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Show 59: My work is under attack · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. I think we can. We'll finish
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up our chapter or we'll finish up our series on Saint Hilgard. I'm mentioned
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today. There's a lot more to say, but I'm just talking really,
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I'm really talking more about the spiritual side of Saint Hildegarde and if you're interested
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in her herbal medicine, specifically, my book The Christian History and Practice of
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Herbal Medicine give us a good overview of her cures for remedies and talks about
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both their physical and spiritual nature. So if you want to check that out,
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if obviously, if you can't buy my book, if you can't afford
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it, I understand. I did a similar two articles from Mizzio Day.
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You can go to Missio Day and you can get her remedies as I wrote
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them in my book in detail for free. Okay, if you need to
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do that, that's fine. You know, I'm a little hesitant to talk
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about it, but I have been under somewhat of an attack over my books,
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especially The Christian History of herbal Medicine, but also my book Confirmation Autobiograph,
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Autobiograph Fee of Faith, and several others. You know, I've left
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in God's hands. I'm not going to complain about it. But specifically,
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if you were going to Amazon and you look at the reviews for my book,
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The History of Christian Herbal Medicine, you'll see a couple of people who've
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left reviews saying that my book is not Christian at all and it's all about
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mysticism. And one specifically says it's not Christian, it's Catholic or something along
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those lines. He or she it seemed to be a female voice to me,
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lied about what I wrote and twisted my words. So I am going
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to try not to do the same. I'm gonna be charitable, and I'm
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going to say that this is a Protestant who was offended that I talked about
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the Catholic history verbal medicine. Because Protestants believe they're even though the Baptist Church
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is barely a couple hundred years old, they think it's been around since the
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time of Christ, and ditto the Methodist, and ditto the Presbyterian and all
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that. They don't like to hear that there was no Christian church oh than
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Catholic, you know, aside from the Orthodox, and you know which is
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we talked about that before. The Orthodox is not a really Protestant church.
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It says, it's a break, it's a schism over certain doctoral issues and
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language that is being resolved and will be resolved soon. I believe some people
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may argue with that. The Russians specifically can be very proud of their Russian
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Orthodox Church and they say will never become Catholic. But really the reunification has
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been in the process. Says for the last one hundred or two hundred years,
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there was no Protestant church until the mid fourteen hundreds. You know,
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there was only the Catholic Church. You tell it to a Protestant, they
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get angry. They try to say that there were these underground churches and the
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Catholic Church has always persecuted the real church. Tell the faults. I know
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that, you know that anyone who even a secular person who has a cursory
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knowledge of history no set But they're tact and I'm not sure that they're all
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Protestant that have been kind of coming after me. I think some of them
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are New Age people and they found what they think is an argument that will
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sway Protestants against my work is to say that my work is about mysticism on
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the most recent review, is really this honest saying I talked about other deities,
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and I have no idea what they're talking about, because I mean,
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the only deity discussed in my book is odd the Trinity, the Holy Trinity.
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Maybe it's a very ignorant Protestant taking issue with my discussing saints or the
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archangel Raphael who was said to have given the knowledge of herbs to Moses.
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But I didn't talk about other deities, that's for sure. This whole term
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mysticism is what they're trying to use to keep people from buying my books,
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and the mysticism, the only mysticism in my book is the writings of Saint
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hildegardefon Bention, And that's the only reason I bring this up. So if
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you hear this to show and you like check out my work, and you
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can afford a copy my book, I'd love for you to have a copy
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of my book and share it. The whole point of that book, the
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History of Christian herbal Medicine or the Christian History of herbal Medicine, is to
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counter the New Age movement and to show people that herbal medicine is very Christian.
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It's been part of our tradition really from day one, really from day
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one, Christians began treating the sick immediately, and their medicine, of course
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was herbs and prayer. And then of course that was formalized by the Holy
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Roman and Pert Charlemagne and Saint Benedict of Nertia. I mean the first Christian
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herbal, I mean the first herbal written in the Christian era was by Abbot
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Walaford Strabo, very prominent clergyman in the Church. And you know, herbal
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medicine is inherently, entirely Christian. And you know that's the point in my
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book. And for people to take and say, oh, this is mysticism
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and not Christian, that's why they keep saying not Christian is a lie.
