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Show 100: THE SIGN OF THE CROSS · The Uncensored Catholic

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Of y'all welcome today's show were you can get into some rather controversial topics tonight.
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For once, it's not gonna be me talking politics. It was turning
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first to the radio Replies series. The question asks, are not the Jews
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the chosen people of God? And they answer they were God's chosen people into
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the coming of Christ, and they could have been among his chosen people.
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Now, how they remained true to God. God did not change his attitude
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to them. Rather they changed their attitude to him. They have been taught
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to look forward to the Redeemer, but when he came, they rejected him
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because they wished him to bring temporal, not spiritual gifts. This is it's
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a touchy subject. It's a hard one to discuss. You know, Jesus
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said he would not change, you know when nott one I owed at the
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law. The Jews still have a valid religion. You cannot deny that.
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The Catholic Church teaches that, of course we get our faith through Judaism.
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Very true, they say. The Catechism says that the Judaism is the older
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brother to Christianity, and all people of any race may be saved if they
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love their love God with all their heart, love their brothers, themselves,
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their neighbors, themselves, and truly believe that they are following God the right
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way. You know, God's going to judge people on what they know what
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is true. You know, the Church also says all salvation comes through the
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Catholic Church. Well, that's because we have the true God. The closer
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any denomination or religion is to Catholicism, the more likely those people will go
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to heaven. You know, God's like I say, wait a minute,
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you're a Baptist. You're not getting in here. If the Baptist doesn't know
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what the Catholic knows, God's going to judge the Baptist by what the Baptist
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knows. Likewise, the Jew. Now what is true is that before the
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coming of Jesus Christ, the surest past to salvation was Judaism. After Jesus,
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the surest path to salvation's Christianity, and specifically the Catholic Church he founded.
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In the first two three hundred years of Christianity, about half the population
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about half of all Jews, became Christian. Our apostles were Jewish, most
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of our early church fathers were Jewish. Eventually, according to my understanding of
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several revelations given by the Mother of God over the past few hundred years.
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All other religions will dissolve essentially into Christianity. Jews will become Catholic, Muslims
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will become Catholic, Protestants will become Catholic once again, etc. Before the
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end of the world comes. And I know she specifically said that about the
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Muslims, that they would convert to Christianity before the end of the world.
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So I don't see the world ending anytime soon. In fact, I was
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reading Saint Irenaeus this morning, and he was talking about how the world,
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you know, God rests on the seventh day, made the world in six
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days, rest on the seventh day, right, that the end of time
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would come also on the seventh day, meaning you know, the Bible says
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to God, one year says one day is a thousand years, and a
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thousand years is one day. He said the end of time would come in
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six thousand years now. He seemed to be saying that that would it was
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from the time of Adam to the end. Well, we passed that a
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long time ago. I mean mankind's been on earth at least ten thousand years
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since well, probably since Noah's Ark, and who knows how many tens of
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thousands before then. I don't know. Many scholars have said, many people
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believe, and I think it's probably likely. You know, the resurrection is
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the first day, that's the new day of the new Church, the new
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religion, of the New Man. If we counted that as day one.
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If we're looking toward when the world might end, it's probably going to be
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six thousand years from the time Christ rose from the grave. The seventh thousandth
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year. I think the seventh day of Creation will probably be the last day
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of the world. So that's totally conjecture on my part, it's conjecture on
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other people's parts who have said that. But you know, looking at what
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Saint Ironais wrote, what two hundred and seventy eight or so, he was
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sort of somewhat thinking along the same lines, just starting at a different date.
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And if that be the case, we're still four thousand years from the
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end of the world. So don't y'all be looking for the end times anytime
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soon. Strap in. We're in for a bumpy ride, that's what we're
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promised. We're promised things are gonna get a lot worse, for they get
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better, and honestly, it's a lot. It's pretty hard to even conceive
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of things being worse than they are now in terms of a lot of things
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going on in the world. I mean, there are serious wars going on,
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you got the transhumanism, you got all kinds of perversion, and just
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horrible stuff, really horrible stuff. I mean, we've just been through COVID
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and looks like there's another pandemic about to come along and it's just gonna get
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worse. So strap in those who endure to the end will be saved.
