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Show 20: Anointing of the Sick and Ordination · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to day's show. We're going to continue right along
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with our series on sacraments, and we're still in this section where I'm going
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through what the Bible says on the sacraments, and you know, I think
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today we can probably wrap it up. I think we can get through the
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last three. We'll start with annoying of the sick. What's remarkable about the
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sacrament of the annoying of the sick, which is the power Jesus gave his
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apostles to heal people, usually done with oil, you know, but or
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just laying on his hands prayers. That's an authority he gave to his apostles,
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and the apostles gave to their successors. What's remarkable about it is how
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little the Bible says. And you know, you may think, well that's
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not evidence. Well, actually he really is. Because Jesus spread his ministry
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through healing people. The apostles healed people commonly. I mean it was said
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that even their shadow that fell upon someone who was in any way sick or
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injured would heal them, their handkerchiefs, their cloths, that they had touched
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anything it was did. The early Church was spread primarily just as Jesus spread
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his ministry by healing people, teaching preaching healing, and so really, when
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you think about it in that light, it was so commonplace for the Apostles
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when they wrote their gospels, and you know the acts and all the letters
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of Saint Paul and etc. That I don't even know if they even saw
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it as a sacrament. You know, it was just what they did.
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They're very touched, their very shadow could heal people. But it's so important
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because when we look at them the Old Testament, I think it was Elijah,
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could have been Alicia. I always get those two confused. You know,
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one was taken up into heaven, the other died and was buried when
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they opened his grave by accident and buried another man, and he hit the
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dead man, touched the bones of the saint. He came back to life.
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When Saint Paul's I mean, I'm sorry, Saint John, John the
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Baptist, When John the Baptists apostles came to Jesus and asked, are you
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the one you know? John wants to know basically, and he said,
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tell him. You know what he said, the dead rise, the sick,
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the sick or heal the poor, comforted, the blind, receiver sight.
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I'm sure I got that wrong, but that was one of the aspects.
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I mean, it was like you would know the Messiah because he had
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that great power of God to heal. What is the power of God to
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heal? We have to remember that death and sickness entered the world through sin.
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Our first parents, Adam and Eve, were immortal. They had no
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sickness through their fall. Only did death and sickness enter the world through sin.
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The wages of sin are our death. Wages of sin. It's gonna
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be arcs, that's plural, but anyway, the effect of sin, according
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to the Bible, is death and sickness. That precedes death. God has
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the God of order, God of creation. Disease is disorder, death is
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decomposition. Disorder and decomposition are in opposition to the will of God. Jesus
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came and set things right, and so he had complete and in Tuesday,
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has complete power over sickness and death. He conquered death. He gave to
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his apostles the power to heal. That's one of the most important signs of
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the authentic Church, and it's so briefly mentioned the Bible the fact that it
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is. It just tells you it was almost taken for granted. And you
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know, to this day we talk about like Lords Lords France, where millions
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of people have gone and received miraculous cures. It's like something everybody knows about
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and nobody talks about because it's common knowledge, right, I mean, even
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to most Protestants, even the most non Christians, they've heard about all the
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miracles at Lord's, all the stacked up crutches and wheelchairs that were no longer
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needed. So it's not really surprising at all that there should be very little
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specific mentioned of this sacrament in the Bible, because no one denied it,
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no one thought it was strange. It was a sign of God's you know
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power in the church Mark six, and they cast out many devils and anointed
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many sick people with oil and cured them. That's what we do in the
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sacrament of the annoying the sick. The priest takes the blessed oil and makes
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a sign of the cross in your head, and you know, essentially praised
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that if it's God's will that you be healed, you'll be healed, and
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it heals. If it doesn't heal, the body. Maybe that's not God's
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will. I know it's hard accept but sometimes it is actually better for us
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to suffer for our salvation. We're not going to be healed. Sometimes we
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don't even suffer for ourselves. We suffer for our families. We suffer for
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those who care for us, because without their willing care for us, they
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may not reach salvation. We don't know the mind of God, but that
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annoying of the sick has been efficacious in healing incurable diseases and etc. To
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the most mundane things. From the very beginning of the church. That has
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literally Christ's ministry a big part of it. That's been continued for now over
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two thousand years. And it's important that it says in Mark six, they
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annointed me six people with oil. Protestants deny, you know, the real
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presence of the body and blood of Christ and the Eucharist. They deny sacramentals,
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They deny that a physical object can have a spiritual power. They say
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it's superstition. They actually say it's evil. But but here in the Bible,
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Mark chapter six, I mean, not only through throughout the gospels and
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as such as Jesus say, this bread is actually my body and this wine
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is actually my blood. Here in Mark chapter six, it's oil. The
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earliest church, the apostles were using sacramentals blessed oil. In order to bless
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that oil, the apostles had to have the power to bind and loose.
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In order to make bread and wine the body and blood of Christ, the
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apostles had to have the ability to bind and loose. You know, if
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you take if your soul Scripture, or if you're a pure Protestant and you
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only believe the Bible, believe the Bible, that there is such a thing
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as blest oil James fourteen through sixteen. Any one of you who is ill
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should send for the elders of the Church, and they must anoint the sick
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person with oil in the name of the Lord, and pray over him.