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And that's why I'm not gonna First of all, Amazon will do nothing to
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remove dishonors reviews. The Amazon is not good and I wish we had an
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alternative, but we don't. That's for an end in an author, you
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have to go through Amazon. I'm like I said, I put in God's
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hands. I'm not going to complain about it. Yeah, they're hurting my
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business of hurting my sales, they're really hurting my mission of getting the history
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of Christian herbal medicine out to both Catholics and Protestants to counter the New Age
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and Neopagan movement. They're gonna have to answer for that. I mean,
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they're they're they're working for Satan, and they're gonna have to answer for that.
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But you know, if you if you have a chance to get my
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book, if you can and you read it, if you have a chance
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to write me a good review, gosh, I'd appreciate it. You know,
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when you make your living as an author, you need to sell books.
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And these people are through their attacks, and not just this book,
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but several of my books. Because everything I write is from a Christian perspective.
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They're really hurting me financially, and there's nothing I can do about it.
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And I'm not going to worry about it. I'm pray, hope,
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and don't worry is my motto. Or pray and work. As Saint Benedict
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said, I'm leaving in God's hands. He can deal with our enemies,
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and he can do it a lot better than me. I'm you know what
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I'm doing. I'm praying for them. I'm praying they'll come to a realization
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and they'll take down their dishonest and malicious reviews. But you know, you
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as my audience and my friends, if if you can help me out a
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little bit, bless you, bless you if you can, that would be
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absolutely wonderful. But yeah, this this attack is very much based on my
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writings about Saint Hilguard. If i'vention, there are people, whether they're Neo
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Pagans or New Age people or Protestants, who do not wish to believe that
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Catholics can communicate with Jesus and angels and saints. They're the same people who
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would deny the miracles at Fatima and Mega Gorge here, the healings at Lords,
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etc. They do not believe in miraculous intervention in human lives. They
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want to call as superstitions, superstitious, not Christian, you know, interested
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in mysticism and you know whatever. Okay, I'm sorry, Protestants, you
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do not have the power of the miraculous power of God in your religion in
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the same way a Catholic does. God is not present, body and blood,
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soul and divinity in your church. And you will not see a eucharistic
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hoast turn into bleeding flesh, as has happened several times. You will not
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have the miracles at Lord's you will not have the blessed Virgin Mary appearing.
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And you know, telling you about the dangers that are imminent on the horizon,
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you could have it, You could have it any day, but you
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walked away from it. And until you come back to us, until you
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rejoin the body of Christ and the church he found, you won't. And
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you know, if you're attacking a Christian who's devoted his life to trying to
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do good and tells the truth with every ounce of his being as best he
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can, and praise every day that the Holy Spirit will guide him and his
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writing and his podcasting, you know, maybe you're not on the right side.
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I'm sorry, maybe you're not on the right side. You know,
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Satan is the father of lives and confusion. And you know, if you
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don't believe the big plain words of Jesus, like in speaking about the Eucharist,
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or the forgiveness of sins, or the efficacy of baptism, or the
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unity of the church, if you don't believe sacred tradition as had passed down
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through the apostles, and if you don't believe the saints when they tell you,
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yeah, I spoke with Jesus and this is what he told me.
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You know, maybe you're on the wrong side. Sorry, maybe you're on
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the wrong side. But anyway, let's you know what, even if you
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can't buy my book, and like I said, I'd love it if you
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did. And I'm not saying you have to. I mean that that book
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is like a mission for me. I mean, I grew up in herbal
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medicine and it really bothers me when people denigrate the Catholic Church and try to
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say that somehow Christianity is opposed to herbal medicine, as if God didn't give
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us the herbs and teach us how to use them. I am defending Christianity
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through my practice of verbal medicine. So through my practice of verbal medicine.
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So that's a mission for me. Okay, I'm not begging you to buy
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my book. I just hope a lot of people will read it. You
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know, I'd love to seeing libraries and people could read it for free.
