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Show 215: THE VESTMENTS AND SACRED VESSELS USED AT MASS · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, look this week's show. Well, I survived the
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dental surgery last Friday, and it actually turned out to
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be a lot rougher than we thought. You know, I
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told you the the surgery was put off several weeks.
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There seemed to be something coming up every week at
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the clinic. I mean it was like two months from
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the time the tooth broke and got infected before I
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could get in there, and I had recurrent infections after that.
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So the infection got into the jaw in my limp
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system and it ended up being a little more than
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we expected. So I've had a few rough few days,
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some days where I really couldn't talk, everything was all
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swollen up and couldn't eat. I'm actually I'm back down
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to my lint and weight. Went good five days or
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so without really being able to eat solid food, and
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ridiculously enough, amazingly enough, I guess I needed some more
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penance to do. Either. Sometime around the time I went
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in for the surgery, either like maybe the day before
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or even in the clinic, I picked up his stomach flu.
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There were some germs in there, and so not only
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could I not eat, I had about three days of
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diarrhea on top of that, and fevers and all that
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fun stuff. So it's been a rough one. But in
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the words of Willie Nelson, it's been rough and rocky traveling.
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But I'm finally standing up right on the ground, and
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after taking several readings, I'm surprised to find my mind
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still fairly sound. I know a lot. There are very
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few Catholic country music fans. I realize that, and Willie's
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a character and a half. But he wrote some, actually,
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some excellent songs. He wrote some very good songs. My
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motto actually comes from one of his songs, that one
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he didn't actually write. It was written by Ed Bruce,
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and it's probably the most popular song he and Whalon did.
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It's moments don't let your babies grow up and be cowboys.
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And there's a line that says them that don't know him,
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won't like him, and them that you sometimes won't know
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how to take him. He ain't wrong, he's just different
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and his pride won't let him do the things make
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you think he's right. And if that's not me to
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a t, I don't know what he is. But yeah,
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that's me, for better or for worse. So now let's
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get into.
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Speaker 2: The show for this week, and we're gonna pick up
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where we left off. You may recall and the question
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answers from the classic work radio replies the questioner had
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asked the priest his last question was why did God
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not make Adam and Eves willpower strong enough to resist temptation?
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And they answer that he did that they chose to sin.
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God also gives us free will. The person continues, at
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least God could have given men a stronger will, and
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they answer, what do you mean by stronger will? Do
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you mean a will with a stronger propensity to were good?
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But freedom means.
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Speaker 1: Freedom from inclinations imposed by any outside of the agency.
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It means indifference in personal decision. Any intrinsic strengthening of
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man's will in one direction means diminishing his freedom in
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the opposite direction. God gave man the truth, He gave
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him grace, but always man remained his own master physically,
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although morally, of course, he was bound to obey God.
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Person says, God knows all, He knew the pair must
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fall when he made them, and they answer, God does
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know all. He therefore knew they would be free, and
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that there was no must fall about it. There was
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no necessity to fall, and they could have resisted the temptation.
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You may say, but they did fall, and God must
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have known they would fall, and that is correct. But
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the fact God knew this did not make them fall,
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nor place the responsibility upon God. If I find out
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by some means that you were going to sell for
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Europe next week when you have sailed, I do not
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tell everyone that I made you go. Knowledge as such
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does not cause events. Events are responsible for the knowledge
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one has of them. Persons says, anyway, God need not
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have made a servant or devil to tempt them, and
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they answer. God did not make any devils. He made
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angels in quite a sinless condition, but also free, even
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as man by misuse of their freedom of choice, some
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angels turn themselves into evil spirits. In his evil will,
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Satan tempted man. God permitted this, for man had to
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prove the reality of his devotedeness to God. Anybody can
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serve God if he is never tempted. Man's real glory
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is to be tempted to abandon God and yet not
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to consent. And the person asks or stays, you say
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that man felt Evolution says that man did not fall,
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but that he has experienced a steady rise from brutality.
