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Show 233: The Advantages of Confession · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A, Hey, y' all, welcome this week's show.
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Speaker 2: I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I
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ate far too much turkey and dressing and gravy by
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the you know, James Gregory said that in the South,
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gravy is considered a beverage, and so yeah, that's pretty
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much the way I look at gravy too. I mean,
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I put gravy on my turkey, I put gravy on
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my dressing, and I don't put on the vegetables with
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the cranberry sauce. But I had a ton of gravy
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and some good desserts too. Had a good time. Did
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take a week off. Don't usually do that, but you know,
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I'm working well. Really, what I had to do was
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finish the book I've been working on this year. I've
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been trying to write actually four books simultaneously this year,
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which is like impossible. I've found out it really is
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quite difficult. I've now completed three, believe it or not.
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It's really taken away from a lot of other things
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I needed to be doing, such as carving spoons and
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yard work and you know, various things I should have
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been doing, working on a truck but you know, set
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a goal and I've almost completed it. I did finish
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this this book. I'm just going through the edits and
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rewrites now, and you know, I probably won't get the
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fourth one done by the end of the year, but
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I think I can wrap it up in January, so
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it's all considering, that's not half bad, you know. I'm
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tell people. People ask me what does it take to
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become a writer? And I say, it's simple, right, I mean,
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it's really that simple. How do you become a good writer? Well,
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read good books that will train your mind, and then
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write as a practice as a skill. Writing is a craft.
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It's not some matter of genius. It's not for most
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people divine inspiration. I mean, I'm obviously not one of
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the Apostles or something. Writing is a skill, and my
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goal is always to write two pages a day every day.
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But Sunday I take Sundays off, even though that's not
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considered the kind of work one has to avoid on Sunday,
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because I write for a living, I take Sunday off
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from working.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the week, I've got
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twelve pages done. That may not sound like a huge amount,
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but think about that over the.
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Speaker 1: Course of a year.
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Speaker 2: Over the course of a year, you know you're writing
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over a thousand pages. I mean, you can do it now.
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The trick is you then have to go back through
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it and get rid of all the junk. Because when
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you set yourself, I'm going to write this much each day.
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Not everything you write is going to be a gem obviously.
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Speaker 1: So that's how you write books.
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Speaker 2: I tell people anybody can become a professional author.
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Speaker 1: I've written I think the last.
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Speaker 2: Count was sixteen books so far, and this next.
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Speaker 1: This one, I'm just finished.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing rewrites now I'll be seventeen and you know
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by April. By by Easter, i should have knocked out
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another two that I've been working on. A little here
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and a little there. You can write for a living.
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It's not that hard. It just takes a lot of discipline.
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That's the that's the writer's struggle. When you anytime you
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work for yourself, you know you have to put in
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the hours. You have to be your own worst boss.
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You have to be the most you know, demanding boss.
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No sick days, no taking vacations. You got to get
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your work done. If you don't get your work done,
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you don't get time off. If you didn't get it
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done by five o'clock, you're gonna be up to eleven
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or twelve or one in the morning.
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Speaker 1: You have to get it done.
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Speaker 2: And as a writer, it's so easy to find every
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excuse not to write. You know, I've got do the laundry,
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I've got to cook a meal, I've got to get
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some guard work done. I got to go to town
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and pay some bills, run some errands, go to the
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grocery store. Oh look at that, it's already three o'clock
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in the afternoon. You know that, that's just life. When
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you're not on a set schedule like nine to five,
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where you know you're going to be this dedicad zozo,
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you'll find a million reasons not to get the work done.
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But the bottom line is you have to get the
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work done.
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Speaker 1: I also do three to four podcasts a week.
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Speaker 2: I do YouTube videos about four a week.
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Speaker 1: You know it.
