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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. We'll pick up where
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we left off yesterday, and we're going to get into the Communion of Saints
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in the exhaustive explanation of the Catechism, one of the most fascinating teachings of
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the Catholic Church, one of the most comforting, one of the most useful.
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You're gonna love this, but before we do, let's get a couple
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of questions and answers out of radio replies. And I think this one may
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surprise people in our day and time. The Salvation Army is viewed as a
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charitable organization. A lot of people, you know, put money in the
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cattle at Christmas from Santa Claus's ringing the bell. They were not founded as
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such, and in fact, at their corps are still the same as their
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founding mission. Salvation Army was actually founded as a very anti Catholic, fringe
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Protestant group. I know most people don't know this. You give to charity,
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you think you're helping out the poor and the homeless, and so,
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I mean has done some very good work, but it's founding principles and its
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founder were quite opposed to Catholicism and very much part of the Temperance Movement.
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I've explained before how the Temperance Movement on its face was marketed to try to,
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you know, keep people from getting drunk and using their spouses and being
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lazy, right, so it was marketed. Its founders were actually pretty much
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neo Marxists. They were part of that progressive movement hated Catholics, and the
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main one of the main reasons, I will say the entire reason, but
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I mean, you've got to remember this stuff's kind of like contemporary with eugenics
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and Margaret Sanger and such as that, who promoted you know, abortion,
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because they wanted to exterminate all Catholics and Jews and brown people. The Temperance
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Movement said, if they could outlaw alcohol, Catholics couldn't have mask as we
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wouldn't have wine. It was a very big part of it actually, and
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sowing divisions within families, turning wives against husbands, saying your husband's just a
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drunk, you know. And I mean they really did that a lot.
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They split up a lot of families. They Yeah, the Temperance Movement even
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funded orphanages through certain like Presbyterian churches, and such, because they were splitting
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up families, because they were had these women's groups and meetings to convince their
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wives that if the husband even had a beer or two, he was evil
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and was gonna, you know, just destroy their children. And they had
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she had a moral duty, a Christian duty, even to divorce her husband,
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which is absolutely opposed to sound Christian doctrine and Catholic teaching. I mean,
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our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ not only drank wine at the past
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from meal and such, but made wine at the wedding feast, and Jesus
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can't sin. Therefore, alcohol and moderation cannot be sinful. Getting drunk,
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obviously is being abusive, obviously is being lazy, and not working obviously is
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but alcohol. God made the world, and God said all was good nothing.
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We have no right to call anything God made not good. And you
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know, yeast forms on the skins of grapes, It skins forms on barley
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kernels, it forms on any kind of fruit. And you know, God
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didn't invent pasteurization and refrigeration. For millions of years, people either brewed beer
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or crush those grapes or made a cider, and the natural yeast God put
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there turned the sugars into alcohol. Without that, mankind would not have survived
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because the water wasn't drinkable and that juice would have spoiled, and people would
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have been very God made alcohol for our good. And of course Saint Paul
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says to Saint Mathias, take a little wine. It's good for your stomach.
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And Jesus said he would not drink wine again after the Last Supper until
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he was in the Kingdom of heaven. So we have good reason to believe
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they'll be the best wine imaginable in heaven. And the old German word for
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yeast that they made their beer from was God is good. So this movement
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was really big around eighteen ninety into the early nineteen hundreds leading up to prohibition,
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which made America a harder drinking country than ever before and gave birth to
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organized crime in America and many murders killings. And let's say, legalized alcohol
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again after a ten year failed experiment, as everyone calls it nowanized crime just
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turned a gambling, prostitution and drugs. So thank you temperance movement. You
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fostered the fentanyl epidemic and the cocaine the crack epidemic of the eighties and nineties,
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and you know, yeah really did. In fact, there were two
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main factors in turning America into a bunch of atticts. Actually, first,
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well, I was kind of touched on it yesterday. It was the Civil
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War, especially the Union Army. See, the South was blockaded. We
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couldn't get any imports. Grant and Sherman and all them kept his troops drunk
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and high all the time. Seriously, cocaine and morphine was legal. Cocaine
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kept them marching and fighting, kept him alert, and it wasn't even believed
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to be having a bad effect at the time. Morphine, of course,
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for injuries. These these men were getting beat up on both sides. And
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the North had morphine. The South really had to make do with whatever.
