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Show 170: The 5th Commandment of God, part 1 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. Today
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we will discussed the fifth Commandment, which is, of course,
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thou shalt not kill. I think this is particularly cogent
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giving the Democrat Convention going on right now, which is
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essentially a pagan bloodless ceremony celebrating in fantaside killing babies.
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And again, as a Catholic, looking at the Democrat party platform,
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you cannot vote for a Democrat, any Democrat, at any
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position on the ticket without committing a mortal sin. So
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do bear that in mind. But on a lighter note,
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I promise to make this one a little short. In fact,
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I'm a shorter than yesterday. I'm going to split this
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one into two parts. We'll spend two days on this.
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Yesterday's show went too long. You know, I hadn't done
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a podcast in a week or so, and I wanted
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to give you a little bit more than usual, and
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I think it was a little bit too lengthy. So
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I'm going to try to keep this one a little
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bit shorter at least. But as usual, we will start
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with radio replies, and today the questioner of the two priests,
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Rumbling Cardi, is the kind of real anti Catholic that
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I deal with a lot. You know, I've explained to
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you before. Where I live, we have like hardly any
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Catholics in the entire well we're really in the entire
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county and in about three counties combined, and in my
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particular part of the county, I am far outnumbered by
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what you might call primitive Baptists. Those are like one degree,
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probably ten degrees further out on the fringes than just
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your regular Southern Baptist Jehovah's Witnesses. We got a lot
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of Mormons, but we especially have a lot of Seven
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day Adventists and Pentecostals. And yeah, they really hate Catholics.
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I mean, people will scream at me in the grocery
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store if they see my crucifix. They've come to my
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house to tell me I'm going to hell. Really kind
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of nasty stuff. And you know, if I was not
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a very you know, big guy, you know, six foot four,
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big strap in hillbilly that usually carries a hunting knife
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on my belt and oftentimes a pistol, I would probably
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be a little concerned sometimes. You know, I can understand
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why a smaller framed man or a woman, you know,
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would be very intimidated by some of these some of
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these people, but they're nothing new. Just The book Radio
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replies was written in the thirties, and the person says,
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the holiness of the Catholic Church is no argument. Satan
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pretends to be an angel of light. And the answer
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Satan is said to be an angel of light insofar
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as he makes evil appear to be good, not that
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he ever inspires real good. He never inspires people to
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hate sin and to love God, as does the Catholic Church.
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And the person continues, how would he win people if
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he did not mix in a few good works with
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his errors? They answer, he mixes no good works with
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his errors. He permits some good to continue side by
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side with the evil he inspires, and that is the
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secret of the continued existence of Protestantism. It speaks much
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about the belief of Christ, of broad minded tolerance, of
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being good to one's fellow man, of owing no man anything,
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but it shuts its eyes to Satan's propaganda of divorce,
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birth control, the flood of doubtful literature poured out by
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the press, the banishment of religion and schools, and hundreds
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of other dangers of the day. People can be good
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Protestants yet carry on with practices for which they would
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never get absolution from any Catholic priests unless they promise
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to abstain from them. At times, Protestantism does raise its
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voice in protests, but nearly always against the wrow, avoiding
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current evils which it finds too unpopular to face. The
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person says, the Catholic Church is Satan's organization, and they answer,
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then she is a very poor agent. Indeed, she would
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be far more efficient if she cried out. Sin does
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not matter. Go ahead, Confession is nonsense. Eat anything you
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like on Fridays, the day on which Christ died. Marriage
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does not bind. Divorce yourselves whenever you like. Continence is absurd,
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Artificial birth control is progress. Don't believe in Christ or
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God or Heaven or Hell. Away with religion. In the schools,
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the chief thing is to be comfortable, eat, drink, and
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be merry for tomorrow. You die, then get cremated, and
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that ends everything. Don't you see how ridiculous this statement is.
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All these things are the exact opposite of Catholic teaching.
