamic state, the United Arab Immirates would have to become Catholic,
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Saudi Arabia would have to become a Catholic nation. We're
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long ways that all right, So far from having been
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promlgated to all peoples, and that innumerable multitudes at the
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present time remained sunk in darkness and do not possess
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the slightest shadow of revealed truth. Thus, Central Asia and
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the mountains of Tibetan have so far defied the endeavors
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of our most intrepid missionaries. True to this day, no
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one has yet been able to give us an exact
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account of the social and religious customs of the peoples
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of Equatory and Africa was in the eighteen nineties. I
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think we pretty much know what they're all about now.
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But in spite of the recent discovery of the great
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Lakes and high table land, where formerly there was held
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to be nothing but sand in desert, British and other
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nations have established colonial outposts on the shores of the
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South Seas, but the interior of these vast continents has
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yet to be explored. Well. Since the eighteen nineties we
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pretty much explored a lot, and missionaries are gone, but
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it does not mean that they've become Catholic nations by
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any means. Clearly, the Gospel has not yet been preached
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as a testimony to all nations. Can we even say
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that it has been proclaimed with sufficient luster and in
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such a way as to leave with no excuse those
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who over the greater part of this earth in all
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provinces of India and China, and in most of the
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archipelas age archipelaggios. That's hard for're to say archipelag shows
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have refused to obey it. What would be the effect
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of twenty one hundred, or if you wish one thousand
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priests in evangelizing a country like France, implanning knowledge of
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our divine mysteries and stirring up the fires of charity.
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China alone, in view of its immense population, is far
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removed from the comparison we've just made. Among the three
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hundred and forty million in habits, which is now a billion,
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of this vast empire, the greater number either have never
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heard of our religion or only a vague incomplete idea
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of it. They live and die without ever having met
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a priest. True more true now than in eighteen ninety,
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before the Communist Revolution when this book was written. Africa,
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leaving aside the northern provinces, numbers only five or six
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mission stations along the coast, extending more than two thousand
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leagues on each page of the Annals of Propaganda, we
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find this sorrowful strain welling from the hearts of the apostles.
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Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he
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sends laborers into his harvest. Now it has written that
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at the end of time the Gospel will have been
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given as a testimony to all nations. David cries out,
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all the ends of the earth shall remember and shall
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be converted to the Lord. For the kingdom is the Lord's,
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and he shall have dominion over the nations. Further On,
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David continues, and he shall rule from sea to sea,
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from the river, and to the ends of the earth.
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Before him, the Ethiopian shall fall down, the kings of
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the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts. The Lord
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then speaks through Isaiah to the Church enlarge the place
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that thy tent stretch out, the skins of thy tabernacles
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spare not lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes, for
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thou shalt pass on to the right hand and to
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the left, and thy seed shall inherit the gentiles, and
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shall inherit the desolate cities. These texts are explicit, precise.
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It is clear from their testimony that there will come
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a time and all heresies and schisms will be overcome.
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Imagine that all Baptists will become Catholic, all Greek Orthodox
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will become Catholic, all Russian Orthodox become Catholic, all Mormons
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will become Catholic, All Muslims and Buddhists will become Catholic.
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That's what God promised anyway, and the true religion known
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and practiced by everyone in all places illuminated by the sun. Now,
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of course, people can refuse to practice any religion. That
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doesn't mean everybody on earth is going to become a
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Christian or become Catholic. People raise a Catholic family fully
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catechized often leave the church and become atheists. What it
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means is every single religion will dissolve into one, and
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the only religion on earth will be the Holy Catholic Church,
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the True Church of Christianity. This unity will surely not
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be achieved. Mankind will not reach this Golden Age along
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the paths strewn and with roses, who will not reach
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his golden Angel and past rooms with roses. The foundations
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of the Church were built up with the blood of martyrs,
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mingled with the sweat of the apostles. So we must
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expect strife and bitter resistance. Blood will be shed, the
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spirit of darkness will once more throw up its seductions
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and wild's wiles in abundance. We may count on there
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being more terrible persecutions of the Church than those which
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she has sustained hitherto. And remember this is written in
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eighteen ninety, just before the Bolshevik Revolution and the horrors
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of communism, So he was very prescient on that. On
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the other hand, we must learn to scrutinize the thoughts
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of God and to read from the decrees of His power.
