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Show 44: The unwitting heresy of home churches · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to day's show. You know, the other day
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someone got in touch with me, very well meaning Protestant person and invited me
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to take part in a group discussion on home churches. And you know,
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I don't think this person realized I was Catholic, and I simply said,
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thank you, but I'm not interested the entire concept of a home church.
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Honestly, I've reacted almost with offense, and I know the person meant well,
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they were not trying to be offensive. And look, I mean,
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if they live in a place where there's not a Catholic church, if they
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live in a place where their Protestant churches are totally apostate, I mean,
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sure, okay, that's probably not an unreasonable option. In fact, in
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the earliest years of the church, first two three hundred years, when Christians
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were facing extreme persecution both from religious Jews and from Romans and well Greeks were
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a little more tolerant, but they were experiencing great persecution, the Christians did
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meet sometimes in people's homes. They also met in the catacombs, essentially the
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tombs underneath Rome. That's where the first churches were built. The thing is
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each mass, each church service, if I was to put it into Protestant
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terms, was led by a duly ordained priest. The problem with the home
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church is not necessarily that it takes place in a home. In North Carolina,
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I mentioned before, it was illegal to be Catholic until basically the Civil
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War. The first churches were burned by Sherman's troops, and there was not
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a church and not a Catholic church in all of North Carolina until about eighteen
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twenty nine, Little Washington, North Carolina, and Elizabeth City. I think
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at the first two and the first two that were rebuilt after they were burned
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by the Yankees. Remember that Sherman and Grant were Stone members of the Masonic
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Order. They took particularly particular care in burning down Catholic churches. Abraham Lincoln
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was a member of the Masonic Order. He was very happy with the destruction
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of Catholic churches. Okay, I know, I just criticized Saint Abraham Lincoln.
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Maybe take a more realistic look at the man and things he wrote,
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as opposed to just believing what you were taught in school. He was actually
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extremely racist, although his views did change after his meetings with Frederick Douglas or
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reading frederickto his writings, he expressed vocally that white people and black people could
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not live together. A white person could never submit to being ruled by a
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black person, and he did not in any way I think the races were
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equal. Okay, Sorry, that's gonna upset people, I know. Read
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what the man actually wrote. He was also a manic depressive and a Stonemason.
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He was a member of the Masonic Order, and he was not big
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on Catholics. So they burned all the Catholic churches they could in the South.
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They'd gladly burned them all down in the North if they had been able
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to anyway. So up until the time we actually had Catholic churches in North
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Carolina, a priest would have to come in, often from Virginia or even
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Georgia. They'd have to come in from a distance, and they would hold
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Math in a parishioner's house. There's absolutely nothing wrong with holding Mass in a
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parishioner's house. If that's the only option, it really shouldn't be Churches.
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The actual institution of a church building, the consecration of that building, is
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an integral part of Christian worship and part of our history from the earliest days
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actually dating back to the Jewish temples. The role of the priests, though,
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is so incredibly important. No one can give a Mass except a duly
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ordained priest. Okay, these days, a Protestant, someone who's not even
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a Protestant, I mean Protestant, is one who protests against the Catholic Church,
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right, or a member of a Protestant church that began in the protest
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against the Catholic Church. Nowadays, someone who's not even that educated in Christianity.
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We'll pick up a Bible, read it, believe every word pertains to
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them. And they go out and call themselves apostle John Smith or something,
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right, and they set up a church in a parking lot or you know,
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a storefront, and they started inviting people in, and there they preached
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vehemently, and I would never ever question their faith. But that person is
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doing what they're doing in grave error because they have no authority to do it.
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You see, Jesus chose twelve apostles, He granted to them and to
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them alone his authority. He also chose several disciples, what was like seventy
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I think disciples. He did not give to those people. The authority he
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gave to the apostles. To the apostles, he gave the power to forgive
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sins. He said, those who sends you forgive, they are forgiven.
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Those who sends you retained, They're retained only to those twelve apostles. He
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did not give them full authority to cast out demons, as he did to
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the apostles. He did not in any way give them the authority to turn
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bread and water into his body and blood. He gave that to his twelve
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apostles, obviously, after Judas betrayed him. After the Resurrection, Judas was
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replaced by Matthias. Saint Paul was later or later became an apostle as well.
