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Show 227: Announcing my New Book and Receiving the Eucharist · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. Start off with
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I have an announcement. Yes, the book I have been
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working on for the past several months is now complete.
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It is the next installment I suppose you would say,
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of my Daily Gospel Reflections. You know, I write a
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reflection essentially, it's like a devotional on the Mass readings
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for every day of the year. I've been doing this
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for several years now. Try to get them out three
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to six months ahead of time so you can have
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a copy in your hands when it's time. And mostly
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I focus on the Gospel, but oftentimes I will use
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the first Reading or the Psalm, or you know, whatever
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moves me to write on that day. Oftentimes it's on
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theological doctrinal topics. Sometimes it's church history or apologetics. Occasionally
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I show how church teaching disproves Protestant teaching or is
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in opposition to politics and you know, certain political ideologies
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such as that. But for the most part, it is
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what I call a daily Catholic devotional reflections on the
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daily Mass readings. And this one is available for sale
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right now. It's a Daily Catholic devotional reflections on the
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Daily Mass readings. January through June twenty twenty six by
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Judson Carroll. That's j U D S O n C A.
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Speaker 2: R R O L L.
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Speaker 1: You can get paperback or as a Kendley book however
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you like it that way. If you want a PDF
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directly from me, you can absolutely order one from me.
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Just email me at Judson at Judson Carroll dot com.
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It's it's a lot of work to do these, I
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have to tell you. I mean it is up being
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an over three hundred and thirty some page book for
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every six months, in addition to my other work, you know,
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writing on herbal medicine and doing the various things teaching
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and the various things I do. It takes a lot
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of work, and I mean it. It's really a labor
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of love. I don't make much off of them. If
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if you would please share this so I can buy
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a copy if you'd like to have a copy. If
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you can't afford a copy, I understand that if you
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go to my substack newsletter, the note the U RS sorry,
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the U R L is in the show notes.
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Speaker 2: It's free.
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Speaker 1: I send out for free the Daily Gospel Reflection every morning.
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Absolutely understand if you can't afford to buy a book,
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but I would hope that you will buy a book
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if you can. You know, this is how I put
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food on the table, and gas in my truck and
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everything else I need to do. Please share it with friends, family,
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and loved ones, and remember that Christmas, Thanksgiving, Christmas for
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both coming up. A copy of this would make a
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very good gift, so please consider buying it. A paperback
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is nineteen ninety nine and an ebook is nine to ninety nine.
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Make a good gift for anybody in your family. It's
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especially good for someone who needs their face strengthened, someone
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who needs to be able to offend the Catholic Church,
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or maybe somebody who may be considering conversion. I'd love
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you for you get them a copy of this book.
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And again, you know, if you can't afford it, I understand.
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If you say to me, you know somebody in my
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life that is considering conversion or leaving the church, could
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you send them a free copy of the PDF. I'll
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do it. It's no problem. Judson at Judsoncarrol dot com.
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You know I give away a lot of books here
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in lent I give away a lot of stuff, actually,
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but I do have to make a living, so please
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bear that in mind. And if you know, if you
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if you could also please recommend the podcast to people,
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share it with people, the Uncensored Catholic Podcast. If we
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could grow the listenership here, it would make things a
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lot easier on me. And of course, if you ever
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want to do a paid subscription to the subject newsletter,
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that's fine as well.
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Speaker 2: I do it.
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Speaker 1: I give an optional paid subscription if you just want
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to support my work. But anyway, the book's out now,
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please say a prayer for me it's successful. I'd love
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for millions of people to read these gospel reflections, convert
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to Catholicism, remain Catholic, have their faith strength, and be
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able to tell politicians why they're wrong to support abortion.
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I mean, you know, it's the Uncensored Catholic.
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Speaker 2: I get in.
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Speaker 1: I take on the hard topics. It's perfectly clean. There's
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no profanity or anything in it, just like there's not
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in this show, you know, but uncensored meaning I don't
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bite my tongue, I don't hold back. I'll criticize, you know,
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priests and bishops and such if they're in the wrong.
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I criticize politicians and I try to give you very
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solid Orthodox Catholic teaching, so please buy my book if
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you would like.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: Picking up where we left off, the questioner asks the
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priests and the classic work radio replies, according to Catholic doctrine,
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the sacrament of baptism destroys original sin. Would you say
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that Mary did not need baptism? And they say Mary
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did not need baptism in so far that that sacrament
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was instituted for the destruction of original sin. She received
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that sacrament in order to participate in its other effects,
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and chiefly in order to receive the Christian character which
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that sacrament presses upon the soul. And the person says,
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if Mary was sinless, she could not have needed redemption.
