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#760 A Spiritual Awakening: The World Is Passing Away, Saint John Paul II and Archbishop Fulton Sheen: Prophets for Our Time · Claymore: Become Who You Are

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SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
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SPEAKER_01: Good to be with you.
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SPEAKER_01: Today's episode is titled The Spiritual Awakening.
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SPEAKER_01: The World is Passing Away.
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SPEAKER_01: John Paul II and Bishop Fulton Sheen warned us about what was coming in our time.
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SPEAKER_01: And we've been warned.
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SPEAKER_01: And today we have to jump into the battle and take the salvation of our own souls and the eternal souls of those who God has entrusted to us very seriously.
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SPEAKER_01: We all sense this, especially since COVID.
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SPEAKER_01: Many of the young people that I'm speaking to really sense that we've entered into a spiritual battle that's rapidly accelerating between those who seek to reject God and build back better, as the globalists promise with a smile as they consolidate power and money, and those who join Jesus Christ and help them build the city of God.
0:47
SPEAKER_01: Keeping in mind that while we're honored to join with Jesus Christ and sow the seed and water the soil, it's always God who causes the growth.
0:56
SPEAKER_01: With that said, I want to play you a slip of Donald Trump.
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SPEAKER_01: Really interesting.
1:01
SPEAKER_01: It's the United States government just put out on national television during the recent NFL games.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe you've seen this already.
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SPEAKER_01: Donald Trump descenses this battle, doesn't he?
1:11
SPEAKER_01: He speaks about it all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the final battle.
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SPEAKER_00: With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state.
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SPEAKER_00: We will expel the warmongers from our government.
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SPEAKER_00: We will drive out the globalists.
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SPEAKER_00: We will cast out the communist, Marxist, and fascists, we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.
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SPEAKER_00: We will rout the fake news media and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's very, very important.
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SPEAKER_01: He says, though, in this clip, we will expel the warmongers from our government.
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SPEAKER_01: We will drive out the globalists.
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SPEAKER_01: We will cast out the communists, the Marxists, the fascists.
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SPEAKER_01: We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.
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SPEAKER_01: Are we seeing this now?
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SPEAKER_01: We will route the fake news media.
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SPEAKER_01: We will liberate America from these villains once and for all.
2:49
SPEAKER_01: You know, this is not a campaign, uh not a uh a PAC or a political action committee.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the United States government saying that deep state cannot just work over the hardworking moral and religious patriots anymore without a fight.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the final battle, and it was live on national TV.
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SPEAKER_01: So allow me to be blunt.
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SPEAKER_01: This is our battle.
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SPEAKER_01: Each one of us, it's a window that God gave us in the Trump administration to pick up the Claymore sword behind me and join in a fight.
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SPEAKER_01: The reality, when a man takes action, it it changes him and it changes the world.
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SPEAKER_01: We are a body and a soul, includes our mind and our conscience.
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SPEAKER_01: We're spiritual beings, eternal beings, embodied souls.
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SPEAKER_01: Our bodies express our inner life for good or evil.
3:40
SPEAKER_01: This is so important for us to not only know but embrace.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a principle of human life, that to find happiness, peace, and joy in this life, you must give your life away.
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SPEAKER_01: And to give your life away is love.
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SPEAKER_01: And love is an action.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a verb, huh?
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SPEAKER_01: I have to express it.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's review this formula.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, if you have the Claymore battle plan outline handy, grab it.
4:05
SPEAKER_01: You can download it for free.
4:07
SPEAKER_01: I've said this many, many times.
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SPEAKER_01: So hopefully you have by now.
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SPEAKER_01: Find within there, about halfway through it, the Claymore 10-minute morning ritual.
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SPEAKER_01: And then right after that, it talks about spiritual formation and the original divine uh formula.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, what is that original formula?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, it was Adam and Eve before sin.
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SPEAKER_01: At that time, they were infused with God's spirit, divine life and love.
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SPEAKER_01: And they give this to each other, and they were also supposed to be a sacrament, a sacramental sign of God's grace, his love, his life in the created world.
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SPEAKER_01: That's who we are.
4:44
SPEAKER_01: You know, God, remember He in Genesis chapter one, he's got everything created, ready for a wedding feast.
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SPEAKER_01: He's got like a selfie on the Trinity, and he says, okay, now I'm ready to bring Trinitarian my love into this created world, but I'm creating the uh persons, human beings to be able to do this, right?
