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Show 234: Indulgences · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all. Welcome to this week's show, and today
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questions and answers. The questioner asks the priests what is
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a sacrament? Do they answer? A visible writer ceremony, which
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signifies and confers grace. Thus baptism is a visual rite.
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The pouring of water in the forehead signifies the cleansing
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of the soul by the grace which the action bestows.
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A person says, I trust in Christ and have no
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need of sacramental rights. That's super common among Protestants these days.
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Even most Baptists don't believe in baptism anymore. I don't
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know what they believe in. Actually, not much. Actually, I mean,
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having been debating with Baptists very recently, some Baptists and Lutherans,
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some Methodist predominant in seventy Adventist of course, and Orthodox
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predominantly Baptists, I can tell you they don't believe in
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much anymore, the very very denomination founded on baptism. I
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don't even know what percentage of Baptists are actually baptized anymore.
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Billy Graham said it wasn't necessary, and they all seem
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to have followed suit. If you go to Frankly Graham's
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website today, you will see it teaches specifically that baptism
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is not necessary for salvation, even though Jesus said you
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had to be baptized to be saved. I don't know what, Honestly,
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I don't know what they believe in. Sure, Samaritan's person's
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great work. I appreciate everything they did in the mountains.
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That's the hurricane. But the only person, the only entity
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that doesn't want people to be baptized is the devil.
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I mean literally, Jesus said you have to be baptized
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to be saved, and they say you don't. And I
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cannot make any sense of it whatsoever. I mean, how
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can someone say they're sole foundation for their doctrine as
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the Bible and then just absolutely teach the opposite of
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what Jesus said. I mean, he said, you have to
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be washed in water, in the blood, and you have
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to eat my flesh to have life within you, the
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divine life, the eternal life of God. They deny bad baptism,
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they deny the Eucharists, they have no confirmation, they deny
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the role of priest and reconciliation, they deny everything that
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Jesus taught. And I mean it's bizarre. It's incomprehensible, it
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really is. And honestly, I don't know where to put that.
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I mean, someone says, I'm a Christian, I believe in
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Jesus Christ, I believe in the Bible. When I say
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where the Bible says you have to be baptized, and
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they say, I don't believe that, Okay, but you believe
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in Jesus. Jesus is God, right, Yes, I believe in
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Jesus is God. Well, Jesus said, you have to be baptized.
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I don't believe that. Where do you? How? How? I mean,
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it's incomprehensible, But that's what it is. So anyway, in
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person said I trust in Christ and have no need
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of sacramental rits. And they answer the priest answer him,
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it is presumption to trust in Christ. Yet to who
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despise the means established by Him and declared by Him
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to be necessary. The Christ in whom you trust certainly
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believed in such ceremonies. He annoyed the blind man's eyes
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with saliva and earth. He instituted the various sacraments of
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the Church. If you study scripture closely, you will notice
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that the visible is again and again employed in the
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work of invisible sanctification. Your denial of sacramento and visible
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rights as opposed to the whole tenor of scripture almost
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from beginning to end. Yes, they said it better than
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I could. Person says who made the sacraments? And the answer,
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since there is no proportion between the visible action, the
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giving of interior grace, and supernatural character, is evident that
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God alone could institute a sacrament. It calls for his
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infinite power, Jesus. Therefore, at once God and Man institute
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the sacraments. The person asks, why have you seven sacraments?
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It's Christ to non institute seven. They answer, there are
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seven sacraments, sykesly because Christ did institute seven. Had he
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not done so, there would not be seven. The Catholic
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Church emphatically denies that she has the power to institute
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a sacrament. Far from instituting sacraments, she has never claimed
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the power to do so. From the very beginning, Christians
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have always had seven, receiving them from the apostles who
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received them from Christ. Protestants were deprived of several of
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these sacraments at the beginning. At the time of the Reformation.
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In the Church of England, however, many are returning to
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the Doctor of seven sacraments as instituted by Christ through
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of course, their return to the doctrine cannot make sense. Though,
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of course their return to the doctrine cannot make sense.
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Let's try it one more time. Though, of course, their
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return to the doctrine could not make the sacraments valid
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for them. I was seeing into the line as I
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was reading. I am dyslexic by the way, And of course,
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now this was written in the nineteen twenties or thirties.
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There was a great almost revival in the Anglican Episcopal
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Church at that time, and it did for a brief
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period of time code more into the line of Catholic thinking.
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By the nineteen sixties and seventies, the Anglican Episcopal churches
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they say, it's one church whatever. The Anglican Church is
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a church of England. The Episcopal Church is the Church
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of England. Outside of England. Began to deny every Christian teaching.
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I mean they now have gay and lesbian vicars. The
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Bishop of Canterbury is a woman. I don't know what
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her orientation is. They deny the sacrament of marriage because
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they accept divorce as their foundational principle. And basically their
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churches are empty. The Anglican Episcopal denomination will probably cease
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to exist within my lifetime. I mean it has lost
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especially in the United States. I said last week, over
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seventy percent of Congress since the nineteen seventies. The Anglican
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Episcopal Church was once the church that all the founding followers,
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except for Charles Carroll and Benjamin Franklin basically went to Well.
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Jefferson was more of a Unitarian, but anyway, it was
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the most powerful church in the United States. The President's
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Church is still an Anglican Episcopal Church America was essentially
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founded by Anglicans. Within my lifetime, the once many multi
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tens of millions of member strong Anglican Episcopal Church will
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probably if it still exists, be more like the Quakers
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or Mennonites. You will rarely see one, you'll rarely meet one.
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There'll probably be a few little congregations here and there,
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but they abandoned the faith. They started out on the
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wrong foot. But by nineteen seventy the Anglican and Episcopal
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denomination had ceased to be Christian at all. I mean,
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there are ministers we'll call them vicars in the Anglican
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Church in England that think they're Catholic. When I encounter one,
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I have to explain to them, you're not Catholic. You
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cannot receive the Eucharist in a Catholic church. They get
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offended and I'm like, what do you believe about the Euchrist?
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Do you think it's the true body and blood of Christ? Well?
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Not really, Okay, there you have it. Even if you
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were a Catholic, you couldn't receive the Eucharist. You're not
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part of us, you separated from us. You are protesting,
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you're a Protestant. You can certainly become Catholic. We would
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welcome you to become Catholic. You can become a Catholic
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priest even if you're married. Yes, if an Anglican or
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Episcopal minister virtus of Catholicism and is ordained and accepting
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the priesthood, he can stay married and have children. We
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make the Catholic Church makes every accommodation. But you can't
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receive the Euchrest in a Catholic church. If you're not Catholic.
