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Show 242: Prayer, part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A b he. Y'all welcome this week's show. We will
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continue discussing prayer today incredibly important, this being the week
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of ash Wednesday, the week we begin Lent. What are
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we supposed to do during Lent? Prayer, fasting and alms deeds?
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We have to do that. We have to pray. Not
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everyone has to fast, remember if you're in very poor health,
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if you're under a certain age or over a certain age,
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But you can do other penances in place of fasting.
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And it's you know, it's a good thing to do.
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It's a good, very good thing to fast though, if
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you can. But prayer we absolutely have to do. And
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when it comes to alms deeds, yes, it's wonderful to
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give money to the poor, it's wonderful to give food
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to a food pantry, to a charity, whatever. But that
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can also mean doing things helping family members, helping strangers,
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just you know, small actions of basically showing the love
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of God to others. But so the first and the
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third are somewhat flexible. The second is not. We have
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to pray. So if you can try to pray the
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stations of the Cross daily, if you forget a day,
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don't you know, don't get too mad at yourself. That's
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not going to accomplish anything. I mean, certainly, pray to
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our Father daily, Pray your daily Rosary if you can
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at least one decade, Divine mercy, chaplet, wonderful Holy face, shoulder, wound,
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precious blood. I mean, all those are you know, excellent
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prayers to say Anima Christy. But make sure to just
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set aside some time for prayer daily during Lent. That's
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really that that also becomes almost a form of fasting
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with time. So anyway, but before we do that, we're
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going to wrap up the questions and answers from the
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Protestants to the priests and radio replies on confession and
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buoy to Protestants hate confession. I they may hate confession
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more than just about anything, because, I mean, Jesus mandated
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the role of the priest. The first thing Martin Luther
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did was deny the role of the priest. You cannot
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have confession without a priest to hear your confession. You
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can go through the motions of doing the Eucharist, which
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is you know what Protestants just call communion or the
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Lord's Supper with grape juice and it's actually fairly blasphemous
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if they know what they're doing. Most do not. But
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any Protestant who goes through the emotions of what is
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the Holy Eucharist in the Catholic Church in say a
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Methodist or a Baptist, etc. Church with grape juice and
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a minister who certainly is not in the role of
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the priest who can turn bread and wine into the
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body of blood of Christ, is actually committing a blasphemy
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very very similar to what Satanists do. Satanist satan worshipers
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have their own, you know, black Mass, which denigrates and
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blasphemes the Holy Eucharist. Protestants, unknowingly hopefully are doing the
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same when they have communion in a Protestant church. Any
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Catholic who has been properly catechised, even if he or
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she should leave the church, should start screaming their head
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off if they're in a Protestant church and they start
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mimicking the Eucharist what Father Sparaga would have called the
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ape of the church. That's what Protestantism miss. You know,
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how a monkey imitates a human being. The Protestant Church
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apes the Catholic Church. That there's also, you know, been
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writing about how the Antichrist would be the ape of
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the true Christ, an imitator, a pretender. Let's not confuse
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those two things. But guess it is. Communion so called
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in a Protestant church is actually quite blasphemous, really very
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very bad. But they'll go through the motions of that.
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They absolutely deny a priest can forgive sins, even though
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Jesus said to his apostles, those who sins you forgive,
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they are forgiven. Those who sins you retain, they retained.
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And what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,
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and what you loose on earth to be loosed in heaven.
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And I give you the Kingdom of the keys to
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the Kingdom of Heaven, etcetera, etcetera. Jesus absolutely established the priesthood.
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Protestants hate that, absolutely hate it. They will they'll take
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examples out of the Bible where people prayed and laid
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hands on people when they need healing a lot of times.
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They don't have an issue with that. You know, Jesus
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actually said that to his priests, his apostles, and that
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is a power given to the priests through the sacrament
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of anointing. The sick. What's the other word for it.
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It's not last rites anymore. Anyway, it doesn't really matter.
