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#416 Is War War III on the Horizon? What is God Saying to Us Today? · Claymore: Become Who You Are

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Become who you Are podcast and production of the John Paul 2 renewal center.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Jack Regus, your host, and I'm glad you're with me today Just reading an interesting commentary by Ray Dalio.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Ray Dalio is one of the head of one of the largest hedge funds in the world and he has moved his probability now of World War 3 up to about 50%.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: That's pretty high, and just talking about all the different things going on, of course, from Russia and Ukraine to Israel and the Hamas and other areas, and so you know there's whispering sounds among some very smart financial people now about what's going on in the world and are just seeing this from a practical standpoint and seeing where this all leads.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: Well, this is nothing new, is it?
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Evil is nothing new.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: We all know about this, but the face of evil changes today.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: It's a Hydra, a many-headed serpent or dragon.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: That's the state, and these states all around the world are grabbing and this totalitarian power grab on these dictators, these little men that think that they have the power to do, and because of the money and the power and the deep states within all of these different countries, you know, they develop this power and it's almost like you go.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Well, how does this happen?
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Right, how does this happen that these men and women can't actually bring us to the point where we can just totally destroy each other?
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Today, and what's going on there?
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: At the same time, I'm reading the, the, the scripture for Sunday's Mass, and it's so beautiful and it has been.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: You know God calling us back.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: You know what is God saying to us today and we, and over the last few weeks, have been reading daily scripture.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: And if you're not, I'll just tell you God has been really coming back and just he's sending out Jonah into Ninevon.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: The same bring my people back, you know, proclaim the evil that they're doing, otherwise this will be destroyed, this country will be destroyed.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: You know we saw Israel, god's people, many times throughout history getting dispersed.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: You know where tyrants and and and different kings would come in and just take over Israel and disperse those people, the Jews, all over, all over the country, in various countries, and so you know you wonder could that happen again?
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Of course it could happen again.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: You know so many people in today's culture, as we know, have turned away from God.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: You know, I know so many secular Jews that have turned away from God.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: We know people in Palestine, that God bless them, that that you know have different beliefs, and, and Hamas for sure you know whether they actually believe in an Allah that wants to destroy everybody else and kill everybody else.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: This, a Malik huh, this is a Satan that wants to destroy human beings.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: It's really sad to see what we know, that you know, in Russia and Ukraine.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: We're spending all this money in Ukraine to defend those people and, and you know, they always the sadness in Israel, hamas, the Palestinian people, the Ukrainian people, the Russian people, the American people.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: You know there's just so many beautiful people out there that just want to live their lives and be left alone, but the tyrants of the world, the evil of the world, won't, and the only thing that ever protected us from evil, of course, is God.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: And here's the problem today.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: Today, we've rejected Jesus Christ, and we've rejected him big time, and so we were gonna lose our freedom, because, because it's only Jesus Christ, it's only God himself, that comes into the world and and created the world in the very beginning, without sin and death in the world, and then we rejected him.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: So this is an old story, isn't it?
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: And so this link between chaos and the individual human heart, and then this is manifested in out into the world, and I've spoken about this many times on Sunday's readings, though, and this is what I'm gonna get into.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Why would God will ask this question.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: Why would?
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: Why would people?
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: Why would people ignore an invitation to an incredible feast?
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Why would some react with violence to the bearers of such a pleasant invitation?
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Come back to me, god says in scripture on Sunday why feel annoyed and threatened by this extraordinary, generous king that wants to just bring you to this incredible feast?
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: Why do we push back against God?
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: And this is what we see all over the place.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm out speaking all the time.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: It's amazing evil, and the way people look at you and react to you when you start to speak about God, it's amazing.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: Their behavior exemplifies the irrationality of sin, a false understanding of freedom.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: See, we have freedom as licensed to do whatever we want, and when we hear that God comes in the story, we say, oh, god doesn't want me to do whatever I want.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: God wants me to search for the truth.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: What is the truth, of what, of what is good, of how should I live?
