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Show 67: Catholic teaching about the Blessed Virgin Mary, part 1 and the Seven Sorrows · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. You know, this is my first
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podcast. I guess of the month of September. I think it's right.
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I may have done one on the first, but you know, it was
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the end of last week, so it feels like the beginning of September to
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me. And this is the month that we celebrate we honor the Blessed Virgin
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Mary as our lady of sorrows. Now well, of course August was also
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very important Mary, and month August and September are very We honor the Blessed
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Virgin Mary a lot in August and September. But I didn't think about doing
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it last month because you know, I just recently did it. I guess
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it was two or three part series on the Saints, and so I thought
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I had kind of covered everything. But then the other day, I guess
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it was Friday or Saturday, I had, you know, a good or
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respectful, if probably fairly unproductive discussion, not much of a debate, more
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of just a discussion with a Protestant friend on Twitter. And by the way,
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y'all, if you're on Twitter, so am I look me up Judson
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Carroll. But anyway, it's a nice guy, and he just truly does
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not understand Catholic belief about Saints, angels, and especially the Blessed Mother,
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kind of speaking two different languages. So this being September, I think I'm
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going to probably do a whole week on marrying topics. So we're going to
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get into that, and you know, it is it's very important. It's
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incredibly important that Catholics understand Catholic teaching on Mary and the Saints for our own
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good and so that we can explain it to Protestants in a way they'll understand.
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Now, having been a Protestant myself, I always think I can do
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that, but it's it's a real it's a real hard gap to bridge,
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and it's because of certain well fallacies, certain fallacies in Protestantism, and we'll
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get to those in just a minute. If we can, if we can
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dispense with some very obvious logical errors, then the two sides can come together
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at least a little more. And considering the belief in saints was a universal
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Christian belief from the entire history of the Catholic Church, and is believed in
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certain Protestant denominations specifically, I mean we think of the Anglicans and such.
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You know, I know, the Lutherans have their issues, but it's not
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We cannot say that the belief in the Saints is a purely Catholic belief,
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because I mean, the Jews believed in angels and saints. I mean,
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you know, remember when the guy was putting the grave with all the bones
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of Oh gosh, was it Alicia one of the big the great Old Testament
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prophets the dead man came back to life. I mean, the belief in
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you know, Abraham by the Jews as one who was you know, advocating
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for the Jewish people before God, was you know, widespread. So it's
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certainly not a purely Catholic belief. The mention in Revelations of the Saints offering
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their prayers to God kind of, you know, spells that out, but
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most people get so confused about the Book of Revelation that they don't They just
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kind of get lost, honestly. But then you know, in the Letters
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of Saint Paul, he says, we're surrounded by so great a cloud of
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witnesses. Well, who are those witnesses, Well, they're the Saints and
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the angels. And that's a very important passage that we're going to get into
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that really does biblically justify and emphatically proclaim to Catholic teaching on saints and angels.
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And I have discussed that before in previous shows, so I'm not gonna
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get into it in depth, but yeah, I mean, prosence will say,
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you know, well, if the saints are in heaven, they can't
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hear you, they can't see you. Yet, Saint Paul said, we're
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surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. Witness comes from the Latin testis, you
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know, and it means one who saw, one who heard a witness.
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You can't be a witness without the ability to see and hear what's going on.
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But anyway, we'll get into that. Let's start with our question and
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answers from radio replies. Remember we are we're discussing the nature of religion,
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all right, So the man asked. Nevertheless, the man continuently. You
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may remember from last week that the man had said that he thought religion was
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actually evil because it restrained men's freedom, and the priests explained to him one
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is either or let me see the exact quote, free from vice and subject
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to virtue, or free from virtue and subject to vice. He continues.
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Nevertheless, religion degrades man, giving a God complex or an inferiority complex,
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and a subconscious reference to a supernatural authority in all actions. The answer not
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subc just, but conscious reverence for the authority of God certainly guides the conduct
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of a religious man. Your terminology is based upon a false idea that the
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notion of God is a kind of psychological abnormality due to natural causes. It
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is true that one with the right idea of God is fully aware that he
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is personally inferior to God and therefore possesses the saving grace of humility. The
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man continues, Where are a man's ideals who cannot do right for right's sake
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but needs a heavenly policeman to keep him straight. Yeah, we're definitely talking
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to a progressive here, as a so called progressive i e. Communist liberal,
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whenever you want to call him. The answer to do right for right's
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sake implies right ought to be done? Why ought it to be done?
