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164: The Third Commandment of God · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The f A Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I
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haven't done one about a week. It's been a tough week.
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My little border Collie buddy died last Thursday, so haven't
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really felt like talking a lot. But we're going to
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get right back into it today. We had a couple
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questions and answers out of the classic work radio replies.
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I think you'll find these very interesting. Then we're going
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to get into the Third Commandment, which is regarding the Sabbath,
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and oddly enough, it's rather controversial these days. You know,
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there are several Protestant denominations, mostly fringe groups, that insist
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on keeping the Jewish Sabbath, whereas for nearly all of
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the last two thousand years, Christians have gone to church
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on Sunday and recognize Sunday is the Christian Sabbath because
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it's the day that Jesus rose from the dead. It's
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the new Law. Well, we'll get into that in a
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little bit, and it's probably going to be a multi
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part because it is. Actually there's a lot to say
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about it, actually, so we'll get into that in a minute.
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But let's start with the question. The person asked, did
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not the Church depart from the faith when she condemned
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Joan of arc a condemnation reverse five hundred years later,
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and they answered the Church did not condemn Joan, but
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was responsible for her canonization. Joan died a good Catholic,
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receiving Holy communion the morning of her death. A renegade
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and recalcitrant French bishop in the pay of the English
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condemned Joan and violated the laws of the Church in
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doing so. Joan had appealed to the Pope, and she
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had the right to do so or so to do,
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but her appeal was illegally disallowed. Within twenty five years
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of her death, Pope Callixtus the Third declared her mock
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trial to have been null and void and ordered a
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new examination of the evidence. Joan, who had been burned
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to death in violation of the Church law in fourteen
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thirty one, was rehabilitated in fourteen fifty six, the Pope's
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tribunal declaring that she was innocent of all charges. This
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was the only official judgment of the Church at that time,
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and her canonization in our days is in full accordance
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with that judgment. Person says, if a civil judge gave
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an unjust verdict because of a bribe? Would you deny
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that the judiciary was part of the legal system and
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the answer, I would deny that such a verdict at
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the true authority of the state behind it, and the
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state would disown the verdict if the facts were manifested,
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such as the Church disowned in the verdict of the
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unjust ecclesiastical judges. The person asked, was the Church right
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or wrong in condemning the theory of Galileo? Another very
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common objection, and they answer the committee on the Congregation
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appointed to consider his teachings declared that his theory was wrong.
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In doing so, the members of the committee were mistaken,
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but as there's no infallible decision was given on the
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subject in the name of the Church, infallibility was not
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involved in this matter. Meantime, Galileo had advanced no real
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satisfactory proofs of his theory, and the prudence of the
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prohibition forbidding its being taught is more than defensible in
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light of the circumstances of the time, But that is
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another question. Finally, the person asked, no one would guess
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from the lives of bad Catholics that their church was infallible.
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Another thing you'll hear a lot. Someone will say, well,
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I knew a Catholic it was so bad, and you
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know I always should kind of go back to him
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and say, yeah, you know, let me remind you about
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Jerry Follwell Junior or Jimmy Swagger, Or does that mean
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everybody in their church was bad? You know? Does that
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invalidate the faith of all the people that attended Thomas
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Road Baptist Church or whatever Pentecostal church's escaping my mind
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right now that Jimmy Swagger attended, or the one that
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Jim Baker another Pentecostal Or we can go down that
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list quite a bit, couldn't we. No one would guess
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from the okay, very the Catholic Church is infallible in
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her official teaching on faith and morals, but she does
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not claim to be infallible in making people live up
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to those teachings. Her infallibility does not deprive her subjects
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of their free will. After all, you yourself would admit
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that God is infallible, yet you do not account for
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people who violate the commandments spite of denying God's infallibility.
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You would account for it by the evil disposition of
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people concerned. And as the infallibility of God does not
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take away free will from men free will from men,
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neither does the infallibility of the Catholic Church take away
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from her subjects very You know, again, when someone starts
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talking about, oh anything, whether it's pedophile priests or you know,
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a Catholic they knew who was an alcoholic or abusive
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or a thief, you know, whatever, you could say, well,
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Jesus chose twelve apostles, one of whom was Judas, you know,
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if you want to look at it that way, or
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you could actually quote from Martin Luther where he was
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encouraging people to commit adultery and admitted that he was
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tacitly a murderer, having ordered many Protestant peasants to be
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killed with his full consent by the German princes during
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that time of upheaval or how many I mean King
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Henry the eighth was certainly a murderer, an adulterer, a philanderer,
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I mean, a genocidal maniac. You know, if someone throws
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those charges at you, you can go from the founders
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of their church to modern times and you can give
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it right back. If that's what she choosed to do.