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And if this old world's got another four thousand years ago, I can't even
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fathom what it's going to be like. I mean, seriously, you thinking
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by two thousand years ago, could imagine what twenty twenty three looks like.
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I certainly can't imagine what would that be for says sixty to twenty three.
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I mean, seriously, the person asked, what was the religion of Noah?
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Answer? Man has always had a religion taught by God. But this
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religion falls into four great divisions. The first is the religion of Adam,
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who was instructed immediately by God. This was the first stage and is known
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as the religion of the Innocent Man. After Adam's fall. Number two,
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Adam handed on to his children the truth about God and the duty of worshiping
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him. When abel Hofford's sacrifice, the traditions were transmitted by Adam's posterity,
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but memories faded. Still, conscience are always still. Conscience always dictate what
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was naturally right. This period could be called the period of natural law.
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However, God gave occasional revelation to various individuals, such as the patriarchs,
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over and above natural law, and this stage is often called the period of
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patriarchal religion or the period of the pre mosaic unwritten law. Third three.
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The third stage came with Moses. After re multiplication of the human race from
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Noah men again. Men again began to forget God, and God gave to
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Moses a clearer exposition of religious duties to be put into writing. This is
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known as the stage of the written law or that of the mosaic religion.
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Number four. Finally, God sent his own son to give a more perfect
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law, the Christian Law, which the Catholic Church teaches today in its fullness
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and will teach to the end of time. Noah belonged to the second of
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the four states is that of the patriarchal unwritten law. Person asks why did
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God delay in sending his son with the perfection of the law. They answer,
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the delay was adapted to mankind's natural methods of progress from the less perfect
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to the more perfect. It taught them. It taught the human race its
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need of God from a sad experience. True, that's the best way to
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describe the Old Testament. I never do understand why say, oh, it
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takes so much comfort in reading the Bible. I'm like, have you read
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the Old Testament? He's horrible. But anyway, it brought out the real
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dignity of Christ, which could thus be heralded by a long series of prophets.
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God is not so impatient as man. He is quite content to wait
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for an acorn to become an oak tree, rather than to create all oak
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trees immediately. Person says Christ was a Jew and practice the Jewish religion.
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Why would he establish another religion when the religion of God was already in existence.
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This goods to the crux of the matter. We might say, as
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stated above, God gave the true religion to mankind gradually, so that men
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would be prepared by the more sempral doctrines for still more noble truths. Thus
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he sent Moses to the Lawgiver, and after sent him a series of prophets
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to explain the Law, to predict the coming of the Messiah. Christ fulfilled
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these predictions and taught the perfect Law of God. This religion known by Jews
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before Christ. The religion of Christ was this perfect fulfillment, and the Jews
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should have recognized it and accepted it. They did not. And then Christ
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sent his apostles to preach to the Gentiles. Christ did not therefore establish another
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religion. Christianity is the perfect development of the Jewish religion, just as the
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perfect tree is the perfect development of the seed from which it grew. All
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right, let's get into Father Spirago's explanation of the Catechism and today's Today's topic
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is one that, oddly enough, Protestants have a great deal of trouble with.
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In the Bible, it says that the disciples of Jesus after the Resurrection
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greet each other with a sign of the cross. Catholics still make the sign
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of the cross. We say in the name of the Father and the Son
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and of the Holy Spirit, and we touch our forehead, our chest,
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and two shoulders, we make the sign of the cross. For some reason,
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Protestants don't. No one knows why. No one knows why Protestants abandoned
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that tradition that is mentioned in the Bible. But my gosh, do they
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get upset Catholics for making the sign of the Cross. I don't know why.
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I mean, I have been in family gatherings people I have known for
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years across myself and they just start screaming at me. They find it so
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offensive, or they mock or laugh at it. I mean, I know
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one Baptist who was an old friend of the family who thought it was like
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some matter of mockery. I mean, like, hey, I'm just took
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on a Satanic countenance when he was mocking me and my mother for making the
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sign of the cross. We said the blessing before eating our meal. I
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don't get it. I don't understand it. Let's see what Father Sparago says.
