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Show 223: The Eucharist part 1 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to this week's show. Well, we're gonna get
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back where we should have been last week. We're gonna
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get back into the sacraments, and this we're gonna start
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talking about the Eucharus, which is the most important sacrament.
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So we're not gonna get through that in one show.
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I think I'm looking at about a three parter on
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the euchross, So buckle in. Uh, it's gonna be very,
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very interesting. I tell you, you never know when you're gonna
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have to defend the faith. And this afternoon I spent
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a remarkable amount of time debating with a Protestant over
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the sacraments, baptism and the euchreus specifically. And this is
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someone who says you don't have to be baptized to
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be saved. And I keep going back to the words
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of the Bible, and you know, he comes up with
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every excuse, and you know, what do you do? I mean, honestly,
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it's like, you know, you're trying to talk to somebody
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in good faith. We have to remember the words of
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Saint Bernadette, who said that it wasn't her job to
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convince sets up with the Holy Spirit. We just tell
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them the truth. It's up the Holy Spirit to convict
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him of what's right and wrong and what's true and false.
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But it is amazing to me how easily Protestants lie.
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I mean, how many times have you encountered an anti
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Catholic online or in real life and they say I
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was raised Catholic? Got nine percent of the time, that's
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a flat out lie. They say I was raised Catholic,
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but I you know, I converted to Protestantism because of this.
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And you can ask them any little simple thing like,
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you know, why do you really unless you got family there,
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why do you not probably want to go to church
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the night before Easter the Easter vigil mess. Yeah, they
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don't know. It's like a three hour deal. You can
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ask them something like, you know, complicated, explain transubstantiation. They
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don't even know what the word means, so have to
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look it up. And if they're online, they're going to
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come back with something they just copied and paste. It's
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pretty easy to tell. If they're in real life, as say, so,
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explain to me the Immaculate Conception. Nearly one hundred percent,
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probably one hundred percent of the time, they're going to
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say it had something to do with the virgin birth
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of Christ, not that the blessed Virgin Mary was preserved
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from sin, did not receive the stain of original sin
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before she was ever born. They don't know that. And
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you can say, okay, well, first of all, what you
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just said is wrong. This is this doctrine and it
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should have been taught to you in the Catholic school
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you said you went to, or your catechism classes. How
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did you miss that lesson? You know, there are a
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million little things you could ask them. What do you
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do when you enter a Catholic church? If they don't know,
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the first thing you do is dip your finger in
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the holy water and cross yourself. They're not Catholic and
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they never have been. But it doesn't stop them. I mean,
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just lying, lying, lying, it's absolutely utterly amazing. I mean
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you can even go back to them and say so,
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recite to me the ten Commandments. Now wait a minute,
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that part about bearing false witness. Is there something in
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your Protestant Bible that says you shouldn't lie unless it's
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to a Catholic And remember what did Jesus say that
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to those who opposed him that their father was the
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father of lies? Catholicism is the truth. Protestantism is a
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Satanic lie, it's a heresy. They're good people in I'm
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not saying they're not. They're people that don't know any better,
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but they've been lied to their entire lives, usually by
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people who don't know any better. People who've been lied
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to their entire lives. We're going back, you know, ten
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generations now, people who have been brought up on lies,
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the lies of Martin Luther, through all the lies about everything,
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from Catholics aren't allowed to read the Bible to the
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Spanish Inquisition. I mean, people, even Catholics believe all those lies. Here,
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let me give you a book. You want to read,
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a good book that would dispel like all those historical
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lies like about burning witches and about the Crusades and
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suppression of false of whatever Gnostic gospels, so etc. There's
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a good book and it's actually written by a Protestant,
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and I'm going to recommend this wholeheartedly. It's called Bearing
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False Witness, Debunking Centuries of Anti Catholic History by Rodney Stark.
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He's an actual historian, and he's a Protestant, and he
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goes back and says you know, all that stuff that
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you're taught in school. It lies, and it's anti Catholic lies.
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I mean about how the Catholic Church tried to suppress
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you know, science and put you know, persecuted Galileo and
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killed Jews because they wouldn't convert. And yeah, it's all lies,
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one falsehood, and he documents it. It's very very good. Actually
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it's you know, it's it's two hundred and sixty some pages.
