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Show 117: Jesus The Redeemer, part 3, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE REDEEMER · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I'm gonna try
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and keep this one a bit briefer, a bit more brief today, and
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some of you may know I've discussed it before. I have a very old
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dog. He's a little border Collie that's been with me for ooh about sixteen
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years, and he's essentially blind and deaf, and apparently he can't tell the
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difference between day and night anymore. So he's had me away since four am.
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I didn't go to bed early last night. So yeah, it's going
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to take a lot of concentration a good strong cup of coffee to get through
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this one. Let's pick up. Let me get a sip of this coffee
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here. Good dark roast. I love a dark roast. Good dark roast
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was just whole milk in it. I rarely ever used cream, and it
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being later in the day, I went ahead and put a shot of bourbon
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in it. Why not. I've been awake for many, many hours and
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I deserve it. I think it may lubricate my tongue a little bit,
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but honestly, it's just a little a drop, you know, not a
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whole lot. It really does bring out the flavor of dark coffee. It
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gives it the chocolate vanilla type flavorings and really well, actually, as an
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herbalist, I can tell you it's probably better for you than those sweetened,
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artificially sweetened creamers that people buy. You know, if you're gonna have Irish
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coffee, have Irish coffee. If you're gonna have a Cafe Cabano, Cafe
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cabano, you know, if you're gonna have a little simbuca, have the
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real stuff. You know what I'm saying. God gave us the fruits of
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the earth, and he's certainly invented or intended the yeasts that are omnipresent in
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our atmosphere to convert sugars into alcohol. And don't forget, Jesus was a
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winemaker. It is a wine maker, and apparently has wine in heaven.
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So I'm looking forward to that, all right. So the person who is
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questioning the priest says, but why keep insisting that the Catholic Church is the
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only church? And they answer quite plainly, because Jesus said, if man
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will not hear the church, let him be to the as a heathen.
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He did not say, if a man will not hear a portion of the
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Gospel in man made substitute churches, and the Protestant answers, this is from
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radio replies as usual. By the way, I'm not sure if I mentioned
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that you cannot deny that you're bigoted in your exclusive claims, and they said
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bigotry is blind zeal. It is not bigotry to say that the thing cannot
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be true if the opposite has proven direct correct Truth must exclude error, and
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the Protestant answers, we are entitled to our opinions as you are to yours.
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You are and you might be able to think out ideas just as valuable
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as ourselves. But here it is not a question of human opinions. It
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is a question of God's teaching. And neither your opinions nor our opinions have
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any value if they contradict that Catholic doctrine. Is not our opinion, but
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His doctrine, who sent the church to teach in His name. And we'll
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just follow up on that point. The Protestant answers, but are you not
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obliged to law of charity? Christ said, doing to others as you would
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have them do unto you, And they answer, we are obliged by the
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law of charity, But charity does not forbid one to tell the truth.
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Very important in our day and age when people think they can a boy can
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be a girl, and a man can be a cat or whatever. You
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see some odd things these days. Girls walking around with tales. I'm not
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sure how others are attached. Yeah, best not to think about it.
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It forbids blaming people who, through no fault of their own, do not
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know the truth. The Catholic Church, which wish Protestants to admit that she
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is right if she were not right, and since and since she can prove
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that they are not right, she is not doing to them what she would
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not have them do to her in denying the correctness of their religion. Well,
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I guess we'll just do one more, because it's very brief. The
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person then answers all the same, Your claims are insulting to Protestants, and
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they are human beings just as Catholics, And they answer, the Catholic Church
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has to condemn Protestantism as a system, but she desires to insult no single
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Protestant that Protestants or human beings does not prove that their religion is true.
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Otherwise the fact that Catholics are human beings would also prove their religion true.
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As a matter of fact, in so far as Protestants are human beings,
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we Catholics love them, and it is our very interest in them which makes
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us want to give them the best religion of the world, which is Catholicism.