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Aught or must supposes some kind of law. All law derives its force from
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the right of the law giver to do right for right's sake. Pushes us
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back to doing right for the sake of the supreme author of all that is
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right. No one can do right for right's sake if he ignores God,
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for without God, he cannot prove that what he thinks to be right is
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right, or has any binding force at all. Also, in the state,
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we have laws and policemen, but it is absurd to say that no
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citizen is good except through the dread of the law, and that police are
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necessary to keep every one of us on the path of duty. A religious
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man knows that God is his father, and he serves as a child of
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God from a motive of love, a love which casts out servile fear without
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diminishing filial respect. You may recall that the progressive liberal, socialist, communist
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ideology is absolutely opposed to the Catholic Church especially, but really all religion.
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It seeks to put the state in place of religion. But the thing is
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without morality as given to us through God, whether the Ten Commandments of Moses,
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or the teachings of the Catholic Church or the words of the Bible.
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We have no law, We have no foundation, we have no basis for
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deciding what's right and wrong. You know, you may say, well,
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it's wrong to kill an innocent person. Well, all right, yeah,
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absolutely, Well what happened with the Soviets took over Russia. They massacred and
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murder and starved to death millions and millions and millions of people because their right
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was what was good for the state of the Soviet Union. All morality was
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subservient to the ideology of the party and the laws of the state. There
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is nothing that ever comes to good from rejecting the word of God. So
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let's get into today's show. So, as I mentioned one of the huge
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problems in Protestant understanding of saints. Okay, they will admit most of them,
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that is, a saint as a person who is in heaven, a
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person who's a good Christian and loves God, a friend of God so to
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speak, and is in heaven. The problem being that Protestant well, Protestant
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doctrine doesn't say really one way or another on this, But I think culturally
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Protestants have come to accept that Heaven is a static place in time. Frankly,
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that's absurd on its face. We know that God is not confined by
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time or space. God exists outside of time and space. Our world,
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our reality is finite. We are set in a place and time. We
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have physical limitations. The spiritual world does not. The Bible says that those
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in heaven in some way become like God. They share in the divinity of
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Christ. Well, obviously they become immortal. Those who are immortal are outside
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of time. They become spiritual. The spirit is not limited by physical realities
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of time and space. The spiritual existed, exists in all places at all
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time. So when someone thinks of heaven as a static place somewhere up there
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in the sky, I guess, or somewhere else, I don't. I
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don't even know if people really think about where heaven is, right, maybe
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they think of like you know, the Tower of Babel in the Bible,
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that they were going to build a stair away to Heaven, or tower that
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would reach all the way to Heaven. I should say, well, I
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mean, we know, we've we've explored space. We know it's infinite.
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The spiritual Heaven does not exist in the finite and static world. We know.
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Saint Padre Pio said that if for a moment we had clarity and we
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could see what was really happening, that we're surrounded at all times by legions
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of angels and demons and saints buying for our souls. He said, we
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were surrounded by so many that would block out the sun. That's a man.
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There's a spiritual visionary who saw the reality of earth, I mean,
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of life. He saw the physical and spiritual at the same time, and
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said, the spiritual world is all around us, with us at all times.
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Now we can think of this, you know, in biblical terms,
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Saint Paul said, we're surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. That's exactly
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what Padre Pio said. It's in the Bible. What is a witness but
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one who sees and hears. Now a Protestant will say that a saint in
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heaven cannot see you or hear your prayers. But is unless Saint Paul is
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lying, in which case the Bible is wrong and not inspired by the Holy
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Spirit. These saints do see and hear our prayers. They see us,
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they know every because they are not limited as we are. We can only
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hear with our ears and see with our eyes. And because they share in
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the divinity of Christ. Now, getting more into that, in a second,
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they see everything we do. They hear everything we say and they know
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our every thought. Wow, that seems like a bold statement, doesn't But
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then again, think if we believe the Bible. When we're baptized, and
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especially when we're confirmed, we become part of the body of Christ. All
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Christians are one. Those of us here on earth are like members of the
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body who have fallen asleep. You know, like if I don't know,
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sleep on your arm in a strange position. You wake up and it's totally
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numb. It can't perceive the rest of the body, and the rest of
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the body can only act upon the limb that's asleep with great force of will.
