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Episode 9: The Authority of the Church, part 4 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's ship. Today we're continuing in our series on
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the authority and governance of the Church, the authority Jesus gave his Apostles,
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and the authority of the Apostles passed on to all they ordained, and the
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whole Apostolic succession up to the present day. First of all, I would
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be remiss if I did not point out this today is the Feast of the
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Assumption. It's a holy day. So if your parents celebrates it today,
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be sure to go to Mass. If not, go to Mass on Sunday.
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And my diocese it's it's Sunday. But still, this is a very
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holy day. And our Lord asked us to pray prayers to the Holy Face,
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the Litany of the Holy Face on Sundays and Holy days of obligation.
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He said that if we did so, if we pray the Golden Arrow prayer
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every day, if we venerate His Holy Face, it will help defeat communism,
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atheism, blasphemy and a nation of Sunday. Jesus Christ wants everyone to
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go church on Sunday. Again, y'all, Sundays the day when Christians go
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to church. And you know, I don't know why that's so hard to
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figure out. It's only been what people have done for two thousand years or
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so. And Jesus Christ revealed in the Revelations over his Holy Face. You
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can look this up that he wants us to honor Sunday. And it's been
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the message of many many saints, and many many visions of the Blessed Virgin
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Mary, and many many messages from angels. Christians go church on Sunday.
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So now let's get into Oh and if you don't know about the prayer to
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the Holy Face, just you know, google it. Like I said the
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other day, the Saint Martin's Association France runs the Confraternity the Holy Face of
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Jesus. Get in touch with them. They'll send you across with his Holy
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Face it. They'll send you a scapular, they'll send you all kinds of
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pamphlets and brochures for like you just pay like a bunk or two to cover
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shipping. I mean, it's incredible. You know, it's through the generosity
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of others who donate to them that they can send these out throughout the world.
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And then there's confraternities of the Holy Face in America. You can find
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websites In English. You can learn all about that in ten books. Has
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a great book called The Secret of the Holy Face of Jesus. Highly recommend.
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I'll tell you what, you obviously do not have to be Catholic to
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venerate the shroud of turin the Holy Face of Jesus. Look it up.
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I think every single Christian, and well, I guess even non Christians could
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venerate the face of Christ and that promise of stopping communism, which has killed
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two hundred million people plus, not to mention all the aborted babies in China
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and the liberalism that's killed millions of babies and just about destroyed AMR in the
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past one hundred years or so. We all need to participate in everything we
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can do to save this world from atheistic evil, from worshiping the state,
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from worshiping and institution of man, which is the ultimate goal of liberalism,
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socialism, communism, liberal democrats, progressivism, it's all fascism at the cores,
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you know, and atheism. Really, hopefully I don't have to convince
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y'all. I mean, my audience, if you've been listening to me,
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you know where I'm coming from on things political. But let's go away from
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politics. Now, let's get to what the Bible says about the authority and
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governance of the church. I hope I can get this all done in one
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show. But the Bible actually says a lot. The letters of the Apostle
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proves that the apostles prove that they and they alone had great authority over the
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earliest Christian church. Matthew ten one, He oh, in the Gospel.
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So I just said the letters. But the gospels, of course, So
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I'm starting with Matthew. Jesus said, is he summoned the twelve disciples and
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gave them authority of our unclean spirits, with power to drive them out and
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to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of illness. Matthew sixteen fifteen
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through nineteen. But you, he said, who do you say I am?
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Then Simon Peter spoke up and said, you are the Christ, the
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son of the Living God. Jesus replied, Simon, son of Jonah,
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you are a blessed man. Because it was no human agency that revealed this
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to you, but my Father in Heaven. So now I say to you,
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you are Peter, And upon this rock I would build my church and
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the gates of the underworld can never overpower it. I will give you the
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keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth would be bound
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in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth would be loosed in heaven. Yes,
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Jesus built his church upon Saint Peter. In Aramaic, the word was
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Cephus. There is no confusion. The name, I guess I should say
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is Cephus, meaning the rock. There was absolutely no con usuon. He
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literally built his church upon Saint Peter and gave him his power, his authority,
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the power to bind and loose. You know, he really was not
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speaking metaphorically when he said to his apostles, if you have faith, you
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can move a mountain. Yeah, they probably could. They literally had the
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power to bind and loose, to forgive sins or retain them. When Saint
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Peter said to Annius, you know why have you lied to the Holy Spirit,
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the man dropped dead and then his wife dropped dead. I mean they
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had the full power and authority of God. And that is made very clear
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in the words of the Bible, and even clearer as we go on into
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the rights of the early Church. But if you read the Bible, in
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context, you can't really get it too wrong. I don't understand why anyone
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would even take issue with Saint Peter having the authority that Jesus clearly gave it
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to him. Jesus didn't say your faith. Jesus didn't say I'm a big
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rock and you're a little rock. That's what some people try to claim.