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So, but the apostles and really through and if you can read this
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in the Bible, go back to Acts and understand, they didn't say they
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didn't sit there after they said we need to replace Judas. You know,
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they knew they were supposed to be twelve. They didn't say, let's just
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forget it, you know, or let's just give this authority to everyone who
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believes in Jesus. No, not at all. The promise of where two
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or more of you the apostles gathered there. I am with you was given
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specifically to those twelve men, one of whom was no longer there. He
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commits suicide after portraying Jesus. They said, let another man his bishopric take
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I believe this what says in the dewey Rheams, and also the King James
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actually let another man fill this office. It was not even a question that
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any Christians you could just up and say, I'm going to go start my
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own church. No, no, no, no. These twelve men duly
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ordained, commissioned by God through their authority, which he gave them to bind
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on loose. When he told those twelve men and them alone, what you
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bind on earth would be bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth
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would be loosed on heaven. In heaven, chose the successor to Judas,
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which was Saint Matthiah. Saint Matthias incredible saint. Not a lot written about
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his life. What is written is very inspirational. Do to check him out
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if you get a chance. They established, essentially chose another cardinal or bishop's
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bishopric. You know, That's what it says in the Old English. They
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were called cardinals because they were read. But I mean, it's it's an
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office. They were the officials ordained by God himself to represent God himself on
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earth and through that power to mine and lose. They then ordained others.
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So we can read the writings of the early Church, the first two three,
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four hundred years. We can read the Bible. I mean this is
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throughout, you know, from Axon in the New Testament. They're Saint Paul,
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They're Saint Peter, etc. Etc. Exercising authority over the churches under
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their rule. Each one of them had a territory. One was the bishop
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essentially over the churches in Asia, another bishop over the churches in the Roman
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territory, another one in Greece, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. That authority
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is what we call the unbroken succession of apostolic authority or rule. Every single
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cardinal bishop priest alive today was ordained by one who came before him, ordained
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by one who came before him, or dained by one who came before him,
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all the way back to the very first twelve Apostles. So when John
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Smith opens his home church and says, I read the Bible, and I'm
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going to preacher on the word of God, and you're going to come to
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my house for church. That's actually as well meaning as it may be,
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a sin against the Holy Spirit, because it's the sin of presumption. Is
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presuming the authority that does not belong to them, because they have not been
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ordained by God. To be ordained through the Apostolic succession of the Catholic Church
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is supernatural, not natural. No, mere man, I can't, you
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can't. No one can exercise the authority of a Catholic priest if they have
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not been ordained by the Catholic Church. Therefore, every Protestant church is invalid
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in its founding. Every Protestant has an invalid church. That said, there
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are various degrees of communion with the Catholic Church. The more orthodox one believe
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one's beliefs are a Protestant believes like a Catholic. The closer they are to
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us, the more their church acts in any way that is Catholic, like
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a Oh, an Anglican church might. Right, they have these grand old
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churches, a lot of which were taken from Catholics in England. But in
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America, Okay, let's just say an English a Presbyterian church that building because
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there are people in it worshiping God, because it was dedicated for the purpose
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of worshiping God does have a certain holiness and integrity about it. The closer
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one is almost an imitation of Catholicism. The closer one is to the truth.
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When someone says, you know, they're pure primitive Baptist or pentecost or
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whatever. I'm setting up a home church if there's no other option, groovy.
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If there's any other option, that is really really dangerous, really really
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dangerous. I mean, I'm not even going to get into like cults and
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people like that come up with their own weird interpretations of the Bible and usually
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end up with like fifteen wives and raping their kids and all that, which
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happen a lot, Yeah, actually happened. There was a cult like that.
