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Show 55: Prayer is a weapon against evil.... especially these prayers · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I want to get into some
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well makes some solutions today. You know, things are going really bad in
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the world. I mean, you only have to turn the news to understand
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that we have a senile, desiccated moron in the White House who blasphemously calls
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himself Catholic, who's steering our country straight to hell. We have the press
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where the precipice of World War three with Russia and China. People including one
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of my very best friends, are in grave danger in Ukraine. One of
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my very very best friends lives in Odessa and is facing bombing on daily basis.
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And her son has just about he's recently turned eighteen and he's in college
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and any day he's probably gonna be forced to go fight for his country.
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And yeah, it's not good, not good at all. You know,
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I don't support what I guess, was it Lindsey Graham has said fight to
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the last Ukrainian or is that just I don't know, maybe that's a euphemism
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someone made about something he said. But pouring money into Ukraine to prolong the
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war, you know, President Trump would have prevented this war. He would
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have brought the two sides to the table and worked out a negotiation because he
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told Putin straight out he Newton Moscow if he ever invaded Ukraine. Biden and
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Lindsey Graham and them there they I don't think they my opinion only I don't
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know what their minds are. I think they're glad to see this war go
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on until the last Ukrainian because they get a whole lot of money from defense
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contractors. They have a whole lot And again that's just my opinion. I
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believe they get a whole lot of money from defense contractors. I should say
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that. I don't have evidence. I'm not making any accusations, but they
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don't seem any hurry to end this war. Put it that way here in
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America. You know, yesterday we had a ballot proposition in Ohio that would
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have helped protect the unborn children, and the Democrats got their vote out.
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All these college educated women went out and voted to kill babies, and we
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lost. We lost by tremendous numbers. If President Trump is not re elected,
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I don't honestly believe we'll ever have a real election again in America.
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It is so corrupted. They're stealing everything and it's bad, and I mean
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on a more personal level. You know, another one of my friends is
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losing her house, and one of my very good friends who's just in a
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horrendous car accident and miracle he's survived, but he's lost his vision and they're
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hoping, you know, the brain swelling him go down and you know,
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they can do some surgeries and he'll be able to see again, but that
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kind of tramagic brain injury, he's not going to just go away without a
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miracle. So I would ask everyone to pray we'll happenup for three of my
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friends, Julium Elkova in Ukraine and her family, Elisa Bernelly in Italy who's
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losing losing her house and facing major legal battles. And Jim McDermott here in
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North Carolina, who has two young daughters and his life will never be a
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saying barring a miracle. So we need to pray for a miracle. So
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we're going to get into some prayers you can say that will actually make a
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difference in this world. Our weaponry as Christians is prayer. But before we
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do that, let's go with the radio replies. You know, I'd like
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to quote from this classic book from the nineteen thirties to start every show,
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because it's just simple apologetics. Today, the priests are questioned if the soul
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is immortal, and they say, yes, the body is naturally immortal.
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The soul, by its very nature is immortal. Further, the person asks,
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what indications do you have that the soul is immortal, that the soul
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will and indeed must survive. The death of the body is demonstrated demonstrable by
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many points of view. Firstly, it's a central structure for bids dissolution by
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death. Death is the disintegration of parts. Only composite things can die.
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Yet the soul is not composite. It is power of pure immage. Its
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power of pure immaterial thought proves its independence of matter. It is endowed with
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spiritual faculties and is as spiritual as the faculties it possesses, which will enable
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it to live and operate when separated from the body. Not being material,
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it can never be destroyed or fall to pieces like matter, Nor would God
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endow it with a nature essentially fitted to live on just for an idol,
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just for an idle meaning, and with the intention of annihilating it after all.
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Secondly, every individual experiences a sense of moral obligation, and every obligation
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demands sufficient sanction. If the state said this is the law, and I
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replied, what if I did not observe it, then it would be ludicrous.
