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Show 41: To be a living member of the Body of Christ you must eat His flesh and drink His blood · The Uncensored Catholic

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  Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. You know, I've been talking
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  a lot about politics lately, so I thought it'd be a good thing just
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  kind of get back to basics, you know what I mean. I was
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  looking at some verses from the Bible today and I happen to be reading in
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  the Book of Corinthians, and this is where Saint Paul says, brothers and
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  sisters, the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and
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  the Lord is for the body. God raised up the Lord and will also
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  raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are
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  members of Christ? But whoever has joined the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
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  Avoid immorality. Every other a person commits us outside the body, but
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  the immoral person sends against his own body. Do you not know that your
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  body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from
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  God, and that you are not your own, for you have been purchased
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  at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. Now, Obviously,
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  at first glance, you know this is sort of an exhortation to morality,
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  But you know, there's a really a lot more than that, and
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  it's something something we really need to think more about. You know, that
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  pole came out I guess it was about two years ago now saying that,
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  I think it actually said about a majority of Catholics did not believe in the
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  real presence of God in the Eucharist, and that is due to poor teaching
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  by the Catholic Church. You know, as a convert, you know that's
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  the first thing you have to wrestle with, is that the Eucharist actually becomes
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  a spiritual body and blood of Jesus, because no Protestant church believes that.
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  The fact that even I mean even a fraction of Catholics practicing Catholics would disbelieve
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  that is a sign that our Catholic education is severely wanting. We need to
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  get away from all this social justice environmental justice crap and get back to the
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  basics for one main reason, well two main reasons. One is it's true.
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  Jesus said it, Jesus, God, God cannot lie. Therefore it
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  is true. Two, Jesus also said, those who eat His body and
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  blood unworthily become guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. You actually,
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  if you do not believe that is the true body and blood of Christ
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  and you present yourself for communion, you actually become guilty of murder. You
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  commit a mortal sin. That's nothing to take lightly. And if our priests
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  and catechists and such are prioritizing some other teaching than that, they're failing us
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  greatly. I mean, I frankly shudder to think how many people are risking
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  eternal damnation because their priests and their early Catholic education and their catechists and all
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  that have not explained to them the reality of the Eucharist. But beyond that,
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  and there is much more to unpack. In this short passage from Corinthians,
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  there's a very important concept, and it is the body of Christ.
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  He says, do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ's?
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  That is really as hard as it is to wrap your mind around the fact
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  that the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. The reality
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  of the bid of Christ, which is the communion of saints essentially, is
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  just as deep, just as deep, and just as much a mystery.
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  I guess we would say, through baptism and confirmation, we're brought into the
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  body of Christ through the Eucharius, our physical bodies and souls are filled with
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  the divinizing. That's a hard word for me to say, divinizing. It
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  keeps trying to come out divinizing, but it's divinizing. It means to make
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  divine power of God. As the old saying goes, you are what you
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  eat. But consider for a moment, through the sacraments of the Church,
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  we literally become a part of Jesus Christ, and He literally becomes a part
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  of us. We are eating God, and God becomes part of us,
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  and we are then joined into the divine. That's what divinizing means. That's
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  the divinizing power of the sacraments. The more He becomes alive in us,
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  the more we become alive in Him, the less attached to the things of
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  this world we become, and the less separate from God we are due to
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  sin. The more we become holy as He is holy, perfect as He
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  is perfect, and pure enough to enter Heaven where nothing impure can enter.
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  Remember he said, you have to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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  Only through the Eucharist. Is that even possible, absolutely impossible without the
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  sacraments. And that's really the greatest miracle on which we can ever participate,
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  you know elsewhere. Saint Paul urges that there be no schisms, no division
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  or disagreement within the Church. Well, our Lord pray the same thing.
