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Show 209: THE CELEBRATION OF HOLY MASS · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A. We all welcome today's show. We got an interesting
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one today. We'll start, as usual with a few questions
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and answers from the classic work radio replies written by
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Father's Rumble and Cart back in the oh, I don't know, thirties,
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forties they went on. They did like four in the series.
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It is for a long time, very popular program in America,
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England and Australia and Canada. Very popular in Canada as well. Protestants, atheists,
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you name it would write in questions or I guess.
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At one point they even took call in so you know,
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as things progressed and challenged them to defend the Catholic
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teaching and they did a great job. And today we'll
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talk about angels, and you know, it's always very interesting
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to talk about angels. And then we'll get into back
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into follow Sparago's exhaustive explanation of the Catechism the Catholic Church.
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And we're still talking about the Mass, and this is
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the most important thing as a Catholic, you know, but
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this is the celebration of the Mass, and they'll be
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a very interesting topic as well. You know, Father of
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Sparago's work is just really great. I actually got a
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really nice message. You know, as I mentioned in last
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week's show, they've let me back on YouTube. So I
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got all the uncensored Catholic podcasts now up on YouTube,
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and people have been discovering the podcasts that had never
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heard it before. And one guy in particular or woman,
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I don't know, and a couple of comments along these lines,
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a couple of questions, but really, just you know, tell
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me about father Sparago. I'm wanted where can I get
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this book? This is fascinating and it really is, it
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really is. I've gotten some really great comments over the
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past few months working through this from cradle Catholics, you know,
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people that went to Catholic school and the whole bit
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fully catechized, and they're like, wait, I never heard this before.
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They the nuns didn't teach us this. You know, a
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lot of things were emphasized in the eighteen hundreds. His
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I think his book was published somewhere around eighteen eighty
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that we really fail on in katechisis and Catholic teaching,
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especially of students and young adults, but also of adults.
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That was really emphasized. You know, even just that recently
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one hundred years ago. People just kind of gloss over
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it or forget to think about it, or you know, well,
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we've had the infection of so much social justice crap,
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and that's what it is. We need to be teaching
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about angels and saints and the Mass and sin and
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purgatory and heaven and hell. We don't need to be
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talking about environmental justice. Frankly, I think anybody who talks
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about environmental justice, he's a swift kick in the ass. Okay,
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remember I am uncensored. I can say that I used
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to have a priest I met right after I converted. Boy,
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he was a shocker. All the priests I had known
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have been this very quoth, quiet, scholarly, very holy men.
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And here he was from Pittsburgh, and he cussed like
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a sailor, oftentimes right in his homily. And they actually
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moved him out of the church because he had a
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terribly hot temper, and they moved him on. But yeah,
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that was a shock. Wait wait, we can actually, but
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we're not supposed to. We're not supposed to use obscenity unnecessarily.
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That's not a good thing for Catholics to do. But
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apparently whoever catechized him never told him that. But you know,
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it's just a different culture. You know, it is a
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different culture. You're talking about Midwestern steel towns and such.
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They two ten or you know, New York, New Jersey.
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They don't seem to emphasize language as much as we
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might hear in the South. But you know, when it
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comes to so called environmental justice, I think it's just ridiculous. Okay,
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I am you might call a natural environmentalist. I'm a woodsman.
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I hunt and fish, I am an herbalist, I grow gardens.
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I am really big on clean air and water and good, rich,
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healthy soil and protecting habitat for animals. And you know,
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I'm a natural environmentalist. This whole justice aspect of it is,
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you know, just ridiculous. Bottom line is God made man
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stewards of the earth, and we have a duty to
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care for and tend and cultivate what He gave us.
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And no, you absolutely have no right to poison the
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air and water, to poison the soil. You know, for one,
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it's just an insult to God's creation. Now, that's what
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a Catholic teaching ought to be, especially when that degradation
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to the environment negatively affects other people, and people get
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cancer because of the chemicals you've been dumping in the water.