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SPEAKER_01: So he created us male and female, flips the selfie, and that trinitarian love between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is made as a visible sign through a man and a woman open to life and bringing in families, marriage and the family.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the core, isn't it?
5:18
SPEAKER_01: You know.
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SPEAKER_01: Um in here, well, I was gonna have you read it yourself, but let me read this.
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SPEAKER_01: So today, right now, a body and a soul, you and I, plus grace, the redemption that Jesus brought to us on the cross, right?
5:35
SPEAKER_01: We see the picture of the divine mercy, Jesus gets hit with a lance, blood and water come out, huh?
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SPEAKER_01: The cleansing, nuptial bath of baptism that washes away our sins, and the red is the Eucharist.
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SPEAKER_01: This is God giving his body.
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SPEAKER_01: This is my body given for you.
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SPEAKER_01: When we infuse this into our lives by accepting Jesus Christ, we have a body, soul plus grace that brings us back to that potential for human flourishing like we had in the beginning before sin, potential for human freedom.
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SPEAKER_01: So our action in the world is what completes this formula.
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SPEAKER_01: It makes us efficacious.
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SPEAKER_01: In our own lives, this grace comes alive because we've said yes to Christ and we've moved on it, and it also changes the world.
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SPEAKER_01: To make my potential efficacious, this reads from right from the uh Claymore battle plan outline.
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SPEAKER_01: Through my free will, in a sense, I create myself.
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SPEAKER_01: It's called John Paul called that self-determination.
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SPEAKER_01: We take we we participate with this grace and we we determine who we become.
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SPEAKER_01: I choose the good to do the good and I become good.
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SPEAKER_01: I am good, I'm good as a person.
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SPEAKER_01: Or I choose evil to do evil and I become evil.
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SPEAKER_01: I am evil as a person.
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SPEAKER_01: Without grace, participation in the life of God, the human person, body and the soul, when we reject God, is trapped in the default position of sin and death.
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SPEAKER_01: But with grace, man, men and women become who we are created to be, sons and daughters of God, warriors, and then saints.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, sin entered the world today, and Satan knows his time is running out, and this attacks on human life have become so destructive from attacking the child in the womb.
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SPEAKER_01: But if they escape their mother's womb, what do we do?
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SPEAKER_01: We render them sterile with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
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SPEAKER_01: We mutilate their bodies, we indoctrinate them into schools.
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SPEAKER_01: It's brutal.
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SPEAKER_01: Now we're killing uh the old.
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SPEAKER_01: We're killing young people now that have mental illness or disabilities.
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SPEAKER_01: So this is the battle that Donald Trump took on.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the battle that you and I are in, and we cannot hide, for that battle begins in the individual human heart.
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SPEAKER_01: You might uh, you know, grab your porn and go on down to your basement, but that evil is right there in the human heart attacking.
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SPEAKER_01: We have to fight there first.
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SPEAKER_01: And then once we do that, we be right away, we turn out.
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SPEAKER_01: You have to turn out and become a person of love.
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SPEAKER_01: You have to make it efficacious.
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SPEAKER_01: So I want to encourage you again, time is running out.
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SPEAKER_01: This is an exciting time for all of us to make a difference in the world.
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SPEAKER_01: And the midterms are only four weeks away.
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SPEAKER_01: Take action today.
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SPEAKER_01: Find your who your local, uh Republican Party.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody has offices all over the country, and just stop in, see what you can do.
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SPEAKER_01: What kind of action can you take?
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SPEAKER_01: Remember that with Donald J.
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SPEAKER_01: Trump, this is not really a Republican or Democrat.
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SPEAKER_01: He's a Republican.
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SPEAKER_01: So I say go to Republicans, but it's really a populist movement, isn't it?
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SPEAKER_01: Getting back to John Adams again.
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SPEAKER_01: We have to become a moral and religious people.
8:43
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's what we call the MAGA movement.
8:45
SPEAKER_01: These are Christian patriots, huh?
8:47
SPEAKER_01: People that believe in Jesus Christ and love our country and know that for the future generations, for our children and grandchildren, we we we have to stand up as men and women and build that just like our forefathers did.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't just sit in your basement or become apathetic or lukewarm, right?
9:06
SPEAKER_01: So again, just remember the democratic platform, that's a demonic platform.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is not hyperbolic, is it?
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SPEAKER_01: The murder of the innocent child and the woman, the and this gender ideologies, this gender agenda must be accepted, or you're not in the democratic club.
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SPEAKER_01: So so murder of children, rendering them sterile, this is this is the baseline.