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Well, let me tell you. If you're in a group and there's
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an anti Catholic in there and you make the sign of the Cross, they're
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coming after you. I mean, it is like well, you know what,
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I'm gonna say something that would probably be misunderstood, and I'll have to
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revisit it later. I believe that anti Catholic bigotry is a form of Satanic
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possession. I can't explain it any other way. You see a perfectly peaceful,
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like good, happy Christian suddenly become filled with rage and anger and mockery
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in their condemnation of a Catholic. It's like, you know, like when
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in the old movies where you show across to a vampire. Okay, it's
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like in I don't know, like The Exorcist or something, holy water to
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a demon if you're sitting in a room with I mean, I've been in
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the room with people in the Masonic Order, so I've seen this firsthand,
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who happen to be friends and relatives. And you make the sign of the
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Cross, you may as well just put holy water on a demon. They
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will start screaming just because you cross yourself. As mentioned in the Bible,
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I can only assume that there is some level of demonic possession, and even
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the best, most devout, holy godly Protestants who have such strong hatred for
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Catholicism the way they react the way they hate the Mother of God. I
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mean they don't just say, you know, okay, Catholics have a different
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idea of Mary than we do. Catholics honor saints, and we don't honor
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saints for no apparent reason. You know, the Bible mentioned saints and says
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you should honor saints and all that. Okay, they could have their difference.
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You have a statue of Mary in your front yard, or you say
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something about the Blessed Mother and they get angry. What would cause that other
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than demonic possession. It's not just a simple difference of opinion. It's not
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something to discuss. It's this rage, this mocking rage, which is purely
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satanic. And am I saying all Protestants are possessed by demons? No,
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I'm not saying that. But those who react in that way, I think
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probably are. I mean, they're plenty of apply of Protestants out there.
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You know, one of my best friends is a Protests. He's not denominational.
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He doesn't care that I'm Catholic. We just talk about the Bible,
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or we talk about, you know, what's happening in our lives. We
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get along great. But I mean I have seen people who really I cared
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about, who really cared about me? Old friends twenty years, we've been
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friends, thirty years, we've been friends, turn into something like a demonically
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possessed maniac just because I crossed myself in saying it. Prayer, what's up
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with that? That's not normal? I mean, I mean they could be
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sitting there. I mean, they could be a you know, a conservative
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Republican. Are they going to react that way to a liberal Democrat? Now,
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They're probably going to have a respectful conversation. They could be in Atlanta
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a Bulldog, a Georgia Bulldogs fan, or Atlanta Braves fan and run into
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you know, a Clemson fan or a Mets Oh gosh, you know,
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Mets fans and Braves fans don't mix. Philly's Oh my gosh. Yeah.
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But no, we will sit there and talk baseball, and we'll talk about
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the great cheeseteaks in Philly and you know, the hot dogs actually in Georgia.
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We're gonna have a little banter. We're gonna, you know, tease
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each other a little bit and sold each other a little bit. But it's
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gonna be in a good nature way. But man, I mean, there's
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a percentage. Maybe I don't know what a percentage thirty fifty, seventy percent.
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I have no idea of Protestants who if they see you cross yourself,
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or if you mentioned the Mother of God, you'll see something come over them
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that is pure evil. And I don't get that. I cannot unless it
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is some form of demonic ession. I cannot explain it because there is no
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reason a person should literally be transformed from a friendly, loving, happy into
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this anger, this rage, and mocking at the same time. There's always
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part of it, and that's really what the devil's all about. I mean,
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that is the there's the characteristics of Satan. Anyway, I hope you
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never experienced in your life. I happen to live in an incredibly I mean
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ninety nine percent Protestant area. I mean, I'll be standing in line at
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the grocery store of the DMV and somebody see my crucifix and start screaming at
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me, just just literally, I mean in the middle of a public place
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like the DMV or the grocery store, and someone will start insulting and yelling
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and cussing at me. If it's not Satanic, I don't know what it
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is. I mean, honestly, Muslims don't treat me that way. Muslims
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are incredibly Everyone I've encountered has been incredibly polite, and it's like we're different,
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we respect each other, and that's it. Okay. Now, granted
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I haven't been around the Jihades. I mean, you know, they haven't
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tried to cut my head off or something. That would be a completely different
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thing. Jews universally, I have never ever been insulted on a religious basis
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by a Jew, whether conservative or liberal, whether we like each other or
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didn't like each other. Protestants look out, I mean, pure demonic rage.