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That's not acceptable at all, but you know, well we've
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been through it before. I mean, the environmentalism taught in
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Catholic just in the universities these days, is really socialistic
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and astheistic at its core. I mean, they try to
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teach people that Jesus was a vegan, and if you
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just read your Bible once, you know he wasn't. I
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mean the first thing he did if the resurrection, well
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not the first thing, but like your third thing, I
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guess when he appears to the apostles down at the
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ocean where he helps him catch fish, is has them
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cook him some fish and he eats it. Now, that's
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the glorified risen body of Christ. During his life he
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not only ate a whole lot of fish, but at
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least at the Passover supper he was eating lamb. Okay,
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that's required to eat the Passover dinner. No way was
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Jesus vegan. In fact, in the Bible he warns that
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goes who say that it is sinful to eat meat,
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or that one should be a vegetarian, or representatives of
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the Antichrist. They're speaking for the devil, not for God.
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God ordered everything and we are to be stewards of
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the Earth, and that's the right view. Climate change is
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just that there is only a fixed amount of carbon
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in our world, in the earth, in the atmosphere, in
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the sea. There's only a fixed amount of carbon. And
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part of it's us. We're made of carbon. Okay, maybe
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things could get a little out of balance at times. Sure,
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maybe that's what killed the dinosaurs. You know, it looks
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like maybe a lot of volcanoes erupted, or maybe a
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bunch of meteorites hit the Earth. More than likely, if
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it was a bunch of metia rites, it was just
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a bunch of dust that clouded out the sun for
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a prolonged period of time and caused the earth to cool,
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and the plants they needed to eat died and then
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they died. Okay, things can get out of balance. But
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Mount Pinatubo, I believe, or Pintabo. This was in the eighties,
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I mean maybe what early nineties. I was a kid
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when this thing erupted. Boy, people were freaking out. I mean,
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the biggest volcanic eruption we had seen in a thousand years,
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and it absolutely filled the sky. In that one eruption,
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it put off more more gas and ash and dust,
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and more carbon was put into the atmosphere and noxious
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gases and all kinds of bad stuff than all of
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human had ever created since the dawn of man to
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the present day, or would ever create for the next
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million years. Put that in context, I mean when someone
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talks about cow farts or you know, your exhaust from
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your car causing global warming. In one eruption event, and
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it was over the course I think maybe three months,
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more carbon was put in the atmosphere plus really other
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really nasty stuff, I mean, bad stuff than all of
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humanity could ever or will ever produce. And what happened
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was I believe maybe one point three degree rise in
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temperature that lasted for about three months after the eruption.
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That was it. What happened, Well, where did all that
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gas go? What happened? Well, see, God made this really
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nice system where most of the earth is comprised of
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water and most of what's on land is plants. And
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what happens is that water evaporates and it goes up
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into the atmosphere of mccorns clouds, and those clouds basically
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gather all those dust and ash particles and such, and
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that becomes seeds that make rain. So all that mess
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that went in the atmosphere was washed out of the atmosphere,
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and all those plants on land breathe in essentially carbon
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dioxide and breathe out oxygen. So as long as we
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protect our planet against desertification, turning woods into deserts, and
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we need to do a better job of that, there's
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no doubt about it. And as long as we protect
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our water, and we need to do a whole lot
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better job of that with all its mainly it saw
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the plastics in the ocean right now, that's the issue.
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The system that God set up in his divine providence
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is self correcting, self caring, regenerative, and all we got
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to do, I mean, even in oh, the little ice
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age in Europe, you know, when Charles Dickens was writing
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and all the you know, the Christmas scenes have all
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the deep snow and everything. Everybody was burning tons of coal,
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all of Western Europe burning tons of coal to survive. Now,
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that was a natural thing for the temperature to cool
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down all of a sudden. The earth runs basically in
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cycles of warming and cooling, and that was a cool period.
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That was a short cool period. But all that coal
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they were burning didn't do a darn thing to increase
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the temperature of the planet. You know, let's this is
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not a matter of justice. Remember, life isn't fair. Life
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is not fair. You don't come into this world deserving
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a thing. If you have parents that take care of you,
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that's a gift from God. That's a grace that God
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gave you. If you have food to eat, that's a
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grace that God gave you on your own merits. Because
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we are in a fallen state, we deserve absolutely nothing.