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I've done a whole show on that. That's really a
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priestly functioned Protestants will imitate that in good faith, and
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you know, what are you going to do. They're praying
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for somebody's health and well being. You know, we can't
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have too much of a problem with that. But they
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never say that a human being can forgive someone's sins
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in the stead of God, even though that's exactly what
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the Bible says. I mean, even though that's exactly what
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the Bible says. That's the one sacrament I mean some
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most Protestant churches have baptism. Most Protestant churches still, to
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some extent, recognize holy matrimony. Most Protestant churches do have some,
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as I said, fairly blasphemous representation of the Eucharist. Most
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Protestant churches will pray for the sick. They will not
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ordain a priest, obviously, but they do have a form
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of confirmation. In the Methodist Church, I was confirmed into
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the Methodist Church. That meant absolutely nothing. Actually, it was
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like after school we met for a couple of months
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did Bible lessons. I kept asking, Okay, for a Methodists,
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there's got to be a method. Could someone explain to
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me the method. Nobody had any idea what it was.
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I mean, they have a book of like their doctrine,
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but it doesn't really tell them a whole lot because honestly,
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their doctrine doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and
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so much of it's conflicted, and I mean, it really
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makes no sense whatsoever. And then they handed me a
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certificate and said I was a member of the Methodist
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Church and I needed to register and they'd keep up
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with the tithes that I paid when I got older.
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And I was like ten, you know, I didn't know
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what I was doing. That's not confirmation. Confirmation is in
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a Catholic Church when you actually go through the catechises
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or the r Ciao Cia whatever they call it now,
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and the priest with you know, two witnesses at least
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the priest then seals you as a member of the
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Catholic Church with the chrism oil and you receive the
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fullness of the Holy Spirit. So they're out of all
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the sacraments. They're just like two that Protestants absolutely will
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not do. And that's the ordination of a priest, even
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though you know the Anglicans and such do imitate that
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again without any authority, but probably in fairly good faith,
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I guess. But now they're starting to ordain lesbians and such,
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so I can't say that for sure. But and some
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again Anglicans do will vicar whatever will hear confession, but
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he will not claim, at least the best of my knowledge,
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they don't claim the ability to forgive sins in the
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stead of God. They just say they're helping someone through
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their issues, that kind of thing. And they probably do
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that in other churches too. But and they hate the
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sacrament of confession. That's I mean, you want to get
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a Protestants start screaming at you, say you you go
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into confession. No man can forgive sins. Well Jesus said
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he could. I mean, so you're arguing right here, let
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me put up you know, I mean Book of James
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here and here you can read it. You can read
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it yourself. Well, I don't believe that. But I thought
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the Bible was your sole authority. Well we interpreted it differently. Okay,
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So you deny the clear words of what Jesus said
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and say that those that's your highest authority. Great, no
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wonder you're so screwed up on divorce. I mean, you
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deny the clear words of what Jesus said, and you know,
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really worship a man made doctrine that has no validity.
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You don't have a real Bible. Your Bible's counterfeit because Martin,
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Luther and Calvin and all them change that cut out
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eleven books and change the words of Jesus to fit
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a false doctrine. You go to a counterfeit church, a
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church founded by man and not by God, and you
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have no sacraments through which to receive the means of
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grace other than baptism. You better be praying real hard
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and honestly get your mind right, because it's not right.
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It's not right at all. Logic means there's a one answer,
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I mean on any question that is. You know, what's
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the word a binary? Really, that's a word I don't
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even like to use these days the way people use it.
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But it's either you know, yes or no. It's either
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right or wrong. It's either true or false. Yeah, anyway,
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you know two plus two equals four. It doesn't equal five.
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Our culture doesn't even acknowledge that anymore, not even to mention,
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you know, X and Y chromosomes and anyway. So the
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person asks, can a priest forgive blaste me against the
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Holy Spirit, which Christ says shall not be forgiven to
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this world or the next. And they answer, there is
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no sin too great to be forgiven, provided one sincerely
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repents of it. Christ really referred to evil dispositions of
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the soul which are so hardened that one will lack
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the will to repent. Now that's very important. People say,
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what is the unforgivable sin? Well, it's a sin against
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the Holy Spirit. Spirit, it's blasted me. It's presumption the
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sins against the Holy Spirit are considered to be unforgivable
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because of the original sin of pride prevents the person
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from acknowledging the wrongness of what they've done. You see,
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if I went to, say, a Methodist minister, and I
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said to him, your communion with the grape juice and
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all is blasphemy, And I showed him, you know, two
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thousand years of Christian teaching, and proved to him that
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only a Catholic priest can can what's the word consecrate
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the Eucharist that can only happen through the Catholic Church.
