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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. We're going to continue
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to discuss the life of Christ today, which of course absolutely fascinating. We'll
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get into that information from fathershiparago here in a minute, but before we do,
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let's pick back up on where we were. Where we left off in
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radio, replies the Anglican, who is confronting the priests and essentially arguing that
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all denominations are equally valid, which obviously is a very difficult position for a
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Protestant to argue, because all there are fifty thousand Protestant nominations, each of
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whom disagree with each other, and all of whom disagree with the Catholic Church.
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They are Protestants because they are protesting Catholicism in essence, the person says,
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But in the end, is not religion a matter of opinion? And
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the pre's answer, if you accept the Catholic Church mean leave it out.
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I'm afraid it is. The other churches think so. That the other churches
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think so is shown by the amazing exchanges of pulpits and attendees. But the
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Catholic Church is a different thing altogether. But they mean exchanges of pulpits and
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attendees. Is people keep switching from one church to another. A Catholics,
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a Catholic, a Protestant can go to any number of churches. And we
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have, of course many many schisms and breaks in all the Protestant nominations.
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That's why there are so many. I mean, you know, it started
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out with basically just Lutheranism and Anglicanism, and they kept branching off and branching
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off, as one would disagree with this doctrine or that doctrine, until we're
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at the point where there are tens of thousands. Until we prove a thing,
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it is a matter of opinion. Thus, before Australia was discovered,
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it was a matter of opinion as to whether a southern continent existed or not.
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But once discovered, it was no longer a matter of opinion. So
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too, if God had never given a revelation about religion, it might be
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a matter of opinion. But once God speaks in a definite way, it
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is no longer a matter of opinion. When the Creator speaks, the creature
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must simply accept. Now, God sent his son Jesus Christ. He was
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who established one definite church to which he gave his teaching authority. This does
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not look like religion being a matter of opinion. Here we have God's decision
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and we must accept it. If our human opinion suggests anything against the teaching
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of Christ or against the teaching of his church, we just renounce our own
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fallible ideas as being the foolish notions of untaught children. The prize that clings
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to his own opinions, whether they are in harmony with God's explicit teachings or
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not, Nor does he make much effort to find out what those teachings are.
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That's all too true. But God would no more admit that the religion
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revealed to him as a matter of opinion than your grocer would admit the amount
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owing to him is a mere matter of opinion. Person says, would it
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not be better to say that religion is a matter of conscience? And they
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say no. If the individual conscience is to be the guide, there will
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be as many religions as consciences. There are right consciouces and wrong consciences.
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Conscious is right if it squares to the laws of God. It is warped
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if it be at variance with the will of God. However, if conscience
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alone matters, why did not Christ leave us to our consciences instead of carefully
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his teaching his apostles. Instead of carefully teaching his apostles a definite set of
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doctrines to be preached and to be believed, conscience must accept. Conscience must
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accept the teachings of Christ, who could neither be deceived nor deceive us.
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And the person asks why try to convert people of the Catholic Church? And
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they answer, Christ try to convert people to his special doctrines, And why
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did he send his church to teach on nations? If God gives the truth
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to man by sending his son, is it not better to have the truth
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to guide one's conduct? Or is it better to be impartial or total ignorance,
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omitting much that it ought to be done, and being forgiven by God
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only because not knowing any better. To know the truth and live exactly as
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God intends is much better than asking to be excused from it on the plea
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of ignorance. As I mentioned before, I was rather amazed at a certain
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Southern Baptists reversing that most people, most of the ones there in attendance,
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really did not understand Southern Baptist or Protestant in general doctrine. They just knew
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what they were basically knew what they were taught as children in Sunday School,
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and one of the things they were taught was Catholicism was evil and awful when
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we're Satan worshipers, so and we're not allowed to read the Bible. So
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when they talk about the ignorance of Protestants in general being unfortunate, yeah,
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it really is. And the more we can well it was, Oh,
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it was an English saint convert to Catholicism. What was his name. It's
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on the tip of my tongue. It will probably come to me in a
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moment. He said. To be was it. To be steeped in history
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is to no longer be Protestant. Basically, the more history you learn,
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the more you have to become Catholic, because well, otherwise you have to
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accept the notion that for fifteen hundred years there was no Christian Church that gave
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you the Bible, because there was only the Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ.