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Speaker 2: Actually it's great to be self employed. I love being
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self employed. I thank God for it every day, and
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I thank God for all of you people who buy
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my books and listen to my podcasts enable me to
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do it. But if you think it's not work, it
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actually takes a lot more. I don't know what the
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word is, work ethic, sense of duty. You know, you're
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not just clocking in and getting through the hours. You're
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not just doing you know, maybe this day I don't
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feel well, I'm doing the minimum to get by. No
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as your own boss. You're you got the whip over you,
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you know, and that's that really is what it takes.
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Speaker 1: But I go.
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Speaker 2: So that's what I did for my Thanksgiving. I finished
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a book. It's my first music instruction book, and I'm
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so excited about it. It's teaching people how to play
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the mandolin at a very advanced level, from beginner stage
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like you've never picked up the instrument before, to like
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the most advanced level. You can absolutely do it, just
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like you can absolutely write.
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Speaker 1: What do you think the secret is?
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Speaker 2: Take it in small bits and practice every day. But
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it's actually quite different than any mandelin instruction book on
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the market that I've found. I have great hopes for it.
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You know, I'm not it's going to be self published.
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I'm not going through a major publisher unless they get
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in touch and say, hey, we think it's a great book,
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we'd like to pick it up. I mean that'd be cool,
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you know, that'd be great. But this is going to
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be self published and hopefully a lot of people will
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see it because you know, I think it could be
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a huge just a game changer in the way the
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instrument's played and taught. But we'll see, you know, all
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I can do is the work.
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Speaker 1: It's up to God to make it successful and not.
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Speaker 2: So let's pick up where we left off, and we
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will start, of course with radio replies where non Christians
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and Protestants right in or called in to these two
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priests that hosts a radio show in the nineteen twenties
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through forties. It's still a classic work. I highly recommend
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the three volumes. If the same questions that were asked
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then are what Protestants asked today, and boy, have quick
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flipped through here and you've got an answer.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just really good.
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Speaker 2: And the question today says a man cannot save himself
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by his own good works, And the priest's answer, good
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works prompted by purely natural modives cannot save a man. Thus,
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Saint Paul says, if I should give all my goods
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to feed the poor and have not charity, it profiteth
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me nothing. First, Corinthians thirteen three. Yeah, good, well, yeah,
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I think it's right first, Crimson is thirteen anyway, Yet
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good works inspired by faith in Christ and love for
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Christ are necessary. By works a man is justified, and
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not by faith only James two twenty four. Indeed, the
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son of man will come in glory of his Father,
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will come in the glory of his Father, and then
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he will render to every man according to his works.
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Matthew sixteen twenty seven. Person says, what does the Catholic
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Church teach concerning the guidance given to individual Christians by
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the Holy Spirit in the work of their salvation? And
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they answer the Holy Spirit dwells not only in the Church,
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preserving her from error, but also in the soul of
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every Christian who is in the grace of Christ. In
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the individual soul, the Holy Spirit inspires love for God
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and desire of Christian virtue, and in that sense he
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is called the sanctifier of the soul. But since God
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cannot contradict himself, the Holy Spirit never inspires any individual
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in a way at variance with the teaching and discipline
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of the Church established and guaranteed by Christ. And since
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man can easily deceive himself, or still more be easily
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deceived by Satan, who can pretend to be an angel
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of light. The Church applies certain tests to see whether
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a given influence is really the Holy Spirit. Thus, Saint
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John warns us believe not every spirit, but try the spirits.
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Speaker 1: That they be of God.
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Speaker 2: First John four one, what are the tests? Firstly, negative
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is the notion I think inspired in any way? At
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is the notion I think inspired in any way at
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variance with.
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Speaker 1: The Doctor of the Catholic Church.
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Speaker 2: Since it is already certain that the Holy Spirit guides
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the Church, and that he himself cannot contradict himself, it
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is certain that any idea conflicting with the Catholic teaching
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and discipline cannot be attributed to the Holy Spirit. Second,
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and granted this negative test, there is a positive test.