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And what he's doing is actually closer to Satanism. It's blasphemous.
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He would not be able to admit that, even if
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I gave him all the evidence. And if he cannot
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admit that, I mean because if he did, he'd have
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to leave the church and become Catholic. He'd have to
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leave the Methodist Church and become Catholic, right, he could
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no longer call himself a minister. This was the same
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thing reason the Phariseasan scribes. That was the issue they
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had with Jesus. If Jesus was coming to as the Messiah,
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they were out of a job, you know, if Christianity
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was going to be the new religion. And they didn't
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of course didn't even understand that, but they knew he
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was coming in drastically changing the law and practice of
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Judaism at the very least. They were threatened by that.
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And that's really why they hadn't crucified. They could not
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admit that they were wrong, just as that Methodist minister
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will not admit that he's wrong. Franklin Graham on his
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website says that baptism is not necessary for salvation, even
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though Jesus said it is, you know, repeatedly, and all
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Christians believe that. For like two thousand years, Franklin Graham
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Billy Graham before him, would not admit that baptism is
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necessary for salvation. That is a sin against the Holy Spirit.
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And it's not that it's unforgivable, because God is omnipotent.
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God can do anything. It's that repentance is necessary to
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confess one's sins. Repentance is necessary for forgiveness. And if
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someone is absolutely unable, incapable of admitting that they're wrong,
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then they cannot be forgiven. So that's what the unforgivable
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sin is, all right, So they said, blasphemy against the
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Holy Spirit is not blasphemy as commonly understood, but a
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determined resistance to the very grace of the Holy Spirit,
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which is meant to save us. Thus, the Pharisees who
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saw the miracles of Christ could not deny them to
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be miracles. Yet rather than yield to the grace being
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offered them, they said that Christ wrought them with the
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help of the devil and not by God. A man
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who rejects the very means of God adopts to convert him.
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By a man who rejects the very means God adopts
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to convert him is little likely to make good use
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of other graces offered by God. And our Lord warns
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us very strongly to beware of sinning against the light,
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since it seldom ends in repentance. Yet even such a man,
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with the help of a special grace, could repent of
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his bad dispositions and thus be converted and forgiven. Any
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unforgivableness therefore is on the account of the man's bad disposition,
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not account not on account of the nature of the sin.
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There is also no absolutely unforgivable sin such as cannot
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be forgiven even though a man repents. And the person asks,
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will a Catholic priest who is convicted of murder go
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to heaven if he confesses his sin to a priest,
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And they answer, if he has confessed his sin sincerely
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and with genuine sorrow, his sin will be forgiven and
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his soul saved. He says, what of the thief who
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is not discovered by the police, and they answer. The
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priest orders him to make restitution, giving back to the
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owner the money or good stolen. Only when he promises
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to do so will he receive absolution for his sin
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before God. But the penitent is not obliged to give
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himself up to the police. It is their business to
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prove the crime and arrest him. He asked, will the
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priest tell the police or is it a sacred secret?
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And they answer the priest will certainly not tell the police.
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He can never act upon information submitted to him for
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the purpose of absolution before God. And finally, the person
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ask is not such a priest and enemy of the state,
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And they answer No. State laws control men in their
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capacity as citizens of the state. But a priest does
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not hear a confession in his capacity as a citizen
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of a state. He is acting not as a human being,
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but as an agent of God. You might as well
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oblige God, since he knows all things. To reveal all
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crimes to the police. The priest would never have known
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had he not been doing the duty in the name
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of God. In any case, he is obliged by both
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the natural and positive laws of morality in this matter
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to die rather than to reveal such things. And it's
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very important to remember the priest cannot break the seal
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of the confessional. As we have discussed many many times,
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Anglican vicar is under no such rule. If someone were
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to come into him, for he's agreed to hear their
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confession and they admitted to a crime, he's not under
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any rule not to tell the police. That's one of
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the big reasons why I have issues with Orthodox churches.
