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Show 226: Preparation for Holy Communion · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: Of b the We all welcome to this week's show.
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We can continue talking about the holy Sacrament of the
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Eucharus this week, and we'll talk specifically about preparation for
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receiving Holy Communion, very important. But before we do that,
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we'll get back into radio replies. We've got a couple
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more questions and answers from one of the callers or
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writers to their radio show back in the twenties thirties.
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I don't remember fathers Rumbel and Karti, one in Australia,
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one in England who did a wonderful job in refuting
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all the Protestant and atheistic arguments of the day. And
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the one that is a questioning now is does seem
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to be more on the atheistic agnostics side, progressive and
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politically could have been, you know, college professor, but more
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than likely. You got to remember about this time, the
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Salvation Army was huge and it was formed by Colonel Booth.
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It was a quasi Christian association. Okay, Colonel Booth was
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really more close to being an atheist than he was
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an agnostic. Now we don't think of the Salvation Army
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as a religious organization anymore. We think of them as
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just a charitable organization, but in the nineteen twenties thirties
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forties they were very much behind the Temperance movement. Of course,
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the main movers of the Temperance movement, the people that
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were putting it together, were Freemasons and Communists, and one
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of the main goals was to shut down every Catholic
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church because they didn't want to have wine for communion.
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The Salvation Army was extremely anti Catholic, extremely anti Catholic.
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They would go into slums and poor neighborhoods and they
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go in and if there was a bar of liquor
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store or they'd break the windows, burn it down, drag
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people out on the street, beat the crap out of them,
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and then lecture the women that their husbands were worthless
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drunks and they should divorce them. And they were. They
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had to free themselves from the Catholic Church in order
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to be able to divorce them, and their husbands were
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worthless drunks because of the Catholic Church. It was not good.
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The whole Reform and Temperance movement very much. In the
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Mountains where I grew up well part of my life,
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there was a big reform movement among the Presbyterians, and
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they did the exact same thing in the Mountains, and
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they put those children in orphanages. Yep, they would convince
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the women to divorce their husbands. Guy could just go
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out and have a couple of drinks, you know, maybe
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he was not a drunk, maybe he was not an
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alcoholic at all. But they convinced in the Presbyterian, Lutheran
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churches and the Baptist churches to extent, the women of
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the community that if their husband drank even a drop
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of alcohol, he was going to Hell and they had
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a duty to divorce him and put their children in
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an orphanage. And they broke up families throughout the Mountain day.
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It was one of the most destructive forces in Appalachian culture,
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was the Reform and Temperance movement, and to this day
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people still celebrated they and you can look at those
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who founded those orphanages and the ones who were behind
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the reform as they call it movement in the Presbyterian Church.
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They were full on communists. They were eugenicists. I mean,
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they not only wanted these women to divorce their husbands
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put their children in the orphanage, but then they usually
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encourage them to be sterilized, and once abortion became legal,
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they pushed abortion like crazy, and they still do. There's
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not a Presbyterian college in North Carolina, and I haven't
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been to one in you know. I know about you know,
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I did three semesters at one in the mountains of
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North Carolina. My mother went to one in the eastern
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part of North Carolina. I've had conversations with people at
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different ones. I don't know about other states, but I
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can tell you in North Carolina there is not a
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single Presbyterian college that is not entirely communist and pro abortion,
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in progae, anti family, and they hate nothing more than
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the Catholic Church. They will call themselves progressive Democrats. But
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you know, when you went into Laurenberg, where my mother
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went to school, Scotland County, North Carolina. Well through the
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nineties when Bill Clinton was in office, billboards with a
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klansmen and the Saint Andrew's cross, the symbol of the
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Presbyterian Church, and it said the Knights of the Ku
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Klux Klan welcome you to our county. Remember to obey
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our laws. Left out one sentence there, didn't I It
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said the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Scotland
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County and the Democratic Party of North Carolina. Welcome you
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to Scotland County. Remember to obey our laws. They had
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them on the interstate, probably up around Mount Olive College,
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which I think was more Baptists. Actually, somewhere in the
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Benson area did the Masonic Order, the k Klux Klan
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and the Presbyterian Church, and to some extent the Baptist
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Church to some extent in the Methodist Church. But essentially
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the clan and the Freemasons are a Anglican and Presbyterian organization.
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You know, as the Anglican Church began to dive back,
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they began to get more involved in the Baptist and
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Methodist churches. And the Lutherans are pretty much gone in
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North Carolina. Mean there I doubt you could put in
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find enough Lutherans in North Carolina. Well, now, I should
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say that's what'd be in the eastern part of the state. Now,
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the western part of the state around Cataba County, the
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Hickory area of western Charlotte, there are a lot more Lutherans,
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but the Klan was not that active in the western
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part of this state. The Clan was far more active
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in the eastern part of the state. But the Presbyterian
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Church was freemason liberal, progressive, socialist, communists, whatever you want
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to call it. I mean, you're in the sixties and seventies.
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There were Presbyterian organizations hiding black panthers and weather underground
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members and giving them faculty positions, you know, and they
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really never even tried to hide it. But they took
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the issue of Catholic drinking wine at communion and turned
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that into their crusade. It started in England, but boy
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did it pick up speed in the United States. I mean,
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these were really bad people. These I mean, really, I'm
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not just saying advocated for abortion. These It was American
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progressive democrats, socialists, usually Presbyterians, sometimes Anglicans, but usually Presbyterians
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who came up with the idea for the gas chambers
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in Europe, in Germany and Poland and all that mass
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extermination of people they thought to be inferior races. And
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their main stated goal is to destroy the Catholic Church
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and to destroy the family. You know, they went in
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and crusaded we're all about women, we're all about children.
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They absolutely wanted to destroy the family. Now in our
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modern time, the Salvation Armies seems to bear no resemblance
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to its founding. I don't know. I think they have
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AA meetings and they do a lot for homeless people
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and job training. And we had a hurricane here in
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the mountains. They were one of the organizations that helped out.
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That's great. Maybe they have reformed themselves, the so called reformers.