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There go the gold progressive narrative again, and they answer,
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History denies the steady rise. It is full of false
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and is in fact but a catalog of up and down,
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ups and downs, nations rise to a high state of
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civilization and then decay. If evolution wants to maintain a
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steady uplift, history itself proves it wrong. And another person asks,
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what do you mean by original sin? And when they say,
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actual sin is a deliberate personal transgression of God's law.
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But original sin, which is inherited, does not mean that
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I personally and maliciously transgressed. We must notice the difference
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between nature and grace. Nature is our being and all
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that our condition demands as rational animals. Grace means a
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gift or quality over and above all that our nature, legitimate,
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legitimately demands. Now, nature is fitted to know God only
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by deduction from created things. Yet over and above this,
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God's sheer goodness chose to give us what is in
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no way due to us, the supernatural destiny to see
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Him face to face in heaven, and the grace to
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attain this vision he promises to Adam and provided Adam
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were faithful to all his children. But Adam failed. He
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and his children were deprived of this supernatural destiny and
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of the gift of sanctifying grace. This deprivation of grace
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is called original sin. It is called sin in so
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far as we lack the quality which renders us pleasing
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to God's sight as errors to the vision of himself
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in heaven. And the person asked, does God create every
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soul now in a state of sin? And they answer no.
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God's creative activity terminates in good only. But the soul
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cannot normally be infused into a child of Adam without
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contradicting the privation, the privation of original gratuitous gifts that
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it was destined to receive had Adam not fallen. I
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say normally because God did anticipate the merits of Christ
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in one case, preventing the soul of the virgin Mary
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from contracting original sin. Do not imagine, however, that God
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creates a separated soul and then infuses it by simultaneous action.
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Of this, by simultaneous action, the soul is created and
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blended with the body, thus completing a nature in a
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state of sin. The state of original sin also differs
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from the state of personal sin, which is committed, not contracted.
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Original sin supposes a lack of grace which would have
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been present, but it does not suppose a personal and
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malicious disposition. All right, we'll leave it there this week.
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Much more to say on the subject, much more. And
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it's one of the most interesting topics really in Christian doctrine.
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Original sin that we inherited from our first parents, essentially
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a lack of grace, concupiscence, nature that is more inclined
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to do wrong and right. And you know, it really
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goes beyond that. It's a really interesting topic. And you
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know that's what the humanists are, secularists, the progressive denies.
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They say people are born perfectly good as children, and
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then that you know, society corrupts them, their parents corrupt them,
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and all that that is absolutely false. How do I
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know that's absolutely false? Well, let's just say I may
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have had a family member who was born this is
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a little girl at the age from day one, from
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literally day one, was purposely harmful to others. That may
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sound like an extreme statement, but how do you explain
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and this is no influence from anyone, cared for by
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people who did the best to try I mean good
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people who did the best to try to help her,
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treat her lovingly, treat her kind. She was never abused,
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she was never anything. My grandfather had als he couldn't
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walk her game at the age of like three and
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four was to hide his cane, knowing he couldn't get up.
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At about the age of five, I caught her strangling
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a puppy. I mean, some people come into the world
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with a greater inclination to do evil and more of
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a sociopathic personality than others. And she went on, She's
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been a maladic narcissist her entire life. She's caused incredible
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harm in every relationship she's ever been in, and literally
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came into the world that way. Now, a psychologist is
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going to tell you that's not true. Sociologist can tell
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you that's not true. I saw it with my own eyes,
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my own eyes. Two people born essentially into the same family,
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extended family, granted, grew up together. I'm i guess nine
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years older than her, and from the time she was
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conscious of being in the world, she did everything she
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could to hurt other people and is a complete and
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utter malignant narcissist. Had she a reason, would it benefit her?
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I don't think she would hesitate to kill anyone, including
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her own children. Yeah, and she came into the world
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that way. Now, all of us come into the world
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with some level of concupiscence, but in some and I'm
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that's not the only person. And there's another child of
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a mother's my mother's friend that very much the same way,
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came into the world that way. You know, tried to
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help him out when I was younger. It was impossible.