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Protestantism is simply not good enough for them. And that's true. You
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know, as a convert to Catholicism, I can tell you that if you
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go where the truth leads you, you have to actually explore the historical documents.
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You have to read the writings of the Early Church. You have to
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use your reason, you have to use evidence in fact, and if you
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do, you will become Catholic. And when you become Catholic, you will
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find the fullness of the truth. You will find the grace of the sacraments
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that will change your life. They certainly change mine. You will find the
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surest path to Heaven. And you know, I do this podcast for two
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reasons. It's certainly not to hear myself speak. I actually don't listen to
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my own podcasts. Yes, I listen just enough to edit it, but
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I neither listen to my own podcasts, nor read my own books. I've
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written thirteen books, I've never read any of them. You know, I
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don't even buy my own books, and I can get author copy pretty cheap.
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I don't want them to me a shelf with my own books on.
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It would be like a little shrine to myself, and I don't do that.
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Am I proud that I've written thirteen books? Yeah, I mean,
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but not in a way that it's self aggrandizing. I feel that I've accomplished
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something worthwhile. I've written books about herbal medicine and how people can be healthy
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and gardening and how they can grow good food and herbs, and Catholic books,
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and I really would like to lead Protestants to the Catholic Church and to
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strengthen the faith of Catholics, and especially to give Catholics the ammunition the facts
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they need to defend the faith, because that's what's so troubling. You meet
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a ton well I have. I mean, yeah, I live in North
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Carolina, and yeah, I went to a certain Southern Baptist university in Virginia.
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You meet a ton of anti Catholics who are armed with all kinds of
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arguments against church. None of which are true. I don't. I have
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not met in person more than three or four Catholics who know the doctrine and
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teachings of the Catholic Church enough to defend their faith against the errors of Protestantism,
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and so many. I mean, you know, you spoke with an
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elderly lady just the other day and she said her daughter left the church.
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She's become a born again evangelical Protestant. And I asked her why, and
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she said because her friend went to her and said, you must be born
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again, and she didn't know if she was born again or not. Okay,
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every Catholic should know that Bible verse you must be born of water and
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the Spirit, meaning you must be baptized, and you must be confirmed to
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the Catholic Church, where you receive the fullness of the of the Holy Spirit.
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Our poor cataquisus a specially in regard in defending our faith, not just
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against our faith, not just against Protestants, but against communists and secularists and
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the evils of the world, against Muslims, Islam, against any number of
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competing ideologies, transhumanism, transgenderism. It is what's making Catholics vulnerable any Catholic
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who knows the truth of the faith, the Bible, the Catechism, some
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of the works of the early Church fathers, a few doctors of the Church,
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you know, Augustine A. Quintas, and you know, just and
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just a little bit of them, and not you don't have to sit there
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and read The City of God. I mean, come on, just if
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any Catholic who knows the Bible and the Catechism is well equipped to defend the
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Catholic Church, to defend the Catholic faith against all errors, of all false
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religions and ideologies, and they are all by definition faults because there's only one
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truth. There's only one church that give us the Bible, there's only one
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church authorized to teach in the stead of Jesus Christ, to enact the Sacraments.
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We have everything we need. We're just you know, I'm gonna blame
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it on the baby Bember generation. They you know, went to college and
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mostly abandoned their faith or decided to be country club Catholics, who you know,
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associate with all kinds of people and never talk about politics or religion.
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Then they got divorced five or six times and their kids were raised by feral
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dogs in the public education system. What are you gonna do? We as
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Catholics must do so much better in our time to raise up intelligent, in
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formed, catechised, educated Catholic children, and to do the same for adults.
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We need to correct our brothers and sisters. You know, Jesus said,
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if a man will not listen to the Church, let him be to
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us a heathen. No Protestant listens to the church founded by Jesus Christ,
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the only church that existed for fifteen hundred years or so until Martin Luther and
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Antichrist came up with his heresies. And what did he take him to?