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All the admirable inventions of modern times had their divinely
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appointed end, Would God in our days have given man
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a glimpse of the secrets hidden in treasures of creation?
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He have put into his hands all those marvelous instruments
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such as steam, magnetism, electricity, etc. For the sole purpose
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of providing a new spur to his pride, or of
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being the docile slaves of his selfishness and greed. Such
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was not the thought which he expressed by the voice
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of the prophet when he said I would give wings
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to my word harness fire to my chariot, seese my
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apostles as if they in a whirlwind, and transport them
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in the twinkliam and eye, and amidst the barbarian nations.
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Thus the time is near when Christ will gain complete triumph,
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when in very truth he can be called Lord of
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the Earth. At present many signs point to a great
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victory for Christianity. And does not our enemy have a
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present time? Does not have a hm. Does not our
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enemy have a presentiment of it? And an idea that's coming?
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Not a word I have ever used before. Presentiment does
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not a secret instinct warned them that the days of
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their power are numbered, and that the time when it
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is given to them to prevail cannot be of long duration.
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That is why. And they are impatience to throw off
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the mask from every hypocrisy and the evil war that
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they are waging against the Church. They resort to all
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kinds of malevolent depravity and every hospital act of shady
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atheistic politics. The revolution boldly raises its standard against religion
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properly and the family, Its SAPs the foundations of the
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social structures and Malsi's attack upon us simultaneously on every
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front the press, freed from every restraint, disseminates the most
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subversive doctrines and the deadliest poisons in a thousand organs.
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The venerable throne of the Holy see attack with satanic audacity,
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depicted as a center of ignorance and obscuritism, as a
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blot on the splinters of our civilization, has finally succumbed
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before the mass of concerted efforts. It has collapsed utterly,
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so that humanly speaking, it is impossible to entertain any
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hope of its being able to soon rise again. We
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can understand that in such a situation the mighty should
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feel irresolute, and their counsel and their courage and constancy
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seemed to falter. We can understand that beyond the clouds
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and troubled horizons they discerned somber prospects and predict a
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renewed outbreak of crime, wars, and frightful upheavals. Yet it
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is precisely this incredible audacity and the continuallyiscent renascent fury
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of our enemies, which gives us hope of a glorious
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new era for the Church. And my word, if he
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could have just known, what would happen in the nineteen hundreds.
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The wars, the crimes, the horrors, some things are unimaginable
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in eighteen ninety. I mean, they knew of wars. They
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did not know of nuclear weapons. They did not know
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of concentration camps and gas chambers, they did not know
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of tanks at this point, you know, dropping bombs. And
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more people are killed in the twentieth century than in
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all centuries before, combined in wars and forced killings by
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communists and socialist nations, genocides as we would call them.
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All right, let's see. Yet it's precisely the incredible audacity
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and the continued Yeah, I just said that Christian in
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our days is being attacked everywhere in the arts and
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science and the church and state in Europe as well
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as Asia and the Old and New World. And a
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sure sign that it would triumph everywhere. When will this be,
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God knows, but the fact is certain. The blood of
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the martyrs becomes the seeds of Christians. The Church has
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immutable promises. As she comes out of the Red Sea,
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she enters into the Promised Land. The hour of darkness
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gives way to that of light and triumph. Following the
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outrages of Golgatha. She hears resounding around her the blessings
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of his hosannas of the deliverance. Let us not lose heart,
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Let us rejoice at what the future holds. And if
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at the present time our country is a prey to
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convulsions and torn by discord, discord, if her fortune and
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political influences have become a prize fought over by unsatisfied, ambitious,
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and vulgar non entities, like the prodigal son of the Gospel,
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it would not be long before the memory of the
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peace and honor of the centuries of her youth returned
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to her mind. She would cast off her chains and
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the mask of her ignomy. And she would cast off
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her chains and the mask of her ignomy. And once
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again there will be brilliant pages to be written in
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the book which bears the title just today of pro Francois. Okay,
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so he was French, father Armagnalls, French, and he was
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saying France would once again become a great and Catholic nation.