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  He asked the Father that all Christians be one in unity. He said,
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  let they be one as you and I are one. And so Saint Paul
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  warns that such disagreements and disunity divide the body of Christ in essence, crucifying
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  him again. Imagine how much our Lord has grieved that the one Holy Catholic
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  and Apostolic Church has been so divided that millions of people who call themselves Christians
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  no longer belong to the one church he founded, which is His living body.
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  There are, depending on how you count them, up to fifty thousand
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  Protestant denominations. There's one holy Catholic Church, and only in communion with the
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  Catholic Church can one receive the Eucharist. And our Lord warned that unless we
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  eat his body and drink his blood, we have no life in us.
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  Just think for a moment, how how sad it is really, I mean,
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  how tragic it is that millions of people who believe Jesus is God are
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  not members of his body, but belong to some fifty thousand Protestant denominations,
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  each of whom disagree with each other about matters of doctrine, theology, and
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  all of whom disagree with the Catholic Church. And none of them millions of
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  people who call themselves Christians, who believe in Jesus, none of them can
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  receive the life of Jesus through the Eucharist, because the denial of the real
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  presence in the Eucharist is a founding tenet of Protestantism. In fact, and
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  I have been unable to source this quote. You know, I'm no fan
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  of Martin Luther. I only read his stuff when I have to. And
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  it was recently in something I was reading that Martin Luther admitted that he had
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  been so vehemently opposed to the real presence of Jesus and the Euchors due to
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  the influence of the devil. Now, if I can find the quote that
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  Martin Luther literally says his attacks against the real presence of Jesus and the Eucharist
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  were inspired by the devil, I think that should be the end of any
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  argument with any Lutheran or any Anglican which the tenets of the Anglican beliefs are
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  entirely based on Lutheranism. It's Luther just repackaged in England or you know,
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  the Wesleyans or the etc. It all starts with Luther, who said that
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  that's just bread and wine. It's just symbolic when Jesus said the exact opposite,
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  and if he later did say that, the devil prompted that that should
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  really be the final nail in the coffin of Protestantism, which I'm afraid is
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  coming one way or another. And I say that because you know, I've
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  been traveling around a lot over the past few years and I see empty Protestant
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  churches. These are the mainlines, you know, Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran,
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  Baptist, Anglican, Episcopal, etc. The old You know, you
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  used to go into any town in the South and you'd have the first Baptist
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  church, and you'd have a second, the third, and the Free Will
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  and all that. And these churches are basically hardly anyone showing up on Sundays,
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  and most of them are old, most of them are your grandparents' age.
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  And yeah, the the more evangelical, the non denominationals are doing a
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  lot better, but I'm afraid that within another generation or two, most of
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  the Protestant churches in any town, at least in my region, are going
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  to close. Well that's I mean, it's it's it's horrible for the culture,
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  but their culture has moved so far away from God. Meanwhile, the
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  Catholic churches around here packed, I mean like standing room only three masses a
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  day and they're not even you know, people talk about how the traditional Catholics
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  are much more active. These are nervous ordo churches. I mean, we
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  now have well at least well three masses on you know, Saturday night to
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  Sunday in English speaking and one in Spanish. Maybe the Protestant churches are beginning
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  to go their way. Our you know, our lady I believe is that
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  Fatima said that before the end times, before the end of the world,
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  all Protestants would return to the Catholic Church, and so with the Jews actually
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  and the Muslims. So maybe this is a natural progression. I don't know.
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  I do know that no Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist,
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  etc. No matter how strong their faith, no matter how much the
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  Bible, they really, no matter how much they believe in Jesus Christ.
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  None of them can receive the bodied, blood, soul, and divinity of
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  Jesus Christ in the way he designed and mandated for all those who believe in
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  him, because their foundational founding principle is to disbelieve in the real presence of
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  the Eucharist. I mean, this is this is the greatest tragedy of our
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  time that began in the fourteen hundreds. I mean this honestly, that Christians
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  would not be able to receive the Eucharist must really grieve our Lord more than
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  all the sins, wars, and human errors ever committed. I mean,
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  he said, do it, you know, I mean, think about how
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  he grieved over Jerusalem and the Temple in his earthly life, you know,
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  knowing that the gift that had been given to God's chosen people had been refused.