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SPEAKER_01: And then now it's full of socialists and communists, or simply put, those who have rejected Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: As Jesus said in John 8, I'm gonna read you part of this.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna start about verses 31.
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SPEAKER_01: So important.
9:43
SPEAKER_01: Think about it in today's time.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, if you continue in my word, and now this is us, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Pass down to us, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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SPEAKER_01: You will know the truth, and it's the truth that sets our hearts free.
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SPEAKER_01: They answered now.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, these are the Jews that are that are rejecting uh Jesus at the time, and they said, We are descendants of Abraham and have never been in bondage since slavery to anybody.
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SPEAKER_01: How can you say that we will be made free?
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, he's talking about that battlefield of the heart again, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus answered them, truly, truly, he repeats it, truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
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SPEAKER_01: The slave does not continue in the house forever.
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SPEAKER_01: The sun continues forever.
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SPEAKER_01: So what is he saying?
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SPEAKER_01: Look, we're in this house just for a very short time.
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SPEAKER_01: We're being tested here, right?
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SPEAKER_01: We're making eternal decisions, but the sun remains forever.
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SPEAKER_01: So if we enter into and receive the grace of the Son, we continue forever, huh?
10:47
SPEAKER_01: So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed, he said.
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SPEAKER_01: I get goosebumps from this, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Because I know this in my own life.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus is saying to them, You are descendants of Abraham, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
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SPEAKER_01: I speak of what I have seen with my father, and you do what you have heard from your father.
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SPEAKER_01: They answered him, Abraham is our father.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do what Abraham did.
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SPEAKER_01: But now you seek to kill me, the man who has told you the truth which I heard from my father, and they said to him, We are not born of fornication, we have one father, even God.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God.
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SPEAKER_01: I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
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SPEAKER_01: Why do you not understand what I say?
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SPEAKER_01: He said, It's because you cannot bear to hear my word.
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SPEAKER_01: You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires.
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SPEAKER_01: He was a murderer from the beginning, has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him.
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SPEAKER_01: When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature.
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SPEAKER_01: For he is a liar and the father of lies, but because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
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SPEAKER_01: Which of you convicts me of sin?
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SPEAKER_01: If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
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SPEAKER_01: He who is of God hears the words of God.
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SPEAKER_01: The reason why you do not hear them is you are not of God.
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SPEAKER_01: It's amazing, right?
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SPEAKER_01: How important it is for us to embrace this, to understand this, isn't it?
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to move on to the Gospel of Matthew.
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SPEAKER_01: This is chapter 10, verse 26.
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SPEAKER_01: Whom to fear?
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SPEAKER_01: Because when we're looking out at the world, sometimes we can be very fearful.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, look at Donald Trump as these assassination attempts, the the attacks on his life, the attacks, the Russian gate, and all these lies since his first term.
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SPEAKER_01: They they wanted to take all his money, all his businesses away from him.
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SPEAKER_01: These are sick demonic people.
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SPEAKER_01: So whom to fear?
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SPEAKER_01: Should we all fear for this?
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus says in Matthew chapter 10, starting at verse 26, if you want to read along with me.
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SPEAKER_01: So have no fear of them, Jesus is saying, of all these demonic people.
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SPEAKER_01: For nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
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SPEAKER_01: This is just a small amount of time.
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SPEAKER_01: And we're seeing all this.
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SPEAKER_01: Can't we see the weeds and the wheat dividing themselves?
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SPEAKER_01: I'll go on here.
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SPEAKER_01: What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light, what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the house tops.
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SPEAKER_01: This is that action again that Jesus is asking us to do, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Proclaim the truth.
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SPEAKER_01: And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
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SPEAKER_01: Rather, fear him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.
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SPEAKER_01: Are not two spirals sold for a penny, and not one of them will fall to the ground without your father in heaven's will?
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SPEAKER_01: But even the hears on your head are all numbered.
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SPEAKER_01: Fear not, therefore, you are of more value than many spirals.
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SPEAKER_01: So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I will acknowledge before my father who is in heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny you before my Father who is in heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth.
14:09
SPEAKER_01: Listen to this.
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SPEAKER_01: I have come to bring not peace but a sword.
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SPEAKER_01: Again, this is claymore, isn't it?
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SPEAKER_01: What does he mean?
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SPEAKER_01: He sees this battle going on.
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SPEAKER_01: Look, they crucified him, right?
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SPEAKER_01: This is a battle between truth and lies, huh?
