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Show 225: The Effects of Holy Communion · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A b Hey, a'll welcome this week's show. We're going
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to continue today talking about the Eucharist, and we'll get
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into the effects of Holy communion. As Father Sipiago called it,
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very very interesting. Again, this is basically the main thing
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that differentiates Catholics from Protestants, all right, I mean, Jesus
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said over and over unless you eat of my body
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and drink of my blood, you have no life in you.
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You must eat. You know, the Greek is actually gnall
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my flesh. I mean. Protestants don't believe in the real
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presence of the Eucharist, even though Martin Luther did. Even
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though the Anglican Church has for the most part taught
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the real presence not always, and certainly cannot say that
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anymore about the majority of their vicars or whatever they
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want to call themselves. The Catholic Church is the only church,
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and the Orthodox because of our relationship to the Orthodox Church.
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They were also their churches were established by the apostles
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and their ministers whatever you want to call them. Their
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priests I guess, are in the Apostolic succession, so they
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do have valid sacraments to some extent. Not all Orthodox
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churches maintained Apostolic succession during the occupation by the Muslims.
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What was that. I don't even know three four thousand
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years ago, I mean, when they were on the Muslim
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caliph or under the Soviets. But some do, and so
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we pretty much say that, you know, Orthodox sacraments are valid,
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but it's not my place to judge, not my place
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to call. I leave that up to the Pope and
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the bishops and the cardinals, you know, I'll leave that
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up with the Vatican. But no Protestant Church as the
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power given by Christ to his apostles to turn bread
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and wine into his body and blood. Therefore, now this
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is really where it gets pretty tricky here. It's where
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it gets a little touchy. Jesus said, if you love me,
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you will keep my commandments. He said, you must eat
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my body and drink my blood, you know. Is that
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why it? Also? He also said in the Bible, I
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don't have the verse right in front of me. Many
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will say, Lord Lord, do we not prophesy in your name?
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Do we not cast out demons? Et cetera? And he
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will say, I do not know. You be gone from me, evildoers.
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I don't know. Protestant cheech that faith is salvations through
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faith alone. Faith is all that is necessary. Jesus never
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said that at all. Martin Luther admitted boasted of changing
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the words of God to say that to fit his
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false doctrine. Jesus said faith and works. Well, the works
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you can do or guess charity, of course, but even
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more importantly, the sacraments. Works would also include prayer and
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reading the Bible. But remember there wasn't a Bible for
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about the first four hundred years of the church. There
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was the sacraments from day one. His first dictate to
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his apostles and disciples was go out and baptize people,
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kill the sick, and cast out demons, and tell them
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that the Kingdom of God has come. In other words,
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announced that the Messiah is there. And really they weren't
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even really allowed to do that. For the most part.
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He instructed him to go baptize people, and then there's
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the annoying of the sick, another Catholic sacrament. Of course,
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confirmation would not come until after Pentecost. But yeah, faith
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alone is not enough. The demons believed in Jesus. The
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demons had full faith in that Jesus was God and
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knew his power completely the demons he was casting out,
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they were not saved. Jesus said, if you love me,
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you will keep my commandments. Jesus commandment, do this in
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remembrance of Me. So what do we say? It gets
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real tricky. I mean, God will judge people on what
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they know and understand. And we've got five hundred years
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of prize in history here where they taught falsehoods, heresy.
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Churches that maybe once were in schism are now completely apostate,
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not even practicing baptism in many of them. You know,
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the Bible is a book compiled by the Catholic Church,
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certainly when it comes to the Old Testament, but essentially
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written the New Testament is written by Catholics for catholic
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The promises of Jesus in the Bible are for Catholics,
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the people who are a part of the Kingdom of God,
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the church he founded, the people who eat His flesh
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and drink his blood, people who are baptized in the
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body of Christ. And some Protestants are. But there's not
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a single church that I know of that abides by
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the commandment of Jesus that marriage is permanent and divorce
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is wrong. So you know, when we go back to
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the old quote by I can't remember which saying it was,
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you know, fifteen hundred years ago or whatever. Outside of
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the Catholic Church, there's no salvation. We know God would
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judge people by what they know and understand and believe.