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That's fine. I'd love to see it in every church library. So you
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know, grandparents could show their grandchildren, and parents could show their children when
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they start to get into New Age ideology. It just because they want to
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connect with nature. That's a human need we all have. And of course
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Protestantism is, you know, denies that the Catholic Church actually very much embraces
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the natural world, the physical world. But one thing you can really do
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that would help me a lot and help spread the message. If you don't
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have a penny to spend, just share my podcasts with people. If I
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could get just you know a handful of people. I mean, first of
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all, you know, the more people that listen to my podcasts, the
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more it helps pay for the hosting. If a few paid subscribers to my
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subject newsletter would help out tremendously on the financial terms. But as far as
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spreading the message, you know, I mean, I put this out every
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every four shows a week and millions of people could have access to this.
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Podcasts are free, but I can't tell them about it. I can only
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tell so many. You can tell as many as I can, and they
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can tell them anymore. And if we spread this podcast dask and spread the
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word about Catholicism. You know, my unique perspective I guess you would say
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on Catholicism as a convert and as an herbalist and all that more than anything
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I can do on my own. So I'm just going to ask all my
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listeners, if you hear this, share it with a friend, share it
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with five friends, send it out to your list, posted on social media.
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Yeah, I'm by putting it all in God's hands. I say my
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prayers and I've got saints advocating on my behalf, and i know it's going
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to work out. I mean, you know, the forces of evil were
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not going to prevail, but you can help. You can be, you
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know, a soldier in this battle, and it can be as simply simple
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as simply sharing the podcast. You know, if you could do more,
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do more. But if all you can do is say, hey, you
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know, I listen to this podcast called The Uncensored Catholic. This guy's kind
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of funny sometimes, you know, sometimes he gets into politics and he can
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be a little controversial, but he's a he's a real orthodox Catholic and I
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enjoy listening to it if you enjoy listening to it. By the way,
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he's a really good guitar player too. If you want to say that if
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you don't, if you think I'm an awful guitar player, don't worry about
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But if you could share it, you know, I mean, yeah,
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one person writes a bad review, or two or three people write bad reviews
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on Amazon, and they kill my book sales. You know, thousands of
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people read it, and it just is a blow to me financially, But
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it's really more a blow to me in my mission of sharing what I think
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God's given me to share. I can't do a thing about it, not
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a thing. But if you share my podcast, thousands of people can learn
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that way, and it will do more to counter what, you know,
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what the forces of evil we're trying to do than just than anything I can
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do on my own, that's for sure. So let's get into the show,
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all right. So you know, we always start with a couple of
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questions the answers from radio replies. Today the questioner asks the priests what is
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the purpose of life on this earth? So of course they go back to
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the old you know, the old catechism. Man has created to praise,
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love and serve God in this life and by doing so, to attain eternal
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life with God hereafter. This is not our only life, but it is
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an infinitesinal part of it. It's a small part of life, but everything
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hinderes on it. Person says, I can't imagine what future life can possibly
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be like. Well, who can? I know? One person can?
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Father Dan down at Saint Mary, Mother of God church, Saint Mary,
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Virgin Mother of God's church's lawn name in heartsvill South Carolina, who's been to
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heaven many times. He said, you know, I guess Protestants would get
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upset this as well. But yes, Father Dan is a priest whose wife
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and daughter were killed, who has had several visions of heaven. He's spoken
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with He's seen Jesus, He's spoken many times with a blessed Virgin Mary.
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He has been in heaven and Hognan kissed his wife and daughter, and they
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told him what his mission is in life, and he's seen what his future
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is an eternity if he fulfills that mission. If Protestants knew the miracles that
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take place in the Catholic Church, that would be the end of Protestantism.
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No one in their right mind would deny and forsake what would we call him?
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The consolations of God given through the Catholic Church. Well, anyway,
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they answer, there is a vast difference between imagining a future life and conceiving
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of it. This is the difference between imagination and thought, and not imagine
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or picture the future life anymore than you were able to do so. The
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only images we could form would be derived from this life and would fit this
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life, not the next. Yet, although we cannot imagine what the next
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life will be like, we can conceive the fact that it will be,
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and also the intelligible principles by which it will be regulated. Person goes on,
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is the future spiritual world an educational one? Now? This is an
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interesting question, kind of goes back to it's probably the same one that asked
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about reincarnation. This is sort of a proto New Age type of philosophy,
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and the answer not in the sense you probably intended to see. In their
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concept, the soul is always developing, changing form. One life leads to
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another, in which you know what each one helps complete the whole a little
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bit as actually a very gnostic concept. The Church dealt with that in about
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two hundred. But of course it goes back to Eastern what we call mystery
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religions. They say not in the sense you probably intend. We are now
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progressing towards our final destination. There we shall have attained it. The one
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exception is in the case of a soul that goes to purgatory, where it
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undergoes a progressive purification fitting for the vision of God. This cannot strictly be
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called educational, because it is a spiritual evolution towards perfect holiness. In other
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words, this is the one life we got. We will have a short
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life here on this earth. After that. What we've done on this earth
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is what will depend on which will hinge our destiny. We are bound for
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either heaven or hell. And there is such a thing of purgatory, which
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is a great gift and grace of God. Another thing Protestants don't understand.