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I think it was Social Circle, South Carolina. No, not Social
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Circle, that's in Georgia. This was Society Hill, Society Hill, South
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Carolina. There was some kind of fringe Baptist preacher who set up his own
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cult in the past twenty or thirty years and ended up, you know,
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raping a lot of little girls and actually funded the whole thing through drug trafficking
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because he decided that only people who believed like him were going to go to
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heaven, and why not sell drugs to the rest of them? So wow,
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I mean far out. A lot a lot of people sent their troubled
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youth to his Christian camp or colony whatever they were calling it, and he
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drugged and raped them. So yeah, I mean, let's not even go
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that far. But just that concept of thinking I have the authority to start
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my own church without the authority given by God, that's so dangerous. I
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mean, Jesus said the sense that wouldn't be forgiven were sins against the Holy
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Spirit. If someone does something out of ignorance that is a sin against Holy
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Spirit, they can't be held responsible. If someone actually realizes that the Catholic
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Church is the true church and does it anyway, well, they just set
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themselves up as their own gods. So obviously they violated the first of the
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ten commandments. And yeah, they're worshiping themselves as did Satan. Let's do
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try to avoid such ignorance and hope and pray for those people who are so
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confused. There's one church, one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. And I
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just wanted to read a little bit from Father Sparago in his exhaustive explanation of
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the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which his truly exhaustive published in the eighte
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nineties and over seven hundred pages. My copies seven hundred and forty four pages
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long, but every word is absolutely brilliant. It's one of the best Catholic
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books ever written. If you don't have a copy, and they can be
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expensive, look on archive dot org. They have several free copies. Read
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Father Sparago spi r Ago. You'll love him. He was fantastic. This
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is, you know, way before all the modern confusion in Catholicism. This
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one hundred years before Vatican Two. I mean, you know, seriously,
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really good to read and modern enough. You'll be surprised. Man. I
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mean he called out the Communists, he called out liberals. I mean,
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it's like he's a Fulton Sheen. I mean, honestly, he was like
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the predecessor to the venerable soon God, willing to be Saint Fulton Sheen.
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He said, the place where Mass is to be celebrated, the apostles offered
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holy sacrifices on a table in a dwelling house see Acts two forty six and
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Colossians four or fifteen. To this day, the table whereupon Saint Peter offered
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the Holy sacrifice may be seen in the Church of Saint John Lateran in Rome.
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I'd love to see that one day. I actually, yeah, I'm
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not much on travel, but I wouldn't mind seeing that action. The Council
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of Nicia, no, I'm sorry. The Council of Nice three twenty five
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speaks of the Holy table on which Sapris emolates without bloodshed, the Lamb of
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God, whose body and blood is a spiritual food of Christians. A table
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was used because it was on a table that the Holy Mass was instituted by
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Our Lord on Holy Thursday, and that table, made of cedar wood,
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is still preserved in Rome. I'd love to see that too. Of course,
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thanks to COVID and my unwillingness to be vaccinated, I'm not sure I'll
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ever be able to travel again, but every Catholic church is just as valid.
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Though I don't need to go see antiques, I suppose. I'd love
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to see a couple of people in Europe that I care a lot about but
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probably never will be able to anyway. Another reason for using a table was
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that it could be easily hidden and removed in times of persecution. In the
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time of the Great Persecution of the Christians by the whole of the Christians,
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the Holy sacrifice was offered in the tombs of the martyrs and in subterranean passages
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the catacombs. It is from this the altar to this day has the form
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of a tomb. I never realized this till I read it. I did
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not realize the altar has the form of a tomb. It well, yeah,
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it does. It's like a suppulture. It's like a anyway, it's
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like a yeah, it was, there's a word I'm looking for, you
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know. It's as like you go a cemetery crypt. It's like a crypt
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there. It is. It is from this that the altar to this day
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has the form of a tomb, and that relics of the saints are deposited
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in. Another reason why relics are placed in the altar is to denote the
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communion we hold with the saints in heaven. And it is on this account
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that the relics of being there that the priests frequently kisses the altar. I
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didn't know that either when the church here, that the priests when the church
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has had emerged from the catacombs. The churches were erected by preference upon the
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spots where the saints and mars were intrered, whitness Saint Peter's in Rome.
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It's actually built over the tomb of Saint Peter, and the imminent ecclesiastics were
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buried in the crypts. Hence arose the custom of having at funerals, of
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having the body in the church with the requiem is sung, and the lights
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which are burned divining during divine worship, date from the time when Christians assembled
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to hear Mess in dark, subterranean chambers. I didn't know that either.
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It never occurred to me that a Christian funeral, you know, the body
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of the church at all, is a truly Christian funeral. It began in
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that tradition. I just never considered. I didn't think about it. You
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know. The burning lights also symbolized divine grace, which enlightens and vivifies,
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and which communicated at no time so freely as during the Holy Mass, and
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which is communicated at no time so freely is during Holy Mass. The candles
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upon the altars signify furthermore the presence of Him who was the light of the
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world, the god Man who enlightens us by his word. When the period
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of persecution was over, the holy sacrifice of the Mass was offered in churches
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upon altars of stone. In old times, a table where a mound was
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form of stone and declared an altar. Noah, on coming out of the
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arc, built an altar, and the other patriarchs did the same. In
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the Temple at Jerusalem there were two altars, and the altar of burnt offering
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in the outer court and the altar of incense in the sanctuary. Altars must
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be either composed entirely of stone, or a stone blessed by the bishop and
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containing relicqus must be set into the top of the altar. I didn't know
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that either, I mean, it never occurred to me that all our altars
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are stone. I mean I grew up in prosted churches where they were usually
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would never I just, you know, I should have noticed that when I
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went into a Catholic church, but I didn't. I don't know why.