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You know, if you look at their family tree, you
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basically can see an ancestor had the same traits. And
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it pops up again somewhere down the line, and yeah,
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I have my great great grandfather was known as Devil Jim.
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He was a gunfighter. This is like right after Civil War.
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He was a gunfighter, a gambler, a murderer, a bigamist,
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really bad guy, really bad guy. And those genes popped
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up in her. Now she was raised a Christian, taking
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a church, taught right and wrong, and still chose to
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do what was wrong. What does she have a more
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of a proclivity? Well, God say, you know, she really
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was born with the proclivity, and I'm going to hold
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her to a lower standard than another. I don't know, probably,
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but the bottom line is, by the age of nine,
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she had the ability to differentiate between right and wrong,
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and she chose to do wrong every single time. I
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recall very few instances of kindness, and that would be
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really really stretching it. More like normalcy, not even kindness.
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But the truth is all of us come into this
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world was with a selfishness, a pridefulness. Every single person
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said the blessed Virgin Mary from Adams and Eve's children.
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I guess Canaan able to this very day come in
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to this world with a concupiscnis, which really comes down
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to pride, selfishness, the desire to please and provide for
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oneself above the needs of others, etc. But in some
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people it is incredibly pronounced. And that is the one
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thing that the psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists, progressives, the socialists,
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the communists, the modernists cannot accept. Their model is that
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a child comes into this world pure and innocent and
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good and is corrupted by society, when actually Christian teaching,
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traditional Catholic teaching, the actual truth is each person comes
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into this world with a proclivity to do wrong rather
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than right. And it's only through the moral instruction of Christianity,
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the Church, the good influence of parents and teachers that
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teaches when to do right and to lead a moral life.
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But some come into this world and there are some
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that are literally born bad. And I don't know what
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to do about that. You know, my mother's a psychologist.
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She didn't know what to do with that. She did
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everything she could to help that child. Some are just
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born bad. I don't have an answer for that. Honestly,
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there are some people that are just coming to this
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world without a conscience, without a sense of empathy, and
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God help them. I mean, they're going to have a
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tougher road than anybody else, but God help anybody that
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falls into their path as well. It's a sad fact
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of life, but it's not something one can deny, you know,
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it is the probably the worst lie of our society
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that people are Well, what is our decoration of independence? Say?
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All men are created equal? Well, all men are created equal,
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that they have the dignity infused to them as being
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made in the image of God. All men are created
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with equal rights, All men are not created equally in
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any other way, shape, or form. In the Decoration of Independence,
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it's meaning we should be treated equally under the law.
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We all have the same rights, and we all should
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be treated equally under the law. Because this is a republic,
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it's governed by the rule of law. In every other
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aspect of life, we are not equal. Some are taller,
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some are shorter, some are stronger, some are weaker, some
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are fatter, Some are more fit, and all coming from
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our genetics. Some are smarter, some are less intelligent. Some
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are born mentally handicap or with down syndrome. Some are
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super geniuses that have no emotional intelligence to relate to
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other people. Some are born very kind and loving in
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their personality. Some are more funny, some are more boring.
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Some have talents in business, Some have talents in music,
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Some have talents in cooking. Some don't have a lot
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of talents whatsoever. Some are just dull witted and you
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know whatever. Some are really inclined to be very bad people.
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And I've been unfortunate to know probably many of us have.
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But I mean one at least perhaps two in my
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own family actually, and some that I've encountered in life
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you know, whether in school or through friends and family,
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and there's not a lot you can do except impose
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a great deal of discipline and instruction. I'm not going
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to say, you know, well, I mean, the Bible says
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spoil the rodens, I mean, spare the rod and spoil
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the child. You know, I'm not a parent. I'm not
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one who's ever imposed discipline upon a child. I'm not
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going to make that position because you know, I'm not
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a parent, I'm not even a brother or whatever. I mean. Look,
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my dad was one of those people that came into
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the world without a conscience or a sense of empathy,
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and he was very abusive. And because of him, I
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have a brother and sister in heaven that never had
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never breathed a breath of air in this world. I
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was put it this that way. He's been through four wives,
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he has children, he doesn't know, and he couldn't care less.