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So let's get rid of this justice bs and just say,
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you know what, as Catholics, as Christians, and we can
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agree with Muslims and Jews and Buddhists on this and
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Hindus probably even you know atheists. They want to clean
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environment too. We need to be responsible stewards of the
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resources God gave us. It's like the talents in the Bible.
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God gave us these talents, we need to use them responsibly.
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All this justice crap is communism. That's communism, that is
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effect in fact of the Church, and it needs to
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be done away with. And now I'll get off my soapbox.
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You know. I actually, you know, I work in permaculture
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and as an herbalist and an outdoorsman and a woodsman
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a car of wooden spoons, and we baskets and make
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pottery and do all that kind of stuff. I live
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breathe this stuff, so I can go on a rant
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about the gosh how most of the initiatives that government
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and academia and nonprofits have done to try to help
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the environment have actually degraded and hurt the environment. And
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most of the things they're proposing now are so wrongheaded
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as it could, you know, cause the deaths of millions
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of people. But the unfortunate thing is many of these people,
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many of them in powerful positions, they want to kill
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millions of people. They want to and then they've specifically
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said it. I mean, from the eugenics movement, the progressive movement,
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the abortion movement, the birth control They want to get
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rid of a large segment of the population. And isn't
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it interesting? I mean, like Hillary Clinton said when I
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guess it was when she was first running for president,
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it could have been before then. She said she was
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an early twentieth century progressive like Margaret Sanger. Okay, what
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early twentieth century progresses belief Well, they believed that all blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Italians, Irish,
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all Catholics, Hindus, Chinese, Africans, of course Native Americans, we
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can put throw them in missing. Anybody, I don't know
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needed to be exterminated. That we needed to control the
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population of the planet. And the only people that needed
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to live on this planet were essentially white Anglo Saxon
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Protestants who were college educated and among the elite. And
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I think we can look at the United Nations and
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the World Economic Forum and et cetera, et cetera, very
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still much in that pattern basically in America was one
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of in England was where eugenics, the extermination of mass
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groups or the reduction of the population, and generic genetic
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engineering and all that began. Georgeard Shawl was should be famous.
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I guess most people have glossed over this, but he
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made a film where he's sitting there talking and he
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suggested the gas chamber to get rid of unwanted people.
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Anybody who had had blind, deaf, mentally handicapped down syndrome,
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they want him exterminated. That was then exported to Germany
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where you know, the progressives, the Nazis of Germany put
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it into action, killed six million people or so, went
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to the Soviet Union where they killed about thirty million
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people or so using such techniques, and then came back
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to America with the legalization of abortion, where we've killed
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more people than the Germans and Soviets ever dreamed of
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through abortion, birth control and what have you. And you
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know it is an absolutely evil force at its coret
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No one said, so, Hillary, you're saying you're a racist
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who wants to kill everybody who's has dark skin or
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as Catholic or Jewish. That would have been an interesting
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question for her to have to answer, wouldn't it. What
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did she admire in Margaret Sanger, the person who literally
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said all black people need to be exterminated through abortion
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and birth control? What did she admire about Margaret Sanger?
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That would have been an interesting question to answer. But
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of course we have a media that's on the side
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of the bad and not the good. So let's get on.
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Let's get on, all right, radio replies. Questioner asks, this
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limitation of the teaching authority of the Catholic Church the
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questions of faith and morals is very convenient, and they've
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just been talking about how old the earth might be
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and all that, and they said, you know, basically, the
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church doesn't have way in on that. The Church is
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concerned with faith and morals and theology and doctrine, and
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an answer, it's not a matter of convenience. Is a
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question of the will of Christ, who gave as much
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jurisdiction as he thought fit. And says, do you not
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teach that God's creative activities extended also to the production
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of angelic beings? And they say yes. Scripture often speaks
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of angels. Christ himself taught their existence. Human experience of
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their influence leaves no doubt on the subject. And it
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is reasonable that God should have completed the hierarchy of
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creative beings by producing purely spiritual creatures in addition to
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merely material and semi material beings. Not all evidence depends
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upon since experience. I have never seen an angel. I
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am not now in a normal condition to see one,
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and I do not expect to do so until I
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reach Heaven. I still want a material world, but I
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believe in the world of God, and God should know
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whether or not angels exist. Person says I do not
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believe anything without body, form or shape can exist, and
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he answers. The priest answers in that case, of course,
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you are purely a materialist, not only that you are
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an atheist, for such a assertion denies the very existence
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of God. God is a pure spirit and can certainly
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create beings of a purely spiritual matter. And this pure's
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the interesting part. After the man basically declared himself an
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atheist saying he does not believe anything that's purely spiritual
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can exist, he then identifies as a Protestant. And there
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is no uniform Protestant teaching on angels. Okay, some Protestants
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believe in angels, some don't. A lot of Protestants will
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say things like, you know, Grandma died and she's now
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an angel. No, that's not true. Angels and people are
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two totally different things. God created angels first and then
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human second. If Grandma died and went to heaven, she's
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now a saint. Okay, Now there are angels like Saint Michael,
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the arch Angel, who are also saints. All good angels are,
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I guess by net edition, in some degree of sainthood.
