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The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. We are going
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to continue today with the discussing the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But as
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usual, we'll start with a couple of questions and answers two or three,
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maybe four, I don't know, from Radio Replies volume one, and in
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this one, in this particular section, the priests are being questioned by an
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Anglican and it's particularly interesting because one of the priests, let me think,
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what were their names, follows Rumbo and Carti. Remember this was written in
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the forties. I mean, it's a pretty old book. There were pioneers
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of radio. It's really pretty cool. I mean some of the first international
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radio and television shows were Catholic. I mean, hopefully we're all familiar with
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Venerable Fulton Sheen, Archbishop Sheen, who should be a saint and God willing
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will be soon. He had I think the highest rated religious program on television.
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Now, not all, not all Catholic programming was good. I cannot
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remember the name of it. He was a Canadian priest who had a huge
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radio show about the same time as these two priests, Rumbling and Carti,
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who was a diehard national socialist. He was an anti Semite. He was
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a pure Nazi, and he was an ally of President Wilson and FDR.
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So don't forget that there have been you know, Jesus chose twelve disciples and
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one of them was Judas. There will always be some bad ones and any
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priest who aligns himself with liberal Democrats especially, but liberal Republicans too, And
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we can think of certainly Father Flager, the I believe he's been defrocked.
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He's a pure communist. I mean, he's race baiting, hate field,
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radical leftist who has long been I think he's in Chicago one of their most
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popular priests in the area. Well that should tell you. Remember what Fulton
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Sheen said, Look for the church that the world hates. Well, if
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liberal crime filled Chicago loves a priest, probably not a good priest. Yeah,
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probably not a good priest. And let's just put it this way.
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Cardinal Dolan's pretty popular in New York. I like Cardinal Dolan, but I
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got some serious issues with Cardinal Dolan. He's definitely pleasing the people of New
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York. So anyway, let's get into this. The Church of England repudiates
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the term Protestant and as far as I am aware, has never used it.
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The priest's answer, I myself was brought up an Anglican and in the
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firm belief that I was a Protestant. An Anglican paper, The English Churchman
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is subtitled a Protestant Family Journal. The King of England is an Anglican,
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and in his coronation oath he uses the words I solemnly and sincerely profess that
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I am a faithful Protestant. So, as usual, Anglicans don't know a
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lot about their church. Neither do the Lutherans. Neither do. A lot
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of Protestants unfortunately, need to do a lot of Catholics. And that's you
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know, that's at least part of what I'm trying to correct here. As
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a convert, it often amazes me that a lot of cradle Catholics know all
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the traditions and holidays and you know, all kinds of stuff like that,
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but aren't really solid on their beliefs, and as such fall prey to Protestants.
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You know, says you must be born again, and they'll be like,
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well, okay, if Jesus said it, I must be That means
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I have to become Baptist or something no Jesus actually said, must be born
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again through water in the blood. That's baptism and the Eucharist. You won't
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find the Eucharist outside of the Catholic Church. And these days most i must
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say many, perhaps not most, but many Protestants say that you don't even
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have to be baptized, it's just symbolic. So anyway, person goes on.
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We Anglicans strongly claim to be a part of the Catholic Church. They
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answer. Some Anglicans do, some do not. In any case, if
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a stray child wandered into some home and declared itself it was a member of
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that family, it would not avail much if the whole family declared that it
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was no relative at all. And despite the claims of a few Anglicans,
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not only Catholics, but practically everyone knows that the Church of England is not
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a part of the Catholic Church, and that it is as Protestant as the
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Plymouth Brethren. Catch an Anglican office guard, whoever he may be, and
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his own church never enters his head when asked to direct someone to the Catholic
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Church. So what do you mean by that? Like if you met an
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Anglican on the street and you say, where's the Catholic Church, He'd point
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you to the Catholic Church and not the Anglican Church, because he knows there's
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a difference. The Oath taken by the King of England is as Uncatholic a
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formula as could well be conceived, and it definitely declares Anglican is to be
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a Protestant sect, cut off from the distinct from the Catholic Church. A
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person says, we look upon the King not as head of the Anglican Church,
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but as representative of the British Empire, while they answer, if you
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have any respect for the law of England, you must regard the King as
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the head of the Anglican Church. The law says that he is, and
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to deny it is disloyal. As an Anglican, I always accepted the King
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as head of the Anglican Church. As a Catholic, I still look upon
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him as the head of that church. Every loyal subject must do so.