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It has not yet, so been over one hundred years
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since he wrote this. We're still waiting yet. Even if
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the end of the world were to be deferred for
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many centuries. What are centuries compared to the years of eternity?
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A second instant more fleeting than lightning. When the Sun
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of God was raised up to heaven, seated upon a cloud,
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the apostle could not take their eyes from the place
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in the sky where he had vanished. Suddenly, two angels
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in white garments appeared to them and said, ye, men
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of Galilee, what why stand you looking up to heaven?
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This Jesus who has taken up from you into heaven
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shall so shall so come as you have seen him
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going into heaven elsewhere. Christ is a little while and
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now you shall not see me. And again a little
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while and you shall see me, because I go to
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the Father. Nevertheless, although Christ intended to leave us in
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ignorance concerning the exact time at the end of the world,
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he deemed it fitting to give us detailed information on
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the matter and circumstance of this great event. The end
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of the world, he says, will happen instantaneously and on expectedly.
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It will come at a time with the human race
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sunk it in the uttermost depths of indifference, will be
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far from thinking about punishment and justice. Divine Mercy will
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have exhausted all its resources and means of action. Antichrist
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will have appeared. Men over the whole surface of the
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earth will have been called to the knowledge of the truth.
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The Catholic Church will have blossomed out into the fullness
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of her life and effecking the fecundity fertility essentially for
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the last time. Nevertheless, all these supermunded favors and prodigies
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will once more vanish from the heartsome memory of man
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by a criminal abuse of graces. Mankind will have returned
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to its vomit, concentrating their affections, and there are aspirations
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on the goods and gross pressures and pleasures of this world.
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They will, as the Sacred Books tell us, have so
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far turned their backs to God as to be unable
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to look up to Heaven and remember its just judgments.
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All faith will be extinguished in the hearts all flesh.
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We have been corrupted in its ways. Divine Providence will
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judge that it is beyond remedy, as Christ said, It
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will be as in the days of Noah. At that time,
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men lived without a care, made plantations, built luxurious homes,
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poked fun at the old fellow Noah, as he set
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himself up as a carpenter and work day and night
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building his arc. Madman dreamer, they would say, this went
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on till the day when the flood came and engulf
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the whole earth. The flood came and destroyed them all Luke,
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seventeen twenty seven. Thus the final catastrophe will take place
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when the world is at its most secure. Civilization will
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be at its zenith. Markets will be overflowing with money,
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and government stocks will have never been higher. There would
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be nation national celebrations, great exhibitions, and mankind wallowing in
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the unpreceded material Prosperity will have ceased to hope for
37:54
heaven crudely attached to the basest pleasures of life, Men
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like the miser and the gods will say, my soul,
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you will possess your goods for many a year, Eat, drink,
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and be merry. Suddenly, in the midst of the night
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in Medea nocta nocta, For it will be amidst the darkness,
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And at this fateful midnight hour when the Lord once
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appeared in his lowliness, that he will appear again. Men
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startled out of their sleep, will hear a great clamor
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and noise, and a voice will be heard saying, behold
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the bridegroom cometh, Go gee forth and meet him. And
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the annals of Savoy the memory and tradition is preserved
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of an appalling catastrophe which presents us the image and
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outline of what will happen when God abandons the human
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race and his patience is finally exhausted. It was seven
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hundred years ago, on the twenty fourth November twelve forty eight,
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the eve of the day when the Church celebrates the
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feast of Saint Catherine. That evening, the season was mild,
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the air was calm, and the stars twinkling with the sky.
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The whole valley where the present town of Chamber is situated,
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lay quiet and secure. An evil, irreligious man then ruled
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tyrannically over a town now gone forever, but which at
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that time stood next to the city of my story.
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This man had gathered together a large number of merry companions.
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He was celebrating with banquets and drunken revelry, the sacrilegious
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plunder of a monastery, which he had turned to profane
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use after mercilessly expelling the monks and holy inmates, who
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were the legitimate owners. Probably as in Balthazar's time, it
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was a sumptuous meal, and the wine and liquors, mingled
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with blasphems and sardanic laughter, flowed in abundance. Suddenly, in
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an instant, in the middle of the night, the earth
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was shaken with a tremendous shock. Sky and ground seemed
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to be shaken by horrible whirlwinds, voices and howlings of
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storms which you would have thought came from the caverns
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of hell. And before the guests could rise to their feet,
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before they could utter a cry from help, they were
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buried alive beneath the collapsing mass of a gigantic mountain.
