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Show 68: Catholic teaching about the Blessed Virgin Mary, part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Y'all welcome today's show. Continuing on our Marian theme today, as I promised
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yesterday, I'm go to begin discussing a couple of articles written by a priest
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with whom I communicate on the Catholicism Rocks website. His name is Father actually
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that is at h L. E. Y Father Jonathan. Actually, these
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articles are excellent and I'm going to go through one today and when tomorrow.
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If you want to explore more in Catholic teachings about the Blessed Virgin Mary,
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it's a bass field. I mean, there are literally hundreds of books written
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over two thousand years. I mean the very first icon or painting I guess
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you would say, of the Blessed Virgin Mary I believe was actually painted by
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Saint Luke in Saint Mary Major Basilica in Rome. I mean Catholics Christians.
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There was no Christian that wasn't Catholic for the first thousand plus years of the
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Church. And the Orthodox have the same veneration and respect for the Blessed Virgin
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Mary as Catholics. Their iconography is probably even more vast. So all Christians
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prayed to Mary and respected the Blessed Virgin Mary and acknowledged her as the Mother
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of God with a very special role as the Queen of Heaven, the most
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holy and powerful of all the saints. Until the mid late fourteen hundreds.
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And let's put that in context. America has not even been around three hundred
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years yet, not even two hundred and fifty. Seriously, and I mean
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we still gosh, America is such a young country. And of course we
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still look to the Constitution, the Declaration, and we know who the founding
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followers were, and we know what this country was founded on. Certainly Christians
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in the two and three hundreds knew exactly what the apostles taught. I can
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go back and show you the early church fallows, but I've already done that
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in my two or three part series on Catholic teachings about the Saints. Yes,
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the Blessed Virgin Marria was highly respected, highly honored, and Christians prayed
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to saints from day one. In fact, the first recorded prayer, the
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one that we have the old well, the two we have the oldest evidence
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for, was a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Marian Greek from I think about
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the three hundreds, and a prayer to Saint Joseph from like the two hundreds.
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You know, Saint Joseph during Jesus's life, and so for the Church
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to acknowledge Saint Joseph as a saint is because Jesus told the Apostles about Saint
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Joseph. Veneration or prayers to or respect for what, however you want to
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put it. Saint Joseph has probably been practiced since the very founding of Christianity.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary lived several decades after Jesus. She lived with Saint
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John, so prayers to her started a little bit later. But if you
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want to look into it, there are hundreds of books literally throughout every single
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decade of Christian history from the earliest church fathers, at least from I guess
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Saint Justin Martyr, who was what around I think he was martyred in about
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two hundred AD. He was over one hundred years old. He was,
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if I remember correctly, he was baptized and confirmed by Saint Peter. I
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mean, this is, you know, this is the unbroken lineage. So
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when a Protestant says to me, why the Christians pray to the saints,
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well, I could just simply say well, they always have, they have
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since the Apostles. Who do you think you are to question it? Do
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you think you know better than the you know, the Apostles, the Twelve
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Apostles and Saint Paul. Do you think you know better than the early church
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fathers, Pope, Saint Clement of Rome, Saint Justin Martyr, Saint Irenaeus,
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men who lived and died for the faith and actually knew the Apostles?
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Do you think you know better than the greatest minds, the holiest men of
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all times, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and the other doctors of
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the church. Seriously, who do you think you are to come up two
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thousand years later and suddenly start finding fault with the practice of all Christians throughout
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the history of Christianity for two thousand years, all Catholics and Orthodox and most
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Anglicans for two thousand years, all of Christianity for about fifteen hundred years.