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But a human being can never become an angel, and
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the angels themselves are quite clear about that, as are
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the demons they hate. The demons hate the human race.
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The angels are astounded that God would give humans the Eucharist,
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among other things, the grace of redemption. Once an angel
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decides to be either good or evil, they can never
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change their mind. A human being can fail a thousand
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times and a thousand times be redeemed. It is a
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great honor. Yeah, so this person says. Our Protestant clergymen
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admit that angels are not personal beings, but says they
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are impersonal messages of or a good influence from God.
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And the priest's answers, that is but a concession to
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unbelieving rationalism, and it is quite against the word of God.
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Scripture insists that they are personal beings. Christ said, their
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angels always see the face of my Father who is
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in heaven. That's Matthew Agus eighteen ten. Messages and influences
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are not permanent and don't see Saint Peter says God spared.
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Saint Peter said, God spared not the angels who sinned.
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Second Peter two four. Impersonal influences do not sin. Person
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asks what form have these angels, and they answer, we
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cannot speak of the form or shape of purely spiritual beings.
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God has no form or shape. Shape supposes dimensional arrangement,
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and dimensions suppose quantity of matter. Angels can exert spiritual
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force and even will the action of natural physical forces,
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but only with God's permission. If at times they have
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appeared to men in bodily forms, they have but assumed
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appearances not proper to them, but most probably formed from
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the material atmospheric elements, in order to manifest their presence
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in a way keeping with men's lower level. And the
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person asks, so, then they are nothing like your wing statues,
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and they answer no. God told the Jews to carve
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angels with wings spread, to represent to men those swift
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spiritual beings to whom distances is nothing Exodus twenty five eighteen.
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But God did not say they are exact representations of angels.
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Person says, will you explain a little more clearly what
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angels are? And they answer, angels are purely spiritual beings.
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A brick is a purely material being. Man with body
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and soul is partly material and spart partly spiritual. God
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has no material body, and as purely spiritual. To complete
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the external manifestations of His perfections, he created beings of
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a purely spiritual nature, angels. The angels, then, are definite
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beings which have the qualities belonging to our souls, but
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not those of our bodies. Now, our souls have two
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chief faculties, intelligence and will, and these are possessed by angels.
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But since they are purely spiritual, they cannot be seen
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by our eyes any more than can God himself. And
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the question says, has everyone a good angel to defend
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and protect him? And they say yes. Christ took an
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ordinary little child and said, despise not one of these
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little ones. For I say to you, they're angels in heaven.
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Always see the face of my Father Matthew, eighteen ten.
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There is no reason why one child should have an
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angel appointed to guard it rather than another, and no
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reason why an angel, once appointed, should desert its charge
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during life. In fact, the farther child wanders from God
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as it grows up, the more need of a guardian
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angel's care and protection. And being a rationalist, of course,
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the person says, do not the lessons of earthquakes and
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similar disasters prove such belief in guardian angels to be
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humbug or nonsense, and they answer, no, angels are not
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supposed to stop earthquakes. They co cooperate in the work
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of our salvation, inspiring good thoughts and making us an
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easy one. Temptation suggests themselves. I do not disbelieve in
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angels because they do not do what they are not
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supposed to do. A guardian angel could where God's will
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prevent temporal calamities, but that is not ordinary and is
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not ordinarily to be expected. Temporal and natural events depend
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upon temporal and natural causes. Nor do temporal calamities really matter.