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But even Protestant Bibles, which are false Bibles, which are
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counterfeit bibles where the words of Jesus have been changed,
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entire books cut out to fit false, heretical, really satanic
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doctrine in many cases. And I mean, I you know
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you can challenge me on that, but let's talk about
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divorce for a while. You know, Satan attacks the family
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above all, because that's the foundation of humanity, and the
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heart of the Church is the family. Yeah, I'm telling
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you the promises of the Bible are for Catholics. They're
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not for anybody who picks up the Bible and just
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starts reading it and or who watched the Billy Graham
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crusade and praise the prayer. You know, I believe in
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Jesus Christ, my Savior, invites you to come into my
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heart to hold the bit Those words aren't in the
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Bible at all. What is in the Bible is don't
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get divorce, follow my commandments, eat my flesh and drink
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my blood. Be baptized in the name of the Father
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and the Son in the Holy Spirit. If a man
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will not obey the church, let him beat to you
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as a heathen. Which church? When now we got fifty
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thousand pro denominations, all of which disagree with each other,
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and each one disagrees with the Catholic Church. Which church
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you're supposed to listen to? Well, you know it might
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be the one that Jesus founded. When he said, thou
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art Peter, meaning the Rock, he changed Simon's name to
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Peter or Cephus in the Aramaic, he spoke, and upon
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this rock I will build my church, And the gates
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of Hell will not prevail against. What you bind on
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earth will be bound in heaven. Which you loose on
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earth would be loose in heaven. I give you the
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keys of the Kingdom. How more explicit can you be?
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Jesus at no point says anybody who picks up this Bible,
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go out and start your own church and call yourself apostle.
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John Smith never once, Jesus never says every word in
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this book is meant to for whomever reads it. No,
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he's actually talking to twelve specific apostles. She talking to
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like seventy some disciples. When the Angel Gabriel appears to
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the blessed Virgin Mary, that's the Angel talking to one
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person for instance. Okay, ask a Protestant. Okay, So when
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the Angel said to Sarah that she would bear a
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child and essentially to Elizabeth as well after menopause, and
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they thought it was ridiculous, and then they had their children,
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do you think that's a promise specifically to that person
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or to you? When you pick up the Bible and
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read it, does it say that God's going to give
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you a child ten twenty years after menopause? And they'd say, no,
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that's ridiculous. Okay, Well, why do you presume that to
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the promises that were given to the apostles are promised
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to you when you're not even a member of the
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church that Jesus founded, much less that, consider that out
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of the entire population of the world, Jesus childe twelve people,
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twelve one of which he knew would betray him and
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his office would then be filled by another, but twelve
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people who had the power to ordain priests who had
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the power to He instructed them. He commanded them to
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listen to people's confessions and forgive their sins. Those who
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sins you forgive, they're forgiven. Those who sins you retain
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or retained, I mean that's very important. Retained twelve men
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given the power of God to forgive sins or not
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if they thought it'd fit yess. In Gospel John, not
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only did those twelve apostles have far more power and
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authority than the Disciples, the seventy some Disciples, but especial
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among all peoples on earth, millions of people. God spoke
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to twelve individual people. And now people pick up a
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Bible and say, I claim this verse and through the
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power of God, I do whatever. No, it really doesn't
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work that way. That's the sin of presumption, that's the
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sin against the Holy Spirit. And the Bible says the
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sins against the Holy Spirit are unforgivable. Why are they unforgivable? Well,
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that's because the person has to understand and admit that
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they're wrong before they can seek forgiveness. So when you've
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got you know, Martin Luther or Calvin or I mean,
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you would go on down the list of John Knox,
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or you know your neighbor Bob that went down the
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street and he had some religious experience in prison, and
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now he's going to form his own church for bikers
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in a storefront or whatever. Right, And he says he
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the Holy Spirit told him to start a ministry, and yeah,
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it probably didn't. The Holy Spirit probably did not tell
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him to start a ministry. His own ego did. And
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he goes out and teaches his flawed understanding of the
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Bible at not being Catholic, he cannot understand. If we
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go through, for instance, the Old Testament, we see that,
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you know, God speaks to Abraham. Abraham becomes a very
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unique and special person on earth. Okay, now there was
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a priest's name Malkisa dec We don't have his history,
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but we know that Abraham became uniquely chosen by God.