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The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise
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him up again. And if he has committed any sins, he will be
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forgiven. So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another to
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be cured. The heartfelt prayer of someone upright works very powerfully. That's a
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lot to unpack in that one. First of all, again, anointing with
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oil just as in the Old Testament, the priests and even the king,
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the levites up to you know, King Solomon were anointed with blessed oil.
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The physical and the spiritual are intensely intertwined because God is the author of both.
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To deny, that is, to deny the will of God and his
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very words that the water of baptism, the actual water is efficacious, said
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the oil, and the anointing the sick is efficacious. You know, that's
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that's what the Bible actually says. And you know a confession is part of
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it. When you go you're dying and you call the police, the priest
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and for the last time you confess, he forgives you your sins under the
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power we talked about yesterday and the power when Jesus said, those who sends
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you forgive, they are forgiven. Those who sends you retain, they are
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contained. He retained, I should say he the priest, in the person
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of Jesus Christ, because he's acting as God's agent, forgives your sins,
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anoint you with the oil, and if you're able, you receive the Eucharist
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that was called the viaticum, or like food for the journey actually essentially life
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for the journey. If you want to look at it that way. It
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was once called an extreme unction. It's the greatest cure there is. And
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also it says that God hears the prayer of the upright person, the just
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man. That's why the saint's prayers are so effective. When we ask a
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saint to pray for us, we know they're in heaven with God and they
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have God's favor because it says right there in the Bible, the hard foot
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felt prayer of someone upright works very powerfully. Who's more upright than someone in
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heaven totally purified of all sin in the presence of God. I'm not that
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upright. If you think you are, you might want to look at that
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pride quoth before the fall. I mean humility, God, you know,
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emphasize humbleness. Humility. That's you know in the Beatitudes, the you know.
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Anyway, let's get onto holy orders. The simplest can be. I
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mean, you know, the apostles were given the power to bind and loose,
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they could ordain priests, you know, acts through twenty six. But
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you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you,
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and then you will be my witness not only in Jerusalem, but throughout ju
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day in Samaria, and indeed the earth's remotest end. That's the heart of
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ordination right there. One bishop, one head of the church, ordains the
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priests, and it's been an unbroken succession for over two thousand years. It
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goes on to say, and when they reached the city, they went to
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the upper room where they were staying. There were Peter and John, James,
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and Andrew, Philip and Thomas Bartholomew and Matthew James, son of alf
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Faeus. I guess that's something you pronounced it, Simon the Zealot, and
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Jude, the son of James, my patron saint. By the way,
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my name Saint, my name being Judson, people call me jud So of
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course I've chose Saint Jude. But don't think that it was lost on me
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that Saint Jude is the patron saint of lost causes which I could certainly with
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which I could certainly identify with one heart. All these joined constantly in prayer,
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together with some women, including Mary, the Mother of Jesus, Mary
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the Mother of God, the blessed Virgin Mary mothered the church. She is
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the mother of the Church. She explained to them, She guided them,
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she comforted them. There is no church without the blessed Virgin Mary, especially
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because there's no Jesus without this blessed Virgin Mary. You know, we'll get
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into the saints later and what Catholics actually believe about saints. But I don't
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see how anyway Protestants denigrate the Mother of God in good conscience. When you
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don't talk bad about somebody's mother, right, they have some kind of like
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animosity. Many, dude, not all, many, many of the anti
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Catholic ones do as if Mary had no role. Without Mary, there's no
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Jesus without Mary, there's no church. I mean, anyway, we'll get
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to that end of the day. One day, Peter stood up to speak
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to the brothers. There are about one hundred and twenty people in the congregation
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Brothers. He said, the passage of Scripture had to be fulfilled, in
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which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, foretells the fate of Jesus,
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who act as a guide to the men who arrested Jesus. After being one
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of our number and sharing our ministry. As you know, he bought a
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plot of land with the money he was paid for his crime, he fell
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headlong and burst open, and all his entrails poured out. Everybody in Jerusalem
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heard about it, and the plot came to be called the Bloody Acre in
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their language. I'm not going to try to pronounce it. No, I
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won't try now. In the Book of the Psalms, it says, reduce
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his encampment to ruin, and leave his tent unoccupied, and again let someone
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else take over his office out of the men who have been with us the
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whole time at the Lord Jesus, that the Lord Jesus Christ was living with
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us from the time when John was baptizing until the day he was taken up
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from us, one must be appointed to serve as witness to his resurrection.
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Having nominated two candidates, Joseph notice bar Bar Sabbaths whose surname was Justice,
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and Matthias, they prayed, Lord, you can everyone's heart show us,
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therefore, which of these two you have chosen to take over this ministry of
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the Apostlate, which Judas abandoned to go to his proper place. They then
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drew lots for them the lat phil On Matthias, and he was listed as
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one of the twelve Apostles. The apostle. It is an office, and
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very clear in Acts the apostles knew they had been ordained commissioned by God.