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I mean you can't. It cannot move itself. Okay, it's numb
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in immobile. That's our life on earth. We're a hand that's fallen asleep.
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The living, truly, fully alive and awake body of Christ is absolutely
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attached to us. The heart is still pumping blood to that limb. Granted
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it being asleep, it doesn't get a whole lot of communication, but as
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it begins to wake up through life and the spirit, it becomes more aware.
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This is not an analogy. These are the words of Jesus and the
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apostles we become part of the body of Christ, and the Bible tells us
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that the various members of the body have care for other members of the body,
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and that we shouldn't be separated from those members of the body. Well,
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think about this even a little bit further. That means that spiritually we
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are absolutely one with all Christians, especially those that are fully alive as saints
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in heaven. The Bible also tells us where is the Kingdom of God?
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Okay, well, the Kingdom of God is heaven. Where is the Kingdom
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of God? It's in your heart. Heaven is inside of you. Heaven
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is all around you. We are. The Bible says that everything lives and
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has it. It's life, it's being in God. Heaven is not a
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static place sitting somewhere in the sky. We are living in it. We
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just can't see it. We cannot see it because of the effects of sin,
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the original sin of our first parents. We instead of perceiving infinite unlimited
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by time and space, reality and the spiritual world all around us are like
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set over here in a box, and we can only see what's inside this
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box. You know, it's not Heaven that's separate from us. We are
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separated from Heaven due to our lack of perception. When you and again,
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I know this may be hard to understand, but you can go to the
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laws of physics. You know, all things are composed of energy, energy
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that's neither created nor destroyed, but merely changes forms. The source of that
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energy cannot be subject to the same laws of that energy. That, by
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definition says that God, the Creator is of an entirely different makeup. He's
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not physical, spiritual, and the spirit is unlimited. When we pray,
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how do we pray, Well, it doesn't matter if we pray silently or
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out loud. We think our prayers or we speak our prayers. What are
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we praying to? We're praying to God who lives in our heart. We
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know that every single Christian. I don't think there is a single Christian of
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any denomination that doesn't believe that the Holy Spirit dwells within. And when you
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pray, you pray to Jesus, you pray to God the Father. When
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you say to Our Father, you may say prayers to the Holy Spirit.
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That's more of a Catholic tradition really, of course the Pentecostals do. Now
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that's something the Pentecostals do as well. You're praying to God because you ve
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God lives in your heart. Where does God live? God lives in heaven.
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Where's heaven? Heaven's in your heart. It's incredibly difficult for the human
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mind to grasp, but the Bible tells us God sees everything we do.
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He knows our every thought, He knows what we've done and what we're going
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to do. How is that well, because God is not limited by time
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and space. But someone want to say, well, wait a minute,
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the saints are just human beings. And that's when my friend was arguing the
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other night. He said, Mary's just a human. Well, okay,
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but now she's in heaven and she's a saint, sharing in the nature of
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God, in the divinity, pure spirit, just as is God. Jesus
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and the angels. The angels likewise know you're every thought, you're every word,
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and you're every deed. Your guardian angel is literally standing right beside you
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right now, and you can't see him because of your earthly limitations. Don't
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believe me, What does Jesus say? Jesus said that you know, woe
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to you who you know hurt one of these little ones a child, you
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know, lead them astray. Do you not know their angels witnessed before the
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face of my father. So you have to admit that Jesus said that child's
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guardian angel stands before God. Okay, stands before God the Father, relating
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what's happening. As you know, God knows it. But that's the role
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of an angel, to be a messenger. That's what an angel is essentially,
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as a messenger in that role advocating for that child. Well, you
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don't have to believe me. Those are the words of Jesus. I mean,
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if Jesus hadn't said it, I would have no foundation for my belief.