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: And then our conscience comes up right and works with our reason to say okay, now I that I identify the truth and I know what's good.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: I choose the good, I bring the good into the world, and we have free will to do this.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: Well, our understanding of freedom is to do whatever we want, and of course, that's not true, because we enslave ourselves and others and they refuse, old then, to let ourselves be loved and fed it by our Creator and Redeemer.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: Oh then, evil is unleashed on the world.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Nonetheless, god will never cease preparing and providing this rich feast of His Son Any time.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: We can always turn back and be redeemed and saved.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Are we going to do it in sufficient numbers to save the world this time?
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: I really have my doubts, unfortunately.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: But you know what?
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: God is still going to come in and protect His remnant.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: For true happiness comes when we realize, with St Paul, that I can do all things in him, who strengthens me.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: Let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, this is a temporary place we are at.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: I think we keep forgetting this.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: We're just pilgrims on this journey and this is not our final destiny.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: How can we not know this right, that the fall position of mankind after the fall is sin and death.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: We see this all around us and God comes in to save us, to redeem us, to reset us and say no, no, no.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: There's a bigger story here, and that's what we're going to hear about in today's readings.
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  Speaker 1: So buckle up and get ready for today's episode.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: The first reading is from the book of the prophet Isaiah, and he says this On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: On this mountain, he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations.
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: He will destroy death forever.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: The Lord, god, will wipe away the tears from every face.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: The reproach of His people he will remove from the whole earth, for the Lord has spoken.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: On that day, it will be said Behold our God, to whom we look to save us.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: This is the Lord for whom we looked.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: Let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us, for the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: The word of the Lord coming from the prophet Isaiah In the Psalms.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: Then he follows up Psalm 23.
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  Speaker 1: I live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: This is what we're called into.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: We see this chaos again all around us and we can get just wound up in it.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: And even worse, I think, is to put your head in the sand and not acknowledge the evil around us.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: There is a balance there and the balance is to be in the breach.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: To understand that there is good and evil it's in our own hearts and it gets manifested out in the world and to be aware of it so that you can daily get on your knees and choose God, choose the truth, choose what is good, what is true, what is good, what is beautiful, and bring that beauty into your heart and into your lives, into your marriages and your families, and out into the world.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: And whatever you do, see when that's taken away, when that's taken out, then how does good get into the world?
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: Edmund Burke, you know the Englishman, said that famously right.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: All it takes is for evil to prosper in the world, is for good men to do nothing, and that's what we're seeing so often today.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: So Psalm 23, I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: This is what we're called to do.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: To consciously do this every day, to be filled with God and allow Him to guide us, to shepherd us, to redeem us, to save us.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: You know, eternity doesn't mean tomorrow.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: Eternity means forever.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: We're eternal beings that have to make a choice.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: We all stand, in the sense, before that tree.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: So it goes on.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: I shall not want In verdant pastures.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: He gives me repose Besides restful waters.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: He leads me, he refreshes my soul.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: He guides me in right paths for His namesake.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Even though I walk listen to this even though I walk in the dark valley, I fear no evil.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: For you, god, you are at my side with your rod and your staff.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: They give me courage.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: You spread the table before me and the sight of my foes.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: You anoint my head with oil and my cup overflows.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: See, this starts today and then it goes on for eternal life.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: And this is what the gospel is going to be about.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: But before we get there, we get a reading from the letter of St Paul to the Philippians and he says this Brothers and sisters, I know how to live in humble circumstances.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: I also know how to live with abundance in every circumstance and all things.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of living in abundance and of being in need.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: I can do all things in him, who strengthens me.
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  Speaker 1: Still, it was kind of you to share in my distress.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with His glorious riches.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: In Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: To our God and Father, glory forever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: So here's the beauty of Saint Paul.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Wherever you find yourself, in abundance or hungry, you know the bombs start falling.
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  Speaker 1: You know things are going to change.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: World War III breaks out.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Things are going to change and maybe God has to allow all this, doesn't he?
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: You know, how will hearts be saved?
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: How will people turn back to God if everything just is this kumbaya?
