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Show 116: Jesus The Redeemer, part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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A we all welcome Todayisha, we'll pick up where we left off yesterday.
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You may remember in radio replies a very well meaning sort of universalist Protestant is
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asking a lot of the priests a lot of very modern notions. So a
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lot of the things this person was saying in the early nineteen hundreds didn't really
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become popular, at least in the United States until the sixties, seventies,
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eighties. So this person was actually rather well ahead of their time. And
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then we're going to get into follow Sparago's book, The Exhaustive Explanation of the
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Catechism about how God prepared mankind for the coming of the Messiah, the Redeemer.
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Fascinating subject, really interesting, So let's dive in here. This person
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says something very trendy actually, you know, like I said, this rather
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modern person for I don't even know what was this one done about nineteen thirty
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or so. You know, they said, the Kingdom of God is within
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you, and the priest answer, the Kingdom of God, as established by
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Christ is at once a visible church in this world and an invisible spiritual kingdom
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of grace within the soul. External adherence to the Kingdom demands also that Christ
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reign by grace within the soul. But this interior grace does not dispense a
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man from accepting the will of Christ, once he is aware of it,
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nor from the obligation to join the visible kingdom established by him in this world.
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Christ distinctly said I will build my church, and again, if a
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man will not hear the church, let him be as a heathen. He
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was obviously referring to the authority of a visible church. He also likened his
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church to a net holding good and bad fish. This cannot refer to a
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kingdom of spiritual and invisible grace only for bad fish or not in a state
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of grace, and very true. You know. One of the big mistakes
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of Oh, a lot of you know, more conservative Republican Americans. I
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know Steve Bannon, who should know better. He's a Catholic. He says
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this is often that America is the new Jerusalem. No, it's not,
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absolutely not. As I said before in my show, you know, God
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can do just fine without America. God doesn't need America. American needs God.
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Okay, America is not a special covenant nation. Now, our Protestant
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founding fathers, with the exception of the one Catholic assigned the declaration. My
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ancestor Charles Carroll may have thought they could create that covenant, but by what
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authority? There is no legitimate Protestant church. The only church founded by Jesus
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Christ is the Catholic Church. You can ask someone, well, by what
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authority is your church founded? And it goes back to you know, John
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Knox or Martin Luther, who just got his own idea of what a church
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should be and found it entirely on his own authority. And in fact,
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Martin Luther said the papist, as he called him, he was very anti
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Catholic, very bigoted. He said, scream and cry or something about his
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changing the words of Jesus in the Bible. And they say by what authority
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did you do this? And he said, you may answer them by the
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authority of doctor Luther. He was his own authority. He was essentially his
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own God. He was an idolator. Every Protestant church is founded without the
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authority given by Christ to the Catholic Church. The United States was founded as
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a nation, but not in a covenant with God. They had no authority
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to do so, or so to do I guess I should say Israel had
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a covenant. The New Covenant is the Catholic Church. The New Jerusalem is
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the Catholic Church. The Kingdom of God is that church on earth, reflect
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the Church in Heaven, which is also the Kingdom of God as established by
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Jesus Christ. And the officers within that kingdom had distinct roles, the Pope,
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the cardinals and bishops, the priests, the religious and us the laity.
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We have distinct roles offices within that kingdom where God raises queen, and
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the blessed Virgin Mary is the Queen of Heaven. It's not within, it's
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not just within someone's heart. Although you know when someone is baptized to become
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part of the body of Christ, so I mean we actually more holy.
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We become through the sacraments of the Catholic Church and prayer and devotion, and
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you know, trying to become a saint. We can have the same heart
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of God. The Holy Spirit dwells within anyone who is baptized, whether in
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the Catholic Church or not, a valid Christian baptist is a valid Christian baptism.