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And we can look at the Book of Revelation and we see there's an
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angel assigned to each of these churches, and we can see the angels going
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back and forth as messengers. We can see the saints praying, we can
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go back to Jesus. This is a story of Lazarus and then were in
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the rich Man, and we know the rich Man was concerned for his family
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on earth. He said, if I could just go back and tell them
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how wrong I got it, they'd amend their lives. And of course Abraham
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says to him. What's going to be true of Jesus. If a man
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rose from the dead, they still wouldn't believe it. They have Moses and
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the prophets. Well, Jesus rose from the dead, and most still wouldn't
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believe it. But we know just through that story that the saints in heaven
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have concern for us. Where are the saints in heaven? Where is heaven?
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Heaven is within us and we live in it. Literally, we just
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cannot see it because the Bible says that we live and have our being in
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God. Okay, God lives in heaven. Therefore we live and have our
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being in heaven, but we are separated and secluded from Heaven because of our
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lack of perception. The holier one becomes more one can perceive. And that's
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why the saints have so many visions of heaven. There have been thousands of
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saints, I mean at least hundreds who have written it down of interacting with
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angels, with saints talking with Jesus, face to face visions of heaven,
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and where are they seeing Heaven? They're seeing it right before their eyes.
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I mean, think of the Book of Revelation. Suddenly the vision was opened
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up to Saint John, it's very difficult to understand, I know, But
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is it harder to understand? Is it harder to understand that reality than it
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is to believe that God would become man and be tortured and rejected and hated
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and killed for some one as worthless as me. No, I mean that's
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harder. That's much harder to understand that God would actually do that for me.
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Now, I'm sure we'll have to revisit this topic, and people are
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gonna have questions, and you know, we're going to have to discuss it
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in various ways. But it's also very important that Jesus said there are various
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levels in heaven right. First of all, Another argument that Protestants will make
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is that, well, okay, this saint spoke French, how can you
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understand your prayers in English? Or Mary would have spoken Aramaic. Well,
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they usually think she spoke Hebrew. Maybe she spoke a little Hebrew, but
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at the time most you spoke Aramaic. How can she understand your words in
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English? Remember, the Holy Spirit gave to the apostles at Pentecost the ability
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to understand and speak in all languages. Those in heaven are filled with the
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Holy Spirit at least as much as the apostles were on at Pentecost. Well,
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they say, how can they know your thoughts? Well, remember in
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the Bible, Saint Peter, for instance, when Simon the Magician came to
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him, he knew he read his soul. He read his mind and said,
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your silver die with you. Be perished with you for thinking you could
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buy the kingdom of heaven. When the couple was a Nias and Saphira,
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I think something like that, had dedicated a piece of land to be sold,
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and they were going to give the money to the church. And they
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came and lied about the amount of money they got. They decided they want
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to hold some back. He knew their thoughts. Saint Peter, immortal man
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on earth. The Bible says it, okay, you don't have to believe
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me. Look it up. He read the mind of the husband and said,
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you have lied to the Holy Spirit and dropped dead. Then he read
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the mind of the life is do you lie to the Holy Spirit? That's
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how filled with the Holy Spirit these saints were on earth. In Heaven,
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they're even more filled with the Holy Spirit. So if you believe the Bible,
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you believe Saints absolutely know your thoughts. You believe the Saints are concerned
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for you and offer prayers to God, because you know that's like the rich
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Man in the Bible or the Saints in a Book of Revelations. Okay,
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And if you believe that Heaven is within your heart and that Saints, as
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the Bible say, share in the divinity of Christ and become like Christ,
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you have to admit that the Saints in heaven are not bound by time and
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space, are not bound by any human limitation because they're now spiritual and share
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in the divinity of Christ and the mission of Christ, which is for your
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salvation. Therefore, they're with us right now. They see everything we do,
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know where every thought, everything we speak. They are advocating for us,
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as you know said in the Book of Revelation. They are praying for
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us. They are dedicated to helping us get to Heaven with them and join
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in the selvific mission of Christ, which is the absolute purpose of a Christian.
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It's not just to I don't know, to lay around in a hammock
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on a cloud all day or something. No, it's the actual role of
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the Christian is the salvation of humanity, which means. They are only goal
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is to help you get to Heaven. That's big stuff. And the more
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you come to understand that, the more you will come to appreciate not only
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the role of the Saints in your life. I mean again, you just
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think of how many times Saint Paul ask other people to pray for him.