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Yet is not Christ the redeemer of very child of Adam?
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And this is one of those things Protestants to throw
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at you every now and then, that Mary couldn't have
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been sinless, because if so, that would negate the entire
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need for Jesus. And it's so ridiculous what the priests
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say here, in so far as the sin of Adam
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involved the sin of the whole of human race in condemnation,
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Mary needed redeeming. But there are two ways of redeeming.
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God could allow one to be born in sin and
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then purify the soul by subsequent application of merits of Christ.
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Or he could, by an anticipation of the merits of Christ,
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exempt a soul from any actual contraction of original sin.
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He thus exempted Mary from any actual inheritance of the sin,
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and she owes her exemption to the anticipated merits of Christ.
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In other words, she was redeemed by Christ by prevention
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rather than by subsequent purification. The person asks is there
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any evidence in scripture that Mary was indeed never actually
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subject to original sin? And they say yes. Genesis three fifteen,
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God said to Satan, I will put in between enmities
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between thee and the woman. Thou shalt lie in wait
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for her. Heal the radical in between enmity between Satan
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and that of the Eve. Let me try that one
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more time, the radical enmity between Satan and that second Eve.
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The Mother of Christ forbids her of having been under
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the dominion of Satan, as she would have had been
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if she had ever contracted original sin. In actual fact.
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In Luke one twenty eight we read how the angels
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sent by God to salute Mary with the words hell
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full of grace. Grace excludes sin, and had there been
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any sin at all in Mary, she could not have
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been declared to have been filled with grace. The Protestant
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version translates the phrase as thou hast been highly favored,
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but the Greek certainly implies completely filled with holiness. However,
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complaints that our doctrine exempts Mary from the contracting of
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original sin are becoming more and more rare in a
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world which is tending to deny sin altogether, and which
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wishes to exempt everybody from it. Person says Saint Paul
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says that one died for all, and therefore all were dead,
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and they answered. Such texts must be interpreted in the
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light of other passages where God reveals that Mary was
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never under the dominion of Satan. Mary is, including these
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words of Saint Paul, jured judicially in so far as
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she was born of Adam. But she was not allowed
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to be born in sin, but to be afterwards redeemed.
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She was redeemed by prevention. Saint John knew the Mother.
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The person says, Saint John knew the Mother of Christ
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better than the others. Yet he does not mention her
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Immaculate conception, and they say Revelations twelve, he shows clearly
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his knowledge of the deadly opposition between Mary and Satan
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his gospel. He wrote, to supplement the synoptic accounts, and
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sufficient detail had been given concerning Mary herself by Saint
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Luke a mention, omission, omission, that's right, one more time,
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to omit im having trouble pronounce it that to omit
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a fact in a given book is not proof that
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the writer did not know of it, and above all
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it does not fall with the scope of his work
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and the person. We'll give one more question, says did
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the early church know anything of this doctrine? And they answered.
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Saint Augustine the fourth century wrote, when it is a
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matter of sin, we must accept that the Holy Virgin,
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concerning whom I have no question raised, owing to the
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honor due to our Lord, I will have no question raise,
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owing to the honor due to the Lord. Saint Ephraim,
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also in the fourth century, taught very clearly the immaculate
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conception of Mary, likening her to Eve before the Fall.
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The Oriental churches celebrated the feast of the Emaculate Conception
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as early as the seventh century. When Pope Pious the
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Ninth defined the Catholic doctrine in eighteen fifty four, he
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gave not a new truth to be ad to Christian teaching,
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but merely to find that this doctrine was part of
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Christian teaching from the very beginning, and that it is
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to be believed by all as part of Christian revelation.
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All right, Oh, there'll be several more questions next week
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on the emmatical conception and Marian doctrine, so we'll hold
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off on that, and we will finish up follow Spiragos
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chapter on the Eucharist. And today we are going to
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discuss behavior after receiving holy communion. After receiving holy communion,
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we should make our thanksgiving and proper our profer pro
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f f e er profer our petitions to Almighty God,
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praying for the Pope, for the authorities secular an ecclesiastical,
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for our relatives, friends and benefactors.