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Under the Greek Orthodox were taken under the power of
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the Muslim caliph and were required to break the seal
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of the confessional. Anyone conspiring against that Islamic state by
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law had to be turned in to the government by
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the priests. The Russian Orthodox were under the same rule
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under the Soviets and the various Soviet satellites. Anyone who
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came in and confessed that they were plotting against the state,
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or were not communists, or hated the Communist government, whatever,
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the priest was under obligation to break the seal of
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the confessional. Now, whether they did or not, nobody knows. Okay,
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I mean, I'm not going to say, and yeah, they
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all did it, but they were required under law to
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do so, and surely some did. You know how widespread
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that is I obviously couldn't say, But that obviously invalidates
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that sacrament. And if the priests don't have the valid sacraments,
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are they still priests. There's also the issue of apostolic succession.
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We know that, especially in the Soviet Union, the Soviet
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government was installing priests and other leaders in the church.
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You know, you have to wonder is that valid now?
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I mean, obviously in older times in the Catholic Church,
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the government of France and such try to influence who
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would be chosen as a bishop and such as that.
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But really, I mean, Catholics answer to the Pope is
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the highest authority on earth and God is the highest
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authority in the universe. The Greek Orthodox we're answering to
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a Muslim caliph, and the or Russian Orthodox and related
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we're answering to Soviet Prime minister or whatever what they
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call the Soviet leader, PM Gorbachev. Yeah, I guess it
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was a prime minister. Yeah, what do I know? A
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Soviet dictator? In other words, were they still acting validly
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as Christian priests and through apostolic succession? I don't know,
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I don't know. You know, when a priest gives the sacraments,
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he's supposed to stand in the stead of Jesus. Even
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if he's a bad priest, right, I mean you can
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have a just a horrible a priest, what is a
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thief or an adulter or something. Right, he still gives
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a valid Eucharist. He's still validly here's confession, because he's
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not acting in his own stead. But when you break
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the seal of the confessional, is he's still acting as
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a priest? I mean that would be the de facto
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excommunication of the Catholic Church. He would know he would
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be stripped of his priesthood. I mean he would be
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stripped of his what they call it defract right. That
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would be de facto excommunication and losing one's station as
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a priest. If a priest were to join the Masonic Order,
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that's de facto excommunication. And if found out by the bishop,
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he's stripped of his priesthood, his ability to act as
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a priest. They say, once a priest, always a priest.
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But he would no longer be able to offer the
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sacraments any Catholic Church, unless I believe he was actually
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readmitted by the Pope himself. So when the Orthodox churches
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deny the authority of the Pope that's getting pretty close
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to de facto excommunication. I mean, they're certainly excommunicated from
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the Catholic Church. When they submit to the authority of
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a secular government or a a Muslim ruler, that would
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certainly be grounds for excommunication in any form of Christianity
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I can think of. And when they break the seal
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of the confessional, I'm not sure that. I mean, that
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gets into some really iffy, tricky territory, you know, if
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that priest, that Orthodox priest under the I mean, there's
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only like I said, there's only right and wrong and
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yes or no. You can't say we have one set
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of rules for Catholics and one set of Orthodox but
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they're both equally valid as priests. I can't say that
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at all. And I'm not a you know, canon lawyer
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or something. I'm not as a legal scholar of doctrine.
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That's for other people to decide. But I would have
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some serious concerns. And they also most Russian Orthodox, and
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I don't know about the other Orthodox churches. Except divorce,
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they say at least one divorce is okay and may
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be a problem if you have more than one, all right,
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that's breaking the sacrament of holy matrimony. I really have
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my concerns. I mean, I know, it's like very trendy
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in ecumenism these days to say that, you know, Catholic
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and Orthodox are brothers, and we're both you know, equally
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valid as Christians because of Apostolic succession. But the younger
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brother is in schism with the older brother, and then,
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you know, all we can do is pray for the
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unity of all Christians. I have some serious concerns with Orthodoxy.
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It's certainly been some great saints or Orthodox I mean,
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but when did when did and which sure and when
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did they fall away? That's what I have. My concerns
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revolve around. You can't make blanket statements because there's really
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no one Orthodox Church. You know, there are all these
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little branches of Orthodoxy. They don't get along with each
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other either, but the one thing they all agree on
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is they hate the Catholic Church. Catholics are big on
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saying the Orthodox are our brothers, and the Orthodox are
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big on saying, no, hell no, we're not. I mean,
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I'm not kidding. You just have to pray for the
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unity of all Christians. It's all all we can do.
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All right, Now, let's get on to the Catechism of
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the Catholic Church follow Sparago. How ought we to pray?