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The same church that compiled and the Old Testament wrote the New Testament that
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gives you a religion. Starting with Martin Luther, John Henry Newman got it.
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It was yes, Saint John Henry Newman who said that history would lead
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people to become Catholic. It certainly was a case for me without a doubt.
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So you know, I just started asking like simple questions of if there
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was another church beside the Catholic Church a thousand years ago, where are the
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buildings, where are the cemeteries, where are the records? And there aren't
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any, So there you have it. I mean, it's like when you
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get into a conversation with a Mormon and they start telling you that Jesus came
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to America after his resurrection and taught the Native Americans and they built these great
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cities, and you're like, okay, where are they? I mean,
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we have archaeological evidence in Egypt, which would be like ten thousand years old,
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well not quite six thousand years old, I guess, And you're telling
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me that just you know, two thousand years ago at the very longest.
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These Native American tribes we're not talking you know, the Aztecs and Mayans.
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We're talking tribes right here in North America had these grand cities and sophisticated cultures,
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and there's no archaeological evidence what happened, well, they didn't exist.
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Actually, what we do find a lot and this is something that you know,
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modern culture is not going to tell you a bit. You're not gonna
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learn this in school. Pits of human bones with teeth marks on them,
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you'll be taught in school. How awful it was that Christianity came and gave
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the true religion to Native Americans, which is exactly what happened. And sometimes
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especially the span were not exactly nice about it, but they were eating each
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other. And I say that as someone with a good bit of Native American
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heritage, I would much rather be a Christian going to church on Sunday than
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being afraid my native, my neighboring tribe was going to come over and either
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take me as a slave or eat me. But that's what it was.
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I mean, you know, seriously, and speaking of the more advanced of
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the at least archaeological, architecturally advanced Mayans and Aztecs and Umecs and told texts
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and all that, the ones that built you know, pyramids and stuff done
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in yu Contan area of South America, which are gorgeous. I mean,
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the mines were very advanced civilization and they're very peaceful. The Aztecs especially practiced
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human sacrifice and to their you know, demonic pagan gods, and they pretty
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much subjugated the Mayans by eating them, keeping them in cages and raising them
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for food. So you know, maybe the Spanish and the Portuguese and such
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were a little harsh. And you know, in our day and age,
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the Catholic Church says, we're not supposed to convert forced people could convert Catholicism,
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obviously, but what was the alternative? They were practicing human sacrifice in
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eating people. I mean, come on, we're not exactly talking, you
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know, apples to apples here. It's not a one to one comparison.
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The same is true of my Irish ancestry. The Druids were quite violent and
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cruel, quite man so, I mean, you know, the German tribes,
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I mean, my gosh, Catholicism. Christianity spread after the whole Roman
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empers Charlemagne through the Germanic tribes fairly rapidly, and probably because they were a
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lot of them were very tired of warlords just raping and pillaging and slaughtering everybody.
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I mean, Christianity was the great civilizing force that essentially led people to
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become peaceful and educated and humane and to actually have concepts such as human rights.
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Slavery was almost abolished until well, I guess it's leading up to the
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so called Enlightenment, and it was the rise of the nation state where kings
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started saying that they ruled in the stead of God and they didn't need to
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listen to the pope i e. You know, King Henry the Eighth,
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that they started practicing slavery again. It was really on its way out.
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I mean, the world was a horribly violent place before Christianity, and now
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that most of the world has turned away from the Catholic Church, we're really
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descending into that quite rapidly. We are on the brink of World War III.
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After all, slavery is being practiced openly in America thanks to human trafficking
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mostly across our southern border, aid IT and embedded by freaking Catholic charities.
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I mean, come on, y'all, it's time to get back to basics.
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Let's get back to just read the Catechism and try to live it.