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In the Book of Common Prayer, prior to the articles, you will read
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the Profession of the King, which states, being supreme governor of the Church,
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which is committed to our care by law. The very bishops of the
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Anglican Church are subject to him and thinks spiritual as well as things temporal.
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A man is loyal if he respects the laws of his country. We Catholics
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admit the King is the head of the Church of England, and we are
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loyal in doing so. But whether the Anglican Church is the true Church of
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Christ is another question. To that we deny, and no law asks us
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to admit it, nor could any valid law demand such an admission. A
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person says, but your church is the Roman Catholic Church. They say,
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it is the Catholic Church, a church which has its headquarters in Rome,
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subject to the Bishop of Rome, being the test or true Catholicity. Anglicans,
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or at least some of them, would like to pretend that we have
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the Roman form of Catholicity and that they have the English form, but that
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is a mere pretense. The Catholic Church is international. The Church of England
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is national, its authority being vested not in any successor of the Apostles,
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but a successor of King Henry the eighth. What is the difference between the
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Church of England and the Catholic Church? And they answer that you could fill
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a book with that, okay, but they answer the differences our legion.
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Firstly, there is a difference between a church established by Henry the eighth King
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of England and that established so carefully by Christ. Secondly, the Anglican Church
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is still subject to Parliament. It is national in character, it is chaotic
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in doctrine and discipline, has no valid orders, rejects the Mass and the
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obligation of confession. But why continue? All is summed up to the fundamental
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difference that the Catholic Church is the true church, whilst the Church of England
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is a man made substitute church. And you know, Dick's episode will continue
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to actually discuss the differences between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. There
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are many Anglicans who, for some reason believe that they are Catholic. I
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happen well, a relative of mine is good friends with an Anglican vicar who
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is offended because he cannot receive the eucharists in a Catholic church, nor can
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he give the Euchrist in a Catholic church. And she was kind of upset
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about it on his behalf, and I said, well, he's not Catholic.
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I mean it's the thing, he's not Catholic, he's Anglican. If
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he was to renounce Anglicanism and accept the authority of the Pope, he could
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even become a priest in the Catholic Church. But until unless he does so,
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he's no more a Catholic than a seven day adventistis you have to be
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confirmed in the Catholic Church to receive the Eucharist. It's like, well,
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someone gave a very good example one time. They said, when we look
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at the sacraments, we never think that, well, as a Christian,
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we wouldn't think that spouse swapping or open marriages would be okay, right.
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The sacrament that bonds a man and a woman together in marriage is a valid
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sacrament. And after that point, you know, they can only sleep with
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each other. Someone can't enter their union because they're not part of that bond.
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They're not part of that sacrament. Just the same thing with confirmation of
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the Catholic Church. You have to be Catholic to receive the Eucharist, and
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in order to do so, you have to believe it's a true body and
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blood of Christ, which also most Anglicans deny, and you have to be
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in communion with the Church, meaning you've been a confession and you have no
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mortal sin on your conscience, and that also means you accept all the teachings
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of the Catholic Church. You can't even be a Catholic and deny the authority
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of the pope and still be communion with the Church and receive the Eucharist.
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Now there are you know, set of vacantness and various Yeah, traditional Catholics,
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as we say that, deny that the prope Francis is the true pope,
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and that's an issue that's going to get worked out eventually. That will
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get worked out eventually. There are Greek Orthodox and such that have actually really
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similar issues that's going to get worked out eventually. But the other Protestant sects
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or the I should say the Protestant sex, I mean the Orthodox and you
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know SAIDs and such are not Protestant. The Protestants deny the full authority or
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even existence of a pope. It's one thing to say, well, I
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don't think Pope Francis was elected properly, or I don't think whatever, or
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you know, whatever pope I think he has he you shouldn't have been pope
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at the same time as you know, Pope Benedict, there are all kinds
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of issues that need to be resolved there that really have not been sufficiently resolved.
