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Show 236: Holy Orders · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. I hope you
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had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Well we're in
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the New Year, I mean the New Year's Eve, New
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Year's Day, the holiday. I certainly well, okay, I took
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a little time off. You may have known. We didn't
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have a show there for a few days, and I
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took a little time off just to be sick. Yes,
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I caught a bad colt like the day before Christmas
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and realizing that no one was going to be listening
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to podcasts during the holidays. You know, people are busy
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doing things with family and then friends and spouses and such.
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On New Year's Eve, I thought, you know what, I'm
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just going to take a few days off and just
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be sick. And I did just that. Had some good
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soup and time under a blanket and a lot of
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napping and coughing and all that fun stuff. But back
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on on the road recovery now, if not one hundred percent,
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I'm getting a little better each day, and probably about
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ninety percent. And it's a little congested. I sound a
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little shorter breath through a little horse, that's the deal.
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But you know, I'm not fevered anymore. I'm doing pretty good.
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I'm getting a little catching up on the work that
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I missed out on, and trying to get a little
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yard work done that I fell behind on, and everything
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just a little week's day. The weather is crazy here
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in North Carolina, much warmer and sunnier than it usually
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is this time of year, so it's a good opportunity
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to get a little bit of yard work done. Unfortunately,
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it's ruined my plans of going to the coast for oysters.
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I have a rule when it comes to oysters. Unless
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I am actually unless my feet can actually touch salt
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water or mud, I do not eat oysters when it's
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over seventy degrees. I tried one time. I got very,
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very very sick horse food and poison i've ever had.
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I love oysters. I love raw oysters. I love fresh
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raw oysters. I love roast oysters. I love fried oysters.
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I just love oysters. And every winter I look forward
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to going down and getting a few bushels of oysters,
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but not until it gets cold again. Looks like next
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week is going to be back in the twenties, so
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maybe I can do that. But anyway, let's pick up
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where we left off, we'll start with radio replies. The
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questioner asks the priests, why does not the Catholic Church
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baptize by immersion? And well, it was a lot more
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common when I was a kid. You go to a
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country Baptist church and they'd actually have this like small
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pool and they would dip you in it. Before then
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they would take people into the river or the pond
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and dip people in it. That was immersion. You don't
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really have immersion baptism and many denominations anymore, but at
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this point, I guess it was a little more common.
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The priest ansor such a method of baptism, though valid,
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is not necessary. From the very beginning, baptism was administered
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both by immersion and by infusion or pouring water upon
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the forehead. Person says, by relinquishing immersion, you lose the
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significance of the original rite, and the priest's answer. Immersion
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was never thought necessary in the Christian Church. After Saint
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Peter's first sermon, three thousand people were baptized, and it
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is most unlikely that it could have been by immersion.
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Above all, in the light of recent research into the
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water supply available to Jerusalem at that time. D k
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or Teaching of the twelve written about year ninety says, thus,
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baptized if you have not fresh water, baptized with other water.
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If you cannot do it in cold, use warm. If
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you have neither, pour out on the head water three
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times in the name of the Father and the Son
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and the Holy Spirit. Either form is valid. If immersion
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were necessary, what would you do with the ridden bed
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ridden invalids in the dying? Nor is significance lost by
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pouring the true significances that grace washes the soul as
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water washes the body. The true sign of washing is
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retained by any true ablutions. Washing does not always imply
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taking the plunge bath. Burial with Christ is signified by
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washing away the death of sin and the resurrection of
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the new life of grace. In any case, Christ left
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the practical application of such matters to his church, saying,
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whatsoever you shall bind on earth, should be bound also
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in heaven Matthew eighteen eighteen. And he promised to be
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with his church, persevering, preserving her from any misuse of
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his power. The person says, the d dot K proves nothing,
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and they answered, it is evidence that the instruction circulated
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amongst Christians while Saint John the Apostle was still living.
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And see this is a big point. The vast majority
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of Protestants are absolutely ignorant of all early church writing.
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They say the Bible alone, the Bible's all I need,
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all right. Well, for the first four hundred years or so,
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Christians had no Bible. I mean, I've explain this many
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many times. It was in the mid three hundreds when
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the Council of Nicea decided what books were going to
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be in the Bible. It was almost four hundred a d.
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Before Saint Jerome had it translated it all into a
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common language. Before that it had been in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic,
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and Latin, and he put it all into Latin so
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everybody could read it. It was basically the same time
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it was, well, just a little after that, I think
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the entire Bible was also translated fully into Greek. So
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Christians had no Bible. A church would have a letter
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that maybe Saint Paul had written them. If you were
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in Ephesus, you had the letter to the Ephesians, right.
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If you were in another town, you would not have
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that letter. You didn't have the acts, you didn't have
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Revelations you didn't have. You might have one copy of
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one of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luther, John, you may
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have James, right, the Letter of Saint James. You may
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have Peter, but you'd only have one or two of those.
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And as far as the Old Testament, there was a
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great deal of debate over which books should be in
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there or not, and it was finally decided in the
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mid eight hundreds. Really more like the late eight hundreds.