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But the Kingdom of God actually has officers and Scott hand doctor Scott hand's
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written extensively on this. The keys of the kingdom, I mean that the
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person who held the keys of a kingdom in like the well, like the
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steward in a household a grand home, like you know Joseph when he was
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in Egypt. You know Joseph, whose brothers sold him in his slavery,
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and he ends up saving the entire Hebrew race from famine because he becomes the
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steward of the house of the Pharaoh. He literally could his word was as
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the Pharaoh's word. What he said went, he ruled instead of the Pharaoh
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in his absence or you know whatever. There's no it's not a coincidence that
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Hebrew for Joshua is Yeshua, which is where we get the name Jesus.
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The very distinct roles, very very distinct roles in the actual physical Kingdom of
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God, which was established by Jesus Christ upon Peter, whom he renamed the
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Rock, and he said it would be a shining city set on a hill,
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visible for all ages. Well, since that time there has been the
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One Holy Catholic Church. No other Christian church has lasted has been around as
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long. Most of them are less than fifty years old. No other human
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institution on earth has lasted that long. No nation is under its current form
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as it was two thousand years ago. Just look at how many constitutions Italy
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has had. Italy has not even been a unified nation for most of that
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time, America didn't exist. England has not existed for two thousand years.
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Not the nation of England. No. Among my ancestors are the original Kings
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of England, the House of Wessex, who were Catholic. One of them
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is Saint Edward the Confessor. Another word is King Richard Lionheart. You know,
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the Catholic Church predated the monarchy of modern day England, and of course,
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once England fell away from Catholicism under Henry the Eighth, it's a completely
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different nation. It's not a Catholic nation and it's an illegitimate monarchy. Seriously,
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the House of Windsor is an illegitimate monarchy. If you don't believe me,
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just look up their lineage. They are not They are not the royal
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family of England. But you know, what are you going to do?
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So? Anyway? No, the New Jerusalem is not the United States,
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It's not any nation on earth. It's holy app one, Holytolic I am
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getting to so confused. Catholic one, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. That's
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the new Jerusalem, and that's the Kingdom of God. That's the new Covenant.
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And no one else has an authority to claim covenant with God other than
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you know, Catholic Church, because it was not established by man, it
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was established by God. There are two covenants. There's the covenant established between
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God and Abraham, and there's the covenant established between God and the Catholic Church.
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There's no other covenant. When you drive through you know, sometime you
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see covenant. Baptist Church, they have no covenant. When someone says America
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is the new Jerusalem, that's actually kind of blasphemous. Actually, And if
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I could ever have a chance to speak with mister Bannon, who I have
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the greatest respect for. I mean, he's really, I mean, to
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me, the best conservative spokesman these days. I think he's absolutely great.
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I'll watch him every day, you know, morning show and evening show.
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Huge fan. He is so wrong about America being the new Jerusalem. That's
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actually a somewhat blasphemous statement, and someone really does need to set him right.
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I know Devin Nunius, Congressman Devin Unis, former Congressman Trump official listens
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to my show sometimes, mister new Yes, if you hear this show,
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and you can tell mister Bannon that what he's saying is actually blasphemous, that
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no human institution, no nation founded by men, has that right. Only
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the Catholic Church has it. Please do so because he you know, hopefully
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he can be corrected on that. And also, by the way, Abraham
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Lincoln was no saint, you know, and if you don't believe me,
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I could send you some documentation on that. He's a pretty bad guy.
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Actually, No matter what you think about the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was
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not a good man at all. He wrote, well, he was eloquent.
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He was the Barack Obama of his day. Okay, so just just
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another side point, you know, let me just clear the air of that
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one before I move on. The person says Christ died for all and does
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not say that he died from members of any particular church. He does not
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mention either Catholicism or Protestantism. That's kind of ridiculous, as there was no
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Protestantism until you know, about five hundred years ago, and the Catholic Church
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has been around for two thousand years. The teaching of Christ clearly condemns Protestant
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principles and insists upon the exception of Catholic principles. He did die for all
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who would accept him, but one does not accept him who rejects knowingly the
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very definite and particular religion he gave the world, and he predicted that religion
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would be characterized by unity of doctrine, holiness of moral precepts, Catholicity or
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universality, and continuous succession from the apostles. Person says denominations are necessary to
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save us from the dictation of priests. The authority the priesthood, they say,
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will be the subject of our consideration in due time. Meanwhile, the
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denominations were not necessary according to the mind of Christ. He prayed that all
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might be one, as he and his Father are one. Saint Paul said
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that even though an angel from heaven were to preach a gospel differing from the
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one already gives, than he should be regarded as a cursed No one had
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any right to establish the denominations with their varying doctrines. Person says, I
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admit it is a pity that there is so much conflict, and they say
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it is ten thousand times a pity. But remember that the Catholic Church did
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not start the conflict. She cannot be blamed for the domestic troubles of Protestantism.