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Maybe they have reformed themselves. I have no idea. I
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have spoken to very few Catholics that realize the anti
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Catholic roots of the Salvation Army. And I've spoken to
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very few Salvation Army members who realized that their organization
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was founded essentially to destroy the Catholic Church. So you know,
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who knows what happened along the way. But Colonel Booth
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was a very very evil man and Antichrist, and you
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know Mary Baker Eddie, and oh so many came out
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of there, So many came out of their ranks of
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like there's one name, I'm blanking on it, the one
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that used to go around with an axe, busting up
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taverns and such. I mean, these were violent, actually very
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violent radical terrorists. They had a strong alliance with the
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anarchist movement of the time that's still to this day Antifa. Okay.
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These were people that were the you know in the
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old cartoons, the mad bombers. They just wanted to disrupt
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this and mainly they wanted They were very anti Catholic.
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They were, you know, sort of one step radicalized beyond
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the communists, who you might say were one step radicalized
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beyond the progressives. But if you go back in nineteen
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twenties and thirties, they were violent. I mean it didn't
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matter if it was the Salvation Army or the what
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was her name that is going to bug me, Carrie Nation,
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Carrie Nation. These were also the radical feminists of their time,
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and they would go in and they would beat the
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crap out of people, and they would set fire to things,
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and they would blow things up. This was not a peaceful,
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you know, solidarity let's go out and hold some signs
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and seeing we show overcome. No. No, nineteen really, let's
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just say late eighteen. Hundreds fall in the Civil War,
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so we're talking around eighteen ninety two about nineteen for really,
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they were very much allied with the radical labor movement.
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I mean there were places where communists would go in
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and organize coal miners for instance. Okay, coal miners had
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a lot of reason to unionize against their bosses. They're
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being very badly mistreated copper miners. I mean a lot
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of these people. And you know, it's no problem at all.
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You know, the Catholic Church, there's nothing against people organizing
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for their common rights, and they were being treated worse
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than slaves in many cases. But there were communist agitators
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that would go in there and to have them pick
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up arms. I mean there was actually, I think it
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was West Virginia cood in Kentucky. I think it was
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West Virginia. I mean, the National Guard had to be
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called out and there were miners with guns shooting in
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American soldiers and vice versa. I mean, it was not
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the way it's portrayed in movies, the way the temperance
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movements to portrayed, the feminist movement, the you know, women's
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trade to vote, whatever, it's suffrage, suffragettes, the labor movement,
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not at all what's portrayed on by Hollywood. And this
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goes Hollywood was privilege full of communists and they made
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him into sympathetic characters where you know, some of them
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had a real beef and they could have worked it
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out peacefully, but instead they were really encouraged they I mean,
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they wanted a Bolshevik revolution here in the United States.
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They basically almost had one in Mexico slaughtered many many Catholics,
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and had you know, Pancha Villa been able to continue
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north into Texas, who knows what would have happened. I mean,
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we came incredibly close to a communist revolution in this country,
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you know, right around the turn of the century. And
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it's because, I mean, the nation was just destroyed by
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the Civil War and it was ripe to be taken
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advantage of anyway. And you know, I just I wish
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we had history books that actually tell the truth, history
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books that actually tell the truth. I mean, I don't
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know about here in the United States, but I know
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there were some in England who were followers of Colonel Booth,
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whether they were Salvation Army or not, they would not
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help a person unless they renounced Catholicism. You know, someone
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could be starving to death and really suffering from alcohol
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poisoning and really need the help they were supposed to
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provide unless they renounced Catholicism. They wouldn't help them. And
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you know, these progressive groups were very very much in
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alignment and their thinking with the Nazis. I mean eugenicism,
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I mean getting rid of the deplorables. As Hillary Clinton
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would have said, right, who was her hero? Margaret Sanger.
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Earlier I said Mary Baker Eddie. I meant to say
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Margaret Sanger. Now Eddie was not a great person either,
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but two of very different people. Anyway, Margaret Sanger, who
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was a huge proponent of killing Blacks and Jews and
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Mexicans and all Catholics. You know, this is who these
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people were. This is your roots of the Democrat Party.
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I mean, when the modern Democrat Party, at least the
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post Civil War Democrat Party, we could put it that way.
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And I mean when I say, you know, Donald Trump
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may not be a choir boy, but the Democrats are
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just pure evil, I mean they just are seriously, purely evil.
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You know, they actually are to their roots. Saul Lensky,
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who wrote Rules for Radicals, dedicated it to Satan, the
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first radical radical, as he said, and that was Hillary
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Clinton's professor, and that was there's the playbook the Democrats
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are still using. Democrats are purely evil. There's no getting
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around it. If you believe in abortion killing innocent children,
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you're evil. You know. It's not a It's not a
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compromise there. I mean, Pope Benedict sixteenth said it perfectly.
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I don't have the quote in front of me, but
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I'm sure you can pull it up. He said, abortion
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is especially evil, much more so than the death penalty
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or anything you know, other in Catholic teaching. It's especially
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evil and has to we have a duty as Catholics
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to oppose it. Well. The Democrat platform endorses abortion. Therefore,
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no Catholic in good in good faith can be a Democrat.
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If you're listening to this and you're a Catholic who
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votes for Democrats, you better go talk to your priest,
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because you're actually in a state of mortal sin. And
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if you don't want to go to hell, you need
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to get that straightened out. And if you've got a
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liberal priest, you've got a problem because there are a
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lot of really liberal, messed up priests, and there you
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have led a lot of people astray. I would strongly
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suggest finding a better perish anyway, the person says. The
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person says, Christ rose with a material body and ascended
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into heaven, what happens to his body in heaven? And
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the priest's ansor Christ rose with a material body, but
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not in a material body limited by the all conditions
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of matter as we know them. He rose with the same,
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yet with a change body, and the change in no
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way altering its identity. Saint Paul predicts a somewhat similar
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and mysterious change in our own bodies after our own resurrection.
