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Show 240: Sacramentals · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: We all welcome this week's show. Today we are actually
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we're gonna get in one of my favorite topics. Actually,
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you know, sacramentals are really unique to the Catholic Church,
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well the Orthodox as well, but mainly to the Catholic Church. Okay,
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somewhat for the Anglicans, but I'm not gonna go into
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why theirs don't count. Ours count and they count big time.
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And it's one of the really most interesting aspects of
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being Catholic that you know, you actually get to like
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hold a relic from a saint. I mean it used
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holy water. I mean, this is you know, this is
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one of those things that makes us very much Catholic
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and not Protestant. And Protestants don't understand it. They think
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it's like voodoo or something. I'm gonna get into this.
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We're gonna talk fos Baraga is gonna tell us every
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reason why, just as it says in the Bible that
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the bones of the prophet touched the dead man and
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roads to life, just as it says and acts at
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the handkerchiefs, the cloths that were held by the apostles
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Saint Peter and sutch were taken, and when people touch them,
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when they were healed. Sacramentals are just as valid today
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as they were two thousand or ten thousand years ago.
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I mean, yeah, we're going to get into it, okay,
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But first we will continue on our subject from last
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week from radio replies the person is just asking the
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priest or criticizing, challenging the priest. We'll go with that
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over the sacrament of confession. And the person says, confession
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is like washing a child and letting it play again
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in the mud. And they answer, it is not. The
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Church washes the child and forbids it to play in
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the mud again. But if it does play in the
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mud again in spite of the prohibition, of course she
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is prepared to wash it again if it be truly sorry,
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as any true mother would do. If readiness to forgive
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sins is to be the cause of further sins, what
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would you say to God who declares that if a
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man's sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white
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as snow, provided he repent. And the person continues, even
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though the Church forbids it, I know a Catholic who
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does confess and sin again. And they answer, he does
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not sin again because of his confession, nor does his
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fail say that he was not truly repented when he confessed.
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Christ said something about forgiving seventy times seven? How often
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would you forgive? And isn't it better to try and
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fail through weakness, repent and repent than to abandon all
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efforts to turn to God's grace? A person says, but
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if confession does not stop sins, what is the good
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of it? I'm the answer. Confession is an immense help
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in the prevention of further sin. Remember that Christ did
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not institute this sacrament precisely to prevent further sin, but
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to forgive sin once it has been unhappily committed. To
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prevent sin, there are other sacraments and other means, such
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as good example, religious instruction, prayer, and the grace of God.
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But if in spite of these helps, a man fails
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through strong temptation, as anyone is likely to do, it
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is a very great good that his sin can be forgiven.
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Person asks or states, it is easy to confess to
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a fellow man and get forgiveness, but it is not
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so convenient to remain in humble doubt. And they answer
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the humiliation of confession is an inconvenience not found in Protestantism,
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and from that point of view, Protestantism is easier. On
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the other hand, Christ was too merciful to leave us
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without some divine assurance of forgiveness, and he gave us
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a very definite sacrament to alleviate anxiety. He says, did
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not presinvent confession or to obtain money required for abbs.
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You will be amazed how many Protestants truly believe that
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when a Catholic goes to confession, we have to pay
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the priest for forgiveness. It's absolutely not true. It's actually
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forbidden by the Church, but they believe it. They swear
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to it. My own father disown me for being Catholic,
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and that was one of his reasons. Moving along, wherehere
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do I leave off? Okay, no money has ever paid
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for absolution. If absolution cannot be given, ten thousand dollars
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would not obtain it. If it can be given, it
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cannot be refused, and it would be a moral sin
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on the part of any priest to suggest payment for it. Moreover,
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if any man came to me and offered to purchase
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forgiveness for me, I would tell him that he was
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suggesting a morally sinful procedure and send him away with
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his money and without absolution, unless he retracted his ideas
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and repented of his sin. In that case, I would
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resolve him, absolve him. I mean to say, I would
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absolve him without, of course, touching a penny of his money. Meantime,
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no priests would be so foolish as to invent confession.
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Priests would gladly be free from the burdensome duty of
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sitting for hours in the confessional. Had Christ not imposed it,
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the priests could prove confession unnecessary, they would be the
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first to demand its absolution. Person asks, do not priests
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use the confessional to obtain all domestic and state secrets?
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And they say no. Catholics tell their own sins only
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the priest finds it hard enough to listen patiently to
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that much without wishing to hear all household secrets. Nor
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will nor will he allow penitence to speak of other
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people's misdeeds. In any case, no priests can make use
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of knowledge acquired while hearing confession. One of the strictest
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laws of the church ob obliges him never to betray
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what he hears in the confessional. Person asked, did not
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the latter. In Council in twelve fifteen first oblige auricular
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confession that means spoken out loud, they say no, It
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decreed that Catholics must go to confession at least once
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a year, merely specifying how often one must go the
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idea of our recular confession. If the idea of auricular
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confession were introduced for the first time and Christians were
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not used to it, there would have been an uproar
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of protests throughout the whole church. But all Christians were
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perfectly familiar with our recular confection, and no protest arose.