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One town, five hamlets, a whole region of six thousand
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inhabitants were engulfed in the chasms, the traces of which
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are written in indelible characters on the fragments of our souls,
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and remain as an ineffaceable and living memory of mingled
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legend horror in the minds of our people. And there's
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a footnote here. It says this town, thriving in the
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thirteenth century, was the town of Saint Andre four and
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a half miles through Chaanbury. It was the center of
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the ecclesiastical Deanery of Savoy. And this was actually a
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historical event. Yeah, you can look that up. Okay, So
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he goes on. This image barred from one of the
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most memorable and dreadful events that have occurred in our history,
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is in one sense more vivid and striking than that
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of Noah and the Flood, For at least at the
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time of Noah and the flood, men had time to
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collect their thoughts and obtain the grace of repentage before
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they perished, and the disaster struggling gradually. If all did
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not succeed in saving themselves for the present life, Saint
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Peter tells us explicitly that the greater number return to
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God and save themselves for the life to come. In
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his First Epistle, Chapter three, verses nineteen twenty, he says
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that when the holy soul of Jesus Christ had been
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separated from his body, he preached those spirits that were
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in prison, which had been for some time incredulous, and
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when they waited for the patience of God in the
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days of Noah. On the day of judgment, however, it
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will be as at the abyss of Mayan, at the
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foot of the hill of Saint Andre. It will all
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happen with unparalleled promptness and violence. Christ tells us that
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this is on that he. Christ tells us, he that
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is on the housetop, let him not come down and
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take anything out of his house, and he lies in
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the field, let him not go back and take his coat.
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And woe to them that are with child and give
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suck in those days. Then if any man shall say
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to you, lo, here is Christ or there, do not
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believe him. For as lightning cometh out of the east,
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and of purity even into the west, so shall the
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coming of man be. By What means will this great
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destruction take place? What will be the efficient cause? The
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principal agent, the direct, imminent instrument Holy Scripture did not
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intend to omit any of the circumstances continuing this event,
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the gravest and most decisive of all that have succeeded
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one another in creation. It teaches that the world will
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not perish by inundation as in the flood, will not
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collapse by virtue an earthquake, and will not be buried
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under the ashes of lava as were the Herculaneum and
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Pompeii in the reign of Titus, but will be set
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ablaze and destroyed by fire. Such was already the ancient
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belief common to the Egyptians and the Persian philosophers. Cicero
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said that the world would end by fire. The remarkable
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thing is that present day science concurs with the sacred books,
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the showing that fire will be the great architect of
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God's justice and renovate and renovation which will follow this
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has been manifested. Thus, science, like the Bible, has revealed
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that fire was first, was the first created force to
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have been developed, the first created force to have developed
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its energy and display its activity. It was by fire
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that nature was made fruitful and the elements set to work.
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And this came also the great transformation of the primitive world,
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the erection of mountains, and making of the stars, and
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finding the emergence of the universe with all order and variety,
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which it presents to our admiring gaze. Justis one two
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says the earth was void and empty, and darkness was
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upon the face of the deep. In other words, as
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the experts and commentaries explained, the matter was volatized and
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the state of vapor. Before the Creator had bestowed its
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properties into verse forms by dividing and coordinating it. In
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the six days labor, all these constituents were jumbled, disunited,
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and in chaotic state. Earth and Sun presented a picture
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of vast the quest or gaseous sea scattered around the
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immense of space. The sea was motionless and inert. It
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bubbled on its surface and in its innermote depths, and
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was set in motion under the quickening breath of an external,
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all powerful agent, which was none other than the Spirit
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of God. Let's see, the Holy Spirit subjected the material
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substance to sort of incubation under the action, and by
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the effects of this sovereign heat, the immeasurable intensity of
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the elements underwent a casting and recasting, perfecting themselves, acquiring
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their power and energy shed from their dross, like gold
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which is refined and separated from its rust in the
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crucible where it's cast. When thus transformed by the blast
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of this furnace of the Holy Spirit, they were rendered
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capable of hearing the word of God. The Creator called them,
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and in turn said to them be light made. And
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light was made. And after he had made night and
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day and layout the sky. He separated the solid matter
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from the vaporous mass around, and said, let the dry
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land appear, and the land was consolidated. He spoke also
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the waters leaving on our globe out of the liquid part,
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only what was necessary to irrigate and fill the vapors
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of the seas, fill the basins of the seas, and
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sent away the remainder in the state of vapor or ether.