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Seriously, who do you think you are? You know better than those who
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actually learn from Jesus? You know better than those who actually learn from those
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who learn from Jesus. I mean that's pretty darn arrogant. Actually, it's
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pretty making Some great assumptions. And in the Catholic Church there we've kind of
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chied each other when when someone's criticized the pope, you think you're more Catholic
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than the Pope. Well, I would have to say to you, do
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you think you're more Christian than the Apostles, Saint John, Saint Luke,
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who had great respect for the Blessed Virgin Mary? You think you're more Christian
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than the martyrs who were slaughtered in the first few hundred years of the Church,
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who set up icons and prayed to Mary in the catacombs, the tombs
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of Rome, or the caves of the first churches in Turkey and Syria and
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throughout the region of the Middle East. Actually, your arrogance is based in
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ignorance. And the more you read the writings of the first Christians, the
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more you're going to realize that your Protestant church bears very little resemblance to the
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Church of the first Christians. You get the DDK, and you're going to
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realize the first Christians were Catholic and they were receiving the Eucharist, and you're
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not. And Jesus said, if you don't eat of my flesh and drink
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of my blood, you have no life in you. Reading the Early Church
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Fathers led me to become Catholic, and I will dare you to read the
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first say four hundred years. Read the Anti the anti Anti Nicean Fathers,
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those who wrote before the Nicean creed which we all profess, and see what
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the earliest Christians believed. You can find their rights online. You can find
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them in any university library, probably any municipal library. You can buy them.
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Certainly use copies have been around for a very long time. You don't
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have to take my word for it. Read what the first Christians wrote,
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and they wrote voluminously. The very first volume of the Early Church Fathers,
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the Anti Nicean Fathers, is around seven hundred pages. It's just the first
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volume. It only covers about what six maybe six Pope Saint Clement of Rome,
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who was the third Pope, Saint Polycarp, who was a great Christian
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martyr, Saint Ignatius, Saint Barnabas who was very likely with Paul in the
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Bible or a student of Barnabas who was with Paul in the Bible. Saint
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Justin Martyr, another great martyr who explained Christianity to the Greeks and the Romans
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and all that, and converted many Jews to Christianity, and then was slaughtered
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by the Romans. Saint Irenaeus who wrote exhaustively against the heresies of his era,
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many of which, even though he struck them down in about two hundred
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and fifty two seventy a d with logic and the Bible are you will find
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in Protestant churches now many heresies that have been condemned. I'm just gonna challenge
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you, if you are a Protestant, I don't doubt your faith. I
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know you love God. That's not the point, Okay. I Am not
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trying to take your faith away from you. But you hate Catholics. You
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think Catholics got everything wrong. Go back and read the earliest writings of Christianity
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right when the Bible leaves off. Start with the DDAK, which is the
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Teachings of the Twelve and then begin reading the early Church Fathers. And you're
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going to find a church that you don't recognize as your own. You will
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find a church that, if you know much about the Catholic Church, is
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the Catholic Church unchanged, unaltered, unbroken from the very moment Jesus said to
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Saint Peter, You're the rock, and I found my church upon you,
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and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. But before we get
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into that, let's start with the radio replies, as they always do.
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The progressive socialist liberal who's questioning the priests, the secularists what is called says,
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you cannot face life unaided, and reliance upon God SAPs self reliance and
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initiative, and must develop the weakling. That was Yes, it's a very
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progressive ideal. It was much preached by the Nazis. They said Christianity makes
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man weak. Well, they answer him. The religious man knows that he
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cannot face life unaided, but that is not to his detriment. We did
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not ridicule a child at school who cannot face the problem of mathematics the help
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of a master. If God needed help, he would be imperfect. But
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man is not God. He is very conscious of limitation, conscious of limitation,
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and if he wishes to behave as if he were God, quite self
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sufficient and capable of all things, he denies the truth of his limitation.
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The man that realizes that he did not make the universe, which anyway he
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cannot stop or rearrange is nearer the truth, and behaves reasonably in asking the
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perfect being who made him to preserve him from the mistakes and frailties of his
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own imperfection and imperfect beings should behave as if limited and not supremely perfect.
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Nor does religion self man's sap man's self reliance and initiative. These he uses
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to the full, and then he asks the additional help of God. If
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a man employs extra help in his businesses, he's sapping his self reliance.
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Must he do everything himself? No man can do everything. God helps those
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who help themselves, but he expects men to turn to Him where they cannot
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help themselves. This secures full personal initiative and help, and the hope of
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God to supply for one's essential deficiencies. As for the developing of weaklings,
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read the history of the early Christians in the days of Nero and the Roman
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persecution. For the love of God and the help of God, children face
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the reality of torture and suffering before which strong men quailed. The irreligious man
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is the weakling, shirking the duty of rendering to God what is due to
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God. Shirking the humility of admitting that he is not infinitely perfect and shirking
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the greatest reality of life. Very true, Very true. I just mentioned
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Saint Justin martyr, Saint polycarp. If you read the stories of the martyrs,
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you will see men of more strength and conviction than you could ever imagine,
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and women and even children. You know, it's so ridiculous. The
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things were taught in school, you know, if you go to well,
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I mean I began to learn high school, and then in college. You
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know, they wanted me to read Nietzsche and all this, and you know
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what they didn't tell me all these humanist philosophers, all these progressives, these
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great thinkers that spawned the the ideologies of progressivism, socialism, communism, liberalism,
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humanism, atheism, etc. Yeah, I mean you have him ended
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up insane in mental institutions. Yeah, look that up next time someone throws
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you a Nietzsche quote. Oh that sounds profound, it sounds really good.