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I'm three hundreds, I'm sorry, like three eighty was when
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Saint Jerome was translating, So mid three hundreds. So for
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almost four hundred years Christians had no Bible. What they
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had was the teachings of the Apostles. Christ's teachings through
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the Apostles given to their successors. Some of the first
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Christian writings we have, if not the very first, are
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from Pope Saint Clement, the third Pope, who was ordained
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by Saint Peter. In this is like eighty a d.
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Maybe I'm gonna say, you just say somewhere between seventy
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and one hundred. We'll go with that. I'll give it
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a broad range. And he says one, he's the pope everybody,
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every Christian in the world submits to his authority. Stay
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away from heredics. I mean, this is what we believe
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as Christians. And he mentions the Catholic Church specifically by name.
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So see for that reason, Protestants have to deny early
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Christian writing because they have this myth that the Catholic
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Church only developed after over four hundred and something and
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really only during the you know, early part of the
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Christian Roman Empire. It's totally faults where there are thousands
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and thousands of pages of written written by the first popes,
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deacons and theologians and people, you know like Clement of Alexandria,
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who spent his time debating the Gnostics. The entire Gnostic
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heresy unfolded before there was even a Bible. This is
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very important to understand. The first official document that Christians
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had they just as pre said, it was written around
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ninety eight D. It's actually probably dated a little closer
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to seventy. Either way, as he said, Saint John was
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still alive. He was the last of the Apostles, the
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only one not martyred. He lived a very long life.
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There are actually letters between him and Gosh. I think
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is a polycarp Er origin. He was polycarp In. There
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are actually letters written between him and Saint John and
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the blessed Virgin Mary who lived with Saint John at Patmos,
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and these are recorded. These are in our Christian libraries
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that have been passed down carefully for two thousand years.
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But the d do K means the Teachings of the Twelve.
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It was the first manual of we're Christians. This is
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what we believe. Remember this is like three hundred years
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before there's a Bible Christians. This was distributed, hand copied
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and distributed to churches throughout the ancient world. And it
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said we go to church on some we baptize in
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this way, and these are the rules for baptized. These
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are the rules for being confirmed. This is our essential
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proto creed. This is what we believe. These are the prayers.
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We say we believe in the real body and blood
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of Christ and the Eucharist, and this is who can
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receive the eucharists and how it's to be done. It
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was the first Catechism, so it's written while at least
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one of the apostles was still alive, probably more than
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one when it was composed. But we know, and it
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really got copied and distributed. It's the first Christian document,
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but Protestants deny its authenticity because to do so destroys Protestantism.
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It shows that the first Church, the first Christians, were
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fully and purely Catholic. It gives lie to all Protestant doctrine,
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and so in order to get around that, they just
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deny its existence. They have tried to claim throughout the
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centuries all that was a forgery, it was written thousands
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of years later or hundreds of years later. No, there's
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actually evidence the original documents. This has been dated carbon dating.
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I mean, the d do K is the really real,
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legit first written document of Christianity that has been preserved.
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I'm not saying well, because that has been preserved outside
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of the Bible, I should say, because of course the
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Gospels were written down the letters of Saint Paul to
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the various churches. But remember the Bible wasn't compiled until
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almost four hundred a d. So the first Christian document
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that was in wide circulation among Christians, the first one
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to actually explain this is what Christians believe, and this
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is how we worship, and this is the day we
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go to church and all that date to the time
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of the apostles and the very first popes, and it
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was authorized and distributed to the churches. And that's what
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Christians had for nearly three hundred years before the Bible
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was ever printed hand written. It would be another thousand
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years before there was a printing press. It would be
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another fifteen hundred years before most people were literate and
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could read the Bible. But the d do k in
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its current form, I mean, its modern form, written and
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printed in a nice little book, is only about thirty
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pages or so. This was going to be you know,
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this was hand written on a long sheet and distributed
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and the priests would read it to the congregation, the
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priests it would use it to educate the deacons, they
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would use it. And yeah, I mean it is literally
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the foundational document of Christianity as far as being widely accepted,
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widely distributed, and predating the Bible by almost three hundred years.
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You know, like I said, you may have had one
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of the Gospels if you were lucky, and you've been
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even luckier if somebody in your church could actually read
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it and was literate. You know, that was a big
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issue in the ancient world. That was a big issue.
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Well into the eighteen hundreds. Most people were not literate.
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So you know, Protestants say, Catholic Church hates the Bible,
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Catholic Church won't let you read the Bible. Well, first
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of all, the Catholic Church compiled the Bible hand copied
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it one at a time by devoted monks for centuries,
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distributed it. Taught people to read, so they could read
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the Bible and become priests and preach their congregation and
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read the Word of God to them. The Gutenberg invented
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the printing press. He was a Catholic. There is no
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Bible without the Catholic Church. The Bible was essentially the
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family document of the Catholic Church. Protestants have no claim
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to the Bible, especially after Luther and Knox and Calvin
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and all them stripped out the books of the Bible
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they didn't like and changed the words of Jesus to
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fit their false doctrine. A Protestant Bible is a fake Bible.