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Jesus said Simon barn Of, son of Jonah, sign of bar Jonah on
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Pine, you I build my church. You're the rock, and on this
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rock I build my church. I give you the power to bind and loose
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Matthew eighteen eighteen to twenty. In truth, I tell you, whatever you
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bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth would
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be loose to heaven. In truth, I tell you once again, if
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two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it would be
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granted to you by my Father in Heaven. For where two or three of
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you meet in my name, I am there among them. You know who.
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Jesus said that too. The apostles people these days open the Bible and
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say, hey, wherever two Christians are gathered together, Jesus will do whatever
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they want. No, we don't have the authority to bind and loose that
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Jesus gave to his apostles Matthew nineteen twenty eight. Jesus said to them,
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I tell you in truth. I tell you, when everything is made new
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again, and the son of Manesseine on the throne of glory, you yourselves
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was sent on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. That's not
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only evidence of the authority of the apostles, but of the role of saints
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in heaven Mark three thirteen through twenty nine. Now he went now up on
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the mountain and summoned those he wanted, those specific twelve. So they came
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to him, and he appointed twelve. They were to be his companions,
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to be sent out to proclaim the message, with the power to drive out
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devils. So he appointed the twelve Simon to whom the name he gave Peter
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James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James,
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who he gave the name. So trouble pronounced that Boa Nerd Sons of Thunder.
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We'll put it in the English Sons of Thunder. Andrew Philip Bartholomew,
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Matthew Thomas James, the son of Alphaeus thaddy As Simon the zealot, Judas
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Iscariot, the man who would betray him. How can Satan drive out Satan?
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If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot last. And
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if a household is divided against himself itself, that household cannot last. I
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tell in truth, I tell you all human sins would be forgiven, and
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all blasphemies ever uttered. But anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never
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be forgiven. But it is guilty of an eternal sin. So much to
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unpack there the authority given to the apostles, the fact that division, when
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in church is against God. With God's will, a house divide against itself
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cannot stand. Jesus founded one church his will that there was be one church,
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not ten to fifty thousand denominations, depending on what you believe, depending
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on how you count them. I guess I should say he prayed for unity.
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He prayed they all be of one mind. The apostles say to schisms
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within the church are crucifying Christ. Again, he said we should all be
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one body. He wants there to only be one church, one church,
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and it's up to you to figure out which that church is. Which church
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to me pretty clear, it's the one he founded, no one to which
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he gave his authority. But everyone has to figure that out through themselves,
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unfortunately, because God gives us free will, for better or for worse.
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And he also says, why one whose blasphems against the Holy Spirit would never
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be forgiven? A lot of Protestants say all sin is equal before God know
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they're actually venal and mortal sins. There are some sins that he says cry
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out to Heaven. There are some sins they said, we better if a
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millstone were tied around his neck and thrown into the ocean than for him to
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lead one of these little ones astray. I mean in this one, he
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said, a sin against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. You know
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that totally undermines the doctrine. I was taught at a Baptist university that said,
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God isn't legalistic. All sin is equal for God. Shoplifting is the
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same as murder. No, it's actually not okay, Well, shoplifting is
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actually a stealing, which is a mortal sin. But if it was a
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kid that picked up a pack of gum, you know, for twenty five
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cents or fifty cents or a dollar. That's a whole lot different someone robbing
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a bank. For the kid, that's a venial sin, and he needs
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to ask forgiveness and be counseled in the right way. For the grown adult
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who willfully goes in and holds up a liquor store or something, that's a
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mortal sin. That's, you know, about as plain as I can put
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it. Fooling around, Let's put it this way. At that same Baptist
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university, or very strict about boyfriends and girlfriends, you know, sex before
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marriage, fooling around whatever, and then they would turn a blind eye to
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divorce and adultery and homosexuality. Actually they would say all sin is equal,
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but they would actually kick out the heterosexuals for fooling around. Okay, that
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is so turned backwards and upside down. You know, teenagers, early twenty
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boyfriend and girlfriend driven by hormones, they're going to fall into temptation. Most
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are, most certainly are. It's very rare that doesn't happen, and that
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is a venal sin. Okay, they are tempted, and because of the
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way hormones are when you're younger, very hard to resist. Right, When