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And then after that, Abraham's blessing confirmed that conferred that
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authority and power to subsequent generations. We can see the
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same thing in Moses uniquely chosen and then Moses confers
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his blessing to Oh whatever his name was, the one
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that built the Golden calf. And then anyway, then the
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power is transferred to the tribe of the Levites. It's
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gonna bug me because I'm forgetting that name Aaron. We
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go Moses an Aaron. So then that power of God
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is transferred to the Levites, not to any other tribe
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in Israel. In fact, when others came forward and tried
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to claim that God struck him dead, the earth swallowed
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of them and their whole families up. Bad stuff. Right,
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You don't claim to be a priest unless you're a priest.
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And you know, I don't even know what a minister
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or a pastor is. I mean, I mean, that's not
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even you know, there's no way they have any claim
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to be able to turn bread and wine too the
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body and blood of Christ. Yes, I know, it's a language.
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And a priest can be a pastor, a priest can
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be a minister. But anyway, after Luther and the denial
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of the priesthood, they kept call they stopped calling themselves
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priests for the most part, they picked other words, which
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basically showed their diminished capacity. But anyway, I mean, Luther
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accused Jesus of adultery. I mean, you know what, did
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he know nothing? He was an Antichrist. He was actually
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a very, very evil man, and Calvin was maybe even worse.
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But anyway, we'll get into that another day. I mean,
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these are not just heretics, these are apostates. These are
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antichrists who literally encourage murder and adultery and divorce and
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theft and lying. I mean everything you would think the
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devil would do. Martin Luther did it. But anyway, so
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the earth swallowed up those who claim to be priests
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in the order of you know, Moses and Abraham. Really
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they were going back to Abraham and saying, you know,
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we have the promises of our ancestor Abraham, and God said, no,
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you don't be struck. Them dead and their whole families
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and their servants and their animals and everything pretty bad. Right,
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But we begin to see in the Old Testament that
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when a priest is made a priest, a very special
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person anoints him, usually with oil. In the case of
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Elijah and Alicia was prop It's not necessarily priests, but
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they had great power, and it was taking his cloak
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and putting it on the other there's a ceremony, there's
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a physical action that takes place. Right by the time
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we get up to the apostles, Jesus picked special men,
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just like he's picked Abraham, just like he picked Moses.
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The Holy Spirit comes upon them, says he breathed the
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Holy Spirit on them. Okay, in Pentecosta, came upon them
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in visible fire. Then in acts, I mean, I guess what,
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same chapter, just like twenty verses later, they find they're
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going out and they're evangelizing and people are getting baptized,
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and there's a I can't remember the name of the town,
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but anyway, a lot of people get baptized and become
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a Christian. So what do they do. They send to
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the apostles. They send to Saint Peter and a couple
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others to come down lay their hands on them so
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that they can receive the Holy Spirit. That's confirmation that
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in it says in the Bible many places they're anointed.
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What does anointed mean? Literally, in the ancient languages of
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the Bible Hebrew, Greek, aramaict, it means applying oil. We
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know as Catholics that's the sacrament of confirmation, when the
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Chrism oil is placed on our head. You know, God
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can pick out one special person and through fire, through
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you know whatever, through breathing on them, Okay, then they
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those apostles have the power to transfer to give the
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Holy Spirit to a Christian through anointing with oil or
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the laying or the imposition of ants, depending on what
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translation you want to read. It happened several times in
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the New Testament. You know. Recently someone said some Protestants
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said to me, I'm anointed by the Holy Spirit. I said,
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who anointed you? I'm anointed by the black out of Christ.
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I said, no, no, that's not how it works. First
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of all, you're talking about the sacrament of confirmation. And
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see the Bible being a book written by Catholics for Catholics.
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Every Catholic would understand that the imposition of hands, especially
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the application of oil, is the sacrament of confirmation. You're
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not anointed by anybody. You have no authority in this.
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You don't have the Holy Spirit in full. If you're baptized,
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you have a measure of the Holy Spirit. And I
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hope she is. She never answered, but I said, unless
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you're confirmed by a Catholic priest in the Catholic Church,
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you do not have the fullness of the Holy Spirit anymore.