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A mostly illiterate populace that could not read the Bible for themselves, So they
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didn't know when he changed the words of Jesus to say the exact opposite of
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what Jesus meant. They didn't know when he cut out books of the Bible.
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They didn't know when he got out there and railed against the papist as
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he called the Catholics. He said he was the true Christian doing the work
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of God, and they believed him. That's essentially where we are now.
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We live in the time when people have the most access to information they've ever
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had the entire history of humanity and are almost as ignorant. Well, many
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are as ignorant as you know. I mean, in North Carolina, more
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than fifty percent of high school students graduate unable to do basic math and functionally
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illiterate. Do you think these people are reading, well, the Bible for
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start with, but serious books about doctrine and theology. No, they are
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a prey to whom ever, whatever charismatic person comes along and sways them.
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They are ripe fruit for the devil. And that is the fertile ground of
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Protestism. And it is our job, you know, to be the sowers
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in the field, like the parable of the sowers when Jesus, you know,
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said, And yes, sometimes our seeds will fall infertile ground, but
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still we have to be those sowers. We have to take the Gospel to
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all corners of the earth. And the only legitimate godspel is that truth of
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the Catholic Church. Because there's only one church. There's only one truth.
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Therefore there can only be one church because all of the churches disagree with each
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other and with the Catholic Church. So I mean, we have we are
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duty bound to do this so that's why I'm doing this, and I hope
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you'll help me in this effort. I hope you will forward my podcast.
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Well, first of all, if you haven't as of yet, please sign
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up for my Uncensored Catholic newsletter on substack. The link is here in the
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show notes. It's just justin Carrol dot substack dot com or something like that.
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But anyway, easy to find the Uncensored Catholic and forward my daily Gospel
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reflections and my podcast to everyone you possibly can. If you're not on my
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newsletter, just share the podcast with your friends, share whatever I put out
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there. Let's try to get as many people subscribed and interested and informed as
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possible. I think, well, like I said, I think it's our
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duty. And I'm not saying I do the best job, but you know,
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I am trying, and I've had some you know, pretty good discussions
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before, and I think I'm having an impact. You know. Like I
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said, I'm doing my best, and I do everything beginning with prayer,
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and I hope it works out. So now let's get to foes. Sparraga,
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who had the exact same goal in about eighteen ninety when he wrote The
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Exhausted Catechism of the Catholic Church. He realized that most of the people in
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he was Czech He was Czechoslovakian, and he was writing to you know,
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the very Slavic countries around there, and Germans and such. He did not
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believe that most of the populous was well educated enough, well read enough to
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understand the more formal documents issued by the Vatican. And that is more true
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today than ever before, because his writing is a little more complex and educated
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than most people today would understand. But I think we can all acknowledge that
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if officially issued document by the Catholic Church, if they intended it to be
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more dense and confusing, they could not accomplish that goal. For some reason,
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there is no one in the Vatican public relations whoever writes this stuff and
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sends it out that can write a concise, understandable statement. I don't know
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what the problem is. It's like with every single document they try to show
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off their vocabulary of secure archaic words. It's ridiculous. I mean, you
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literally have to have a translator to understand what the Pope just said about whatever,
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or what, you know, the statement of the bishop's issue. I
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don't know who they think they're impressing, they're certainly not doing the job of
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teaching the flock of Christ when they issue statements that only they can understand.
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Frankly, I think our priests and bishops and cardinals, et cetera need a
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whole lot less college education, a whole lot less university. You know,
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why did you know why was Pope jump on a second so great? Well,
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he was an educated man. He was also a man who worked in
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the salt mines, you know, in communist Poland, as you know,
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had to put vasilina on his face so a skinned it and freeze off in
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the cold. I mean, he was a man of the people and he
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could communicate with and identify with regular people. He loved to hike, and
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he was a great youth pastor. He was. He loved Frank Sinatra's music.