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Generally speaking, I don't find such conversations be terribly fruitful.
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That's up to you. Good to have those facts at hand,
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you know, I've did a whole series on quotes from
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Martin Luther that would I mean there as evil as
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you can imagine. And when you show people this is
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the founder of your religion, do you think he was right? Well,
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they'll still try to justify his teachings, but they generally
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have to admit he was a really bad guy. Did
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oh King Henry the Eighth And we could get into
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some of the other ones too, But like I said,
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I don't find that terribly fruitful. Good to having those
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arrows in your quiver, though, if so needed. You know,
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the founders of the Seven day Advents, for instance, and
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the Jove's Witness. We're talking con men and hucksters that
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were often arrested for defrauding people out of fortunes, and
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Deir followers really take their word as gospel. So I mean,
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especially in such cases as that, very good to know
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who those founders were, and a few of the more
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public scandals, so you can say to them, now, why
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do you think this person got it right? And you know,
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you start telling them that story about who was it
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Mary Baker Eddie. No, no, wait, but I'm sorry, that
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was a Christian scientist. No, that was different. I think
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it was the founder of the Jehovah's Witness that was
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soliciting money to buy a big Cadillac limousine because he
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said he had to drive Jesus and Moses and Elijah
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around in it when because they were coming back to
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Earth any day, I mean crazy stuff. He may have
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been the one, or it could have been the one
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with Seven Day Adventists who was arrested for selling fraudulent
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cancer pururs and even magic beans. So get the book,
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The Essential Catholic Survival Guide, a really good book. To
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have a really good book. Whenever someone confronts you with something,
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you can turned in that book to find out what
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their denominations all about, what they believe, where they differ
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with Catholics, and you'll find nice little anecdotes like that
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that you can actually be of use sometimes. Now let's
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get into the third Command of God on Mount Sinai,
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and again this is as always, this is from Father
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Spiagua's exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church in the eighteen
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nineties on Mount Sinai, Almighty God spoke and said, remember
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that thou keep holy the Sabbath day six days. Shalt
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thou labor and do all thy work Exodus twenty eight
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and nine. The Third Commandment thus contains two injunctions, the
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command to sanctify Sunday and the command to work. In
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the Third Commandment of the Decalogue, God commends us to
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sanctify Sunday and to work six days in the week.
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The precept to sanctify Sundays and Holy days in order
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that amid the many cares and anxieties of life, man
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may not forget God, his final end and high calling.
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God has enjoyed a punt and joined upon him to
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keep one day of the week holy. As we have
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certain times set apart for the satisfaction of our bodily necessities,
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let me get a sip of water here, such as sleeping, eating, drinking.
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So we have appointed times for meditation upon the eternal truths,
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whereby we may obtain fresh strength for our souls. On
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Holy days we have the opportunity of expiating by prayer
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what we have done amiss, and of rendering to God
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the thanks due to him for the benefits he has
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conferred on us during the week. God commands us to
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sanctify the seventh day, because on the seventh day he
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rested from the work of creation. In his account of
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the Creation, Moses said, God blessed the seventh day and
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sanctified it because in it he had rested from all
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his works Genesis two to three. Man who has made
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after the image of God ought to follow the example
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of the Lord his God. As God ceased from work
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on the seventh day, so man ought to rest after
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six days labor. Man needs his rest after working for
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six days, just as one is obliged to sleep for
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six or seven hours after the work of the day
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is done. In order to recruit one's bodily powers. Some
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one needs a longer period of rest after six days
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of labor. At the time of the French Revolution, the
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observance of the seven day was done away with and
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the tenth day appointed for the day of rest, But
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it was soon found indispensable to return to the old
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order of things. The number seven belongs to the natural order,
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God who set the lights in the firmament of heaven
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for the signs and for the seasons, and for days
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and for years. Genesis one fourteen intended the changes of
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the moon, which occur every seven days, to point out
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to us the division of time into periods of seven days,
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in which one was to be a day of rest.