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Pray for me, Please pray for me, Please pray for me. The
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Saints who are more alive than we are, and who can hear every word
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we say. All we're doing is saying, please pray for me. As
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part of the Family of God, the Body of Christ. The more we
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can understand that, the more we realize we are part of the same body.
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We are literally part of the same body of Christ. He's the head
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and we're the members. You can't cut it off, you can't separate it.
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When you begin to perceive the spiritual living vibrantly in the physical world,
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those kind of bills blocking your perception will start to fade away, and you're
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going to be well. Like Jesus said to the young man, the Kingdom
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of Heaven. You're very close to the Kingdom of heaven. How close can
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you be to the Kingdom of Heaven? Well, just think about it.
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Think about when the Transfiguration, when Jesus went up on the mountain and Moses
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and Elijah appeared. Wow, what was Moses, Elijah and Abraham, wasn't
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it. Yeah, we just celebrated that. I should have it right on
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the tip of my tongue. But anyway, where were they, they were?
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They were there, They were on earth. They were speaking to Jesus.
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The apostles, you know, saw them and freaked out, fell to
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the ground, and then you know, Saint Peter said we should build boost
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and everything. All they witnessed was reality. For a moment, the veils
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dropped from their eyes and there was Jesus with three of the greatest saints of
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the Old Testament. I mean, another ridiculous statement prosence will say is it's
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it's it's wrong to communicate with the dead. You can't do that. They're
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not dead, you know, Jesus said. The Bible says God is the
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God of the living, not of the dead, and Jesus communicating with these
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three saints was committing a sin that he's not God. Okay, you can't
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have it both ways either. The saints are there and you can talk with
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them. Just as Jesus did in the Transfiguration, and they're interested in care
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about what's going on earth, just as showed in the Transfiguration, or Jesus
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isn't God and the whole thing's made up or a myth or the work of
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the devil. You can't have it both ways. I mean, these teachings
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of the Catholic Church are very biblical and very valid, and until recently we're
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believed by all Christians, and it really defies logic to think that it could
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be otherwise. Otherwise you have to think there is some static place out there
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somewhere up in the sky. There's every you know, Christian and religious Jew
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that ever lived, and you know, probably some other people just hanging out
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all day with their hearts not really having anything to do. That's not what
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the Bible says. What the Bible says it all. I mean, they're
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you know, they're part of the body of Christ and the selvisfic mission of
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God. So let's get into as I said, this is the month of
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our Lady of Sorrows, So let's talk about the promises. Now. I
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don't know you may you may have heard of this before. It's called meditating
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on the Seven Sorrows. I try to do this daily. I'm trying.
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I'm going to try to do it every day in September certainly, and probably
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make it part of my daily prayers. Came from Ten Books. Ten Books,
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the Great Catholic publisher set out a nice email on this. I just
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thought I would share it, I said, looking at the liturgical calendar for
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the month of September, you see the amazing cloud of witnesses that surrounds us
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and intercedes for us. Yes, that's biblical. That's what the Bible says.
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They're saying, believe the Bible or don't. And if you don't believe
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the Bible, you really shouldn't call yourself a Protestant or a Christian. We
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are surrounded by Saint Matthew, Saint Gregory, the Great, Saint Pious,
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a Tent, Saint Robert Bellarman, Padre Pio, Saints Cosmos and Damien,
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Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Peter Claver, I guess Mother Theresa, Saint
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John Christostom, Saint Jerome, the Archangels whose are all Saints Days in September.
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So you know this is very much Saints Days are part and parcel of
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Catholic tradition, and if all Protestants would just realize the reality of saints,
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whether they want to believe anything else about the Catholic Church, it would enrich
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their spiritual lives to no end. To no end, of course, I
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don't see how you could not be led to believing in other aspects of Catholic
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doctrine. But September feast days include the Most Holy Name of Mary, the
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expultation of the Cross, the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and right
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in the middle, on September fifteen, we have the Feast of our Lady
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of Sorrows, the feasts which the entire month is dedicated to. According to
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Saint Bridget of Sweden, who lived between thirteen oh three and thirteen seventy three,
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the Blessed Virgin grants seven graces to the souls who honor her daily,
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saying seven hell Mary's while meditating on her tears and suffering what does that mean?