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That person says, but does not. John in Revelations call
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rum the Babylon of sin. No, they answer, He describes
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a city of abominations, which he terms Babylon. The early
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Christians there regarded pagan Rome, with its idolatry and sensuality,
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as a very Babylon. Thus Saint Peter, writing from Rome,
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call it by that name. But once the city had
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given up its paganism for Christianity, it ceased to be
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called by that name, which had been given to it
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precisely because of its paganism. Some few people, since the
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sixteenth century, blinded by anti Catholic prejuges, have turned modern
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Rome Babylon because it happens to be the headquarters of
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the Catholic Church. But no sensible people support such a view.
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The fight of the Catholic Church for the rights of
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Christ and her urgent recommendation of true holiness to her
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spiritual subjects are too obviously opposed to the conduct of
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Babylon described by Saint John, They say, But history shows
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that the Roman Church has been a hotbed of vice, murdered, trickery,
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violence and oppression. And the answer history shows no such facts.
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It does show that there have been wicked men in
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the church, and that Christ predicted there would be fish
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in the net. But these evil men were wicked in
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spite of the teachings of the Catholic Church, not because
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of them. Meantime, in every age there have been saints
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good precisely because they lived up with the Catholic teachings.
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It is proof that the Church as a church is
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good if men have to violate her teachings in order
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to be wicked, and is proof of her divinity that
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she has survived not only the attacks from external enemies,
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but still worse evil of corrupt members within. All right,
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we will wrap that one up there. This person has
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a lot more to say. May we'll get into that tomorrow.
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But this actually disquestioner, as ignorant and offensive as they are,
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is far more cogent in their arguments that a lot
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of the ones that I face, Trust me, I have
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dealt with some people whose I accused were probably in
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the single digits who would become very violent just learning
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that I am a Catholic. And don't think, by any
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means think that's exclusive to where I live in the
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mountains of North Carolina. No, I have lived in five
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different states and lived or been a part time resident
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of us like going to school in and I faced
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some serious anti Catholic bigotry in some of the most
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cosmopolitan cities in America. So one of the reasons I
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do this show is so that you will be ready
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to defend the faith when confronted by such a person.
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Do not doubt, though, that they may be deemon possessed.
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I believe there is a form of demonic possession that
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is very real in anti Catholic Protestant bigots. You know,
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they don't know. I mean, they think they're good Christians.
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They think you're the representative of Satan. You know. I
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do carry a weapon with me most everywhere I go.
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That's a necessity in the mountains where I live, because
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we have more bears people. But if I lived in
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a city like Washington, d C. Where I encountered a
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great deal of anti Catholic bigotry and a lot more crime,
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that's for sure, I would absolutely do everything I could
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to have a concealed carry permit and carry a handgun
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and know how to use it. And I think you
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should if you don't have to go around arguing with
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anti Catholic bigots, you don't know who's going to attack you.
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A suppose a so called witch, a wicked almost attack
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my mother in a bookstore one time, just because she
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was reading a Catholic book. So you never know you,
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I mean, honestly, there are really crazy people out there,
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many of whom call themselves evangelical Christians. Unfortunately, of course,
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where we can find common ground, we need to work together,
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for instance, against abortion. That seems to be the main
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issue that does bring us together. And now let's go
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and talk about the Fifth Commandment of God. From Father
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Spiago's exhaustive explanation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
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the Fifth Commandment of God. In the fifth Commandment, Almighty
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God forbidsin us to destroy our own life or that
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of our neighbor, or to treat the lower animals with cruelty.
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This is somewhat unique to Catholic teaching. I've never heard
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a Protestant talk about how thou shalt not kill also
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means not to be cruel to animals unnecessarily. But it's
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been long part of Catholic teaching. I think you'll find
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that part very interesting. And he lists at last. We'll
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save it for last, but we're going to start with
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our duty and respect to our own life. This is
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another thing that a lot of prisons don't understand. They
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don't understand why it's immortal sin to commit suicide or
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to unnecessarily risk your life in dangerous behaviors. They say,
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it's my life, I'll deal with it as I please. Well,
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it's not your life. Your life actually belongs thanks to God.