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It's actually pretty easy weekend read. I would suggest getting
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a copy keeping on your shelf, keeping it all about
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the like the whole myth around Hitler's pope about how
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the Catholic Church somehow supported Nazis. No, the Catholic Church
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did everything they could to combat Hitler and saved thousands,
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if not millions, of Jews from being killed. And Hitler
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went after the Catholic Church very hard because of that.
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He details how just about everything you were taught in school,
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at least I was taught in school, having gone to
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both public and private schools in the Southeastern United States,
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I was taught a very anti Catholic version of history
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in like middle school. Over the years, I learned that
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you know, the Dark Ages are kind of a myth
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that was actually one of the eras of the greatest literary, artistic, scientific,
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musical advancement of all time. Yeah, I can go on
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and on and on about it. There's no such thing
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as the Enlightenment. Gosh, the wars and persecutions and genocides
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by the Protestants from Luther to King Henry and beyond.
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I mean, that's the actual bloody period of history. That's
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the actual religious persecution. But that's not what I was
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out in school. I can guarantee you that not by
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my Presbyterian teachers. Well anyway, definitely bearing false witnesses. The
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name of the book, Rodney Stark. Get a copy of
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that book, keep it on your shelf, keep it nearby.
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I think that knowing history is very important. Start, you know,
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really documents where these myths started, these lies started in
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anti Catholic writing by the early Protestants, and then we're
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really picked up and run with by the Communists after
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the Communist revolutions in Russia and China and you know, Cuban.
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All that very very relevant to our time today. But
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you really do, when you get down to it, have
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to acknowledge that Protestant doctrine is heresy. But Protestant, how
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would I even put it? Not propaganda? I guess that
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would be one word for it. Propaganda justification for Protestantism
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for one thing, Protestant apologetics, if you want to put
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it that way. Everything they say the reason their churches
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were founded and how awful Catholics are is a complete
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and utter lie. And I mean they'll just lie. I
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guess some Catholics will lie easily as well. I don't know,
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I haven't really encountered that just make stuff up, but
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I mean I've been doing this for twenty some years now,
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and whether in person or online or you know, in
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whatever given for them, Protestants are just make stuff up
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and like they really believe it too. And you'd point
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out to them, wait a minute, this didn't actually ever happen.
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Show me historical evidence. Oh, there's no you know, the
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Catholic Church censored all that historical evidence. There were a
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million people killed in the Spanish Inquisition, and you're like,
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let's see, the population of Spain wasn't even a million
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at the time, So where are these people buried? Who
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buried them? Where are the cemetery? Oh? Well, the Catholic
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Church covered that up. No, No, we actually have historical
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records from the time of the Inquisition. We have records
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of the actual trials and you know a lot of
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just actual criminals were tried as well as you know
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heretics and such as that. And the number of people
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killed is like about one percent of all those who
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were tried, and that comes down to like six hundred
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people maybe over thirty or forty years, which is you know, bad,
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But compared to Protestant England, where they were just going
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around cutting the heads off every Catholic they could find
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and confiscate their property to enrich the new Protestants. I
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mean there were thousands and thousands killed, or the genocide
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of the English against the Irish, or the thousands slaughtered
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in the French Revolution. I mean, the Spanish Inquisition doesn't
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even rank. I mean, it doesn't even rate or rank
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what I'm I'm trying to say where they talk about
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you know, Hitler's Pope and all that, and you can say, look,
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now these are the actual documents. Here's a biography written
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by the chief Rabbi of Rome who credits the pope
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and the bishops for saving the lives of hundreds of
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thousands of Jews in Italy and was so moved by
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the charity of the Catholic Church he later converted to Catholicism. Well,
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you know the Catholic Church, there was still cover that
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up built. And you're like, no, no, no, no. Here's
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actual articles from the New York Times, you know, the
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London Times. Here's contemporary historical documentation. But the most knee
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jerk why of all is I was raised Catholic? Yeah,
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prove it, prove it, dude. You know, who is your
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your confirmation saint? Who are your godparents? I want to know,
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you know, show me some evidence, pray uh the Rosary
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for me. Well they refuse to do that. I say one, hell, Mary,
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recite the Creed for me. Can you tell me the Creed,
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the nice seeing Creed. We could go on and on
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and on, and I mean, there's so many things you
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can do just to say you're a liar. But when
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you do that, that's usually the end of the conversation
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because they get all angered up and indignant, and the
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thing is you just called them out on falsehood. And
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whether it's a scholarly debate or just you know, one
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of those someone's I was raised Catholic and I and
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you know I left the church because they prayed to
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the saints. Well, okay, did you have a Catholic Bible?
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Did you? Did you ever read Maccabees for instance, and
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see how God sends his angels to answer prayers, or
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that we're supposed to pray to the dead, or you know,
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the Books of Wisdom. But oh, wait a minute, you're
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saying Catholics aren't allowed to read the Bible. So somehow
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you were raised Catholic but never read the Bible. Okay,
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assuming that's true, which it's not. You're a liar whose
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follows that? Was it your parents who didn't raise you
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very well? Were you just too lazy? What? What's the answer?
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No one stood there with a gun preventing you from
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reading the Bible? Are you stupid? You could be stupid. Actually,
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you know, welcome to the world of being a Catholic apologist.
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Sometimes you have to say to someone you know your
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elevator may not be going to the top floor. I'm
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sorry that you think this, but either your delusional, or
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you're just really stupid, or you're really ignorant, or you're
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a liar and ninety nine percent of the time. They're liars,
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complete utter liars. And they can be somebody with a
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PhD from whatever Bible college and whatever, and they're out
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there spreading stuff they actually know is false, and if
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they don't know it's false, when you present them with
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historical evidence, like I don't know, early accounts of Saint
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Peter being martyred in Rome, we have more evidence for
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Saint Peter being in Rome than we ever had for
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Napoleon being in Russia. You know, for that matter, we
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have more evidence of Saint Peter being in Rome than
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we have for Napoleon ever being having been the Emperor
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of France. And then they just, you know, refuse to
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believe it. Well, then you have to say, look, you know,
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you're not an honest person. Either you're a moron or
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you're not honest. And again that's up for God to
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sort out. That's not my problem. As Saint Berna's dead said,
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my job is just to tell them the truth, and
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it's up the Holy Spirit as so, I'm sorry, not
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with Saint Bernadad Saint Teresa was, so my job is
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to I think that's right. I can't remember which one
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of those was I'm gonna have to look that up anyway.
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It's up the Holy Spirit to convince them. And it's
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so here here's the thing. It's not at all difficult
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for a few Protestant heresy. It's not at all difficult
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to expose Protestant lies. Where it is difficult for a
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Catholic if you're a person of good faith and you're
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really trying to act out of charity to explain the
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faith is to not really go after them hard and
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make them look like a fool online. And that's when
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it's difficult. If it's one in one conversation, you know,
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you can speak your piece and say, all right, that's it.
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I gave you the truth. You can accept it or
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not nine times out of ten. If not more than
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that they're not accept it. You may have to say
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to them, I don't think you're really telling me the truth.
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And you know, you're pretty much shown by your own
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admission that you're not an honest person. When you're in
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a forum, you're on Twitter or whatever, and there are
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a lot of people watching, it can be real tempting to,
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you know, knock them down and stomp on them. And
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at charity, we're not supposed to do that, and sometimes
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they're going to come back and just start hurling insults
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at you, and five or six or seven or ten
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thousand people join in. And bottom line is you just
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state the truth and walk away. State the truth and
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walk away. If you want to finish it up with,
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I'll pray for you do so. But state the truth
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and walk away. Mute them and walk out of the conversation.
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Block them, mute them, whatever you gotta do, because you know,
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the father of lies is the father of confusion, and
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you know, unfortunately Satan is the father of Protestantism. They're
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good Protestants, they're devout Protestants, they're well meaning Protestants. Protestants
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will go to heaven if they have faith and don't
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know what they don't know. But once you're they are informed.
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Once you say to them, such as you know Jesus,
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and except you eat the flesh of the Son of
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Man and drink his blood, you should not have life
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in you. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my
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blood hath life ever lasting. And I will raise them
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up on the left last day, for my flesh is meat, indeed,
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and my blood is drink indeed, and you explain to
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them using every historical reference you can find, every etymology,
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explaining what the words mean, and they have to admitt
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that Jesus actually did say those words literally. Well, maybe
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that's a hard one for him, maybe they can't even
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get over that. But hey, how about Jesus expressly condemned
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divorce in all four gospels And here you are a
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divorce Protestant minister and you're justifying divorce. You're saying it's okay,
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it's not sinful. You know, you're in opposition to what
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Jesus said. You know you're disagreeing with God, and yet
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you maintain it just as much as some one who
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kills someone who says it's not a sin to commit murder,
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or you know, someone who says abortion's okay, or homosexual
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homosexual sex is okay. You know you're lying. What do
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you do? At that point? They're just going to get
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more and more angry and more and more defensive. So
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cut it short, walk away. It's on their conscious at
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that point, and at that point it actually really is
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on their conscience. They're going to be held accountable for
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it one day when they leave this earth. If they
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don't reconcile that point. They're going to be held accountable
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for it. And I got a feeling purgatory. It is
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going to come as a big shock to a lot
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of people, a lot of people. Well, anyway, we'll start
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as we usually do, just a couple of questions and
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answers from radio replies. The person asked, where was Christ
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knowledge of the future glory when he prayed to be
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freed from the necessity of dying, And they answer you.
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Let us remember that there were in Christ two natures,
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one human, the other divine. Christ suffered in his human
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nature experience and natural human shrinking from all that waited
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to him, all that awaited him. To that natural apprehension,
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he gave the expression conditionally, saying, if it be possible,
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let this chilice pass from me but his divine But
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with his divine knowledge, he knew of God's absolute will,
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both his passion and subsequent glorification. For he added, not conditionally,
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but absolutely not my human will, but thy will be done.
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Long before this, he had predicted that he would be
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put to death and that he would rise again from
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the dead. But despite this knowledge of the glorious sequel,
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his presence sufferings were sufferings all the same, knowledge of
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subsequent relief does not necessarily destroy the dead of a
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dread of a painful operation. Perseptas Christ found out his
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mistake on the cross and knew that it was all
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in vain. When he cried, my God, why his self
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forsaken me? And the priest answer, Christ knew that his
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death was not all in vain. He died to give
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those who want it the means to save their souls,
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and those who want to save their souls have the
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means provided by the merit of Christ's death. His sacrifice
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was a perfect success, accomplishing all that it was intended
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to accomplish. This was certainly never meant to save men
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against their wills. The cry of Christ on the cross therefore,
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in no way expressed a conviction that all was in vain,
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but indicated a desolation of soul and mental suffering, and
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the passion which no other expression could manifest more suitably.
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The words were uttered for our sake and and bespoke
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a suffering which was part of the Christ demanded of
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one enduring the penalty to our sins, And the person says,
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then Christ's sacrifice fails because he could not create in
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men the will to be saved and the answer. Christ
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can be said to have failed only if he did
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not succeed in accomplishing his purpose. But his purpose was
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to give men the means of salvation. Should they will
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to make use of such means, all who sincerely wish
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to be saved can be saved. Meantime, even God cannot
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endow man with free will who has the right to
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do a thing in spite of himself. That would be
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the end of freedom, of morality and of merit. Salvation
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would be a physical necessity of nature, on par with
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blood circulation, and man would no longer conform to the
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very definition of man. He would be another type of
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creature altogether. The person says, the idea of atonement by
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human sacrifice fills me with horror and must be abborrent
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to a good and merciful God. The answer, you would
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not abhor the death of Christ from being kind? Did
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you understand the full significance of the answer. Far from
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being opposed to the goodness and mercy of God, it
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is the supreme manifestation of that goodness. God so loving
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the world as to give his only begotten son and
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finally for the day. The person asks, but why should
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the end be condemned to death for the guilty? And
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they answer, it was not so much the condemnation of
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the innocent as the free offering of the Son of
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God and his human nature for the salvation of his
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sinful yet brother human beings. Man bought by so great
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a price is taught his true dignity in the eyes
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of God. He learns how evil sin really is, and
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has moved to love the one who has proved his
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loves in so convincing a way. All right, Ah, now, well,
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let's talk about the euchrous, the main thing. Let me
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get a sip of water here, and faus Bragers says,
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the third sacrament is the institution, is the Eucrius. He
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starts with the institution nature of the whole euchres. Our
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Lord promised the Jusuh of Farnum that he would give
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them his flesh to eat, in his blood to drink.
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John six. After the miraculous multiplication of the loaves and fishes,
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the people went in search of Christ and found him
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in the synagogue at Kafarnam. They wanted him to give
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them a bread, To give them bread again, but he
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promised to give them bread of immortality. When they ask
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him for it, he answered, the bread that I will
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give is my flesh. And when they refuse to believe
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his words, he added, except you eat the flesh of
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the Sun of Band and drink his blood, you shall
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not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh
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and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life. And I will
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raise him up on the last day. For my flesh
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is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. John
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six fifty two through fifty six. Our Lord fulfilled his promise.
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At the last Supper. He changed the bread into his body,
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and the wine and to his blood, and gave it
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to the apostles Matthew twenty six twenty eight. The apostles
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did not, however, see the body of Christ under the
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appearance of flesh, for the accidents of bread remain the
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same i e. Its color, taste, smell, and weight. Nor
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did they see his blood wise than is wine, because
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the accidents of the wine were retained. The substance only
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was changed. So the shell of an egg remains the
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same while it is contained within it is changed, while
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what is contained within is changed. Into a living bird.
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The body of Christ and the appearance of bread and
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the blood of Christ on the appearance of wine is
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called the most holy sacrament of the Altar. Here again
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we find three essentials of a sacrament. The visible sign
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is the form of the bread and the wine. The
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audible sign is the words of Christ. The invisible grace
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is the reception of the body and blood of Christ.
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The institution of this sacrament took place at the Last Supper.
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The visible form portrays the invisible grace. The bread, prepared
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with water and the flour of wheat and baked with fire,
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represents the body of Christ, which was subjected to cruel suffering.
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The wine, the juice press from the grape, represents the blood
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of Christ, which flowed from the wounds of his sacred body.
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The bread is unleavened to denote the purity of Christ's body.
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It is round in shape because it conceals Him who
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is without beginning and without end Hebrews seven three. Water
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is mixed with wine to signify the intimate union of
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the Good the Godhead and Manhood in his person. Bread
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and wine being the principal means of nourishment for the
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body signify that the body and Blood of Christ are
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the chief sustenance of the soul. The sacrament is called
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the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar because the change
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of substance takes place upon the altar. It is called
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the Blessed Sacrament because in it not only are all
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the graces of the sacraments received, but the author and
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giver of all grace, and is besides the most exalted
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and sublime of all sacraments. It is called the Bread
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of Heaven and the Bread of angels, because our Lord
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comes down from Heaven to be our food, a food
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which makes men like to angels. We speak of this sacrament.
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It's a sacrament of the altar because the priest standing
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at the altar does the same by Christ's command, which
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he himself did at the Last Supper. Our Lord command
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of the apostles, do this for a commemoration of Me.
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On this account, the priest pronounces exactly the same words
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over the bread and wine which our Lord uttered at
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the Last Supper, thereby changing the bread into the body
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and wine, and the wine into the Blood of Christ.
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The Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar is reserved in
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the Tabernacle in every perish. The tabernacle, which stands in
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the middle of the high altar, is made of wood,
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marble or brass, gilt inside, and lined with a white
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silk curtain. In earlier times it was situated beside, not
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above the altar. The name of the tabernacle or Tint,
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is given to it from the sacred tint of the
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Israelites and the mysterious cloud that accompanied them on their journey.
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That was a type of the tabernacle of God in
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which he dwells with men. Revelations or Apocalypse twenty one
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to three. A lamp is kept burning continually in the
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sanctuary before the tabernacle, to indicate the place where the
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blessed sacrament is reserved, and also to symbolize the light
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of the world. It is besides emblematic of the perpetual
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adoration of the angels, that the angels pray to God
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present on the altar. In the Temple of Jerusalem, there
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was a candlestick with seven branches in which lights burn continually.
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Our Divine Lord is thus ever present with mortal men.
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He himself declares, I am with you all days, even
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to the consummation of the world. Matthew twenty eight twenty.
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He is as truly present with us as with the
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saints in heaven. The only difference is that they behold
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him face to face, whereas he is hidden from our
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sight beneath the eucharistic veils. The manner preserved in the
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ark was a type of hidden God present in our
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tabernacles Exes sixteen thirty three. The presence of the body
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and blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and
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wine is a mystery because our feeble reason cannot comprehend it.
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Our Lord conceals himself under the appearance of bread and
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wine in order to test our faith whether we believe
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his words rather than the testimony or our senses. If we believe,
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faith would have no merit, he said. If we saw
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what we believe, faith would have no merit. Skipped a word,
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and it didn't make sense. Yes, if we saw what
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we believe, faith would have no merit. In other words,
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if we look andsole flesh and blood as opposed to
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bread and wine, what would we be having faith in.