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But the guy who said it ended up in a mental institution, completely insane.
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Now they'd ever give you the end of the story, do they?
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They tell you about the Great Revolution in France, I'll tell you how many
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people were slaughtered I mean to the point that the streets ran, you know,
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almost knee deep in blood from the guillotine. They killed all the priests,
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monks and nuns. They killed the property owners, they killed the business
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owners, They killed the college professors, they killed the politicians, they killed
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everybody. Salmon Soviet, you know, the Communist Revolution in Russia's the horrors
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of the Communist Revolution in China would, if we're taught, would be enough
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for people to reject that ideology. But they don't teach you that, do
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they do They you're gonna sit through a college class and you're gonna read marks
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and ingles, and you're gonna read mao and okay, maybe you'll read from
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Shiguavera. Right, Do they tell you that scheg Wavera was a racist who
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hated black people and enjoyed killing homosexuals. Probably not. You know that radical
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student wearing the scheik Wavera shirt, ask him give him a quote from Schegulvera
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about the how animalistic he believed black people to be and unworthy of life.
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They didn't teach you that part of the story, did they. They don't
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teach you the part of a lot of the story of the Protestant Reformation,
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so called Reformation. Either I guarantee that guarantee that you start looking into it
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and you realize, yeah, Martin Luther wasn't a really good guy at all.
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He wasn't really mentally stable. He suffered from manic depression and extreme irrational
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fears, and was an alcoholic and really not someone you would want to base
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your religion upon. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church, founded by Jesus, who
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said the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it, still stands on,
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changed for two thousand years. Fifty thousand or so Protestant denominations, each of
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which have a different doctrine and theology, each of which teach different things,
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disagreeing with each other enough to be distinct denominations, all only less than five
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hundred years old, most less than fifty years old. One church founded by
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Jesus teaching the same thing from the beginning to now one truth which you think
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got it right. So father actually says in his article, which you can
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find on Catholicism rocks dot com. And if you're listening to this podcast,
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I'd like to invite you to come to the Catholicism Rocks forums. I post
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Sarah, I'm actually a moderator of the forums, and we need more people
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to join. We need to breathe a little life into this. It's a
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friendly place. There's just not enough people who post, so first of all,
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I want to encourage you to do that. Father actually is one who
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does post, and he wrote this article, the Glorious Power of One.
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Hail Mary. You know, as I mentioned yes and yesterday's show, the
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prayer Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with THEE. Bless
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her at thou among women, and bless the fruit of thy womb. Jesus,
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Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now at the
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hour of our death. Is entirely biblical. You know. The archangel Rafriel
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said to her, Hall full of grace. It's home, Mary, full
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of grace. The Lord is with Thee. Saint Elizabeth said, blessed art
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thou among women, and blesses the fruit of thy womb. We just add
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to that the reality of knowing that Jesus is that Mary is Jesus's mother,
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is the Mother of God by every definition, and we ask her to pray
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for us now and at the hour of our death, which is what Christians
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do. We ask each other to pray for each other, and the Saints
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are more alive in heaven than on earth. So every Christian, Catholic or
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Protestant Protestants should have no qualms and praying the hell Mary. In fact,
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praying the hell Mary used to be very much a part of Anglican tradition before
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they got all woke and modernized. So Father actually wrote about the power of
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this prayer. He says, it's important. So important is this prayer that
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Saint Thomas Aquinas preached forty continuous days in Rome on just the hell Mary?