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Catholics have the real Bible, and the are the and
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the Catholic Church is the only authority on earth given
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by God to interpret the Bible. But it's very important
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to understand, before the Bible, there was the d do K,
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and the only way Protestants can refute the d do
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K is to deny its existence. It's very important, very
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very very important to have a copy of the d
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do K and to share it with all your Catholic friends,
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make sure they're familiar with it, and whenever confronted by
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a Protestant, to say, hey, this book right here, this
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was the first published document. There you got the first
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published document that was the word I was looking for
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by Christians, not just a letter, an actual book that
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was distributed among churches. This is what the real church believes,
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because the apostles themselves authorized dictated put it out there.
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The same authors of the Bible wrote this three hundred
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years before we had a Bible. Very important. Anyway, the
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person says, the d do K proves nothing, and that's
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going to be your Protestant response. They're going to deny
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it's even real. You can prove to them very easily
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that it is real. They answer, the evidence of instruction
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circulated amongst Christians. Way, Saint it is evidence that the
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instructions circulated among Christians. Why Saint John the Apostle is
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still living, and that's true. The guy goes on and says,
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Scripture nowhere says and infants were baptized, and they answer
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it nowhere says they were not, and implicitly demands that
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they should be. And the person says, do we not
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only read of adult baptism in the New Testament? And
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they say, no, we read of some adult baptisms, but
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they were not administered precisely because the subjects were adults,
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but because they happen to be converted as adults. Acts
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fifteen commit rates the reception of two complete households into
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the church by Saint Paul, and we are not told
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that adults only in those household were received. Christ told
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the apostles to teach and baptize all nations, and the
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term all nations certainly includes men, women, and children. Again,
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Saint Paul tells us that baptism is the circumcision of Christians,
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and we know that circumcision was administered to children Colossians
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second Colauss two two. I guess the Colautionans two two
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is what they say, or is the new law to
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be less perfect than the old, containing no purifying right
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for infants? Your ideas are opposed to the whole tenor
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of Christianity. Christ is the second atom. If the children
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of Adam are born subject to original sin and its penalties,
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so they can be born again of Christ into the
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life of grace. Or is Adam to be able to
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ruin all? Yet Christ be unable to save any except adults.
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What is of the flesh is flesh, and what is
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of the spirited spirit? Children by virtue of their natural
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birth of the flesh. And our Lord insists, then unless
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one be born again, he cannot near the Kingdom of God.
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Do not be misled by the English translation unless a
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man be born again. The original Greek does not use
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that word in its text. It says unless anyone be
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born again, and a child is someone. Yes, they are
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obviously speaking to a Baptist. Baptists are pretty much the
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only denomination that insists that only adults can be baptized.
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Baptists are always amazed when they make that statement. They
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make it very boldly, and you know, they say, the
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Bible says only adults can be baptized, And I say
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where they say that, Well, they can't answer that. I say,
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where does it say that infants can't be baptized or
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children can't be baptized. Well, they can't say that, but
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it's their doctrine, it's what they believe to their core.
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And then and they say, all Protestants know this. And
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they said, well, wait a minute. The Lutherans baptized infants,
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the Presbyterians baptized infants, the Anglicans and Episcopals baptized infants,
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the Methodist baptized infants. Actually, your Baptist church is the
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only church that doesn't baptize infants and children. On what
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basis is that? Well, you know, our teachers wrote this
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one hundred years ago. I said, well, great, my teachers
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wrote this about seventy a d in the D dot K.
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And if you don't like that, let's go to Pope
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Saint Clement, and let's go to Origin and Polycarp and
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Clement of Alexandria. And you know, and they can't. They
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can I accept it because the Baptist teaching is not
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only that one only an adult can be baptized, but
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that the all early Christians were essentially Baptists, and that
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Catholicism is some Roman perversion of true Christianity. When you
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show them the original documents the truth, the historical evidence.
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They just deny it. You can say to them, you know,
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show me one church built before you know, a thousand,
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a d. Five hundred years before the restpormation. Show me
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one church built before five hundred AD. Show me one
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church built in the first two three hundred years of
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Christianity that wasn't a Catholic church. Show me one that
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was a Baptist church. Show me one where they didn't
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receive the Eucharus. Show me one where they didn't baptize infants.
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Show me one that doesn't have iconography on the wall,
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you know, paintings and statues of saints and angels. They
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can't because their entire doctrine. It's not doctrine, it's in doctrination.
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It's a mythology. It's accepting a falsehood that you know,
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you can't blame people in the seventeen hundreds and eighteen
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hundreds who were illiterate and uneducated and didn't have access
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to libraries and museums and the entire information of every
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you know, the entire history of everything on the internet.
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You know, a charismatic preacher could go in and start
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yelling and screaming and thumping his Bible and people would
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believe him. They had no idea what he was telling
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him was untrue. Usually, he didn't have any idea what
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he was saying was untrue. He was just parroting what
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he had been taught. But now there is really no excuse.