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Okay, there are seven revealed sorrows, great sorrows of the Blessed Virgin
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Mary. The first is the prophecy of Simeon, which you know from the
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Bible, was when he said Basically, Jesus was going to be crucified,
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and a sword he would be the cause of division for many, and a
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sword would pierce her heart also right, think about that, say a hell
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Mary, Hell Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee Blessed
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are thou among women and blesses, fruit of thy womb, Jesus, Holy
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Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us centers now at the hour of
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our death. I'm in. The second is the flight into Egypt another story
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from the Bible, or the family had to pick up and flee to Egypt
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so Herod wouldn't kill Jesus. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord
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is with the blessed. Are there among women and blesses the fruit of thy
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wim Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners now
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and at the hour of our death. Amen. The third is the losing
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of the child Jesus and the temple. You know, when he was twelve
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years old, he got left behind at the temple. Another story from the
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Bible. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed,
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are there among women and blesses the fruit of thy wom Jesus Holy Mary,
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Mother of God, Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of
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our death. The fourth is a meaning between our Lord and his Mother and
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the way to the crucifixion. It's not spelled out specifically in the Bible,
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but it's part of the way of the Cross. The apostles told what happened
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as Jesus was taken to be crucified. He met the women on the way
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to be crucified. And I mean, we know about Simon. The Cyrene
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came and helped him, was forced to help him carry the cross. This
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is one of the one of the instances we know of more through sacred tradition
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than actual written in the Bible. But we also know it to be true
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because we know the women were there at the foot of the cross. I
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mean, you know, even if we weren't told, we would assume it
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happened, because that does makes sense. Hail Mary, full of grace,
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solorders with the blessed are they among women and blesses the fruit of thyoem Jesus,
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Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now at the
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hour of our death. I've been The fifth is a crucifixion and death of
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Our Lord certainly told about the Bible. Hail Mary, full of grace,
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Solords, with the blessed are they among women and blesses the fruit of thyoem,
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Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now
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and at the hour of our death. I'm in the six is taking our
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Lord's body down from the cross. And again it's in the Bible. Hail
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Mary, full of grace, solorders, with the blessed are thew among women
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and blesses the fruit of thyowem. Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God,
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pray for us centers now and at the hour of our death. I've
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been and the sevenths is laying the body the tim. I guess that that
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was Joseph Aramathea right, he was the one that gave the tim. Anyway,
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Heil Mary, full of gray sluters with the blessing are now among women,
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blesses the fruit of that woman. Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of
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God, pray for us centers now and at the hour of our death.
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I mean now, in our human capacity, we can understand how the blessed
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Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, would have been absolutely frightened and sad
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by the prophecies of Simon, frightened and desperate in the flight to Egypt,
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distraught and upset when Jesus went missing in the temple, absolutely torn to shreds
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seeing her sign and carry the cross, devastated at the crucifixion, mourning when
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his body was taken down from the ross, and probably just beyond sad when
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he was laid in the tumb So that's meditating on the seven sorrows of the
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bussed Virgin Mary. This is what in her appearance, her message to Saint
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Bridget of Sweden, she said, if you meditate on these seven sorrows and
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say a hell Mary after each one, and those words the hell Mary comes
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directly from the Bible. There's the words of Saint Gabriel, there's the words
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of Saint Elizabeth. I'm sorry Gabriel the archangel and Saint Elizabeth. I mean
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those words come directly from the Bible, and followed by just pray for us
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now at the hour of our death, which is you know, questions are
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asked to pray for each other. So I mean a Protestant should be able
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to say hell Mary without any qualms whatsoever. She promised, I will grant
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peace to their families. That's one. Two they will be enlightened about the
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divine mysteries. Three I will console them in their pains and will accompany them
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in their work. Four. I will give them as much as they ask
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for, so long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine
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Son or the sanctification of their souls. Five. I will defend them and
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their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy, and I will protect them at every
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instance of their lives. Six I will visibly help them. At the moment
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of their death, they will see the face of their mother. Seven.