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Is that not amazing? St? Thomas Aquinas, recognized by a Catholics and
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Protestants alike as one of the greatest saints, minds, theologians, doctrinal writers
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of all time, preached forty continuous days on just the hell Mary. Saint
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Alfonsis Laguri wrote in his book The Glories of Mary that where were he in
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Heaven, he would be most pleased return to earth just to play pray one
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hell Mary. Saint don Bosco said, all my work began with a simple
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hell Mary for our ladies help. Sat don Bosco was one of the greatest
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religious writers of all time again, recognized and honored by both Catholics and Protestants,
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Saint Louis de Montfort wrote, St. Louis de Montfort de Montfort,
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Okay, I don't pronounce French well, even though I'm half French. Okay,
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just I'm bad at it. I filled French twice in high school,
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mainly because he forced me to take it. You know, if they hadn't
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enforced me, I probably would have enjoyed it. I actually taught myself Latin
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and enjoyed it. It was fun I had. You know, I was
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never a good institutional student. Let's just put it that way. Me and
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public education were always at odds. I just wanted to be in the woods,
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Honestly, I just wanted to go fishing. But anyway, Saint Louis
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de Montfort said or wrote that when joined the word of God, the Hell
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Mary gives the preacher the strength to pier smooth and convert the most hardened of
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hearts. Thomas Kempis, another writer revered by both Catholics and Protestants, wrote
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or that Satan and Hell tremble when I repeat the Hell Mary. Why is
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that? Well, we'll get into it. Let's just put it this way,
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we only have Jesus through Mary. That was God's plan. God chose
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to come to us through Mary. When we invoke his blessed Mother, he
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comes to us again more powerfully than probably in any other way, except in
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the Eucharist. I know Protestants to owners stand that, but hang with me
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here Father actually wrote why, or he act said wins the outpouring of love
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and respect for such a simple prayer. Know that at any time, it
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is a great event when an angel appears, more so when the angel acknowledges
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respect for a human person, because an angel's dignity is greater than our own
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fallen human nature. Saint Thomas Aquinas asserted that in his salutary preaching on Mary,
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it was not fitting that an angel should show reverence to man until someone
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could be found in human nature who excelled the angels. Thus a heavenly messenger
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reverence Mary with the words Hell full of grace. Now, I'll expand on
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that. We know both Catholics and Protestants acknowledge that grace comes through Jesus.
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Before Jesus, the world was devoid of grace. Yet the Angel said to
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marry Hell full of grace. Before Jesus came into the world. The angel
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said to Mary, hell full of grace. The Lord is with thee that
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makes you know. My friend the other day said Mary's just a human.
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Actually, that one statement makes her unique among all humans from Adam and Eve
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to that point and from that point to now, because only one person was
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full of grace before Jesus came into the world, and only one person has
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been so filled with grace as the one who would carry Jesus within. Her
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father actually says, God gives his grace that we might do good and avoid
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evil. Mary full of Grace, was always sinless, free from every mortal
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and venial sin, sanctified in the womb, and preserved from the stain of
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original sin. That's Catholic teaching. It's known as the Immaculate conception. All
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it means is that the blessed Virgin Mary was preserved from the stain of original
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sin. Jesus, Jesus's mother, would be a pure vessel to bring him
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into the world. In Scott Han's book, Hail Holy Queen, he goes
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much into the Jewish history of the idea of the queenship Mary, Queen of
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Heaven, Mary, Mother of God. He says that Mary was like the
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Ark of the Covenant. Within the Covenant was the Word of God. If
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you go back and read your Old Testament, you'll see how powerful and revealed
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the Ark of the Covenant was. Well, that was a physical box that
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held the Ten Commandments and some manna from the desert and such. Moses' staff
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of was in there too. That was, and you see what power it
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had. The tribes of Israel took the Ark of the Covenant out, and
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it vanquished their enemies before them. If someone touched the Ark of the Covenant,
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they dropped dead. The Ark of the Tabot Covenant was the most holy
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object set in the temple where God resided. Why because it contained the Word
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of God. So of course God made his mother a special, pure,
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free from original sin, without flaw, only one like her ever in the
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history of mankind human being, because the Word of God Incarnate would dwell within
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her for nine months. So when you'd say to me, Mary's just a
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human being like everybody else. Know, for one thing, no other human
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being on earth was ever given that honor, the honor of having the God
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within them physically and spiritually for nine months. No other human being on earth
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ever gave birth to God, nurse God, Raise God, provided for God,
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held God in her arms as an infant. Beyond anything else, you
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would say, this is the most blessed person ever to walk the face of
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the earth, one of the most intimate knowledge of God, the one to
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whom Jesus is actually her son. But then we have the Angel who says,
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before before she becomes pregnant with Jesus through the Holy Spirit, hall full
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of grace, that means before she ever encountered Jesus Christ, she was the
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only person in the world in the entire history of mankind full of grace.