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Did those Christians in the Bible in acts where it says,
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the apostles had to come away, their hands on them,
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and then they received the Holy Spirit. You don't know
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what you're talking about, lady, and she considers herself a minister.
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It didn't go well, But remember the Bible is written
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by Catholics. For Catholic Protestants have no claim on the
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unique promises of the Bible. And I don't mean they
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can't believe in God, they can't find salvation. The more
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in whine their beliefs are with the teachings of the
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Catholic Church, the better chance they got. But they don't
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have the sacraments, the sacraments that were commanded by Jesus Christ,
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and he said, if you love me, you will keep
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my sacrament. You will keep my commandments. If you love me,
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you will keep my commandments. And I always say to them,
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if you love Jesus, why not just do what he said?
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Why not say that marriage is a permanent union and
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can't be dissolved through a secular divorce. And they get
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insanely angry because most of them have been divorced two
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or three times, insanely angry. I'm telling them they can't
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be a Christian if they've been divorced and said, what
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did Jesus say? What did Jesus say? I mean, he says,
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when they asked him what they must do to be saved,
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he said, love God with all your heart. Lived, you
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neighbor yourself, and keep the commandments. You have heard the commandments.
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One of those is thou should not commit adultery. In
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the next four gospels all Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
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he says, absolutely no divorce. You say, Jesus doesn't allow divorce,
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you're probably you're actually in a state of mortal sin
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if you've been divorced. I mean, you can go to
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a Catholic church and be annulled through the power to
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bind and loose, but only on certain grounds if the
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priests finds your marriage was not valid. But the priest
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may well say to you, you know, you can't get
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married again because you're still bound by the sacrament of marriage.
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Insanely angry. So what Seventy eighty percent of Protestants have
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been divorced by the time they hit the age of forty,
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including most of their ministers. So I mean, that's just
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like their Protestant Bibles. They can open up any of
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the first four Gospels and read Nope, divorce not allowed.
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Divorce not allowed. And you just say, why does your
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church allow divorce? Well, Jesus said, Moses allowed to the
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hardest your hearts. And you said yeah. But then he says,
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and I tell you that's not allowed if you if
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you okay, basically, if you get divorced and marry again,
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you're committing adultery. And if your wife marries again, she's
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committing adultery. If you date a divorced person, you're both
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committing adultery, even if you've never been married. I mean,
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you can go through each word, I mean, of all
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four Testaments. It's like, okay, so now you just admitted
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your church is apostate. You deny the teachings of Christ.
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Tell me again, why how it is you're a minister.
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Were you ordained by a Catholic priest? Were you anointed
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with the oil in the ordination process? No, they're Protestant.
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And you say, well, I'm sorry. You're not a minister
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of God. You're essentially a minister of your own ego.
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You have no authority. You can't turn bread and wine
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into the body and blood of Christ. The only sacrament
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sacraments you can do are are baptism and marriage because
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they predate the Church. You have no authority to say
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what the Bible says. And really you're probably doing the
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work of the devil, not the work of God, no
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matter how well intention you may be. And I mean
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it's really difficult, it's super super difficult, but I mean
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it's the truth. Protestants have no claim on the promises
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of the Bible except in that God loves everybody and
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wants them to be saved. And you know, it's really
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bad and it offends American senses of democracy. We want
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to say everybody's equal. No, God chose twelve specific people.
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They were not equal among any by on earth. When
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you know, going back through the Bible, we picked prophets
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or kings, they were not equal. He picked specific individuals
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and gave him specific authorities, powers, and duties. Like it
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or not. Women cannot be priests because God wills it,
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like it or not. Protestants cannot enact all but two
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of the sacraments, like it or not. The Bible is
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a Catholic book written for Catholics, and Protestants have no
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claim on the promises of the Bible, and very often
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the words of Christ were directed towards specific people. I mean,
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if I wrote down right now, like you know, Bob,
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I'm going to give you one hundred dollars on Monday.
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And you know I gave Bob one hundred dollars on Monday.