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They had. Tons of alcohol, I mean, you know, Ulysses S.
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Grant was said to drink up to a gallon of whiskey a day.
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Well, the man was a monster, so I mean he had a lot
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of I mean, he led a genocide. He had a lot that he
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didn't want to think about. Our fine president of the United States, and
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he has suffered from manic depression PTSD, that you name it. So they
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didn't call it that back then, but we know, you know, a
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couple hundred thousand men died in the Civil War, not even including all the
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civilians, and there were hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. When they came
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home, especially in the South, their homes were burned, their families were
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killed, and in the North, I mean their brothers and sons and fathers
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were killed in the war, families were split up. You know, the
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soldiers is never to be blamed. It's the leaders who make the decisions,
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and a drunk high army pretty much does what it's told without remorse. Until
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later and after that of them became the Old West gunfighters. I mean they
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were the outlaws. A lot of them went and started like Jesse James and
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them, tons of them. These gangs that started in the late eighteen hundreds.
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That's what all the Western movies are about. They were robing trains and
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such. And then we get into the nineteen hundreds they start robbing banks.
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You know, pretty Boy Floyd and Babyface Nelson and Dylinger and all that that
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started following the Civil War. I mean, before then, America, both
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North and South, was very peaceful, very Agrarian families were very much intact.
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People knew who their neighbors were. People went to church on Sundays.
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There was a lot expected of people. You didn't embarrass your family. After
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society was absolutely wrecked, we have the rise of the outlaw movement, and
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in the mountains especially, but much of the world South, people started bootlegging,
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making liquor, and that was for means of survival. When Prohibition hit,
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organized crime found a ready source of liquor from the mountains of North Carolina
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and Tennessee and Kentucky and West Virginia and Georgia. It was very big Alabama
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and the train rail stations, the big real hubs could get it moved to
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Chicago or New York or Atlanta, you know, and the BLINKOLM and I.
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And all they had to do was pay off a local politician. Al
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Capone actually set up office in Elizabeth in Tennessee. Believe it or not,
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al Capone set up office in a big hotel in Elizabeth and Tennessee shipping all
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this liquor up to Chicago. And then of course, you know up north,
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they had equipment across the Great Lakes. It was still legal in Canada
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well after, I mean and the Roaring twenties, everybody was basically drunk and
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high on cocaine. I mean it was like a big deal, you know,
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and I mean the books and movies document that. I mean, morality
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was in serious decline, you know. So then the temperance movement fails,
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and you've got basically a nation of attics. You know, you got World
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War One, You've got all these boys coming back hooked on morphine again because
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they've been injured, and they've been given a lot of infetiments by the US
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government. They continued through World War Two, a lot of infetiments. I
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think cocaine was probably illegal by World War Two, but it was frequently used
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in World War One. You know, the fifties were sure of this bucolic
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time. But if you watch the movies, the old crime movies and such
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a lot of our I mean, look at you know, the old man
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with a Golden arm break Sinatra. I mean, he was a heroin addict
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who was a veteran in that story. The sailors especially, and really wherever
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we had a naval port or really a military base, the government and the
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local officials would turn a blind eye because they said it was good for morale
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for the military to go on leave and you know, hire a hooker and
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get drunk or you know, use some drugs, and then you know,
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it would keep him a little more willing to continue doing his hard work in
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the military. So I mean, after that, I mean, like I
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said, the mafia gets sent to the casinos as such, they clean up
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the gambling commissions, start cleaning up the casinos, they go hardcore into the
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drug smuggling. By We had two back to back wars in Korean and Vietnam,
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and there's so many books and movies about how the government was just pumping
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our soldiers full of cocaine and heroin and all kinds of drugs. CIA was
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profiting off of it and using it to run their you know, black ops.
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And I mean the Temperance Movement and our military really beginning with the Civil
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War, has led to the decline of American morality in Christian culture and the
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fentanyl epidemic of today. I mean, it's really hard to think about.
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And you know, all these great veterans that we respect at Meyer, and
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of course we do, but their leadership, those guys on the Pentagon,
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those guys in the CIA, those guys the deep state, working behind the
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scenes. They're not on our side. They are not on our side.