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All he cares about is money and power. Maybe had
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he been born with a better heart, maybe had he
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been born with a sense of empathy, all our lives
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would have been different. I don't know. I don't know.
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Maybe i'd be, you know, going to Mass with a family,
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but that's life, but the greatest when our society is
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denying the truth of human nature and saying that, you know,
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Christian moral instruction and discipline is the problem, and that
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society and public schools and psychiatrists and psychologists and sociologists
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and social workers, et cetera, no better, and teachers especially
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no better. It's wrong. And I think we can look
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at even recent history and come to that conclusion very
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quickly if we have two brain sales to rub together.
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So let's get on to the exhaustive catechism of the
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Catholic Church, and we are up to We're gonna explain
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the vestments and sacred vessels used at mass. This I mean,
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you go, when you convert to Catholicism from Protestantism, you
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are immediately immersed in a world of vestments and golden
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chalices and monstrances and just I mean, it's just so different.
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Incense and bells, and it's a feast for the senses,
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and it's very important. You know, Protestants want to have
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this like Austare. It's the Bible, only it's an empty room,
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just a bear cross, not even a crucifix. And you
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know that's all, you know, idolatry and heathen worship and ceremony.
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But then you open the Bible, you go the Old Testament,
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and you read how God instructed his temple will be built,
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and the vestiments his priests were supposed to wear, and
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all the incense and the bells and the ceremony and
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the statues and the altar, and you actually realize Catholicism
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is in that tradition dictated by God. Protestantism has gone
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so far away from what's instructed in the very Bible
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they claim to be the highest authority. I mean, it
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was never supposed to be an assembly room and a
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podium and a bunch of folding chairs. That's not God's house,
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all right. So the vestments and sacred vessels used at masks,
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let me get a simple water here. He who is
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granted an audience of an earthly monarch dresses himself in
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full dress out of respect to that monarch, and the
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priest when he appears before the King of kings of
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the altar, is a rad in suitable vestments. The vestments
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show that he does not act of his own power,
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but as a representative of Christ. God gave directions concerning
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the vestments vestments I keep getting next for syllable in there,
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which were to be worn by the priests under the
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Old Testament Exodus twenty eighty four. The vestments to be
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worn by the Christian priests were prescribed by the apostles.
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The vestments which the priest wears in celebration of masks
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consists one the amys, two the alb, three the girdle,
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four the maniple, five the stole, and six the chezzible.
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The amys is a white linen cloth laid about the
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head and shoulders. Formerly it used to be placed over
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the head like a hood, to keep the priest from
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distractions at mess. The alb is a white linen garment
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reaching from head to foot. In the East, it was
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customary to wear a white robe on festive occasions, as
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for instance, when invited to a wedding. In the parable
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of the wedding feast, our Lord makes mention of the
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wedding garment Matthew twenty two twelve. The girdle as a
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cord which fashions the album together so that it may
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not inconvence the priest in walking. It is said that
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the young Tobias, when he was seeking a companion for
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his journey, that he found a young man standing girded
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as it were ready to walk. Book of Tobit five
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to five. Remember, if you don't have the Book of
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Tobit in your Bible, you don't have a real Bible.
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You have a counterfeit and fake Bible. You need to
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go get a Catholic Bible which has all the books
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and the words were not changed to reflect heretical doctrine
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by Martin Luther. Our Lord says, let your loins be
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girt Luke twenty two thirty five, or girded. The maniple
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was at first a lending cloth, which was one of
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the left arm representing the cloth, wherewith Our Lord's countenance
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was white. The stole is a long band of silk
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which hangs down from the neck and is crossed at
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the breast. It is a special sign of the sacredotal office,
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the priestly office. Therefore the priest wears it whenever he
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exercises his priestly functions. Remember sacardotal Sacredotus Sacredotus's priest in Latin.