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With the state is supplied to reply, oh, well, thenough would
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happen? I only say that it is the law. If you break it,
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you break it. I suppose, well, that would be a joke
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and not a law. I know that I shall have to answer someday from
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my attitudes toward the interior sense of moral obligation. I can go right through
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this life without encountering anyone capable of judging me concerning it. The real answer
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must be given at the judgment seat of God, and my soul will have
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to be there. Consequently, it must survive. Thirdly, a more universal
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view of human life shows that the many inequalities which offend against the sense of
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justice, we know that justice will be done someday, and is not always
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done in this life. It will be done in the next. This implies
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our perseverance, and therefore are living on after death. Fourthly, every soul
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naturally has an insatiable natural desire for happiness and for lasting happiness. No earthly
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or temporal good can satisfy this hunger. Yet, this innate tendency, Yet,
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this innate natural tendency cannot lack its rightful object as well, try to
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as well, try to conceive the existence of the human eye, perfectly adapted
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to sight, yet without the possibility of light anywhere to enabled to see reflection.
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Then, upon the simple structure of the soul, upon the future administration
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of the sanctions attached to moral law, and upon the rectification of worldwide inequalities,
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and upon the teleological inclinations to a lasting, imperfect good, make it
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a violation of reason to deny the survival of the soul. The person answers
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the idea of sanctioned proportion to the individual sense of moral obligation. Must less
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influence upon men than your religious people think. They answer, I admit that
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it has much less influence it should have, but they're not thinking of it
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does not alter the fact, the person continues, it has no real bearing
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on morality, and if anything would have a bad influence making men cowards.
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Well, they answer to that, since there is a future life, it
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has a lot to do with morality. Man is endowed with reason and is
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bound to exercise sight Foresight. The future as such, whether here or hereafter,
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is a reasonable motive for the present conduct. For present conduct, I
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refrain from eating certain foods now because reason tells me that the future that in
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the future indigestion will result. That is reasonable conduct. I try to refrain
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from morally wrong conduct because it is wrong. It offends God and is a
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personal disgrace, and will wreck my whole future existence if I persist in it,
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dying without repentance. All these motives are good. If the nobler motive
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fails to impress me in a given temptation, the thought of hell at least
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will tend to stop me. You will say, so you are afraid of
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hell? Our of course, I am knowing that hell is a reality any
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sane man will live, so is avoid going there. It is not cowardice
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cowardice, but ordinary prudence. If a man leaps for his life off a
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railway line as an express tears passed the spot where he was standing, you
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would not go up to him and tap him the shoulder and say you are
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a coward. You just jump for your life through sheer fear, of that
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trade. God gave us our reason that we might use it for our well
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being, and is quite reasonable to way both the advantages and penalties attached to
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the moral law. Nor is this influence probably to the bad. The knowledge
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that retribution will follow violations of the moral law makes that law a real law.
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Could we say that all the penalties attached to the laws of the state
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are to the bad? Thousands of temptations to crime are resisted by citizens because
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of the thought of future penalties. Nor does it matter much whether the penalty
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be future by weeks and in this life or by some years and in the
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next life. The principle was the same. So I think we could sum
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all that up and saying, yes, the soul lasts forever, because the
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soul is not subject to corruption. The body is subject to corruption. The
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soul is not the soul of a man in his nineties, near his death,
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when he can barely walk and his muscles are weak, and his skin
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is sagging, and he can barely breathe, and he doesn't even think clearly
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or remember very well, is unfazed. But it's his physical condition. It's
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the same soul he had when he was one years old, a newborn baby,
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ready to grow and learn and take on everything. His intellect will adapt
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in learning, grow, but his soul is the same. The soul will
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live on after the body, because the soul is not affected by the condition
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of the body. And as they said, justice necessitates that there'd be a
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reckoning for our deeds if there be such thing as justice. And if there's
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no such thing as justice, if there's no such thing as morality, there's
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no such thing as law or good and evil, right and wrong whatsoever.
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And yet every people who's ever lived on the face of the earth, every
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tribe, and every corner, has had certain moral ideas and laws and rules.
