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Show 144: The Resurrection of the body · The Uncensored Catholic

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new chapter in radio Replies, and then we will go to Father Sparago's exhaustive
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explanation of the Catechism. We're going to get into the subject of the resurrection
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of the body, key key point in Christian theology and doctrine. So starting
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with radio replies, the questioner asks, rather oddly of putting it, what
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is the idea of the Catholic Church? In other words, what is the
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Catholic Church? What does it mean? What does it what does it mean
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to be Catholic? Essentially? And they say, the Church is that visible
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society of men upon earth, which was founded by Jesus Christ, guaranteed by
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him to exist all days and to the end of the world, and sent
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by him to teach all nation with his own authority. It is one definite
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society for man's spiritual good, and its members are bound together by the profession
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of the same and complete Christian faith, sacraments of worship, and by submission
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to the same spiritual authority vested in the successors of Saint Peter, that the
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present successor being the Bishop of Rome or the Pope. Very important point and
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I think it's overlooked you often. You don't had a weird exchange with someone
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last night on Twitter or ex or whatever we're calling it this day these days
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who claim to be a Catholic bishop who did not believe in the sacrament of
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marriage. Yeah, that's you know, you can't be Catholic unless you profess
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and believe all doctrines of the Catholic Church. That's why it's actually hard to
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become Catholic. You know, people ask me, well, how do you
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become Catholic? And it's like, well, first of all, contact your
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the priests and your parish. Find out when there are CIA classes it's the
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right of Christian initiation for adults and start taking them. And it's really important
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that you understand all Christian Catholic doctrines, because before you can be confirmed as
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a Catholic, you have to stand before the church, the congregation, the
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priests, and everybody in the parish and profess that you know, understand and
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agree to all doctrines of the Catholic faith. If you don't, you can't
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become Catholic. If you are Catholic, if you were raised, born and
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raised Catholic. If you're a deacon and you deny the validity of the sacrament
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of marriage, you're not Catholic. You've actually excommunicated yourself. And this person
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would so far as say they have officiated over like sixty marriages or something.
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One I really have not heard of deacon's mirroring people. That's sort of the
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role of the priest. If in his diocese that's allowed, okay, but
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I can't imagine what he told those couples. Really very very, very dangerous
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for someone to be a Catholic deacon to be marrying people if they don't believe
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that in the validity of the sacrament of marriage, I mean, Jesus forbade
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divorce in all four Gospels. Marriage is a sacrament that predates the Catholic Church.
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He had an issue with that too. And you know, I kind
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of said, well, Jesus said, what God has bound together, let
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not man put asunder, meaning that it was a valid sacrament before there was
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such a thing as the Catholic Church, because he was talking to Jews.
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You know, God binds together. That means it's a sacrament. The priest
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stands in persona x CHRISTI in the person of Christ, you know. And
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it's actually it's hard to be married in the Catholic Church. You have to
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go through premarital counseling. If the priest says that this isn't a valid union,
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you don't get married. That could be for many reasons. The person
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could have been married and divorced before. One may not be Catholic and may
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have very different beliefs about the sacrament of marriage. One may be Catholic and
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not believe in the sacrament of marriage, in which case the priests could say,
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hey, wait a minute, you can't do this. They have to
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agreed to raise the children as Catholics. They can't be related as I mean
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beyond a certain degree. I mean, I guess, I don't know.
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Second or third cousins may qualify. I mean they used to I don't know
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if they still do, but certainly the Church doesn't allow inbreeding for reasons of
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the help of the children. The Church is the only authority on earth with
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the ability to annul a marriage if it was not a valid sacrament. And
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he's saying no, the you know, the man and woman marry each other,
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or the priest just officiates true true to a point. The priests absolutely
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can say no, you two can't get married. That happens a lot.