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  The Messiah came and they rejected him. Imagine now how he must grieve
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  over millions of Christians who have rejected the gift that was not merely a promise
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  and a covenant, a verbal agreement essentially between God and man, but provided
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  through his own suffering, crucifixion and death. As horrible as this is,
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  though, I mean, just imagine how much he must grieve over are Catholics
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  who doubt the real presence of the Euchrist, and who even take it for
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  granted, just going through the motions of communion without considering the miracle they receive
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  under the form of bread and wine. This Jesus Christ actually present in front
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  of you. You know, there's so many I won't even try to name
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  them, but so many saints have written at length about how Heaven and Earth
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  come together on the altar during the Holy Mess, how all the angels and
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  saints are with us in true communion, celebrating the euchriust with us. They
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  say that if we could just once perceive this great cloud of witnesses, as
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  Saint Paul wrote, he said, do you not realize we are surrountied by
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  so great a cloud of witnesses? And to understand the true spiritual reality of
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  what was before us, we would be so struck with all and reverence we
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  would each become saints instantly. Meanwhile, I mean, too often, you
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  know, and this is true of me, is to all of us.
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  We sit there and our minds water. You know, we're distracted by our
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  personal problems or interpersonal problems. We think about arguments we've had with someone,
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  or a conversation we need to have with someone, or something that happened yesterday.
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  You know. For me, you know, I love food. I
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  love to eat, so I may even be planning lunch, you know,
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  I'm thinking about what I'm going to cook when I get home. Even you
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  know, God forbid people texting on their phones. If there's one thing that
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  is probably the most disrespectful thing I've seen is when people are sitting there in
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  mass checking their you know, their Facebook and Twitter pages or texting on their
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  phone. That's honestly, phone should be collected at the door. They should
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  not be allowed in. If someone has an emergency, there should be a
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  phone there, should be able to run somebody's having a heart attack, okay,
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  whatever, But phones should be mandated to be turned off or silenced at
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  the very least. I mean, of course, maybe if you had a
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  sick relative or a child at home and they need to contact you in case
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  of emergency. Okay, you know, granted that was you know, for
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  the last two thousand years, people didn't have cell phones. But if someone's
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  going to argue that they have to have their phone on them at least mute
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  it in silence it, and for Pete's sake, don't be sitting there texting
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  during mass. That is is horrible. I'm sure the worst things you could
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  be doing, but it's hard to think of any that would be just not
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  out absolutely outrageous. Obviously, but I mean, according to what the saints
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  have witnessed, you know, those who actually can see the reality of the
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  spiritual world in front of them. If we could only once perceive the reality
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  of what was going on in each and every mass in the most rural,
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  poorly attended church with the worst priests, I mean, someone who's just going
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  through the motions. Even it doesn't matter if how good the priest is,
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  that's still the Lord that's present. They say that if we saw at one
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  time, we would just drop to the floor, prostrate on the ground,
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  face down on the floor of the church, just weeping and begging for forgiveness,
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  And well, why not. You're literally present at the foot of the
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  Cross at Calvary, the greatest miracle that's ever happened in the world. Because
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  God is not bound by time and space. At every single Catholic Mass,
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  in every single Catholic church, in the world, every hour of the day,
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  every minute of the day, is happening right before your eyes, more
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  real than the pew you're sitting on. So the more we realize that,
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  the more we will truly be in Him, and He will be in us,
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  and we will never wish to offend him or take it him for granted.