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So also in the resurrection it has sown in corruption
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and incorruption, it is sown in a natural body, it
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shall rise in a spiritual body one Corinthians, fifteen forty
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two forty four. The body therefore shall rise with the
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powers of which we have no experience yet, and strangely
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participating in the quality's proper spiritual beings. It is a
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mystery for our present ideals, or drawn from our present conditions,
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And we should not be surprised that we lack the
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capacity to understand the conditions of a state which we,
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as of yet have no experience at all. So the
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questioner continues, let us turn from your dogma of Christ
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to those dogmas concerning your goddess Mary. And they answer,
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and this is why I think It's probably more a
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Colonel Booth follower than a college professor, because hopefully even
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an Anglican college professor would understand that Catholicism and no
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way views of Blessed Virgin Mary as a goddess. But
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many Protestants do so that's why I kind of went
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in that direction. But they answer, it would be a
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mortal sin for any Catholic to regard Mary as a goddess.
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If Catholics express such a belief to a priest and confession,
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he would be a refused absolution unless he promised to
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renounce such an absurd idea. If you wish to attack
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Catholic doctrine, at least find out what Catholics do believe
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before you begin. Person says, if you call her queen
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of Heaven, do you not do her an injustice in
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refusing to her the title of goddess? And they answer,
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it would be the greatest possible injustice to regard her
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as a goddess. It is just to honor is just
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to honor her, even has God honored her, which we
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Catholics do. Jesus is the king of king and Lord
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of lords, and his mother certainly possesses queenly dignity, holding
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the highest and have an ext her divine son, but
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that does not and cannot change her finite and created nature,
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human nature. To regard her as a goddess would be absurd.
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And the person says, yet you insist that she is
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Mother of God, and yeah, again I am thinking yeah,
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because see most Anglicans believe that Mary's Mother of God
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as well. They. I mean, that's not really a it's
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not really an argument we have with the Anglican Church.
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It's not really an argument we have with the Lutheran Church.
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Martin Luther, for all his evil and antichrist ways, actually
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supported venerating the blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of God.
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A Calvinist probably would not. I'd have to look, you'd
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see if John Calvin ever said anything otherwise. He may have,
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but certainly by the nineteen twenties, the progressive liberal Protestant
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movement in the Presbyterian Church especially and Methodists would have
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had been of this assumption or someone who was just
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you know, a member of a quasi religious organization like
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the Salvation Army. They say, Jesus Christ is true God
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and true man, as he was born of Mary. She
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is truly the mother of God. The second person of
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the bless Trinity was born of her according to the
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humanity he derived from her. She is not a goddess,
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for God did not take his divine being from her.
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But she is the mother of God, since the second
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person of the bless the Trinity was truly born of
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her in his human nature. Person asked how could Mary
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be the mother of the one who created her? And
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they answer, Mary owed her being, of course to God,
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but this is under the aspect of his eternal nature
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subsequent to her creation. That human nature was born of her,
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which the son of God assumed to himself. She was
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therefore the mother of Christ. But Christ was one divine person,
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existing in two natures, one eternal and divine, the other
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temporal and human. Mary necessarily gave birth to a being
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with one personality, and that divine, and she is rightly
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called the mother of God, he continues, does not the
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Catholic Church insist also upon the biological and biologically impossible
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dogma of the immaculate conception of Mary herself. And yeah,
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this is when you know the person's not very well
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educated in religion. They answer, the dogma of the immaculate
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conception has nothing to do with biology. It does not
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mean that she was conceived miraculously in the physical sense.
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She was normally conceived and born of her parents. I
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guess what, Joachim never have really known how to pronounce
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this name, and that's a little easier. But in her conception,
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her soul was preserved immaculate in the sense that she
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inherited no stain of original sin, which was derived from
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our first parents. Well, see, I think I don't think
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you're going to find well these days, who knows, who
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knows what people think and teach. But yeah, most what
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you might call lower church Protestants have no understanding of
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what the immaculate conception is, and that's a charge they make.
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Those that have had a little more education in the
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development of doctrine over the last two thousand years tend
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to at least know what Catholics believe, even if they
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don't accept it. So yeah, I'm thinking, yeah, anyway, doesn't
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really matter, doesn't Let's get into preparation for Holy Communion.
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We must make a suitable preparation of body and soul
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before receiving Holy Communion. We must endeavor before approaching Holy communion,
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to render ourselves as much like our Lord as possible,
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For unless we resemble him spiritually, no union between Him
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and us will be Practically. Liquids cannot mingle one with
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another without they are of the same nature. Thus wine
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and water can be mixed, but not water and oil.
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Father Spiago's old language. Remember this is written in the
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eighteen nineties. If I write anything too dense, I'll try
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to explain it. But he's just saying that, like mixes
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would like. The better our preparation for Holy Communion, the
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more plentiful the graces we receive from it. Those who
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make a bad preparation for communion or none at all,
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draw down upon themselves a divine anger. Such persons lose
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all reverence for holy sacrament of the altar. In fact,
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their faith and the presence of Our Lord under the
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eucharistic veil dies out altogether. He who approaches Holy Communion
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merely from force of habit cannot expect to receive anything
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from God. Very important. You know, so many times we
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go to Mass and whether we're distracted, whether we haven't
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made a full examination of conscience. You know, maybe we
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didn't go to confession when we should we shouldn't go
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up for communion in that case, shouldn't go up for
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the euchrous if you don't believe in the real presence
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of Jesus, or if you're in a state of mortal sin,
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or if you haven't fasted an hour before. You know,
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that's another consideration. If you can, I mean, I do
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believe the Church give some leeway to people who are
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a weakened condition, but at least for a suitable period
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of time. But a lot of times people just kind
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of go up out of habit or because everybody else
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on their aisles going and they don't want to sit
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there and look like they're guilty of something. You know,
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social pressure really not a good idea. In fact, that's
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a mortal sin. So really, before we go up to
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receive the Euchrous, we need to make sure that we
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check all those boxes. Have you been to confession if
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you need to, if you're aware of any mortal sin
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you have to, if you have a habitual venial sins,
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you really should do you truly believe that it is
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the body and blood of Christ, and you know, are
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you in the proper state? I mean, did you fast
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before going to Mass? Or there's another Sometimes just run
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into this, especially in a college town. Somebody may have
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been out drinking all night and they're still a bit
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drunk when they get to Mass. They may not have
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eaten a thing, and they may even be passing out.