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It's a chance God gives us because of our ignorance and weakness that he fully
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understands, having been man himself and the person of Jesus Christ, he will
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give us a final chance to do penance to make up for what we're lacking
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here on earth, a place of purgation. He speaks of it several times
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in the Gospels. One point he refers took like a debtor's prison, where
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you'll be there until you paid every penny and another one. It's the you
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know, we're just talking about how many times must you forgive your brother?
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I believe it's the gospel of Luke, but I don't have it right in
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front of me. And he says, if you don't forgive your brother,
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well, he says, in this parable, he goes on. He talks
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about the punishment due. And he said that the you know, the king
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had forgiven someone's debt and the guy begged from her see and he said okay.
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And then the guy went and extorted money from someone who owed it to
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him. And the king said, now you're going to have to pay the
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price because you didn't treat your brother with compassion. You'll be handed over to
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the torturers until you pay the full price. And Jesus said, the same
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will happened to you if you don't forgive your brother. Here on earth,
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we can talk about the peril labs Orus and the rich man, we can
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go on and on. Purgatory is the place where we will, thank God,
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have the one final opportunity to make right what we were too weak or
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ignorant to do right in this life. And therefore go to heaven. You
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know, the Bible also says nothing impure can enter heaven without purgatory. Very
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very few people are getting into heaven, very very few, only absolute saints.
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Purgatory is an incredible blessing, will all all Christians will have the opportunity
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to experience it. And there's going to be a whole lot of Protestants that
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are shocked and very grateful for the opportunity of purgation so that they can go
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to heaven, because the Protestant doctrine of once saved, always saved is absolutely
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anti biblical. It's not only unbiblical, it is opposed to the very teachings
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of Christ. So we're twenty minutes of the show already. Let's see if
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I can wrap up Saint Hildegarde in about ten fifteen. All right, not
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exactly the easiest thing to do when we're talking about so profound a saint,
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and I am telling you this is this is a doctor of the church.
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This is a woman whose writings very few people will ever be able fully understand.
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No matter how intelligent you are, it takes a spiritual enlightenment to understand
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what she was talking about, especially in her theological works, her mystical works,
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of which I did not write about in my history of Christian rbal medicine.
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Regardless of what these people want to accuse me of that it's not Christian
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at all, it's all about mysticism. Well, it is Christian, and
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there are Christian mystics. If you're going to throw out Saint Hildegarde, you
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might as well throw out the Book of Revelation. Yeah, Saint John the
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Apostle, he was a mystic, he was given visions. Throw out the
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Book of Daniel while you're at it. That's a mystical book. You could
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throw out all the profits of the Old Testament. Anyway. We'll get back
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to Saint Hildegard. Now, As I said, Saint Hildegard's vision of herbal
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medicine, of of health in general is very spiritual. Through sin, death,
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disorder, destruction, degeneration, disease entered the world. Every disease has
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a spiritual cause. That's not to say one doesn't get a germ or a
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virus, or cut, one suffer or break a leg. It's just the
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fact that mortality and disorder entered the world through sin, and without sin,
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such things wouldn't happen now because we have a causation in our life does not
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mean, you know, as Jesus said, the tower didn't fall in those
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people because they were particularly bad sinners. You know, it doesn't mean it's
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sin that caused us specifically to catch a head cold. But that head cold
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is only in the world due to the wages of sin. Therefore, we
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have both a physical and a spiritual cure. The physical cure is given through
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God via creation. You know, God created the world and he said it
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is good. It's according to Jewish legend, the archangel Raphael taught Moses about
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how to use all the herbs. Solomon was given the wisdom of you know,
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the knowledge of all plants and animals and all that all nature. So
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from a physical perspective, she would say that, okay, yes, sage
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is good for a sore throat. You know, sage is a stringent.