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I mean, he was a very straightforward boy when he told you what
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he thought about communism or liberals in the church and et cetera. Abortion man,
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he didn't mince words. He was no Pope Francis h. Pope Benedict
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was maybe a bit more scholarly, but he was just as terse and to
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the point. Yeah, he was a bit more flowered his flower flowery in
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his language, then Pope John Paul the second. But we need men,
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I mean, like Pope Pious with the tent who I mean. I mean,
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Frankly, if if if he was in a debate with Pope Francis today
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and Pope Francis to justifying blessing homosexual couples and everything else he's doing, I
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think he probably would have jumped up and started beating him with his cane.
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I mean, you know, these were real men who knew how to speak
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in a way that they could be understood. We don't need a pope or
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a church hierarchy that talks like the head of the Federal Reserve. I mean,
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it's ridiculous. We need people who can just be plain spoken. You
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know, maybe we do need an African pope. I mean, you know,
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I've known some great African priests who just boo. They just tell it
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exactly like it is, and they do it with humor and compassion, and
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they're good natured. Maybe that is what we need. I don't know.
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We can't count on the Germans anymore. Look at the Germans and bishops,
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and we certainly can't count on the Americans. Gosh. Yeah, Cardinal Dolan
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the other day was on Maria bar Romes show, and he twisted himself every
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which way to justify the horrible things Catholic Charities is doing, aiding the cartails
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in facilitating human trafficking and the rape of women and children and slave labor.
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Yeah. I used to have a lot more respect from Cardinal Dolan than I
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do after seeing him on Maria bar Roma a couple days ago. Yeah,
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I still think he's a kind man. I think he's a good man.
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He's very good humored. He's an intelligent man. But he didn't stand up
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for what was right when you start out, when your first action is to
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break the law, when you know the Church and the Bible says you're supposed
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to obey all just laws of a country, and a country certainly has a
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right to set its borders and say we have a legal and safe way to
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come into the country. Facilitating organized crime and the most horrible abuses of children
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under the guise of compassion is abominable. I wouldn't want to have to answer
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for that. You know, when he gets to heaven, he's gonna have
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to answer for that. And he's gonna have to answer a lot more than
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a member of the laity, and I wouldn't want to have to answer for
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that. So let's see what if our Sparrago said the Life and Times of
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the Redeemer. This is point number four to this chapter about Jesus. The
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Redeemer lived some nineteen hundred years ago and remained thirty three years on the earth.
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Remember this book was written in eighteen ninety. In the early Christian times,
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the date was reckoned by the consuls of the year. From the time
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of the Great Christian Persecution under Diocletian. The Christians began to reckon their years
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from the ascension of that tyrant the era of the Martyrs. Dionysius exceed it's
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got two years in it. I always stumble over anything with two yews.
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In five twenty five was the first to reckon from the annunciation of our Lady,
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I e. The conception of Christ. Charlemagne introduced the custom of dating
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from the birth of Christ. There is an error, however, of four
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years, so that Christ was actually born four years before year one of the
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Christian era. The time preceding Christ is known that as that of the Old
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Testament of the Old Law, that following as the New Testament of the New
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Law. The word testament is appropriate as expressing the will of God, recalling
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the legacy of the Promised Land to the Jews and to Christians, the one
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sealed with the blood of animals and the other with the blood of Christ.
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The work of the Redeemer was confined for the most part to Palestine. Palestine
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is the ancient Cana Shanan as he spells it, I guess, known later
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as Judea or the Land of Promise, or the Holy Land made holy by
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the presence of Christ. It's small extent. It was only about the half
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the size of Switzerland. We know what's going on in the news today.