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You know, that's certainly not exclusive to Catholics. It's pretty
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much any morning gathering in any college town. But Catholics
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have a you know, the moral obligation to go to
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church or they commit a moral sin. So a lot
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of times Catholics will force themselves to go to Mass
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when they may not really be in the right shape
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for it. And you know, it's not just morning Mass.
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Like let's say you're going to Christmas midnight Mass and
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you had a few celebratory drinks with your friends and family.
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You know, you didn't make sure you sober up before
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you go up for a communion. And if it's I mean,
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someone might point out that drunkenness is a serious sin,
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could even be a moratal sin. It can be and
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is if it's intentional and dangerous, if you drove drunk
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to get there, if someone else gave you a lyft
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and you had one too many and really didn't mean
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to then that more falls into the category of venial.
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But still you really shouldn't go up for the Eucharist
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unless you're sober. Speaking of Anglicans, I knew one who
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thought it was the greatest thing in the world to
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drop acid before going or take mushrooms before going to church.
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Just thought it gave her all kinds of spiritual insights. Yeah,
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don't do that. Don't do that. Well, at least she
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didn't have the real presence of God and the Eucharist.
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But still, really really bad idea. In fact, it's a
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really easy way to become demonically possessed. Actually, so a
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really really bad idea in that instance. But I digress.
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The manner in which we should prepare our soul is this.
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We much cleanse our souls from mortal sin by confession,
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perform good works, and adorn ourselves with the virtues. When
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a monarch visits a town, it is previously cleanse and decoratus.
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We should do the same. When the king of kings
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comes to us. We should purify our conscience by confession
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and adorn our souls by good works. Paul says, let
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a man prove himself, and so let him eat of
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the bread and drink of that chalice one Corinthians eleven,
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twenty eight. Boy I had a debate with a Protestant
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two or three days ago. Oh, and man, I wish
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i'd had that verse at hand. I gave some really
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good convincing arguments as far as that faith alone is
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not sufficient, that you also have to do good works,
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and one of the most important of those is to
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receive the Eucharist, get baptized, you know, and receive the
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euchroust be confirmed the sacraments. In other words, and yeah,
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let him prove himself, and so let him eat of
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that bread and drink of the chalice. He can he
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maintain is purely symbolic. Well, why would you have to
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prove yourself for something purely symbolic? How could you become
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guilty of the body and blood of Christ if you
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approach the sacrament unworthily if it's purely symbolic. Makes no sense.
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But you know, people say Tereseliso said, it's my duty
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to tell people the truth. It's up to the Holy
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Spirit to convince them. And that's really all you can do.
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And I've had a few kind of troubling revelations since then.
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I think the Holy Spirit's given me a little insight.
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And when you encounter someone who is really curious about
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the Catholic Church and wants to know what you believe
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and why, you have absolute duty to explain it to him.
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When you have someone who's spreading lives about the Catholic Church,
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you have the absolute duty to correct them. There's a
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lot in between. There's a lot of ignorance, and maybe
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you can dispel it. But when someone keeps coming back
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at you with anger and mockery and they're not listening
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to anything, that's you know, when the Bible says don't
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cast your pearls before the swine because they'll tread them
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in the mud, you're actually telling these people, this person
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who claims to be a Christian, about the holiest matters
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on earth. You discuss the u churse, you discuss the
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sacrament Jesus has, you know, the life and teachings of Jesus.
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These are the holiest things we have. And when they
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come back at you like that, you know, there's several
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verses in the Bible that just pop into my head
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the night after debating with this person, just giving up
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because I'm you know, and I guess it's Proverbs says,
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I do not argue with a fool, you know, he'll
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just laugh and wag his head. I think it's Proverbs.
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Could be Sirac. I'm not sure, but I think it's Proverbs.
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Another one says that a person like that is like
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a mule a donkey. I mean, Jesus says, don't call
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anyboy a fool. Right. Well, okay, we're not supposed to
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insult the dignity that God gives to a man creating
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his own image by dismissing him out of hand. But
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when a person rejects the teachings of Christ in his church,
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you know that's probably who the Bible would identify as foolish. Okay,
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if you think about it this way, when we accept,
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we believe in we believe in Jesus, we believe in God,
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we accept the teachers of the church. We're baptized at
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that point, freed from sin, receive the Holy Spirit. Many
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Protestants don't even get baptized, they don't believe in it.
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I think it's symbolic. Some do, many don't. Then we
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are catechist. We come to fully understand the Catholic Church,
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so we can say yes I reject Satan as always works,
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and I accept, you know, the teachers of the Catholic Church,
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and we're confirmed and we receive the fullness of the
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Holy Spirit. After that, and usually in between we go
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to our first confession, so you know that's good. We
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start receiving the sacraments regularly, and with each confession, with
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each communion, with each annoying of the sick, any of
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the sacrament of marriage in each case, or of course
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you know, ordination, the priesthood and all that. In each case,
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God is coming to live more within us. Essentially, we're
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becoming two things. We're becoming more human because we're becoming
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more like the man God originally created in his own image.
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And we're becoming more christ Like, sharing in the divinity
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of Christ by eating His body and blood, by experience
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in the sacraments. When someone rejects the teachings of the Church,
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when someone rejects the sacraments, hopefully they at least get baptized.
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But when somebody rejects even the validity of marriage, I
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mean then they believe in divorce. When somebody rejects out
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of hand the Eucharus, when someone says the Catholic Church
32:53
is evil and we worship the devil when we're all
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going to hell. And you know, you know how if
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you've ever argued with an a Catholic, you know exactly
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what I'm saying that. I mean, they'll say horrible things
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about the Mother of God. Why would you insult Jesus's mother?