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Just recently, doctor Jerome, course, he came out with a book about
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the Kennedy assassination and he basically says the CIA, together with the mafia,
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had Kennedy assassinated. And he goes through detail and he basically proves it.
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I mean, with forensic evidence and all kinds of stuff. It really fascinated
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if you haven't seen it. But Kennedy wanted he felt betrayed by the war,
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Pig Bay of pigs. He was thinking the war in Vietnam was a
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bad idea of wanting to end it. He was trying to kind of go
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behind the scenes to get some weapons, some missile systems. Pulled back,
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Russia pullback some, America pull back some. I'm not Kennedy fan. I
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don't think he was a good guy at all. But he realized what was
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going on and that would have cost the mafia millions in drug sales, the
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military industrial complex millions and weapons sales and taking a lot of the secret budget
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away from the CIA. And yeah, it makes a lot of sense actually,
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when you really start piecing it together, it makes a whole lot of
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sense. But back to the Salvation Army. The person asks why not be
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charitable and admit that the Salvation Army, with their good works, are God's
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people. And they answer I charitably say their good works are often very pleasing
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to God, and they themselves also from many of them, had the utmost
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goodwill and devotion. But charity does not oblige me to say that the True
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Church of Jesus Christ was founded by General Booth. General Booth is the founder
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of a Salvation Army, so it's called the Salvation Army by the way,
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he gave it a military structure. However well intentioned these good people may be,
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they are mistaken. Christ gave us It's a definite set of truths to
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be believed and precepts to be fulfilled. He is a true Christian who believes
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all that Christ taught and does all that he commands. Members of the Salvation
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Army reject much of Christ's doctrine. Some say that baptism is not really necessary.
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All rejects Christ's teaching on the Eucharist. Although Christ allowed the Jews to
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go their own way when they refuse to accept his teaching, the army said.
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The Army says, believe in the name of Christ, and you will
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be saved by him. The Catholic Church rightly says that is not enough,
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and gives the advice believing Christ, believe in every single doctrine he taught,
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and believe that you can be saved by Him, provided that you try to
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have a sincerely his moral teachings. I admit that many members of the Salvation
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Army tried just as sincerely to live up to their inadequate knowledge of Christianity,
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as Catholics try to live up to the full truth. In that sense,
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they are good people, but they are not true Christians insofar as they do
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not accept the full truth revealed by Christ. So I'm not going to tell
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you not to donate to the Salvation Army. Much of their religious leaning is
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no more that fell by the wayside, I'd say at least by the seventies
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and eighties. Now they do tend to be more of just a secular charity.
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But if you have a local chapter, ask them for a list of
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what they use the money for, and if it's all just doing secular charitable
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works, then I'm fine with that. I'm absolutely fine with that if they
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have a religious side to their organization, which some still do. Some are
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kind of associated with like alcoholics Anonymous and such, which is again a very
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good organization, but some take it a little too far with that, like
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making an almost religion unto itself, you know. So you have to be
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careful with any of these things. But I'm not opposed to Salvation Army right
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now. It's basically just more like Goodwill than anything else, you know,
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like the good Will charity that does job training and such. But yeah,
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just just check it out and make sure your money is not to go into
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something that you oppose, or perhaps better stated, don't give your money to
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an organization that opposes the Catholic Church, you and your faith. And I
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put Catholic charities on that list because there are really doing very immoral things with
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our money, facilitating human and drug trafficking across the southern border. And besides,
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they're getting enough money from the government now they don't need the second collection.
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So, as I've said many times, don't put money in that plate
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on the second collection, just my opinion, make your own choice. Put
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a note saying until you stop working with the drug cartels in Mexico and our
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immoral Biden administration facilitating slave avery, rape, prostitution, and drug smuggling.
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Not one single penny, not one dime. All right, now, we'll
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get on to a more pleasant subject, which is the community's saints. Father
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Sparaga says the members of the Church may be divided into three classes. Those
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who are still in earth, having not here a lasting city, but seeking
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the one that is to come, Those that have reached their going in heaven,
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the saints, and those that are expiating their sins in purgatory. All
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are fellow citizens, with the Saints and domestics of God, working together for
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the same object in union with God. The members of this great community are
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called saints, because all are sanctified by baptism. All are called to a
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holy life. Those in heaven have already attained perfect holiness. Yet Saint Paul
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calls Christians on earth still calls Christians on our Saints and Ephesians one to one.