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: We're spoiled here in the United States, but it's changing.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: It's changing rapidly before our eyes and many people again put their head in the sand and they won't stand up for it.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: They want to be free to do anything they want.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Look at these ideologies to bring it all the way down to our schools.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: It's amazing, right before the Gospel.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: May the Father of our Lord, jesus Christ, enlighten the eyes of our hearts so that we may know what is the hope that belongs to our call.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: The Gospel is so beautiful, the Gospel according to Matthew, and then you're going to hear Jesus speaking to the chief priests and the elders about the banquet that we're invited to.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: But this could have been said this morning, you know, and I am saying it this morning, aren't I?
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: But it could have been.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: You know, what is God saying to us?
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: He's saying there's a wedding feast.
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  Speaker 1: You've all been invited to a wedding feast.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: Why are you not coming?
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: You know, evil is nothing new.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Of course we see this evil, you know, we saw it in my dad.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: What is the World War II vet?
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: So here's World War II in his time.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: He's still alive today and he may still see World War III before he goes Right.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: We had a breakdown of marriages and the families in the church.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: And why does that matter?
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Because it's from these families and it's from the church, from Jesus Christ and his bride, the church, that all of the way to live right, our morality and our virtues were instilled in our children.
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  Speaker 1: How do I live?
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: What is the truth?
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: What is the truth?
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Well, of course Jesus Christ said I am the way, the truth and the life, it's only when you open your heart up to Jesus Christ.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: But we're all free.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: We're all free and we can reject them.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: And so what happened, you know, in there was a time where we passed these morals and values down to our children, and in generation and generation we bring these ideas to the marketplace of culture.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: We form culture, music, and artists, authors, painters, movie makers, all of this, goodness you know, and people full of virtue were bringing these into the marketplace.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: And then those people then from culture, would go into politics, into business, into economics, and they would bring this goodness into the world.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: Then, out of those persons, informed by families in the church, you know, they would make the world into a good place.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: This is what the United States was.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Look, we had plenty of faults, because there's always sinners in the world.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Everybody needs to be redeemed and those who rejected Christ, not everybody accepted him, and so and we have different misunderstandings and we know this, but the idea is not, as the Marxists and the ideologues that want to do, is just rip everything apart.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Because what do they want to put into place?
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: They want to build the city of man.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: It will never stand.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: It's the tower of Babel.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: And so we were bringing these common good into our country, right?
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, just read our founding fathers.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: This freedom that everybody wants, that everybody wants to do anything, well, it's the rejection of Jesus Christ and the loss of freedom we're going to see today.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: The link between chaos and the individual heart.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: And chaos in our country and across the globe comes when God has pulled out of our individual hearts.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Sin is allowed to reign.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Look, there is a big orchestra leader.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Do you ever wonder why we have the world economic form in all of these countries breaking down at the same time?
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Because, first of all, marriages and families have been broken down Abortion all over the world, millions and millions of children being killed by the great mullock that wants to destroy everybody.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Evil.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Look at, you know, ukraine to pick on them.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: We're not perfect in the United States, we're falling quickly, but Ukraine was like an always third or fourth of the most corrupt nations in the world.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: You know Joe Biden and his son Hunter I mean, they were in there, you know, and so many of our politicians with their hands up, taking our money, putting it into Ukraine and again cycled back into their pockets.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: You know, making so many people rich, and they had this, this, this ongoing thing, and I and I won't go any deeper than that today.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: But abortion, sex trafficking, those things were huge in Ukraine.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: People were fleeing.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Ukraine was a dying country before Russia invaded it.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: You know, there were more people leaving Ukraine than coming into Ukraine.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: It was a dying country Literally.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: The population was going down on a yearly basis.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have been long and that country would have imploded anyways.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Now, is Russia perfect?
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: No, of course not.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Should they invade it?
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm going to leave that to other people to say.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: But I hate to see war.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: You hate to see these innocent people suffering.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: But these are complex issues, aren't they?