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So we will start with our duty and respect to
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our in life. Many of the ceremonies at the administration
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of the sacraments sera mai is full of meaning are
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performed a upon the body. By these, the Church intends
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to inspire us with great respect for our bodies and
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to teach us their high worth and dignity. Our body
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was created by God as an abode for our immortal soul.
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The condition of the soul is often dependent upon the
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condition of the body. When God made the human body
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out of lifeless earth, it was an uninhabited tenement, but
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it was destined to be inhabited. Therefore, God created the
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soul to be its occupant. Saint Peter speaks of the
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body as a tabernacle which he would shortly have to quit.
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Second Peter of one point fourteen. It fares with the
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soul and the body as with the inmate of a house.
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If the house be unhealthy, the dweller and it falls sick.
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Our body is like the shell of an egg. If
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the shell should be injured, the young bird within is hurt.
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So if our moral frame sustains injury and spirit, the
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noble inmate of that dwelling suffers with it. The Romans
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had a proverb, a healthy mind and a healthy body.
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Our body is not our own. It belongs to God.
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First Corinthians five thirteen. It belongs to God not only
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because he created it, but because Christ purchased it with
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a great price. For Corinthians six twenty, we are bound
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to take care of what is the property of another.
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The tenant of a hired house has no right to
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damage or destroy the house, so we are not at
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liberty to injure or destroy our body, the abode of
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the soul, created by God and belonging to Him. We
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must not do with our body what we will, but
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what God wills. I wish the tenants that had occupied
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my great grandfather's home, which was a beautiful southern Antebellum
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home that should have stayed in the family on the
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centuries old family farm, had thought about how a tenant
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should respect the property as opposed to burning it down anyway.
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Our body is an implement of the soul and trusted
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by God to our keeping to be made an instrument
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to be made instrumental in amassing merits for eternity. Like
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all other instruments, our body can be misused. Hence, Saint
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Paul warns Christians people not to yield their members as
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instruments of iniquity under sin Romans six thirteen. As God
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will require us to give account of the manner in
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which we have employed the talents given to us Matthew
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twenty five nineteen. So we shall have to answer for
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employment of the body, which the soul informs and makes
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instrumental in the performance of the duties of our calling.
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Our Lord sol told Saint Gertrude that after the resurrection,
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on the members of the body employed in his service,
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surpassing dignity and excellent and excellence would be conferred. Since
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the life and health of the body are of great
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importance for the life of the soul and for our
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eternal salvation, we are bound to take precautions for the
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preservation of our health and our life by means of cleanliness, temperance, regularity, industry,
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and the use of remedies in case of sickness. It's
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one of the things some Protestant groups, like the Christian Scientists,
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they say that they should you know, they have a
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false translation of the Bible and a lot of erroneous teaching.
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Generally very nice people, actually very nice people. They do
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not believe, however, that a Christian should go to a doctor.
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They believe prayer is the only remedy. If they had
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a full and complete Bible, including books such as Sirac,
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they would know that the Bible actually recommends people to
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go to the physician because God gives the physician the
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knowledge to heal them. It's God's will to use medicinal
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herbs and modern medicines as intended for the healing of people.
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And that's really one of the main ways Christianity is founded.
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Christianity founded hospitals to care for the sick and the
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poor without the medical profession as practiced by the earlies Christians.
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I've written a whole book about this. If your interest
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is called the history and practice of Christian orbal medicine,
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we wouldn't have a church. I mean it just never
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would have gotten off the ground. Well. Anyway, health is
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worth more to us than vast riches Ecclesiastes three sixteen
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or thirty sixteen. Sorry. For the longer we keep our
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health in our life, the more treasures we can lay
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up for eternity. Where neither rust nor moth doth consume,
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where thieves do not break through nor steel Matthew six point.
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If we thoughtlessly do anything to shorten our life, we
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defraud ourselves a part of our seed time. The eagle
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takes the utmost care of its egg, not for the
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sake of the shell, but for the young eagle enclosed
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in the egg. Cleanliness is to be observed in our persons,
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in our peril, the rooms we inhabit. Temperance in eating
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and drinking abstemious, abstemious. That's one of those hard ones
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from me. Abstemy on usiness provides health and prolongs life.
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That means abstaining from eating or drinking too much. So
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let's just go with that. And that was We've already
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discussed fasting the advantages of fasting. Many men of weak
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physique naturally have so increased their strength by abstemiousness that
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they have been capable of immense activity. Saint Paul and
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his epistles often mentions his bodily weakness. Regularity is to
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be observed in regard to meals, the time of going
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to rest and rising in the morning, in one's work,
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and arranging one's time. Above all, let us never be
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unemployed by work. We may not only earn our daily bread,
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but we do much toward keeping ourselves in health. Work
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circulates the blood and gives an appetite for food. Stagnant
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water becomes foul, and the blood of the idler is
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apt to get into a bad state. Yet we must
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not over attax our strength with work. Moderate labor invigorates
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excess toil ruins hours of our body. Finally, it is
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our duty to have recourse to remedies in case of sickness.
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It is sinvil if anyone is dangerly ill not to
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call medical aid and employ remedies. Honor the physician, for
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let me see, honor the physician for the need thou
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hast of him, for the most high hath created him.
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That's from Ecclesiastics, which actually is in Protestant Bible, so
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it's really no excuse for not understanding that. But the
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most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and
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a wise man will not abhor them. Also in Ecclesiastes, However,
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if the cure is too costly, or if it involves
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acute suffering, it may be foreborne. Our solicitude concerning the
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preservation of our health and our life must not, however,
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be so great as to make us forget our eternal salvation.
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The good things of time, such as life and bodily
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well being, are not intrinsically valuable and to be desired,
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but only in so far as they remain man forever,
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because he is flesh Genesis six ' three i e.
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To the fleshly minded, the wisdom of the flesh is death.
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It is an enemy to God Romans eight six. The
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more the body is studied and pampered, the more the
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soul meet neglected and ruined. According to Saint Augustine, Hence,
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our Lord it monishes us be not solicitous for meat
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and raiment. For your heavenly Father knoweth that you have
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need of all these things. He feeds the bird the air,
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and close the lilies of the field, though they labor not,
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and are you of not more value than they Matthew
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six twenty five and thirty two. Furthermore, we are under
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a strict obligation to do nothing that tends to destroy
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health through life. Consequently, it is a sin to rashly
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hazard one's life, wantonly to inerture one's health, or to
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take one's own life. It's another thing very misunderstood in
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our present day. The Catholic Church actually forbids engaging in
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risky behavior like thrill seeking behavior like skydiving, for instance,
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running with the bulls. Most even Catholics, don't know this.
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In fact, I mentioned this in one of my daily
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gospel reflections and a guy got in touch. He said,
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thanks for pointing this out. I went to Catholic school
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for these many years at Catholic University, and I was
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never thought, never taught this. Well you should. So let's
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get into what Fathers Barago says. Those persons generally risk
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their life without a thought, who perform hazardous feats or
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who neglect do precautions. Acrobats, equestrians, performers, lion tamers and
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the like commit sin unless they take all necessary precautions
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to avoid fatal accidents. The professions they follow are objectionable
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on moral grounds and even unlawful. Bet you didn't know
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that performers of this character are too often dissolute in
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their manners, and their hazard's feats frequently cost them their lives.
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The same may be said of those who are foolhardy
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and willfully risk their life in athletic sports or public
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games such as bullfights, which are the national amusement of Spain,
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and the Catholic Church has been against bullfighting for two
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thousand years. I mean this is not new teaching. One
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of ordinary prudence is also highly reprehensible, as for instance,
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to cross the line but a train is approaching, by
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which many have lost their lives, or to stand under
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a tree or otherwise expose oneselves during a thunderstorm. Again,
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in the case of infectious disease, great precautious necessary. Only
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the priests, the doctor, and the nurse should be allowed
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into the sick room. There are other ways whereby one
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may place one's life in jeopardy by drinking cold water
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or taking a cold bath when violently heated. That needs
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a little explanation on this, because sometimes cold baths are
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use to reduce the fever if you've gotten really overheated.
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In danger of a heat stroke. Drinking cold water can
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actually do yourself a lot of harm. You have to
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go very slowly. Usually you'll throw it up. We learned
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that in football practice in the in the Southeastern United States.
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I can tell you that much. But yeah, you really
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do act to be careful. I've had a couple of
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heat strokes, so again, growing up in the Southeast and
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doing a lot of work outside and playing a lot
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of sports where the coaches weren't exactly that concern with
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our physical well being. To tell you the truth, you
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have to be very careful with heat exhaustion so you
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don't end up with heat stroke. Trust me, I know.
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And actually my great great grandfather died of a heat stroke.
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He was working in the fields in a hot day,
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got overheated, laid down on the porch, had a heart attack,
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and died. Do not take heat or extreme cold for granted.
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I mean, it's just really dangerous. I mean probably you know,
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hundreds of thousands of years of human history you have
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been learning how to protect ourselves from extreme heat and
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extreme cold. But unfortunately we've gotten so comfortable that now
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we don't even worry about such things, and they could
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be very dangerous, very dangerous. Let's see, so putting one's
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life in jeopardy, such as playing with a loaded firearm,
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jumping into or out of a train is in motion,
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touching the electric wires with a bare hand, or hanging
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on behind a carriage as children are wont to do
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with the chance of getting their limbs crushed by the wheels. Therefore,
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be prudent and never risk your life rashly. Some persons
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are in the habit of injuring their health by indulging
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in excess amusements by vanity and dress, and partaking too
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freely of unwholesome food. By excess and amusement is meant
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frequently playing and dancing all night, smoking and drinking immoderately, etc.
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By surfeiting, many have perished Ecclesiastes. By vanity and dress
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is meant tight lacing, in which undue pressure is put
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on vital organs, which deranges their action and has even
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called Southern death. You may know that women used to
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wear there's very tight bodices and girdles, and yeah, your health. Actually,
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the fashion of squeezing the feet into pointed shoes is
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also injurious. Spirits have taken in large quantities or even
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strong decoctions of tea and coffee are decidedly presudicial to
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digestion and the nerves. Suicides are generally men who are
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devoid of religious beliefs, who have gotten into trouble or
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committed some great sin, and who to spare of God's
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mercy and assistance. They are sometimes not accountable for their
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actions and consequently not to be blamed for them very
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much the case in mental illness and extreme depression. King
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Saul lost all hope when he was grievously wounded and
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surrounded by his enemies, and he then cast himself on
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his sword. First Kings thirty one, the keeper of the
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prison at Philippi, greatly alarmed at seeing the doors of
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the prisons open wherein Saint Paul's confined, was about to
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kill himself. In Acts sixteen twenty seven, Judas, in despair
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at the enormity of his crime, went and hanged himself.
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Matthew twenty seventy five. Another verses he threw himself down
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from a height. But anyway, how often we read that
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of people destroying themselves because they have lost all at
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the gambling table, or because they have ruined their character
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by embezzling money or because they cannot obtain the object
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of their illicit passion. But often madness or over taxed
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nerves can cause men to take their own lives without
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knowing what they do. Let us beware, therefore, how hastily
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we judge and condemn them. The prevalence of suicide is, however,
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principally and generally to be ascribed to the lack of religion,
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or of a firm belief in future life, or incompetence
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in God's will, willingness to aid the unfortunate, and to
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pardon the repentant. Center experience teaches that as religion decreases
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in a land, the number of suicides increases. It's very
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true of America, isn't it. We have the highest suicide
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rate we've really ever had, and that's been year over
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year really since the seventies when people just stopped going
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to church and divorce became rampant, and you know that's
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what happens. And now with all the fentanyl and the drugs,
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it's a lot of PTSD from unnecessary. Well, whether you
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think the wars were necessary or not, they were certainly
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not carried out by our leaders in a way that
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would make them in quickly and spare the lives and
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mental healths of our soldiers. They seemed more intent on
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enriching themselves through the military industrial complex and actually winning
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a war. I don't think America has actually won a
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war since World War Two. You know, Korea, Vietnam, or Afghanistan, Iraq.
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But that hasn't stopped a whole lot of people from
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making a whole lot of money. The ancients considered self
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destruction to be dishonorable and blameworthy. They cut off the
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right hand of the self murder and buried it apart
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from his body. The Church denies Christian burial to one
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who has died by his own hand, unless insanity has
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rendered him irresponsible. The refusal burial rights is not intended
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to be as a condemnation of the individual, but to
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express horror of the crime and to act as a
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deterrent to others. A man's life is not his own,
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but it belongs to God, who takes it away at
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his will Dueteronomy thirty two thirty nine. Thus, self destruction
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is a presumptuous encroachment upon the divine rights and shows
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contempt for God By flinging back at him his greatest
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gift to man, which is his life. The suicide also
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defrauds society, wherefore he is a member. He wrongs his
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family by bringing sorrow and shame upon it. He cruelly
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injures himself and gets scandal to others. It is even
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worse to take one's own life than that of another,
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because in the former case one escapes the punishment of
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the law. Far from being a heroic deed, it is
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a most cowardly act. Real heroism is shown by bearing
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bravely the miseries of life. Besides, instead of obtaining relief
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from suffering, the suicide only falls into what is far worse.
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The guidless press of the day will excuse the self murderer,
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saying he expiated the crime with his life. Instead of
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expiating a crime, he adds another to it. On the
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other hand, it is not merely right, but even meritorious
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to sacrifice one's bodily health, their life in order to
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gain everlasting life, or to rescue one's fellow man from
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physical or spiritual death. All the Holy martyrs preferred to
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sacrifice their life rather than to commit sin. By so doing,
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the merited life eternal, for our Lord, says he that
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shall lose his life for my sake shall find it
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Matthew ten thirty nine. Witness elias are the Maccabee, Saint Lawrence, etc.
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Missionaries and heathen lands are in constant danger of death,
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and many undergo ruin of their health by hardship and
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exertions they undergo. Saint Francis Xavior, the Apostle to the Indies,
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was at the close of days so exhausted with preaching
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and administering baptism that he could scarcely speak or move
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his arm. Yet this was not wrong, most praiseworthy. The
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same maybe set of priests, doctors, and nurses who attend
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those who have infectious diseases. Saint Aloysius and Saint Charles
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Borromeo died of the plague caught one nursing the sick
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in the hospital. It is also permissible to risk one's
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life to rescue anyone who has, for instance, falling into
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the fire or water, or to expose ones self in
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battle for the defense of one's country. And a human
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soul is of such great value that all earthly goods,
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nay life itself, should be sacrificed to save it. Christ
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gave us an example by dying of the cross for
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the salvation of mankind. Of course, in performing a heroic
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act of this nature, we ought not to seek death
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that would be sinful, but only think of the good
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deed itself, of which death may be the accidental accompaniment.
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All right, So we will wrap this one up here.
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We've talked about the importance of one's own life. Tomorrow
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we will get into why we shouldn't kill. Thou shalt
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not kill. This is going to be the big one,
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and you know, send it to every Democrat you know.
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You know, in fact, send it to everybody you know.
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We live in very, very evil times. I mean, this
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is what's going in Chicago right now is just a
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symptom of a much greater issue, and we'll seek to
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address that continuing tomorrow. So y'all, in the words of
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Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope, and don't worry. I'll talk
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to you next time.