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someone has committed to a spouse and they cheat on them, that's the sin
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of adultery. That's a mortal sin. Again, homosexual sex can be venal
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if that person is in that same situation so tempted and they just can't control
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themselves and they know it's wrong. They admit it's wrong. They had one
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too many drinks and they just fell into it. They admit it's wrong,
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though, and they ask for forgiveness. That's venal if they say, no,
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I'm right. God is wrong, God's Church is wrong. That's actually
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a moral sin against the first commandment of you will have no other Gods before
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me. That's why it's actually far more sinful for heterosexuals to approve of gay
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marriage in opposition to what the Church teaches and what the Bible says, than
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it is for homosexuals engage in promiscuous sex to a point. To a point,
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like I said, it all depends on intent, and it all depends
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on the weakness of the person or the relative strength of the person. But
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I think you can understand to deny the teachings the truth of the God is
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a greater sin than falling into human temptation and weakness, and a lot of
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times, a lot of times these are young vulnerable people being taken advantage of
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by an older person who's exercising a great deal of influence over them. That's
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actually how a lot of homosexual relationships start out. They kind of groom and
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indoctrinate a younger vulnerable person. And in that case, the younger person has
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very little culpability. The older person has a great deal of culpability. And
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as Jesus said, anyone who leads one of those little ones astray, it
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would be better for him had he not been born. It would be better
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for him if he'd have a millstone thrown around his neck and was plunged into
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the ocean. That's a mortal sin. Mortal sins kill the soul, They
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kill the grace and the soul. Benial sins are lighter sins. They are
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forgiven through someone regretting what they did, and just yeah, it's best if
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you go to a priest. But even you know, people who don't have
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access to a priest. Their contrition God sees and for gifts, let's see
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Mark sixteen seventeen. But you must go and tell his disciples and Peter,
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he is going ahead of you to Galilee, and that's where you see him,
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just as he was told as he told you, Sorry, Peter again
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being shown as the head of the Disciples. The disciples and Peter, he
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had a totally different role. He was the Pope. They were bishops and
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cardinals, you know. Luke nine twelve. He gathered the twelve together and
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gave them the power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. He
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sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal Luke ten one
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and sixteen through seventeen. After this, Lord appointed seventy two others and sent
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them out ahead of him in pairs to all the towns and places he himself
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would be visiting. Fathers Farago explained this yesterday in our show The Apostles.
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He sent out independently. He also had disciples that he sent before him.
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When he went into a town. There were different offices these, you know,
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He gave them different roles. Not everyone has the same office in the
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Kingdom of God. Some are officers, some are servants, you know,
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is it Saint Paul gets very much into this. Some have these gifts and
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some have these gifts, and some have these roles, not everyone. I
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know it's hard, especially in America, for us to admit that not everyone
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is equal. But not everyone is equal. Some are just given certain gifts
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and offices and responsibilities that others don't have. Anyone. Oh, and this
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was also from this Luke sixteen through seventeen. Anyone who listens to you listens
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to me. Anyone who rejects you rejects me. And those who reject me
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reject the one who sent me. That is ultimate authority. That's saying.
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Jesus gave two his apostles. In this case, he was including those seventy
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two disciples, because they came back rejoicing Lord. They said, even the
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devils submit to us when we use your name. He gave to his early
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church his authority, his authority which he said derived from the Father, and
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he gave the Holy Spirit to keep them from error. Luke twenty one thirty
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three. Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass
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away. Now, Martin Luther, for instance, said, well, maybe
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Saint Peter in the early Church did have this authority, but they went astray.
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Well, Jesus said that the forces of hell would never prevail against his
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church. He said that he would prevent them from error. He would keep
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them as so long as they followed his commandments, they would not They would
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speak with his voice, and they would be free from error. His words
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will never pass away. The Catholic Church is a shining city, punty hill,
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visible for all ages. It was there from the very moment Jesus said
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to Peter, you're the rocket. It will be there till he comes again,
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and it still has the same authority. Luke twenty two, twenty eight
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through thirty two, you are the man who stood by me faithfully in my
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trials. I now confer a kingdom on you, just as my father conferred
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one on me. There you go his kingdom. And they were officers in
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the kingdom. He conferred upon them that power, that authority, that responsibility.