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Bishop Theophilus of Antioch, written writing about the year one
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fifty a d. Mentions the observance of the seventh Day
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as the universal custom. We who are Christians keep Sundays.
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You keep Saturday. The Mohammedans are Muslims, keep Friday, and
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the Mongols keep Thursday. And the Black population of Guinea
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and Goa keep Tuesday and Monday, respectively. I don't know
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if they still do or not. I have no idea.
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The cessation from labor every seventh day foreshadows our eternal
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rest in Heaven Hebrews four nine. By solemnizing the day
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of the Lord, we renew and quicken our longing for
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the unending festival of joy. Above. The very fact that
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we wear our best apparel on that day serves for
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a minus of the celestial happiness that we hope we
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will one day be our portion. God commanded the Jews
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to keep holy the Sabbath day. The Sabbath was a
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joyous festival for the Jewish people, because on that day
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they were delivered from Egyptian bondage. In addition to this,
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God gave the law from Mount Sinai. He enjoyed upon
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them to sanctify the day by cessation of work. The
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seventh day is a Sabbath day. Thou shalt do no
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work on it Exodus twenty ten. The Sabbath was particularly
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suited to be set apart for public worship of God because,
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more than any other day, it recalled God's benefits to
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his people Ezekiel twenty twelve. It was moreover typical of
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the rest in the sepulture of the future Messiah. In
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other words, the Jewish Sabbath is when Jesus lay in
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the tomb. This has a lot to do with why
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we celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday as opposed to Saturday.
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The Jews were extremely strict in their observance of the
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Sabbath day. Any prophanation of the day was punished with death.
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No work of any kind might be done on it.
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A man found gathering a few sticks on the Sabbath
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day with stoned numbers fifteen thirty six. The Pharisees would
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not allow that it was lawful to do a good
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deed on the Sabbath Matthew twelve twelve. No MANI fell
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in the desert on the Sabbath day. Sunday was appointed
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by the Apostles as the day of rest instead of
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the Sabbath because Christ rose from the dead on Sunday.
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That's what defines a Christian. Okay, when your seven day
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adventiscentur observant, friends or enemies or whatever they are antagonizers
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online try to tell you you're going to hell because you
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don't observe the Jewish Sabbath. Well, you could pull up
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the d do K, the work written by the twelve
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Apostles that actually explains that we go to church on Sunday,
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and show them that Christians have gone to church on
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Sunday since before the Bible was even finished, the Book
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of Revelations hadn't even been written. The books of the
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Bible had not been chosen, it hadn't been translated, it
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hadn't been compiled. I have found they just won't read it.
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They say I believe in the Bible only. And you
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can say, all right, well, show me a church that
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did not worship on Sunday before your denomination was founded
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about one hundred years ago, less than that, usually more
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like fifty years ago. And they won't. They say, I
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believe in the Bible only. And you can go back
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and say I can show you churches. I can give
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you the writings of the church fathers from Pope Clement,
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who was ordained by Saint Peter, and they'll say Saint
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Peter was never the pope. You cannot make these people
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read any history. They are so afraid of being enlightened
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by the truth. You could say here's a newspaper from
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ancient Rome and they'd be no, No, I don't believe
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they were any newspapers. Okay, they weren't really newspapers, but
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there were like the equivalent. There were bills written, there
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were announcements put on walls, and a lot of that
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stuff has actually been preserved. But when it comes to
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official church documents like the d dot K and like
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the writings of Pope Saint Clement or Ignacious or Polycarp
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or Justin Martyr, they've been preserved intact for two thousand
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years and if anybody wants to see them, they can
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go to museums and actually look at them. And not
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only that, but they've been constantly referenced and validated by
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historians throughout the century. It's amazing to me the willful
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ignorance of Protestantism. And I honestly don't think in another
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couple of generations there are going to be many Protestants left.
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And you know, you know I've said this before, and
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you may think I'm crazy, but it comes down to
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the original sins of Protestantism. Okay, of course, the Protestant
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Church is founded on the solo fida and solely scriptura. Well,
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the Bible disagrees with the concept of solofeeda or faith alone. Okay,
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so you can use the Bible to disapprove that one.