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To feel the vast expanses of all the spheres of
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the sky. And let's see it was a grand, sublime
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scene which would give rise to long, magnificent developments. Who
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would not fill his spirits rise and his heart quiver
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at the sight of the creative act, that masterpiece of
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divine wisdom and power, throwing up streams of light and
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beauty from the shapeless shadow ocean, implanting movement and action
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in all the inert beings with the divine spirit he
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had divested had invested with his character, penetrating with him
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with his Let's try that again, which the divine spirit
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had invested with his character, penetrate them with his fire
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and radiance. Now today, however, we cannot speak of these
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admiral works, except in passing and insofar as they bear
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upon our chosen subject. Now, this same spirit of God,
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who has strown treasures of harmony and perfection throughout the universe,
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will proceed the same way when it comes to ordaining
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new heavens and buildings, that places, and building that palace
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which shall serve eternally as a dwelling place for glorified man.
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Here we are not indulging imagination, and our voice is
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not our own, but that of the prophets who have spoken,
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and of all the evangelists who have written. A fire
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should go out before him and shall burn his enemies
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round about the mountains, melted like wax at the presence
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of the Lord. Under the effect of its brilliance, the
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sun will darken, and the moon will no longer give
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its light, and the stars will fall. That is, having
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been dissolved for the second time, they will vanish like
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drop its into the air. That fire will be the
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one which will devour or the wicked like straw penetrates,
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penetrate their bones the marrow, and consume them forever. It
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will be the final trial for the just who will
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be living in the last days. For them it will
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take place of purgatory, the cleansing flames of which, at
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the moment of their resurrection will be extinguished, never to
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be lit up again. It will be the crucible, wherein
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they will cast off the remains of their earthly rusts,
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so that no stain may darken the whiteness of their garments.
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When they appear before the throne of God. We may
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be quite uncertain that all these events will be accomplished.
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They are certain with absolute certainty, certaintude, as God is
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himself as his spirit of truth, which is not subject
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to any error or change. As a matter of fact,
47:44
we can state that every one of us here will
47:47
have left this lower world before being witnessed to this
47:50
great scene of desolation and ruin. Nonetheless, Jesus Christ has
47:54
judged it fitting that we should be instructed concerning it,
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because these great truths are not of a speculator of order,
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but are intended to bring about practical and immediate effects
48:04
in the conduct of our lives. In truth, if the
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earth and all it contains must one day disappear by fire,
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the goods of this world are no more to be
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esteemed than wood and straw. What point is there then,
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in making them the object of our desires and cares,
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why seek to build and lead marks of our genius
48:20
and power when we have no permanent abode, and where
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the form of this world will be removed like a
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tent which has no travelers or shelter. It may be
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said that it would be one thousand years before this
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frightening catechism takes place. But Christ is said that a
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thousand years or but an instant compared with eternity. And
48:38
when the moment comes, when from the land of the
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future life we are the witnesses and actors in that
48:44
supreme drama, the whole span of humanity will seem so
48:47
short to us that we were scarcely considered to have
48:50
lasted a single day. The great prophet Saint Paul, from
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whom time had no bounds in space no size, believed
48:56
that he had already been transported. There in his cave Bethlehem,
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Saint Jerome could hear the trumpet of doom awakening the dead,
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and his hair stood on end out of fear, and
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his flash and bones quivered with an indescribable shudder. Lastly,
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Christ tells us that to meditate upon these great teachings,
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for it is certain that we should be taken by surprise,
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and that time will come sooner than we think. At
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the end of the fourteenth century, an extraordinary personage appeared
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from the depths of Spain. His name was Vincent Ferrer
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fr Er I believe it's pronunced Forrer, a prophet, was
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a prophet and a wonder worker. Since his youth he
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grew amidst universal astonishment. The spirit of God lay upon him,
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took possession of his heart, and inflamed him with a
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zeal unknown since Saint Paul. It ruled his body, which
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he sustained despite his extreme weakness, weakness amidst the most
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crushing labors and the harshest austerities. The power to work
49:54
miracles was granted to him. In short, he uttered the
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most prodigiously powerful words that mankind had ever heard since