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: But anytime you attack innocent people, you bomb innocent people, there's a wrong there.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I think we understand that.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: The same thing that happened just now in Israel.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: You know, I see Palestinians and people on college campuses, you know saying you know that it was a good thing to attack Israel, and you go.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: These are innocent people, baby's getting their heads cut.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Look, it's always the innocent that suffer, isn't it?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: So again, it's when we reject Jesus Christ, we lose the freedom.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: We're seeing that in the United States.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: You know, we've thrown God out.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: We are no longer a Christian nation.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: It's amazing what happened, you know, some years back.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: When I saw that less than 50% of our population now cause itself Christian I think it's like 20 or 30% are actually going to a Sunday mass or a service I said, you know, then we won't stand and we get back to.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Our founding fathers understood this so well.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Right, for freedom Christ has set us free.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: This is from Galatians, st Paul again, 5.1.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: For freedom, christ has set us free.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Stand fast, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: This is what we do when we walk away from God.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: You know, sin comes into our own hearts.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: It we, we don't pass on these morality and these virtues to are the younger generations.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Look at and again, without digging in deep.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: This is happening to Israel to a large degree.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: You know they're not all religious Jews anymore.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: You know so you can go pull those stats yourself and I don't want to take the time to get into that today.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: But how many of them have left themselves exposed to evil?
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: How many young people in Israel no longer go to Sunday or to Saturday?
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Keep holy the Sabbath day?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: This is just one of the things right.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Love God, don't use his name in vain and keep holy the Sabbath day.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: You know this.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: This brings us into unity and community with God.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Look at again.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: This is attempts, poor space.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: This is the dash between the day we were born and the day we leave this temporal area and in the in the meantime, we got to find out what's true, what's good, what's beautiful, and live that out.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: And if you walk away from God, you reject that and we think we're in a neutral zone.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: But we're not into a neutral zone, as Saint Paul said so well, these are the powers and principalities, these are the demons of the world, you know.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: You wonder again, you know, how can you know all this seem to be coordinated.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: And well, it's coordinated because you have the big Orchestra conductor, who, satan himself and all you know.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: There's so much demonic influence around the world today and we don't think there's gonna be a consequence.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Well, there is gonna be a consequence and we all have to be prepared for that.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if the situation starts to deteriorate.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And how else?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, if you're God and you're looking down on the amount of corruption across the world and you see many, many good people there too, you know.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: So what will God do?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: How?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: How will he react?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And can he?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Or, of course he could, but will he stop all these things?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: When we pray, when you stop the war, stop this, stop that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Well, god has a bigger picture, he sees the bigger picture.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: You know, this is all in God's providence.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: You know he's gonna allow us to massacre each other again because this is what we wish.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: We rejected God.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: We allow evil into our own hearts and we met.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Look at what we're doing with abortion.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: We are massacring, massacring Millions and millions and billions of people around the globe, young babies, the most vulnerable and innocent among us, and we're we're sacrificing them to the mullock.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, you think Satan doesn't love this.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: They're twisting and distortion of marriage, right.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: The evil corruption you see in the Vatican right now and with the Synod of Synodality is going on.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: So, so God is allowing us to do what?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: To bring evil into our own hearts and into our own spaces, and you get enough people doing this and you have these deep states and and so things start to come, come apart, right.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: So today, again, the freedom that is taught and accepted and what we live by is not true freedom, but license.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: License to do whatever we want.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You know this is an old story, isn't it?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Modern man is on a self-centered quest to find and fulfill himself.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: How I selfishness.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I want to take in grass again.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: When you throw out God, you have a big hole in your heart and you grasp and take to try to fill up.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: One of the primary ways to do this is sex.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Well, why is sex?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Because sex was de-unifying between a man and a woman open to life.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: That brought Trinitarian love in this, the Amago day.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: This is who God created marriage and the family to bring his Eternal love, his Trinitarian love, into this created space.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: If, if there's a Satan out there and he is he wants to destroy mankind, he's going to destroy marriage in the family and then the child in the womb.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And if the child makes it out of the womb, you're gonna render him sterile from puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and operations, and then, as young people, even get married and come in and then decide not to have children and accept contraception.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: You know it's no longer a sacrament.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And so, at the end of the day, what happens?