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The community Saints is in union and intercourse with Catholics on Earth. Of
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the soul's in purgatory and the saints in heaven. The Church on earth is
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called the Church Militant because of its ceaseless struggle with its three enemies, the
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world, the flesh, and the devil. The souls in purgatory form the
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Church suffering because they are still expiating their sins in a cleansing fire. The
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blessed in heaven are called the Church triumphant because they have already secured their victory.
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These three divisions are one church by common bond of Baptism Catholics on earth.
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The soul's in purgatory and the blessed in Heaven are united with Christ,
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just as are members of the body with the head Romans twelve fourth. The
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Holy Spirit works in all members. That's on Corinthians twelve thirteen. The says
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Saint Augustine animates the organs of the body and causes the eye to see and
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the ear to hear, etc. Just so does the Holy Spirit work and
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the members of Christ's body, as the Holy Spirit proceeds from Christ. Christ
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is the head of the Christian Body Colossians one eighteen. He is the buying,
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carrying strength and nourishment to the branches. John fifteen five. Each member
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of the body has its own spectual function. So each member of the Church
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has its own gifts for Corinthians twelve six through ten and twenty eight. Each
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member of the body works for the whole body. So every member of the
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church works for the common good. All the members of the bodies share the
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pain or pleasure felt by one and the same is true of the mutual sympathy
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of the Community of Saints. If one members suffer for anything, if one
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members suffer anything, all members suffer with it. Or if one member glory,
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all members rejoice with it. First Corinthians twelve, twenty six. Thus
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the saints in heaven are not indifferent to our condition. Catholics who have fallen
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into mortal sin are still members of this great body, though dead members,
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but they cease to be members that they are excommunicated. All members of the
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Community of Saints have a share in the spiritual goods of the Catholic Church,
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and can help one another by their prayers and their good works. The saints
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alone in heaven have no need of help. In a similar manner, all
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people of a country have a share in the institution supported by the country,
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such as hospitals, asylums, law courts, etc. So also in the
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family circle, all members have a claim to the share of the common goods,
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such as richards or honors. Thus, all masses, the means of
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grace, the prayers of the Church, and all good works done by individuals
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are for the benefit of all its members. In the our Father, we
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pray for others as well as for ourselves. Holy Mass is offered for the
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dead as well as the living, and the same is true of the office
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recited by the priest. Hence it is that one may have more hope of
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converting the greatest center who still belongs to the Church, than a freemason who
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is outwardly who outwardly leads a good life, yet is cut off from it.
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And I should have mentioned that Booth and the Salvation Army. I believe
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Booth was a Freemason. I know the Masons have had a big part in
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the foundation of the Salvation Army. So it's another thing you may only consider.
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A Catholic may look forward to a quicker release from purgatory than others.
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Saint Francis Xavier constantly cheered himself with the thought that the Church was praying for
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him and supporting him with her good works. Moreover, all members of the
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church can give mutual help. There is the same sympathy as in the human
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body, where a sound member comes to the help of one is weaker,
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and the possession of good lungs, a sound heart or a healthy stomach may
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help the body to recover from what might otherwise have been a fatal illness.
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The eye does not act for itself alone. It guides the hands and feet.
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Sodom would have been saved had ten just men been found within its walls.
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All Catholics can help each other by prayer and good works. Saint Peter
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was freed from prison by the prayers of Christians. The prayer of Saint Stephen,
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says Saint Augustine procured the conversion of Saint Paul. The tears and prayers
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of Saint Monica converted to her son. Even in the Old Testament, God
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promised that he would be merciful to the prayers of the priests Leviticus four twenty.
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Saint James bids us pray for one another that you may be saved.
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Saint Paul, I beseech you help me in your prayers for me. To
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God, Christ revealed to him. Marie Lataste Latosta guess that as esther saved
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her people by her intercession with hm Asuris. I think so the prayers of
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a single soul may have a whole nation, may save a whole nation from
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the avenging hand of God. Prayer is a work of mercy and brings down
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a blessing on the one who prays and the one who has prayed. For
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fasting in almsgivings are also a means of help. As a man's debts may
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be paid off by his neighbor, so the dead of sin may in some
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measure be paid off by good works of others. And thus it was in
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the early Church that penances were offered, that penances were often remitted, remitted,
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or shortened by the intercession of the martyrs. We can also help the
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whole souls in purgatory by prayers and other good works. In turn, they
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can help us by their prayers, especially when they reach heaven. The Jews
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even believe that help could be given to the souls of the departed, for
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we read in Second Maccabees how Judas Maccabeus caused sacrifice to be offered for those
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who had fallen in battle, and sent money to the temple for that purpose.