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It is the supernatural life of the soul that really counts.
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It is enough to remark that God has appointed certain
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supernatural means for our supernatural safety, and amongst those means
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are guardian angels. And finally, the person asks the Catholic
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burial service, asks God to bless the grave and sends
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his angel keep it. If there is an angel by
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every Catholic grave, what does he do there? And they
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answer all who Christians have to admit that God has
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done much for men by the mystery of angels. The
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body of a Christian is holy, it has been consecrated
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by baptism, and will one day rise again glorious and immortal.
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The Church speaks in a human way and confides the body,
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which the relatives cannot keep, to the custody of God's angels.
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It is a very beautiful thought. But when you speak
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of an angel by every grave, you evolve a difficulty
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from your imagination. An angel is not a creature subject
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to the loss of space. If you picture some dominutive,
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winged animals sitting perpetually upon a tombstone, you are entertaining
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a ludicrous thought. But such a picture in no way
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corresponds with reality, and there is not a Christian who
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would not laugh at your simplicity. An angel is a
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spirit whose being is not commensurate with space, and whose
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powers are of the intellectual and volitional orders. An angel
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could operate in London and New York at one at
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the same time, yet ever remaining in heaven. And when
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the Church commits a grave to the care of an angel,
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she asks that the angel may intercede for the soul
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which inhabited the body. We bury so with so much sorrow,
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and commits the body to its care also, since it
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will cooperate in the resurrection of that body as God's
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ministering spirit. It in due time. All right, Now, let
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me get to Father Sparago here. And as I always say,
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father Sparago was check. I'm not always well. I have
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no idea if I'm pronouncing his name correctly. It could
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be Spirago, it could be something else. But it's spelled
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s p I R A g O. So do get
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his book Ten Books offers him. You can find a
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used copy online much cheaper, you know, if it's in
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good condition, well worth having. But it's also available in
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archive dot org if you just want to read it
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for free. So the celebration of the Holy Mass, the
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holy sacrifice of the Mass is only offered to God.
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It may be offered to him with a fourfold intention,
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by way of atonement, a petition of praise, and of thanksgiving,
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a simple water here, oh, there we go. When we
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offer sacrifice, we acknowledge that he to whom we offer
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it is the author of all beings, a sovereign lord
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of all things, and that we consequently owe him homage.
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A sacrificial sacrificial act is therefore an act of adoration,
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which can be offered to no creative being, be he
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saint or angel. No one has ever offered sacrifice except
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to the true God, or to one to whom he
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erroneously supposed to be the true God. Under the old dispensation,
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there were various sacrifices, sent offerings, burnt offerings, sacrifices of praise, etc.
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We have but one sacrifice which answers all these needs
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to make. Atonement is pre eminently the object of the
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sacrifice of Mass. This is the chief intention for which
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it is celebrated. The sacrifice of the Mass is offso
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an immense potency. If we would ask for anything, No
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gift or favor is too great to be obtained by
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means of it. For what we implore is something finite,
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something created, whereas what we offer something divine, something infinite.
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It cannot be imagined that God, who is so generous
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that he richly rewards a cup of cold water given
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in his name, but will not reward us when we
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offer him the chalice containing the blood of his divine son.
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Saint Bonaventure says, if a commander is taken prisoner, he
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is not liberated into a large sum has been paid
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for his ransom. Now in holy Mass. We can say, behold,
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O Eternal Father, my only begotten son, whom all the
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earth cannot contain, is now a prisoner in our hands.
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We will not release him until that for which we
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earnestly implore of thee has been granted to us for
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his sake. The holy sacrifice of the Mass is also
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a sacrifice of praise that alone can be praised, which
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is praiseworthy. The more good there is a man, the
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more praise can be given to him. God is the
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supreme and infinite good. All the creatures he has made
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cannot praise him enough. Glorify the Lord, exalt him as
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much as you can, for he be above all praise.