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And yeah, usually they do have a connection to the Masonic Order.
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I really believe there's something very satanic in Masonry. Purely satanic in Masonry actually,
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so anyway, m Father Sparago says, the Catholic makes confession of his
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faith, most especially by the sign of the Holy Cross. By it he
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lets men know that he makes profession belonging to the religion of the Crucified Savior.
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To Jews and Turks, the cross is an object of hatred and contempt.
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Well, he actually meant Jews, a Muslim, you know, the
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Turkey in the eighteen hundreds was the most well. I guess what would you
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say, would you say Turkey would be the most prominent Muslim country today?
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I mean they want to be. I think Iran would probably be more prominent.
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I mean United Arab emmirates in Saudi Arabian terms of wealth. But anyway,
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when he says Turks, he means Muslims. Anyway, to the Jews
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and Turks, the cross is an odd object of hatred and contempt. Protestants,
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too, pay no honor to the Holy Cross, though there are indeed
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some of them who in the present day have learned the practice from the children
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of the Church. Now he doesn't mean the church and have a cross hanging
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in it, or a Christian the prize of Christian doesn't wear a cross.
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He means making the sign of the cross. The sign of the cross is
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thus the peculiar property of Catholics all over the world. It is a custom
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so ancient that is generally believed to have been introduced by the Apostles. The
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sight of a cross is made by touching with the outstretched fingers of the right
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hand, first the forehead, then the center of the breast, then the
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left, and finding the right shoulder, saying, meanwhile, the words in
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the name of the Father touch the forehead, and the Son touched the breast,
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and the Holy Ghost touched the left and right shoulders. Amen. There
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is also another way of making the sign of the cross, by making three
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crosses with the thumb of the right hand on the forehead, lips, and
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breast. Successfully mass when they read the Gospel, you say, maybe on
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my mind, on my lips, it on my heart. You make a
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cross on your forehead, over your heart, hit on your lips. In
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between, cut out secrets so that each of the three cosses is made simultaneously
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with the name of one of the three persons of the Blessed Trinity. In
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making the sign of the cross, with the left hand should be laid across
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the breast, and the sign should be made deliberately, not hurriedly, as
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is too often done. And I'm very guilty of that. I often cross
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myself far too quickly, and I'm making a concerted effort, especially when I'm
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saying in prayer before a meal. You know, I'll go name of follows
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on the Holy Spirit, and I'm ready to eat. No. No,
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I'm making Ever since I read this about a year ago what fathers farago said,
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I have made a conscious effort to slow down when I cross myself.
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Still have not gotten it perfect. Still do things, you know, without
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thinking sometimes, But yeah, we need to be reverent in making the sign
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of the cross, he says next point one. In making the sign of
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the cross, we may a profession of the most important doctrine of all the
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mysteries of our holy religion, visavi, the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity and
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the incarnation of our Lord's Lord Jesus Christ. By uniting all three persons,
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Father's Son and Holy Ghosts under one name, we make profession of our belief
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in the unity of God. The name of God indicates his authority and power,
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and that we act under his commission. In making the sign of the
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cross, we profess our belief and the Blessed Trinity by the words in the
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name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost, the name
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of Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghosts. See I did
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too fast again, got to slow it down in making the sign of the
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cross. By the very form of the cross which we make upon ourselves,
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we make profession that the Son of God died for us upon the cross.
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Thus we see that on the sign of the Cross we have a short summary
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of the whole Catholic faith. The Catholic Church holds the sign of the crossing
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honor. It is repeated over and over in Holy mess in all the sacraments,
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and all the blessings and consecrations. The cross is placed in our churches,
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of our altars, on our banners, on the sacred vestiments, over
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the graves, and over the graves of the departed. Churches are built in
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the form of a cross. Point two. By means of the sign of
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the Cross, we obtain a blessing from God, and especially by it we
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are protected from the assaults of the devil and from all the dangers, both
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to body and soul. The sign of the Cross is no empty ceremony,
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but it is of itself a blessing and a prayer for a blessing from God.