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You will eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you
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will sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. Simon, Simon
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look Satan has got his wish to sift you all like wheat. But I
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have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith might not fail. And
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once you have recovered, you must in turn strengthen your brothers. That's Simon,
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son of Jonah, Simon Barjonah. That's Peter. Okay, once again,
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Saint Peter was put in charge of all the apostles. Look twenty four
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forty nine, and now I'm sending you what the Father has promised. Stay
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in the city then until you're clothed with power from on high. That would
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be Pentecost. That's when the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles and they were
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given powers beyond the imagination of humans, all knowledge of all things, the
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ability to speak in all languages, the ability to heal, just powers beyond
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belief, the actual power of God to bind and loose, to change physical
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bread and wine into the spiritual body and blood of Jesus. The ability to
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forgive sense pretty amazing, pretty amazing. And that's what God gave to his
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apostles. That's what is the the foundation of the church. This was secures
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the Church in all truth, the fullness of truth, and no other church
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or force on earth can claim it. John one forty two. One of
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those who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew,
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the brother of Simon Peter, the first thing Andrew Jews did was to find
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his brother and say we have found the Messiah, which means to Christ.
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And he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, Simon's
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son of John, you are to be called Cephus, which means Rock John
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ten one through two. In all truth, I tell you, anyone who
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does not enter the sheep fold through the gate, but climbs in some other
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way as a thief and a bandit, he enters through the great gait as
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a shepherd of the flock. That should be a very strong warning to anyone
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who preaches a different gospel than that of the Apostles, a different doctrine beyond
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the gospel, a different doctrine. Any again, Martin Luther, King Henry,
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with the Anglican Church, all these fifty thousand denominations, they didn't enter
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through the sheepfold. They don't have the Apostolic succession in a sense. While
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people in all denominations may have a great faith and belief in God, and
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God will deal with him individually. He who enters through the gate is a
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shepherd of the flock. He who enters in another way as a thief and
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a bandit. Think about all the millions of people who have been taken from
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the Catholic Church through the apostasy and heresy of Martin Luther John fifteen four through
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six. Remain in me as I and you remain in Him as I and
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you. Again, we're talking unity. We're talking cohesive, one mind and
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one faith and one church. As a bread cannot bear fruit all by itself
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unless it remains a part of the vine. Neither can you unless you remain
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in me. I am the vine, and you are the branches. Whoever
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remains in me, whoever remains in me within him, with me in him,
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There we go bear's fruit in plenty. For cut off from me,
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you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away
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like a branch and withers. These branches are collected and thrown into the fire
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and are burnt. If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
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you may ask whatever you please, and you will get. It is
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the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit and be my disciples.
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I have loved you just as the fathers love me. Remain in my
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love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
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just as I have kept my father's commandments and remain his love. You did
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not choose me, No, I chose you. And I commission you to
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go out and bear fruit, so that fruit will last. So the Father
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will give you anything you ask him in my name. How many times if
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you that in a Protestant church, as if Jesus was talking to you,
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Jesus wasn't talking to you. Jesus was talking to his twelve apostles. And
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unless a church remains in the authority of those twelve apostles, it has by
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definition broken itself off through a schism. It is a broken branch from the
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vine established by Jesus John sixteen twelve through twenty five. I still have many
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things to say to you, but it would be too much for you to
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bear now. However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead
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you to complete truth, since he will not be speaking of his own accord,
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but will say only what he has been told, and he will reveal
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to you the things to come. I have been telling you these things in
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veiled language. The hour is coming when I should no longer speak to you
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in a veiled language, but tell you about the Father in plain words.
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Now this isn't reported because today is the feast of the assumptions. When Jesus
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went up to heaven after the resurrection, he spent forty days with the apostles,
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teaching them as he just said he would. Plainly, more than likely,
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he told him about everything under heaven and earth, and how they were
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to govern the church, how the entire church was to be organized, what
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the sacraments were all about, how they were to be performed. And none
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of that's written down in the Bible. There's a big gap of silence.
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That is one of the reasons why the authority of the Catholic Church is not
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merely the Bible. The full teachings of Christ are not in the Bible.
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In fact, the Bible says that if everything Jesus said and did were written
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down, they'd feel all more books are in the entire earth, right,
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it said, what is written down in these gospels is just so that you
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might believe. Well, you have to believe in Jesus and his church.
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And then we have the oral tradition of the Church, which is also written
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down, but over the centuries after the close of the Bible, which is
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absolutely as authoritative and binding as what's written in the Bible. Think about it.
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For forty days Jesus was telling them answering every question, every question about
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life, death, the afterlife, heaven, earth, hell, everything.