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We'll leave it there for now. There's gonna be a
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lot more question to answer about confession, all right, let's
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get on too. Sacramentals one of my favorite topics. As
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I said, I love my rosary and my actless metal
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and my scapular, the Holy water and this stuff. You know,
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I didn't grow up with as a Protestant. Protestants are
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so poor in terms of religious expression. You know, they'll
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hang an empty cross on the wall and that's cool,
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you know, but the cross was a deviceive torture even
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after Jesus' resurrection. I mean, you know, mostly several of
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the Apostles were crucified. Many early Christians were crucified. It's
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like putting an electric chair on the wall. It's the
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crucifix with Jesus hanging on the cross that makes that
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cross important. And when a priest blesses it, it brings
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us blessings into our home. A Protestant may put a
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Bible verse on the wall, that's fine. They never will
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consider that a graven image. Well, the graving comes from
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the word Latin, and maybe it's the same word from
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which we get in grave. And you engrave letters upon
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a page or a stone like a tombstone or an
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important document, that's engraving, or you can engrave to make
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a picture. That Bible verse hanging on their wall is
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no more or less a graven image than the sacred
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Heart of Jesus on your wall or the blessed Virgin Mary.
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They say, well, that's the word of God, and you
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can say, yes, it is absolutely and that's wonderful. And
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here's an image of God, Jesus Christ we got from
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save Veronica's cloth, or from the shroud of Tchuran. Here's
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an image of his mother and his foster father and
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his Holy Apostles and his friends throughout the ages known
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as the Saints, and we keep them near as reminders.
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And you know, they inspire us, just as does averse
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from the Bible. And you know, maybe you can get
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that across. Maybe not hopefully again anyway, So let's see
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what Father Sparrago says. Sacramentals are rights which have some
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outward resemblance of the sacraments instituted by Christ, but are
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not of divine institution. The name applies both to the
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blessing or consecration given by the Church and to the
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objects blessed or consecrated. Our Lord gave the apostles power
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over unclean spirits to cast them out, and he'll all manners,
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manner of diseases Matthew ten one. The Church makes use
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of this power. Oh, let me get some water. Here,
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here we go. The Church makes use of this power,
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and by her by means of her ministers, she blesses
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or consecrates certain objects, praying that God would render these
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objects efficacious in banishing evil spirits and healing sicknesses. That
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is to say, the priest implores the blessing of God
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the Father for the averting of evils both corporal and spiritual.
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At the same time, he makes use of visible signs
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such as the sign of the cross, holy water, sacred oils,
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et cetera. Are light kindled to signify the savior, the
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light of the world. Incense is often used to indicate
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the sacramentals must be employed into its soften use to
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indicate the sacramentals must be employed with pious dispositions. Sacramentals
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are called by this name because of their resemblance to
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a sacrament. In both, there is a sign and form
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of words which possess a supernatural power and represent the
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invisible grace. But the sacraments have incomparably more power than
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the income parably comparably I don't know. Then the sacramentals
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the latter are not necessary to starvation, whereas the former are.
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Sacramentals are means of grace at the second class. The
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blessings consist in this that the minister of the church
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invokes the divine benediction upon certain persons or things. The
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divine blessing is quite distinct from divine grace. The latter
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has the effect of beautifying the soul the former of
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verts earthly ills and promotes temporal welfare. Thus, objects are
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only blessed for the sake of the person who uses them,
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or on whose behalf they are used. The following are
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the benedictions which are customarily conferred on persons. The blessing
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at the communion at the conclusion of Mass, the blessing
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given to communicants, the nuptial benediction, the benediction after childbirth,
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the last blessing, and the blessing of remains the departed.
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It is usual for women after childbirth to go to
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the church, implore the blessing of God upon their child,
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and to receive the ben addiction of the priest. This
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custom was observed in the Old Testament. Every mother had
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to present herself in the temple with her forty days
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after its birth, and if it was a boy, if
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it was a boy, in eighty if it was a girl.
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The Mother of God herself conformed to this rule, as
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we just commemorate a few days ago. Exorcism belongs also
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to the blessing conferred on persons. It consists in commanding
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the devil to depart in the name of Christ for
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possessed persons or things. The evil effects of original sin
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rest on every creature. Romans eight and upon the whole
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of inanimate nature Genesis three seventeen. That's right, that's something
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Protestants don't understand. I don't think most Catholics understand. The
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world fell with Adam and Eve. Every inanimate rocks, stars, trees,
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Everything has a spiritual nature to it because made by God.