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It's a little bit bigger than one might think. Even though it's not that
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big. It's small extent, it has many counterbalancing advantages. In central position
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adapted it for the spreading of the True religion. Its fertility in the midst
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of the surrounding desert made it independent of other nations, and secured its inhabitants
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from undesirable intercourse with the Heathen. The population at the time of Our Lord
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was about five million, of whom one million lived at Jerusalem. At the
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present day, the whole population is only a half million, and Jerusalem hardly
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twenty five thousand. Well, that was before the establishment of the modern state
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of Israel and the return to Israel and all that Palestine is situituated. And
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wouldn't you love to go back to eighteen ninety before the World Wars. You
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think things are bad now, imagine being in the trenches in World War One
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for no apparent reason. America had no reason to get involved in World War
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One. Had we not, there probably would not have been in World War
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Two. They probably would not have been a Hitler and a Mussolini and a
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Stalin. Millions and millions of lives would have been saved. Had we sat
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out World War One and said that's a European problem, maybe that's a lesson
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we ought to take today. Just because the English get involved in something doesn't
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mean we need to. We just bought two wars to get away from the
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English. What the hell are we doing defending England? Seriously, there's nothing
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but the global it's actually that's the Masonic Order. The only reason we got
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involved in World War One was because of the Masons. Because our president was
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a Mason. Because our Congress and senators were mostly members of the Masonic order,
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and the English et cetera and French were Masons. You know, let's
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look at history as it actually is. And Catholics certainly had no reason to
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be American Catholics had no reason to be involved in that war, and European
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Catholics certainly had less reason to be involved in that war. I mean,
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Archduke Ferdidim who cares? I mean some little Baltic country. Let that sink
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in for a minute, and you know how I feel about. I'm totally
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opposed to the Russian war against Ukraine. But again, is that America's role
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or is that a European problem anyway? The boundaries of Palestine are Phoenicia on
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the north, the Desert on the east, Arabia on the south, and
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Mediterranean on the west. The Jordan, a river varying from eighty to one
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hundred and fifty feet in width, the scene of the passage of the Jews
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and the Baptist of our Lord, flows in a turbid yellow current and passes
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through the little Lake of Murhmam Murrham and the Lake of Genosareth. I think
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is Swayne pronounced it. I've never been there, you know. Yeah,
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I grew up from a family that didn't have the money to travel the world
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a whole lot and do all these pilgrimages that many Catholics kind of take for
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granted. It's like, you've never been a Rome. No, I worked
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my way through college. Okay, you've never been to Israel. No.
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I had to take care of a grandmother who had a heart attack while I
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was in college. You know. Anyway, sometimes I think, you know,
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cradle Catholics kind of take for granted a lot of the benefits they get.
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You know, a lot of those trips are subsidized by their churches,
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their parishes and such. Not all of us get to be so what I
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we call it cosmopolitan. Some of us have to work for a living,
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and the seen of so many of Christ's labors. And finally to the Dead
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Sea, the site of Sodom and Gemara. On its way, it receives
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the brooks of Carathan Cedron. The divisions of Palestinians are in the south Judea,
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in the center Samaria. The divisions of Palestine are in the south Judea,
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in the center Samaria, in the North Galilee, and in the east
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beyond the Jordan, Porea, Iteria, and the districts of Trachonitis. I
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guess the inhabitants of Judea were the firmest adherents to the true faith. Those
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of Samaria had given themselves up to the worship of Idols, and the Galileans,
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especially in the north, were in part Pagans, despised by the Jews
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as well, on that account for their uncouth dialect. The most important city
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of Palestine was Jerusalem, where the temple stood. Jerusalem, I eve the
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city of Peace, is situated on four hills, of which the highest is
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Zion, lying westward of the Hill of Acre, with the Pool of Siloh.
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Lying south. To the north is Mount Mariah, on which the temple
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stood, and further still to the north is the Hill of Bezetha. I
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guess the modern town westward of Mariah's Goil Gotha or Calvary. These hills lie
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between two valleys, of which the westward is called Hennan or Help, because
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there the Jews used to sacrifice their children to Moloch, and the eastern the
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Valley of Josephat or Judgment of God. On account of the tradition that God
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would judge the world. There. To the east is the Valley of Joseph.