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That piece of paper got stuck in a book somewhere
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I passed away. Someone found it one hundred years later
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and pulled it out. Would they claim that I was
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going to give them one hundred dollars on Monday? One,
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your name's not Bob, Well, two, I'm dead. But obviously,
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when Jesus says to Simon, now your name's Peter or
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Cephus in Aramaic, he's speaking to one person. Obviously, the
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angel Gabriel speaking of one person, he speaks of the
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blessed Virgin Mary. Obviously, when the Holy Spirit came upon
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the apostles, he came upon twelve people. Let me ask
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you this. Protestants say that the Holy Spirit, you know,
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was equally on all Christians who believe in God. The
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Bible never says that, first of all, but the in
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the Acts in that same verse it says they were
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then able to speak and understand all languages. Have you
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ever met a Protestant that could speak every language on
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the face of the earth and understand every language on
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the face of the earth. No, I don't know of
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any Catholics that can do that. Now, that was a
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specific power given to the twelve Apostles, well eleven at
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that point, and then Matthias specific Have you ever met
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a Protestant that could raise the dead? In the entire
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history of Protestantism, has a Protestant minister ever raised a
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dead person, a truly dead person, Not that I'm aware of.
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I mean, I'm serious, and I mean I was a Protestant,
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you know, until I was about twenty five, and I
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studied and studied and tried to learn. Not only could
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the Apostles and disciples raise the dead. In the first
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generation of the Church, just about every Christian could raise
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the dead. The Catholics, every Catholic could raise the dead,
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and through the two thousand years, just about I mean,
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not all, but you know, there are many, many, many
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instances in the two thousand year history of the Catholic Church.
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There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of saints who
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have healed the sick, raised the dead, cast up demons
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exactly what Jesus said. Find me one Protestant who's ever
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been documented to have raised a person from the dead
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who had been dead for you know, a good while,
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so there was no they weren't just in a coma.
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They were sure to be dead. Find me one. It's
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not democratic, but it's the truth. Anyway, Let's get onto radio, replies.
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The person says, the evidence of Saint Paul is merely hearsay,
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and the pres answer. Even had Saint Paul seen the
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risen Christ personally, his evidence would be unreliable. If we
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demanded that no historians should set down anything ins have
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written that which he had actually witnessed for himself, very
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little history would be written. So long as the historians
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know that the source of the information is reliable, he
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is free to record his information. Saint Paul did have
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the testimony a testimony of many and independent eyewitnesses, and
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would quickly have detected conflict in their accounts. But in
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addition to the evidence of other eyewitnesses, Saint Paul's personally
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saw the risen Christ. In Acts nine, he is converted
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by Christ in person first Corinthians ten five through eight.
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I guess he writes No. Fifteen verse eight, he writes,
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and last of all, he was also seen by me,
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or he was seen also by me First Corinthians nine
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to one. Have not I seen Christ, our Lord again?
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First Corinthians eleven twenty three. For I have received of
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the Lord that which I also delivered to you. Saint
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Paul could hope to gain nothing in this world or
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the next. By lying his doctrine led to his martyrdom
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in this life, and as for the next, he himself
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taught that God hates liars. Person continues. Saint Matthew speaks
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of the dead appearing to many at the death of Christ,
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but fails to give the names of even one of them,
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or of those who receive such visitations. They answer, Saint
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Matthew wrote a summary of events concerned with a principal character.
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If he had to describe in detail all connected with
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the accessory incidents, he would never be done. The proof
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that the Gospels as a whole or reliable history covers
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all these minor incidents. If a reliable historian relates that
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a man was killed in a street accident, he is
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describing and with the death of whom he is chiefly concerned.
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No one reasonably says, I shall believe that man to
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have been killed only when you give me the names
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and addresses of every person in the street at that time.
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The absence of names makes no difference to the fact
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that many came forth from their tombs. The Saint Matthew
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records and us why were not such marvelous events as
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Christ's death amidst amidst preternatural darkness and earthquakes, and his
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resurrection recorded by the Roman historians of the day. In
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the answer, Christ lived and died in a remote corner
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of the Roman world and had caused no political disturbance. Again,
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the Romans had supreme contempt for the Jews, and reports
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connected with Jewish religious happenings held very little interest for them.
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Siu Suitanius mentions Christ briefly in his biography of Claudius.