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You can't receive the euchres in a Catholic church if
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you're Orthodox. That's a schism that's been around from us
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a thousand years. They cutting themselves off from the Catholic Church.
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It's a little different, yep. Some of their sacraments are valid,
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not all, but an Orthodox cannot receive the Euchrist in
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a Catholic Church. Whatsoever. Now there are Eastern right Catholic churches.
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There are you know, Catholic churches. You could not even
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differentiate between them and the Orthodox, and they are in
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communion with Rome. They acknowledge the Pope, and they can
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receive the Eucharus an Anglican even if he think calls
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himself an Anglo Catholic, and many do abs. I mean,
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there was one one time that said, why can't I
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give masson a Catholic church? Why can't I give the
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EU course? I had to tell him because you're not
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a priest. You may think you are, but you're not.
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You have no place in our church. Your church is
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a false church. You were ordained falsely. You're not a priest.
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You may think you are. You may get a nice
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paycheck from the English government every month because you're a
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member of the Church of England. You have not Catholic.
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That would be a true sacrilege if you even tried,
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and no Catholic church, no Catholic bishop, would knowingly allow it.
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You're not one of us. You cut yourself off. You're
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no longer even a member of the body of Christ
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because of the heresy, especially since the nineteen seventies of
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your church. And I mean the Due pitched a fit
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and I went to Oxford. I'm great, Okay, you can
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you've got degrees and you can quote stuff. Here's what
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the Pope said about the Anglican Church, you know, and
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here's why he wasn't happy anyway. I mean he went
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from being old the Catholics are so bigoted because they
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won't let me give Mass in a Catholic church, to
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realizing the truth, getting angry and storming away. I mean,
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it does not matter if you have a freaking English accent,
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I mean pompous English accent, and you went to freaking
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Oxford that prohibited Catholics for a few hundred years. By
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the way, even though it was started as a Catholic institution,
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you're not Catholic, dude. You do not have the power
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to turn bread and wine into the body and blood
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of Christ. That would be a sacrilege, the same as
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if a Satanist did it. You are equal to a Satanist.
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If you come into a Catholic church and try to
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act in the role of a priest. You may be
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a very well meaning person in your own denomination. You
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may read the Bible and pray and that it's not
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the point. If you come into a Catholic church and
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try to institute a sacrament of the Catholic Church. That
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is satanic, it is apostasy, it is heretical. It has
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to be condemned by everyone. You have no place in
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a Catholic church. No more than a Catholic can go
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into your church and receive your fake Eucharist. He didn't
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like that, but he couldn't argue with it. This man
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with advanced degrees in so called theology from the highest
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university in England. My simple Catholic catechises knocked him over essentially,
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and he just got pissed off and walked away. You
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know what, He's welcome and become a Catholic priest. He
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is welcome to go to the Catholic bishop in his
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diocese and say I want to convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism.
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John Henry Newman did became one of the what was
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a doctor of the church. Now there's no reason he can't,
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but he has to abandon his faults. Counterfeit, heretical, schismatic, apostate,
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fake church. Why is it a fake church because it
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says the head of the Church is the King of England.
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God never said the head of the Church was the
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King of England. It's a nationalist religion. It's actually a
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racist denomination. I mean, if you have to all peoples
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of the world have to submit to the King of England.
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You know what does that say for Africans and Japanese
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and you know Irish. You know, no, my family would
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not bend the knee to the King of England. And
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the English committed a full on genocide against Celtic people.
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The Irish are the most enslaved people on the face
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of the earth. Half of the population of Ireland was
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forcibly killed or removed because we would not accept a
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fake church. You're not gonna You're not gonna win on
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this one with me. The Anglican Church is satanic to
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its core, and the longer it goes on, the worse
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it gets with their rainbow flags and gay dancing. And yeah,
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I mean, first of all, the English are the most
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inbred people in Western Europe. I mean you're talking at
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a little island here, and everybody English is English, right,
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I mean that is inbreeding. They don't have two branches
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on their family tree, and their church is fake and satanic.
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And I say that as someone with a great deal
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of English heritage, I can say that, Yeah, I'm basically
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equal parts English, French and Irish. The Irish is of course,
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I'm a Carol, but my ancestors were kings of England,
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Catholic kings of England. I have English saints in my
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family tree, and I will tell you the so called
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current King of England is an inbred moron. He doesn't
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have I mean, if he has two functioning brain cells
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to rub together to give him accumulative IQ of thirty,
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I would be surprised. He speaks beautifully, I mean I cannot.
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I cannot. I mean absolutely, he speaks beautifully, but his
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IQ is in probably the double digits. If that it's
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a wonder. He probably has seven toes. I have no idea,
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and he has no right to rule England, much less
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be God's representative on earth to rule the Church. According
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to the Anglicans, King supposed frickin' Charles is the pope. Okay,
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he's the head of the church. Now you show me
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where in the Bible Jesus said, I'm gonna choose the
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King of England to run my church. Keep looking for
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that one. Let me know when you find it. The sooner.
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The Anglican Episcopal denomination rots on the garbageek of history
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along with the Lutherans and Presbyterians, et cetera. The better
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the better. Anyway, the person asks the priest, you connect
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baptism with original sin and they say yes, Baptism was
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instituted by Christ for the destruction of original sin and
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to restore the grace forfeited by our first parents, which
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is absolutely necessary for the attaining of our holy destiny.
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Christ himself assisted that was must be born again of
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water in the holy ghast. Person asks quite reasonably, actually,
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how can man be born again? And they answer, just
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as the soul is the life of the body, so
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grace is the life of the soul with the supernatural order. Now,
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life is attained by birth. We are born into this
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earthly existence from our earthly parents, but we are born
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without the principle of God's grace, which carries with it
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the right to a life of eternal happiness with God. Thus,
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man must be born into the life of grace by
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water and the Holy Spirit if he wishes to possess
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the birthright to eternal and supernatural happiness. I gotta get
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simple water, okay. The person then asked, do you believe
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do you insist that baptism is necessary to salvation. And
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you know, I don't ever intend to have a conversation
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with a Graham family. Again, I grew up around him
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with him. I know the Grahams. I think they're very
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well meaning, good people. But if you go to the
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website right now, they will tell you that baptism is
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not necessary for salvation. I'm sorry, that's satanic. There's only
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one entity on the face of the earth that would
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so contradict the words of Jesus. But this person says,
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do you insist that baptism is necessary for salvation? And
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the prest answer, yes. Christ came to save men, and
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he has the right to dictate the condition of salvation.