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SPEAKER_01: Between good and evil, between beauty and everything that profanes beauty.
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SPEAKER_01: He said, For I have come, and think about this, how how how we have these struggles, even with our own families.
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SPEAKER_01: We know anybody that stands up for the truth, right?
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SPEAKER_01: I have this in my own family.
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SPEAKER_01: For I have come to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother, and a man's foes will be those of his own household.
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SPEAKER_01: He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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SPEAKER_01: And he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
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SPEAKER_01: He who finds his life, listen to this, he who finds his life will lose it.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody that's trying to find life here, huh?
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SPEAKER_01: Grasp and take like these globalists again.
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SPEAKER_01: And he who loses his life, though, here, for my sake, will find it in all eternity.
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SPEAKER_01: The point is not self-destruction for its own sake, of course, but surrendering our lives so that God can infuse us with divine life and love.
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SPEAKER_01: So we give our lives over to Christ for guidance, huh?
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SPEAKER_01: For salvation, for redemption, so we can receive the life that he wants to give us.
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SPEAKER_01: He says that over and over again.
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SPEAKER_01: If you follow the Claymore 10-minute morning ritual and you watch those little clips of uh the the from the diary of Saint Faustina, Jesus is always saying this.
15:51
SPEAKER_01: You know, I just want to pour myself into you.
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SPEAKER_01: You have to accept this and see this.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the reality of who we are.
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SPEAKER_01: So a spiritual awakening.
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SPEAKER_01: The world is passing away.
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SPEAKER_01: Saint John Paul II, Archbishop Fultonsheen, prophets for our time.
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SPEAKER_01: This is basically Act 46 from the Claymore Battle Plan Handbook, talking about spiritual warfare.
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SPEAKER_01: And it starts out from the first letter of John.
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SPEAKER_01: For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not from the Father, but is from this world, and the world is passing away, along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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SPEAKER_01: Saint John Paul II was not a distant figurehead, but a living witness to the gospel.
16:38
SPEAKER_01: Whether you encountered John Paul II in person or through a screen, his presence radiated authentically.
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SPEAKER_01: He spoke as one who had authority, yet always with mercy, warmth, and joy.
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SPEAKER_01: As Pope Benedict XV observed, John Paul's deep union with God allowed him to live the Petrine office with freedom and humility, never turning inward toward himself, but always outward giving his life away toward Christ and humanity.
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SPEAKER_01: Born Kirovotiwa in nineteen twenty in Poland, marked by Catholic faith and repeated occupation, right?
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SPEAKER_01: It was taken over and over again Poland was by foreign powers.
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SPEAKER_01: John Paul's life was forged in suffering.
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SPEAKER_01: By the age of twenty, he had lost his mother, his brother, his sister already, and his father.
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SPEAKER_01: Soon after came the Nazi invasion, followed by communist rule.
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SPEAKER_01: He was forced into manual labor in a chemical factory during the war.
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SPEAKER_01: His priestly vocation matured in hardship.
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SPEAKER_01: Pope Benedict XVI called those years of labor the most decisive period of his life, working with those men who were working with their hands, who were forced to work and sacrificed by the socialists and communists.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, it's really funny, you know, these young people think they're going to get everything free.
18:01
SPEAKER_01: Yet there's no freedom in socialism and communism, is there?
18:05
SPEAKER_01: During this time, Waltiwado was allowed by those workers who covered for him to study for the priesthood, and he studied philosophy, encountered the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross.
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SPEAKER_01: He discovered a vision of the human person rooted in the Imago Day in the image and likeness of God, called to communion with God through grace.
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SPEAKER_01: This conviction shaped his entire mission to defend human dignity against every form of dehumanization.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what we're battling for right now, guys.
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SPEAKER_01: As a young man, he joined the underground theater to preserve Polish culture under totalitarian oppression.
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SPEAKER_01: His gifts as a poet, an actor, philosopher, priest, theologian all converged in a bold proclamation of the gospel.
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SPEAKER_01: As Pope, he carried his witness into the world, speaking to believers and non-believers alike about the dignity of the human person and each person's call to holiness, freedom, truth, and a culture of life.
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SPEAKER_01: John Paul II taught that true freedom is not license to do whatever you want, but a gift ordered toward truth and love.
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SPEAKER_01: In Viratata's splendor, one of his encyclicals, it means the splendor of truth, he warned against a concept of freedom detached from moral truth.
19:25
SPEAKER_01: Freedom is not a blank check, he said.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a responsibility to choose the good in accordance with the truth revealed by God.