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All Catholics are at least in doctrinal unity. And that's well. I
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hope we're still in doctrinal unity. Our Pope isn't exactly facilitating that right now,
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is he? Yeah, let's get on to Foli shpiago And these are
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very this is good stuff. This is point number three under his discussion of
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Christ's redeemer. He said God chose for himself a special nation, and point
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number three is preparation of mankind for the Redeemer. God chose for himself a
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special nation and prepared it for the coming of the Redeemer. This chosen people
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was the seat of Abraham, usually called by the name of the Israelites or
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Jews. The Call of Abraham. Regarding the Call of Abraham and Genesis twelfth,
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the Jews to be a priestly nation in Exodus, I guess it's nineteen
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six. No rejection of other nations is implied in the election of the Jews.
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For every renewal of the promise of a redeemer recalled a blessing that all
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nations were to share Genesis twelve three and et cetera, etc. The ways
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by which God prepared his chosen people for the Redeemer's advent were the infliction of
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heavy trials, the imposition of severe laws and the performance for them of miracles,
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and the giving of series of prophecies. The sensuality of the Chosen people
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had to be combated by many trials, such as Pharaoh's edict against the children,
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hunger and thirst of the desert, the fiery serpents, the attacks of
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their enemies, and their long exile. This same sensuality and insensibility required that
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laws should be promulgated with an all inspiring accompaniment of thunder and lightning. Idolatry
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was another sin to which the Chosen People were prone, as we see in
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the incident of the Golden Calf in Exodus thirty two to one. So miracles
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were called to strengthen their faith and trust in God, such as those performed
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in Egypt and the Passage of the Red Sea and the Jordan. The man
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in the Desert the water from the dry rock, the falling down on the
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walls of Jericho, etc. The prophecies tended in the same direction, as
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well as to maintain the desiring of the coming redeemer. Of the history of
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the Jewish people, the following facts are known to us. First, thescendants
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of Abraham first world in Palestine and went later to Egypt, where they remained
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for the space of four hundred years and were cruelly oppressed. About the year
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two thousand b C. God called Abraham and bade him settle in Palestine,
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where he had a son, Isaac, who was father of Esau and Jacob.
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Jacob secured Esaul's birthright and had to flee in consequence. Jacob, also
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called Israel, had twelve sons, of which one was Joseph, who,
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being sold into Egypt, became the ruler of the land under the king invited
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his relatives, some sixty six in number, to join him, giving them
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the fertile district of Goshen, lying eastward of the Nile Delta to dwell in
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about nineteen hundred b C. Here, the Jews increased greatly in numbers and
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had much to endure later from the Egyptian kings. Secondly, under the leadership
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of Moses, the Israelites left Egypt and watered in the desert for forty years.
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Some two million people crossed the Red Sea about fifteen hundred BC into the
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Arabian Desert, where they were fed with manna and received the Ten Commandments.
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Moses died on Mount Nebo. Third, under Joshua, they entered the Promised
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Land, but they had to fight there under but they had to fight under
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their judges for over three hundred years against their enemies. Fourteen fifty to eleven
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one hundred BC. Joshua, the successor of Moses, divided the and that's
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you know in the old writing, Joshu j U s u E. If
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I'm pronouncing it, I apologize. The success from Moses divided the land among
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the twelve tribes. The judges were men raised by God for some times of
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special needs, such as, for instance, as Gideon jeff Da Sampson Samuel.
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Fourth, the Israelites were ruled over by King Saul, David Solomon being
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especially famous from eleven hundred to nine to seventy five BC. Saul was unhappy
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in his career and died of suicide David has success for successor ten fifty five
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to ten fifteen, was distinguished for his piety. He composed many of the
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psalms and received from God the promise that the Redeemer should be of his family.