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To the east of the Valley of Joseph is the amount of Olives and
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the garden of Gassimone. Jerusalem was in existence at the time of Malchisa dec
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who reigned there about two thousand BC. It became under David about one thousand
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BC, the residence of the Jewish kings. About four hundred years later,
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in five eighty eight BC, it was destroyed by Nebu Choden. You know,
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I have trouble that name. We discussed it yesterday. How many syllables
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can you pack into one name? Restored again about fifty years later about five
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point thirty six, and again destroyed dose b C by the way a game
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destroyed by the Romans under Titus Titus in the year seventy a d. The
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Temple in our Lord's time was a magnificent and imposing building of white stone,
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and an outer court, the court of the gentiles, and an inner court
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of the priests containing the ultar of burnt offerings. Within this court again was
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the temple proper building of about thirty meters in length, ten in breadth and
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fifteen at height. With a flat roof of cedar. The temple proper consists
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of the Vestibule, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies. The
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walls of the last two places were covered with solid plates of gold, and
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the two chambers were separated by a veil. The veil of the Temple and
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the Holy of Holies between two great golden cherubin lay the arc of the Covenant,
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containing the Tables of the Law, aaron staff and the Mana. And
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here in a cloud rested the Majesty of God, the Sachina. I think
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it's Sachina. The temple was built by Solomon about one thousand BC, and
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was destroyed by Nebo Chod non chad On non Sore in five eighty eight BC.
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In five sixteen was rebuilt by Zorobabel on the return from the Pavilion exile
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that the ark was no longer there, and was restored again by Herod in
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the time of Christ in the year sixty four AD. The restoration was complete
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till the Romans came in seventy a d It destroyed the building. Julian the
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Apostate it endeavored to rebuild it in three sixty one, but an earthquake cast
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down the works and fire from earth coming from the earth, drove away the
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workmen. That's something. Yeah, pretty amazing. Really, I didn't know
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this till I started reading the old early Church followers and the old histories of
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you know, the ancient world. Yeah, Julian the Apostate tried to rebuild
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the Temple in three sixty one a d. And it was destroyed by an
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earthquake and fire that came up from the earth. Now think about that.
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You know, not only was the Temple essentially destroyed when Jesus was crucified,
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and then all of Israel destroyed by Rome afterwards three hundred and sixty four years
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later, I think it was sixty one years later, they tried to rebuild
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it, and you know, acts of God prevented them. We'll just put
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it that way. And they said, he says the Temple will never be
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rebuilt to the end of the world. That's actually from the prophecy of Dan
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nine twenty seven. Now I'm totally on the side of Israel against against the
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Palestinians. There's no such thing as a Palestinian. They're Philistines. They actually
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belong in Jordan. Mostly they come from Jordan. They only wanted the land
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of Israel once the Jews came back in there and made it a nice place
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to live. You know, Muslims that are dedicated to killing all Jews and
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Christians are not my friends. But we cannot look at the New State of
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Israel, the New Jerusalem as the actual new Jerusalem. The actual New Jerusalem
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is the Catholic Church. That's what you just said. The arc of the
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Covenant, of the New Covenant is the blessed Virgin Maryan who who carried the
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Word of God within her. The New Covenant is Christianity, and the New
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Jerusalem is the Catholic Church. Israel is a secular state. There are religious
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full of religious Jews. Actually, I think religious Jews is probably a minority
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in Israel. Actually, there may be actually more practicing religious Jews outside of
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Israel than in. So while I mean my sympathies are entirely on the side
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of Israel, we do need to make that distinction that it is a secular
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state of Israel. It is not the religious state of Israel. But anyway,
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besides Jerusalems, the town of Bethlehem and Nazareth deserve mentioned obviously places of
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interest in Judaea. South of Jerusalem lies Bethlehem, the Birth of Christ birthplace
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of Christ. Further seal is Hebron, where dwelt Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
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are the parents of Saint John the Baptist. East of Jerusalem is Bethany,
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the village where Lazarus dwelt, and the desert of Quarantania. I guess where
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our Lord went through his forty days fast northwestern Jerusalem is Jericho, the city
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of Palms, the abode of Zakius, the penitentve taxpayer. North of Jerusalem
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is a maeis where our Lord appeared to his two disciples after the resurrection.