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I mean, look at the perversion, the filth, the pornography, the
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drag queen story hours all because people will not accept that God gave us an
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actual moral code that supersedes our own opinions. As the priest was just trying
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to explain. I had a conversation over the weekend with an ex girlfriend who
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keeps saying, oh, I would convert to the Catholic Church, but I
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don't agree with their position on homosexuality. And I'm like, Okay, it's
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a church. Should they teach what's in the Bible. Yes, well,
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the church has to teach. Well, here's what Saint Paul said, homosexuals
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won't go to heaven. That's pretty harsh, isn't it. Well, the
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Catholic Church says, we treat a person with same sex attraction with every bit
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of compassion, but we say that sex among same sex peoples, men and
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men, women and women is immoral. This just the same as we do
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adultery and bestiality and etc. Now, if God said that, it makes
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it by definition true. She can't accept that. She cannot accept because she
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thinks modern culture, especially the medical field, is the arbiter of morality.
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It's not. God is, in his church the only authority on earth with
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the well the authority that He gave them to teach in his stead to preserve
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it. But anyway, you know, what do you do? She was
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raised Lutheran. Martin Luther changed the words of Jesus to fit his doctrine,
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So I guess she was literally taught that you can change the words of God
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to fit whatever you do. Think. It's a shame, it's a real
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shame. And yeah, I'm not gonna say her name, but if you
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want to say a prayer for it, I'd sure appreciate it because she's a
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very smart girl, and you know, maybe God willing, someday she'll get
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it right. But there's a whole lot of faulty education that went on there
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and indoctrination. So well, let's get onto the life of Christ. This
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is now we're getting into. So now we talk about the public life of
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Christ. You know, there's not much recorded in the Bible between the age
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of twelve when he got lost in the temple or miss missing in the temple.
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He certainly wasn't lost to when he started his public ministry, and I
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don't recall. I think it was one of the popes said that during this
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time he sanctified normal life. You know, he was obedient to his parents,
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probably a fairy, quiet child. You know, the Bible says that
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he did all things well, so you know he was, I guess,
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an apprentice carpenter under Saint Joseph, who seems to be more of like a
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tool and furniture maker, which you know, I think is awesome because I'm
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a wood carver, and I like this idea that that quiet, unseen life
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of a normal person, you know, the people forgotten. You know what
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Hillary of Clinton called us, the deplorables, was sanctified by our Lord during
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this period of time. He wasn't rich or famous. He wasn't you know,
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going to universities and a scholar, I mean, or anything like that.
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He wasn't politically powerful. He was just normal. So by age of
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around thirty, he was baptized by Saint John the Baptist, obviously in the
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River Jordan Matthew three point thirteen, and then fasted forty days in the desert
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where he was tempted by the devil. It's a long fast, okay,
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I've never fasted for forty days. I don't think I could handle it.
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All Stolic men have sought retirement before entering on their mission. By retirement,
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he means, you know, withdrawing from the world right e g. Moses,
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John the Baptist, the Apostles before the coming of the Holy Spirit.
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By his fasting and his victory over the devil, Christ would satisfy for adam,
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self indulgence and the defeat in the garden in Paradise. The number forty
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has a special significance. It rained forty days on the earth of the flood.
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Moses and Elias fasted for forty days. The Ninovites had forty days in
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which to repent. Christ dwelt on earth for forty days after his resurrection,
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the Jews wandered for forty years in the desert. And by the way,
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when I said faster forty days, most people would take one meal of bread
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and water during a fast. Jesus was out the desert by himself. You
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know, he couldn't have that much bread with him. So seriously, that's
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quite the example that I don't think I could live up to. Honestly,
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Yeah, I mean, wow, I don't I have trouble just getting through
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one day of a fast, like on Fridays during Lent or something ash Wednesday.
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It's tough. So during this time out let me see. The forty
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days of Lent are intended to commemorate the Fasting of Christ. They begin on
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ash Wednesday and continue to Easter. During this time, those who are of
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age should take only one full of meal a day, and all Christians should
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avoid boisterous amusements and meditating on the sufferings of Christ. Thus, sermons are
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preached on the sufferings of Christ. On Passion Sunday, the images in the
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church are veiled and the priests says the Mass in purple vestments. The three
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days before ash Wednesday are called Shrovetide in order to divert the faithful from vicious
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pleasures. It is useful is usual in some places to have an exposition of
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the blessed Sacrament. Probably not too familiar with that term shrove Tide unless you're
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English, because they actually do continue the tradition of shove Shrove Tuesday, where
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they eat pancakes to get rid of halthy eggs and sugar and butter in the
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house, and they have little ceremonies around that races with pancake flipping, and
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it's kind of fun, you know. It's sort of the English version of
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fat Tuesday. On that one. I'll give them one point to the English,
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including the Anglicans, they're probably a little bit more moral in their celebration
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of Shrove Tuesday than many many around New Orleans and such on Fat Tuesday.