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So I don't know where this guy was coming from. And I hope,
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I mean, he was lying a lot during our debate, I should say
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argument. He kept accusing me of saying things that I didn't say and making
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stuff up. And I hope he was lying about being a deacon because he
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doesn't hold to the doctrines of the Church. And if we've got if we
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got deacons out there, and we got catechists, and we've got Catholic college
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professors that are teaching the opposite of what the Catholic Church actually holds as true
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in matters of morals and doctrines, we got a big problem. As I
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said to him, the Catholic Church is the Kingdom of God on earth.
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It has its officers, and it has its laws, and they're not they're
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inviolable. You cannot be a member of that kingdom and claim to teach a
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different doctrine. At least that's heterodoxy, which is a sin, and at
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worst it's heresy, which is a mortal sin. So you know, we
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need to get back to basics here. So the person goes on. They
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say, the church means an assembly of men united in prayer, not a
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building. Well that's at least more charitable than I've heard. I had a
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I don't even know what denomination this guy was try to tell me that church
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was Greek for circus. Well it's not. Actually circus is a Latin word
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meaning circus, not church. But anyway, this one says, is trying
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to say that it's not a building. Well, they answer, the word
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church is a twofold sense. Its proper meaning is the union of assembly of
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men, united not only in prayer, but also a definite creed worship and
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obedience. In that sense, I speak of the Catholic Church organ it can
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refer to a building erected for the purposes of worship by its members of the
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Catholic Church, and since I speak of a Catholic Church. They go on,
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what positive proof have you that the Catholic Church is the only true church?
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And they answer, the proof lies in the fact that the Catholic Church
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alone corresponds exactly to the exact religion established by Christ. Now, the Christian
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religion is the religion which A was founded by Christ personally, b has existed
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continually since the time of Christ. C is Catholic or universal in accordance with
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Christ's command to go to all the world and teach it to all nations.
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D demands that her members admit to the same doctrine. Again, you have
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to know, understand, and profess your belief, your faith in the doctrine,
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your loyalty to the doctrine. E exercises divine authority over her subjects.
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Since Christ said that if a man would not hear the Church, he would
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be as a heathen. Now the Catholic Church alone can claim a to have
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been founded by Christ personally. All other churches disappear as you go back through
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history. Christ said, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I would
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build my church. There are many claimants to the honor of being Christ Church,
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but among all non Catholics. We find one built by John Wesley,
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another on Martin Luther, another miss Eddie, etc. But the Catholic Church
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alone can possibly claim to have been built on Peter, the chief of the
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Apostles, and the Bishop of Rome. Wants the Bishop of Rome to okay
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point B to have existed in all centuries since Christ. See that everyone from
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members admits to exactly the same essential doctrines, d to be Catholic or universal,
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and e to speak with a voice of true authority in the name of
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God. So we'll pause there. On Radio replies, and let's get to
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Father Spirago. We are continuing with his explanation of the creed, and we've
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gotten to the article, article number six, the resurrects of the Body.
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I believe in the resurrection of the body, he says. The Jews had
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some sort of belief that the bodies of the dead would rise again. Job
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consoled himself in the midst of his suffering by the thought of the resurrection.
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That's Job nineteen twenty five. So too the brothers Maccabee's second Maccabee's seven eleven,
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and Martha said to Jesus, I know that my brother will rise in
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the resurrection at the last Day John eleven twenty four. Christ, on the
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last Day will raise the bodies of all men from the dead and unite them
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to the soul forever. He often declared that he would raise the bodies of
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all men from the grave, and proved his power by miracles. This resurrection
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will be heralded by many signs in nature. We proclaim in the Postles Creed
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that Christ will come to judge the living and the dead. That is,
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he will call to life the bodies of those who are already dead, while
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for those who survive till that day, such a change will take place in
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their bodies that in a moment they will die and awake again to a new
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life. That's first Thessalonians, Oh gosh, what is that for? Yeah,
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four sixteen. Those will arise who are in the grace of God,
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as well as those who are in mortal sin John five twenty eight and Matthew
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twenty five thirty one. And this resurrection will take place in a moment.