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And then they will laugh about it. Okay, that's not
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becoming more human. That's not becoming more holy or more
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christ Like, or more sharing in his divine nature. That's
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actually becoming more animalistic. And so I think in the
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Bible and several points where it compares people like that
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to donkeys or jackasses, to swine, calls them fools. Jesus
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called the Pharisees whitewashed tombs, empty tombs. I mean, we
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can go down that. What they're saying, what the Bible
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was saying, what God's telling us to his word, is
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that those people are becoming less human, less holy, and
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more like animals. And when we look at I'll take
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the Spanish Revolution for instance, where a small group of communists,
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essentially progressives as they might want to call themselves, ended
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up killing twelve to sixteen million Catholics, slaughtering nuns, monks
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and priests wholesale and doing the most abominable things you
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can imagine. What can motivate that. I mean, there's no empathy,
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that's a human quality. There's no enlightenment, which comes from
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the Holy Spirit. There's no love, which is of God
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what you then have. And we've seen this like the
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Palestinian attack on Israel two years ago, horrible, burning babies alive,
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cutting people's heads off, the worst things you can imagine.
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And in the religious wars of Germany, the French Revolution,
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the Bolshevik Revolution, there's another twenty or so million Catholics
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slaughtered and Orthodox in that case. The malice they go
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to extreme links to be particularly cruel, especially the way
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that they kill priests and nuns and monks. I mean,
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things you don't I am not even going to repeat
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were commonplace. Communists takeover of Vietnam just recently. I mean,
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they killed so many people, they ran out bullets, they'd
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have one bullet left, forced the person to dig their
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own grave, then hit him in the head with a
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shovel and bury him. I mean, the worst acts you
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can think of. And in some cases those people were
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not atheists. In some cases they were Protestants. In some
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cases they were Protestant Freemasons, especially in France and Spain.
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I'm not entirely sure that we are doing what we
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should when we spend our time debating, arguing, with trying
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to convince a person like that, I think we just
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need to state the truth, say a prayer form and
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move on. Because their demon possessed, that's right. I think
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a lot of Protestants who hate the Catholic Church have
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some level of demon possession, and any way you look
36:25
at it, they have lost their ability to reason. I mean,
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this guy tells me there's no evidence for Saint Peter
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ever being in Rome. So I just lay before him.
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You know, half dozen a dozen historical references from the
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time by both pagan Romans and early Christians. He didn't
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believe it. No, he tells him Saint Peter was never run. Well,
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we know Saint Peter was in Rome. He was crucified
36:54
upside down by the Emperor Nero. He died preaching to
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the crowds converted me any of them. We know where
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his bones were buried. We know the chapel that was
37:04
built over that his bones, his body, and we know
37:09
that's now the altar of Saint Peter's basilica. When you say, someone,
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this is historic evidence, and I said, it's not in
37:20
the Bible, and you're like, well, the Bible's not a
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newspaper and the Bible's not a history book. I have
37:25
more evidence than Saint Peter was in Rome than I
37:28
do that George Washington was the first president of the
37:29
United States. And they just laugh at you. That's not
37:39
a reasonable person. That's not a person moving toward humanity
37:43
and divinity, holiness, spiritual growth, perfection, if you want to
37:48
look at it that way. That's a person moving more
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toward being a brute animal and very likely demonically possessed.
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And we don't need to associate with people who are
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demonically possessed. There are specific priests in the Catholic Church
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who do exorcisms. They warn us very strongly to be
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very aware when you see that in a person, and
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it doesn't you know, it doesn't have to be an
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anti Catholic bigot. You know, it could be a dangerous
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killer or something, you know, serial killer, whatever, street thug
38:25
or sociopath. They give you signs you can look for,
38:30
and gosh, Father Rippinger, I mean so many things and tips.
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They tell us to be very aware of those people,
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that they're very dangerous and that they really hate the
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Holy Spirit within us, and they can become very violent.
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And I think I'm gonna be stepping back some from
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the debating with the anti Catholics. I'm just going to say,
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you know what, this is what the Bible says, is
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what the Church teaches. Take or leave it, and I'm
39:02
out of here. There is no need to you know,
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when you when you join in conversation with a person.
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I think it was Rex Stout's character Nero Wolf. He said,
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whenever we engage with our fellow humans, we encounter some
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level of risk. And you know he was talking as
39:27
there was a mystery novel. He's talking. You don't know
39:28
if the person is lying to you, You don't know if
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they're dangerous. Some people are very spiritually dangerous, very very
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What's an example everybody would think of Charles Manson. If
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you ever meet somebody like that, do everything you can
39:43
not to sit down and have a conversation with them,
39:45
because that demon is going to be trying to trick you,
39:51
hurt you everything possible, and you don't not need ever
39:59
to put your yourself in that position. If you're a
40:03
cop or something you have to lock somebody up like that.
40:06
You know, I'm sorry, but that's you know, I'm sure
40:09
you have dealt with that before. There are a lot
40:12
of people like that. Actually, I've encountered them, especially on
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the streets, you know. I've been a musician, I've been
40:21
out at strange times the night, and I've encountered some
40:25
pretty odd people. Anyway, if you're a social worker, you
40:32
probably need to find another job. I mean, honestly, but
40:36
if you can call a call a call an exorcist.
40:40
You should definitely use holy water, wear a brown scalp
40:43
or miraculous metal. You should use blessed oil and blessed salt,
40:50
whatever you can do, and say the Rose, pray the
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Rosary daily and be very very careful. You know, I've
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said many times in the in the mountains of North Carolina,
41:04
we probably have the largest concentration of people who practice
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wicca and witchcraft in the eastern United States. You know,
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I don't know why they all moved here, but they did,
41:16
especially around Black Mountain, around Billy Graham's hometown. Probably not
41:19
a coincidence. Ninety percent of them, I just look them
41:25
as people who practice a different religion. You know, say
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hi to them, be polite, you know, no problem. They
41:32
don't threaten me. I don't bother them. Probably scary, dangerous
41:41
people with eyes like Charles Manson. And you need to
41:45
be very very aware. And if you have kids, you
41:50
need to be hyper aware of their friends, of their influences,
41:57
their teachers. I have some really bad teachers. You need
42:02
to be hyper aware of who comes into that child's life,
42:07
and I mean hyper aware, and whether they like it
42:12
or not. You know, you said, look, you can't associate
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with that person. You don't go anywhere near that person.