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It's gotten little hedonistics, to say the least, but it comes from a
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you know, an important tradition. Point number two. Christ talked for about
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three and a half years, gathered some seventy two disciples, and from these
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shows twelve apostles. Very important point. We know Protestant churches they call himself
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apostles so and so or you know, they call themselves all disciples. No,
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Jesus Christ actually hand picked those people. They have no authority in calling
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themselves that. His first miracle was at the wedding feast at Cana, to
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teach mankind that the heaven to which he would lead us as a wedding feast
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Matthew twenty two to two. He often addressed large crowds counting for five thousand,
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as in the case of the miraculous multiplication of the loaves. Imagine that
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in the ancient world, I mean yeah, Donald Trump can gather a crowd
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of five thousand, and in modern times word of mouth. People are just
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going out to see him in the middle of nowhere. You know, amazing.
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Actually, the constant companion of Christ were the apostles and disciples, who
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heard his words and saw his deeds and published them later to the world.
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The bishops of the Church are prefigured in the apostles, and the priests and
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the seventy two Disciples. The teachings of Christ is rightly called the evangelum good
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tidings, or by our English name gospel i e. God's spell or narrative.
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Christ is the master among teachers. He taught as one having power,
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so that the people marveled at his doctrine Mark one two. In Matthew seven
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twenty nine. Christ taught so that all might understand him without difficulty. He
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used plain, homely words and illustrated his teaching with signs and parables and by
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reference to natural objects. Christ's teaching is likened to a treasure buried in a
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field, pearl of great value Matthew thirteen forty four. The language of apostolic
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men has always been simple. Their object, not so much to please,
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is to be understood and to be useful. The signs which the Christ made
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use of were breathing on the apostles when he gave them the Holy Spirit,
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lifting up his hands in Luke fifty, when he gave them the power to
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teach and baptize, spitting on the earth, and making clay with which he
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touched the eyes of the man born blind. It's very important to understand that
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Christ used physical signs. You know, Protestants don't like our physical signs.
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They don't like our holy water, they don't like our statues, they don't
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like the Eucharist. But Jesus made use of creation. He sanctified creation as
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well, always sending the man to wash the pool of silo. All these
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things signified that the living doctrine which has imparted to man the creature of earth
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from the mouth of God, is to clear his spiritual sight, and even
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after the washing of baptism, is still necessary. The parables used were,
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for example, the prodigal Son, the goods American Samarian Divas and Lazaruses Lazarus
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and the rich Man, the wise and foolish Virgins, the good Shepherd,
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the lost sheep, the loss groat groat. He said, I don't know
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what a groat is. Is it a goat? I have no idea anyway,
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the fig tree, the laborers, and the vineyard. I don't remember
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lost road were goad. I'm confused on that one. I have to look
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it up later. The fig tree, the labors, and the vineyard,
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etc. And the seven figures of the Kingdom of Heaven, such as the
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Pearl of great Price, the buried treasure, the scene, the grain of
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mustard seed, the cockle and the wheat, the soar of the leaven.
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The objects in nature on which he drew for illustration were, among other,
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shepherds with his sheep, the lilies of the field, crops, the vineyard,
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et cetera. It is only reasonable that nature and religion should have many
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religious resemblances, coming as they do from the same God. The poor were
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especial objects of christ mission. His own words of Disciple of John were the
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poor had the Gospel preached them Matthew eleven five in the Synagogue of Nazareths.