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Does the supposed inspiration incline the recipient to sane conduct
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rather than to some form of religious mania? Does it
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tend to foster humility rather than pride, obedience rather than
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self will, purity, chastity, and holiness. No impulse can be
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accepted of the whole as of the Holy Spirit unless
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it can pass these tests. Another person asked, how does
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Catholicism different from Calvinism in regard to predestination.
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Speaker 1: The answer.
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Speaker 2: Calvinism taught that some men were predestined to heaven no
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matter what they might do, others were predestined to hell,
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no matter how they might serve God. But the Catholic
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Church teaches that God sincerely wills all men to be saved,
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and that none should be lost. Anyone who does his
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best with all good will, and dies sincerely repentant of
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his sins can certainly attain salvation through the merits of Christ.
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Every such man will have the necessary grace offered to him.
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I had this conversation so many times, both in Presbyterian
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in college, which isn't necessarily Calvinistic, but definitely when I
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worked as a youth minister in the Methodist Church.
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Speaker 1: I was confirmed in the Methodist Church.
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Speaker 2: I kept saying, if only one hundred thousand people that's
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what Calvin taught, are going to heaven, what the heck
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of the rest of us doing here? And they could
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not answer that question. I mean, Calvin literally said, before
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a man's born, God has chosen him, whether he's going
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to go to heaven or hell, it doesn't matter what
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he believes, what church he goes to, what he thinks,
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whether he's a murderer or a saint, and you just
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have to ask, in that case, what's the point And
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they never had an answer for it. I mean, you wonder, Okay.
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So in the past, say, since nineteen seventy, the Anglican
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Church has lost almost eighty percent of its members Anglican
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et Episcopal. Now I'm talking in America. In England, of course,
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there's this idea that if you're English, you're Anglicans, so
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there's still an affiliation even though most of their churches
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are empty. The same is somewhat true in Canada and Australia.
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But in the United States, which was once predominantly Anglican,
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Lutheran and Presbyterian, and later to some extent became more
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Methodists and Baptists of course, but originally founding here in
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a America, it was Anglican, Episcopal, Presbyterian and Lutheran. Anglican
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church affiliation is down seventy five eighty percent. There are
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now fewer Anglicans and Episcopals in the United States than
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there are in most medium sized towns in the United States.
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I mean, it's literally down to very small numbers. And
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as they go further further left with all they're lesbian
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priests and all that and trans whatever.
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Speaker 1: People don't want anything to do with that crap. And
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it is crap.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Anglican Church is absolutely false, founded on adultery,
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absolute pure nationalistic garbage. Jesus made us all one. They say,
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no where English, we're special, and you know we have
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the true Church. It was absolute bs to start. Okay,
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the Presbyterian Church, John Knox's church, going back to nineteen
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s there were millions of millions. There were Presbyterian churches
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throughout the South, especially, but the Presbyterian Church was a
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huge denomination. You think about Robert Schuller, he was Presbyterian.
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There were lots of Presbyterian churches, lots of Presbyterian colleges especially.
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It's fallen by well over seventy percent. They are now
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fewer than a million Presbyterians in the entire United States.
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Contrasts App would say, the nineteen eighties when I was
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a kid, and there were millions of Presbyterians in North
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Carolina alone, and I guess three four Presbyterian colleges. I
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think it's round to one now. Presbyterian Church is almost gone.
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The Lutheran Church, specifically Traditional Lutheran has also lost about
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sixty seventy percent of its members. Now they have the
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like the Reformed Lutherans, the more evangelical Lutherans. There's still
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a few million of them. It has shrunk by almost
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seventy percent. The Lutheran Church is dying. The founding churches
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of Protestantism are gone. I mean within the next one
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hundred years at least, but probably within the next two generations,
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we will see the end of the Anglican Episcopal Church,
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the Presbyterian Church, and the Lutheran Church in America. There
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may be some remnants that kind of hang on, like
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the Quakers and Mennonites do, but they will no longer
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be mainstream Protestants. The Methodist Church is down. I think
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at last look from nineteen seventy it was down about
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forty percent. The Methodist Church is dying. Well why not.