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If you offered me a fortune, provided I would go
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to London be via Suez, particularly insisting that I should
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go via Suez, it would be little use my saying, oh,
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I'll go via Panama. It's so much more sensible route.
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You would reply, but I want you to go via Suez,
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or there will be no fortune. Now Christ has sneaked
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distinctly commanded baptism as a condition of salvation, and no
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arguments of men who cannot save us are of any
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avail against the authority of Christ. It is necessary to
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be baptized, or we shall never see God go and
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rejoice in the happiness of heaven. Now that's a tough
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one because, according to what I was told growing up
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and around Boone, North Carolina, in and around the Graham family,
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in class with some of them, and like I said,
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nice people, very nice people. Billy Graham insisted that his
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wife not be baptized, and from what I was told,
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he insisted that his children and grandchildren not be baptized.
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I hope I'm wrong. I hope, I pray to God
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they have been baptized. But you know, as much respect
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as I have for Franklin Graham, who let's admit, he's
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not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he says
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a very good, very good charitable works, and I have
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a great respect for him. If he's never been baptized,
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he's never received the Holy Spirit, he's not a member
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of the Body of Christ. And as an adult fully
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rejecting baptism, he's probably going to hell. You know, Jesus said,
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many will say to me, Lord Lord, did we not
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preach in your name? And I will say, truly, I
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do not know you'd be gone from me, evil doers.
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I hate the thoughts of that. I hope if someone
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hears this and they can pass a message on to
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Franklin Graham and encourage him to get baptized, they will
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and if he has, and his kids have, and am
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the kids I went to school with. I mean, I
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went to school with the grand kids. I hope someone
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will get in touch with me and say, oh, yeah,
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we figured it out, we got baptized. I hope and
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pray that's true. They're good people, but goodness doesn't get
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you into heaven. Jesus said, you have to be baptized
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to go to heaven. If you know, a child can
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be baptized against their will without not aganser will, not
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having any means or understanding of it whatsoever. An adult
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who purposefully and God's not going to judge an infant
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because they didn't have the opportunity to be baptized, that's
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you know. Catholic doctrine has developed on that over the centuries.
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An infant, a child, an unborn child who's not had
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the opportunity baptized, cannot be judged for not being baptized.
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They go to heaven. In fact, the blessed Virgin Mary
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personally takes them to heaven and watches over them and
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cares for them. It's one of the most beautiful recent
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more recent developments in the teaching of the Catholic Church.
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And it makes perfect sense. Someone, an adult or a
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person of the age of reason who rejects baptism is
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choosing to go to hell. God will judge them on
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their understanding. If they're totally stupid, you know God's going
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to judge them based on their understand But you know,
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I'm going to say, Franklin Graham has at least an
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IQ of eighty and he can read the Bible, and
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he better get baptized where he dies. Unfortunately, from what
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I understand, a lot of his families isn't going to
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be waiting for him when he gets to the other side.
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If he gets baptized, they may be waiting on the
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other side in a place he doesn't want to go.
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Because purposefully rejecting baptism that Jesus said is necessary for
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salvation is setting yourself up as your own God. Your
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opinion has become your own God. It's a violation of
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the first commandment, thou show no other gods before me,
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and I know these are good people. I know they're
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not particularly intelligent people, unfortunately, so I'll pray for him.
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I hope you'll pray for him. I hope I am
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absolutely wrong. But as we continue to pray for the
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unity of all Christians, which the Church instructs us to
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do it, he even gives us an indulgence for doing.
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Let's pray for the baptism of all Christians. Jesus said,
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if you love me, you'll keep my commandments. If you
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don't keep his commandments, one of which is being baptized,
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how can you say you love Jesus, you love your
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own opinion, you love yourself, you love your denomination, you
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love your pride. Don't forget the devil and demons believe
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in Jesus. Fully, they have more faith in God than
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we could ever imagine, because they know exactly who He is,
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but they refuse to follow his commandments. All right, So
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now let's talk about the rather controversial subject of indulgences.
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Father Sparrago says it has already been explained that by
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the sacrament of pence, the debt of eternal punishment due
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to the sinner is remitted but not temporal, not the temporal.
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This he must discharge either in this world by sickness, adversity, temptation, persecution.
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Voluntary works of penance are like in other words, all
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suffering helps a tone for our sins, or he must
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And the fires of purgatory after death very important, very
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very important. All Christians up into the time of Martin
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Luther believed in purgatory and accepted the Books of Maccabees
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as evidence for that. Martin Luther tore the Books of
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Maccabees out of the Bible and has led millions of
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people astray. I mean, you know, you say you're a
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Protestant out there and you're thinking, oh, you know, we're right,
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we don't believe in purgatory. That's, you know, a Catholic belief. Well,
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what do you say about the writers of the very
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writers of the Bible? Who did I mean, do you
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think that fifteen hundred years of Christian history from Jesus
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Christ himself and the apostles he taught personally up to
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Martin Luther's time got it wrong? Well, if they got
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that wrong, what else did they get wrong? You? Actually,
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if you start taking out the core tenets of doctrine
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of Christianity that go back to the very foundation and
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founding of Christianity and before Ethan, I mean, the Maccabees
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are Judaism. What are you going to reject next the
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resurrection Baptism? You're going to reject baptism? Yeah, well, anyway,
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says this is exemplified by the Holy penitent Mary of Egypt,
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and she was a very interesting saint for seventeen years.
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She led a sinful life after her conversion. She did
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penance in the desert for seventeen years. Her penance consisted
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in horrible temptations, in hunger and thirst and suffering from
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exposure to cold and heat. It was the same with
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other penitents. Yes, but now, of course pros will say, oh,
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you know, I accept you Jesus Christ as my savior,
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and everything I ever did bad just went away. And
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of course, under Martin Luther's teaching, nothing more you do
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bad can jeopardize your salvation. Once saved, always saved. So
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then you can go murder thirty people and rape one
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hundred and ten and set fire to a village and
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rob a bank, and you're still going to heaven. According
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to Protestant doctrine, which has nothing to do with the
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words of the Bible at all or the teachings of
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Christ in his Church. Obviously, God is granted to the
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Church the power, after after the reconciliation of the sinner
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with God, of changing the punishments yet remaining due to
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sin into works of penance, or of remitting them altogether.