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He applied to himself as the Messiah Luke four the words of the prophet to
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preach the Gospel to the poor. He hath sent me. The leading idea
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in the teaching of Christ was seek the Kingdom of God. His own words
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and the Sermon of the Mount Worf, seeky first the Kingdom of God Matthew
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six point thirty three. The Evangelites sum up his teachings in the words do
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penance and believe in the Gospel, for the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh Matthew
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four seventeen and Mark one fifteen. Christ taught a new rule of faith,
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gave new commandments, and established a new system of means of grace. For
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example, he taught the mystery of the Blessed Trinity, his own divinity,
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the Last Judgment. He gave the two Precepts of Love, and extended the
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Ten Commandments forbidding rash, anger and harsh words. That's a tough one to
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keep, isn't it. He instituted the Mass in the seven Sacraments and taught
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us the Our Father point number three. Christ proved his divine mission and truth
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of his doctrine by many miracles, by his knowledge of all things, and
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by the holiness of his life. Christ himself appealed to his miracles. Though
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you would not believe me, believe the works John ten thirty eight. Nicodemus
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was convinced of the divine mission of Christ by his miracles No man can do
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these signs which thou dost, unless God be with him. He said in
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John three to two. Christ of his own power work miracles others in the
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name of God or Christ. Christ knew all things, the most hidden sins
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of men, those are the smiritan woman, Those are the Pharisees who dragged
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before him the woman taken an adultery. He knew Judas's plot against himself,
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of Peter's coming denial, and related many incidents of his passion, just as
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they afterwards happened. We see in Christ the highest holiness never were seen before
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or since. Such patience, gentleness, love, etc. How could such
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a one say anything but the truth. The scribes and Pharisees hated and persecuted
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him because he failed to realize their carnal views of the Messiah, didn't understand
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them remember old language again. He failed to realize or embody that would be
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a good word. He didn't look like they thought he was going to look,
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or he didn't do what they thought he was going to do. And
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because he publicly rebuked their sins after the Raising of Lazarus, they resolved to
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seek his death. They tried to stone him in the temple John ten thirty
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one, and at Nazareth to cast him over a cliff. They colluminated him,
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calling him an agent of the devil calumny, you know, I mean,
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they said false sings about him. Here we go Matthew twelve twenty four.
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They called him a leader of the revolt, Sabbath breaker. They tried
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to catch him in his speech. As in the case of Caesar's coin.
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The Jews thought that the Messiah was to be an earthly being who would free
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them from the Roman yoke and raise them above the nations of the earth,
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instead of which he came in poverty and lowly and saw it self denial,
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mercy, et cetera. Besides, he accused the Pharisees of hypocrisy, calling
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them white walsh wash, the pultures Matthew twenty three, twenty seven, and
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children of the devil in John eight forty four. See, y'all, we've
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gone about a half hour. We'll wrap it up here. Tomorrow we'll pick
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up with the sufferings of the Christ. That'll be, oh, probably a
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bit longer of a show, because it's a bit longer of a topic.
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And I think we probably have one more one more section. One more day
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we'll spend on the life of Christ. You know what more important is there
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to spend time on? So you know, I wanted to take a couple
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of weeks on this. You know what did I do? Four shows last
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week? I missed yesterday due to a family situation. I'll try to do
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at least three this week and wrap this section up. Y'all have a good
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one. I hope you stand warm and dry, and this at least is
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cold and wet here. I know it's cold and dry in some places.
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And you know, if you're fortunate enough to be on the other side of
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the world right now, in the Southern hemisphere, I guess it wouldn't be
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the other side, it would be the other polarity. But anyway, you're
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enjoying summer, and you're probably laughing at us freezing our butts off here in
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America. But anyway you look at it, I hope you have a good
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one and remember the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope, and
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don't worry. And speaking of which, there is now a Saint Peo Foundation,
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I guess there has been for a while. They're releasing weekly letters from
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Saint Peo. I've been reading it. Yeah, they're really really good.
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Really of course, I mean it's Saint Po. Why wouldn't they be also
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Saint Faustina, Saint Faustina Kulawska, the Divine Mercy Organization is sending out daily
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little you know bits from her diary. Her diary is quite large, very
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inspirational. So you know, if you're looking for some good resources, good
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little morning inspiration doesn't take you on in like five minutes to read, do
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be sure check those out. They're really really good. And remember I'm sending
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out daily gospel reflections through the uncensored Catholic newsletter on substack. So I hope,
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you know, I hope you find something that can can give you a
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little help in your in your day. Nothing is, of course going to
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be praying the Rosary, going to mask, going to adoration all that,
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but you know, a little inspiration from the saints, and even a you
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know, someone who's obviously not a saint, such as myself, might help
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you a little bit in your in your day, you know, So have
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a good one. Drop to you next time.