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The sight of the cross chases away the devil in his temptations, as
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the dog fears the whip with which he has been beaten. So the evil
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one dreads the sign of the Cross, for it reminds him of the Holy
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Cross by which he was vanquished on Calvary. There was once a stag which
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bore between its antlers a tablet on which was written in golden letters. The
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word I belong to the Emperor hurt me not no huntsman ventured to shoot this
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stag. So whenever we made the sign of the cross, we bear the
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inscription I belonged to Jesus Christ. And this protects us from the enemy of
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the devil, from the enemy the devil. It's interesting, I wonder how
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okay, I'm sure it's a legend, the stag with a sign behind us
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between its antlers. I just, you know, stix in my mind for
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a minute. I'm a hunter. I love to hunt deer, and I've
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never seen anything like that, obviously, But then again, look up the
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story of Jaegermeister. That has a lot of religious significance. Actually that liqueur
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that a lot of people like the drink when they're freshman in college. It's
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a little too sweet for my taste. It actually means hunt master. And
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there was a saint his name won't come to me right now, who actually
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saw the sign of a cross between the deer's antler, and he's the one
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that to whom the formula is attributed, and he's the patron saint of hunters.
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But anyway, that's a different story. All the saints, the lives
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of all the saints are just fascinating. We really need to spend a lot
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more time learning about the saints. He goes on in war, no one
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ventures to injure those who wear on their arm the band of white to indicate
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their physicians or nurses or ministers of religion. Wish that was still true.
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So the actually they're often targeted in modern warfare. Yeah, so the devil
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does not dare attack those who are signed with the Holy side of the Cross.
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The sign of the Cross, says Saint John Damassine, is a seal
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at the sight of which the destroying angel passes on and does us no harm.
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The brazen serpent fastened on a pole in the desert was an image of
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the cross. Now, this is this is fascinating, all right. So
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you may remember, you know, Moses is leading the Jews out of Israel.
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He's just got in the Ten Commandments. They're not going to have the
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idols and all this. And then suddenly the Jews again turned back to their
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idols and poisonous steaks start killing him. Well, God, who's just told
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Moses to not allow any idols, make no graven images, as our Protestant
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brothers and sisters often remind us when they criticize us for our statues of saints
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and such is told by God to make a statue an image of a snake
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out of I guess copper, and put it up on a pole and hold
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it up and everybody looks at it'll be saved. So did God could tell
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Moses to make an idol? Did God violate the ting Commandment's new No.
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That serpent essentially can be seen in many things. One it could have been
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a representation, a sort of a banner, an emblem of one of the
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tribes of Israel. Some people say that. Others say, like father Sparago,
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it was an image of the cross. Others say it was an image
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to represent sin. You know, Jesus died on the cross, taking on
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the burden of all our sins, and that serpent on a stick essentially in
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the form of a cross, could have also been a symbol, essentially prefiguring
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a crucifix. Any way you look at it. Though, when protests say
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make no graven image, you shouldn't have a statue of Marya in your front
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yard. You can say, well, wait a minute. The same Moses
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who gave you that teaching was told to make a bronze serpent and put it
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up on a stick. You have to understand the meaning of the words.
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Don't worship idols perfectly okay, to make statues perfectly okay. To have a
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picture of a saint, or picture of your loved one in your pocket,
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so you look at them and you're reminded of your family, whether on earth
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or in heaven, whether by blood or by what Father's for. I call
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it yesterday a sanguinarity by blood or brothers and sisters in Christ, which the
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saints are, you know, perfectly wonderful. To make a cross, a
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crucifix and venerate it. You know, Protestants for some reason will venerate an
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empty cross, but not one with Jesus still hanging on it. It's not
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the wood of the cross that saved us. It's the man, the God
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who hung on the cross. So you know, you might want to think
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that one through anyway. So the okay, the brazen serpent fastened the pole
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in the desert was an image of the cross. Of Christ and protected all
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who looked upon it from being bitten by the fiery serpents. So the sign
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of the Cross recalls to our mind the Cross of Christ and protects us from
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the snares of that old serpent, the devil. In the year three twelve,
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Constantine the Great, with his whole army, saw a cross of light
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in the sky, and upon the words in this sign, thou shalt conquer.