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That's entirely different than saying I don't believe in a pope, I don't
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believe in the authority of the Catholic Church. If you don't believe in the
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authority of the Catholic Church, there's no priest to turn bread and wine into
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the body and blood of Christ. You cannot disbelieve the teachings of the Catholic
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Church on the Eucharist and still think you can receive the Eucharist. Jesus said,
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if you eat his body and drink his blood unworthily, you become guilty
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of his blood. I mean, you become essentially a murderer. You commit
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a mortal sin. If you don't believe that the Eucharist is the true presence
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of Christ, or that the priest who in act it has the authority given
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to him by God under the authority of the pope and the bishops, it's
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a packaged deal. Can't you can't just say, you know, you can't
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cherry pick. It's not a buffet, it's a it's a unity is what
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it is. So let's go ahead and get into the exhaustive explanation of the
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catechism Father Sparago's book. So today we're continuing to discuss the Holy Spirit.
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Today we would discuss the Holy Ghost is guide of the Church. The Holy
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Ghost maintains and guides the Catholic Church. As the soul is to the body,
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the Holy Ghost is to the Catholic Church. And like the soul,
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his action is invisible. He is like the architect of the church. He
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is the architect of the church. His action produced the incarnation. That's the
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reference to Luke one thirty five. He exercised his powers for the humanity of
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Christ Luke four eighteen, Acts ten thirty eight. He perfects the church founded
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by the Redeemer Ephesians two twenty through twenty two. Spirit secures the Catholic Church
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from destruction that's Matthew sixteen eighteen, and preserves it from error John fourteen sixteen.
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You know, these are qualities that are unique to the Catholic Church.
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Only the Catholic Church is guided by the Holy Spirit, guaranteed by the Holy
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Spirit not to teach error. Very important and understand this point Number two the
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Holy Ghost supports the rulers of the Church and the duties of their office.
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That's Acts twenty twenty eight, and especially the Vicar of Christ the Pope.
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The Holy Ghost gives to them, what gives to them what they shall say.
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He speaks through them, as on Pentecost he spoke through the apostles.
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It's Matthew ten nineteen Matthew ten twenty in the words of Saint Basil. As
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the pen writes what the writer wishes. So the preacher of the Gospel speaks
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nothing of his own, but what the Holy Spirit gives him. Three.
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The Holy Ghost rises up in time of danger for the church able champions of
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her call, for example, Saint Anthonausius AD. Three seventy three, in
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the time of the Arians, the Holy Pope Gregory the seventh AD ten a
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five, when the Church was in general disorder, Saint Dominic AD. Twelve
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twenty one, and in the time of the albergentisis the Albergensian heresy, Saint
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Catherine of Siena in thirteen eighty and at the time of the Great Papal Schism,
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say Ignatius of Loyola fifteen fifty six, and at the time of Luther.
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The Holy Ghost is the cause that there are so many saints in the
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church in all ages. Almost every year new saints are canadised in Rome.
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Under the next topic is apparitions of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost has
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appeared on the form of a dove, of fire and of tongues to signify
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the office in the church. To signify his office in the church. The
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Holy Ghost, says Saint Gregory the Great, appeared in the form of a
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dove and a fire because his work is done gently and zealously, and whoever
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is wanting in gentleness and zeal is not under his influence. He appeared in
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the form of tongues because he gives to man the gift of speech, by
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which he may inflame others to the love of God. The Holy Ghost appeared
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in the form of fire because he consumes the dross of our sins, and
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drives the darkness of ignorance out of our souls, melts the icy coldness of
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our hearts, and inflames us with the love of God and of our neighbor.
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And because he hardens and strengthens the heart of man, whom he has
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made from the clay of the earth. Our God is a consuming fire.
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It's Hebrews twelve twenty nine. Tomorrow will actually breach a new topic, and
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it's the ninth article of the Creed. It discusses the Catholic Church and its
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institution. So very appropriate that would follow on the heels of the Holy Spirit,
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because the Holy Spirit came down upon the apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary,
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something that you know, most Protestants tend to overlook at Pentecost, and
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filled them with the spirit. For some reason, Protestants think it's an insult
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to God to say that Mary was special is special living in heaven, because
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God is the God of the living and not the dead. And yet she's
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one of the very few people that the Holy Spirit came to in flames of
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tongues tongues of flame on Pentecost. So you know, yet another reason that
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we venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary. And we'll talk about that much more as
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well at a later date, but i'll go ahead and wrap it up here.
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It's sort of a short one for a day, but that's okay.
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Been a little under the weather, getting back into the swing of things,
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and we'll start with a shortened for the week, so y'all have a going
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and i'll talk to you tomorrow.