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  And then we will say with true humility, not just going through the
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  motions. Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter into my roof,
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  But only say the word, and I shall be healed. My soul
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  shall be healed. I as a convert, I would like to urge my
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  cradle Catholic brothers and sisters to pick up your Catechism and read about the real
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  presence of God of Jesus in the Eucharist, and ask yourself what do you
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  believe? And if you're not entirely convinced, maybe it's time to read,
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  you know, some of the works of the saints. Talk with your priest,
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  go over it again, and don't don't receive the Eucharist if you don't
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  believe that. That's a mortal sin. And you know you shouldn't do that
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  because you want, we all want to go to heaven right. I think
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  we really all need to be sort of apostles of the Eucharist, explaining the
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  real presence because all those empty Protestant churches I'm seeing now we're once filled with
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  devout christian I mean, they weren't Catholic, they couldn't receive the Eucharist,
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  but for some reason they're falling away, maybe because the real presence of Jesus
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  is not in that church. Now, Jesus is the word of God.
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  The Bible is the word of God. Jesus sins in that church, but
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  his body, blood, soul, and divinity is not. And you know,
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  we can either let the world go to hell around us, or we
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  can reach out and talk with our Protestant brothers and sisters who have perhaps fallen
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  away or are not as active in their churches anymore, and explain to them
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  what we believe and why, and open the Bible and say, look,
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  here's what Jesus said. Look, I know this is what you were taught.
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  You know, when I was confirmed as a Methodist, I was taught
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  that communion was all symbolic. That's not what Jesus said. You know,
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  come to church with me. What do you got to lose? Sit on
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  the pew. You don't go up for communion, or if you do,
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  you can go up for a blessing. Only people who are members of the
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  Body of Christ confirmed into the Catholic Church can receive the Eucharist. Explain to
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  them it's the same as any other sacrament. I mean, it's you know,
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  the difference between a valid marriage and adultery. Only the two that are
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  married, you know, can be together. Anyone else entering into that relationship
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  is not allowed. Maybe you know God willing things. You know, God
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  can use the worst circumstances and the most evil people for good and he does.
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  I mean, he used Judas to bring us the Messiah, you know,
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  to bring us salvation. He constantly uses bad people and bad actions to
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  bring about good results. As our country is becoming increasingly immoral, I mean
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  we are like literally living in Sodom and gomra now you know, I don't
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  have to spell it out. And the Protestant churches are emptying, and I
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  do mean the mainline ones, I know, the very evangelic or are doing
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  very well. And whatever those megachurches are, I don't even I'm sorry those
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  Joel Olstein and such. That's not even a valid Christian doctrine in any way,
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  shape or form. I mean, he may as well be Oprah.
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  I mean we'll get into that maybe some other time. But he is not
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  teaching the words of God. He's not teaching the Bible or Christian morality.
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  It's that feel good prosperity doctrine, and that's not of God. You know,
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  God promise you're going to suffer and be poor if you follow me.
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  He did not promise you're going to be happy and be rich and smile all
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  the time. That's going to run its course. But like Jesus said when
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  he looked at Israel, he said, the sheep have no shepherd. Maybe
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  the sheep have to lose their shepherds before they can be brought back into the
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  One True Fold. And if that be the case, it's going to be
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  up to you and me, every one of us, to talk with respectfully
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  and lovingly our Protestant brothers and sisters and family members and invite them to Mass.
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  And they're probably not going to want to go at first. But bottom
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  line is if they want to be Christian God Church and all the Protestant churches
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  are closing, they may not be left with much many options. I mean,
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  there are many towns I've been through where you've got these huge old Baptist,
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  Methodist, Presbyterian churches, etc. Lutherans especially, And you know,
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  when I was a kid, those parking lots were full, and now you're
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  going to Sunday morning there may be fifteen cars and most people getting in and
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  out of them are elderly. I know, generation to those stores will be
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  closed as we turned into a parking lot or you know whatever, hudhousing.
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  The way things are going, Let's take care of the only church we've got
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  and may we can bring people back in, but we have to know why
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  they should be there. So anyway, y'all, I mean, y'all,
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  have a great evening. I will talk to you tomorrow, and in the
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  words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry.