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Show 247: The Angelus and the Rosary · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: Here y'are welcome to this week's show. I hope everybody
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is having a good Holy Thursday. I hope you persevered
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through lin. I certainly stumbled several times, but well, I
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hope you're now looking forward to a wonderful and blessed Easter.
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And remember tomorrow's a day of fastening an absence, and
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be sure to say the stations of the Cross at
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the very least at three pm. We'll pick back up
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on our topic of prayer today, but first let's continue
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with the questions and answers from radio replies regarding the Eucharist,
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and the questioner asked the priests or states, I should say, posits,
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I guess is the correct term. Christ's blood is not
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shed in the mass, and without the shedding of blood
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there is no remission. And they answer, Christ offered himself
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with the shedding of blood on cavalry. Without the shedding
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of blood, there would be no remission of sin. Yet,
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since the Mass is but an appation of cavalry with
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its shedding of blood, there is no real difficulty. There
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is a difficulty for one who denies the sacrifice of
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the Mass, for without that there is no fulfillment of
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Malachi's prophecy, and there will be offered, that there will
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be offered in every place a clean oblation without the
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shedding of blood, from the rising to the setting of
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the sun. The person asked, did not Popeittis of the
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third and twelve oh eight first teach the dogma that
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the mass is a sacrifice? They say no. He merely
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insisted upon the doctrine which had always been held by Christians,
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that the Mass is a sacrifice in the true sense
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of the Gospel teaching. If the idea was not Catholic
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doctrine until twelve eight, why did Saint Irenaeus in the
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year one eighty, over one thousand years earlier, write that
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Christ commands his disciples to offer sacrifice to God not
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because God needed it, but that they might become more
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pleasing to God. And if he goes on to show
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that the container that the continued offering of the Eucharistic
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sacrifice is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Malachi, which
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manifestly predicted that the Jewish people would cease to offer
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to God and that a new and pure sacrifice would
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be offered to Him in every place by the Gentiles.
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Let me see. I think it's some abbreviation Sara. I'm
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not quite sure of if Iron, as Bishop of Leon,
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could write that in could write that in a second century.
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It is a little use to assert that Catholics did
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not believe the Mass to be a true sacrifice until
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the year twelve oh eight. And the person says, Catholics
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speak of the Mass as if they meant the real
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death of Christ, and calculate its mathematical value. And the answer, no,
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no Catholic has ever believed that Christ is really slain
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in the Mass. They have never gone beyond the words
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of scripture. As often as you do, as often as
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you do this, you shall show the death of the
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Lord until he comes again. Nor did any theologian attempt
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of mathematical calculation as to the efficacy of the Mass.
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They knew that mathematics could never express it. The theological
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value of the maths is perfectly legitimate. Is a perfectly
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legitimate question for any man to ask who seeks deeper
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knowledge of the Christian doctrine. The person says, according to
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Cardinal Vaughan, Catholics think. The Catholics think the Mass is
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better than Calvary. And the answer that is that sweeping
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statement is not justified by Cardinal Vaughan's qualified doctrine so
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far as the practical effects on the sole are concerned.
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He writes, the Holy Mass has in some senses the
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advantage over cavalry, and he was right. No Catholic think that.
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No Catholics think that the Mass is in itself better
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than Calvary, for it is cavalry reapplied, depending upon and
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deriving all its value from Calvary. As often as you
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come to do this, said Christ, you shall show the
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death of the Lord until he comes, and that death
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took place upon Calvary. Yet the Mass has this advantage
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that while the death of Christ upon the cross occurred
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in one place only and before only a few people,
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Calvary reapplied in Mass can occur in many places and
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before multitudes. The person says, excuse me, Christ offered the
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Last Supper in the evening. Why do you not have
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Mass in the evening instead of the morning? And they answered,
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it is not essential that Mass should be offered in
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the evening, but simply that the Mass should be offered.
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Mass in the evening, of course, would be quite valid,
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and by the church making use of her God given
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power to regulate all that pertains to disciplinary matters, has
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decreed that it should be celebrated in the morning. This
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law is in honor of the fact that Christ rose
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from the dead in the early morning, thus completing his
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work of redemption. Person asks why does the Catholic Church
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give communion under one kind only? And at this point,
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this was nineteen twenties thirties, it was common just to
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receive the Eucharus in form the bread, not the wine.
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There are many reasons for that. Of course, Postvatican Two
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we now can receive under both forms. But there's another
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word that I was searching for. Species, I guess, but
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you know, during COVID and such, once again we only
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got the body of Christ, not the blood. But remember
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the blood and body and blood are in both. It's
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not you get the body and not the blood when
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you receive the eucharistic wafer, if you want to call
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it that, that is the body and blood of Christ.
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The answer for many grave reasons, this custom includes in
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a practical way that Christ is completely present under either kind.
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It excludes the heretical doctrine that it is absolutely necessary
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for communion to partake of the chalice it removes the
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danger of irreverence to the precious blood by upsetting or
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spilling it. It spares the recipients to celebrate mass and
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distribute communion without keeping. It spares the recipients the danger
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of infection by their drinking from the same chalice. It
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enables a priest to celebrate mass and distribute communion with
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out keeping the congregation an undue length of time, a
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reason which has particular force in the Catholic Church, where
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hundreds go to communion at early masses. It secures uniformity
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of practice throughout the church. For whilst flower is easily
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obtained for the purposes of bread and easily kept, wine
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cannot be secured in sufficient quantities in many countries, above
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all and foreign missions. Person says, Jesus gave himself one
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of the forms of bread and wine. You were not
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justified in withholding the cup from the lady, and the
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answer the fact that the Catholic Church does so is
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sufficient proof that she has justified in doing so. However,
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let us view this, let us view the theology of
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the matter. Jesus gave himself under both kinds, yet he
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was completely present in either kind. He receives either kind
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receives the whole Christ. In any case, Christ, being risen,
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dies no more. It is not possible now to separate
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Christ's body and blood. In actual fact, wherever, wherever, and
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wholly under the appearances of wine. No, there we go skip, sorry,
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skip a line. Wherever Christ is as there he is
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whole and entire. He is wholly under the appearance of bread,
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and wholly under the appearance of wine. In receiving the
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blessed sacrament under the form of bread, the communicant receives
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the blood of Christ. Also, in receiving under the form
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of wine alone, he would receive the body. Also, there
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is no possibility of receiving the body of Christ without
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the blood of Christ. And the person says, whatever the
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theory may be, I object to the anti Christian practice.
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And they answered, the practice is not anti Christian. Reception
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under one kind only is quite sufficient for holy communion.
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Our Lord said simply, if any man eat of this bread,
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he should live forever. For the bread that I will
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give is my flesh for the life of the whole world.
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John six fifty two. In the early Church, communion was
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at times given to little children by giving them a
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few drops of the consecrated wine only. The martyrs would
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often only take into the arena within the blessed sacrament
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of the form of bread only wrapped in lebanon, to
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give themselves communion before death. The practice is quite in
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accordance with the doctor Saint Paul. Whosoever shall eat or
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drink unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood
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of the Lord First Corinthians eleven twenty seven. Oh, and
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I guess there's one more question here. The person says,
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eat or drink is not in my Protestant Bible, and
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they answer, it is not in the Authorized Bible. You
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will find it in the revised version. Protestant scholars admit
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that the substitution and for of No Protestants admit. Protestant
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scholars admit that the substitution of and for or in
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the Authorized version was an inexcusable mistranslation of the Greek
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for polemical purposes. There we go, so, as always, Protestant
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Bibles are faults and counterfeit, and you need a Catholic Bible,
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because yes, they did purposely change the words of Christ
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and the apostles to fit heretical doctrines. So the King
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James version has no place in a Catholic home. Whatever
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the Good Word Bible, whatever the Gideon Bible, the fad
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Bible of the day no place in a Catholic home,
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and really are false, counterfeit and heretical and should not
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really not be allowed to be printed. I mean the
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Catholic Church used to forbid the printing of false, heretical,
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fake counterfeit Bibles. Since the so called Protestant Reformation, the
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world has been flooded with false translations meant to I
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should say, counterfeit translations meant to fit false doctrines invented
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by Luther and Calvin. And who knows how many sents
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those are not real Bibles. You can be absolutely confident
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in saying to your Baptist friends, who says the only
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believes in the King James version, Who can say the
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words of Jesus were changed in that Bible? Your Bible
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is false and your church based on that Bible is false.
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You have no authority. The Catholic Church, with its real Bible,
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is the only church and the only real Bible. So anyway,
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let's get on to ah prayer. More pleasant subject. The
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angelists Father Sparrago says, if the Mohammedan Mohammedan that's a Muslim,
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three times a day, turns his face toward Mecca and
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calls upon God and his prophet Mohammed, how much more
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ought the Christian frequently to look up to Heaven during
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the day and invoke the Divine Redeemer and his plessed Mother.
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The Angelus is the prayer which is to be recited morning,
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noon and night when the bell rings in honor of
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the Mother of God and an adoration of the mystery
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of the incarnation. And actually in more recent years, remember
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this book was written in the eighteen nineties, when people
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was probably written in the eighteen seventies and eighties, but
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published in the eighteen nineties. Regardless, people live closer to the churches,
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and they set their lives by the sound of the
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bell ringing at their local Catholic church. Most of us
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don't have that anymore, nothing like it. But recently Father
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Ripperser and I think a few other of the Catholic
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exorcist official exorcists have issued statements saying that praying the
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Angelus at six am, noon, at six pm totally rids
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one of all demonic influence drives demonic influence from your home,
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your family or whatever. Very very good practice. So to
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do that's one of the things I would I need
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to start doing in this next year. I'm lucky if
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I remember say it once a day. And I don't
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wear a watch. And I hate watches, Okay, I hate clocks.
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I had never looked at the clock, well, rarely look
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at a clock. I look to see, you know, when's
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the game coming on. That's about the order I looked at,
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you know, the clock to see, you know, I got
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to get ready, to get ready for mass or something
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like that. But being self employed, I do not live
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by a clock. I don't have a set an alarm.
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I wake up when I wake up, I go to
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sleep when I go to sleep. As long as I
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get my work done, you know, that's sufficient. But I
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need to figure out some way to begin to pray
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the angelists morning, noon and night. Some way I may
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have to figure that out, and I hope it does
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not require living by a clock or a watch, because
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that's something I absolutely detest. Well, anyway, the let's see
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the words are as follows the Angel of the Lord,
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that's the archangel Gabriel announced him to marry the birth
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of the Savior, and she conceived the Holy ghosts through
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the operation of the Holy Ghost, she became mother of God. Okay,
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he's explaining as it goes. So the Angel of the
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Lord declared to marry, and she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Okay,
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so he explains. The Angel of the Lord, the archangel
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Gabriel announced him to marry the birth of the Savior,
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and she conceived the Holy ghost or the operation of
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the Holy Ghost, she became mother of God. Number two,
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behold the handmaid the Lord. Be it done unto me
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according to thy word. And he explains by these words,
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Mary drew down from above the Son of God. And
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the third and the Word was made flesh and dwelt
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among us. And he explains the word the Son of
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God was main flesh and dwelt among us. For thirty
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three years he lived on earth. The custom of ringing
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the Angelus bell three times a day results from the
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period of the Crusades round ten ninety five. The first
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bell was only rung twice a day, half an hour
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before sunrise and half an hour before sunset, to call
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upon the faithful to pray God for the success of
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the successor of the crusader's arms, that the crusaders would
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be successful. In other words, the midday bell was added
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about three centuries and a half later the first. At first,
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the prayer was considered only of a pattern Nostra and
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Our Father. Afterwards Sava Maria was added. The manner of
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ringing three separate times at the interval of about a minute,
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and Ave Maria being said each time was introduced by
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the order of the Holy See, the object of the
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prayer being to entreat to the Mother of God to
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exterminate the heresies that had origin. The Angelus, as it
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is now said, is of a more recent date. In
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some places, after the evening Angelis's bell sounds again to
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it monish. In some places, after the evening Angelus, the
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bell sounds again to admonish the faithful to pray for
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the soul's in purgatory. Pope Clement the twelfth granted an
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indulgent of one hundred days to all who, hearing the bell,
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should recite kneeling one Our Father and the Hell Mary
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with the versical eternal rest. Give to them, o Lord,
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and let perpetual light shine upon them. Now the rosary
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the suppliant who prays fervently is wont to repeat over
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and over again the words which come from the depth
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of the heart. Our Lord did this on the Mount
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of Olive, On Mount olivet there we go, David in
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the psalm. I don't know what that number is, see
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x x x V. I don't remember what that is.
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What one hundred and thirty five? I think that's right,
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exclaims no less than twenty seven times his mercy in
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durreath forever. And Saint Francis of ASSISI spent whole nights
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repeating my God and my all. The devout servants of
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Mary used to address her frequently, and the words of
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the archangel adding one ave maria to another as one
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places rose in a wreath. The Rosary is a prayer
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in which the Our Father, followed by ten hell Marys,
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is repeated five or fifteen times, accompanied by meditation on
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the life, the Passion, and the exultation of the Redeemer.
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We begin the Rosary with the Creed and three hell
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Marys for the increase within us of the three theological virtues.
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While reciting the Rosary, everyone must hold his own rosary
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in his hand and touches the bead as he says
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his prayers. But as several persons join in, it's only
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necessary for one to hold the rosary in order thereby
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to regulate the number of the prayers. The Rosary is
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divided into the joyful, the sorrowful, and the glorious mysteries.
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Of course, now we have the luminous mysteries as well.
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In the first we honor God, the Father who sent
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us the Savior, and the second God, the Son who
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redeemed Misson. In the third, God the holy Ghost, who
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sanctifizes us. The rosary owes its origin to Saint Dominic.
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I'm gonna sip of water here the hermits, the hermits
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of the first centuries, who could not read the psalter,
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used suicite one our Father and one hell Mary in
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the place of every psalm, and in order to note
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the number they had said, they made use of small
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stones or of seeds throng in a court. Saint Dominic
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was the first who made the customer general of substituting
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one hundred and fifty hill marys for one hundred and
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fifty psalms. Hence the rosary used to be called the
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psalter of Mary. When about the year twelve hundred, the
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heresies of the Albergensians we'll just go that wrought great
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mischief in the south of France and north of Italy.
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Saint Dominic was commissioned by the Pope to reach and
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refutation of the erroneous tenets. His efforts availed little, and
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he besought the aid of the Mother of God. She
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appeared to him and bade him make use of the
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Rosary as a weapon against her enemies. He accordingly introduced
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it everywhere, and before long it had affected the conversion
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of more than one hundred thousand heretics. The use of
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the Rosary soon spread throughout Christendom and became a most
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popular devotion. It is a method of prayer at once
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simple and sublime. The prayers are so easy that a
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child can repeat them, and the mysteries are so profound
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that they supply a subject from meditation to the most
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learned theologians. It is a prayer of contemplation as well
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as a prayer of supplication, for it places before the
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mind the principal truths of the faith. The Rosary is
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a compendium of the Gospels, a complete and practical manual
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of instruction, wherein the chief points of Christian doctrine are
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presented under the guise of prayer. By meditation on the
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events of our Lord's life. Faith and charity are increase
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from the example of our divine redem where we learn
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to be humble, gentle, obedient. We are incited to imitate
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the virtues which the mysteries teach describe after what they
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promise us. Moreover, the union of vocal and mental prayer
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makes the rosary easy, pleasant, and profitable. As a method
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of prayer. It is unrival The longer and more devoutly
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is practiced, the more one appreciates its excellence and becomes
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convinced of its supernatural origin. The rosary is well pleasing
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to God because of its humility, and because of it
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it is an imitation of the unceasing song of praise
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sung by the angels. The rosary is the prayer of
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the humble, for in it well known truths are simply
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stated and constantly repeated. The proud despise it. But God
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who looks down on low things Psalms c XII, what
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is that? Twelve? I think that's right. I'm good with
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the eyes, the v's and the exes. When we start
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getting to the seas, I started getting confused. Okay, the
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God who looks down low things approves it. It is
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an imitation of the angel song. We read in the
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Holy Scripture that the angelic criers cried around another, Holy, Holy,
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Holy Lord, God of Host. All the earth is full
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of his glory Isaiah sixth three. And when we recite
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the rosary, we praise the Mother of God in a
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similar matter manner. It is beyond doubt that this form
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of prayer is most acceptable to the Mother of God,
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for when she appeared at Lord's she had a rosary
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in her hand. Pope Pious the Ninth unhesitatingly a search
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that is her gift of men, and that she loves
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no other prayer as well. The rosary is a most
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useful devotion, for by it we obtain great graces and
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sure help in time of trouble. Many indulgences are besides
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attached to it. The rosary is a very treasury of graces.
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Many sinners owe their conversion to it. It possesses marvelous
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power to banish sin and to restore, to the restore
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the transgressor to a state of grace. By it the
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just growing virtue. All the saints who have lived subsequently
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to the institution of the Rosary have been assiduous in
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its use, and this may have contributed largely to their sanctification.
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Several holy bishops and servants of God are known to
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have pledged themselves by vow to recite it daily. Saint
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Charles Borromeo, despite the numerous and pressing duties of his position,
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recited it every day with the seminarians. He says different
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seminarists and members of his household. Blessed Clement Hofbauer was
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accustomed to say the Rosary while passing through the streets
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of Vienna, and rarely did he recited in vain for
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the conversion of a sinner. It is recorded of several
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distinguished officers and victorious commanders that they never engaged in
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battle without first saying the Rosary, and to this they
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attributed their military successes. The Rosary has been called the
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thermometer of Christianity for the reason that where it is
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diligently recited, faith is ardent and good works are manifest,
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and whereas neglected religion is at a low ebb. In
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seasons of general calamity, miraculous aid has been granted to
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Christendom by means of the Rosary. This was especially the
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case and the wars with Turkey. The victory of Laponto
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fifteen seventy one, the deliverance of Vienna in sixteen eighty three,
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the victory of Belgrade were all owing to the power
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of the Rosary. It is said that the beads of
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the Chaplain did more execution than the bullets of the soldiers.
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It was in thanksgiving for these victories on the first
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Sunday of October. It was in thanksgiving for these victories
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that the Holy See instituted the feasts of the Rosary.
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On the first Sunday of October. Pope six to fourth
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declared that many dangers which threatened the world are averted
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and the wrath of God is appeased by the prayers
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of the Rosary. Our Holy Father Leo the thirteenth says
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that in Saint Dominic's time the Rosary proved a sure
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remedy for the evils of the age, so it may
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now affect much toward the amelioration of the eels. At
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Aflick society, everyone who is the Rosary must feel its
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supernatural power there is no prayer which affords more consolation
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and affliction, more tranquility to the troubled breast. It sues
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in sorrow. It imparts the peace spoken of in the Gospel.
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Another proof of its excellence is the hatred contempt, wherewith
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unbelievers regarded, the devil incites them to cry. What is
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a fruitful source of grace to the Christian and by
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which souls are wrested from his grasp? The Rosary has
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been richly indulgenced by the Holy See, and the recital
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of it strongly urged upon the faithful. An indulgence of
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one hundred days may be gained for every potter and
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ave if five consecutive decades be set on a properly
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indulgence Rosary. Our Holy Father Lee of the thirteenth has
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decreed that every day during the month of October, the Rosary,
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together with litany of Loretto, be set in church, either
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during the parish Mass or in the afternoon, with the
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blessed Sacrament exposed. For every time of assisting at this devotion,
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seven years and seven quarantines are granted. Pious of ninth
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bequeathed bequeathed as a legacy to the faithful. This is
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my admonition. Let the Rosary, this simple, beautiful method of prayer,
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enrich with so many indulgences, be habitually recited of an
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evening in every household. These are my last words to you,
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the memorial I leave behind me again, he said, in
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the whole of the Vatican, there is no greater treasury
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than the Rosary. All right, I'm gonna wrap it up there.
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I do wish everyone a wonderful Easter, and I'll talk
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to you next week.