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First Corinthians fifteen fifty two. Christ announced that he would raise the dead to
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life again. The hour cometh wherein all that are in the grave shall hear
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the voice of the Son of God. And they that have done good things
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will come forth into the resurrection of life, but they that have done evil
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into the resurrection of judgment John five twenty eight twenty nine. On another occasion,
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he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life, and
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I will raise him up on the last day John six point fifty five.
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Our Lord compared death to sleep e g. He said that the daughter of
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Jerius and Matthew nine twenty four, and Lazarus and John eleven eleven were sleeping,
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in fact, in face of the fact of the resurrection death, what
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may well be called sleep. For Thessalonians four thirteen. The following miracles were
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performed by Christ in proof of his power to Rasadad, the raising of the
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daughter of Jerius in her own house, that of the son of the widow
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of Name before the gates of the city, and that of Lazarus from the
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grave himself. We might add his own glorious resurrection, and that of his
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virgin mother. The very truth Christ might save himself. I am in very
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truth Christ might save himself. I am the resurrection and the Life John eleven
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twenty five. Many natural phenomenas show that the idea of the resurrection is in
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harmony with the rest of nature. For instance, our own periods of rest
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and activity, the rearwakening of spring after the winter's sleep, the change in
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many insects of larva into the pupa, and the pupa again to the butterfly,
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and the coming forth of the bird from an egg, the sprouting of
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the seed buried in earth, and so on. God will awaken our bodies
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to life again to prove his justice and to honor our redeemer. If the
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soul only were rewarded, there would be want of completeness. For, as
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Tertullian says, there are many good works, such as fasting, chastis,
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and martyrdom, which can be carried out in their perfection only in the body.
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Hence, it is right that the latter should share in the ward of
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the soul. God's justice demands that the body should take part in the triumph.
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Again, Tertullian reminds us that our Savior redeemed mankind, body and soul.
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Had the body been unredeemed, the devil would have secured a triumph by
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destroying it. Such a thought is unworthy by a man came death, and
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by a man resurrection of the dead. One Corinthians fifteen twenty one. As
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to the state of our bodies after the resurrection, we have the following facts.
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One after the resurrection we shall have the same bodies as we have now.
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Two, the bodies of the just would be glorious, and those are
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the wicked hideous. Three, all risen bodies will be without defect and immortal.
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We shall have the same bodies after the resurrection for this corruptible, for
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this, for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
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on immortality. First Corinthians fifteen fifty three. We also learned from the Asanasian
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creed. Even Job knew it to be true. I should be clothed again
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with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God. That's
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Job nineteen twenty six. And one of the Macabean brothers, in the midst
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of his torments, address the tyrant, Thus, as his limbs are being
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torn away, these I have from heaven. But for the laws of God,
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I now despise him, because I hope to receive them again from him
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again. Really a true shame that Martin Luther took the Books of Maccabee's out
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of the Bible. You know, I've said before that he took the Books
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of Maccabees out of the Bible for two reasons. One, he did not
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like that Maccabe's teaches about purgatory. Two, he did not like the faithful
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Jews dying as martyrs to be true to their faith, because he had just
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rejected his faith and decided he could make another one. But again, there's
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another reason, and I haven't talked much about this. Martin Luther was incredibly
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anti Semitic. He hated Jews, and the two books of Maccabee's show these
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faithful Jews as being incredibly wholly developed people. And I think he just did
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not want anyone to know that there were good, faithful, religious, devout
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Jews. I mean, he said of several books in the Bible they were
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too Hebraic, or too Judaist, or however put, he really despised Jews.