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And it's not in the Bible where you're going to go to find it.
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You're gonna have to go to the writings of the early Church fathers, and
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in part you're going to find him there. But you're going to find the
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full authority and teaching authority of the Catholic Church throughout the history of the Church.
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You'll find it in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is just
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as authoritative and binding as the words of the Bible, and often a lot
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easier to understand to really, I mean seriously, just think about how many
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people come up with different interpretations of the Book of Daniel, Revelations, etc.
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It's not that mysterious once you have someone to explain it to you.
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And yes, the Bible does actually say how can I understand if I have
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no one to explain it to me? That's what the eunuch said. That
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is important. You have to have a guide. You cannot rely on your
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own personal interpretation of the Bible. If there's only one truth, right,
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there's only one truth. And if fifty thousand denominations teach entirely different things,
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only one can be right. But all of them claim to be guided by
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the Holy Spirit. Only one of them actually has the guarantee to be prevented
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from error by the Holy Spirit. And that's the Church funded by Jesus Christ.
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And speaking of unity, John seventeen seventeen through twenty three and twenty six.
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Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you've sent
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me into the world, I have sent them into the world, and for
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their sake I create myself, so that they too may be concentrated and consecrated
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in truth. I pray not only for these, but for those through their
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teachings, will come to believe in Me again evidence of Apostolic succession. May
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they all be one, just as Father, you are in me and I
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am in you, so that they may also be in us, so that
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the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them
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the glory you gave me, that they may be one as we are one.
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We are in them and you are in me. May they be so
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perfected in unity that the world will recognize that it was you who sent me,
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and that you have loved them as you have loved me. I have
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made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known,
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so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and
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so that I may be in them. One church, one body, one
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accord, guaranteed by Jesus, because God cannot lie. Well. I just
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mentioned how the Bible says that not everything Jesus said and did was written down
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John twenty thirty one. There were many other signs that Jesus worked in the
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sight of the disciples, but they were not recorded in this book. These
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are recorded so that you may believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
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and that believing this, you may have life through his name. The
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Bible does not contain the fullness of the truth. Only the Catholic Church does.
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The Bible is a big part of it. It's like half of it,
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but it's only half of it. If you want to know the truth
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meaning of many doctrines and theological concepts, you're not going to find it outside
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of the Catholic Church. John one fifteen through twenty five. When they had
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eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do
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you love me more than these others? Do? He answered yes, Lord,
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you know I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my lambs.
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A second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John,
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do you love me? He replied yes, Lord, you know I
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love you. Jesus said to him, look after my sheep. Then he
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said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, do you
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love me. Peter was hurt that he asked him a third time do you
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love me? And he said, Lord, you know everything you know?
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I love you. Jesus said, feed my sheep, and all truth I
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tell you. When you were young, you put on your own belt and
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walked where you like. But when you are old, you will stretch out
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your hands and someone else will put her belt around you and take you where
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you would rather not go. In these words, he indicated the kind of
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death which Peter would give glory to God. Peter, it was a martyr.
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After this, he said, follow me. Peter turned and saw the
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disciples disciple whom Jesus loved, following them. The one who had leaned back
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leant back, leaned back on his chest to the supper and said to him,
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Lord, who is it that will betray you? Seeing him, Peter
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said to Jesus, what about him? Lord? Jesus answered, if you
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want him to stay behind till I come, what does it matter to you?
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You were to follow me. The rumor then went out among the brothers
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that the disciple would not die. Yet Jesus had not said he will not
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die, but rather, if you want, if I want him to say
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behind until all I come. This disciple was the one who vouches for these
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things, that has written them down, and we know that his testimony is
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true. There's much else that Jesus did. If it were written down in
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detail. I do not suppose the world itself would hold all the books that
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would be written. Again, Jesus did give different authorities to different people,
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and to Peter he gave the primary role. Let me see what time it
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is here. Oh, well, we're actually at thirty minutes and we've only
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gotten through the gospels. So I guess I'm going to have to say the
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acts for tomorrow because there's actually I'm not even sure if I'm halfway through biblical
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passages that talk about the authority Jesus gave to the apostles and his church,
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I should say, I guess through them to his church, and there's a
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lot to unpack. There's a lot to unpack. We're gonna spend some time
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on this, and I hope you find as interesting as I do. You
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know, I grew up with the Bible. I grew up reading the Bible.