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You could spend a lifetime contemplating that one fact. And for some reason,
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not my friend that I was discussing with the other day. But many Protestants
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take some kind of evil glee in insulting the Mother of God, as if
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somehow that would please Jesus to insult his mother, insulting Catholics for our reverence
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of the blessed Virgin Mary. But the Angel said, Hail full of grace,
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the only creature, the only human being in the entire history of the
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universe to be full of grace, and the Mother of God I don't think
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when you get to heaven, if you've made fun of Catholics for I respect
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for Jesus's mother, or you've insulted his mother, he's going to be real
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happy with you. If you don't believe me, I'll tell you what,
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go and soult somebody else's mother. Just find a random man on the street
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and start calling his mother names. He's probably gonna punch in the face.
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Do you think Jesus is going to be real happy with you? You know,
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like Joe Dirt said, is that what you want to be doing when
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Jesus comes back? I love that movie. I love the Joe Dirt movie.
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That's totally secular or not, you know anything, but that's a hilarious
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movie. But anyway, that's what he always said. Is that what you
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want to be doing when Jesus comes back? You want to be insulting his
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mother or making fun of or denigrating people who have respect for the Mother of
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God. How about just doing what the angel said, Hail full of grace.
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And you could start that by praying the hell Mary, Hail Mary full
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of grace. Hale means it's a salutation, It's like hello, It's like
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it means be well, it means various things, but it's just a salutation.
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And then full of grace. That's what the Bible says. Believe it
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or not, take it or leave it. But if you have a problem
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with Catholic saying Hell, Mary, full of grace, you have a problem
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with a Bible. And if the Bible isn't the word of God, then
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you don't have a religion at all. Father actually goes on and says,
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she too is the model of all virtues, whom the Lord himself regarded highly.
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In her humility, that comes from Luke one eight. Look it up,
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grab your bible, Luke one forty eight. His grace affected not only
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her soul, but her body as well, so that from her the Son
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of God might be born in her. Unlike any other saint, Mary is
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full of grace effect if not only for her own salvation, but with such
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an overabundance that it suffices for it suffices for the salvation of mankind as well.
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Hint, she bears the title co media tricks, for she helps dispense
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all grace won by our Lord through his passion, death and resurrection. Now
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I know the Protestants are screaming. They're gonna say there's only one mediator,
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Jesus Christ. But I'm going to give you a little logic here. How
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did Jesus come into the world through Mary? The title co media tricks means
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that she cooperated in the mediation of Jesus. You take Mary out of the
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picture, you lose your salvation. Jesus chose to come through Mary. You
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may not like it, but that's what he chose, and he's God.
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Therefore she cooperates in his selvific mission for mankind, making her you know,
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she had to give her a sent she had to agree to give birth to
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God. Because Jesus comes to us through Mary. That makes her a cooperator
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or a co mediatrics. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but there is
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no other logical way to assess the role of Mary, because without Mary,
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there's no Jesus, not in human form. There is no Savior, there
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is no you know, ministry of Jesus, there's no Crucifixion and Resurrection,
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there's no Bible, there's no church. You got nothing. So you have
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to respect Mary's role as want the one who brought Jesus into the world.
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And that's what co media tricks means one who helps in Jesus's mission. The
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angel's greeting back to what he's written. The angel's greeting goes on. The
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Lord is with thee. There are the most These are the most praiseworthy words
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the Angel could have uttered, says Thomas Aquinas in a Mary and homily,
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For she is the noble abode of the most blessed Trinity, mother of our
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Lord and our mother. Mary is blessed among women. Okay, we'll get
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to get more to that later. But if we're brothers and sisters in Christ
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and Jesus' mother is Mary, that means you're mother's Mary. So remember that
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next time you un sold your mother. Mary is blessed among women, and
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most especially because of the blessed fruit of her womb Jesus. Now, some
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women are honored for their beauty and accomplishments, but Mary is honored above all
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other women and men, and for her grace. What blessings Eve took away,
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Mary restored. For while Eve's fruit was mundanely tempting the apple, Mary's
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fruit was Jesus Christ, to whom every tongue sheld confess, is Lord to
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the glory of God the Father's Philippians two eleven of her. Saint Bernard of
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Clairvaux said, it is no great thing to be humble when you are brought
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love, but to be humble when you're praised is a great and rare attainment.