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Tacitus speaks of his execution or conscious pilot flegon the
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freemen of Hadrian records the eclipse of the sun at
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the death of Jesus Celsius the Pagan Celsus Sorry Celsius,
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the Pagan philosopher, boasted of much knowledge concerning of the
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life of Christ, pleading the younger mentions Christ quite clearly
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together with their doctrines, or Christians with their doctrines, I
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should say, but again is interested only in the manner
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in which their existence affected Roman Roman dominion. Josephus, the
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Jewish historian who was born at Jerusalem about thirty seven AD,
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records Christ's death on the cross under conscious pilot, and
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his appearance on the third day after his death to
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his disciples. And finally the person says Christ was buried
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on Friday, and roseland Sunday. Where are the three days
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and nights? This confuses so many Protestants, especially your seven
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day advents, and they answer, we must take intoccount. The
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Jewish method of calculation prevalent at the time, the Jews
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used the expression three days and nights for a period
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of three daylights in darkness, as opposed to a period
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of daylight. Only Friday, Saturday and Sunday were three periods
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of daylight to be taken as including periods of darkness.
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Whether the periods of darkness were complete or not, the
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Jews would speak of the whole section of time as
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three days and three nights. Thus, in the Book of
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Esther five one, the Jews were told to fast for
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three days and nights. Yet after two night knights, according
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to our way of calculating, but in the third period
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of daylight, the fast ended. All right, Now, let's get
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on to the Eucharist. We get a sip of water here.
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Holy communion is a great benefit, both for the soul
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and the body, the Divine King, says Saint Alfonsis. Alfonsis
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is accustomedly. Let me try again. The Divine King, says
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Saint Alphonsis, is a custom to reward royally all those
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who entertain him well. Holy community acts spiritually as bread
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and wine act materially. Bread and wine ie material. Food
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assimilates itself to the body, maintains life, promotes growth, It
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dispels fatigue and weakness, and imparts strength to the body.
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Affords a certain satisfaction by pleasing the palate, and influences
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the mind by the medium of the body. In a
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similar way, the action of the Holy Communion upon the
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soul may be described by holy communion. We are united
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most closely to Christ, our Lord, says he that eateth
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my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and
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I in him. Holy communion is, as it were, a
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continuance of the incarnation. By his incarnation, our Lord unite
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himself to mankind in general. By holy communion, he unites
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himself to each individual member of the human race as
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two peaks of wax when melted or amalgamated with each other.
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So completely does our Lord make himself one with us
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in holy communion. He is in us and we are
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in him. Saint Augustine says that those who receive our
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Lord frequently assume his nature and are as it were
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transformed into him. By communion, Christ changes our nature into
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his own, as leavin changes a quality of flower. There
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is this difference between the spiritual food we receive in
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communion and the ordinary food of the body. The latter
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is less powerful than our nature and is assimilated by it.
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The former is more powerful, powerful in their nature, and
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consequently it converts that nature into its own. Our nature
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is ennobled by a communion, as a wild tree is
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ennobled by grafting with a cultivated tree. Holy communion also
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unites us to one another. All Catholics, by means of it,
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are made into one body, as Saint Paul says, for
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we being many are one bread, one body, all that
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partake of one bread one Corinthians ten seventeen. The Fathers
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speak of communion as the general union of all the
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faithful in Christ and with one another communist unyo. Hence
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it is called the sign of unity, the bond of charity,
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the symbol of concord of the Council Tread. I guess
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they just say by the Council of Tread. Holy communion
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imparts actual graces and also maintains an increases sanctifying grace
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in the soul, and each communion fresh actual graces are
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obtained that enlighten the understanding and strengthen the will. Holy
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communion acts like the rising sun, to spelling darkness and
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bringing light in Park's strength, as did the bread which
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Elias partook. It's a third kings, I don't know, nineteen
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or so, and power to withstand temptation and to the
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practice of virtue. Holy communion gives to the timid the
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courage of lions. Saint John Christostom says that the devils
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tremble when they see the lips redden with the blood
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of Christ. Those who have great trials and sufferings to
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endure ought to communicate, often to acquire strength It was
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because early Christians were so cruelly persecuted that they used
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to fortify themselves so often by receiving Holy communion. Thence
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they gained courage to confront martyrdom. Whenever they knew that
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some danger had to be encountered, they approached the holy
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sacrament of the altar, for they were conscious, conscious that
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otherwise their force would fail them. Those also, who are
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exposed to violent temptation ought to communicate often, for Holy
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communion has more power than had the blood of the
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pastial lamb sprinkling on the doorsteps to deliver peace people
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from the destroyer. Holy communion preserves the life of the soul,
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as bread and wine do that of the body, where
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it maintains within us, sanctifying grace which gives vitality to
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the soul. Hence, our Lord says he that eateth me,
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the same also shall live by me. And again, if
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any man eat of this bread, he shall not die
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John six fifty and fifty eight. That is to say,
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he will not fall into mortal sin and thus destroy
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the life of the soul. Holy communion is also the
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means of keeping us from relapse into mortal sins. The
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antidote against the poison of sin. Those who communicate frequently
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persevering grace, for where God is often present, the enemy
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can find no permanent abode. Holy communion also increases sanctifying
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grace and the soul. And since the degree of felicity
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we shall enjoy hereafter is dependent on the measure of
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sanctifying grace we possess here, it follows that holy communion
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conduces to the augmentation of our eternal happiness. The force
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of evil concubincance is lef and by holy communion, and
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we are freed from venial sin by means of concupiscits
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is the desire, the finding more attractive wrong than right.