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SPEAKER_01: Freedom is fulfilled not in self-assertion, but in self-gift and in willing the good of the other.
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SPEAKER_01: I have to be filled with divine life and love, and then go out and be that love, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Willing the good of those around us.
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SPEAKER_01: And Evangelium Bite, the gospel of life, another encyclical he wrote, he linked freedom directly to the dignity of life.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the life starting in the in the child in the womb, contrasting what we see here between what I've already unpacked here, a culture of life and a culture of death that treats the human person as disposable.
20:09
SPEAKER_01: His experience under Nazism and communism convinced him that any system that denies God ultimately destroys freedom and reduces the person to an instrument of power to be used and manipulated.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet he also saw a crisis emerging in the West in 1976.
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SPEAKER_01: Now think about that clip with Donald Trump.
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SPEAKER_01: And so in 1976, two years before he became Pope, he delivered a prophetic warning in Pennsylvania.
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SPEAKER_01: We are now facing, he said, the final confrontation between the church and the anti-church, the gospel versus the anti-gospel.
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SPEAKER_01: This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence.
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SPEAKER_01: We know that the end is coming at some point and that Christ is coming back.
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SPEAKER_01: And every day it takes down, it's getting closer.
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SPEAKER_01: So he says this confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a trial, he said, that the whole church must take up.
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SPEAKER_01: We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not too distant future.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what we're at now, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Trials that will require us to give up even our own lives and a total gift to Christ and for Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at John Paul II had an assassination attempt on his life.
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SPEAKER_01: He almost lost his life there.
21:24
SPEAKER_01: We see Donald Trump do that.
21:25
SPEAKER_01: We see all Charlie Kirk lose his life.
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SPEAKER_01: Many others.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: We see Christians in Nigeria getting slaughtered by the day.
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SPEAKER_01: The only one standing up for them with a voice is Donald Trump in his cabinet, not speaking out against this stuff on the global stage.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about.
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SPEAKER_01: When God is forgotten, John Paul observed, the creature itself, all of us, grows unintelligible.
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SPEAKER_01: Without God, humanity itself loses its identity, its purpose, its hope.
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SPEAKER_01: A world that cannot save itself.
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SPEAKER_01: The 20th century, John Paul talked about, began with confidence in scientific and technological process.
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SPEAKER_01: Progress, but became the bloodiest century in history.
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SPEAKER_01: John Paul II concluded the world cannot save itself.
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SPEAKER_01: Redemption must come from Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet the human heart still longs for meaning.
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SPEAKER_01: Beneath the noise of modern culture remains a hunger for truth that no ideology can satisfy.
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SPEAKER_01: So this is the battle plan, the Claymore battle plan.
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SPEAKER_01: Archbishop Sheen diagnosed the same crisis in spiritual terms.
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SPEAKER_01: Our enemy today is the world, he said, the spirit of the world, he warned.
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SPEAKER_01: The spirit seduces to comfort, distraction, moral compromise.
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SPEAKER_01: In 1974, Bishop Sheen described our era as a time of testing.
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SPEAKER_01: Dead bodies, he said, float downstream.
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SPEAKER_01: Only the living resist the current.
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SPEAKER_01: Sifting us, separating the wheat from the weeds, calling us to stand firm as a minority faithful to Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: That was in 1974.
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SPEAKER_01: Sheen's call to violence was not physical, but spiritual violence, quoting Christ, I came not to bring peace but a sword.
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SPEAKER_01: He urged a spiritual battle against the seven pallbearers of the soul, the seven deadly sins pride, greed, lust, anger, envy, gluttony, sloth.
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SPEAKER_01: True peace within us begins when we conquer sin through the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: We have to carry the cross with Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: He warned that when the church abandons discipline, the world replaces it with destructive substitutes, addictions, chaos, and violence.
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SPEAKER_01: Solutions alone, laws, programs, systems, like they promised in socialism, Marxism, communism cannot heal a wounded heart.
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SPEAKER_01: Only the gospel can.
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SPEAKER_01: His image of a cut flower civilization, that's what he said.
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SPEAKER_01: He said, our civilization, Western civilization, has become like a cut flower, right?
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SPEAKER_01: We were separated from the source of divine life and love.
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SPEAKER_01: A culture severed from its roots in God, he said, may appear beautiful for a time, but it will inevitably wither.
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SPEAKER_01: Like John Paul II, he called for a renewal through personal conversion, where peace in the soul extends to peace in society.