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This is once again follows Sparago's exhaustive explanation of the
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Catechism of the Catholic Church published in the eighteen nineties.
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By praying, we learn to pray. In this the proverb holds,
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good practice makes perfect. Pray often and you will find
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a light in prayer. Pray seldom, and it will appear
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to you and wearisome. God does not regard the length
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of your supplications, but their fervor. If prayer is to
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be of utility to us, we must pray in the
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name of Jesus. That is, we must ask what is
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in accordance with our Lord's desires. Our Lord desires whatever
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prompts the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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If we pray for what is opposed to our spiritual welfare,
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we do not pray in the name of Christ e g.
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If we pray for earthly riches or honors, for the
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acquisition of superfluities superfluities. But we pray in the name
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of Christ, that is, in union with His intentions in
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his spirit. If we ask for such things as the
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means of earning our daily bread for succor, and time
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of tribulation for the conversion of a sinner. The Church
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prays in the name of Christ for all her petitions,
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concluding with the words through Jesus Christ, our Lord, if
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you ask anything, if you ask the Father anything in
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my name, he will give it to you John sixteen
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twenty three, Such as our life promise. What monarch could
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refuse the petition of one who said he was authorized
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to present it by the King's old and royal son.
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We must pray with devotion, That is, we must fix
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our thoughts on God. When we pray in our prayers,
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we hold intercourse with God. When we hold intercourse with
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our fellow mortals, we give them our whole attention. How
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much more, when we converse with God, should we fix
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our mind on him alone. Some people honor God with
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their lips, while their heart is far from Him Matthew
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fifteen eight. Their thoughts wander, They think of earthly employments.
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They do not heed what they say. Prayers that are
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so tepid and distracted avail nothing with God, who, when
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pleading before an earthly judge, would turn on those Wait
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a minute, let me try that again. Prayers that are
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so tepid and distracted avail nothing with God. Ah, there
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was a period there that I missed who, when pleading
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before an earthly judge, would turn to those about him
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and begin to talk to them. He would be put
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out of the court for his disrespectful disrespectful behavior. How
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can we expect God to heed our prayers if we
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do not heed them ourselves. He who prays without devotion
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and yet looks for an answer to his prayers is
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like a man who sows bad grain and anticipates a
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crop of first rate wheat. It is, not, however, necessary
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to have sensible devotion to experience extraordinary consolation and delight
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in prayer. That is a supernatural gift bestowed by God
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generally as a recompense. It does not add to the
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value of our prayers, nor are they necessarily the worse
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if we feel distaste and aridity. Saint Teresa A. Villa
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says that prayer under such circumstances may be even more
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meritorious because it is painful to nature. That prayer which
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causes us an effort which we have to which we
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have to compel ourselves to offer, is perhaps the most
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acceptable to God's site. Do not therefore give up prayer
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on account of aridity and the disinclination for it. The
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evil enemy seeks by this means to withdraw us from prayer.
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And God permits this trial to come upon us in
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order that we may feel our unwakness and humble ourselves
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on account of it. And if during the whole time
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of prayer we do nothing but resist the temptations and distractions,
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let us not think we have prayed badly. God looks
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to our good will, and they takes pleasure in that
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He takes pleasure. In order to pray devoutly, we must
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prepare ourselves beforehand, and during the time of prayer. We
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must guard our senses and see that we do not
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assume it in an irreverent posture. Before prayer, prepare thy soul,
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be not as a man that tempteth God. The harper
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tunes his heart before the beginning to play, lest there
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should be a discord in the melody. How carefully those
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who are admitted to an audience of some earthly monarch
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perform their toilet. What he means by that is that
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before somebody goes before a king, they fix themselves up
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real nice. That doesn't mean use the toilet. Before commencing
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our prayer. We should place ourselves in the presence of God,
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endeavoring to realize that we stand in His sight, and
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then banish from our thoughts all worldly cares and interests.