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And Mary was incredibly humble for that reason. The Church recommends the faithful
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prayer of the hell Mary, with reverence, full of confidence that our heavenly
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Mother will come to our aid. She is beyond generous and delights in showing
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it. Scripture says, of our lady, I am the Mother of fair
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love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of hope in me.
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All grace, of the way and of the truth in me is all
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hope of life and virtue. Now, okay, pross to be saying that's
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not in my Bible. That's right comes from the Book of Sirac. Martin
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Luther did not agree with several books of the Bible, and he tore them
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out the Book of Wisdom, the Book of Sirac, the Book of Tobit,
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the two Books of Maccabees, etc. He also changed the words of
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Jesus. Jesus said by faith and Workshire saved He changed it by faith alone.
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When questioned, he said, the papists rail that I had no authority
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to change the word of Jesus. I say to them, I did it
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by the authority of doctor Luther. Think about that for a minute. If
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you knew a man on the face of the earth, no matter who he
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was, who decided to change the words of Jesus and the Bible to fit
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what he believed, knowing that he was saying the opposite of what Jesus believed,
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and then said his only authority was himself. Would you respect that man
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at all? Martin Luther is an antichrist because he set himself up as his
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own authority, worshiping himself and not God. He took out the Book of
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Sirac, which describes the blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Testament long before her
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birth. Anyone who loves our Lady knows that in favoring her, they in
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turn will be favored. It is no wonder that the Saints extol the humble
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Maiden's prayer and encourage us to pray it frequently, for the benefit of blessing
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on earth and eternal salvation to come. After all, what good children did
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not delight in greeting their mother with respect and love. I know this is
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a hard teaching for Protestants, but if you listen to my show yesterday about
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the nature of heaven and how saints and angels interact with mankind, you will
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begin to understand that. And if you read the Bible. Let me say
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that, read the Bible, especially all the references I give. Read it
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and think it and pray about it on your own, and you will come
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to realize that God does favor more holy people. He gives him more favor
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and blessings in heaven. The role of a Christian is to join in Jesus's
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self mission for all mankind. The highest power, the highest honor he can
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give to a saint, to one who loves him, is to give him
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the ability to help in his mission of saving all mankind. The more holy
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the saint. Just as when the Apostles were alive, just as Saint Peter's
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handkerchief taken to a sick person would heal them, They said that his shadow,
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when it fell on a person, would heal them. Same with Saint
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Paul. He could read minds, he could read hearts. I discussed all
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that yesterday power to cast out demons, and that was on earth in heaven
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after his martyrdom, totally filled with the Holy Spirit and absolutely united Jesus in
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the body of Christ as a full fully spirit and not encumbered by the physical
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Do you not think Jesus gave him more power to aid in his mission of
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saving mankind? And the only saint higher than Saint Peter's in Paul and the
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Apostles is the Mother of God, who was a saint before Jesus was ever
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born, as acknowledged by the Angel Hill full of grace, the only creature
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to ever have grace before Jesus enter the world. So to his blessed Mother,
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he gives more power than all the other saints and angels to aid him
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in his mission of saving your soul. You would pray to you, you
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would you would ask, okay, pray in Latin is pracata, and it
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means to ask. When we pray to a saint, We're not worshiping a
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saint. We're saying, please pray for me. I'm asking you to ask
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God to help me. Bible says God hears the prayers are the righteous right,
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so the saints are the most righteous people. Of all, because nothing
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impure can inner heaven. Those in heaven can pray, can ask God and
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receive answers more quickly and more powerfully than we can on earth. I know
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you may not like to hear that, but the Bible makes very clear that
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holy people receive more blessings from God and will be answered and helped more in
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their life than those who aren't. And the holiest people are in heaven,
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and the holiest one in heaven is the blessed Virgin Mary. And if you
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ask her to help you, she will help you in ways you cannot imagine.