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If it doesn't matter if you go to church or
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even believe in God, which is what Calvin taught, why
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the world would you be Methodists? I mean, basically it's
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just a social club. There's some good, you know, honest
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Christians in the Methodist Church. I knew plenty of them,
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wonderful people, but their doctrine.
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Speaker 1: Is so flawed.
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Speaker 2: The Baptist Church is down about twenty five to thirty
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percent since nineteen seventies. It's also reducing in number, but
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right now it is the largest Protestant denomination.
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Speaker 1: Official denomination.
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Speaker 2: The Southern Baptist Church has not lost as much as
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many members as the nationwide Baptist Church, but it's dying off.
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And in one hundred years, essentially the Methodists and Baptist
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churches are going to be in the same position as
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the Presbyterian Lutheran churches.
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Speaker 1: Now very very small in number.
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Speaker 2: You're you know, Evangelical, Pentecostal Mego churches and such as that. Yeah,
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they're still pretty strong and growing, but you know, that
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doctrine is it may be a mile wide, but it's
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an inch deep. Within the next few generations, thinking educated
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people who honestly have no place at an Evangelical megachurch,
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pentecost Seven day Adventist, whatever, they have no place there.
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They're not welcome there. I know because I once was
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one trying to fit into an Evangelical Baptist church.
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Speaker 1: You're not welcome.
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Speaker 2: You actually read the Bible and think about it. We
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don't want you here. You actually study history, we don't
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want you here. I mean seriously, the Catholic Church is
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going to be the only church left standing. The Protestants
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so called Reformation will have run its course. So it's very,
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very very important to read Catholic books, to listen to
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Catholic podcasts like mine, to read Catholic books like mine,
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and so many more that are so much better than mine.
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I mean, really, I'm not just trying to toot my
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own horn here by any means. But my mission is
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to leave you with the knowledge, the information, historical context, doctrine,
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whatever you need to say to someone. Now, let me
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tell you why the Catholic Church is a true church.
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And please come to Mass with me on Sunday, you know,
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listen to the homily. I'll walk you through everything. I
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want to introduce you to my priests, welcome them into
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the Catholic Church, because in a few years, just a
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couple of generations, probably within my lifetime, the Anglican, Episcopal, Presbyterian,
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and to a large extent, Lutheran will be no more.
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And it's just a matter of another couple of decades
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before the Methodists and Baptists fall because they're false churches,
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their counterfeit churches. They are not founded by God, and
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you know, they're not guaranteed by the Holy Spirit. Their
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houses built on sand, and they will fall. So the
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final question from this for today does not the Catholic
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Church teach that grace is usually given through the sacraments,
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and they answer grace is given directly an answer to prayer.
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But many very necessary graces are normally to be obtained
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only through the sacraments instituted by Christ. Yeah, we'll leave
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it there. The next question is what is a sacrament?
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So I'll leave you hanging on that one. Tune in
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next time. You remember those great old Rocky and Bull
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Weekle cartoons. I always think of that, or like the
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old Batman show.
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Speaker 1: Tune in next time. All right, So anyway, and I.
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Speaker 2: A really huge fan of the old Rocky and Bullgle cartoons.
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Never really got into Batman, got it, admitted that was
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really cheesy. But those the old Rocky and Bull Weegle cartoons,
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like the sixties and seventies that I was watching as
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reruns in the eighties and nineties when I was a kid.
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I still love them.
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Speaker 1: That man.
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Speaker 2: They were funny. They were really really If you haven't
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seen one in a long time, you know, maybe you're
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an adult and you haven't watched a cartoon other than
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maybe the Simpsons or something, you know in the past
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twenty or thirty years. Go to YouTube, pull up an
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old Rocky and Bull weekle. Those were really funny, and
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their humor was actually pretty smart. It was actually intended
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to be to make both kids and their parents laugh.