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And now again, we have this evil right away, right in the Vatican.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: You know it's amazing.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Do we want to bless same-sex marriage and etc.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Etc.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And and again, you know, if you are living in a, you know An lgbtq, you know lifestyle, you know Christ always calls you in and what we always want to invite you in, invite you into the freedom that Christ wants to give all of us.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: We all have attractions.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: We all do things where there's nobody here.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: That's sinless, but Christ is, is bringing us in and he's inviting us into a banquet.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So modern man, again, is on a self-centered quest.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You know, you see the pride parades.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: What, what, what is this twisting and distorting of our sexuality?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Sex is such a beautiful thing, but what?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: But it's not about lust and selfishness, you know.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And then what do we do?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: We have, we have this.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: We live in a materialistic world.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It means we're just whatever we see.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: This is it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: There is nothing else.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And so we grasp and we take and we lose hope.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And the consumerism, huh, everybody's bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, wait.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You know, next month is gonna come up and we're gonna have Amazon day and you know, people going crazy for source, beating each other up to get into stores.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: We've lost our sense of reason, we've lost the sense of what is good.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So, in the process then, what do we do?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We're granting everyone more and more power to the state to take care of us, the young people hiding right in their safe zones and thinking that the state, who is the most corrupt, evil, distorted people in the world, that right and and so that we have the deep state, everybody Grasping and taking for themselves.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And this is what happens.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: So this is an illusion.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: The safe zone, this is an illusion to give your power and authority over to the state, because the state's a tyrant.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: These, it's this modern Hydra that just wants to come in and and take over right, and so we've seen this movie before.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Again, my dad's a world war two vet, modern man has once again fallen for that very old life.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: No, you will not die the moment you eat of that fruit.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: You will be like gods who then can decide.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You can call evil good and good evil.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: This is an old story.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: That's from Genesis, chapter 3.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Saint Paul clearly understood this and, by extension, so that our founding fathers Once one has lost on the battlefield of the individual heart, you lose between love and lust.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Love, authentic love.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Look up at a crucifix.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: This is my body, given for you.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: We turn our selfishness inside out and we become gifts.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: We're filled, though we have to be.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: We cannot give what we don't have.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: We have to be filled with God's love, filled with the banquet.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: This is what the Eucharist is.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: This is what confession is right to wash ourselves in an up-to-well bath and then come into union and communion like a marriage with God Himself.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Right the moment you eat of it, you shall die, you know.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And no, no, no, you won't die.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: You'll become like gods.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So saw Once again, once you've lost in the battlefield the individual human heart.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Between love and lust, you lose between what's good and what's evil.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I call good evil and evil good.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So you can rant and rave all you want, but the talk that you know say tick, tock, tick, tock, you've been invited to the wedding feast.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So not only do you become enslaved as an individual by sinful passions and desires, but you manifest that into your relationships and then from there into the culture and, by extension, into polity, into the deep state, because you take jobs out there in the government and you take jobs in finance and you become these corrupt bankers and politicians that just want to take.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But you know what again, tick tock, tick, tock, tick, tock.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Chaos reigns.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And this is what's happening.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's coming down very rapidly, isn't it?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So all forms of missionary activity in the church, from the early church on, are marked by an awareness that one is furthering human freedom when you proclaim Jesus Christ, when I proclaim Jesus Christ, I am proclaiming freedom too.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And in Galatians, chapter 5, continuing a little bit to verse 13,.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: For you are called to freedom, brethren, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love, be servants of one another, for the whole law is fulfilled on one word.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: This is the whole law.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: When you see everything I described earlier here today, you shall love your neighbor as yourself, but you can't do this, can you, if you're not filled first.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: You shall love your neighbor if yourself, and St Paul goes on.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another, and this is what we're doing now.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Religious freedom, which is still at times limited or restricted in certain countries and certain places.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You start to see our voices, christian voices, become canceled and censored.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: This is evil reigning now.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: It doesn't want to hear this word, does it, and most people don't want to hear this word.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: As I go out and talk to people, they just want to turn away or put their head down on apathy.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I see this even in my own family, right.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So again, religious freedom, which is limited or sick, it remains the premise and the guarantee of all the freedoms that ensure the common good of individuals and peoples.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Take religious freedom out of a country, start to censor it and cancel it, like we do in the communist countries, like we're doing it They've done in Ukraine when they've, when they've, the totalitarian powers came into Israel, mandated COVID vaccinations I mean mandated all the stuff and took your religious freedom away to say, no, I'm not going to take a vaccine that I don't believe in.