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The passing bell and the nail or signs to pray for the dying of
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the dead. In the memento. After the consecration at Mass, a special
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petition is made for the departed. Prayers, says Saint Augustine, is the
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key by which the living, especially holy. It is the key by which
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we open the gates of Heaven to the suffering souls. The prayers of the
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living, especially holy Mass, alms, deeds, and other works of piety,
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are of great efficacy in lessening the sufferings of the Holy souls. The
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souls in purgatory can also help us. Many saints held that we can call
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the holy souls to our help. Saint Bellarmine, Saint Fonsis, etc.
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Say Catherine and Bologna used to often call upon the Holy souls when the saints
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seems to fail in helping her, and she never asks him in vain.
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The saints in heaven can help us by their prayers before the Throne of God,
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that's in Revelations eight four, especially if we call upon them for help.
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The saints much know much of what happens on earth, for their happiness
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consists of the complete satisfaction of all their desires. The devil knows all our
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weaknesses, as we know from the way in which he tempts us. The
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profits of the Old Testament sometimes foretold the future and knew the most hidden things.
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It is likely that the saint is it likely that the Saints are less
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favor than they They rejoice when a center converts converted Luke fifteen seven. What
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can escape those, says Saint Thomas Aquinas, who sees, who see him,
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who sees all? What can escape those? Says Saint Thomas Aquinas,
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who see him, who sees all things? You know the words. They're
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in communion with Jesus, and he's omniscient and nominy present, sharing in his
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divinity, and they're aware of everything going on in our lives and on earth.
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And the Church teaches us that when we call upon the saints for their
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prayers, they join their prayers to ours. Their intercession is great efficacy for
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the continual prayer of a just man, even on earth avail us much.
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That's Jasper five sixteen. I think what power Abraham had when pleading for sodom.
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If, says Saint Jerome, the Saints had such power in the flesh,
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what can they not obtain for us? Now they have secured their victory.
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Saint John Christostom often compares their session to the pleading of old soldiers who
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display their wounds. This power has often been demonstrated by miracles. Our dead
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relatives and friends who are in heaven are always pleading for us at the throne
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of God, and often save us from danger. Charity never dies, says
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First Corinthians thirteen eight. And the ties which bind us to those we love
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remain unbroken on earth, even in hell. The wretched Dvs showed that he
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had some affections still for his relatives on earth, that's the rich men in
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Lazarus, and he may have been actually purgatory, so that's always been a
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bit of a controversy. The prophet Jeremiah and the Holy High Priests so Nias
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prayed in Limbo for the Jewish nation Mcavees fifteen fourteen, and Christ promised his
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apostles that he would pray for them John fourteen sixteen and one John two to
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one. Saint Augustine after the death of his mother of Saint Monica and Saint
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Vinceslaus after the death of his grandmother, Saint Ludmia rapidly advanced to greater heights
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of sanctity. So to the saints help the souls in purgatory. Our Lady
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alone rescues daily some souls from purgatory by her prayers. On the anniversary the
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assumption of Our Lady, thousands of souls are delivered from prison. That's according
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to Saint Damien and Saint Alfonsis. They were, you know, mystics,
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visionaries they had, they knew what's going on. They were in great community
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communion with Heaven even here on Earth. On Saturdays, the days especially devote
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to Our Lady, she rescues many poor souls from purgatory. That's according to
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John the twenty second. And nor are the Holy Angels indifferent to their future
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companions. One of the church's prayers speaks of Saint Michael leading souls into heaven.
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Our Angel Guardian and the angels whom we have especially honored on earth will
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take up our calls in purgatory. So, y'all, I think that's a
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great place to leave that one, This one that certainly gives us gives new
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meaning to the words of Saint Padre Pio. Pray, hope and don't worry.
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Saint Padre Pio pray for us, and that should give us great hope.
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All Right, y'all, talk to you next time.