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Speaker 2: And for the holy souls in purgatory.
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Speaker 1: Our thanksgiving ought to last at least a quarter of
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an hour. Priests recite the Benedictine after Mass. To leave
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the church after communion without thanksgiving would be a very
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rude act. How ill mannered. Would he be thought, who,
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when invited to the table of one so far above
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him in rank, did not so much as thank his
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host to do so as to be like judas who
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have receiving communion immediately went out. Saint Philip Neary once
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sent two accolytes with burning tapers to accompany a person
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whom he observed thus hurrying from church. We ought to
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present our petitions to God after communion. Of course, that's ideal.
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I mean, you may have an emergency and have to leave.
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You may have somebody who left waiting the car. You
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may have a sick relative you got to get to.
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You may have to go to work immediately after Mass.
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You know, Church understands that. But in ideally we should
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try to stay and pray and meditate for a good
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fifteen minutes after Mass. We ought to also present our
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petitions to God after communion. Queen Esther pleaded with King
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Azurius on behalf of the Jewish people after the banquet,
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for she knew that this was the most favorable moment
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to make her request, and it was granted her. That's
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the Book of Esther, chapter seven. There is no better
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time for us to hold converse with God than when
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He is present with us as our guest. Our prayers
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have far more weight with God African Union than at
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any other time, because they are sanctified by the presence
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of our Lord. We have not Him always with us.
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That's a mark I guess fourteen seven. But anyway, how
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much those lose, exclaimed Saint Alfonsis who neglect to implore
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graces after receiving holy communion. No food should be taken
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until at least a quarter of an hour after receiving communion,
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when the species of bread are consumed. It is not
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well to indulge in worldly amusements on the day of communion,
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for by doing so we lose the graces we have received.
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We shall do better if we go to a church
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and thus return the visit our Lord is graciually, graciously
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vouchsafed to pay us and his.
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Speaker 2: Sip of water. My tongue is getting tied off now.
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Speaker 1: Spiritual commune consists in awakening within the heart a lively
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desire to receive communion. To make a spiritual communion is
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a matter of no difficulty. It is enough to recollect
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one's self for a few minutes, to place oneself in
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spirit before the tabernac on, say Lord Jesus, come, I
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beseech THEE into my heart. We ought to make a
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spiritual communion during Mass, more particularly at the communion of
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the priests, and also when we pay a visit to
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the blessed sacrament. We may even communicate spiritually every hour
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of the day. The oftener the better, for there is
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no need to fast beforehand, nor to obtain permission from
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our Confessor. Spiritual communion is the means of enriching the
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soul with many and precious graces. Actual communion is compared
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to a gold is compared to a golden spiritual commune
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to a silver vessel. Our Lord, when on earth, did
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not heal those only to whom he was sent in person,
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but those also who were absent and who ardently desired
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his presence. Remember how he acted in regard to the
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centurion servant. He does the same now as he did then.
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The Council Trent says, those who eat and desire that
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heavenly bred are by a lively faith, which worketh by
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charity made sensible. The fruit and usefulness thereof spiritual communion
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is the best preparation for a sacramental communion. Our Lord
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did not come to earth until his advent was ardently desired.
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In like manner, he is reluctant to visit the soul
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that does not earnestly long to receive him. So that
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actually wraps up our chapter on the Eucharist, and we'll
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get into the sacram pennance next week. But it's interesting.
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I think these days we mainly think of the act
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of spiritual communion, the prayer for spiritual communion as what
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we do when we can't go to Mass and receive
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the Eucharist. But other Spiago says we should pray it
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in the Mass before we receive the Euchrast, and we
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could even pray it every single hour of the day. Well, anyway,
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y'all have a great week. I'll talk to you next time.
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Please remember to buy my books, recommend my books, share
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Speaker 2: I pray for y'all.
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Speaker 1: I hope you all pray for me, and I hope you.
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Speaker 2: Get a lot out of it.
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It really enriches your life and your faith. And you know,
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that's what I pray. I'm praying it is just you
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know that God will use me as an instrument of
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his will. That's the ultimate prayer. Also, need to make
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a living, you know, but God knows that too, and
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that's one of the ways He gives me my daily bread.
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When people buy my books, that buys my daily bread.
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So remember you're contributing that and helping me to keep
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Speaker 2: So have a good one y'all. I'll talk to you
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next week.