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These words are also a true sign of the Cross. Even to remember
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the Cross of crisis, Saint Augustine puts our hellish foe to flight and gives
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us strength to resist temptations. Many of the saints used to make the sign
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of the Cross whenever any evil thoughts assailed them in the times of persecution of
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In the times of persecution, the heathen gods often fell prostrate to the ground
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at the sign of the cross. On occasion defining the Holy Cross by Saint
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Helena, Helena, a woman who was blind, was restored to sight by
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merely touching it. The sign of the Cross often frees men from bodily evils.
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Also, many of the Holy martyrs, upon making the sign of the
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cross, felt no more pain or torments. Saint John the Divine once had
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a cup with a poisoned draft. Put in his hand. It's wine with
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poison in it. Put in his hand a drink, he made the sign
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of the Cross over it, and then drank it without receiving any harm from
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it. Something similar also happened to Saint Benedict. In the Old Testament,
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we find allusions to the sign of the cross in the letter Foul Thhau mentioned
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by the prophet of Ezekiel. God sent destruction upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem on
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account of the abominations committed there, but an angel was previously commanded to mark
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the sign foul. I guess is how you pronounce the thhau upon the foreheads
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of all those who mourned and lamented on account of the sin of the city.
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That's from Ezekiel. We should often make the sign of the cross,
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especially when we rise in the morning and we will retire to rest, before
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and after our prayers, before and after our meals very important. You know.
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In earlier times Catholics always said the blessing after the meal, thanksgiving for
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the meal. They just date. Now we say the blessing before the meal.
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That's really more of a Protestant influence comes to us through the english'd probably
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be best to say a prayer before and after the meal, but we really
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need to bring back prayers of gratitude and thanksgiving after a meal. I keep
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saying that I forget it every time. I'm serious. I've been for a
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year. I've been trying to remember do this. That tells me how important
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it is, because if it wasn't important, the devil wouldn't be trying so
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hard to keep me from remembering it. Anyway, and wherever we are at
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tempted to sin, and whenever we have any important duty to perform, make
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the sign of the cross. We should make the sign of the cross in
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the morning in order to obtain the blessing of God on the day, in
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the evening, to ask for his protection during the night, before all important
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undertakings that may turn out well before our prayers, in order that we may
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not be distracted in saying them. I often get distracted. You might have
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figured that by listening to my show, I have a rather active mind.
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The early Christians may continual use of the sign of the cross. Tertullian in
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twoin forty says two forty eight d says, at the beginning and during the
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performance of all that we do, when we go in and out of the
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house, when we dress ourselves, when we lie down to rest, in
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fact, in everything, we mark ourselves on the forehead with the sign of
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the Cross. The sign of the Cross should also be made during Holy Mass,
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at the beginning, at the absolution, which the priest gives, at
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the foot of the altar, at the Gospel, at the consecration, at
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the priest blessing, and at the end of Mass. Saint Edith, the
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daughter of the King of England, often made the sign of a cross with
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her thumb upon her forehead. Thirteen years after her death, her thumb remained
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quite incorrupt. Isn't that amazing. Her rest of her body decomposed, her
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thumb did not. Each time we make the sign of the Cross, we
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contrite our hearts, we gain an indulgence. Each time we made the sign
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of the Cross with contrite hearts, we gain an indulgence of fifty days.
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When we make the sign of the Cross, we should, if possible,
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make it with holy water. If you don't have some all ready, to
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get some holy water. The Association of the Miraculous Metal has holy water,
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blessed oil and blessed salt. I love the association of the Miraculous Metal.
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Of all the confraternities, they probably say more prayers from me than the others.
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And I pray the Rosary for all the attentions of the members of the
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Miraculous Metal every day. And they have blessed oil, holy water and blessed
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salt super cheap. And it's a donation. You make a donation when you
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buy it. I mean, I don't know. I mean I got a
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large thing, like you know, twelve ounces of holy water for like I
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mean, with shipping and all, it wasn't even eight dollars. And I
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mean it's lasted me a couple of years, you know, so I can
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at home signed across with holy water again. I got a beautiful glass bottle
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with a miraculous metal in the front of it of blessed oil from them.