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And it's pretty good. Actually, the fractured fairy tales and
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all that. You can't beat that stuff, all right. So
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let's turn too, father Spiago, and what are the advantages
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of confession? What is the advantage of going to confession
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or reconciliation as we call it these days, or in
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his era it was penance, all right. So confession in
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general is profitable to the individual inasmuch as he derives
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from it self knowledge, delicacy of conscience, interior peace, strength
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of character, and moral purity. By comparing all that he
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has done or left undone with the law of God's commandment,
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the penitent learns to know his own heart. His conscience
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also speaks more clearly by frequent confession. The law of
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God is more deeply impressed on the heart of man.
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When tempted to sin, the commandment he is about to
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break presents itself to his mind. The mere thought of
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confession also acts as a deterrent from sin. Some persons
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abstain from sin because they could not bear to tell
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it to a priest. Experience proves how great a relief
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confession is to the mind of one who has committed
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a grievous sin. The impulse to confess one's misdeeds is
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inherent in human nature. Confession answers to this feeling and
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the assurance of pardon afterwards. No, let's try it again.
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The assurance of pardon affords the greatest constellation. I'll just
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restate that whole sentence and get a simple water because
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my tongue is getting tied. Ah, let's give it another shot.
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The impulse to confess one's misdeeds is inherent in human nature.
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Confession answers to this feeling and the assurance of pardon afterwards.
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The greatest consolation. Confession also increases strength of character, for
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by it we learn to overcome ourselves. Moreover, the Holy
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Spirit enlightens our understanding and fortifies our will. And the
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more steadfastly the will was inclined to do what is good,
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the more strength of character we shall possess. Confession, being
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in itself an act of humility, cannot fail to make
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a man humble, and humility is the foundation of all
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moral perfection. Proud people have the greatest aversion to confession.
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It is a means of freeing ourselves from the fetters
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of the devil. For by telling the truth, when it
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would be so easy to see and the temptation to
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conceal it is often experienced, we throw off the yoke
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of the father of lies and turn to him who
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is eternal truth. And the less power the devil has
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over a man, the more easily he would draw a
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night to God. The first step and amendment of life
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is to go to confession. Before applying thyself to good deeds,
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says Saint Augustine, confess thy misdeeds. Confession is profitable to
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society at large because it is a means whereby disputes
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are settled, stolen property is restored, crimes are prevented, and
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vice eventually suppressed. Absolution is not given to the penitent
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who refuses to forgive his neighbor, or to make restitution
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of the property wrongfully attained. The reason why non Catholics
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often prefer Catholic servants are the and are willing to
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let them go to confession. As a parent, the priests
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and the confessional spares no pains to disoway those who
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come to him from carrying out any evil design that
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they may have formed, and tells him what measures they
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must take to master their passions. More is done in
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the confessional than in the pulpit. For the further, it's
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of morality, for what is said in private has more
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effect than what is said in publice. Pious of Fifth
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used to say, I give you say, give me good professors. Confessor,
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let me try it again, give me good proof.
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Speaker 1: I did again.
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Speaker 2: Give me good confessors, Give me good confessors, and I
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will reform the whole world. If the discovery were made
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that the confession was practiced by one of the pagan
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nations of antiquity, too much could not be said in
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praise of so excellent and wise an institution. But because
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of his practice in the Catholic Church and appointed by
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the Living God, it is termed foolish, tyrannical and degreas
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very true on the sin of relapse. When the arc
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of the Covenant, we are told, was carried to the
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brink of the Jordan, the water left off flowing downward
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and stood together in a heap. But no sooner had
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the arc passed over that the waters returned to their
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channel and ran on as they were wont Joshua I
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think anyway? So it is with many a Christian. When
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they have received the sacrament, they restrain their passions a little,
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but before long they again give them free rein and
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in and send even more deeply. Many, says Saint Jerome,
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begin well, but few persevere. They put their hand to
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the plow and then look back Luke nineteen sixty two.
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Speaker 1: They are to be.