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Let us imitate the patriarch Abraham, who, when about to
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offer up his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, left his servants,
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his ass and all that were not wanted for the
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sacrifice at the foot of the mountain, saying, when we
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have worshiped, we will return to you, as our Lord
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drove those out who sold the temple. So we must
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banish all worldly affairs from our heart when it is
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made for a temple for prayer. Yet the distractions that
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are involuntary are not sinful, only they must be repulsed
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and withstood. At prayer, we must close the door that
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has keep custody of the eyes, and we draw into
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the secret chambers of the soul. The use of a
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prayer book often keeps the eyes from wandering. As a rule,
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when praise with more recollection before the statue of a saint,
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or in a holy place where all around breathes an
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atmosphere of devotion. Our attitude during prayers should not be
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lacking in reverence. As far as possible, we should remain
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upon our knees as an aid to devotion, and of
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course that isn't possible for all people. I myself have
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a very bad knee, dislocated several times, and I can't
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kneel for very long. Saint Teresa Avilla and Saint Francis
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de Sal make very clear that it's also perfectly acceptable
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to pray while walking, while standing, while working. If your
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work allows you to work with your hands silently, very
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good time to pray. Often say my best prayers while
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hiking or fishing. He goes on. We must pray with perseverance,
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that is, we ought not to desist from prayer if
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our petition is not immediately granted. We should take example
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from children who will not leave off clamoring until they
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get what they want. We mortals are apt to grow
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angry if a suppliant is to persist, but it is
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not so with God. He is pleased when we batter
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the gates of heaven with storms of prayer. Remember the
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parable of the importunate friend who continued knocking Luke six'.
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Five god sometimes puts the endurance of the suppliant to
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a severe, test as was the case with the woman
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Of Canaan matthew. Fifteen The jews Of bethuliah prayed all
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night desiring the help Of god Of israel When halifernes
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besieged their. City but the more they, prayed the more
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desperate the situation. Appeared yet they held, out And god
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sent them a. Deliverer In, judith we have already said
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that for eighteen long Years Saint monica ceased not to
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pray for her son's, conversion and how richly her constancy
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was greatly. Rewarded For god loves to come to our
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aid when our need is. Greatest let us not then be,
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discouraged as some, are and cease to pray if our
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prayers are not. Answered the wise course would be to
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pray more earnestly the Longer god delays our, petition for
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the Longer he keeps us, waiting the more will his
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succor surpass all. Expectations he is able to do abundantly
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more than we desire or. Understand ephesians three. Twenty we
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have to wait a whole, year Since Saint francis to
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sow before the seed we sow in the ground bears,
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fruit and are we more impatient and regard with the
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fruit of our. Prayers we must pray with a pure,
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heart that, is our, conscience must be free from grievous,
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sin or at any rate we must be in penitential.
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Dispositions the man whose heart is not clean has not
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power to raise his soul To, God for when he
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begins to, pray thoughts and images of sin crowd in
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upon his mind and hold it captive upon. Earth he
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who prays with an impure, Heart it's like a man
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who enters the presence of royalty with mud stained garments
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to implore a. Favor it is only just that he
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who will not conform to divine precepts should be excluded
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from a share of divine. Benefactions listen to the commands
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Of god if you would have, him listen to your.
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Suffocations but as soon as the sinner is sincerely, contrite
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he may hope to obtain a. Hearing god will receive
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his petitions as graciously as if he had never offended.
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Him in this his unlike men who are prone to
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cast former offenses in the teeth of those who ask
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a favor of. Them god looks at the present, attention
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not the past actions of a. Man remember how the
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prayer of the penitent publican in the temple was Accepted
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luke eighteen. Thirteen we must pray with, humility that, is
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we must acknowledge our own weakness and. Unworthiness the prayer
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Of him that humbleth himself shall pierce the. Clouds it's
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A ecclesiastes or SIRIC i cannot remember how lowly is
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the obsessence of one who approaches one of, magnitude one
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of the magnates of the, earth to present his petition
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somebody in. Power in other, words prayer is itself an
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act of, humility for by it we testify a sense
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of our dependence upon The lord of heaven and. Earth
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we take the position of beggars knocking at the door
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of the Great father of. Mankind we must pray with,
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confidence that, is with a firm conviction that of his infinite,
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Mercy god will grant what we, ask provided it tend
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To his glory and the true welfare of our. Souls
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the prayer Of him that humbleth himself shall pierce the
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clouds of what the prayer of faith ought to. Be Third,
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kings excuse, ME i guess because it's EIGHTEEN alrd says all,
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things whatsoever you shall ask in, prayer believing you shall
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Receive matthew twenty one twenty. Two confidence hath a great
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Reward hebrews ten thirty. Five let not him that wavereth
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think that he shall receive anything of The Lord james
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one to. One we must pray with resignation of the.