42:18
And if need be, you know, you homeschool those kids.
42:21
I mean, I mist some messed up people in Catholic schools.
42:25
I mean you have that duty and responsibility as a
42:29
parent to protect your kids, and you need to be
42:32
absolutely hyper aware. Be sure to make the sign of
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the Cross in front of the person, see how they react,
42:39
Say a silent prayer across yourself, have if you got it, food,
42:43
say the blessing across yourself. Do it in a way
42:46
you make sure they see it and watch their reaction.
42:49
Don't stare at them, but be very aware of their reaction.
42:55
That's been a real shocker to me. Several times in
43:01
a play conversation with people I thought were friends in restaurants,
43:07
food comes to the table, I say signent, prayer and
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cross myself, and they freak out and start screaming at me.
43:13
Someone who had been a friend for like thirty years
43:16
freaks out and starts screaming at me and like frothing
43:19
at the mouth. Yeah, you know that's that's not of God.
43:27
I'll just put it that way. I mean, the Bible
43:29
says that the Christians greet each other with a side
43:31
of the cross, says in an axe. You know what
43:34
could they possibly have a problem with that? Except there's
43:37
a level there is some level of demonic possession, even
43:41
among people who go to church on every every Sunday
43:44
and act like and read the Bible and think they're
43:47
the holways people on the face of the earth. If
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they hate the church that Jesus founded, they hate the
43:54
teachings of Christ, and they hate Christ. It's even if
43:58
they don't know it anyway. All right, let's see if
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I can have this up. So he says, we must
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examine our conscience before approaching holy communion and not merely
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regard to the greater transgressions, but also in minor offenses.
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The apostles lay their garments upon the ass before they
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made Our Lord sit upon thereon. So we should deck
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ourselves with virtue when we prepare to receive him in communion,
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like Palm's Sunday when Jesus wrote in a town on
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a donkey. Kind of odd way of saying it, but
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that's what he meant. Some people think more of communicating
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upon certain festivals than purifying their hearts by confession, although
44:38
it is far greater importance. Wherefore, it is not he
44:41
who communicates often, or he who communicates seldom, who should
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be esteemed, but he who communicates with a clean heart.
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To receive holy communion when one is conscious of having
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committed a mortal sin is to incur the guilt of sacrilege.
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He who receives holy communion in a state of mortal
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sin profanes the holy sacri He is guilty of the
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body and blood of the Lord First Corinthians eleven twenty seven.
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That is, his sin is the same as if he
45:06
had put our Lord to death. The unworthy communicant acts
45:10
like the Philistines who took possession of the ark and
45:13
placed it close to the image of their God. Dagging,
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I guess before he introduces Christ where satan is. Holy
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communion is like the light, which is salutary to good eyes,
45:25
but hurtful to those who are diseased. So the Lord's
45:28
body is a medicine, given spiritual health to a pure heart,
45:32
but spiritual death to an unclean and evil heart. Holy
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communion is like a pillar of the cloud, enlightening the Israelites,
45:41
but enveloping the Egyptians in darkness. Ex It is fourteen twenty. Wherefore,
45:47
if any man called a mind a mortal sin before
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he communicates, let him go to confession at once, if
45:52
by any means he can do so. If it be impossible,
45:56
may he communicate, But he must first confess the sin
46:00
in question the next time he goes to confession. I
46:06
think the church teaching has changed on that a little bit.
46:08
I think it now says, don't do that. If you
46:11
know of your immortal sin, do not receive the Eucharis
46:13
under any possible reason until you've been to confession. But
46:21
Father Sprago is saying, if you had the contention to
46:24
confess the sin in question the next time you could
46:27
get to confession, it would be okay. But I don't
46:30
think that's safe. Actually, they says, for as it was
46:35
not wilfully admitted, it was remitted with the rest by
46:38
sarah dotal sacardotal absolution. No, if you're in mortal sin,
46:42
you need to go to confession. If you're in venial sin,
46:46
then that would apply. The consequence of a sacrilegious communion
46:49
are very terrible. It produces spiritual blindness, obduracy, or stubbornness
46:55
of heart, and brings upon the center chastisement, both temporal
46:58
and eternal. Say enters into the unworthy communicate, as he
47:02
did into Judas after his sacrilegious communion John thirteen twenty seven.
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When Judas took the bread from Jesus, that's when Satan
47:11
entered him. And that's because he took the body and
47:15
blood of Christ unworthily, he did not believe Jesus was
47:18
the Christ, or any way you look at hand, tended
47:23
to betray him. If the possession of the art brought
47:27
such grievous afflictions upon the Philistines, if the prophi nation
47:31
of the Sacred Vessels by Baltazar was so bitterly expiated
47:35
in Daniel VIV. What must the punishment of those who
47:39
lay violent hands be upon the body of the Lord.
47:42
The apostle tells us that infirmities and death are no
47:46
unusual chastisements of unworthy communication. That's First Corinthians eleven thirty.
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He says that many of you are sick and have
47:54
died because you've received the euchars unworthily. Remember the awful
47:59
fate of Judas, terror, despair, hatred of God, the torments,
48:03
the loss suffer, and hell begin on earth For unworthy communicants.
48:08
He who comes to the marriage feast the Holy Communion
48:11
without the wedding garment, sanctifying grace, or confirmation shall be
48:17
cast into exterior darkness. Matthew twenty two. Saint Paul warns
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the Christians of communicating unworthyly when he says he that
48:25
edith and drinketh unworthily, edith and drinketh judgment to himself,
48:30
not discerning the body of the Lord. All that is
48:32
absolutely required for worthy reception of Holy Communion is to
48:36
be in a state of grace. But it is greatly
48:38
to be desired that all unruly attachment to earthly things
48:43
should be completely given up before preach, approaching the sacrament
48:47
of the altar, save grace, meaning you're not aware that
48:50
you've committed any mortal sin. You've been baptized, you've been confirmed.