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And everything is the world, the entire world, everything on it,
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everything in existence. The entire universe is under the curse
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of original sin due to the first sin of our parents,
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and everything will redeem. The Bible says that the entire
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universe will rejoice. We're talking inanimate objects when the final
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battle between good and evil is over and Jesus comes
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at the end of time and redeems all of creation.
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We have no idea how that will happen. That is
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not even in our human ability to understand. Well, how
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will water rejoice? How will stone rejoice? But the Bible
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says it will, and we believe it. The power granted,
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let's see, it is this that renders the blessing of
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the Church and her exorcism is necessary. The power granted
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by our Lord is a possi to cast out unclean spirits.
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Is employed in exorcism and at baptism, when holy water
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is blessed. Let's see is employed in the exorcism at
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baptism when holy water is blessed. Care of possession or obsession?
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Now cases, my eyes must be a little cloudy today,
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a little irritated. Okay, cases of possession or obsession rarely
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occur in the present day. I'm not sure that's true anymore.
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Maybe been true in eighteen ninety when most people are baptized.
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Go down any city street in America, turn on your television. Yeah, anyway,
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cases of possession or obsession are rarely occur in the
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present day. The exorcism can only be performed by a
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bishop or by a priest with his permission. Only one
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who is himself animated by firm faith and whose life
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is pure can exercise, and even then the exorcism will
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be of no avail if the person exercised persevere and
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his evil dispositions, or if God wills say his elects
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should be delivered into the power of the devil for
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their sanctification. For the sacramentals do not remove affections which
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are for the spiritual welfare of the individual. Consecration by
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the Church consists in this that the ecclesiastical empowerment for
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this purpose sets apart some purs or some object, and
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dedicates him or it to the exclusive service of God.
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There are persons whom it is customary to consecrate in
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a solemn manner. They are the Pope, kings and emperors, abbots, monks,
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and nuns. The consecration of priests be it remembered as
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a sacrament. The things which it is customary to bless
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are holy water, the water used in baptism. This is
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blessed on Holy Saturday and the Eve of Pentecost. Candles
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on the Purification impatial candle at Easter, ashes on Ash Wednesday,
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palms on Palm Sunday, the Holy oils on Maundy Thursday.
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In the cathedrals, crosses, images, rosaries, medals, banners, places are
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awesome also blessed, such as churches, chapels, altars, and cemeteries.
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The Church blesses everything which appertains to divine service. Our
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Lord sanctioned the use of sacramentos, but the rights themselves
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are an institution of the Church Our Lord. While on
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earth bless loaves and fishes Matthew nine, fourteen nineteen. There
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we go he blessed the young children who had brought
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to him Mark ten sixteen. He gave his blessing to
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his apostles before his ascension Luke twenty four fifty. We
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read moreover that God bless our first parents and Genesis
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one twenty eight, that Noah blessed his two sons and
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Genesis twenty six. Isaac blessed Jacob and Genesis, etc. Jacob,
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with dying blessed the twelve sons Moses, the tribes of Israel.
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Aaron and the priests that succeeded him gave their benediction
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every morning and evening to the people in the outer
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court of the temple, forced their hands over them. They
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bless them, invoking the name of the Lord three times
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over the children of Israel. The ceremony of blessing or
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consecrating is generally performed by priests. Several acts of consecration
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appertained to the episcopal office and may only be performed
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by a priest with authorization of the bishop, as for instance,
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the dedication of churches and altars, the blessing of bells
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and chalices, etc. That's another thing Presidents get all worked
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up about blessing bells bells that are used in the
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church in the worship of God are blessed by the
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priest and essentially dedicated to God. That's no different than
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the blessings of the priests and the Old Testament. I mean,
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how many different objects can we go there? I mean
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from the Ark of the Covenant to what was in
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the Ark of the Covenant, you know, Aaron's staff, the
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various child and utensils that were used in the temple.
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All these were dedicated to God. The statues in the temple,
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the angels and all that that were graven images. Again, right,
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all of those were dedicated to the use of God,
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and when they were taken by pagans, God cursed them
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for having them and hit their possession. It's the same
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thing now. So, yeah, priest blesses the bales that are
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used in church. Why wouldn't he? I mean literally, it's
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like they just come up with stupid stuff, and it's like,
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did you actually read your Bible? Literally? I mean, did
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you actually read it? Or do you just come up
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with stuff? Don't ask me, I'm serious. I mean, if
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a handkerchief held by Saint Peter or Paul or something
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could heal somebody if the shadow, if there's shadow passing
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over somebody, could heal somebody. As it says in the Bible,
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what's your problem, dude? I mean literally, I just I
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don't get there's a lot. I mean, and you know,
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I was raised Protestant. I mean literally spent twenty four
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years of my life as a Protestant. It would not
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have bothered me if someone said, my priest blessed his candle.