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The very fact that it is a human need to establish justice necessitates that
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there must be justice. It's like the lock necessitates the key. You can't
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have a lock without a key, otherwise you can't unlock it. You know,
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you could build a lock without a key, but it would be very
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useless and eventually someone would have to build a key to unlock that lock,
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to open that door. And that's you know, it's just the way humans
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are wired. Yeah. It also kind of goes back to the old what
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was it saying Augustine's bargain. I think it may have been Aristotle. You
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know, I mentioned another show I quoted it. I got into detail with
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it that if there is a god and you bet against there being a god,
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you have everything to lose. If there is a god and you've bet
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for there being a god, you have everything to gain. If there's no
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god, you bet against him, you have nothing to lose. And if
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you bet for him, you have nothing to gain. So anyway you place
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your bet, the only position that will do you any good is believing there
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is a god, Because if there be a God and you deny his existence
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and you live in unbelief and you violate his laws, you have the potential
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if you're wrong, of suffering eternal damnation and suffering. And if there's a
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God and you follow his rules and believe in him, you're probably gonna have
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a pretty peaceful, good life on this earth. That would prevent a lot
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of people from robbing and raping and murder and all that. It tends toward
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adjust and ordered society, and you have to look forward to eternity and paradise
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with perfect happiness. So anyway you look at it, doesn't know you knew
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whole lot of good to deny what every person, every well, what every
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culture on earth from the beginning of time to this day is believed in one
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shape or form. If you think you're so much smarter than every person who's
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ever walked on this earth, from the first man to the greatest geniuses and
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minds of all time to the present day, there's not one single people or
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culture that has ever rejected the existence of God who did not believe in religion.
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You know, until we get to modernity, which is still a very
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small minority within the culture, and I pray to God it will be even
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as misguided as our culture is. The majority of Americans believing God, the
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majority of Canadians believing God. And if you think you're smarter than the sum
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total of all mankind for the last ten million years, that's an extreme form
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of arrogance and it's not going to get you anywhere good in this life or
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the next. So now we've talked about faith, So what do you put
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our faith in. One of the things we can definitely put our faith in
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is the intercession of the blessed Virgin Mary. She has interceded and performed miracles
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throughout the last two thousand years foreshadowed throughout the Old Testament. We pray to
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Jesus, and we ask the saints and the angels, and especially his Mother
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to pray to Jesus with us, and to ask us things on our behalf,
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because the Bible said, God's here's the prayers of the righteous. And
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we know one thing for sure, the righteous the people in heaven are righteous.
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They're in heaven because they're righteous and full of faith. And the Blessed
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Virgin Mary is the most righteous and faithful of all time because she was conceived
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without original sin and chosen to be the Mother of God. No one else
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in the entire history of the universe has that honor. And I got well
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way into this last week talking about devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Let's
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look at a few of her promises. When I say we can do some
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real good in this world by saying prayers, well, let's look at some
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of the promises from Fatima. When when our Blessed Mother appeared at Fatima,
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she get fifteen promises to Christians who recite the Rosary. I pray the Rosary
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daily. It took a few years to get used to doing that, and
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now you know, seldom a day goes by when I don't pray the Rosary.
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I would have to be very sick or just completely distracted. And I
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can't remember the last time I did. I'm not I'm not saying I won't
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miss it at some point. You know, I'm certainly flawed and prone to
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mistakes. But it's made a huge difference in my life. It has become
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sort of an anchor around which my day revolves. If I don't pray the
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Rosary, I I don't feel peaceful. So but what is it mean beyond
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that? Well, it's a very efficacious prayer for one thing, where we're
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meditating on the life of Jesus, as the article I cited last week said,
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with the one witness to every moment of his life. Yeah, we're
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praying with the blessed Virgin Mary her fifteen promises when she appeared at Fatima.
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One, whoever shall faithfully serve me by recitation the Rosaries shall receive signal graces.
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Two. I promised my special protection and the greatest graces to all who
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shall recite the Rosary. Those two promises in and of themselves would be well
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worth it. I mean it takes what ten fifteen minutes, and I put
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it in Latin. It was a good way. It helped me learn Latin.
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You know. Anyway you pray it though, just fine, just fine.
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Three. The rosary should be a powerful armor against hell. It will
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destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies. Now, when I say
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we have weapons in this fight against the evil in this world, that is
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one of the main ones. Because it's not just a personal promise, she
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says, it will a power of arm will gets hell. I guess for
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the individual. But it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
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It's very important throughout our world. It will cause virtue and good works
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to flourish. It will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God. It
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will draw the hearts of men from love of the world and its fantasties.
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It will lift them to the desire of eternal things. All its souls would
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sanctify themselves by this means. That's another promise, most of the person who
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prays it, and for the whole world. Five. Another personal one.