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I have obtained this grace from my divine Son that those who propagate this devotion
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to my tears and dolars dolars as Latin for sorrows, will be taken directly
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from this earthly life to eternal happiness, since all their sins will be forgiven,
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and my Son will be their eternal consolation and joy. All right,
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now, I can hear Prizes saying, wait a minute, she's just a
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woman, she can't do it. Well. Actually, remember, God says
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that there are different levels in heaven. Some have greater blessings in heaven based
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on how holy they were in life, and the Blessed Virgin Mary has the
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highest honor as being the mother of God, and he can absolutely grant these
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graces, just as the bones of the Prophet and the Old Testament brought that
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man back to life. Okay, that was a charism that Jesus granted to
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that saint, just as it says in the New Testament, a handkerchief carried
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by a Saint Peter given to a sick person would heal them. That was
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a charism given to that saint. This is the words of the Bible.
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Okay, no, I mean take issue, but if you're a Protestant,
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open up your Bible and read it. The saints in heaven are far more
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powerful than the saints on earth, and Jesus can give those special charisms or
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blessings or graces in fuller measure than we could ever imagine. And to the
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Blessed Virgin Mary, his mother, who suffered more in his earthly life for
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his sake than any other person can ever imagine, he's given the power to
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grant special favors. I think maybe it's a flaw of democracy. We think
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everyone's supposed to be equal. That's not the way it works in the Kingdom
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of God. That's not the way it works in any kingdom. In fact,
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Jesus specifically talking about the talents or you know, to him it was
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given much much will be expected. I mean, I could, I could
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go on and on and on about in a kingdom. A kingdom has officers,
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and those officers have certain duties. And this is the Kingdom of God.
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And in the Kingdom of God, the Queen of Heaven is the mother
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of the king. That's the way it actually was. In Judaism, the
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queen was always the queen mother, not the wife of the king, but
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his mother, and her advocacy is the most powerful thing, the most powerful
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resource that a Christian has, you know, short of the grace of God.
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And it all works in coordination and cooperation with the grace of God.
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If we, if Protestants could only understand that there are countless millions of righteous
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people, it says God, here's the prayers of the righteous, just waiting
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and hoping to be able to pray for them directly to God standing in his
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presence. I mean, you ask your earthly family and friends to pray for
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you. Imagine millions of the most holy spirit filled people praying for you.
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That's what the saints offer. And the queen of them all, the greatest
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of all of them, is the Blessed Virsion Mary, and we're going to
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get into that. I'm going to talk about why she's actually very special and
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not like other human beings. My friend Father, actually I think it is
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his name. I'm look. I need to learn to pronounce his name properly.
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I know him online. He's written two very good articles on this,
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and we'll start getting into that tomorrow. But for right now, just remember
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the Seven Sorrows. Those are their promises, and I mean those are great
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promises. And you know the Ten Books. It finishes it by saying,
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remember the words of Tobias to his son when praying and calling to mind his
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own death. Okay, if you're a Protestant, you have no idea who
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that is. Because see in the Book of Tobit the archangel Raphael actually appears
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and helps his Holy saintly family and says, I heard your prayers and took
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them to God, and God gave me permission to come help you. You
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know. So Martin Luther didn't like that. He cut it out. So
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that's why you're ignorant of the role of saints and angels, because Martin Luther
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was an Antichrist. Sorry if that offends you. He was a very,
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very, very bad man. But in the Original Bible, and in any
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Catholic Bible you pick up, or any Bible written before around the mid fourteen
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hundreds, you know, almost a thousand, five hundred years of the Church
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of Christianity, you would have had the Book of Tobit, and you should
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actually be quite offended that someone took that away from you, Someone who had
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no authority and no right took that away from you, and then changed the
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words of Jesus and cut out several other books. Anyway, Tobit to his
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son, when praying and calling to mind his own death, said here,
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my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them as a foundation
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in thy heart. When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my
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body, and thou shalt honor thy mother all of her life, for thou
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must be mindful what and how great the perils she suffered for thee in her
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womb. That's Tobe at four two through four. We place our trust in
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Jesus in his sacred heart. By uniting our hearts and prayers to that of
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His sorrowful Mother. Let us commit the September to pray daily, praying seven
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hill marries in sorrow for our sins and those of the whole world. That's
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another thing. We unite our hearts with the saints because they all make up
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the heart of the body of Christ. So y'all, I guess that's about
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it for today. Like I said, we're just going to delve deeper and
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deeper and deeper into this topic, and hopefully by the end you'll know how
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to defend Catholic belief in the Blessed Virgin Mary and saints and angels in general.