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Our Lord conferred on Saint Peter in particular, and on
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all the apostles in general, the power to remove whatever
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hindred the admission of the penitent into Heaven. To Saint
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Peter he said, whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it
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shall be loosed in Heaven Matthew sixteen nineteen. And to
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the apostles he said, whatsoever you shall loose on earth,
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shall be loose in Heaven Matthew eighteen eighteen. Now, since
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mortal sin excludes from heaven permanently, and the temporal penalty
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of sin and the temporal penalty of sin temporarily, that's
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a hard one to say. Power to remit both one
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and the other is vested in the head of the
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Church and the bishops. We read the certain Christians of
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Corinth who had been excommunicated for their vices were pardoned
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by Saint Paul in the name of Christ. Second Corinthians
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two ten. I think it was First Corinthians one to five.
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He begins to talk about these and says of the
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man who was sleeping with his father's wife, give him
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over to the devil. That means excommunication. So then we
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get into Second Corinthians, and we see that they had
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been rejoined to the Church after giving up their civil
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lifestyle and going to confession and changing their lives. When
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the Church remits temporal penalty, she does not cancel them altogether.
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She supplies what is lacking from the treasury of the
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infinite merits of Christ and of the Saints. Many members
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of the Church have performed penances over and above what
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was due for their sins, and the store of their
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merits owing to the satisfaction made by Christ is so
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vast an extent that it far exceeds the penalties do
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all the sins of the living. According to Saint Thomas Aquinas,
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in these merits all participate who belong to the community
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of Saints, and the distribution of them was entrusted by
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the Son of God to Saint Peter, who is the
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doorkeeper heaven. If you want to belong to the communic
29:37
community of Saints, you need to get baptized and then
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can confirmed into the Catholic Church, and then you can
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What did he say? And the distribution of these graces
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is entrusted by the Son of God to Saint Peter,
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who is the doorkeeper of heaven. Remember one time Charles
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Stanley had a great deal of respect Charles Stanley, Baptist
30:04
minister good Man, good Man. He was given a sermon
30:09
one time and he said to talking about the pearly Gates,
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and he said, people say, Saint Peter is going to
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be there. Saint Peter ain't gonna be there. Saint Peter's
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got nothing to do with this. He got so angry.
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I mean, he had once one little aside in his
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sermon and goes on a rant about how Saint Peter
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has nothing to do with heaven. Well, did he read
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his Bible? I guess not. He just has a hatred
30:34
for everything Catholic or he did. Unfortunately, does it will
30:38
be seen that no one is actually exempt for the
30:40
payment of his debt, since what is still due is
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paid out the treasury of Heaven. Let's see. Oh, actually,
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skipped a line. There, let me try again. Thus it
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will be seen that no one is actually exempt from
30:54
the payment of his debt, since what is still due
30:57
is paid out the treasury of the Church. Here we go.
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I got the doorkeeper of heaven and super like, I said,
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I'm dyslexic. Some things move around for me. Hents. At
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the time of the Great Persecutions, the Church used to
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lay upon repentance centers public penances for expiation of the
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temporal punishments of sin, and afterwards commute them into lesser ones,
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or remit them altogether if the penitent manifests the sincere
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intention of amendment, or a martyr interceded for him. The
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Christians of the early Ages were most recent converts from
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Heathenism and needed rigorous treatment. Public penance generally consisted in
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exclusion from the company the faithful. Jesus said, if a
31:37
man will not listen to the Church, then be unto
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you as a heathen. Against not just excommunication, but Christians
31:43
were not actually supposed to speak to an excommunicated person.
31:46
They couldn't come to church, and they were supposed to
31:49
be an outcast, much like the Jews had treated the Samaritans.
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As such, really very strong terms the excommunicants communicate. The
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excommunicated were only allowed to kneel at the vestibule of
32:05
the church and to hear the first portion of the mess.
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That's it. They were not permitted to receive Holy communion
32:11
and as a rule, were not absolved until the expiration
32:14
of their term of penance. Now this is not someone
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who's a heretic who's been excommunicated. This was the normal
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penance you might get just going to your priests or
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confession saying you know, I did such and such, and
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I mean they were pretty tough in the early days,
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a lot easier these days, that's for sure. During the
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time of fixed days, they had to fast on bread
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and water. This public penance usually lasted seven years. Imagine
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that you go to your priest. I don't care what
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you did. It is probably gonna say say, you know,
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two hell Marys, and now for our father, I got
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one that you go to. I always know what the
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penance is going to be. He says, if you see
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someone who needs help this week, can you help them out? Yes, certainly, Father,
32:57
I can. Okay, I absolve your sins and the name
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of follows on the whole spirit. I mean, imagine seven
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years of fasting on bread and water and not being
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allowed to receive communion. This public penancey, you know, seven years,
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and it was only opposed for grave offenses such as
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apostasy or giving the Holy Scriptures into the hands of pagans. Yes,
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that's another thing. You know, all these Protestant groups, like
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say the Gideons that put Bibles into every motel room.
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People are always passing out bibles. You got to have
33:31
a Bible we got not. Actually, no. First of all,
33:37
every Bible that isn't an authorized Catholic Bible should really
33:42
be destroyed and burned. It's a false Bible. It has teaching,
33:46
false doctrine. The words of Christ have been changed to
33:50
fit the false teaching of Martin Luther, and whole books
33:52
have been cut out of it. This idea of giving
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out Bibles and trying to encourage people read the Bible
34:00
well meaning, of course, but the Bible must be interpreted
34:05
by the Church that God put on earth to teach
34:08
in his name, the church that gave us the Bible.
34:14
It was once an excommunical offense to give a heathen
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a Bible, a pagan, a non Christian and the reason
34:22
is because they were so often misused. In the first
34:25
few centuries of the Church, you had the Gnostics and
34:28
various heresies where they took the very Gospels and words
34:31
of the Christ and the Old Testament and made false religions,
34:36
absolutely false religions. In the Gnostic Church, which was actually
34:40
founded by Simon the Magician who's mentioned in the Acts
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of the Apostles, they taught that Jesus and the Devil
34:47
were brothers, and golly all kinds of really evil stuff.
34:53
I mean, literally turning Christianity on its head, and it
34:57
became a huge religion of the time. I mean the
35:03
Gnostic Heretics, which were essentially Satanists, were basically to modern times.
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Let's say, the Southern Baptist Church is to the Catholic
35:14
Church in America the second largest denomination. So yeah, and
35:20
I mean to this day, I mean, people think it's
35:23
the American idea that everyone should own and read a Bible.
35:28
No one should have a Bible that isn't authorized by
35:30
the Catholic Church and has explanatory notes like the good
35:34
old Dewey rings or the ignacious Yeah, where's my natious?