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Will that, is we must leave the granting of our
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petition entirely To god's good, pleasure not my, will but
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thy and me DoD luke twenty two forty two was
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Our lord's prayer On Mount. Olive that was Our lord's
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Prayer Mount. Olive god knows best what is for our.
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Good we ought no more dictate to him than a
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sick man who knows nothing of the healing arts ought
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to tell the physician what drugs he is to give.
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HIM a certain mother wants was importunate in prayer for
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the recovery of her sick. Child the priest told her
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she would do better to ask That god's will might be. Done,
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no she, exclaimed, Indignantly god must grant my, desire the
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child was restored to, health took to evil, ways and
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at last came to the. Gallows happy would it have
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been for that man had he died in his? Childhood
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how much wiser it is to leave all in the
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hands Of, god for he knows the. Future all, right
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let's see where we are on. THINGS i think we'll
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wrap it up. There it's about a little over a half.
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Hour we have a little more to say about prayer next. Week,
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YEAH i think maybe we can wrap this one up next,
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week or maybe. Not, actually there's a whole other. Chapter
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prayers an important. Subject you. Know we need to spend
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plenty of time thinking about prayer and. Praying and really
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fantastic books on the subject Are Saint Teresa Villa's Interior.
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Castle her biography is really good, too And Saint francis
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De sal's first two, books can't they're very much About
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Saint Teresa's Interior. CASTLE i cannot remember the name of those,
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two you. Know, NOW i couldn't pull it up fast.
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Enough i'd just be wasting your. Time so For Saint
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Francis sell's first two, books As Saint, Jose Maria screeve
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has written some excellent books on, prayer Certainly Venerable Fulton. Sheen,
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oh there are a lot of good, Ones Saint Johnathan,
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cross of. COURSE i mean there's so many really great
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classic works on. Prayer y'all have a great. Week Remember, Tomorrow,
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Friday i'm recording this On, thursday is a day of
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abstinence from meat fasting. Too if you can do. It
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if you can't do, it don't worry about, it but
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do try to abstain from. Meat remember fish On, fridays
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or vegetables or, cheese whatever you. Prefer we're so fortunate
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that our era we can have cheese and eggs and.
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Milk it's just meat we're not supposed to. Have and
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there are even a few exceptions to, that depending on
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where you. Live you, know the church looked and, said you,
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know these people may have trouble getting, seafood they may
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have trouble having enough fish to, eat so we're gonna
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set aside like, muskrats because they live so much on.
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Fish they taste like, fish or the, poldo the. Coot
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what's the other, word. Gallino it's a bird that eats
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so much fish that marsh hen that's another name for.
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It it tastes like, fish and it's absolutely foul and.
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Disgusting the breast meat is, okay any other part of
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that bird is like so hard to choke down that
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the church, said you, know eating that is penance in
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and of. Itself now we can also eat, alligator AND
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i love me some. Gator i'm telling, YOU i could
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eat an alligator all the. Time, crawfish of, COURSE i love.
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Shrimp Yesterday ASH, windsda they were running a sale and
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frozen scallops at the grocery. STORE i, mean HAD i
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not fasted all, DAY i would not have found any
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pennance in eating scallops fried in butter with big plate
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of mashed potatoes and some in. Cabbage it was absolutely.
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DELICIOUS i MEAN i would that was a really nice.
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Meal so remember it's it's not that, hard even if
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you have to eat a McDonald's filet of, fish which
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IS i don't care for anything, McDonald's he. Said the.
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Coffee the coffee is pretty, decent but it's hey cheese.
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PIZZA i, mean there's so many. Options cheese or avy,
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oli just pasta one of my favorite dishes that are
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really loving the. Spring BUT i eat this anytime of.
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Year is pasta with parmesan and, parsley and it is so.
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Cheap it is so easy to. Do get a fresh
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bunch of parsley from the grocery store unless you have
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some coming in the. Garden chop it, up get yourself a.
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Pan we'll put your pasta on a. Boil of, course
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any pasta you, like just put it on a. Boil
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now get a. Pan put in some olive, oil maybe
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a little butter if you. Like throw your parsley in.