48:56
If you are not in a state of grace, as
48:58
Saint John chrystostom, why do you not go to communion,
49:02
which is instituted with the object of enabling you to
49:05
continue in that state? Let me see if I get
49:07
that right. If you are in a state of grace,
49:10
says Saint John Gristassen, I read it backwards, why do
49:13
you not continue to go to communion which was instituted
49:16
with the object of enabling you to continue in that
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state of grace. The more we are detached from earthly things,
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the greater will be our charity, And the greater our charity,
49:24
the more abundant will be the graces we receive in communion. Thus,
49:28
the avaricious or greedy, the ambitious, the intemperate, all who
49:32
indulge in their evil tendencies will derive a little benefit
49:36
from holy communion. A pure heart is the only fit
49:39
dwelling for the God of purity. Prayer, acts of prayer,
49:44
acts of self denial, and works of mercy are the
49:47
good works which ought to we ought to practice before
49:49
going to communion. At least a half hour ought to
49:53
be spent in prayer before Holy Communion. That okay, So
49:58
that's a lot more profitable possible in the traditional Latin mess.
50:05
Now we have our Catholic calisthenics are getting up and down,
50:09
kneeling and rising and singing along and repeating things, and
50:13
it can be a little hard to find time for
50:18
silent prayer or adoration in the mess. And I'm not
50:24
really big on that. I'm not really happy about that,
50:28
but you know, that's what the Church teaches these days,
50:30
so I'll obey the church. But if you can get
50:35
to Mass early, you could certainly spend a half hour
50:38
in prayer and then participate in the mass. Let's see
50:46
where I kind of lost my place there for a second. Oh,
50:49
it is advisable to hear Mass first. Obviously, we should
50:53
sit through the Mass and hear the homily and say
50:56
the prayers before going up. And in fact, the Church
50:59
says you have to at least be there for the
51:01
Our Father on the previous day. We should be especially abstemious.
51:07
That is such a hard word for me to say.
51:08
Abstemious at the table, denying ourselves worldly pleasures and amusements,
51:14
avoiding idle conversation, etc. It is well also to perform
51:19
some works of mercy. If thou give us earthly food
51:22
to Christ and the person of his poor Saint Augustine,
51:24
says Saint Augustine, he will in return give these celestial food.
51:28
Those who receive holy communion ought to possess these virtues,
51:31
in particular faith, hope, charity, humility, and meekness. It is
51:36
unusual before communion to make acts. No, it is usual.
51:41
That makes more sense. It is usual before communion to
51:45
make acts of the three theological virtues, and also of contrition.
51:48
The Church you's self seeks to awaken these sentiments of
51:51
the heart of the communicant. For after the confettio or
51:54
the where I confess that I have seen on you
51:57
know it has been said by the center implores the
52:01
pardon of God, and when elevating the sacred host, he
52:04
repeats the words of Saint John the Baptists behold the
52:07
lamb of God, et cetera. And as well as as
52:10
a centurion, Lord, I'm not worthy, et cetera. Children generally
52:13
are made to renew their baptismal vows before making their
52:16
first communion. Before communicating, we ought to make an active faith,
52:20
for our Lord always required a lively faith in those
52:24
on whom he bestowed graces, and for whose sake he
52:26
worked miracles. Thus we read that he said to the
52:29
blind man, do you believe that I can do this
52:31
unto you? And until they answer in the affirmative, he
52:34
did not heal them. We ought also to make an
52:36
active hope before communicating. When our Lord was on earth,
52:39
he never sent away anyone empty who came to him
52:42
in trustful confidence. The woman who had been afflicted for
52:45
twelve years was made whole immediately upon touching the hem
52:48
of his garment in faith Matthew nine to twenty. We
52:53
ought to make an act of charity for communicating. For
52:55
the greater our love to God, the greater his generosity
52:58
toward us, be received with love, who out of love
53:02
gives himself to us. Love him, says Saint Augustine, who
53:06
for love of thee comes to unite the mortality of
53:11
his immortality, to unite thy mortality to his immortality. We
53:18
ought to also be We ought to also humbers us
53:21
for God before communicating considering His majesty our misery, and
53:25
deploring our sinfulness. For God resisted the proud, but to
53:28
the humble heaguist grace verse Peter five to five. Maintness
53:32
is also necessary and communicant, for without it we cannot
53:34
be pleasing to Lamb of God. Our bodies must be
53:38
prepared for holy communion by fasting from midnight. Okay, yeah,
53:43
you used to actually have to fast. You couldn't have breakfast.
53:47
Church is eased up on that. Now they say an hour.
53:50
I think in some cases of sickness it can be
53:52
more like thirty minutes. You need talk with the priest
53:55
if you know, if you have an issue with that.
53:57
But yeah, it used to be that you ate no
54:00
old food after midnight on Saturday until you receive the
54:03
euchars on Sunday morning. Probably still a very good practice,
54:11
but not everybody can do that. You know, back then
54:14
people didn't really understand about diabetes and hypoglycemian blood sugar
54:19
issues or the medications that we now have to take sometimes.
54:23
So the Church is eased up on things, and you know,
54:26
the Church is always making things easier for us when
54:29
we can. We ought to make things a little harder ourselves,
54:31
but certainly not a commandment for all people. In fact,
54:37
at this point he said only those are in danger
54:40
of death may take Holy Communion after receiving or taking food.
54:45
So I mean it was really serious back in eighteen ninety.