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On two occasions, he fell into grievous sin and was visited by severe
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chastisements. His son and successor, Solomon, built the Temple of Jerusalem in
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ten twelve and was known far and wide for his wisdom and splendor. After
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Solomon's death, the kingdom was divided into two parts, forming the Kingdom of
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Israel in the north nineteen seventy five to seven twenty two BC and Judah in
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the south nine seventy five two five eighty eight BC. Solomon's son Roboem i
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Guess alienated the ten northern tribes by his taxations, and only the two southern
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tribes, Judah and Benjamin, remained to form the Kingdom of Judah. Six
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Both kingdoms fell away from the True God and were in consequence destroyed, and
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their inhabitants led away into captivity. Israel had nine kings who led people went
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into idolatry. In spite of the efforts of the prophets at last, let's
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see if I can get this one. Salmanass Salmanassar, I don't know.
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In seven twenty two destroyed the kingdom and carried the people away to the Assyrian
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captivity. The fall of the Assyrian power brought the exiles under the dominion of
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the Babylonians, and in five thirty eight under that of the Persian king Cyrus.
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The Kingdom of Judah had twenty kings and held out longer, but finally
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was reduced by nebuchad nossor nevo chad do nossor my word, are you glad
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we go? My name is like Bob and Jim. Now when you hate
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for your name to be something like nabo chado non chada nosnor. The people
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were led us away into captivity six o six and five ninety nine, and
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Jerusalem and the temple destroyed seven. After the return from captivity in five thirty
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six, the Jews lived in peace until they came in two hundred two three
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AD under the power of Antiochus, the king of Syria. From the year
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six six, the inhabitants of Judah and Israel dwelt under the same rule and
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came to be known indifferently as Jews. Cyrus, who obtained possession of the
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Babylonian kingdom in five thirty eight, gave permission two years later for the Jews
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return to rebuild their temple. Some forty two thousand Jews availed themselves with this
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concession to return to under zero babyl to Jerusalem. They raised a new temple
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after twenty years of work in the year four fifty three. Arta Xerxes allowed
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them to build walls, and they still remained for about two hundred years under
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Persian dominion and were well treated. Alexander the Great and his successor then had
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the mastery till the time of Antiochus Epiphanes the Fourth, who began a religious
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persecution, putting the Maccabean brothers and ali Azar to death and placing idols in
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the temple. Eight. The Jews regained their freedom after a bloody war and
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were again ruled for one hundred years by Jewish kings. From one forty to
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thirty nine BC. Maccabeus and his five sons helped the Jews to shake off
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the Syrian yoke, and as I always say, if you don't have a
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Bible that has includes the two Books of Maccabees. You need a much better
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Bible. Get rid of your King James. Get a Dewey Raims if you
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want one written in the same era, with the same you know, flowery
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English language. Or go back and get the original bibliosac of Volgata that Saint
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Jerome translated into three hundreds. Or get yourself an ignacious Holy Bible revised Standard
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Edition, Catholic version, because it's basically identical, okay, And it's going
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to be much more accurate and complete than any Protestant Bible because it has all
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the books and the words of Jesus weren't changed to fit Martin Luther's opinions.
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Yes, he changed the words of Jesus. Let me say that a third
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or fifth time if if not a good man, Protestantism is based on lies,
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not on the word of God, because the Bible they have was changed
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to fit the ideas of a megalomaniac. So anyway, where was I?
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Maccabeus and his five sons helped the Jews to shake off the Syrian yoke.
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Simon, one of the Maccabees, resigned as high priest and king in one
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and was succeeded by his descendants till the advent of POMPEII in sixty four,
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who reduced the Jewish king to the subjection of Rome. In thirty eight PC,
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a gentile Herod became King of the Jews. As Judea was always the
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focus of rebellion, the Jewish king was deposed and replaced by Herod, the
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first of the kings, who was not a Jew. It was he who
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has secured the children at Bethlehem. At his death, he was succeeded by
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his son Herod and Antipas, Antipas who put John the Baptist to death and
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who treated our Lord as a fool. His successor was under Herod Agrippa the
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Great, who beheaded Saint James the Elder and cast Saint Peter into prison.
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He usurped the name of God and died a miserable death eaten by worms in
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forty four a d. In seventy a d. Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus,
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and the Jews were scattered among the nations Section number two. The other
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nations of the Earth were prepared for the coming of their deemer by contact with
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the Chosen people or by the influence of exceptionally gifted men or by their extraordinary
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methods. A very interesting point. You can definitely see, you know,
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the philosophy of Greece and Rum gradually leading them, you know, toward the
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acceptance of a monotheistic God. They wouldn't have gotten there without the Jews and
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without the early Christians, but they were getting, you know, they were
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starting to look in that direction. And you know, we can see this
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in different religions, Zoroastrianism especially. You know, anyway, the ordinary intercourse
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of trade as well as the enforced exile, forwarded means of contact with the
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Heathen, and that this was not unfruitful. We learned from Tobias. Another
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book you don't have in your Protestant Bible, the Book of Tobit, you
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know, incredibly important book. Give glory to the Lord the children of Israel,
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because he had therefore scattered you among the gentiles who know Him, who
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know not Him, that you may declare his wonderful works and make notes in
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them that there is no other online God beside him. That's Tobit thirteen three
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and four. Yes, get rid of your king, James, get yourself
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a dewey rings and learn what God actually wanted you to know. Such men
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as Socrates in Greece had their mission into crying the cult of the idols and
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exhibiting in their persons the virtue of courage, gentleness and moderation. Absolutely Socrates
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fantastic love to read his works or what was written of him. We might
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enumerate also job in Arabia, Joseph in Egypt, Jonas and Nineveh, Daniel
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and Babylon, and others. The virtues of such men, their courage and
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confessing the true God, and the miracles by which their profession was verified,
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as for instance, in the case of the children in the Furnace of I'm
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going to go with Nebekinezer because that's the way I was told to pronounce as
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a kid, but it's actually what Nabbo Nabbu Chad do. Nonsoor and Daniel
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in the Lions den furnished more abundant motives in the Heathen for discerning the True
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God, and that this was the case is corroborated by the number of proselytes.
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Besides, all these other methods were not left untried, e g.
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The miracle miraculous Star which led the Three Magi to Bethlehem. The Angel's method
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to message to Cornelius Centurion in Acts three, very important point and the mysterious
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handwriting on the wall in the palace where Baltasar was profaning the sacred vessels.
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In the Book of Dan, I think it's five to two. In the
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dream of that fella again Nabo Chad don nonsur and the prophecy of Baliam's ass
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Balam b A l A A m his donkey words great. A really interesting
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story of the Bible. Whether God actually gives the donkey power to speak,
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you know, really interesting passage point number three. Before the arrival of the
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Redeemer, God permitted that mankind should experience the deepest misery in order to rouse
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it to a longing for the Redeemer. A great dissension reigned among the Jews.