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Saint Paul. A superhuman being. Although he was a man,
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he constantly refused the honors which the popes urged him
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to accept. His life was one of continuous prayer, fasting,
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and preaching. For twenty years, he traveled throughout Europe, and
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for twenty years Europe trembled beneath the ardor and fire
50:18
of his inspired voice. The Last Judgment was the favorite
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subject of his preaching. He himself declared to all that
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he had been specially sent by the Sovereign Judge to
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proclaim the approach to the last days. One day at
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Salamanca Sa La m A n Ci, a city renowned
50:37
for its theologians and scholars, a countless throng crowded around
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to hear him. The Messenger from Heaven, suddenly, raising his
50:44
voice in the midst of the multitu, said, I am
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the Angel of the Apocalypse, whom Saint John saw flying
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through the midst of heaven, crying aloud. Ye, nations, fear
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of the Lord and render him glory, for the day
50:55
of Judgment is near. At these strange words, an indescribable
50:59
murmi broke out among the assembly. There were shouts of manda,
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spragging in piety. The Messenger of God pause, gazing the
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sky in a kind of rapture or ecstasy. Then he continued,
51:10
raising his voice, cried out again, I am the Angel
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of the Apocalypse, the Angel Judgment. The agitation of murmuring
51:17
reached its height. Calm yourself, said the saint. Do not
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take scandal at my words, you will see with your
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own eyes that I am what I say. Go to
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the gate of Saint Paul at the end of the city,
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and you will find a dead woman. Bring her to me,
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and I shall raise her to life as proof of
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what Saint John said of me. Once more shouts and
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an even greater protest greeted this proposal. Nevertheless, a few
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men decided to go to the gate indicated. There they
51:41
did indeed find a dead woman, took her and laid
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her in the midst of the assembly. The apostle, who
51:47
did not for a moment leave the elevated spot from
51:50
which was preaching, said woman, in the name of God,
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I command you rise. The dead woman immediately rose, wrapping
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her shroud, cast off the winding sheet that covered her face,
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showing herself full of life in the midst of the assembly.
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Vincent then added, for the honor of God and for
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the salvation of all these people. Say now that you
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can speak, whether I am really the Angel of the Apocalypse,
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entrusted with the proclaiming to all the approach of the
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last judgment. You are, the angel, replied the woman. Truly
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you are. In order to place this marvelous testimony between
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two miracles. The saints spoke to her again, do you
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prefer to remain alive or do you wish to die
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once more? She said, I should willingly live live. Then
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in fact she lived for many years longer a living witness,
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says one historian, of astounding prodigy and of the highest
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mission ever in trusted to mand we should not discuss
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the authenticity of the story. It has raised doubts some
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uncertain hay geographers, and the circumstances surrounding it have been
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given have given rise to criticism and debate. In defense
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of our opinion, it is sufficient to state that the
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Church has not pronounced apothecal since in the Bull of
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Caizations Saint it is said he had the words of
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the Eternal Gospel to proclaim, as an angel flying through
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the midst of heaven the Kingdom of God to every tongue,
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tribe and nation, and to show the proximity of the
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Last Judgment. However, is nearly five hundred years since this
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event happened, and the last judgment has been The last
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judgment announced by this wonder worker of the fourteenth century
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has not taken place. Are we to conclude that the
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Saint was misled, and the miracle of this resurrection, attested
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by serious, trustworthy witnesses, recalled and handed down in sculpture
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and painting, must be assigned to the realm of legend,
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and to be held in allegory or mere invention. Saint
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Vincus Fereer spoke in the same way as the holy
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doctors had done before him, and as a majority of
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great Apostolic men have done after him. Thus, as a
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matter of fact, Saint Jerome censured a certain Judah, the
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infamus of the famous author of the Ecclesiastical History, for
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having asserted that the violence of the persecution and pretended
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at the end of the world, which would occur in
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a short time. Yet the same Jerome, in one of
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his letters, brilliantly depicted the calamities and disasters which he
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had witnessed himself, expressed almost the same opinion. Saint Cyprian
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wrote these words, you must be convinced and hold for
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certain that the day of the final desolation has begun
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to dawn upon you, and at the time of the
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Antichrist is near. Excuse me. In the penegyric of his
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brother Satires, Saint Ambrose exclaimed he was removed from life
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that he might not be a witness to the end
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of this world and the complete desolation of the universe.