35:40
What version is this revised standard version. Of course Catholic addition, Now,
35:46
that would be good for everybody to have. But I
35:51
don't know what's this. Oh what's that guy's name sayings,
35:56
I'm proud to be an American, Lee Greenwood. Yeah, his
36:00
own Bible now and in it's the Decoration of Independence
36:04
of the Constitution of the United States. Now, I'm a
36:08
patriotic American. I have no nothing against Lee Greenwood. I
36:13
support Donald Trump one hundred percent. But I don't agree
36:17
at all with putting secular documents like the Constitution and
36:23
the Declaration in with the Holy Word of God. That
36:27
is heresy. That's that's horrible. That should never be allowed.
36:33
Donald Trump even has a Trump Bible. For a while
36:36
he stopped doing it, thank God. I mean his you know,
36:40
his wife was raised Catholic, I believe you know, she
36:43
married a divorced man. There's some probably some issue with
36:46
the church. But just yesterday was the Feast of the
36:50
Medical Conception. Donald Trump went out and did a speech
36:55
honoring the blessed Virgin Mary and closed with a Hell Mary.
36:59
Maybe some might told him, you know what, that Trump
37:03
Bible not such a good idea. If you want to
37:06
hand out the Dewey ringms, We'll be fine with that,
37:10
but maybe not the Trump Bible anyway. I know this is,
37:16
you know, very controversial. People think everybody should own and
37:19
read a Bible. Not everybody can understand the Bible. If
37:24
they did, there wouldn't be fifty thousand Protestant denominations, each
37:28
of which disagrees with the other about the meaning of
37:30
the words of the Bible. That's you know, Satan's the
37:35
father of lies. Satan's the father of confusion. Jesus prayed
37:39
that we all be one, one church, one doctrine, one Bible,
37:42
and one belief. It's fine to have it translated into
37:45
various languages. The Catholic Bible was the very first book
37:50
printed by Gutenberg on the Gutenberg Press authorized by the
37:54
Catholic Church. Before that, for centuries it had been translated
37:57
into English, French, Irish. Some of the most beautiful Bibles
38:03
ever written were done by Irish monks, with all kinds
38:05
of illustrations and all that. The Catholic Church never tried
38:09
to forbid people from having a Bible. They tried to
38:11
ensure that it was a correct, accurate, and complete Bible
38:15
and that people could actually understand it. Jesus left us
38:19
a church to teach his name. He did not leave
38:21
a Bible. The Bible didn't come around to about four
38:24
hundred years after the resurrection, I mean seriously, and then
38:28
it had to be copied by hand. I mean, it
38:31
was literally hundreds of years before the average Christian ever
38:34
saw a Bible. Well, they had was the teaching of
38:37
the apostles. Well anyway. It was also these stiff penances
38:44
were given for heinous crimes such as murder, and the
38:46
period was longer for that for lesser transgressions. Fast of
38:50
forty days was ordinary penance forty days. That's pretty tough.
38:55
That's lent, you know, but this is bread and water.
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But the Church knew that the design of God is
39:02
not so much to chastise as a sinner as to
39:05
detach him from earthly afflictions and lead him to a men.
39:09
Another common one was walk to Jerusalem barefoot. Wow, huh, yeah,
39:15
I'm not walking to Jerusalem. I mean, if if I
39:19
had to repentance, I'd have to take a boat or
39:22
something to get to the next continent and then I
39:25
could walk. But you know, the early Christians took Christianity very,
39:30
very seriously and they didn't even have a Bible, but anyway,
39:37
the point was to lead him to a men. Thus,
39:39
if the penitent showed by his conduct that his conversion
39:43
was not superficial but real, it was deemed unnecessary for
39:46
him to do further penance. Consequently, the penitential works were
39:50
in some cases partially or wholly remitted. Now, since Christians
39:54
form one body among themselves, the Communion of Saints, they
39:57
can make satisfaction for one another. Hence the martyrs pleaded
40:01
on behalf of the penitents. Saint Thomas Aquinas says that
40:04
what friends do for us, we do in measure for ourselves.
40:08
Since my reciprocity of affection, two are made one. That's
40:16
a very difficult way of saying. I can pray for you,
40:19
and you can pray for me. I can do penance
40:22
for you, and you can do penance for me. And
40:24
if you're a much more holy person than i am,
40:28
or if you're actually martyred for the faith, your penance
40:31
is going to help me a lot more than my
40:33
own on my own behalf. In later times, when public
40:38
penances were abrogated, the Church permitted the Contrite Center to
40:43
discharge the debt of temporal punishments due to sin by
40:46
means of alms, deeds, crusades, or pilgrimages. Jesus said, giving
40:50
alms covers the multitude sins. Protest is, Oh, you buy indulgences,
40:54
you buy forgiveness. Jesus said, giving alms covers a multitude
40:59
of sins. Protestants sin, say, well, what does it matter.
41:02
We're all forgiven anyway, and you don't have to do penance. Well,
41:05
if that be the case, what the hell do you
41:06
have against indulgences? I mean, really think about it. If
41:11
it doesn't even matter in the first place to the Protestant,
41:13
why are they complaining in the first place. I mean,
41:18
that was one of the ridiculous aspects of Martin Luther's argument. Oh,
41:23
they're paying for indulgences. Meanwhile, he said, it doesn't matter
41:27
what a Christian does, it matters what he believes. No
41:30
sin he could commit would jeopardize his salvation. Those are
41:33
direct quotes from Martin Luther. So what was his point?
41:37
What was his point? He said, sin boldly, Sin boldly,
41:42
because you can't jeopardition he committed. He said, he encourage
41:45
his followers to commit adultery and murder. And theft and
41:48
lying encouraged them to do that. Now again is Protestantism
41:54
of God or of the devil. Anyway, Formerly the penant
41:59
had to apply for disipensation or mitigation. Later on it
42:03
was offered by the church to the faithful. In the
42:05
Middle Ages, there were good reasons for emitting penances on
42:08
the payment of a sum of money, for in those
42:10
days greed and avarice prevailed. That is true, and we
42:14
know that every vice is best extirpated by its opposite virtue.
42:20
The money thus collected was expended on the erection of
42:23
churches and cathedrals. For the most part. This is how
42:27
the funds were raised to build Saint Peter's in Rome.
42:30
So when people were very greedy, the church said, hey,
42:32
is your penance. You got to give the church money.
42:34
There's nothing wrong with that. It built the churches, it
42:37
built the orphanages, it built the hospitals. Jesus said, the
42:41
giving of alms cover sins. At the Council of Claremont,
42:49
Council Claremont in you know what, I don't even know
42:55
what the sense means. At the Council of Claremont, inn
42:58
must be omitted or altered and all they're saying. He's saying.