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And you know, but when you get to solo scriptura,
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that says the Bible alone, and they all have different
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interpretations of what the Bible means, and they won't go
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back to what the Apostles and their immediate successors actually
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say said it meant. Meanwhile, the Bible itself contradicts the
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Bible alone. So, as you know, from an intellectual perspective,
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that's what convinced me of the truth of Catholicism was
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that the Bible itself conflicted with every Protestant denomination I
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could find that said they based everything they did on
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the Bible. Okay, that leads you to exactly to the
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next example that the third original sin we might say
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of Protestantism is divorce. In all four Gospels, says Jesus says,
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no divorce. Every single Protestant church allows divorce. None of
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them say it's a sinful wrong, not Christian, not allowed.
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Only the Catholic Church, because even the Orthodox Church does
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allow divorce in some cases. Only the Catholic Church says
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exactly what Jesus said. Well, we can extrapolate that out,
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and here we are five hundred years later approximately, and
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marriage is almost rare in America. Now we have about
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a fifty percent divorce rate, but we also have about
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a twenty five to thirty percent illegitimacy rate. So it's
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far less likely that a children a child would be
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born to an intact family, a father and mother married
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and in the same home and lived with them through
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childhood and into adulthood than it is for someone to
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never know their father or to come from a broken
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home where you know the father is just not part
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of it, or sometimes some mother, and certainly a lot
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less interaction and instruction from grandparents. Divorced or illegitimate families
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are far less likely to go to church. We've seen
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church attendants dropping decade after decade since no fault divorce
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became law. I guess in the sixties COVID PROTESTANTSTP going
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to church. Well, a lot of Catholics did too, But
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the Catholics go back to church because we have an
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obligation to go church. Protestants aren't taught they have an
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obligation to go to church. Okay, church attendants in many
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cases fell by fifty to seventy percent. And now we
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got all this transgendered and LBG X y Z stuff.
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And I would be willing to bet the Methodist Church
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where I in the heart of the Bible belt, where
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I was a youth minister in just say two thousand, Yeah,
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around the year two thousand probably has a half to
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a third of the congregation that it did. The old
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folks died, the young folks divorced and moved away for
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the most part. And I mean I can see it
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with my own eyes on a Sunday morning, the main
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line Protestant churches, your Baptist, your Presbyterian, your Methodist, your Lutheran.
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The parking lots are like half full where they used
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to be overflowing. Well, obviously we can say these people
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are going to a lot of them are now going
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to these big like evangelical evangelical megachurches. But while that
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may be a mile wide, it's an inch deep. Their
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doctrine not only disagrees with the Bible, but it's not enduring.
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So I would I would be willing to bet that
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in one hundred years Protestantism in America will have largely
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died out. Yeah, and that's going to leave the Catholic Church.
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I mean, I'm sure there'll be some straggler, some hangers on,
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but I believe that the original sense of Protestant doctrine
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will be the death of Protestantism. And it's not going
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to be long. It's not gonna be long at all.
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Looking at the decline of attendance and affiliation and even
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people saying they're Christian, you know, a Catholics, Catholic, even
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a bad Catholic, still identify as as a Catholic unless
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they you know, to our total apostate. A lot of
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people raise Presbyterian, Methodists, ablished you name it, go to
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college and come out atheists and they no longer affiliate,
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even if they've been raised Christian. And with the breakdown
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of the nuclear family, you know, the church is literally
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built upon the structure of the family with the That's
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why I call it the original sin of Protestism. When
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you break the family, you eventually break the church. Not
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the Catholic Church, but Protestant churches. Yeah, and you know
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it's we're going to go through some really bad times.
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And so that's one of the main reasons I do
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this podcast. You need to know what the Catholic Church believes,
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why it believes it, and how to defend it. Because
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you may be the only reason you're friends and family
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get to heaven. Seriously, if you can explain to them
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your faith and encourage them to become Catholic, you may
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be the only reason they go to heaven. I got
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I mean, I was just really nasty comments made the
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other day from a couple of I don't know what
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they were, some French Protestant group online. They were calling
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me demonic and such because I was saying this very
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thing and I wasn't going this far. I was saying,
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you know, they said there was no Catholic church and
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the first in early Christianity. I said, well, you know,
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Pope Clement did actually reference the Catholic Church and he
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was ordained by Saint Peter. And they said Saint Peter
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was never pope. There were no popes. And I said, well,
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he was called Pope Saint Clement, and his successor was
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called and they said it's not in the Bible. We
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don't believe. I said, here are the historical documents. I
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welcome you to read him. They said, no, we believe this.