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We'd know it to be flesh and blood. Moreover, if
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we were to behold our Lord in all majesty of
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his glorified body, radiant with light. We should be struck
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with alarm and dazzled, as those are dazzled who look
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with the naked eye upon the noonday sun. Even the
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apostles could not bear the unveiled brilliance of the glorified Lord,
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of the glorified Body at our Lord's transfiguration. For they
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fell on the ground upon their faces, and Moses covered
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his face when God appeared to him in the burning bush.
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We cannot trust our senses. Even in natural things. They
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often deceive us. For instance, an or half in the
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water looks as if it were broken. Objects seen from
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a distance appear quite small. Faith teaches us to believe
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that as the food we eat is assimilated into our body,
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as the moisture of the earth has changed into the
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sap of the vine and the juice of the grape.
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Even so and far more, by the power of his word,
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can Christ change bread into the substance of his body,
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and wine into his blood. He who, by his almighty,
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mighty power can create things out of nothing, can surely
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affect change in what already exists. He who can cause
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the earth to bring forth bread, can change that bread
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into his own body. Many different heretics have contested the
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truth that this doctrine of the real presence of Christ's
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in sacrament of the altar, and endeavor to attach a
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different meaning to Our Lord's words, this is my body.
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But in the course of centuries, Almighty God has worked
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many striking miracles in confirmation of the truth. As you know,
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Saint Carlo Acutis was just beautified and his whole mission
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was showing eucharistic miracles. There were a thousand instances in
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which the bread did actually become flesh, really pretty amazing.
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But in the course of centuries, Okay, we go there, yep,
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I'll just say it again. In the course of centuries
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on Mighty God has worked many striking miracles in confirmation
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of the truth. Consecrated hosts have remained unconsumed in the
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midst of fire. They have remained suspended in air without support.
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The place where they were concealed has been disclosed by
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a bright light hovering around it. Blood has flowed from
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the sacred host during mass, Our Lord has appeared in
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it in the form of an infant, etc. It has
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been the firm belief of Christians in all ages that
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the bread and wine are converted into the body and
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blood of Christ. Saint Augustine says, our Lord held himself
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in his own hands when he gave his body to
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the disciples. Saint Cyril said, a Christ changed water into
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wine on one occasion, he can also change wine into
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his blood. And when he asserts that it is his body,
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who shall dare ain say it? It was a calumny
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commonly brought against Christians by the Heathens, so they killinate
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the flesh of a child at their ceremonies. It is
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most true that on the species of bread, as also
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on a species of wine, Christ is present God and Man,
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whole and entire. In other words, you can have the host,
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or you can have the wine, or you can have both.
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It doesn't matter. He's fully present in both. Where the
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body and blood of Christ are there, he must be present,
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not in part, but in his whole person. For now
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he that hath arisen from the dead, to die no more.
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And consequently the body can no more be separated from
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the blood than the body and blood can be separated
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from the soul of Christ. Our Lord's words were this
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or are This is my body which is given for you,
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and this is my blood, which should be shed, for
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many demonstrate that it is his living body, his living blood,
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that are present under the appearance of bread and wine.
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And therefore the living, not the dead Christ, who is
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present upon the altar as a whole, whole landscape may
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be seen the pupil of the eyes. So Christ has
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contained whole and entire in the sacred host. Our Lord
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is present in every particle. However, minute of the consecrated
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bread and wine. We have seen that Christ is present
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in every host, and when the priest breaks the host,
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he is equally present in every fragment of it. If
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a magnet be broken into pieces, each part forms a
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separate magnet with the property of pointing to the north.
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And if a mirror is broken, each portion in each
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person one's face is reflected. But the body of Christ
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is not multiplied. His body is but one animated and
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pervaded by His divinity, which fills all space. It is
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not increased by each fresh consecration, nor diminished by the
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numbers who receive it. As the light of a candle
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is not lessened, however, many other candles are lighted at
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its flame. So Our Lord's body suffers no diminution when
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it is given to thousands of communic communicants. Thus, Saint
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Andrews said to the proconsulate, I daily offer upon the
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altar to the Almighty and True God, the Immaculate Lamb
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of God. And when all the faithful received his sacred body,
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the victim that was slain is yet alive and unconsumed.