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I use it every night. I need some blessed salt. I haven't gotten
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it yet. I need to do that. Holy water has a special power
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to offend us against or you can ask you a priest for holy water.
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I mean you can go to any parish and the priest will give you holy
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water, no problem, Okay, you don't have to buy it. I
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just particularly like the association of the miraculous metal and joining them has brought me
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many great blessings, and I mean, I hope you will consider supporting them.
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But yeah, you can absolutely just get it from your parish. Holy
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Water has a special power to defend us against all attacks of the devil.
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When we make the sign of the Cross with holy water, we gain each
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time an indulgence of one hundred days. According to Pious the Ninth, who
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declared that March twenty three of eighteen seventy six, holy water is placed at
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the doors of our churches and should be placed at the doors of our rooms.
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We must never be ashamed of the sign of the Cross, lest Christ
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be ashamed of us. The devil rejoices when he sees anyone neglect to make
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the sign of the Cross, for he knows that the cross is his destruction
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and a sign of victory over temptations. See y'all, I'm in a wrap
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it up there that actually covers that whole chapter. It is so very important
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that you make the sign of the Cross. Make it, I mean constantly
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throughout the day before taking any action, before thinking about anything important, before
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saying any prayer, before eating any meal. And the more you make the
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sign of the cross publicly, well, the more you do it with a
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contrite heart, and all the indulgences you'll gain. Indulgences are very real and
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good things. They didn't just disappear because Martin Luther had an issue with him.
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An indulgence is like is a penance if you were do fifty days of
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penance. That's what an indulgence of fifty days is shortens our time in purgatory.
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But I guarantee you at work, if you're at school, if you're
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at a family reunion, if you're at you name it. You make that
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sign of the cross publicly, you will see exactly who the people around you
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are. The devil reacts to the sign of the cross with absolute rage,
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and you'll be amased. You will be absolutely amazed the way some people will
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react to you. And it's better you find out now. I mean seriously,
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I mean you may want to. Don't be ashamed of it. Don't
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be afraid to do the sign of the cross in public, make the sign
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across in public. You need to know who these people are because you know,
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you can't trust them. They may be your brother, your sister,
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your you know whatever. If you make a sign of the cross, trust
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me. You'll never believe how my father reacted. My dad's a very bad
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guy. You know. My parents' divorcement was five. He really had nothing
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to do with me until he found out I became Catholic. And then oh,
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he just went to a rage. The man who didn't care for me,
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didn't love me, didn't provide for me, didn't provide money for my
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support, pay for my college anything. Actually, I think the first semester
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he did kick in a little bit, but that was it, okay,
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And that was just kind of out of guilt, I guess you would say.
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You know, he didn't even send me a Christmas card last Christmas.
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He doesn't care about me whatsoever. But he's you know, he's a big
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outspoken Baptist. He works with Franklin Graham and goes on mission trips and all
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that. And when he found out I became Catholic, boy, it was
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a personal insult to the man that never raised me. You need to know,
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no matter how uncomfortable it is, who's on your side not And the
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more you made the side of the cross publicly, especially at family gatherings,
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especially in social gatherings, as political whatever, at work, at school.
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You're going to find out real quick, very quickly, who is on your
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side and not because the devil goes into a rage at the side of the
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cross. And I'm telling you you'll be amazed. You'll be amazed at some
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of the people that, well, you got two choices. Do you're either
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mentally ill or demon possessed? That's it. I mean, there's not an
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in between. The way they react, the way a normal person who's being
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friendly and joking with you or you know, saying a prayer for you in
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it before, will fly into this bizarre, mocking hate field rage when they
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see you across yourself. It's either mental illness or demonic possession. There is
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no rational explanation for it. So you seriously, for your own good start
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crossing yourself publicly as often as reasonably you know possible. And yeah, you
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can learn real quick who's on what side. I mean, you don't want
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to somebody reacts that way. You don't ever want to count on them for
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anything. I mean, they'll turn on you. They're they're not right,
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they're not right, So all right y'all, in the words of Saint Patre
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Pio, pray, hope and don't worry and I will talk to you next time.