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And I think that's ecclesiasticus, which is syrac. I don't
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think it's ecclesiastis sees being dyslexic, I cannot tell the
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two abbreviations apart. But I am believing this is ecclesiasticus,
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which you should have in your Catholic Bible under the
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name of Sirac. Yet there is one means whereby we
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can worthly praise God, and that is by the sacrifice
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of the Mass. Upon the altar. Christ praises the god
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Head as he ought to be praised, As neither angel
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nor saint, much less moral man is able to praise him,
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One single mask is more glory to God than all
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the angels and saints in heaven are capable of rendering him.
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The glory given him is as much greater as God
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is more exalted than his creatures. In no way can
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God be more honored by the spotless victim upon the altar.
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Christ instituted the Mass for this end, to enable the
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Church to give glory to God and other end. Another
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intention for which the Mass may be celebrated is to
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give God. Thinks if anyone has done the a kindness,
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says coach him, thou art bound to make him a
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fitting return, unless thou wout'st appear ungrateful. Now consider what
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countless benefits we have received from God, and think how
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admirably He has made the earth fashioned man, how he
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approves continually for our sustenance. Think above all of the
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work of our redemption, the institution of the Sacraments, and
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of many graces He has conferred on us. We will
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not say with tobias or we'll see, will we not, Yes,
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will we not say with Tobias, what wages shall we
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give him? Or what can be worthy of his benefits?
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Tobit twelve two. Again, you must have a Catholic Bible
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to have the Book of Tobit. Martin Luther removed Tobad
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from the Bible because he didn't think well, very very
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relevant today's show didn't he isn't it. He didn't want
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Protestants to believe that angels intercede from them. He also
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despise charitable acts of charity. I mean he literally boasted
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about killing people and not giving alms. Seriously. So the
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Book of Tobit, the archangel Rafael goes to help a
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devout Jew who gives a lot of to charity and
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helps him, heals him, helps his son, final wife. And
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you know, Martin Luther didn't like that, and that's why
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Protestants don't believe in angels like we do. Anyway, see
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that you have the sacrifice of the mass. Uh. Therefore
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it is in your power to make a worthy return
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for dibuying benefits. For as our Lord gave thanks to
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God at the Last Supper, he now gives thanks in
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the Mass. And the thanksgiving offered by God is infinite.
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Surpassing in value that of all angels and all mankind.
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It is the whole company of Heaven and all good
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men on earth. If the whole company of Heaven and
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all good men on earth were to unite with you
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in one unceasing act of thanksgiving, you would not give
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God's as much thanks as is rendered to Him in
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one Mass by his divine son. How great is the
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love of God towards us. Not only does he lavish
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innumerable benefits upon us, but at the same time he
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places with it in our reach an excellent means of
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repaying worthily the great blessings we have received. The holy
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sacrifice of Mass may also be offered in honor of
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angels and saints. When we offer Holy Mass in honor
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of the saints, it is the same as when a
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play is acted in honor of a prince. Although no
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illusion may be made in it to the prince, yet
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he accepts it graciously. Even so, the blessed take special
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delight in the Mass when it is celebrated in their honor.
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Although the passion of Christ alone is re enacted in
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it and is offered solely to God. When offered in
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honor of the saints. The Mass is essentially a sacrifice
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of thanksgaving and of petition, for we give thanks to
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God for the graces bestowed on the Saints, and beseech
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Him to grant us grace through their intercession. Masses celebrated
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with this intention, the accidental glory of the saints has increased,
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but not the degree of happiness they enjoy. Saint Gertrude
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often had Mass in honor of the saints, and they
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generally appeared to her to thank her. During the Mass,
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she was permitted to see them shining in greater glory,
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rating garments more of a splendid The renewed presence of
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her son upon earth also gives the Mother of God
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a thousand times more joy than all the psalms, litanys,
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and prayers you could recite in her honor, and doubtless
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she will show you special favor if you hear or
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celebrate Mass in her honor. The holy sacrifice of the
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Mass can also be offered for the souls of the
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departed who have been members of the Catholic Church and
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have not died in a state of mortal sin. Another
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book cut from the Bible by Martin Luther and his followers.
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Of course, the books of Maccabeeks, where they explained why
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we should pray for the dead. They didn't like that either.
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The Council of Trend expressly declares that the sacrifice of
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the Mass may be offered for the dead. It is
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unquestionably true that the departed may be assisted by holy Mass,
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that God is thereby induced to deal with them more
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leniently than their sins deserve. And that's according to Saint Augustine.