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Nope, you can't do that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: So they took your freedom away.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Now, when you lose religious freedom, the power structure comes in.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: When you proclaim religious freedom and religious freedom is granted to people everywhere, like the church should be proclaiming, then authentic freedom comes in.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It's not a question of the religion of the majority or a religion of the minority, but of an inalienable right of each and every human being to choose using their own conscience.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: We're free.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: We're free to choose evil, but we also should be free to choose the good you should.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: You should be free to to say no, I walk away from God, but do not cancel the person that says no, no, no, no, no.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I want to be free to choose God.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: See the U?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: S declaration of independent states.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: This we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It is, it is.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Then they went out to describe the action that may be necessary when a stage would overstep its grasp on power, even saying that you know you're going to have to replace the state at some point, and so we'll see what happens here.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Right, founding Father John Adams linked the individual with this newly founded nation when he observed this our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: It's wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: See, he linked the individual, human heart, again with this newly founded nation.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: How did he?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: How did he link it?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: It's wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: And so what is he doing?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: He's getting back to that, that the three necessary societies that I talked about, marriage in the family, and you have Christ in the church.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Well, our country was based on Judeo Christian principles, and this brings that, the truth and the good, and then the freedom to choose.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Now, if you take away moral, religious people, like we've done all across the world now, then the constitutions won't stand On her part.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: The church addresses people with full respect for their freedom.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: The church's mission does not restrict freedom, but rather promotes it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: The church proposes like a marriage.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: She imposes nothing you cannot force.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: You know, if you're a bridegroom or a man that wants to ask a woman to marry, you can't force her to marry.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: This church is the same way Christ always proposes.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: She never imposes anything.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: So open the doors to Christ for freedom.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Christ has set us free.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Stand fast, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: So let me end with the gospel according to Matthew.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: And here's the story.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Isn't this our story?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Listen to this.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Jesus again, in reply, spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in the parable, saying now, this is a parable, right.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: A second time he sent other servants saying tell those invited Behold, I have prepared my banquet.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: My calves and fat and cattle are killed.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Everything is ready, come to the feast.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Well, some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, were too busy.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: The rest laid hold of his servants and mistreated them and killed them.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: The king was enraged and sent his troops destroying those murderers and burning their cities.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Then he said to his servants the feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whoever you could find.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: The servants went out to the streets and gathered all.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: They found, bad and good alike, and all the hall was filled with guests.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: But when the king came in to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: The king said to him my friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But that man was reduced to silence.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Then the king said to his attendants bind his hands and feet, cast them into the darkness outside, where there would be a wailing and a grinding of teeth.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Many are invited, but few are chosen.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: The gospel of the Lord, this is kind of this is amazing, right, but it's kind of, you know, nerve wracking at the same time.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Many are invited, all of us are invited, but few are chosen.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Few are chosen.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Basicργ will accept Jesus Christ on the cross right.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: So again you see Jesus speaking to the religious leaders at that time, telling them that the kingdom of heaven is like a king.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: This is God, right from the beginning.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Come to the wedding feast.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Calm.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Come to the wedding feast.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You know, you see this right at the end of the last book of the Bible and the book of Revelation.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Come into the marriage of the Lamb.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: In fact, I'll read just a little part of that.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Yet this is right at the very end, revelation 21.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And I heard a great voice from the throne saying Behold, the dwelling of God is with man.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: He will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And he who sat upon the throne said Behold, I make all things new.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: And also he said Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And he said to me it is done.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: He who conquers shall have his heritage and I will be his God and he shall be my Son.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters and all liars, there a lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and primstone, which is the second death.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Wow, what is the second death?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Huh, we die.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And then why?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: The veil is lifted and we go down to die again with Satan forever.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, what a scary thing, right?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: So some got bored.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Some said, no, I'm too busy.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, isn't this today?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the invitation.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: How many say no, I'm going to go to my farm, another to his business.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Another wants to go watch a TikTok video?