54:50
But he did point out necessity knows no law. Those
54:53
who are dangerously ill may receive Holy Communion, So yeah,
55:01
I think at that point, yeah, your priest or your
55:06
bishop could give you permission to that. No one. An
55:09
interesting thing says your dress should be clean and suited
55:12
to your station when we go to community. This you
55:14
say we should put on better things than those in
55:17
daily wear, but not dress showily. I have so many
55:22
Catholics say you should wear a suit to church. I
55:26
wore a suit when I worked in politics. I hated
55:29
it every minute. I don't like wearing a suit. A
55:32
suit is an English tradition, it's an Anglican tradition. Why
55:35
should I wear a suit to church? I dress neatly.
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I dress in better clothes than I wear on a
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daily basis. I wear a very nice shirt, pants, dress, shoes,
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But I'm not putting on a suit, and I don't
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have to. But then you know I would also apply
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to a lot of women who maybe dress a little
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more showily than they should a little more jewelry and
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makeup a little bit low cut here and there, high
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cut elt swear. He says, to attach important to dress
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when approaching the holy table would lead us to overlook
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what is essential and mar our devotion. How many times
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have people should up late for masks because they spent
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so much time with their hair and makeup. You know,
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this is it's not supposed to do that. You're not
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supposed to do that at all. He says. Shabby clothes
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are no shame to the wearer. Christ was poor and
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he loved sup poor. He looks to the interior and
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not to the exterior of a man very important. I've
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been in so many churches where you know, you got poor,
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hard working folks coming in and they're dressed in what
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they've got, and then you've got people millionaires showing it
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in everything they wear and their jewelry and their hair
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and everything. And it's so not how things are supposed
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to be, and unfortunately a lot of people think it is.
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And a lot of people look down on somebody who
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shows up in boots and jeans. But you never knowing
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that the boots and gens is the best that person's got,
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you know, and they shouldn't be treated badly because of that.
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In some way, shouldn't be treated better because of their
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you know, tailored suit or fine dress or pearls or
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you know, anyway. Our demeanors should be reverent. When we
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go to the communion. We should avoid singularity and everything
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prejudicial to devotion. In other words, your dress shouldn't get
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in the way of what you're there for. When the
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priest repeats the words dominating on some deepness, the intending
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communicant should strike his breast. Rising from that's the Lord
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I'm not worthy. Rising from his knees, goes slowly up
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to the altar rail, which I wish we still had
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in every church. We need altar rails back. Regardless what
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the Bishop of Charlotte says without looking about him, Yeah,
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don't look around. Don't be looking at what other people
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are doing. It's none of your business. Focus on God.
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When the priests advances to give him the sacred host,
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let him raise his head, close his eyes, open his mouth,
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put his tongue forward as far as his underlip, and
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let him swallow the host. As soon as possible, and
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after a few moments pause, returned reverently to his place. Yes,
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communion on the tongue is preferable. It is more showing
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honor to what you're receiving. It's showing honor to the
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priest who's feeding you in his role. Was when Jesus
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said to Saint Peter, feed my sheep, feed my lambs.
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It's almost impossible for the host to be dropped if
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you receive on a tongue. It's very possible for the
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host to be dropped. If you receive in the hands,
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you can trip, you can follow, anything can happen. You know,
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teenagers not paying attention, bumping into one another. That's not good. Also,
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it's very common for Satanists and you know, other witches
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and such to go up and act like they're Catholic,
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receive in the hand, walk out with the host, and
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desecrate it. Receiving on the tongue prevents nearly every abuse
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of the Eucharist that I can think of. It would
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be pretty darn hard to sneak one out in your mouth.
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So anyway, and at this time, you know, eighteen nineties,
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the Catholic was receiving the Euchros in the form of
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the bread and not the wine. At another time he said, well,
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you know, the faithful should receive the Blood of Christ
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as well. It's not necessary because Jesus is fully present
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in both. And of course during COVID we all stop
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being offered the chalice, and I haven't seen that come
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back in any church I've been to since. So anyway,
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while we are now under the Norvis ord, oh if
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you know the New Mass of you know, Vatican two.
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While we may not entirely appreciate or agree with the
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way things are done these days and the liturgy and everything,
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we can still have that attitude of respect, approach worthily
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and be as reverent as possible. That certainly means turn
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your cell phone off. That certainly means don't be looking
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around at other people. That certainly means fast if you
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can before and you know, go to confession regularly and
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just do the best you can and pray and acknowledge.
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You know, there's several prayers you can do upon receiving
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the Eucharist. I think the animate Christy is most common.
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You know, we can at least say that sometimes we
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do have to leave church immediately after commuting, a media actors,
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even communion. It's not good, but sometimes we can't avoid it. Okay,
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if you've got a sick family member you've got to
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get back to. If you do have to work on
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Sunday and your boss expects you there by noon, If
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for some reason you had to bring your pet with
1:01:17
you and had to leave them in the car for
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you know, thirty minutes while you went into mass. Sometimes
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that happens, you know, Sometimes you have no you have responsibilities,
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certainly a kid that has to be dealt with, elderly
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family member, so many valid reasons. But if possible, stay
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and say some prayers afterward, leave the church reverently, use
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the Holy water on the way out. I would hope
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you would speak to some people in the parking lot
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or as soon as you have got to a public area,
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make them feel welcome. That's something that's far too often
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overlooked in Catholic churches. But just be as reverent as possible,
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and remember that the church doesn't understand if you sometimes
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have to show up late for a valid reason, sometimes
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have to leave early for a valid reason. Sometimes have
1:02:08
a medical condition you know that interferes with things, And
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just talk with your priest and let them know. If
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you're a good priest, or you come, talk to you
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about it, if you do it two or three times.
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But no, talk to your priests and let them know
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and see ask advice. Ask you know, how can you know?
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He may say, pray the Rosary on the way home.
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You know, if you have to leave immediately after communicate communing,
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walk out very quietly, make no stir, and start praying
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the rosemary. You know, you know that's probably fairly common advice.
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But yeah, talk it out with your priests. The church
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bends over backwards to accommodate us. That's what Vadigan two
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is all about, for better or for worse. So and
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you know, many parts of it are very good, some
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or not in my opinion, but again I refer to
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the authority of the church. You'll have a great week
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and I will talk to you next time.