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Speaker 2: Compared to the sow that was washed and returns to
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her wallowing, and the mire tewod Peter two twenty two,
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or the dog that returneth to his vomit Proverbs twenty
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six eleven. Hey who, after his conversion, relapses in immortal sin,
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is in danger of dying impenitent, because the devil acquires
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great power over him, and the influence of the Holy
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Spirit is lessened. It is impossible for those who are
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once illuminated, and were made partakers of the holy ghosts,
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and are fallen away to be renewed again to penance
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Hebrews six'. Four the backslider finds it difficult to regain
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the right. Road relapse into sin is like the relapse
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of a. Convalescent the disease from which he suffered has
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more hold on him than. Before Our lord says of
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such a, one that the unclean spirit returns to him
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and takes with him several other seven other, spirits more
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wicked than Himself luke eleven twenty. Six the devil deals
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with the backslider as a prudent warden does a prudent
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warder does with a prisoner who has once. Escaped he
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guards him more watchfully than ever. Before the backslider grieves
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the holy Spirit ephesians four. Thirty, nay he drives him
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away and violates the temple Of god One corinthian three.
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Seventeen thus the sin of relapse renders a man unworthy
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of assistance of divine.
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Speaker 1: Grace he does not deserve to be cured who opens
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his wounds.
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Speaker 2: AFRESH a prince will not readily remit a man to
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his favor who despite all protestations of, fidelity has proven
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himself a trader. Traitor the sin of relapse is severely
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punished By. God Our lord said to the man whom
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he had, healed, sin no, more or lest something worse
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happened to Thee john five point. Fourteen and if anyone
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should relapse intom mortal, sin let him forthwith repent and
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go to. Confession for the longer penance is, delayed the more,
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difficult the more uncertain the conversion will. Be the backslider
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ought to act As Saint peter did when he had Denied.
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Christ he went out and wept. Bitterly matthew twenty six seventy.
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Five if fire breaks out in a, house it can
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be extinguished at, once if help is at. Hand if
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the backslider does penance, immediately his sin may be. Pardoned name,
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more his fall may even obtained for him a greater
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measure of. Grace in the case of some, saints their
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fall produced in them a greater accession accession of, fervor
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and the depth of their control obtained for them a
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higher degree of. Grace but the longer penances, postponed the
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worse it will. Fail for the Sinner it is the
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opinion of the fathers that as Almighty god has a
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point beforehand the number of talents to be confided to every.
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Individual so he has fixed a number of sins which
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shall be forgiven. Each when this number is, complete there
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is no more pardon to be. Found Saint augustine says
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that the long suffering Of god bears with the center
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up to a certain. Point after that he cannot obtain.
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Forgiveness in his first, illness the Infidel voltaire, repented but
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he presently fell into greater wickedness than, before and his
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end was a dreadful. One, yes, yes if you go to,
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college you will Read, voltaire and you will Read oh
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so many of the so Called enlightenment Or enlightenment influence.
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Writers and how often do they tell you that most
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of umnted in suicide or in. Insanity you don't really
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learn that in. College you're learning to take them.
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Speaker 1: Heroically they were.
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Speaker 2: Not if through fraility we fall into venial, sin we
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must not be disquieted on that, account but humble ourselves Before.
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God to be vexed and out of temper with one
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self shows. Pride we cannot tolerate the side of our own.
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Imperfections it is of no use to be, angry because
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we are, men not, angels and that way we only
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perpetuate our. Faults, if As Saint francis sou, says we
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are angry with ourselves for being angry with, another we
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feed our anger instead of stifling. It no one is,
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able throughout his whole life to avoid all, sins except
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by special privilege From.
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Speaker 1: God it's The church.
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Speaker 2: Holds in regard to the Blessed, Virgin god permits us
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to fall into venial sin to keep us. Humble he
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does like the mother who lets her child run alone
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in a soft meadow where a fall will do him no,
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harm but on a rough road she carries him in her.
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Arms So god upholds us in great dangers by his almighty,
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hand but in s like matters he leaves us more to.