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The soul that recommends itself to me by recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
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Six, whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration
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of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not
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chastise him in his justice. He should not perish by an unprovided death.
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If he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become
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worthy of eternal life. Another personal promise, which is again just, that
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one promise is worth taking ten fifteen minutes out of your day. Seven who
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showever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary, shall not die without the
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sacraments of the Church. Every Catholic should hope, hopefully does hope to receive
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last rites. And it's the Viaticum. It's the Eucharist. The body and
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blood of Christ is the food for the journey and in this next life.
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And if we die in a state of grace, having received the sacraments as
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our surest path to heaven. Eight, those who are faithful in recite of
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the Rosary shall have during their life and death the light of God and the
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plenitude of His graces. At the moment of death, they shall participate in
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the merits of the saints and peri dice. It means, at the moment
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of death, all the prayers and the good that the saints did in their
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life and continue to do in their afterlife will be applied to us. That
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would balance the scales against our own personal failings and sins. Beyond belief,
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beyond measure nine, I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to
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the Rosary. You know, again, what a fantastic promise ken the faithful
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children at the Rosary show merrit a high degree of glory in heaven. Now
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that's something I can't explain, you know. Jesus explained that they're those who
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are more holy and more devout receive a higher glory in heaven, a greater
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joy that's beyond my understanding. So I'll be glad if I just barely limp
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across the threshold and find a little corner on the floor, I'll I'll be
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happy. Number eleven, You shall obtain all you ask of me by the
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recitation of the Rosary. Our blessed Mother is a powerful intercessor. Her prayers
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on her behalf. Just as when she said to Jesus at the wedding feast
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of Cana, they have no wine, and Jesus said, it's not my
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time yet. I'm not ready to reveal myself. Because she asked, he
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provided the wine. Our Lord will never never refuse the request of his blessed
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mother. A lot of our prayers go on answered unanswered. I mean,
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that's true. I don't care what anyone says. Some people deny that.
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A lot of my prayers have gone unanswered, probably more than have been answered.
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The prayers of the blessed Virgin Mary never go unanswered. So when you
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ask her to pray for her, and you ask her to pray for you,
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you know your prayers are gonna be answered. Number twelve, All of
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those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by Me and their necessities.
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That's similar to the last thirteen. I have obtained from my divine son.
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That all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court
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during their life, at the hour of their death, the entire host of
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Heaven, all the angels saints praying for us during life and the death.
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That's yeah, that's more than anyone could ever ask for. And that's just
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a blessing God gives us Fourteen, All who recite the Rosary are my sons
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and brothers of my only son, Jesus Christ. Jesus sit on the cross.
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Man, Behold your mother, Woman, behold your son. Through the
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Rosary we draw into that relation ship and fifteen. Devotion to my Rosary is
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a great sign of predestination. Predestination is the concept that God has disposed certain
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souls or put us in the right place at the right time to receive the
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Gospel and believe in Jesus Christ, a sign that we are predestined for heaven,
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which our free will can still turn against. We can refuse the gift
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that's freely given, the gift of grace. But we were put in this
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place at this time. I mean, imagine, ten million years of human
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history didn't have what we have now. Four thousand years of Jewish history didn't
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have what we have now. Those of us who are here now that have
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access to the sacraments of the Church and a way to learn about and believe
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in Jesus Christ and access the prayers of the angels and saints, and especially
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the blessed George and Mary, are in the most the most fortuitous position of
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all humanity. Throughout history. Those who came before us would have given anything
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to live in this day and time and have access to the sacraments of the
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Church and the knowledge of God that we take for granted. You know,
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praying the Rosary is a sign that we're in the right place and doing the
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right thing, if you want to look at it that way. Now,
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I'm going to give you another prayer. And there are many more prayers.