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This is from the same word we get sacred. The
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chausible is a garment which covers the priest before and behind,
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reaching down to the knees. In only times it was
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a kind of mantle with only one opening, which the
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head was passed like a poncho, which came to the
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name of Castila or little house uh the other. At
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other times than at high mass, a priest wears a
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short alb or surplus or cope. At high mass, a
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deacon and subdeacon wear special vestments called dalmatics. The various
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portions of the sacradoto vestments are commemorative of our Lord's passion,
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also served to remind the priests of his duties, of
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the duties of his office. The amus uh lost my place.
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The amos represents the cloth which which with which the
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soldiers muffed muffled our Lord's face when they struck him.
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The alb represents the white robe in which herod arrayed
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him in mockery. The girdle the cords wherewith he was bound.
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The maniple Veronica's handkerchief, the stole the robe laid about
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our Lord's neck after his condemnation. The charles are blen
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on the back of which is across the cross he
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bore on his crossy on his shoulders. Of course, the
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amis reminds the priest to observe custody of the eyes.
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The albokenscurity of heart. The girdle abs abstemium that is
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so hard to pronounce. Abstemiousness a b s t e
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m I O U s n e s s the
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quality of being abstinate. There you go abstemious purity and
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self control. And the stole dignifies his dignity as a priest,
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and the chasible the heavy responsibilities that rest upon him.
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The principal things which are used in mass in saying
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mass are the chalice, the patent, and the missile. The
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upper part of the chalice must be of gold or
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silver guilt. Inside the patent, the patent p A t
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E n is a small plate whereupon the sacred host
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is laid. It must be of gold or silver guilt.
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Both chalice and patent must be blessed by the bishop.
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The missile contains the prayers that are said at every Mass,
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and those which vary according to seasons and days of
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the ecclesiastical year. That kiborium somewhat resembles the chalice. It
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has a cover, and in it the consecrated hosts are
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reserved for community of the faithful. The monstrance is sometimes
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used for the exposition of the blessed sacrament. Some worldlings
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are inclined to say, as Judas did when Magdalene and
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order at Lord's feet, to what purpose this waste? When
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they see the care and money expended by Catholics on
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sacred vessels and furniture of their churches. They should not, however,
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consider how greatly the beauty of God's house impresses the
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beholder and conduces to devotion. And that is moreover only
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right to give what is most precious and beautiful for
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the service of the Lord. Why should the House of
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God be less richly adored than the mansions of the wealthy.
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The colors of the vestments the Jews made sacridinal vests
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of various colors by God's injunction for use in the temple, white,
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scarlet and purple being the prevailing colors. Among the Heathen,
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the priests were garments of dazzling whiteness. Hence, the Christians,
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who were converts partly from Judaism partly from Paganism, wish
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to provide similar color investments for divine worship. Besides from
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revelation of Saint John, the Church learned that the celestial
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spirits who serve God in heaven standing around the Throne,
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are arrayed in brilliant hues so as to resemble a rainbow.
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Revelations four. Thus the Church militant, that's us and imitates
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the Church triumphant that's the saints in heaven, and the
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use of colors in her services. And again, as the
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face of nature changes with the varying season, so the
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different emotions evoked by the various seasons of the ecclesiastical
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year find expression of the use of different colors. In
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the investments worn by the priests of Mass, the Church makes
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use of five colors. White, red, green, purple, and black. White. White.
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I can't lost my Okay page clipped there we go.
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White is the colored used on the feasts of Our Lord,
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of the Blessed Virgin, and of the angels and confessors.
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God is the light of the world in perfect purity.
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The Mother of God was free from the stain of
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original sin. The angels dwell in everlasting light and perfect sanctity.