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Christ is present and the consecrated elements, as long as
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the accents of bread and wine remain. Our Lord is
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not only present in the sacrament of the altar at
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the moment of communion, but both before and after the
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host is consumed. Had this been otherwise, he would not
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have said, take this and eat, for this is my body,
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and He is present in those who receive the sacred host,
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so long as the accents of bread remain unconsumed. Thus,
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after communion we bear in our body the body of Christ.
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The duties of the Christian in regard to the holy
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sacrament of the Altar. Of these he ought to visit frequently,
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to adore it, and to receive it. We ought to
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visit the blessed sacrament frequently. In this respect, the shepherds
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and three Kings who came to worship the infert Savior
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in the manger set us an excellent example. The Saints
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spent many hours in prayer before the blessed sacrament. Cardinal
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bellermun Saint Bellarmine, when a student was accustomed whenever he
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passed by a church, to go in and say in
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our Father. When asked why he did this, he replied,
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it would be ill manners to go by a friend's
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house without a word of greeting. He was distinguished while
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yet a youth, for his great wisdom. Access to Our
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Lord is not denied to us. The church door stands open,
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and from the tabernacle the voice of our Lord calls
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to us. Come unto me, all you that labor and
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are burdened, and I will refresh you. Matthew eleven twenty eight.
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Saint Theresa declares, I guess this is of a villa. There.
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Our Lord, in the adorable sacrament of the Altar, affords
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us far more satisfaction than can be deprived from the
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whole world than can be derived from the whole world,
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with all its festivities and pleasures. In his presence, the
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sorrowful sorrow for are comforted, the foolish learned wisdom, the
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feeble are strengthen and the poor are enriched wheresoever the
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body shall be there shaw the eagles also be gathered together,
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and in like manner the faithful should hasten to the
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Blessed Sacrament, the food of the soul. The saints love
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to drink of this river paradise, as the heart pants
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to quench the thirst at the fountains of water. Unwise, indeed,
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are they who, in the hour of need, choose rather
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to seek human aid, to pour their troubles into a
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human ear. They do not betake themselves to the Church,
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to Christ, who is willing so able to help them.
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The Church admonishes us to pay homage to the holy
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sacrament of the altar shanctuary lamp by the bell rung
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it mass, when the Begaticum is carried to the sick
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by the procession of Corpus Christi and by frequent apposition.
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Expositions are the Blessed Sacrament. It is customary on entering
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or leaving a church to Genia Fleck before the blessed
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Sacrament to kneel down reverently at the consecration, and when
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the benediction is given with the blessed sacrament in formal
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time people used to kneel whenever they met a priest
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carrying the host to the sick. It is related of
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Rudolph of Habsburg that once, when he was out hunting,
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he met a priest going to give commune to a
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dying man. Immediately he dismounted, and, kneeling by the roadside,
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gave his horse to the priest. Nor would he allow
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the animal to again be used except in the service
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of the church. Before receiving Holy Communion, we ought to
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make an active adoration of the Blessed Sacrament unhappily. Unhappily,
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many among us possess no living faith. They passed by
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the most holy sacrament of the Altar with cold indifference.
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The procession of Corpus Christie was instituted by Pope Urban
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fourth in twelve sixty four with a view to increase
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our faith in the presence of Christ in the Blessed
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Sacrament and the exposition of forty hours as the same object.
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The Confraternity of Perpetual Organization is intended to keep the
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worship of the Blessed Sacrament uninterruptedly. Each member has spent
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at least one hour every month in adoration for the
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Altar wonderful thing to do. If you can do it.
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Just going to adoration for an hour's one of the
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very best second, probably only to go into mass. I mean,
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you know, if you can do it, do it. It
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can be very difficult, depending on you know, your church
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and the scheduling and all that, it can be very difficulty.
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I mean there I know one church where it's like
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there's a certain group that does adoration they don't really
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want to let anybody else in. I know of others
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where they can't get enough to sign up. So do
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get in touch with your priests and ask about that.
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The sacrament was instituted by our Lord immediately before his death,
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in order to give it greater importance in our eyes
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as we treasure more the last gift of a dying friend.
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If the Jews were not permitted to behold, much less
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to touch, the arc of the Covenant, which was a
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type of the adorable sacrament of the altar, what dread
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ought we not to feel with the presence of the reality. Yeah,
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I can get one little more point here. Christ invites
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us to receive the most holy sacrament of the altar.