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On the sea coast is Jappa, famous in the Annals of the Crusades,
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where Peter restored Tabitha to life and was summoned to receive the gentile centurion Cornelius.
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Further to the south and extending along the coast is the district which was
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formerly the land of the Philistines, with its towns of Gaza and Ascalon see
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Philistines, not Palestinians. They actually take the name Palestine, whereas Palestine is
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not Felistia. Anyway. Westward of the Dead Sea is the desert of India,
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also called the Desert Saint John. Places of interest in Samaria. The
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capital of Samaria is situated near the center of the district. South of it
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as Jacob's Well, near System, where our Lord spoke with the Samaritan woman.
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Eastward is Gazkism, where the Samaritans had a temple dedicated to the service
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of idols. In the south is Silo, where from the time of Joshua
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the Tablets Joshu, the Tablets of the Law were kept for over three hundred
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and fifty years. Along the coast of the Mediterranean stretches the fertile plane of
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Sharon. By the sea is situated Says Area, the residence of the governor.
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In the northeast, close by the sea and on the boundary is Mount
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Carmel, rising some thousand feet. Its fertility, beauty and numerous caves make
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it particularly adapted to the wants of the Hermits who dwelt there. It was
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a scene of the sacrifice of Elias, and the priests of Bale praise.
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The places of interest in Galilee, including Nazareth or the City of Flowers,
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the residents of the Mother of God at the time of the Annunciation. A
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great story with that, we'll get to that another day, and the Christ
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into his thirteenth year. South of it is where Christ restored the young man
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to life. East of Nazareth is Cana, where Christ performed his first miracle
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at the wedding feast. On the lake of Gennesareth are situated Kafarnum, Christ's
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owned city, in which he dwelt and where he worked so many miracles,
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e g. The cure of the centurion Sun, the raising of the daughter
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Jerius. Here too he promised the institution of the blessed sacraments and called the
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apostle Matthew. To the south is best Aeta, where the apostles Andrew and
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Philip came, and Magdalah, the dwelling place of the center Magdalen. Tiberius
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is also a town on this lake. In the north of Galileus says Area
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Philippi, where Peter received the power of the keys. Quite beyond the boundary
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of Galilee and Phoenicia. On the west are the two cities of Tire and
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side on more than once visited by Christ. On the border of Galilee is
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the range of the lebanon As, sending ten thousand meters and covered in perpetual
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snow not more than three hundred seters remain of its once famous forest. To
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the east is Hermann raising nine five hundred meters and still west. Still further
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east is Damascus in the neighborhood which Saint Paul was converted. Places of interest
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in Pernea, close by the Dead Sea. Eastward the mouth that the Jordan
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near Bethabara is the place where Saint John baptized, where he pointed out Christ
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and called him the Lamb of God. Further to the east is Mountain Nebo,
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on which Moses died. South of the Lake of Gath Sarah is Pella,
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the refuge of Christians during the Seas of Jerusalem in a D seventy eight
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D. All right, I'm going to wrap it up there. Okay,
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that's a lot of information. You know, if you know your Bible,
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you're seeing all these places in your mind. It's just really making clear what
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a small area it is rich in the history of you know, Jewish and
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Christian religion. Tomorrow will probably if I can do a show tomorrow, I'm
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not quite sure, but I'm gonna try. We'll get into more of the
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role of Jesus of Nazareth as the Redeemer, the Messiah, and this is
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going to be probably of much more import I think than the geography of you
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know, Israel. That my opinion. Now other people may disagree. I
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know a lot of people get very much into geography and maps and you know,
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following the path of Christ and the development of you know, Judaism and
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Christianity throughout the ancient world. I'm more of a big picture guy. I'm
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not a detailed guy. But anyway, I hope you enjoyed this show regardless,
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and please join me tomorrow. Remember, in the words of Saint Padre
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Pio, pray, hope and don't worry, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.