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On this the chalice, this place to signify the price Christ is the foundation
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and corti zone on which church rests, and a threefold linen cloth must be
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spread upon the altar because our Lord was wrapped in the lining cloth when he
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lays the suppulture, and also to absorb any drops of the precious blood that
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might perchance fall from the chalice. On every altar there must be a cross
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because the sacrifice of the Cross is renewed there, and also two candlesticks with
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wax tapers. The altar is generally placed so that the officiating priest looks toward
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the east. The reason for this is because when he celebrate, when he
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celebrates the Mass, he lifts his heart and hands to him who is a
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source of spiritual light. Well, another reason I prefer traditional Latin Mass.
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But anyway, the altar is raised both to denote its dignity, to enable
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all who are in the church to see its ceremonies, and also because the
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great oblation of a redemption was offered upon an eminence visible from afar. I
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never thought of that either. You know, Christ was crucified upon the hill
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of Cavalry, so it could be seen from a distance. They did that
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as a sign of warning it came a place of worship. Churches are usually
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built on a height or in the center of a township. The style of
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ecclesiastical architecture are many and buried. A hill or sometimes an eminence used to
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used to be selected as the side of a church because of old high places
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were considered sacred. Under the old dispensation, God frequently manifested self to mortals
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on the mountain. Our Lord often withdrew to a mountain to pray, and
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the Temple of Jerusalem, the type of the Christian church, was situated upon
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a mountain. On an eminence, one is more disposed for prayer and reflection.
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I find that true in the mountains. Whenever I hike up to a
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peak, the mind just seems elevated. I don't know why. It's peace,
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what's quiet, but it's also so beautiful. I definitely understand what he
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means. So he says, on an eminence, one is more disposed for
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prayer and recollection. One is further aloof from the noise of the busy world,
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and one feels nearer to God. Christ himself said his church was to
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be built upon a rock, and he was crucified upon Mount Calvary. When
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churches are situated in the center of town or a village, it should remind
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us of the blessed Sacraments, the Good Shepherd remind us in the blessed Sacraments,
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the good Shepherd loves us to dwell in the midst of his sheep.
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At the Church of Saint Peter in Rome. It's the largest basilica in the
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world. Both the external and internal arrangements of churches are adapted to awaken and
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aid devotion. This is more stuff I never really thought about, you know.
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To me, it's just, you know, church was a pretty place
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to be. I did not think about all the symbolism in regard to the
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exterior. The church is larger and higher than ordinary dwelling houses because it is
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the house of the Most High God. It looks toward the east because it
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is destined for the worship of the Son of Justice. It is Yeah,
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churches should actually be oredented towards the east. I'm not sure they all are
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anymore, but anyway. It is built in the form of a cross because
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of the sacrifice of the Cross is re enacted within its walls and the doctrine
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of the crucified preached. Not all churches are still built in the form of
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a cross. You know, they really probably should be. These modern churches
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are ugly I'm sorry. Modern Catholic churches are ugly. I don't know what
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happened in the sixties seventies, but they're just they look worse than public school
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buildings. We really do need to get back to building pretty churches that are
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worthy of the God we worship. My opinion, I'm not an architect,
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but seriously, I mean all this like pale, oak and beige. I
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mean what pink kept abysmal carpet. I mean, it's just nasty looking,
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and they do they get dirty very quickly. Carpet you know, you get
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some kids in there and some carpet and you're gonna have an issue. I
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don't know why churches should ever be carpeted. That's I don't like that at
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all. And a modern saying glass windows, my gosh, some of them
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are ugly. I mean they just cartoonish. Let's get back to some classical
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art and architecture and come on, people, this is not We're not building
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a community building for a retirement community, or it's a church. It should
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really look like a church anyway. It has a spire pointing to Heaven,
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our home, to admonish us to seek those things which are above from Collossians.