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It helps kind of shrink up that soreth throat and a help break a fever.
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Sage is a good rb when you have a head cold or especially a
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chess cold, because it helps with congestion in the lungs. From a spiritual
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perspective, she would say this illness may have come upon you because God wants
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you to have some times in quiet time to examine your life. We draw
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from the world pray, and she would be very clear, and she was
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in several cases, that you will be healed if it's God's will that you're
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healed, if it's better for you to suffer in this life, and you're
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going to suffer in this life, if you need to do some penance,
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if you need to be prevented from doing something wrong. Yeah, but these
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are very Catholic concepts. Your grandmother is going to tell you the exact same
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thing. You know. That may sound a little odd in our modern world
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that sees everything through a microscope, but in terms of the last two thousand
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years of Catholic history, and that's exactly what someone would say. Our prayers
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in the Catholic Church for healing is that God, if it's be your will,
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heal me from this sickness. Otherwise, you know, it's better for
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me to learn what I'm supposed to learn and to do what I'm supposed to
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do for as long as need be, because this is a this a tiny
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moment in Eternity's forever. But to get more into depth here. Creation is
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order. Okay, every atom exists only because it's perfectly ordered. We can
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see the pattern of order and everything from the cells of the smallest plant or
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animal to the fractual patterns of the stars and galaxies throughout the universe. Disease
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is disorder. It is the unraveling of patterns. Death is degeneration when the
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pattern has degraded and the order stops. We can see this in the destruction
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of tissue due to infection, the abnormal growth patterns of cancer, or simply
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the cessation of the rhythms of the heart and breadth that signal the end of
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life. Again, the Bible tells us that death entered the world through sin.
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Sin is defined as disordered passions, an action based on the desire to
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do what is wrong. Very simply put, the difference between right and wrong
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is in accord with the order created by God, and wrong is in discord.
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Man is the only element of creation that has free will and a conscience.
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It is hard for the human mind to grasp that one element of disharmony
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introduced into the timeline of creation, the fall. The fall of man,
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the first conscious choice of our ancestors to willfully. Sin introduced disorder into an
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ordered creation. This disrupted the symmetry of the pattern and continues to ripple like
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a stone dropped into a steel pond throughout all of human history. Through the
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actions of one man and one woman, sin and death enter the world again.
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As I said yesterday, like a damaged gear and a perfectly made clock,
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God can well. Unlike a clock which can't fix itself or asked to
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be fixed, we can. And the grace of Jesus is the active action
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of God in human affairs in the only way that allows for free will.
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God will heal the body and soul of man, adjusting that gear to so
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to speak, so that we have eternal life. But only with a conscious
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act of acceptance. The hand of the Creator will reach in and repair what
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is broken for an individual, but only if the individual accepts health, accepts
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help, and only if that is what is best. Another hard teaching of
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Christianity is its suffering is redemptive. Through suffering, we atone for sin,
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while the sufferings of Christ were for all. Only through uniting are suffering to
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his do we participate in his sacrifice. Saint Paul Urge continue to work out
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your salvation, depending on your translation, could say in pain and suffering or
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in fear and trembling. The Church teaches that only at the end, when
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all people who are willing have found salvation through Christ and all evil has been
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absolutely defeated, will disease and death the end not just for man, but
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for all creation. The entire universe and everything in it will once again live
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in eternity. Through the fall of man, death entered the world, and
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through the salvation of Man, all will be restored. See in Saint Hildegard's
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Understanding How the Universe, which is very biblical. You know, it actually
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says that the Bible everything is very connected. Everything's very interconnected. Every physical
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object that God created has an influence on our physical and spiritual lives, and
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our physical and spiritual lives have an influence on every object that God created.
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That's yeah, I mean that actually is biblical. The entire universe was awaiting
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for the coming of Christ to be redeemed and regenerated through the actions of man,
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and the physical or the spiritual are intensely intertwined, in separately, intertwined.
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So for this reason, all of Saint Hilgard's medicine has a deeply spiritual
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context, as man is a microcosm of everything in the spiritual and physical.