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The confessors let the light of their good work shine
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before men. On the nativity of Saint John, the Baptist
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white vestments are worn although he was martyred because he
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was sanctified before his birth. For most martyrs they wear
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red for blood, but he was sanctified before his birth.
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He was baptized in his mother's wound when he encountered Jesus,
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when the Blessed Virgin Mary visited Saint Elizabeth, so his
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is white. Two Red is the color used at Pentecost
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and on the Feast of the Martyrs. At Pentecost, the
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Holy Ghost, who kindles the fire of chastity and our
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hearts came down upon the apostles and tongues of fire.
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The martyrs shed their blood for Christ, thus manifested the
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greatness of their love for him. Red is also used
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on the feasts of the Holy Cross, because our Lord
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shed is blood upon the Cross. Green is used on
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the Sunday after Pentecost, and no I'm sorry. Green is
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used on the Sunday after Epiphany and after Pentecost, on
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which nothing special is commemorated. On the Sundays after Epiphany,
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the Church commemorates the youth of Christ and his interest
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into public ministry, which brought hope to this world. And
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after Pentecost, she celebrates her own springtime, the germination of
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grain and the kingdom of God. So spring, you know,
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Viidas was right in Latin anyway, It's where we get
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the word viridity. It means greenness, youth, new beginnings, a
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whole bit. So spring. Purple is used in Advent and Lent,
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and upon vigils and inverer days. Advent is the season
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in which the faith looks for the coming of the Savior.
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Lent is the time of fasting and penitence. Purple was
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worn and administering the sacrament of penance, extreme unction and
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baptism until the annoying of the person to be baptized.
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Black is used on Good Fridays and masses for the dead.
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There is generally some white about black investments to indicate
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that the souls of the party will soon enter upon
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eternal joys. At the obsequies of young children, I don't
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know what obsequi is anyway, White is used because they
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die in innocence. Must have like a funeral for a
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young child. There you go. I guess it's what obsque means.
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It's not the same as obsequiousness. I know that ob
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s e q u I E s will have to
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look that one up at some point. These colors not
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only depict the course of our Lord's life on earth,
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but serve as a constant admonition to us to lead
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a pious life. The colors in use of the Church,
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which as we have seen, coincide with each event commemorated
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as it recurs in the cycle of the Ecclesiastical year,
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are besides a continue a lesson to the Christian. Let
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the white vestment remind you that the Church calls and
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her children destribe after holiness. Let the sight of red
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kin win you the love of God. Well green bids
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your heart, bids you to raise your heart and fix
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your hopes to heaven. The sight of the Purple remind
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you that you must do penance. The black will recall
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the thought of death, urging you to prepare for your
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last end and pray for your departed friends. All right,
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we'll wrap it up there. Yeah, there's so much symbolism
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and meaning in every aspect of the mass and everything
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in a Catholic Church. Absolutely amazing. You know. This is
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part of the rich heritage of Catholicism that we have it.
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The Orthodox have it, to some extent what they call
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high Church. Anglicans have retained some of the symbolism, but
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it's in its fullness in the Catholic Church, as is
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all of Christianity. Y'all have a great week. I will
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talk to you. Thank you for your prayers. I'm so
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glad to have that infected tooth out of my mouth.
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I feel so much better, even though I've been through
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an incredibly rough time. You know, it was a good
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time to say some prayers and fast. Whether I wanted
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to or not. You know, just very grateful that things
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went well. The dental surgeon, it's a friend of the family.
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The clinic was actually not supposed to be open that day.
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He came in on his day off and took care
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of things and couldn't have gone more smoothly. I thank
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God for him, and I appreciate all your prayers. I
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know you were with me, and normally I get so
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nervous about any kind of idental procedure. I say, I
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had a sense of calm, you know. I just went
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in there and I knew everything was going to be
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all right, and I'm sure I had a big part
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to play in that. So I appreciate it. Have a
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good week and I'll talk to you. Next time shoot
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Pa