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And hopefully, if you're Protestant listening to this, maybe I have sparked
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your interests just a little bit. You know, you can contact me,
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you can email you, you can ask me any question. I am open
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to discussion, debate. What I'm not open to is insults. That's mainly
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usually when I get from Protestants. Just last week, a ladies I would
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take issue with the title of one of my shows. I messenger back and
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said, did you listen to it? She said, I listened to a
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minute, but it was all just Catholic lies. Okay, so if you
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listen to the first minute of my show, you might have heard a general
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question answer about the nature of religion and radio replies. Right, that was
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probably about the most ecumenical thing in radio replies. They were just talking about
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how religion is real and man has a duty to worship God. They didn't
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even get into what church to go to. So on her face, on
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his face, I knew she was lying, just flat outlying. Okay,
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you're not supposed to bear fault with false witness, right, but this lady
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who claims to be a female minister or something, plainly and flatly lied to
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me, but in so doing stated she was not going to listen to anything
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I had to say. I was just supposed to accept what she said without
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question. I went back and very briefly said, well, if you listen
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to it, you know I was quoting directly from the Bible. So your
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argument with me is not Your argument's not with me, it's with Jesus and
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the words of Saint Paul. And then I blocked her, and she then
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copied and reposted and said I was spreading Catholic lies. She doesn't even know
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what I was saying so, I mean, she just assumes anything Catholic is
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a lie, and thought she was really insulting me by calling me a priest,
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a Catholic priest. You know what, if that's the worst insult you
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can come up with, lady, I am so unworthy to be a priest.
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I am so much worse than that. But I'll take it. I'll
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take that as a great honor and say a prayer for you that God works
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on your heart and opens your ears to the truth. Anyway, That's all
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we can do is pray for some people. There are some people who are
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so self righteous and prideful that they would not even for a moment consider that
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they could be mistaken. Had I not ever considered I might be mistaken,
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I wouldn't be a Catholic now, because I mean, when I was at
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a Southern Baptist university thinking I was going to go into politics as a pro
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life politician and you know, be part of the whole moral majority and all
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that, I certainly didn't see myself becoming Catholic. I had to admit,
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Hey, maybe I got that wrong. I ought to look into what people
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actually believed about this. One hundred years ago two hundred years ago, five
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hundred years a thousand, and by the time I did my research, I
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realized I had no choice but to joined the Catholic Church because it's the only
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valid and legitimate church. And that's what they're afraid of. That's why they
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get so angry and defensive, because they'll have to admit they were wrong,
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their parents are wrong, their grandparents are wrong, and it's it's hard,
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it's going to take a lot of soul searching, but the fullness of the
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truth is in the Catholic Church and not to be found anywhere else on this
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earth. And give me enough time and actually listen to what I have to
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say, and I'll convince you that. I'll convince you about that, because
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it's not hard to defend the truth. It's very difficult to even untruths,
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because eventually evidence and logic will lead you to the point where you have to
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admit you were wrong. So that's why they have to deny history, and
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that's why they have to refuse to read books or to listen to my podcast
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and only live in an echo chamber where their own doctrines and beliefs and heresies
46:55
are validated. So pray for that lady. Pray for my well meaning friend
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who actually you know, is interested in the Catholic position, but you know
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I've been as have yet been unable to convince him. Pray for all Protestants
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they will convert. Pray for all Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and etcetera,
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etcetera, that they will convert eventually before the Lord comes again. They will.
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That's one of the promises of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They'll all know
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the truth and have the option of you accepting it or rejecting it and following
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Satan. There won't be a lot of confusion over what's right and wrong.
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You're either on God's side and fully aware of it, or on the side
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of the devil and fully aware of that. So y'all, in the words
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oh of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry, and I
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will talk to you next time.