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There were to be twelve, and Judas had fallen away, and another one
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had to be anointed ordained to take his place. I believe was Scott Hunt
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in one of his series he said, I think it was quite in the
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riems. He said, would really be good if we listened to this translation.
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Let another man his bishopric take It was an office the apostlate or the
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bishopric had to be filled. And you drive through like countryside and the south
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now and you'll see apostle Billy Bob's going to be at the first Pentecostal church
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of whatever tonight. No, he's not an apostle. Okay, he may
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be a minister, anybody can minister. He may be actually a member of
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a church. But he's by no means an apostle. Jesus gave to the
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Catholic Church the apostle it and every cardinal priest that has been ordained since has
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filled that office. They are the ones who ordained priests. Acts six one
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through six. About this time when the number of disciples was increasing, that
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Helenists made a complaint against the Hebrews in the daily distribution of their own widows
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being overlooked. So the twelve call it a full meaning of the disciples and
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address him. It would not be right for to select the word of God
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so as to give out food. You brothers, must select from among yourself
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seven men of good reputation, filled with the spirit, with wisdom, and
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with wisdom, to whom we can hand over this duty. We ourselves will
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continue to vote ourselves to prayer and to the service of the world Word,
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and to the service of the Word the whole assembly will the whole Assembly approved
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of this proposal and elected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the
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Holy Spirit. Together with Philip, Phrocreus nicanor Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas of
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Anioch took a convert to Judaism. They presented these to the apostles, and
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after prayer they laid their hands on them again. The apostles, okay,
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the Church is a kingdom of God. There are officers in the kingdom.
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The king appoints his officers. The apostles had the full authority of Christ,
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just as the officer of the king would speak with the king's authority in a
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earthly kingdom. They differentiate offices within the church, rolls, you know,
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bishops, priests, deacons, etc. Missionaries even and how did they seal
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it. They laid their hands on them. When a priest is ordained by
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a bishop, sometimes by a cardinal, that is how it's done. He
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puts his hands on him, he prays over him, and he confers his
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authority to the next man, one generation to another. And the way it's
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been done for two thousand years. I think we said we had what three
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to wrap up? Was actually just two, wasn't it. Yeah. It
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was annointing the sick and holy orders. So that wraps up what the Bible
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says about the sacraments. Tomorrow we will get into what the early Church says
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about the sacraments. The way to know if the Catholic Church is the true
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church is if it still has the authority and is an agreement with the apostles.
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We've just discussed what the apostles said. We just discussed what Jesus said.
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The apostles were in agreement with Jesus, and there every generation of priests
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and doctors of the church, and you know, every the church itself is
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still under the authority and in agreement with Apostles. So tomorrow we're going to
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get into the dak We're going back to the earliest Christian document not contained in
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the Bible. Had it been contained in the Bible, everybody be Catholic.
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It's a darned shame, honestly that the Apostles, when they authorized and decided
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and their immediate successors actually what books would be in the Bible, did not
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include the dak known, which means the Teaching of the Twelve This is actually
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the teaching of the Twelve Apostles, the very first manual of what Christians believe.
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What day we go to church, how we have our Mass, what
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we do at Mass, the prayers we say, the Eucharis, the whole
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bit. Had the d doc been included in the Bible, everybody be Catholic
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because they couldn't. They couldn't say they believed in the Bible and not go
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to Mass and receive the Eucharist. I mean, yeah, there would be
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no question of do we go church on Sunday because it says specifically they transferred
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the Christian day of worship from the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, the
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day our Lord rose. But you know, there's probably a very good reason
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it's not in there, and it has to do with free will and God
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giving us every opportunity to have our own way. We have to turn to
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God with our will, and you know, yeah, it's probably a very
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a good reason why he wanted his faithful to have to try a bit harder,
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to have to learn a little bit more, to have to be well.
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He wanted his faith would have to be faithful to the teachings of the
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church. You know, he said he came into the world not to judge
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the world. You judge yourself. I mean, you make your own decisions,
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and if you keep his commandments, then you're one of his. And
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if you choose another path, you've made that choice. If the d DOC
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had been in there, maybe it would have taken away a little bit of
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people's ability to choose to do the wrong thing, because you can't do the
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right thing. If you do the right thing without consciously choosing it, it's
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not to your credit. It's only to your credit if you have two options,
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the wrong thing and the right thing, and you choose the right thing,
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which is generally speaking, the more difficult, more and pleasant, the
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harder thing to do. So anyway, y'all, we've wrapped up one section.
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We're gonna wrap up this whole series tomorrow. Y'all have a great evening.
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I will talk to you tomorrow. And remember the words of Saint Padripia.
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Pray, hope, and don't worry. Remember the words of Jesus.
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I am with you unto the end of the age. I remember his words.
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You know, consider consider the lilies of the field. I mean,
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you know we have He will provide for our needs. When we pray the
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our Father, we pray for our daily bread. We don't pray for tomorrow's
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bread. We don't pray for ten years worth of bread up front. Sometimes
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just being sustained by our daily bread, which is actually the Eucharist. Well,
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it's always enough, So worry for nothing, threat not. As the
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Bible says, trust in God's promises. We know the story against y'all have
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a great evening.