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: No, I have to return my emails.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Too busy, got to do some painting around the house, right?
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And then?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: How about the rest?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: The late hold of his servants mistreated them, killed them.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: We're seeing this today.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Christians.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: More Christians are being murdered today than any other time.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: This is real.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: How many people are being censored, thrown into jail today for praying outside of abortion clinics, for standing up for the youth?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: How many of us are being persecuted as hate speech?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Right, because we stand up for what's true, good and beautiful, and marriage and the family?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: The king was enraged and he sent his troops, destroyed those murders and burned their city.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Who is this that's going to destroy those murders, burn their city?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Who is this?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: We're going to kill each other.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: See, the king is just allowing.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: God is going to allow us to do this ourselves.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: You know, he allows evil to come.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Then he said to his servants well, the feast is ready, but those who are invited weren't worthy.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Go out and invite everybody.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: He said and that's what we're doing.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: You know, in the midst of all the burning and the bombs, you know blasting.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And we say you know, come into the kingdom, stop this madness.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: We invite everybody.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: But then the king came in and he said there's some people weren't dressed.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: There was one person right that he said right away you're not dressed in a wedding garment.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: He means I'm going to the banquet, but I'm not going to change my way.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I want to go to the wedding.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: These are the Joe Biden's Look, this was me at one time in my life too but the Joe Biden's of the world, you know, who stand for to call himself Catholic and then stand for abortion and a twisting and distortion of marriage, who is one of the most corrupt people that we've ever had in politics and that's saying a lot.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And you just go.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Wow, you know he thinks he's going to the wedding feast, doesn't he?
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Well, again, this happens to each of us.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I remember myself coming when I first came back into the church trying to receive the Eucharist, and I knew Christ was in that Eucharist.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't until I heard the priest on the altar say if you ever need to go to confession any time, come get me.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And I go, oh my gosh, of course I am at the feast, I'm at mass trying to receive Christ, and I have never taken the nuptial bath, I haven't been to confession, I haven't got washed, and this is what that was.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: It wasn't until I went and got dressed for the wedding feast I was allowed Christ to come into my heart to redeem me and then save me that the invitation was always there.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: But I have to say yes, and not just yes with my mouth, but yes with my mouth, my mind and my heart, and then God brings us into the wedding feast, right, hey, god bless you.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with me.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: You know, read the Magnificat.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: This is all coming from the Magnificat, or most of it, but you can go back for weeks right now and you'll see the Old Testament readings, the New Testament readings, the Psalms, all talking about this, the people that have turned away from God, in fact, the Old Testament.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: The whole thing is God restores this covenant.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: People walk, you know.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: His people walk away and he pursues them and he does the same with us.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: He's always pursuing us, always looking for us.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: You know, when we are in the search for God, don't forget, we have that in our hearts.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Because why?
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Because God put that there, because we have His DNA with us, God's union, his desire for union to come in with us.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: This is like a father, this is a father, this is our father, but this is like an earthly father.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I was going to say that loves you so much and I hope you had a father that loved you so much.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I mean many, many of us didn't right, but when you do, this is all.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: This love story is in our DNA and even if you came up as orphans, even if you came up sexually abused, don't forget that that love of God is always within us.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: This is the only thing that allows us freedom to overstep this temporal area, to overstep even our you know our earthly life here and our earthly relatives, and to be able to overcome and transcend all.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: That is to open ourselves up to Jesus Christ.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: It's always like that, it's always going to be like that.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: God bless you.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Talk to you soon, everybody, bye-bye.