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As man is a microcosm of everything in the physical and spiritual universe, the
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crown of creation, as the Bible says, and well beyond the physical uni
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versus spiritual will, all things have the ability to affect the body and soul
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of man. For this reason, she uses herbs, as did the ancient
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Greeks. She also recommended metals, stones, gems, crystals, eating various
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meats and fish, wearing the fur of specific animals or leather, and even
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viewing certain colors. This makes Saint Hilgard's medicine incomprehensible to modern medicine and can
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cause it to be viewed with suspicion by those who observe certain of her cures
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to be similar to those used by non Christian healers. However, it is
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essential to remember that Saint Hildegard is a doctor of the Church, and her
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canonization as a saint is evidence that she died a state of grace, and
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her writings are approved by the very church that compiled, wrote, and published
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the Bible. It is of this Church that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
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promised the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Only of a sincere
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faith in God in earnest prayer will the remedies prescribed by Saint Hildegard bring healing
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unless, as she wrote, this is what she said us, God does
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not will it for the person. In Genesis we are told that God looked
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at all he created and said it is good. No object or plant is
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bad a new age hip. He might use a crystal, and a witch
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might use the same urbs as a Christian herbalist. That doesn't make him bad.
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It's the intent of the person. It's the beliefs of the person.
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It's the belief and intent of the individual that makes the use of anything created
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by God either moral or immoral. One man may use a gun in self
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defense and another commit murder. It is the intention of the man that makes
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the use of this object good or bad. A good illustration of the energetic
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view of healing in Saint Hildegard's concept of veriditas or is Saint Hildegard's concept of
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verriditas. This is a Latin derived term meaning both green and vibrantly full of
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life. She described it as the greening power of God. Many people who
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stutter modern medicine and herbal medicine cannot understand why she would recommend simply gazing at
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a bird spring pasture to help eyesight. However, all color is reflected energy.
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We see a color in the color spectrum because that is what the object
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or the plant, or the feather or the bird, etc. Reflects.
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They absorbed some of that energy and reflect the other and what we see is
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a reflected light. The color enters our eyes as a specific frequency of light
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energy. We know that people's moods can be affected by color. The brain
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activity is confected as affected by color. Some colors are calming and some are
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invigorating. That's what modern science has shown what Saint Hildegard knew in about eleven
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d Saint Hildegard believed that the many shades of green to be found in nature
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were healing, not only to the eyes, but supportive of health in general.
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She believed that man could not live a healthy, sane life separated from
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nature and the incredible beauty of creation, which I certainly agree. She believed
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that disorder, ugliness, degeneration, sin negatively affect every aspect of the human
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being, much as we read Philippians. Finally, Brothers, whatever is true,
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whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is
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lovely, whatever is gracious. If there is any excellence, and if there
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is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Other translations state,
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look upon these things. It is a great sacrifice and an act of penance
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to care for the sick and to bury the dead. So Christians must not
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avoid such duties. A blind eye cannot be turned to all ugliness. But
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beauty and music, nature, writing and art is indeed healing to the body
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and soul. How well, it's the energetic nature. It's a harmony inherent
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in what we would call beautiful. Recently, it has been found that laughter
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and music support the immune system. Healing with herbs and other medicine, then,
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is an act of cooperation with God's will for order, health, happiness,
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and beauty when in accord with his will. Saint hille Guard often caution
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that illness can only be healed if that is God's will. Sometimes suffering is
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necessary for salvation, as Saint Paul wrote in his Letter to the Romans.
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Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction
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produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character hope in the
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philosophy of Saint Hildegard's medicine, to heal the body and not the soul would
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not be healing at all. So that wraps up our brief introduction of Saint
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Hildegarde. Her works are profound and she wrote a lot, so if you're
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interested specifically in her herbal medicine, you know the book was Physica her beliefs
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modern herbalist perspective that it will tell you how to use her remedies. My
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And if you'll pray along with me, and Saint hill Regard a pray for
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me, and all the angels and saints will pray for all of us.
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We'll all be all right because God hears the prayers of the righteous. So
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once again, Saint Hilligard, I'm vinje and pray for us. In the
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words of Saint Padre Pio. Pray, hope and don't worry. Saint Padre
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Pio, pray for us. How about Saint Benedict of Nursia, great founder
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of herbal medicine, hospitals and monastic orders. Saint Benedict of Nursia, pray
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for us in the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.