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There was this church, they just call it the Way
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and it was disorganized. And I said, cite one historic source, site,
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one source from history. Show me a church, a building, archaeology.
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I can show you the catechisms. I can show you
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the cave churches in Turkey. I can show you the
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earliest church. I can show you a church where what
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Saint James painted a portrait of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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and it's been venerated for two thousand years. Show me
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one building, Tell me the person's name. Tell me a
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person's name. Who was it that taught this doctrine that
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you believe, show me their writings, where are they buried?
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And instead of even even doing the most cursory Google
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search to back up their claims, they started calling me demonic.
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So really important, I mean, this stuff that's not sustainable.
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Those people of their children are going to think they're idiots,
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and frankly, they are idiots. I mean, it says in
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the Bible not to argue with a fool, remember, I mean,
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that's actually what in sirac or Wisdom. I think it's
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again in Ecclesiastes. There are two or three I mean,
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and Jesus said, you know, don't put your pearls before swine.
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But it actually does say even though Jesus said call
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no man a fool, in the Old Testament says do
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not argue with a fool. He'll just rant and rave
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and laugh, and you know it does you no good.
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So just block people like that. But that's not going
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to endure. Eventually, that ignorance in this day and time
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where someone can pull up the D dot K and
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a few clicks of the keys on a keyboard, if
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you recommend it to them, that's not going to endure.
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I mean, that's you know, those are the original sins
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of Protestism, solo fide, solo scripturer, and divorce. And really
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see solo fide says that you don't need a priest.
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So that's why, really, that's why I include it. But
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it's sola scriptura and divorce or the undoing of all
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Protestant doctrine and culture. And yeah, so anyway back to it.
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So we just said that Sunday was appointed by the
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Apostles as the day of rest instead of the Sabbath
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of the Jewish Sabbath because Christ rose from the dead
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on Sunday. Sunday is a festival of the Holy Trinity,
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for on the first day of the week, God the
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Father began the work of creation, God the Son rose
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from the dead, and God the Holy Ghost descended upon
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the Apostles. Yes, Pentecost is Pentecost Sunday. You know, if
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you want to, I mean, someone doubted, just say, hey,
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the Holy Spirit sanctified this day on Pentecost. The Apostles
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were authorized to transfer the day of rest from Saturday
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to Sunday because it was not so much the observeth
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the observance of the Sabbath as the observance of a
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fixed day in each week upon which God insisted his commandment.
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They were all the more at liberty changed the day
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old laws, but a shadow of the new. Sunday is
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called the Lord's day because it ought to be devoted
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to his service, and because he rose from the dead.
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Saint Justin in one thirty nine is the first to
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make use of the word sunday. Try to get a
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seven day outvisor, tour observant to read Saint Justin in
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one thirty nine. Okay, let's put this in context. The
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Book of Revelation was written about eighty I mean, the
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apostles were alive teaching Saint Justin and his contemporaries, the
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ones you know well, at least Saint John of the Cross,
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I mean. The others had been martyred, but their immediate successors,
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those who had learned directly from them, were alive. He
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was the first to make use of the word Sunday.
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It's name fitting the day on which the Lord, like
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the rising Sun, rose from the grave in the brilliance
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of his glorified humanity. On this day also God made
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the light, the Holy Ghost came down tongues of fire,
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And on this day we were spiritual enlightenment. The emperor
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Constantine the Great enjoyed the observance of Sunday as the
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day of rest throughout the Roman Empire, and Charlemagne caused
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those who violated it to be fined. We are bound
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on some Sunday to abstain from servile work and to
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assist at the public mass. We ought, moreover, to employ
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this day in providing for the salvation of our soul,
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that is to say, by approaching the sacraments, by prayer,
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hearing sermons, reading spiritual books, and performing works of mercy.