43:03
At the Council of Claremont, it was said that penances
43:06
could be altered or omitted, and the prescription as the
43:10
time of place, et cetera, must be strictly observed. It's
43:15
just very poor, confusedly written. But the indulgence is not
43:19
lost on account of some trifling mistake. The indulgence attached
43:23
to some prayers may be gained each time they are repeated.
43:26
That's true. I pray, I don't know a dozen indulgence
43:29
prayers every day. One of those is for the unity
43:32
of all Christians. Some of them are so easy, like
43:37
my Jesus Mercy's. That's an indulgence prayer, I mean really,
43:43
in the case of others, only once a day. An
43:46
instance of places where indulgences may be granted, we may
43:49
mention the Via Crusus and Jerusalem, and the stations wherever
43:52
they are canonically erected, the stations of the Cross at
43:55
your local parish, the Skyla Santa and Roma. The stairway
44:00
that is in Pilot's house up and down which our
44:03
Lord was dragged. It consists of twenty eight marble steps
44:07
and was brought from Jerusalem to Rome by the Empress
44:10
Alena in three twenty six by snding this staircase on
44:14
one's knees, meditating. Meanwhile, in our Lord's passion, an indulgence
44:18
of nine years for every step may be granted. Large
44:21
indulgences are also granted for visiting the tomb of Holy Apostles.
44:25
I think it needs to be pointed out. I think
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I said this last week. When you say in an indulgence
44:30
of nine years, what does that mean? Well, it's been
44:33
clarified in recent years by the church. It comes down
44:36
to like when they would give a penance, they would
44:39
say you need to fast for nine years. Well, praying
44:44
on the steps there every step counts for nine years
44:50
of penance. It doesn't mean you can get nine years
44:52
off of purgatory because purgatory exists outside of time. It's
44:56
an eternity. So the Church has had to make that
44:58
clear a lot of times. Now you won't see certain
45:02
numbers of years, like the prayer to the Sacred Shoulder wind.
45:06
I believe the prayer card says seven years indulgence. Well, people,
45:11
you know I obviously believe that mant that's seven years
45:14
off o purgatory. No, it doesn't really work that way.
45:17
It means this praying, this prayer is the equivalent of
45:20
doing seven years of penance. So however that works out
45:24
at Attornity, I have no idea. Large indulgences are also
45:29
granted for visiting the tomb of the Holy Apostles, the
45:31
stations in Rome churches where remarkable relics are preserved, the
45:36
chapel of I have trouble with this word poor to
45:40
poor to umcula. I'm sure my Italian friend is laughing
45:46
at me right now. She's from Umbria and lives in Rome.
45:50
She would tell me it's not pronounced the way I
45:53
just said it. Anyway. In a CSI and there's a
45:56
poulture of Saint James and Compostella, besides many other an
46:01
instance of holy things and sacred As instances of holy
46:04
things and sacred objects to which indulgences may be attached,
46:08
we may mention crucifixes, metals, rosaries, pictures, statues, provided they
46:13
are not made of very fragile material. Your miraculous metal,
46:16
your crucifix, your scalpular, these are all things we should
46:20
have and use, along with holy water and blessed oil
46:23
and blessed salt. These objects must be blessed by the
46:27
sovereign pontiff or some priests possessing the powers. The indulgence
46:31
is lost at the object to which it is attached
46:33
is more than half destroyed. You do have to change
46:36
out your scapular every now and then. Unfortunately, if that
46:40
is to say, the greater part of the beads of
46:41
a rosary or worn away, or more than half of
46:44
the cross has fallen off from a set of stations,
46:47
or also if a blessed object is sold or lent
46:50
to another person for the sake of gaining indulgence, but
46:53
not if it is given away after being blessed. More
46:57
than one indulgence may be attached to the same rosary
47:00
crucifix can likewise be indulgence for the hour of death
47:03
and for the stations, but not one in the same
47:06
prayer will avail to gain all indulgences attached to one object.
47:10
Partial indulgences may be gained daily a plenary indulgence that
47:14
means plinari is full this Latin for full very frequently.
47:18
If the usual conditions are fulfilled, all crosses or rosaries
47:22
brought from the Palestine which have been touched by the
47:24
holy which have touched the only places have the papal
47:27
blessing attached to them. The members of confraternities and some
47:31
secular priests have personal indulgences granted to them, and indulgences
47:35
see either pleinary when a full and entire emission of
47:38
all temporal punishment due to sin is gained, or partial
47:41
when only a portion of the temporal punishment is remitted.
47:45
Indulgences are ordinarily greater or less in proportion to the
47:48
prescribed works. For a small work of small indulgence, for
47:51
a work of difficulty, a large indulgence is granted. Let
47:54
no one imagine that it is easy, an easy thing,
47:57
to gain a plenary indulgence. So he who retains any
48:01
undue attachment to all earthly things is not altogether free
48:05
from the guilt of sin. In other words, in order
48:07
to get the indulgence one you have to be in
48:09
the community of the church. You have to have gone
48:11
to confession, and you have to have completely reformed your
48:15
life and given up that sin that you need the
48:17
indulgence for. It doesn't work if you're not contrite and
48:23
haven't reformed your life. More consequently, from the penalty of
48:27
sins than he yet needs purification by suffering. Only in
48:30
as far as the offense against God is hateful to
48:33
the penitent, does God remit the chastisement due to his justice.
48:38
In other words, you have to be very sorry for
48:41
that sin because you've offended God and resolved not to
48:44
do it again, and then you can receive the indulgence.
48:47
Plenary indulgence are granted by the Church provided that we
48:49
apply the sacraments and pray for the Holy Father's intentions
48:52
besides performing the prescribed work. Sometimes the condition of visiting
48:57
a church is at it. For instance, for daily acts
49:00
three theological virtues, faith, hope, and Love, a plenary indulgence
49:04
may be gained at any one day in the month
49:06
on the usual conditions. Another one the every evening I
49:11
do the I cannot remember the name of the other
49:15
prayers that it'll come to me in a minute, but yeah,
49:19
the three faith, Hope and Love prayers. The same privilege
49:25
is attached to other prayers, such as Sweetest Heart of Jesus,
49:27
I implore that I may love the more and more.
49:30
That's one usually taught children. It's the one you say
49:32
every day throughout your life, into your ninety nine or
49:34
hundred and ten. It's just as simple it can be
49:37
to gain an indulgence. Those who are in the habit
49:39
of going to confession every week contain any can gain
49:42
any indulgence in the course of the week without going
49:45
again to confession. Except the Jubilee indulgence. More than one
49:49
plenary indulgence may be gained at one and the same communion,
49:54
provided that the works prescribed for each severally may be accomplished.