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I grew up reading the Bible cover to cover every year. I mean
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I did that for like twenty years, you know, And never in a
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Protestant church was I was my attention drawn to such passages of these In fact,
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a lot of them were skipped over. I'll never forget the day I
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found in the Bible where Jesus said, those who sends you forgive or forgiven,
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and those who sends you retain or retain. I had never heard anyone
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preach on that passage in any Protestant church I had ever been on end of
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my entire life. And that's kind of when I realized they were probably leaving
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it out on purpose, kind of hiding such things. As I've said many
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times, the Bibles what led me to the Catholic Church. And I think
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it's very important that Catholics be not only more biblically literate. Some Catholics are
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very biblically literate, but to know how to speak about the versus, the
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passages of the Bible, the meaning of these words in a way that both
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Catholics and Protestants can understand, so that we can bring the Body of Christ
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back into unity, getting rid of all schism which was preached against so vehemently
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in the Bible, that we can all be one, and house against itself
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cannot stand right. Once we are all one, the devil has no foothold.
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I mean that will be battle, will be heaven on earth when we're
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all one, when we're all of one mind, one accord, when all
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the Christian churches have come back together. The cameras Fatima Fatimah Medic Gorgy,
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I think it was Fatimah. The Blessed Ja Mary said that even the Muslims
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would convert to Christianity, the Jews would convert to Christianity, and that is
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when the Kingdom of God will come. That is when the end of the
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world will come. Until we can all be one, We're going to continue
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struggling and suffering through the division which is owned by Satan in the evils and
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the horrors that are going on in this world, the wars, the sicknesses,
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the death. It's really up to us to make that happen. That
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is the church militant. That is what Jesus called us to do. I
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mean, it says, you know, preach the Gospel to all lands,
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to all people's. Well, it's actually bringing everyone into that unity that Jesus
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prayed today in the gospels. And yeah, it's each of our individual responsibility.
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It literally begins with us. And it doesn't mean turning a blind eye
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to differences and divisions to sin. Certainly, there's a whole lot of Christians
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so called out there that are promoting gay marriage these days and trying to normalize
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homosexuality. No, you absolutely have to say that's not right, that is
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sin, and we have to reject it. But we have to bring those
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people as well into a loving family that is united. And it's only going
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to happen. It's only going to happen if we put the effort into it
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and do those uncomfortable things. And it doesn't start with going and telling someone
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else where they're wrong. It starts with learning all you can and doing your
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best to be better. The holier you become the greater, your influence is
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going to be on those around you. I mean, you think of the
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examples of the martyrs, how many people Jews and Romans and Greeks were converted
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seeing the Christians just walk up and say, yes, I'm willing to die
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for God. I will not bow my need to a pagan God. I
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will not keep Jewish law and tradition anymore. You know, that's why the
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Jews were killing the Christians, because Christianity and Judaism is actually a different religion.
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That's the whole reason Saint Paul, you know, would killed the Cloaks
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while they stoned Sat Stephen to death. That Christian religion was a new religion.
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And in the first couple hundred years they converted almost half the Jews to
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become Christian, and within what three hundred years later, they would convert all
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of Rome and from there, through the spread of the Holy Roman Empire over
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the next few centuries, all of Europe, and then into Asia and Africa,
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and eventually come into the Americas. And yeah, eventually, according to
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the Blessed Mother and according to the words of the Bible and the words of
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Jesus Christ himself, we will all be one, and at that time there'll
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be an end to death and strife and division and war and hatred and everything.
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The devil will be defeated. And that's really what we're all called to
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work toward, you know. I mean, he said, if you have
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a problem with with your brother or your neighbor, someone in your family or
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not your family, don't even approach the altar until you've settled it. It's
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unity, schism, division, confusion is always from the devil. Unity,
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order and peace is always from God. Love your neighbor as yourself, and
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love God with all your heart. I got that backwards, but you know,
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love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. You
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have I mean, that's the mission of a Christian. So y'all will get
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more into the acts of the Apostles and the letters Saint of Saint Paul and
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you know, Saint Peter and all those books tomorrow, and I do.
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I'm not sure. Maybe I can wrap it up tomorrow. It may go
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two more days. I don't know, but this is so important. I
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do think we need to spend some time on this. So last note is
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I did the Gospel reflection from missy O Day today. It's for you sention
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Thursday, and you'll find I think you'll find it very interesting. Please go
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to missy O Day's subtack page and check that out. And I hope you
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enjoy it. I hope it gives you a little insight and uh, you
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know a little bit of hope. And let'sen with the words of Saint Padre
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Pio, pray hope and don't worry. I'll talk to you tomorrow.