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Bells are hung in the tower to summon us to divine worship and call
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us to prayer. The spire is surmounted by a cross, the emblem of
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salvation, whereby God is reconciled with man. The interior of the church is
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divided into three parts. The porch where in the former days the catacoumbans and
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penitents used to neil jenuity. You used to send the catacoumans out before the
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sacrifice of Mass, before the eucras. Yeah, they actually used to say,
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if you're not, you know, fully in communion with the church,
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you need to walk outside for a little bit anyway, and which ought to
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remind us of the preparation necessary before entering the church. The nave, which
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is the part appropriate to the faithful, whereas in Noah's Ark they are saved
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from eternal perdition. And the choir where singers formerly sat, but which is
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now set apart for the clergy. It is separated for the body of the
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church by a rail or a communion table, which we also need to bring
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back big time had the interest of the church. We see the holy water
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step, reminding us that we ought to approach God with pure hearts, always
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use holy water. You get an indulgence every time you use holy water if
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you're in a state of grace. Demons hate holy water. Never pass up
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an opportunity to use holy water. By the way, in the interior is
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one or more altars. Over the high altar is the tabernacle, wherein the
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blessed sacraments are reserved, and before which the sanctuary lamp is kept perpetually burning
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to symbolize the light of the world they are present. There are also pictures
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and statues of saints and angels who assist unseen at the sacred offices. Beside
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the font and all other furniture at the church with which every Catholic is familiar
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the dim religious light. This is why churches aren't well lit. I didn't
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know this either. That pervades the building owing to the colored glass of the
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windows reminds us that here below we understand the things of God only in dark.
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In a dark manner. Those people who say is unnecessary to go to
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church because they can say their prayers anywhere, should consider that in the churches
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Our Lord is actually present upon the altar, that the atmosphere of the sacred
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edifice disposes us to recollection, and that the petitions offered there have more power
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than those offered elsewhere. Now here's something else I didn't know. Do you
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know how that church is consecrated. The consecration of a church is performed by
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the bishop, but a church can, with the permission of the bishop,
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be employed for divine service without consecration. In other words, go ahead and
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start. I'll get there when I can. You know, it used to
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be a lot of this is written in eighteen ninety. We didn't have cars
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and jett planes airplanes. By God's command, Moses had to anoint the tabernacle
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with the oil of unction, and Solomon's temple was dedicated by that monarch himself.
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When King Antiochus had profaned the temple and tiechus, I think he's what
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he said by setting up idols within it, it had to be cleansed and
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dedicated anew, and this was the origin of the Feast of Dedication, which
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is a major Jewish holiday. It appertains to the office of a bishop alone
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to consecrate churches, but he may give lead from mass we set in any
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building set apart for that purpose. The principal ceremonies of the consecration of the
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church has follows. This is being a bishop's hard work. I mean,
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do you think it's some of these big churches think about this. The bishop
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first prostrates himself before the principal interests. It means, lays flat on the
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ground on his face okay, and recites the Litany of the Saints. Then,
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rising up, he goes three times around the outside of the building,
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sprinkling the walls with holy water. Each time that he passes the door,
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he knocks upon it with his crozier. Finally, he makes a sign of
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the Cross upon the threshold with the crozier to signify that nothing can resist the
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force of the Cross, and enters the church, where he falls on his
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knees and invokes the Holy Spirit. He then draws the letters of the Greek
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and Latin alphabets upon the pavement of the church, which is true with ashes,
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to signify that all the nations of the earth are called into the Church
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of Christ. Next, he goes around the interior of the building three times,
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sprinkling the walls with holy water, and three times up the center and
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across it. This is in honor of the Holy Trinity and the Crucifixion of
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Christ. Afterward, he annoints the walls in twelve places, where lighted tapers
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are affixed in memory of the twelve Apostles who spread abroad the light of the
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Gospel, and then proceeds to consecrate the altar. From time immemorial, the
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anniversary of the Dedication of the church formed a yearly festival in the parish,
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but abuses having crept head. One festival was appointing for the whole church,
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the third Sunday in October, to be kept as a feast of dedication.
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If any grievous crime is committed in the church, such as murder or suicide,
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the sacred edifice must be instantly closed and dedicated anew. This must also
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be done at the churches rebuilt, either holy or to such an extent that
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the walls are in great part pulled down. Only under most exceptional circumstances in
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time of war, or if a church is burned down, or at open
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air festivals, may mass be said outside of the church, and express permission
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from the bishop must invariably be obtained for saying on board ships. The sanction
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of the Holy See is necessary. The Vatican has to say, if you
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can have mass on a ship on such occasions, a portable altar blessed by
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the bishop is used. That is a square stone slab large enough to admit
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the chalice and host being placed upon it. And now we come to the
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conclusion of my podcast, and I have to ask you you think it's right
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for someone to have church in their house, A non Catholic to have the
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presumption to say my house is worthy of being the house of God. No.