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Ourselves hence we must act like. Children when they, fall
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they c little and get up. Again so we must
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at once bewail our, fault acknowledge our, misery renew our
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trust In, god and go on as. Before thus our
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sins may be made of profit to. Us they ought
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to humble, us not to discourage. Us according To Saint
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francis to. Sell it is impossible to keep the linen
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we wear perfectly, clean but we can have it washed
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which is been. Soiled it is equally impossible to keep
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our soul free from all, stains yet it is in
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our power to cleanse. It when we show a fallen into,
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sin the just man falls seven, times but he shall
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rise again seven Times proverbs twenty six. Sixteen since we
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cannot possibly continue in a state of grace until death
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without the special assistance of The Holy, spirit let us
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fervently Implore god the grace of final. Perseverance in addition
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to sanctifying, grace the just man needs actual grace in
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order to persevere. Injustice as the most healthy eye cannot
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see without the light of the, sun so the best
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of men cannot live or aright without the operation of.
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Grace the justified are not able to persevere injustice without
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the special help Of god comes with The council Of
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trent sixtweeny. Two without the assistants of, grace we should
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quickly relapse into our former sins and into yet worse,
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ones just as the creation would fall back into nothing
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if not preserved in existence By. God the gift Of
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final perseverance is the greatest gift we can receive From,
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god for all other graces are valueless without. It he
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that shall persevere into the, end and he only shall
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be Saved matthew twenty four. Thirteen it is uselessly the
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foundation of the house if the structure is not to be.
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Finished The, christians Says Saint augustine will not be questioned
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about the, commencement but the end of his. Life Saint
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paul made a bad, beginning but a good. End judas began,
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well but ended in betraying Our lord to his own.
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Damnation the gift of final perseverance will not be denied
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to him who humbly implores. It by good, works we
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may also make sure our calling of our calling an, Election.
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Speaker 1: Saint Peter.
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Speaker 2: One unremitting prayer and heartfelt devotion to The mother Of
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god are Besides it's excellent means to enable us to persevere.
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Injustice the more good work we have, done the less
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the need we fear a. Damnation, hence the Prophet joseph
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at The king Of, israel, said thou didst, deserve indeed
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the wrath Of. God but the good works are found
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in the Second what.
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Speaker 1: Book is That i'm not.
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Speaker 2: Sure maybe, kings remember they had a different abbreviation for
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this is second par so is that?
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Speaker 1: PATRIARCHS i don't. Know i'm not sure why Were.
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Speaker 2: David And Saint peter treated By god with such favor
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and indulgence after their fall because of the good works
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they had previously. Performed unremitting prayer is also an excellent
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means of persevering. Injustice as birds continually move their wings
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in the air to keep from falling to the, ground
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so we should sort Of god on the opinions of,
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prayer lest we fall into mortal. Sin Our lord enjoins
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us always to. Pray luke twe you know eighteen one
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there is nothing more to persevere us throughout our life
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and the graces Of god than in the grace Of,
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god then unceasing. Prayer hot water does not get cold
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if it be placed close to the. Fire neither does
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the warmth of divine charity die in our heart if
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we keep it close To god by frequent ejaculatory. Prayers
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and since all grace has come to us through the
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hands of The mother Of, god we cannot doubt that
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the gift of final, perseverance the greatest of all graces
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will only be obtained through her intercession on our. Behalf
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if thou dost Enjoy mary's favors As Saint, bernard thou
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art sure of. Salvation all, right, y'all we will wrap
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it up. There next, week we'll going into a very interesting.
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Topic it's sort of somewhat related to the sacrament of penance.
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Speaker 1: Or confession or. Reconciliation it's.
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Speaker 2: Indulgences this is one you really need to know about
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Because protestants have ridiculous ideas about what indulgences are and
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what they mean and all. That so you need this
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is something you're going to need to. Know so until,
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then same bat, time same. Channel talk to you next.
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Time