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SPEAKER_01: So what's our mission, guys?
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SPEAKER_01: Men and women, young and old, you're called to this battle.
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SPEAKER_01: The world offers distraction and pleasure, but cannot give meaning.
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SPEAKER_01: You were made for more.
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SPEAKER_01: Saint John Paul II teaches that true freedom is found in the truth of Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: Archbishop Sheen reminds us that this is an hour of testing in which only the spiritually disciplined will stand firm.
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SPEAKER_01: So pick up the Claymore sword.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just two asks, right?
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SPEAKER_01: We always say start with that 10-minute Claymore morning ritual, offering and opening ourselves up to God.
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SPEAKER_01: Read one of those acts before you go to bed and you're filling in the story so we have the vocabulary to go help others save their souls.
24:57
SPEAKER_01: Again, pick up the Claymore sword, prayer, sacrifice, and the sacraments.
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SPEAKER_01: Embrace the discipline of the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: Live as a faithful minority that resists the spirit of the world and witnesses to the truth of things.
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SPEAKER_01: The world is passing away.
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SPEAKER_01: But those who do the will of God abide forever.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me just leave you again with this action, right?
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SPEAKER_01: What's a small action we could take right now?
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SPEAKER_01: Find a Republican party office near you and volunteer for something.
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SPEAKER_01: Get on the phone, be uncomfortable.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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SPEAKER_01: That's this world that we're in.
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SPEAKER_01: But when you act, you try to bring the good in, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Look at this MAGA movement and the the uh Republican Party that Donald Trump heads up again is is not just a party a name.
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SPEAKER_01: It's actually going to battle.
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SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe how many fronts that he's fighting this corruption all over.
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SPEAKER_01: Pay attention to this and become part of this.
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SPEAKER_01: Pick up your sword, go into action, get on the phone bank.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm going to go knocking on doors, door to door, and and I it it's very uncomfortable for me.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't like to do that.
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SPEAKER_01: But at the end of the day, somebody has to do that, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Remind people of midterm elections.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, there's an app you can get on your phone now, so you're not going to a liberal's house.
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SPEAKER_01: You're just reminding Republicans that have voted Republican in the past and independents that we have this battle coming up and go out and vote.
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SPEAKER_01: They'll give you the material.
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SPEAKER_01: Know who you're who knows who's running for office in your local area.
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SPEAKER_01: Pick one or two of those guys and go out and do something positive for them.
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SPEAKER_01: Again, we don't have much time, but you still have time to join the fray and to join the fight.
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SPEAKER_01: Vote against the Democrats who their basic thing is the destruction of human life.
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SPEAKER_01: Kill the old, kill the young, uh maim and manipulate, uh mutilate uh bodies of children and these gender ideologies, socialism, Marxism, neo-Marxism, they indoctrinate these kids in the schools.
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SPEAKER_01: The corruption is rampant to our government, the deep state, and we have the deep church too, like that.
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SPEAKER_01: And all these NGOs that are supposedly carrying out good things in the world, who just take the money and pay their executives so much money, that money's never filtering down.
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SPEAKER_01: And Donald Trump is fighting this, and yet the deep state's pushing against them and the law fair.
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SPEAKER_01: So, anyways, hey, keep him in your prayers, uh, keep me in your prayers, I'll keep you in mind, and go out and do some positive things in the world, huh?
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SPEAKER_01: And and remember that there are people suffering all over.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, if you have some money, if you have some time, donate your time, donate your money.
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SPEAKER_01: Stop with this porn and wasting time on social media.
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SPEAKER_01: Be men and women of action.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
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SPEAKER_01: If you have any questions, uh go to the Claymore Militus Christie website.
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SPEAKER_01: You can reach out to us there, join us in this battle, and proclaim the gospel to people.
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SPEAKER_01: Claymore makes it very easy for you.
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SPEAKER_01: Just download that Claymore battle plan outline.
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SPEAKER_01: It's very short.
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SPEAKER_01: You can read the essence of what we do, the structure of what we do.
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SPEAKER_01: You can hear witness stories there.
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SPEAKER_01: You can watch a short video that I put up there just to show you these basically these two asks.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, make sure you have the copy of the Claymore Battle Plan Handbook and ask others to join you in this in this journey.
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SPEAKER_01: We got to build community.
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SPEAKER_01: It's all in the Claymore Battle Plan Handbook and the outline there, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, God bless you.
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SPEAKER_01: Talk to you again soon, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Bye bye.