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He says, except you eat the flesh of the Son
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of Man and drink his blood, you shall not have
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life in you John six fifty four. The reception of
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this sacrament is known as communion, that is, union with
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Christ and communion, we receive our Lord, as Zacchius did
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into our house. In the scriptures, there are many types
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of the Holy Euchrous, for instance, the trees of life
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in the midst of Paradise, which gave immortality to our
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first parents, the manna, the paschal lamb, the bread that
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gave Elias his strength to go on the forty days
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journey to Mount Horre, the miraculous multiplication of the loaves,
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the water made into wine at the marriage of Cana
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and holy communion is itself an earnest of the spiritual food,
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wherewith we shall be nourished in heaven. The faith will
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receive the Holy Euchrus under the form of bread only
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the pre s mass receivers are both kinds. That has changed,
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you know now, before COVID, in most churches you could
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have both the bread and wine if you pleased. It's
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not necessary either one will do just fine. And gosh,
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I'm not sure I've been to many Catholic churches since
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the COVID epideic that have gone back to having both.
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But maybe they do in your parishes, you know, doesn't
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really matter. The priests of the Altar offers an ablation
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the very same as the one Christ offered on Calvary.
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On the Cross, Christ shed almost all his blood so
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that his body and blood were separated one from the other.
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The two several species of bread and wine, and the
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mass signified this separation of Our Lord's body and blood.
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The faithful, on the other hand, do not sacrifice the victim,
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but receive the sacrament. It is unnecessary for them to
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receive the chalice, as Our Lord is contained wholly under
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either species. He himself says, he that eatth this bread
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shall live forever in John six fifty nine. There are
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many reasons for withholding the challenge from the The precious
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blood might be easily spilled and pressing one to another.
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And there's the difficulty of procuring wine in some places,
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the difficulty of reserving it and bearing it to the sick,
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and some people cannot bear the taste of wine, And
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of course also germs. You know, you drink out of the
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same cup, you can get each other sick. So you know,
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I would prefer that those prohibitions during COVID had never
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taken place. But drinking out of the same cup can be
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a little iffy. I don't want to drink out of
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the same cup with somebody who has an infectious disease
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if I can possipally help it. But you know, whatever
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communit and wine is does have its own anti microbial properties.
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I mean, you can sanitize and preserve food with wine.
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I mean, you know, it's not as dangerous as may seem.
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But then again, when you're passing the cup from one
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person to another, wine doesn't really have a chance to
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kill any germs at all, you know. Besides, since your
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lips are touching the outside of the cup, so the
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chaalice whatever, I can see it. I don't like it,
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but you know that's just part of reality. I wasn't
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asked to like it, all right. So communion both kinds was,
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it is true, enjoined on the laity by the Holy
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See in the fifth century. But this was only done
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to combat the era of the Mancheans or Manchese, who
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declared wine to be an invention of the devil holy
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to be avoided. That's right. The Protestant prohibition against drinking
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alcohol isn't new. The man Man of Cheese or Manchean's
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declared that back in the fifth century, and the Church
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actually commanded people to drink wine to say that, look,
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Jesus made and drank wine. Jesus decides what's sinful and
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not not your cult leader anyway. And in fourteen thirty
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three of the Chalice was for a time given to
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the laity to induce the followers of Host to return
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to the unity of the church. That was another little schism.
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So anyway, nothing new under the sun. As we always say,
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every heresy of Protestantism has shown up before is a
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heresy of Catholicism or just downright you know, heresy, not
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even a like a schismatic sect. And it's been condemned
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by the Church. And going back and reading the early
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Church fathers, and I mean well through Augustine and all that,
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Saint Francis issal, you'll find better arguments to combat the
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heresies of protestantsm then we can come up with and
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boy did Saint Francis to salve in particular well, and
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Sant Augustine, But yeah, I mean thousands of ages, thousands
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of ages. So if they got an argument, trust me,
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go to Saint Francis and you're gonna find an answer
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to it. Boy. Howdy, all right, y'all have a great week.
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I'll talk with you next time. We're gonna stay on
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the Uchurse, like I said, for probably three shows. I mean,
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it is like the most important thing. So yeah, talk
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to you next week. Have a going