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Servile work is that which entails severe physical exertion and
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is exhausting to bodily strength. It is work generally done
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by servants, menials, artisans, and laborers. In a word, the
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work belongs to the class that serves. Hence the name
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Markets and all commercial transactions are included in the prohibition,
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Yet in deference to local custom, the rule is relaxed.
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In some countries. However, buying and selling must not be
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carried on during the hours of divine worship. In other words,
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don't go shopping during Mass. As God rested on the
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seventh Day, we ought to rest as Christ on Easter
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Sunday left the grave clothes and the sepulture and rose triumphant.
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So we ought to lay aside our earthly business and
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on the pinions of prayer sore loft to God. Physical
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repose is necessary because it is impossible for one who
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is greatly fatigued to pray well. Public worship is the
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holy sacrifice of the Mass, generally accompanied by a sermon.
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In the first centuries of Christianity, the Christians were accustomed
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to assemble on Sundays to hear Mass, and a short
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exhortation was delivered after the Gospel, as is usual in
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the present day. Yes, homily should be rather short and
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to the point. Actually, this is not a Protestant church
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where the value is based on the words of the preacher. No,
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we go there for the Eucharist to hear. The Gospel
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is wonderful, it's good. It's a very good for your
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soul to here. An explanation of it is instructed, But
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we're there for the Eucharist. There is no act of
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Christian worship that can compare in the dignity and value
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of the Holy sacrifice of Mass. On Sunday. We ought
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to provide for the interests of our soul. The physical
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rest is ordained in order that we may labor more
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diligently for our spiritual welfare. And we must not content
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ourselves with putting on better clothes, but must cleanse and
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adorn our hearts. The cessation from the work of the
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week gives us an opportunity, gives an opportunity to the
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faithful in compliance with the mind of the church two
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approaches to sacraments. They are encouraged to receive Holy communion
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on Sunday and Holy Days, and to give themselves to prayer.
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For this reason, afternoon services are held and the churches
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stand open for private devotions. Our forefathers used to read
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spiritual books, homilies on the Gospel of the Day and
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the lives of the saints. Many of our Lord's miracles
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and healings were wrought on the Sabbath day. Witness as
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a man whose hand was withered, Matthew twelve ten, the
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man born blind, John nine, the man that had drops
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e Luke of fourteen two. Although by doing so he
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gave great offense to the Jews, he intended to teach
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us to do good works on Sundays. The work permitted
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on holy days of obligation is one servile work which
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is absolutely necessary, especially works of mercy, too light and
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trifling work, three occupations of intellectual nature, and for reasonable recreation.
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We are not forbidden to do work that is absolutely necessary.
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Our Lord does not desire a man to suffer on
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account of Sunday rest, for he says the Sabbath was
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made for man, and not man. For the Sabbath Mark
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two twenty seven. All work may be done which is
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required for the support of life. We may have our
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food prepared, and are allowed to gather in our crops
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if the weather threatens their destruction. All work that is
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indispensable for public service may be carried on eg. The
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postal service, a railroad, telegraph, and police service. Ecclesiastical authorities
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have the power to grant special permission for servile work
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to be done on Sunday if there's sufficient reason. Christ says,
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the son of Man is the lord of the Sabbath,
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and the Church is representative can say the same. And
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as the chief and primary object for which Sunday is
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instituted is to promote spiritual welfare and eternal salvation of mankind,
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all works tending to this are enjoined upon us, our
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Lord says, the priest and the temple breaks the Sabbath
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and are without blame Matthew twelve five. The works of
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mercy are also enjoined. Nothing is more profitable to salvation
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than these, for on them our eternal fate depends Matthew
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twenty five thirty five. We have Christ's example and precept
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also for the performance of charitable works on Sunday. It
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is lawful to do a good deed on the Sabbath
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day Luke twelve twelve. Some of the saints choose to
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visit the hospitals after Mass, since been the remainder of
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Sunday and sis serving the sick. Again. It must be
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remembered that only such servile work as is absolutely necessary,
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is permitted, although its object be a charitable one. For
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it is lawful to do all servile work without distinction,
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which was for the benefit of the poor. All artisans
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and labors might go on with their work, and that
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would be by no means permissible. In quotes Horus, for
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that necessary works of mercy exempt from the obligation of
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attendants at public worship. They are in themselves in acts
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of worship. James one twenty seven. Our Lord says, I
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will have mercy and not sacrifice Matthew nine thirteen. So
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that's like saying, if you're a nurse or something and
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you can't go to Mass and you're caring for the sick,
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that's a good thing, all right. That's just one example
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duties of parents. I mean, you can figure this out,
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but if it is any way possible, public worship should
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not be omitted these things you ought to have done,
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and not leave those undone Matthew t Twenty three to
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twenty three. What is it right to do if a
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conflagration breaks out just before a mass, or if there
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is an inundation, occupation of an unimportant kind may be
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engaged in. God does not require us to sit idle
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on Sundays besides writing music, and all mental employments are lawful.