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There is honestly no justification for a single Baptist church
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to exist, nor Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Anglican. We can disprove
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the lies, the foundational lies of Protestantism, in the click
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of a button. In the click of a button, I
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can pull up Martin Luther bragging about changing the words
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of the Bible to fit his false doctrine. I can
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pull up Martin Luther claiming accusing Christ of adultery, I mean,
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really shocking statements. I can pull up Martin Luther saying
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that if he would refuse to baptize even Abraham because
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he was a Jew, he would tire a stone around
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his neck and throw them in the river. I can
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show them the evil that their denomination was founded on.
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So what do they do. They get angry and they deny.
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You know, Martin Luther ever said that eventually they just
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stopped talking to you. I can show you know historical
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evidence that disproves everything that Protestantism teaches and believes. It's
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in opposition to the Catholic Church, and the only way
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they can get around it is to remain wilfully ignorant
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and absolutely close their minds to the truth. Now, what
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does the Bible say about that talks about the hardness
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of hearts? They wouldn't believe because their hearts were hardened.
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I'm telling you there is no longer in this day
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and time any justification for Protestantism whatsoever. It was a
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lie to start with, and it's a what do they say,
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their lies and their damn lives. It's a damn lie. Anyway.
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Let's get on to our sacrament of the day, and
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it's holy orders from Father Sparago's exhaustive Catechism of the
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Catholic Church. At the time of his essential and our
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Lord lifted up his hands, let me get simplar. Here, here,
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here we go. At the time of his ascension, our
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Lord lifted up his hands, blessed his apostles, and sent
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them forth into the world to preach the Gospel and
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dispense the sacraments. Luke twenty four fifty. The bishop does
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much the same when he ordains priests. The imposition of
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hands signifies that something is given, since gifts are distributed
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by the hand. The administration of holy orders, or at
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the administration, the bishop lays his hands on the candidate
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and for ordination calls down upon them the Holy Ghost,
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anoints their hands and presents the sacred vessels to them.
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They thereby receive an addition to a plenitude of grace.
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The sacradotal that means priestly power more especially or holy
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power holy or priestcy in Latin as sacradose, So sacradotal
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means the office of the priest to essentially more especial,
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the power to offer the holy sacrifice and to forgive sins.
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Holy orders are administered during the celebration of the Mass.
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The candidates for organization first prostrate themselves upon their faces
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before the altar. Then the bishop lays hands upon the
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head of each one. The priests present, doing the same
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the next raised them in the sacredotal vestimates clothes. The
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priest wears his uniform, if you want to put it
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that way. The viny saintly spiratus is sung and anoints
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the hands of each one in turn with the sacred
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Chrism in the form of a cross. It's the blessed oil.
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He then gives the chalice and patent into their hands,
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thereby conferring on them the power to offer the holy sacrifice,
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after which he addresses them with the words of Our Lord,
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receive you. The Holy Ghost who sends you shall forgive.
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They are forgiven. Finally, the newly ordained are required to
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promise respect and obedience to the bishop. The ceremony of
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anointing of hands and presentations sacred vessels is only accessory.
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It was not in use until the ninth century and
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now has no place in the Greek ritual. Not only
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supernatural powers, but graces are imparted in Sacrament of Orders.
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By this sacred ordinance, the Holy Ghost is given. The
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Sacrament of Holy Orders was administered in the time of
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the Apostles. We read that the Apostles consecrated Paul and
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Barnabas with their prayer and imposition of hands Acts thirteen
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to three. Of course, Martin Luther denied the priesthood, and
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that's the foundation of all Protestantism, denying the priesthood and
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the sacraments. Even though it's right there in the Bible
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that's supposed to be the sole authority for a Protestant.
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Saint Augustine speaks of orders as a sacrament when he
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inveyes against the Donatists, who asserted that while baptism confers
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what can never be lost, the right of administering baptism
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may be lost both he declares or sacraments, and can
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only be received once a sacrament of orders was unquestionably
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instituted by our Lord at the Last Supper. The office
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of the priesthood, to which man is raised by holy orders,
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is one of great dignity, but likely one of no
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slight difficulty, and of vast responsibility. The priesthood is the
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highest dignity upon earth. It surpasses that of kings and emperors,
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and even the angels themselves, For as Saint John christosim remarks,
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the power of kings is only over the bodies of men,
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where that of the priest is over their souls. On
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the priests or conferred powers not accorded to angels. For
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to what angel was it ever given to convert bread
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into the body of the Lord by his word? And
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not all the angels together could grant pardon for a
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single sin. By his office, a priest is only concern
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with heavenly things. He stands between God and man. He
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lays our petition before the Most High and conveys divine
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graces on us. He is a mediator between God and man.
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The Angel of the Lord of hosts this Malachi two seven,
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the messenger of God to make known his will to men.