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Saint Gregory the Great and Saint Bernard have expressed the
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same sentiments in their books and discourses. These illustrious doctors
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and great saints spoke in this way either because they
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saw faith becoming scarce and the calamities of the age
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increasing every day in alarming proportions, or because they were
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gripped by fear at the thought of that great day
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and wanted to plant that salutary fear in men who
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had gone astray, in order to bring them back to
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the knowledge of God and good living. Yet we cannot
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say that they strayed from which, by emphasizing no, we
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cannot say these straight from truth. They spoke in accordance
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with scriptures, which, by emphasizing this fundamental truth, unceasingly shows
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the prospect of the advent of divine judgment imminent. In
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this the Apostles inspired writers have not deceived us. Inasmuch
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as time is nothing to those who have crossed over
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the frontiers of earthly life. The whole span of the
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centuries says the Holy Spirit is no more than a
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fleeting day, just as in the firmament there are stars
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separated by myriads of miles, which, on account of their distance,
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appear to emerge so as to form one single point
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when observed on this earth. In the same way, from
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the heights of the Life of God, where we show
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one day be immersed, time will be such as if
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it did not exist a year, one hundred thousand years,
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a million years. Contemplating for the bosom of eternity not
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seem to us any more than mere points. We shall
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consider these links of time so microscopic, so fractual, that
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in a sense, there will not be any difference between
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them which our mind can discern. Consequently, these words of
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Saint John the Evangelists may, with perfect truthfulness be applied
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to the general resurrection as well as to the partial
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resurrection performed by Jesus Christ. Amen and men, I say
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to you, unto you, that hour cometh, and now is
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when the dead show hear the voice of the Son
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of God. Moreover, our eternal destiny will be settled irrevocably
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at death, and a particular judgment which must follow will
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soon determine the circumstances in which we show appear at
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the triumbunal of the divine justice, when the place which
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will there be and the place which will there be
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assigned to us. Compared with this inavertible ending of human destinies,
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our political controversies are nothing but idle noise. Well, that's true.
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Revolutions which cause the disappearance of peoples and bring down
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republics and empires are less than the change of a
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scene or decoration in the theater. All these colossal enterprises
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and marvelous works to which men devote their minds, and
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which they bring to perfection at the cost of the
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greatest sacrifices and most hazardous efforts, appear like a mere
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wisp of smoke, and are more fragile works than the
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webs spun by a spider, and most often lasts less
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than a day. There will then be no other distinction
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between men that are of merit and virtue than of
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merit of virtue. There will then be no distinction between
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men than of merit and virtue. All vain and ambitious
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thoughts will have vanished, politics will have seed, science itself
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will be destroyed. Happy those who have heard the divine
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word and kept it faithfully in their hearts. Happy those who,
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awakening from their sleep, shall have walked honestly and openly
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following the apostles recommendation. Happy those who, like the wise versions,
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shall have carefully conserved the oil of their lamp and
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form their sheep for the day of the dazzling solemn harvest.
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These shall be called the Predestinate, because the Saint John
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says their names are written in the Book of Life
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of the Lamb who was slain from the beginning of
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the world. May that destiny be ours, amen, And that
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ends that long passage. So I think it's really very
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good that Father Armagnon is giving us an encouragement fortify
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our courage a little bit here before we get into
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the warnings and then and the horrors of armageddon and
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all that talking about the Antichrist and all that's going
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to befall the world and the people. You know, when
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that time comes, Jesus said, those who endure in to
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the end will be saved. And our end can come
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at any moment, So we should take every warning about
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the end times personally, very very personally. See y'all have
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a great week, and I'll tade next time.