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He wanted to kill them all. In fact, he said if a
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Jew came to him and asked to be baptized as a Christian, he would
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put an anchor around his neck and throw them in the river. I mean
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he hated Jews, and there's a whole book written about how Hitler was really
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inspired by Martin Luther's anti Semitism, So remember that next time you're debating a
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Lutheran. He continues, while Saint Perpetua and her fellow martyrs were being exposed
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to the vulgar gaze of heathens, she addressed him, thus, look well
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on mark and our faces, that you may know them again in the day
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of judgment. And her words converted many of the bystanders. For this reason
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we rise in our bodies, that everyone may receive the proper things of the
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body, according to according as he hath done, whether it be good or
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evil. Two Corinthians five ten. It is not beyond God's power to rejoin
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the scattered elements for our bodies. If he could make that which had no
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existence, he can replace that which already has in existence. Saint Thomas teaches
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us that as are just as our bodies remain the same bodies of a period
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of ten or twenty years, in which time the component elements have been renewed
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again and again. So the bodies of the origin risen will be the same,
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even supposing they are not composed of the same identical elements as before.
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It is the thought of the resurrection that makes Christians careful in the burial of
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the dead and in their veneration of relics of the saints. Our risen bodies
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will not be all alike. We shall all rise again, but we shall
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not, but we shall not all be changed. That's first Corinthians, fifteen
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fifty one. The bodies of the just will resemble the glorified body of Christ
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Philippians three twenty one, and will have the following properties. They will be
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impassable, that's Revelations or Apocalypse twenty one to four, shining like the sun
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as Matthew thirteen forty three, swift has thought, and capable of penetrating matter.
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The word spiritual is sometimes used to describe the risen body, because the
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latter will be quite subject to the spirit and freed from earthly concupiscence Luke twenty
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thirty five. The beauty of the body will be in proportion of that of
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the soul Romans eight eleven and one Corinthians fifteen forty one. The most wretched
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cripple, if he has lived a good life, will have a beautiful body,
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while one who has had every personal charm and lived a bad life will
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rise again to be an object of aversion. The bodies of sinners will have
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to suffer, and will be bound hand and foot Matthew twenty two thirteen.
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The risen bodies will be without any defect. The martyrs will recover their limbs
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and their wounds visible like Christ, will be glorious and respondent the resplendent.
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The risen bodies will also have no trace of old, age, sickness,
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or mutilation. The wicked will have their bodies also complete, but for punishment,
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for the more perfect body is, the more it can suffer. Bodies
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of the risen will be immortal. First Corinthians, fifteen forty two. First
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Corinthians, fifteen forty two. Just as in Paradise the fruit of the tree
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of life gave him immortality to the body, so now the blessed sacrament and
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communion, for it is a pledge of the resurrection and the end of immortality.
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John six point fifty five. The bodies of the damned are also immortal,
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but for their torment. Belief in the resurrection is a great help to
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us. It consoles us in our sufferings and comforts our relatives and friends when
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we come to die. Job cheered himself with this reflection Job nineteen twenty five
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again, and it was belief in the resurrection which gave the early Christians such
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courage and calm in the great persecutions. Christians who believe in the resurrection ought
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not to mourn for their dead, like the heathen, who have no hope.
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For Thethalonians four twelve Saint Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage and two point fifty
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a d used to caution his flock against such excessive grief, lest the heathen
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should come to think that Christians had no firm belief in the life to come
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knts. He considered it unbecoming to wear mourning for those who are rejoicing before
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the throne of God. Those only should be mourned for who died in mortal
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sin. So we'll wrap it up there. I think that cars it very
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well. Tomorrow we'll get into the general judgment and we'll have basically covered the
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creed, the basis of the catechism, and then we'll move on to more
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matters of morals and doctrines. We as we work our way through this,
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remember it is the exhaustive explanation of the Catechism, a total seven hundred and
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seventy and we're not even a third way through the first book of radio replies,
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of which there are three volumes, So we got a long way to
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go. And it's you know, it's very interesting. And you know,
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after my argument with this supposed deacon last night, I realized just how poorly
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