49:58
If a visit to a church or a public chech
50:00
apple was enjoined, it must be made on a separate occasion.
50:04
In foreign persons are only required to get a confession
50:06
instead of receiving communion and visiting a church. If these
50:09
be the conditions, they can gain the indulgence by performing
50:12
some other work prescribed by their confessor. All who, by
50:16
illness or other unavoidable circumstances are prevented from visiting a
50:20
church do not lose the indulgence if they fulfill all
50:23
the conditions within their power prayer for the intentions of
50:26
the church, or left to everyone's discretion. In general, five
50:30
our Fathers and five Hill Marys are considered sufficient. They
50:34
must be repeated audibly either before or after communion, and
50:38
offered up for the peace of Christian princes and the
50:43
extirpation of heresy and exaltation of the Church. Remember when
50:48
Father Spirago wrote this in eighteen ninety, there were still
50:51
Christian kings and princes. We don't have many of those anymore.
50:55
There may be a few left, maybe hungry, I don't know,
51:02
somewhere in the Balkans. Probably we don't have many Christian
51:07
kings or princes anymore. We do pray for the end
51:11
of heresy, in the unity of all Christians, and of
51:13
course the exultation of the Church. The most important plenary
51:17
indulgences are the Jubilee indulgence, the indulgence of poor tiuncula
51:25
por do you got it? I am so not good
51:28
at Italian And that of the papal benediction. If it's food,
51:32
I know it. You know, ask me any shape of
51:34
pasta or you know I got that? But portiun you
51:39
know PORTI, I forget it. The Jubilee indulgence is granted
51:44
every twenty five years to the whole church and lasts
51:48
for the whole year. The Jews kept the fifteenth years
51:51
the year of Jubilee or rejoicing fifteenth or fiftieth. I'm
51:56
sorry fiftieth. I know I've misread that. We have already
51:59
explained how custom was introduced to the Church. The conditions
52:02
for gaining it are the reception of the sacrament sacraments.
52:06
You've got to go to confession and receive the ucurs,
52:08
and the visit to a church. Besides at least one
52:11
day of fasting an alms in the jubilee year. All
52:15
other indulgences for the living are suspended except that of
52:18
the Angelus and for the hour of death. Angelus is
52:21
Angel of claud declared them to marry, you know, and
52:25
praying for people the hour of death or the hour
52:27
of your own death. But if applied to the dead,
52:29
they can continue in force. As a rule, the jubilee
52:32
indulgences can be gained only begained once, and that for oneself,
52:37
but sometimes it is otherwise. Occasionally an extra jubilee is
52:41
proclaimed by the sovereign pontiff under special circumstances, so this
52:45
is his accession to the papal throne, the opening of
52:48
a council, etc. And of course we just recently had
52:50
a jubilee year. I hope you took advantage of it.
52:53
I hope I did as well. Hard to remember right now.
52:56
The indulgence of poor to Gula can be gained repeatedly
53:02
on the second of August and on the evening before,
53:06
as often, in fact, as anyone who has been to
53:09
Confession and Communion visits the Poortiugila chapel or any other
53:16
public chapel of the Franciscans or Poor Claires. That's good
53:20
because I'm obviously not going to a chapel in Italy.
53:24
Considering that I don't fly, there aren't that many ships going. No,
53:28
I don't fly commercial. I absolutely love to fly small planes.
53:33
My great uncle taught me to fly when I was
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a child. I love to fly. I hate flying commercial.
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I despise getting on a public aircraft. Not gonna happen.
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If I could take a boat to Italy, I'd give
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it a shot. But anyway, any chapel of the Franciscans
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or Poor Claires and praise for the intention of the
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Holy Father. The indulgences originated in this wise when Saint
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Francis was praying in his favorite church near our Lord
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appeared to him with his blessed mother and several saints.
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Francis entreated our Lord to grant plenary indulgences to all who,
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after approaching the sacrament, should visit that church. Our Lord
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considered consented, bidding him go to the Pope who would ratify.
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And the prescription as the time, of place, etc. Could
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be admitted or altered, but must be strictly observed. But
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the indulgence is not lost on account of some trifling mistake.
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The indulgence attached to some prayers may be gained each
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time they repeated, in the case of others, only once
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a day. As instances of places where indulgence may be gained,
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we may mention the via cruses in Jerusalem, and the
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stations the Scalusanta and Rome, the stations across in any
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Catholic church by the way, or a public in Catholic country.
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Sometimes they have them beside the road. Uh this there? Okay,
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you know what, I just started reading the same page
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over again, So let me where did I mess that up? Okay?
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So Francis went to Rome, and there we go. The
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Holy Father granted the indulgence, fixing it the second of August. Later,
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Pontus extended it to all public chapels of the Franciscan
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Order and to some others. These indulgence can be gained
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once for oneself. If gained more often, they must be
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applied to someone else, so you can go get indulgence
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for someone else. The communion need not be necessarily made
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In a church of the Order. A plenary indulgence may
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be gained by all who, after confession and communion and
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prayer for the intention of the church, receive the papal benediction.
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Previously the year eighteen seventy, this used to be solemnly
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given after High Mass on Great Festivals from the balcony
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of Saint Peter's. Bishops and priests are now again authorized
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to give papal blessings to their flocks on special occasions,
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such as the clothes of a mission get a sip
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of water. Here, a plenary or a give full indulgence
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may be gained the hour of death by those who,
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having received the sacraments and invoked the Holy Name, receive
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the papal blessing, or keep beside them some blessed object
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blessed by the Holy Father. Also by members of confraternities.
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Most confraternities, he said, we'll get in confraternities. Later, very
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good reason to join a confraternity. Okay, I'm a member
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of the two confraternities. Let us think the well, the
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Miraculous Medal and the Rosary. Obviously you need to check
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into that. And when we get into that, you'll understand
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it's very important to be a member of a confraternity.
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And by all who have daily recited the three acts
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of faith, Hope and charity or some other similarly indulgence
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prayer if a sick man. And by the way, I
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mean Saint Teresa Villa. It was going back very long ago.
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What was she eleven something I can remember when she
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were fifteen, fifteen, eleven hundred, I think it was eleven hundred.
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She said that very often, you know, the nuns of
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her order had to go to purgatory and they would
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appear to her and she would pray for them and everything.
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You know, people in religious life, you are held a
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much higher standard. But God willing, will all get that chance.