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There pinch a crush red, pepper maybe fourth of a
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glass half a glass of dry white. Wine or you
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can use lemon, juice salt and pepper to taste The pasta's.
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Done drain, it put it in that, Sauce mix it
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up real well with a parsley and. Everything plate it,
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up sprinkle parmegan and cheese over. It it's. Fantastic that
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is a MEAL i never tire of. Another real, cheap
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easy pasta dish is just egg noodles with sour, cream
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maybe a sprinkle of parsley and chives over. It just about,
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well certainly is. Easy maybe you cost a dollar. More
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is pasta with clam. Sauce you, know get a good
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brand of canned clam. Sauce if you can't make your,
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own making your owns really easy. Again clams and olive
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oil and parsley and. Garlic OH i forgot the. Garlic
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be sure to add the garlic to your pasta with
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parm And, yeah put the garlic in with the. Parsley
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cook it in the olive. Oil if you want to
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enrich it a little bit at a little, cream you,
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know you could definitely do. That these are these are
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totally meatless dishes that will not leave you feeling. Deprived
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so if you can, fast don't you know you can
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have a good meatless meal for. Dinner don't feel like
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you can only eat. LENTILS i happen to love. LENTILS
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a good little soup with chicken, broth or maybe some
39:37
can of tomatoes in, there a little bit of, wine some.
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Oregano FANTASTIC i could. EAT i, MEAN i love, lentils
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lentils and rice sergoid. Combination now down In louisiana they
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do red beans and. Rice it's just got too much
39:50
pork in it for A linton, dish but it's absolutely.
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Delicious any combination of beans and rice is just. Fantastic right,
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NOW i have on the stove pento beans with a
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big handful of fresh, cilantro a little bit of, kum
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and crushed red, pepper you, know salt and pepper to.
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Taste have that with some rice as a linten, meal and,
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really or make a, casadia, Right just get a tortilla
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and some cheese fried up in the, pan dip it
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in those, beans or make some. Pikota. GUY i, mean
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you don't have to eat tofu and you don't have
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to just live on you, know bread and. Water but
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of course if you can't, fast maybe you don't want
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to keep Your friday meals a little more, simple a
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little more. Austere all, Right i'm you, know monks in
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the sixteen hundreds lived on nothing but beer during the
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whole forty days of, wint nothing but, beer no solid
40:44
food at, all just beer from morning till. NIGHT i
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think they were probably pretty happy when lint came. Around
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AND i, mean you, know the old saying was beer
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is proof That god loves us and wants us to be.
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HAPPY i mean it really The german word for. Fermentation
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god is. GOOD i, mean you, know there's really unless
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you have an issue with alcohol or unless you've given
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it up For. Lent it's the prayer is the most
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important part Of. Lent not giving up. DOUGHNUTS i, mean you,
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know that's, fine a little bit of self. Discipline the
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prayer really is the most important. Thing and helping others
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the alms, deeds and because the fasting is so different for,
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people depending on their age and their health levels and all.
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That but, yeah be Boldly catholic On, fridays have your
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fish On, fridays and let other people know around you, that,
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yeah We're. Catholic we abstain from meat On, fridays especially During,
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lent in honor of Our lord's passion on The. Cross
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he gave up his flesh for. Us we give up
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flesh On, friday and do that throughout the year if you.
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Can it's really very good for you and it makes
41:57
a great example for the people around. You AND i,
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MEAN i like to pray The rosary while walk around the.
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Neighborhood let's let's people see me praying The. Rosary let
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it be a reminder and pray prayers for people in the.
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Neighborhood and you, know or If i'm silently praying The,
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rosary on my, fingers not hold the. Beads you, know
42:16
in the grocery, store standing in line at the post,
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office do the same. Thing but when people see those,
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beads they're, like, oh He's, catholic, okay and he's saying.
42:23
Prayers they might even ask you about, it and you, say,
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well right, Now i'm saying a prayer for. YOU i
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want you to be help with you and happy and
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have a good relationship With. God and you, know if they,
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REACT i didn't ask you to do, that you, say,
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WELL i know you, didn't But i'm showing you an
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act of love as Our lord did for. Us like
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it or, not but most likely they're not gonna have
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a problem with it at. All all, right, Y'all so
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do have a great, week And i'll talk to you next.
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