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He is God's representative, his ambassador, his This is a
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hard one to say. Plenty potentiary, plenty potentieri. Hmm, okay,
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So I'm gonna break this down. Plenty meaning full plentitude,
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you know, plenary, potentate meaning official. So he's the official
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that exercises his full authority. There we go. Therefore, whatsoever
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honor we show the priest we pay to God himself,
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does not our Lord say to himself, He that heareth
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you heareth me, and he that despises you despitheses me
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Luke ten sixteen. In fact, Saint Peter Damien says, God
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actually follows the priest, for what he declares on earth
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is ratified in heaven, and at his word. The second
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person of the Holy Trinity becomes flesh beneath his hands,
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as at the incarnation. Hence we do well to a
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priest to address the priest as your reverence. Saint Francis
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of ASSISI used to say that if he met an
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angel and a priest at the same time, he should
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salute the priest first. The sacradento office is one of
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great difficulty. The obligations resting upon the priests are neither
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few nor light. He has to recite the brevy I
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know want I have trouble with breviary. I think the
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way it's pronounced b r v a r y daily,
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which cannot be done under an hour and a quarter
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he is. In other words, it takes longer than an
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hour and fifteen minutes to say those prayers. He has
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pledged to life long celibacy. He has to visit the
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sick at any hour of the day or night when
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he may be called upon. He has to take the
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last sacraments to the dying, however contagious the disease from
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which they are suffering. He often has to sit for
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long hours in the confessional to fasclate on account of
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late masses. He is bound to renounce all worldly amusements,
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to be liberal towards the poor, and much more besides,
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priests so ought to be the salt of the earth
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Matthew five thirteen. Nor must it be overlooked that elles
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priests are, in the present day frequently the objects of
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suspicion and persecution, and their apostolic labors are ill rewarded.
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The votaries of the world are inclined to treat their
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priests like a dog, and like the dog of the
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fable who bit the hand that was stretched out and
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save him from drowning. Priestly office is besides one of
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immense responsibility. If the wolf comes and rends the sheep,
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the shepherds taking a task, so it is with the priests.
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They have to render account that the souls committed to
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their charge Hebrews thirteen seventeen. The duties of those who
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have to give an account for souls, says Saint Bernard,
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are heavy and onerous. On the day of his ordination,
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Saint John Christosum said, I now need your prayers one
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thousandfold more or less than the day of judgment. I
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should be cast into the exterior darkness. Since the sacradotal
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office is in itself an office of such great dignity,
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we owe profound respect to the priest on account of
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his office, even if his life should not correspond to it.
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Nothing can take away the dignity attaching to the priest
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the office, not even an ungodly life. Therefore, we ought
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always to entertain great reverence for it, even pagan monarchs
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who have been known to manifest deep veneration for priests
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of the True God. When Alexander the Great was about
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to make a triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the High Priest
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went out to meet him with all the priests arrayed
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infessoral garments, in order to ask a favor of him.
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Alexander dismounted from his horse and instantly granted all that
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he asked. When the general of the army expressed surprise,
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Alexander replied, it is not the High Priest to whom
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I pay homage, but to the True God, whose servant
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he is. Attila the Hun, the Terrible King of the Huns,
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when advancing upon Rome to plunder the city, allowed himself
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to be prevailed upon by Popelio the Great to desist
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from his purpose. Yet Almighty God permits his priests to
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be encompassed with infirmity in order that they may have
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more compassion on them that are ignorant and that error
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Hebrews five two. Saint Francis Is sal said a priest,
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I will close my eyes to their faults and only
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see them as God's representatives. How blameworthy are those who
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publish far and wide the misdeeds of a priest are?
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We asked Saint Augustine to think slightly of Christ and
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the apostles, because there was a jewas among them, who
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will show me any body of men upon earth who
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are without faults. Since the office of the priesthood is
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one of much labor and grave responsibility, no man ought
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to take holy orders who is not called to the
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sacradotal state. Let no man become a priest who feels
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no attraction for the sacred ministry, who has no longing
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to save souls, who leads in a regular life, or
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who only thinks of the priesthood as a means of
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gaining a living easily and enjoying a comfortable competence. Parents
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are greatly to blame who force their sons to take
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orders without a vocation. For those who enter the priesthood
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without a true vocation are unhappy and discontented all their lives.
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They neglect their duties your calling and gives scandal, and finally,
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too often lose their souls. For this reason, many eminent
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saints positively refuse to receive Holy orders or to be
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raised to the episcopate. Saint Francis of Assisi remained a
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deacon to the end of his days. Saint Cyprian concealed
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himself when he was to be appointed Bishop of Carthage.
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Saint John Christosom and Saint Baso acted similar in a
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similar manner. They only accept it when they recognized it
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to be the will of God that they should do so.
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Almighty God calls the priesthood whom he will witness Our
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Lord's words to the apostles. You have not chosen me,
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but I have chosen you John fifteen sixteen. The sacrament
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of Holy Orders only confers the perpetual power, not the
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right to exercise the function of a priest. The newly
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ordained cannot therefore make you so in any place of
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their sacradoal powers until they have received a ecclesial authority authorization.
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The qualification for the sacred ministry consists in the transmission
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of powers appertaining to the sacradoal office those of a teacher,
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a priest, and a pastor. In the Old Testament, the
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priestly powers were hereditary in Aaron's family Exodus twenty eight.