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Sunday is also instituted as a day of rest, on
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which way we may freely enjoy innocent diversions. And we'll
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wrap this one up with his last topic in this section.
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Will probably spend about three days on this. Sins against
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the Third Commandment. The precept in joining upon us to
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sanctify Sunday is transgressed one by doing or requiring others
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to perform servile work. The Christian ought to allow his
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servants and even his cattle to rest on Sunday Exodus
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twenty ten. Servants, apprentices, and all who are in subordinate
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positions ought not to remain in a situation where they
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cannot fulfill their religious obligations. Servile work is a mortal
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sin if it be done for more than two or
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three hours on Sunday without urgent necessity. Yet hard work,
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if done for a shorter time, or even light work
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for the same time, is not a mortal sin. Nor
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is it so if not, Nor is it so if
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a not very valid reason is countered is counted on
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as an excuse. Nor again, if a servant does what
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his master without cogent grounds requires of him. In other words,
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if you have a really serious reason you need to
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do it, it's okay. And if you're ordered to do it
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and you don't have a choice, in the latter case,
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the sin rests with the master. If scandal was given
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by doing servile work, even for a short time, it
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is a grievous sin. Our Lord, says one who gives scandal,
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of one who gives scandal, it were better for him,
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that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and
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that he should be drowned in the depths of the
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sea Matthew eighteen. God threatened the Jews most emphatically, saying
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that anyone who profaned the sabage should be put to death.
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He shall do any work in it. His soul show
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Parashae in the midst of his people Exodus thirty one
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to fourteen, and two by carelessness about attending and two
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by carelessness about attendants at public worship. Entertainments given on
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Sunday are often the cause why Catholics emit Sunday Mass
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what Folegues exclaim Saint Francis misel to turn day into
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night and night into day, and to neglect one's duties
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for frivolous amusements. In other words, it's not a valid
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excuse to skip masks to go to a ballgame or
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something like that. Three By indulging in diversions which are
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over fatiguing or of a sinful nature. Games which involve
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much physical exertion, hunting, dancing, et cetera ought to be
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avoided on Sunday. Also, those which lead to things unseemly
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such as bras extravagant, extravagant expenditure, disinclination for work. Worse still,
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if amusements are sinful in themselves. For whosoever committeth sin
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is a servant of sin John eight thirty four. And
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thus servile work of the most degrading description is done.
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Woe to him who chooses the day which is consecrated
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to divine service, to offend against God and to injure
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his own soul most deeply. Some people take advantage of
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this day of rest to indulge more freely in vice.
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Not unfrequently the devil leads people in peace all week,
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and when Sunday comes he tempts him to all manner
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of sin, pride and ostentation, and dress, gambling, dancing, excess,
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and eating and drinking. In present day men seem to
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think most of eating and drinking on the Lord's day,
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women of adorning their persons. How lamentable is the depravity
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of mankind and thus abusing the most sacred institutions. On Sunday,
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the day the devil of avarice is cast out. But
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it is as but it is as if seven other
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and worst devils entered in its place. The love of
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the world and all it entails, the frequenting of convivial scenes,
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disseverance of the ties of family life, squandering of savings,
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and the dislike of work. It is far better, Saint
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Augustine says, that one should occupy one's self with needlework
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or field work on Sunday than to indulge in vice.
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To spend the Lord's day in worldly vanities amounts to
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a kind of sacrilege, to guess, to desecrate it by
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sin is worse than plundering the sanctuary. All right, we
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will wrap this one up here, Like I said, we
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will revisit this one next time, hopefully tomorrow. Y'all remember
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the words of Saint Padre Pio prey, hope and don't worry,
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and I'll talk to you next time.