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From the earliest ages of Christianity, it was customary to
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offer the holy sacrifice for the faithful departed and give
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them a memento in every Mass, as is done now
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after the consecration. Tertullian states that this was the practice
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of the apostles themselves. We know that Saint Monica begs
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Saint Augustine to remember her the Altar of God after
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her departure. She was not concerned, says Saint Augustine, about
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the embalming or preparing of her body for burial. She
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was not solicitous about her sepulture or the monument be
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raised through her memory. Her only anxiety was that intercession
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which should be made for her at the altar. What
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a contrast to the Christians of present day. Holy Mass
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may not be publicly celebrated for non Catholics, such as
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Jesus and Protestants after their death. We cannot, says put
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Innocent the Third, hold communion after their death with those
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with whom we held no commune during their life. To
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offer that sacrifice for such persons by name, as we
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do for Catholic Catholics would be out of harmony with
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the Catholic teaching. It is, however, permitted to offer up
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Holy Mass privately for non Catholics, and it will avail
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them if they were free from mortal sin at the
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time of their death. The Holy sacrifice of the Mass can, however,
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be offered for the living, whether Catholics or non Catholics.
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Holy Mass may be said for the living. We know
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that it is well to pray for our brethren when
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we are present at the Holy sacrifice, and in every Mass,
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the memento is made for the living Father. Coachm tells
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us that prayers for others is far more Effication is
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efficacious if it is offered during the Mass, and we
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can even obtain the conversion of sinners by saying Mass
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or having Mass said for them. No better assistance than
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this can be given to the sick and dying. We
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may also offer holy sacrifice for unbelievers during their lifetime,
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because Christ died for all men, and the Church intercedes
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for infidels, etc. On Good Friday. The greater the number
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of persons from whom a Mass is said, the less
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profit it does does each individual derived from it. For
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this reason, priests are strictly forbidden to accept more than
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one gratuity for one Mass. From time immemorial, Mass has
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been offered for individuals, for it could not be supposed
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that a Mass which is said for hundreds or thousands
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of people could profit each one as much as if
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it were said for him alone. Not the priests alone,
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but all the faithful who are president Mass may offer
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the holy sacrifice for a special intention. The people who
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are present when Mass is celebrated offer it with the
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officiating priests. The priest offers a sacrifice in his own person,
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the people offer it by his hands. Hence, Saint Peter
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speaks of Christians as a kingly priesthood one Peter two nine,
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and the Jews of old were called a priestly kingdom.
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Exodus nineteen six. In the prayers of the Mass, the
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priest includes the people with himself, as those who offer
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the oblation or rite fra trade fraudres prayer of the brothers. Essentially,
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in fact, the priest must of necessity have someone to
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offer it with him, for on no account is it
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permitted to say Mass without a server who represents the people.
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And as those who assist it Mass are fellows sacrificers
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with the priests, it follows that their prayers have the
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same power as his. The faithful ought. Therefore, whenever they
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hear Mass, to offer it for some definite intention. This
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may be done either at the commencement of the Mass,
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or at the offer tory, or immediately after the consecration.
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Take heed, old Christian that in the Mass you frequently
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offer up the divine victim to his heavenly Father. The
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more often you do this, the more abundantly will you
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be enriched. Those who neglect thus to offer the Holy
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Mass in word or in thought lose much that they
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might gain. The due blessing of Mass does not consist
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merely in being present at it, but in uniting oneself
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in spirit to the priests who offers it. All right,
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we'll wrap it up there. It's very interesting, you know,
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convert Catholicism went through RCIA. I don't remember what it's
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called now, it's got a new name. But great priests,
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scholarly priest, wonderful priest gave me great books to read.
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No one ever mentioned offering up mass the sacrifice of
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mess for somebody or for an attention. No one ever
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mentioned me praying the Rosary for an attention, or praising
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the divine mercy for an attention intention or not attention obviously,
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or offering up my sufferings as penance or for another person.
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These were things not taught. I don't know if they're
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being taught in Catholic school now. Maybe you went to
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a really good one and maybe they did teach this.
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But in the eighteen nineties, Father's spiragos certainly emphasize these points.
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