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In the New Testament, they are handed down by spiritual
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dissent by means of holy orders. Besides these powers, the
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priest receives an ordination abundant grace is regarding his state,
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belonging to a status. Should have said. Outwardly he may
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appear the same, but inwardly he has a changed man.
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An indelible character is imprinted upon his soul. By that ordinance,
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the powers he can receive. He has received. The powers
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he has received. I gotta gett a sip of water.
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Here I am in a tongue tied awfully. It happens
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when my mouth gets struck. Outwardly he may appear the same,
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but inwardly he is a changed man. An indelible character
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is imprinted upon his soul by that ordinance. The powers
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he has received can never be lost in whatever sense
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he may fall. He who has once been a priest
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cannot again become a layman. That's according to the Council
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of Trent. A priest who has apostasized. There we go apostatized. Yeah,
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if he's an apostate and has been reconciled to the church,
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is not reordained. All the sacradotal acts of a priest
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who has seceded from the church are valid. Only he
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cannot forgive sins, except in the case of dying, when
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no other priests can be had. Priests of the schismatic
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Greek churches, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Russians and
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all that are not ordained again if they return in
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allegiance to the Catholic Church. But Protestant clergy most certainly are.
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This is I've told you before. A priest, a vicar,
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friend of a family member, was outraged because as an
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Anglican vicar, I think they call himselves priests. They may.
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He was not allowed to receive communion in a Catholic church,
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but he thought more than that he should be able
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to give communion, he should be able to give the Euchrous.
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And the priests had to quietly but forcibly explain to
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him you you were not Catholic, You are not Catholic,
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you are not ordained in the Catholic Church. You cannot
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give the euchroust. Here you have no power or right
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to turn the body in blood, the bread and wine
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into the body and blood of Christ. You cannot forgive sins,
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You can have none the powers of the priesthood. Your
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church is not in communion with the one Holy Catholic,
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True Church, one Holy Catholic Apostolic. And I'll add the
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word true church. And not only that, you can't receive
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the euchrosts because you're not Catholic. I mean, someone had
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a very good analogy one time. They said they took
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a friend with him to Mass and at the last
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minute remembered that, you know, Protestants can't receive the Eucharist
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in the Catholic Church. And they quickly went to the
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missile and they went to that place that explained it.
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And Handah said, here read this real quick. When you
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go up, you know, go up for a blessing, you know,
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cross arms self, the piece of breast bless you, but
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you can't receive the Euchrist. And they expected their friend
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to be like, really kind of offended when they walked
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out of Mass. Instead, the young lady was so impressed.
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She said, I understand now that in the Catholic viewpoint.
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I don't think she was fully convinced yet. But in
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the Catholic viewpoint, the sacrament of the Eucharist is just
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like the sacrament of a marriage. Just like when you're married,
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you can't sleep with people you're not married to, you know,
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a marriage is exclusive between two people brought into union
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in a Catholic Church by a priest. Only Catholics can
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receive the Eucharist. Because you haven't been confirmed into the
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Catholic Church, you're not part of this body. And it
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really impressed the young lady, I think led to her
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conversion eventually. So this is something we really shouldn't be
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ashamed of at all. We should say, look, you know,
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if you want to receive the body in blood of Christ,
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please do so. Become Catholic and join us. You can
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be confirmed, you can receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
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You can receive exclusive promises through the Catholic Church that
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Jesus gave only to the Catholic Church and to no
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one else. No other church can claim it, no other
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church is valid, no other church has the power of
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the sacraments. So anyway, Protestant clergy must be ordained. They
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have to go through just like starting over, Ecclesiastical jurisdiction
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is given to the priests bias bishops. The bishops receive
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it from the Pope. The secular authorities have no power
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to grant ecclesiastical jurisdiction, for it is not theirs to give.
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Even in the time of the Apostles, the deacons were
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not nominated by the people. The Apostles ordained those who
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had been chosen and appointed, and appointed them to their
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works Acts sixty three and six. Saint Timothy was consecrated
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to the episcopate by the imposition of hands of the
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priesthood one Timothy one fourteen. Consequently, the apostles called themselves
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ministers of Christ one Corinthians. For one. Anyone who would
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attempt to exercise sacredat functions without the authorization of the bishop, would,
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as our Lord says, be a thief and a robber,
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because he entereth not by the door into the sheephold
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sheep fold, but climathin the other way John ten. So,
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in other words, all Protestant ministers are false. Not a
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single one was called to their ministry. They called themselves,
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their ego called them, maybe Satan called them. I don't know.
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Not a single one has authority given by Jesus. Not
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a single one can give the sacraments. There is not
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a single reverend Bob out There or Joel, or which
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other ones should we name. There is not a single
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one that has any authority to call himself a minister
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of God, nor is his church valid, nor is tea
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cheems to be listened to. He should be rejected as
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a herestic and an apostate until he rejoins the church.