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Yes, you can pray directly Jesus, but He's going to answer her
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prayer a lot quick for the answers yours. Remember the miracle at the wedding
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feasts in Kana, his first miracle. She simply says, they have no
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wine, he says, and actually he addressed her as woman, which is
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actually a term of respect in ancient Aramaic and the ancient world. That is
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addressing her you know her position. It's not an insult. It's like saying,
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sir, you know woman, my time is not come yet come.
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It also acknowledges her as a representative of humanity. Just as Eve was the
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first woman, she is the new woman, the first of all Christians,
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the first one to believe in Jesus, so she is the first of all
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Christians. He says, my time is not yet come. He wasn't ready
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to reveal his public ministry, but he did what she said anyway. She
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turned, He turned the water into wine. All she had to do is
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ask why did that happen? Well, it was to show us that if
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we present a need to the Mother of God, she will ask him and
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he will grant her request. He'll never refuse her so long as it's in
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accorded with his will. What's good for us, what's good for our souls.
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That is the truth as believed by all Christians from day one until almost
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fifteen hundred and all Catholics, all Orthodox, etc. Catholic and Orthodox teaching
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is a little different, but they still venerate the Saints just as Catholics do.
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Because we know the saints in heaven their prayers for us are far more
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powerful than our prayers for us here on earth. Book of Revelations says the
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saints were standing before God, offering their prayers as burning incense. If you
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have a complete Bible, one that Martin Luther didn't rip pages out of.
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You'll have the Book of Tobit where the archangel Raphael. I'm sorry, did
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I say Rafael spoke to the bust of Virgin Mary earlier? It was Gabriel.
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Okay, the three archangels, there's Rafael, Gabriel, and Michael.
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That was Gabriel. Gabriel was the messenger. Raphael in the Book of Tobit
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said I heard your prayers and I presented the God. God gave me the
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permission to come help you. That's what Martin Luther didn't like. He ripped
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that passage out of the Bible. The Bible, being inspired by the Holy
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Spirit, guaranteed against error through the chroism of the Holy Spirit that he gave
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to the writers of the Bible. Martin Luther ripped that out, and that's
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why you don't know it. And if if you can, you can.
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I mean, it's fine if you want to remain Protestant, but Protestants should
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have the same belief in respect about saints as Catholics, and without that,
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you're missing out on so many helps and blessings. You cannot imagine, because
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I don't you don't have to take my word for it. Just read the
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passages in the Bible and you that I've cited and read the early Church fathers,
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and you will understand that the prayers of the saints are far more powerful
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than your prayer here on earth because they're one with God as part of the
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body of Christ. They become part of the heart of God. They're pure,
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they're righteous, and we are still staying with our own sins. Even
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if you're a Protestant who believes that you know the grace of Jesus covers everyone.
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What was it the Presbyterian analogy they made that we were like basically a
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pilot covered in snow, and the snow was the grace of Jesus. Well,
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the saints who are with Jesus are part of Jesus as part of the
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body of Christ, and are also as white as snow because nothing impuricn inner
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heaven. And if we're just as low as dung, which is what Presbyterians
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and Methodists taught when I was a kid, you better take advantage of the
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grace is offered through the full body of Christ, because you know that is
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actually Protestant teachings that your merits gets you nowhere. Well, the saints,
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God hears the prayers of the righteous, nothing impuricn inner heaven. Their merits
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are far better than yours. So one way or another, take it from
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a Catholic ideology, which is plays far more respect to the dignity of man,
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or take it from a Protestant ideology, which would call you a pile
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of dung. That's you know, actually, if you I know, that's
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a lot of Protestants these days are going to say that, well, we
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don't believe that anymore. You know what, there's a lot of things you
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don't believe anymore, and a lot of things you're ignorant of. Start with
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the early church fathers, start with the dak and by the time you finish,
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you're gonna be You're gonna be Catholic because there's only one truth, only
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one church that has the fullness of the Church, the Truth, and only
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one church founded by Jesus that's been around for two thousand years unchanged. So
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anyway, y'all, it's pray he'll marry, He'll marry, full of grace
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the lords with the blessed right now among women and blesses, fruit of thy
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woman, Jesus Holy married Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and
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at the hour of our death. I'm en. And now let's pray to
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another saint, Saint Padre Pio, who always said pray, hope and don't
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worry. So uniting our prayers from Saint Padripille, we will pray, hope
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and not worry, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.