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Three different sects claimed precedents. The Sadducees, which were the money class,
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denied eternal life. The Pharisees adhered rigidly to the law, and the
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Essians withdrew entirely from the world and led a life of strict penance. Among
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the heathen, there was a general ignorance of any religious life, together with
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monstrous immorality. The gods According to Hessio, it were too numerous to be
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counted, and were in different idols or men of abominable lives, or even
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animals whose worship was signalized by scenes of debauchery and human sacrifice. Heathens were
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not wanting who recognized the sad state of affairs. Horace, for instance,
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in one of his ode bewails the civil wars and praise to praise the virgin
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born son to come and ring among his people. Long before him, Socrates
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had expressed the wish that some mediators should come from heaven to teach man his
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duty to God. Jacob and the prophets only echoed the popular feelings when they
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call the Redeemer the expectation of the nations. As in nations, so is
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God's action to be seen in individuals, and the struggles of a Saint Paul
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and a Saint Augustine served to make them more open to the actions of the
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Holy Ghost and more zealous in their conversion to God. Let's just leave it
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here today. I'll pick it up tomorrow. But I think leaving on that
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point is very important. You know, Saint Paul began as a great persecutor
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of the Christians. He held the cloaks when Saint Stephen was stoned to death
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the first martyr, and then he went out and killed old Christians for their
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belief. He believed he was acting as an Asian of God. He was
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full of what self righteousness, believing he was enforcing the Mosaic law to kill
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all who blasphemed against the Jewish religion. It. You know, it took
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God striking him blind and speaking to him to lead to his conversion. You
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know, Saint Augustine was a gambler and a womanizer and you like to fight
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and all that before his conversion. I think a great example is Saint Mary
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Magdalene. I actually wrote about her in my Gospel Reflections that I wrote yesterday,
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which will come out later in the year. I write him six months
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in advance, so you'll have them on the day you need him. Really
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hit me, how genuine her expression always is toward our Lord. You know
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when she meets Jesus. We don't know what zach cleve when she met Jesus,
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right, but we know she was in the house where it said he
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was dining with sinners and all that. Right, And apparently without saying a
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word, she's on her knees, washing his feet with her tears, taking
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her most precious possession, very what they call nard, a very expensive perfumed
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oil, and giving it to him. We don't know how she became a
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prostitute. You know, there weren't a lot of economic opportunities for single women
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in two thousand years ago. Maybe she was an orphan. Orphans basically had
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two options, being a prostitute or a slave, and there really wasn't much
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difference, if you know, if you were attractive. Maybe she was a
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widow. Maybe she had a child at time she had to care for and
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no one to provide an income. Maybe maybe she was a teenager who got
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pregnant whose parents kicked her out. We have no idea, but when you
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know, there seems to have been this great human need in her to be
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loved and accepted. And when she meets Jesus, she falls her knees and
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weeps, and all the work and sacrifice and all the you know, probably
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abuse she had been through that had allowed her to buy this expensive oil,
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this Nard, she immediately gives to Jesus and he accepts her fully, probably
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the one thing she needed in life more than anything else. Then we see
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after the crucifixion. We know she was there with the Mother of God.
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You know, obviously she was fully redeemed in the eyes of the Lord and
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his followers. She was there at the crucifixion when the apostles weren't mostly most
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of them had fled, even Saint Peter. We see her as the first
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person to come to the tomb after the resurrection, and she falls to the
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ground weeping uncontrolledly. And what happens this is, this is amazing, Okay.
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Jesus walks up, speaks to her, and she embraces him, and
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he says to her, I have not yet gone, I have not yet
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a sented to the Father. He was still in his mortal battered, bruised,
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bloodied, cut, disgraced, rotting flesh in the tomb body. And
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yet because of her genuine human need, he appears to her. I think
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many times, there's so many saints that we read about who are such courageous
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people or such pure people, such you know, genuinely unsullied people, right,
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I mean, from obviously the blessed Virgin Mary born without even original sin,
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to I mean Saint Teresa of Lusseaux, who I mean she wouldn't complain
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or argue with anyone. I mean, we can go down the list of
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yeah, some of the great warrior saints, some of the great martyrs,
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some who but then we see then we see the you know, like Saint
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Paul, like Saint Augustine, like Saint Mary Magdalene, real human conflicted,
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screwing everything, up falling broken people. And isn't it amazing? Isn't it
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absolutely amazing that to such a broken person, Jesus would spend another few moments
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on this earth in his agony, his dead body raised to life, but
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not having ascended, not having his perfect holy body in heaven. That's incredible.
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I mean when you think about it, that extra sacrifice, and that's
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something you know, we absolutely should remember that when we're in that broken place,
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that's when you know God will move heaven on earth to come to us.
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So anyway, y'all, in the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray,
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hope and don't worry. And you know, if I can ever figure
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out, I need to talk to my Italian friend actually how to pronounce the
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name of the town. You know that Saint Peo was the priest did like
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Petroleda or something. I'm just gonna call him Saint Padre Pio because I mispronounce
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everything. So anyway, y'all have a good one and I will talk with you tomorrow