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That's not my words, the words of Jesus, who said,
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if a man would not listen to the church, let
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him be unto you as a heathen. All right. A
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priest must have faculties for hearing confession from the bishop
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of the diocese where it happens to be. This is
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separate from the pastoral office. A catechist or teacher who
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imparts religious instructions should also have the episcopal authorization. Anyone
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who is so daring as to exercise any priestly function
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without having been admitted to Holy orders or without episcopal authorization,
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would in Catholic countries be punished by the secular government.
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At any rate, terrible chastisements would fall upon him By
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God King Osiahs presumed, in spite of the warning of
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the priests to burn incense at the altar of incense.
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He was immediately struck with leprosy and was a lep
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into the day of his death. In the time of Moses,
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Korey with the two hundred and fifty of the leading
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men of the synagogue rebelled against Moses and presumed to
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offer incense of the tabernacle. They were destroyed by fire
39:06
of the Lord, and the earth swallowed up their ring
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leaders and their entire families as well. Actually, no one
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can be admitted into the priests the orders who has
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not obtained the age of twenty four years old. According
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to Council of Trent, the Holy See has the right
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of dispensing candidates for the priesthood if they are within
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twenty months of the required age. In other words, in
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an emergency, they may ordain somebody younger if they're within
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twenty months of the required age. Besides the required age,
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those who are to be raised the priesthood must possess
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the following qualifications. They must have the knowledge suited to
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and necessary for the due discharge of their functions. They
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must be conspicuous for piety and chastity, they must have
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been born in wedlock. I think I think after Vanakan
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two they did moderate on that. Now I'm not sure
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you're going to have to ask your priests or deacon
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about that. I think they basically said, you can't really
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blame or hold the child at fault for the sins
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of their parents. But I don't know for sure. I
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don't know for sure. I have never been called to
40:13
the priesthood, and I don't know all the details of
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what it takes to become a priest. I don't want
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to be a priest. I've never wanted to be a priest.
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I never want to be a priest. People say, oh,
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you're forty eight years old, you're single, you should be
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a priest, and I say, I would be a horrible priest.
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God doesn't want me to be a priest. If God
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wanted me to be a priest, he would have led
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me become a priest. Hopefully he'll give me a wife
40:35
at some point. I'd love to be a father and
40:36
a husband, but if not, I have to accept it
40:39
as it is. But I know for one thing for sure,
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I am not called to the priesthood or to be
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a monk. I'm not called a religious life in any way,
40:47
shape or form. It goes against my entire constitution, my nature.
40:54
I am not one to accept obedience easily. Yeah, that's
40:59
a fall, But I accept to be to the church.
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As a layperson, I could not do what they do.
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I was a youth minister for a time. I know
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what it takes to be a minister and a Protestant church.
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It's ten times harder, if a thousand times harder in
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a Catholic church. Not going to happen. I'm just not
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suited to it. I'm suited to many things in life,
41:20
wandering the woods, being a herbalist, writing. I'm a little
41:25
too quick with my hot, with my temper, and quick
41:28
my fists to ever be a priest. That's the God's
41:30
honest truth. I'm a outdoorsman. I'm the rugged set. I'm not,
41:41
you know, as refined as one might wish their priests
41:48
to be. Besides, I just have no calling. There's nothing
41:52
in my heart or mind that says you ought to
41:55
do this. Now, write books, do a podcast, Yeah, that's
42:00
I calling. I talk well, I write well. I don't
42:06
take orders well in any way, shape or form right,
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So where was it must be men who have married
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twice or disqualified with the priesthood, and this would be
42:20
lawful Catholic marriages. This to be widowers, yeah, or well
42:25
maybe in all bit more lucky widowers, all those those
42:28
have been married once man n er certain conditions be received.
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All men cannot be priests reference Sophesians four eleven to
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one Corinthians twelve twenty nine. Yet we frequently find all
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the faithful spoken of as priests in like one Peter
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two nine. Inasmuch as they ought to accomplish to the
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glory of God good works, which are a certain measure
42:50
of spiritual oblation. They are priests in as much as
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they immolate themselves in the service of God as spiritual victims.
42:57
In the same sense they're faithful. The faithful and general
43:00
are spoken of as kings because they ought to rule
43:02
over their fleshly Luss. Six other orders of ministry precede
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the priesthood and four less comprising a four lesser and
43:11
two greater. By these several and diverse orders, as by
43:20
certain steps, advance is made into the priesthood, again represent
43:23
the Council of Trent. This is to emphasize the dignity
43:26
of the priesthood. For the same reason, a fixed period
43:29
of time must intervene between the reception of the different
43:31
degrees of the higher orders. The first preparation for orders
43:35
is the reception of the tonsure, by which a man
43:38
is taken into the ranks of the clergy and becomes
43:40
a cleric no longer layman. In giving the tonsure, a
43:44
bishop cuts off some of the hair from the top
43:46
of the candidate's head. After this, the four minor orders
43:51
are given, which in part to him who receives them
43:54
the right to minister to the priest by virtue of
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his office. The first of the three greater orders the
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subdiaconate orders. This was formally reckoned among the minor orders,
44:05
but it is classed by the Council of Trendum on
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the major orders. It confers the right to arrange everything
44:10
in the sanctuary and to serve the priests of the altar,
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and pledges the recipient to celibacy and to the recitation
44:17
of the Breviary. The bishop may in power an ordinary
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priests to administer the tonsure and the four minor orders,
44:25
but not so the greater Tonchuer. It's such an interesting
44:29
word the game that goes back to Latin. You may
44:31
have heard a barbershop called a ton soil parlor that
44:35
actually means cutting of hair, A neat old word. I
44:38
just kind of like it. There are three degrees of
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the sacrament of orders, the consecration of deacon's, priests and bishops.