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But there was one that prayed the acts of faith,
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Hope and charity, and gosh, what is the name of
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that prayer? It's through the Sacred Heart of Jesus. You're
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asking the Father to perfect, forgive, forgive the sins you've
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done this day, perfect what you should have done, you know,
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make up for what you failed to do. I cannot
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remember the name of that prayer or the exact words,
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even though I say it every night. Then you say
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the three acts of faith, Hope, and charity, and said
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that one nun, who she probably thought was going to
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have a harder time than others, went straight to heaven
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because she had prayed that prayer every night. She got
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the indulgences from that prayer so very important. I have
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an old missile from nineteen forty that had it in
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there and said, pray this daily. So I started praying it.
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Didn't even know why I was praying it. The missile
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said pray it, so I prayed it. Now I'm really
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glad I did. After reading Saint Theresa a Villa. If
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a sick man desires of gaining a plenary indulgence should
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find it impossible to receive the sacraments, he may at
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least make an act of contrition. If he cannot utter
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the name of Jesus with his lips, he can at
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any rate invoke it in his heart. In any case,
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perfect conformity to the will of God isil is essential.
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The majority of priests are empowered to give the papal
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benediction to the dying. Those who have received the necessary
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faculties can indulgence, crosses, metals and the like for the
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hour of death. It is enough if the fates will
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keep the objects thus blessed in their houses to enable
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them to gain the indulgence. Indulgence for the hour of
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death are also attached to membership of various confraternities. They
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may also be gained by making acts of faith, hope
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and shary daily and one's own words and otherwise. The
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same applies to several other short prayers, such as Angel
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of God et cetera, that the one we said earlier,
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Angel of God my guardian, dear to who his love
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comments we have over the state side of the light
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and guard to ruin God. There we go Indulgence is
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obtained the hour of death are purely personal. They cannot
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even be applied to the soul's in purgatory. As the
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dying cannot, with the best of wills, perform works of penance,
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the Church almost entirely exempts them from the obligation of
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trying to discharge the temporal debt of punishment to their sins.
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The partial aduldness is granted by the Church are generally
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a quadrina or forty days or a period of one
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hundred days a year, five or seven years, fairly rarely
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for thirty or one hundred years. And again we don't
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really do that so much anymore because it caused so
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much confusion. But if you understand the reason, you'll understand
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the old cards, which I really like. Those fixed periods
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do not mark the number of days or years by
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which the purgatory fires are abridge. They do but indicate
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that as much of the temporal punishment of sin is
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remitted as would have been remitted by a corresponding period
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of the canonical penances formally imposed on penances penitence. Very
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complicated way of saying that counts for say, seven years
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of penance, not seven years of purgatory, because, as I said,
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purgatories outside of time. The Pope alone has the power
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to grant indulgences which are for the whole church, for
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in him alone jurisdiction over the whole church is vested,
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and he is a steward of the church's treasures. Bishops
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have the power to grant partial indulgences, but only for
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those in their own dioceses, just as secular magistrates can
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only judge cases which come within the sphere of their
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jurisdictional bishops are sometimes authorized by the Holy Seat of
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grant indulgences of a year or forty days. On such occasions,
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the dedication of a church. Indulgences may also be applied
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by way of suffrage to the suffering souls in purgatory,
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if these to be expressly stated respecting the indulgence, a
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plenary indulgence is gained for them every time the Holy Mass,
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the Holy Sacrifice of Mass is offered on a privileged altar.
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The Communist Saints enables us to assist the holy souls
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in purgatory by applying to them are good works, those
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good works, that is to which the remission of temporal
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punishment is attached. If we desire to gain an indulgence
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for the faithful departed, we must see that we are
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ourselves in a state of grace. Let him who would
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help deliver the holy souls from purgatory, as Saint Francis Xavior,
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first see that he delivers his own soul from hell.
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The application of indulgences to the souls that departed is
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by way of suffrage, not of absolution. It is by
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no means certain that the individual for whom a plenary
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indulgence is gained will be forthwith release from purgatory. The
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amount of punishment there I remitted to him rests entirely
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with God. To determine the indulgence of the privileged altar
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consists in this that whatever mass is celebrated from that
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particular altar, a plenary indulgence is given from the treasures
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of the church to one of the soul's in purgatory.
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In every cathedral there is one such altar, and in
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many parish churches or churches of an order, the altars
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thus privileged are generally indicated by the inscription altare privilegantum
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privileged altar. In other words, and a black vestment must
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be used when Mass is said at one of them,
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if the rubrics allow it. Of the day, the privilege
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must be renewed, in other words, that the priests can't
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wear black that day, he doesn't have to. The indulgences
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can be gained for one individual only, and for that
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one the mass must be offered, but the priests may
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include his intention for other persons to cease. The intention
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of the priests is not necessary to the gaining of indulgence.
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It will be seen that by no other means as
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a plenary indulgence so surely gained as by this, since
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it depends entirely upon the offering of the holy sacrifice,
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not upon the spiritual state of any individual. So if
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you have an indulgence a privileged altar, if you can
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get to one, and you can offer a mass for
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someone who has passed away, you should absolutely do so.
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Hope someone will for me, I doubt it. When very
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soon I have no family left, so I think I'll
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probably be entirely forgotten. But whether the mass is celebrated
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at the privileged altar affects that the complete deliverance of
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the soul from the pains of purgatory cannot be known,
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as it depends solely on the mergency of God. Priests
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who have made the heroic active charity for holy souls
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have the same privilege in their own person. The gaining
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of indulgences is most salutary, according to the Council of Trent,
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because we thereby keep far from us temporal evils, and
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are simulated to the accomplishment of good works. The indulgences
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we gain avert us from sickness, calamities, teptations, etc. Which,
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if no indulgence be gained, come upon us as a
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temporal punishment of sin. Thus, those who neglect this practice
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may be compared to a traveler who, although he might
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reach his destination by a short and easy route, prefers
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to take some long and toilsome road. Here's his own
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worst enemy. Some people take exception to the doctrine of indulgences,
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but this is because they don't understand it. Others condemn
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it because of the abuses of the Middle Ages. Was
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there ever a good and holy thing which was not
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misused by the wicked? The abuse of a thing does
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not disminish it diminish its usefulness. The abuse of a
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thing does not diminish its usefulness. Beautifully stated. Actually, that's
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quite well stated. Therefore, did not despise indulgences, for by
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despising them many have fallen into error and perdition. Well, yes, fathers,
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Spirago put a good period on the end of that sin.
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I think we'll wrap it up here you'll have a
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great week, and I'll talk to you next time.