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Oh, I mean, there's a Divine Mercy chaplet is a great weapon against
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evil. The devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, which I've talked about
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quite a bit, promises that it will defeat communism and atheism. Our blessed
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Mother also promised that through the Rosary, in her immaculate heart, the entire
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world would be saved. Well, Jesus always comes through Mary. That's her
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role, and that's how he chose to do things. There's a prayer that
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I learned of recently, and I think it's really good. I try to
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pray it every time I say a prayer throughout the day. Whenever I'm praying
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for anything, I try to close with this prayer. And I think,
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you know, if you want to really fight and defeat the evil in this
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world and be a warrior for God. You know, this is a really
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good prayer to incorporate into your daily life. Imagine if all the billion or
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so Christians in this world were to recite this prayer every hour, and it
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comes from Father Faber. He said, if every evening, before we retire,
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we would ask the blessed Virgin Mary to offer to God the precious blood
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of her divine son Jesus, for the intention that thereby one mortal sin which
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might be committed somewhere that night, might be prevented. And if every morning
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we offer, and if every morning this offering were renewed from day to day,
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we could could we could prevent many mortal sins. Imagine if all the
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Christians in this world were every waking hour of the day to pray that prayer
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that one mortal sin may be prevented. Through their prayer, that the blessed
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Virgin Mary would offer the precious blood of Jesus for the intention that that sin
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may be prevented, we could We could prevent millions and millions and billions of
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mortal sins. Murders, rapes, blasphemies, you name it. The most
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horrible. I mean if you were if you were sitting on your front porch
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and you saw your neighbor being physically assaulted, you would, i would hope,
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run over and try to stop it. If you were physically unable to
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call the police. Right, if you saw a child being abused or worse,
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you would do your best to stop it. If you saw someone about
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to be murdered, you would call out to the oven and tell them duck.
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At the very least, right, you would do something to prevent a
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mortal sin being committed. That's something you can do every time you can say
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pray that prayer, because we believe fully in the intercession of the Blessed Virgin
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Mary and the divinity of the precious Blood of Jesus. The power of the
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Blood we can trust, and every time we say that prayer, one mortal
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sin will be prevented. If we did that every morning and every evening,
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we could prevent two horrible, horrible things from happening in this world. If
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we did it every hour of the day, waking out of the day,
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we could prevent like eighteen. If we could do it more than that,
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we could prevent more than that. But imagine if every single Christian, Catholic,
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Protestant, non denominational, whatever, we're to pray that prayer. Imagine
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if every Muslim we're to pray that prayer. There are actually a lot of
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Muslims that actually have a belief and a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in
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a way that somehow agrees to their with their theology and doctrine. I don't
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understand it fully, it's not something I fully looked into. But Mary has
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appeared to Muslim peoples at different times and promises that she will bring them into
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Christianity before the end of the world. They are also children of Abraham.
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Imagine if every Jew pray that prayer. Imagine if agnostic who just isn't sure
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about things but doesn't deny, we're going to pray that prayer. Imagine the
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crime rates going down in our cities, the murder rates going down, the
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horrors that we see on the news every day not being reported, Fewer people
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going to hell, more people going to heaven, and peace on earth.
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We have that ability. God gave us that power through his blessed Mother,
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as He gives everything through his blessed Mother. I hope you will embrace this
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embrace, this prayer. I will say it again, if every evening before
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we retire, we would ask the blessed Virgin Mary to offer to God the
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precious blood of her divine son Jesus, for the intention that thereby one mortal
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sin which might be committed somewhere that night, may be prevented. And if
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every morning this offering were renewed from day to day, we could prevent many
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mortal sins. You know, it could be the answer we've all been looking
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for. Pray your Rosary, Pray that brief prayer that doesn't take more than
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thirty seconds. Have your conversations with God throughout the day. You know,
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we can pray to God directly. We can also ask the saints to pray
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for us. That's the teaching of the Catholic Church is guaranteed by Jesus Christ
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through the Holy Spirit. I think we could make a tremendous difference in this
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world. And I hope you'll join me and so doing. And please remember
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say a prayer for my friends Julia Melkova, Alyssa Bernelli and Jim McDermott all
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went through horrible things in different places and for different reasons, and well,
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at least two of them because of the moral sins being committed by other people.
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In the words of Saint Padre Pio, Pray, hope and don't worry.
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Pray hope and don't worry. Pray as much as you can, constantly
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as you can. Hopefully you wake up in the middle of the night reciting
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the Rosary and you didn't even know you were doing it. It happens to
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me sometimes. Pray, hope and don't worry, and I will talk to
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you tomorrow.