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These three constitute but one sacrament. The second of the
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greater orders is the d'aconate, which was instituted by the
44:52
apostles for the relief of the poor. It confers the
44:55
power to preach, to baptize, and dispense Holy communion. The
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three most celebrated Eacans mentioned in the annals of the
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Church are Saint Stephen, who is stunned by the Jews,
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Saint Lawrence, who was broiled on the gridiron in Rome,
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and Saint Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order,
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who bore in his body the sacred stigmata, the wounds
45:13
of Christ. In other words, he had nail holes through
45:16
his hands and feet, and he didn't put them there,
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and usually the wound in the side as well, and
45:22
sometimes on the forehead from the thorns, not always. They
45:25
don't always present at the same time, but Padre Pia
45:29
and several saints that have had the stigmata, there is
45:32
one degree higher. Let's see okay. One year after the
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acceptance of the diaconate, follows ordination proper the priesthood, whereby
45:41
the power is given to offer the holy sacrifice of Mass.
45:44
And I forgives sense there is one degree higher than
45:46
the priesthood, and that is of the episcopate. By this
45:51
power is conferred by this is by this power is
45:57
conferred to conferred to ordain priests, to administer confirmation and
46:03
to rule the Church of God. For the consecration of
46:06
a bishop, three bishops must take part. These three ordinations
46:10
form but one sacrament. The consecration of deacons appertains virtually
46:14
to the sacrament of Holy Orders, because it confers an
46:17
inferior part of the sacradotal powers and is administered with
46:20
the imposition of hands. In prayer, Saint Paul mentions deacons
46:24
with their bishops and priests. The Fathers speak of them
46:27
with the utmost reverence as the ministers of God, and
46:29
the Council of Trent reckons them of ecclesiastical hierarchy. The
46:33
consecration of priests appertains to the sacrament of orders because
46:37
it is because by it the greater part of sacredotal
46:41
powers are conferred. The consecration of bishops is the completion
46:45
sacrament of orders. By it, the plenitude of the sacredotal
46:49
powers is communicated. The principal distinction between a bishop and
46:52
a priest is that the former can ordain priests and
46:54
the latter cannot. When at the Council of Alexandria and
46:57
three nineteen, the Aryans accused Saint the Nasus, who was
47:01
bishop of that town, of having treated a priest name
47:05
Issacris I guess with undue severity. The Synoid dismissed the
47:09
charge on the ground said Issacris was not a priest,
47:11
since he had not been ordained by a priest. Well,
47:14
since he had been ordained by a priest but not
47:16
a bishop. It is the duty of the faithful to
47:19
pray God to send them good priests. Our Lord, says Praye,
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the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers
47:26
into his harvest Matthew nine thirty eight. Remember that a
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priest is a salvation or perdition of his flock. In
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the Old Testament we read that when other scourgeons were
47:35
of no avail to turn the people hard to sind
47:38
from the evil ways God sent upon them, the heaviest
47:41
scourge of all wicked and corrupt priests. Let us therefore
47:45
make it our continual prayer that we may have good priests.
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The Inbi days are appointed for this purpose. A wonderful
47:52
old tradition. We need to bring back celebrating the Inbi days.
47:55
I don't have time to get into that right now.
47:57
Look that up. They're like fasting in holy days that
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we have throughout the year. That are pretty much we
48:08
can observe them if we wish or not, according to
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the Church. Now, but it's a wonderful practice. We need
48:12
to bring it back. Definitely. Special prayers should be offered
48:16
to the holy ghosts. For unless the priest is enlightened
48:18
by the Holy Spirit, we may apply to him the
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words if the blindly the blind both will fall into
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the pit. Matthew fifteen fourteen. All right, y'all, now will
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wrap up this one. We have one sacrament left. Next
48:35
week we'll get into matrimony, and that's the one. Even
48:40
the Bible it was named the hardest, and it's allowing
48:46
divorce is essentially what fostered Protestantism. Martin Luther said he
48:52
didn't like a divorce. He'd rather people just committed ultry
48:55
and take mistresses. King Henry founded the Anglican Church because
49:00
of the Pope would and gran him a divorce. Divorce
49:02
is the cornerstone and founding principle of Protestantism, which is
49:06
when I say Protestantism. Individual Protestants may be good, wonderful,
49:09
well meaning, very faithful people, their Protestantism and its denominations
49:17
are founded upon evil, the evil of breaking the sacrament
49:22
of marriage and denying the priesthood, etc. Anyway, y'all have
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a great week, and I'll talk to you next time.