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No, A Catholic church is an incredibly holy building dedicated to the service
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of God through over two thousand years of tradition, going back really six thousand
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years to the Law of Moses, consecrated by men who have been ordained to
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bind and loose with the power of God. Their hands are Jesus's hands,
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their words are Jesus's words. Even Martin Luther had to admit that Jesus appeared
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him a dream and said Saint Peter's was Peter's mouth is my key, case
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in his tongue is my key. It was very flowery language. Even Martin
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Luther had to admit the power to mind and loose given to the apostles for
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someone to have the audacity to pick up a Bible not having been ordained,
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having no authority to act as a high priest of God, and to try
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to turn their kitchen table into a holy temple. No wonder Jesus said,
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Yeah, sends against the Holy Spirit were the ones that were the worst.
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It if done in ignorance, certainly forgivable. God only holds people accountable for
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sins to commit for their own free will and understanding. Otherwise it's absolutely blasphemy,
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absolute blasphemy. I mean, Jesus was crucified by the Jews for saying
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he had the power of God, he was God, he would tear down
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the temple and raise it up in three days, etc. Etc. And
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well meaning Christians who think going to a home church is acceptable, my gosh,
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no, no, I mean, and then you have your storefront churches,
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and you have your street corner preachers, and you know, at least
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a traditional Protestant church is a an imitation of a Catholic church. Whether they
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realize it or not, they're going to be closer to God in that building
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than they will elsewhere. And failing that, I mean, they probably be
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better off going up to hiking up a mountain and having some quiet time in
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prayer with God. But could giving themselves the thought already to act as one
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of God's priests and to turn their kitchen table into an altar. Oh boy,
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I mean man, I wouldn't chance it. I mean seriously, that
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is playing with eternal damnation if you even have an inkling a hint that what
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you're doing is wrong. And if you don't, Gosh, I hope you'll
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listen to this podcast and realize that salvation is found in a Catholic Church,
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through a Catholic Church, and the only way Protestants get there is in imitation
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of the Catholic Church, essentially reflecting the light of the Catholic Church. And
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the closer they are, the easier chance they have to get into Heaven,
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and the further they are away, the herdering it's going to be. The
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herder it's going to be. You would probably actually be better off being at
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very ignorant, unschooled pagan, you know, and an illiterate pagan in some
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tribe somewhere following the great commandments of love God with all your heart and love
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your neighbors yourself, Then you would believing Jesus Christ's Lord and openly defying his
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commandments and the authority of his apostles. So, y'all, if you're ever
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advited to a home church, maybe pass along this podcast that and next time
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you see a Catholic church, next time you get to go in a Catholic
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church, Wow, you know, take a little time to think about all
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that symbolism and the you know, the the dedication. And I mean bishops,
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A lot of us, I mean a lot of us don't have a
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lot of interaction with our bishops. I don't. I don't think I've ever
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met my bishop a single time or even been in a mass where he was
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just it's just never happened that way. I know someone else who said,
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you know, the other day, she went out to have lunch with her
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bishop. I mean, you know, it's cool. Um, some people
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are more centralized, they're they're more like a capital city, and they're more
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near you know, where the bishop, the bishop's office may be. But
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man, that's a hard job. I mean, that's an all day affair
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to dedicate a church. We should never again enter a church and take lightly
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anything, because apparently even the quality of the light has symbolic meaning and as
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far as Protestants who criticize all the statues and you know, paintings and stained
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glass windows, every one of those is just a finger point to where heaven,
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a sign saying look this way, God is in this place. That's
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a symbol of Heaven on earth. And I mean, wow, wow,
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you know, no wonder. We're not supposed to talk in the sanctuary,
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you know what I mean? Uh, yeah, you're on holy ground.
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You know, we don't take off our shoes. Maybe we should. I'd
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be more comfortable barefoot a day, but you know, I guess people don't.
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Most people don't think that way anymore, even though I actually do like
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to go barefoot quite a bit. It is, it is holy ground.
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It's truly sanctified, dedicated, committed to God. It is a place where
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Jesus Christ himself is fully present. And I mean it's just wow. You
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know, I'm sure opened my eyes to read a Father Sparago this morning.
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Actually I just read this this morning. I actually just learned this. So
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you're hearing the zeal of the converted here, I guess you would say,
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so go uh in always, always, in the words of Saint Padripia,
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pray, hope, and don't worry, I'll talk to you next time.