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Put it that way, the tendency towards sin. Physicians ordering
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order nourishing food for those who are infirmed, that they
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may gain strength. There is an element of surpassing excellence
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well calculated, an element of an element. Okay, inverted letters.
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There there is an element that actually means a food.
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It's just an old word. You may have heard of
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the elementary tract. It's an old word for the digestive track,
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not a word we use much anymore, but in fothers
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Borago's time. There is an element of surpassing excellence, well
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calculated to remove spiritual infirmities and in part vigor to
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the soul. He who communicates frequently will feel less sharply
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the stimulus of anger, envy, uncleanliness, and other evil propensities.
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Holy communion quenches the flame of concupiscence. It is the
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corn of the elect and the wine springing fourth virgins
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Zachariah nine seventeen. It cleanses us from venial but not
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from mortal sin, like fire, which consumes wooden straw, but
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does not burned stone or iron. It is the food
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and the medicine of the soul. Now, food and medicine
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are beneficial to the sick, but in no wise to
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the dead. Therefore, if after commission, therefore, if after confession
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we commit some venial sin, it is not necessary to
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go to confession again before approaching Holy communion. But of
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course you cannot receive the euchroous in a state of
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mortal sin. That's the difference he's drawing there. Holy communion
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often affords much refreshment to the soul. The man is
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said to have a pleasant taste like honey in Holy communion.
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Saint Thomas Aquina says, we taste sweetness at its true source,
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and the prayer said before the benediction is given. With
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the bust sacrament, it is declared to contain in itself
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all sweetness. That's from wisdom sixteen twenty. The greater the
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worthiness of the communicant, the greater is the sweetness he
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experience in Holy communion. But sometimes God withdraws all consolations,
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even from the saints. True, many saints have written to
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spirit periods of spiritual dryness. That's what you're talking about there.
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So Holy communion sanctifies the body and plants in it
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the germ of future glorious resurrection. The temporal penalties of
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sin are canceled by Holy communion. According to the measure
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of our devotion, If those who did but touch the
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hem of Our Lord's garment were cured of whatever infirmities
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they labored under, how much more shall we be healed
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of our spiritual sickness, who have the privilege of receiving
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Christ into our breasts. Saint Louis Bertrand used to advise
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the sick to receive Holy communion as the means of
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recovering bodily health. Our Lord says, he that eath my
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flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I
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will raise him up at the last day John six
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fifty five. The body of Christ is the seed of immortality,
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for our flesh. Communion represents to us the tree of
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life which stood in the midst of Eden. The graces
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above named are the portion of those who receive Holy
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Communion frequently and prepare themselves carefully for it. The best
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means of learning to receive our Lord will is to
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receive it often, For in everything it is practice that
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makes perfect. And I guess we'll wrap it up there. Yeah,
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for today, got another topic for next week, but we're
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also talking. We're still talking about the Holy Eucharist and
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it's preparation for Holy Communion very important. Actually, a lot
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of confusion these days, especially among cradle Catholics. I'm afraid
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that Catholic education has failed a great many in our time. Yeah,
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we'll pick up there, y'all, have a great week, and
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I'll talk to you next time.