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I've been like, yeah, okay, that makes sense. That's what
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did the priest in the Old Testament. They blessed the altars,
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they blessed the candles, they blessed the sacrifices. Yeah, your
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priest blessed his candle. Okay, that's cool. Why would in
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the world would anybody have a problem with that? I mean,
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you you know, you could constantly ask for God's blessing.
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Can you say, Lord, bless this house. I don't know
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of any Protestant who would have a problem with asking
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God to bless their house and all who live within.
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I mean, that's that's like, literally so commonplace. I don't
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think I've ever encountered in my entire life, even among
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the most stringently anti Catholics, one he would say, uh,
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you know it's wrong to ask God to bless your house.
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Why would it be wrong to ask God to bless
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your house? You live in it, right, I mean, you know, anyway,
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but bells apparently that's a problem. Oh they bless the bells. Okay, whatever, dude, seriously,
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I mean, yeah, what is it says in is it
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sirac or wisdom? If you argue with a fool, he'll
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do nothing but rage and laugh at you, and you
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accomplish nothing. You know, I'm sorry, somebody's probably gonna say.
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Jesus said, call no man a fool. He also also,
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just a few chapters later, said and God said to
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him that fool, your life will be required of you
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this day. Okay, we're getting back into some problems with
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translation here. But anyway, if you argue with an idiot,
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there's an old you know, there's an old saying, never
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wrestle with a pig because the pig enjoys it, and
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you're just gonna get money. You know, as bad as
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it sounds, I'm starting to come to that conclusion when
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it comes to a lot of Protestant arguments. I mean,
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someone says just vile things about the blessed version Mary,
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And it's like, why why are you doing this? Do
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you think you're making Jesus happy by insulting his mother?
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In what way is that a logical thought? Someone? Well again,
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you know, just very recently, someone said, none but God
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can forgive sins. You know you should go to a
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confession for a priest to a priest, And I'm like, well, one,
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Jesus instituted the priesthood. He told his priest to forgive sins,
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said those who sends you forgive, they're forgiven, etc. We've
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done that list. But do you know who you're quoting here? Yes,
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you're quoting the Bible, but who are you quoting in
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the Bible. You're quoting the Pharisees who use that very phrase,
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very terminology to demand that Jesus be tortured and killed.
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You're literally imitating the people who killed God. You're not
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exactly on the right side here. Are you going to
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quote the devil to me next? Yeah? Anyway, it's just crazy.
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I'm just telling you it's crazy. Now. He does make
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the point that the laity can bless, but not in
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the name of the church. Parents frequently bless their children,
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and the more pious, they are the more effect that
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they're blessing has. The use of blessed or consecrated objects
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is profitable for if used with pious disposition, they increase
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our fear and love of God being real sin and
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preserve us from many temptations and from bodily harm. Accepting
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such temptations and eels of the body as are for
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our spiritual welfare. In other words, if it's in God's
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will that you get sick because you need to deal
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with something, and that sickness is going to help you,
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knock you down a little bit and make you not
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so you know, busy or proud, and give you more
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time for prayer, You're still going to get sick. Absolutely,
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you should use holy water and blessed oil every day.
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That protects you from evil influence, It protects you from demons.
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That's the God's honest truth. And Protestant may have a
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fit over it, but it's true. Okay, every morning unless
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I forget, and I do. Sometimes I use holy water
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and I say a prayer for myself, my family, the
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holy souls in purgatory, you know, holy water, and I
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do it on my forehead, my lips, my heart, ask
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God to cleanse my mind, my lips, and my heart.
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Very important. In my opinion, It's extremely important in the
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any of the church. Is extremely important. The satan and
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demons cannot stand holy water, they cannot be around it.
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Every night before bed, I use blessed oil for the
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exact same reason. Blessed oil also helps heal us miraculously
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from physical eels and helps prevent nightmares and anything like
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that helps us remain in the peace of God through
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the night. Very very, very important. You should absolutely have
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blessed oil, Blessed salt, lovely salt. You can sprinkle around
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your house, keep all evil influences away from your house,
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and you can put in your food, you can eat
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blessed salt. It's just wonderful. These are things you should
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have in addition to your crucifix and all you know,
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your sacred heart and all that. Get those sacramentals, please,
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It would make a huge difference in this world if
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every home had them. The sacramentals remit venial sin and
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deliver us from some of the evil consequences of sin,
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such as holy water. You're essentially reapplying your baptism, renewing
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your baptism every time you cross yourself with holy water.
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They help us in the hour of temptation. Saint Teresa
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cannot say enough about the power of holy water to
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drive away the devil. There are also of use in
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bodily eels and infirmities. The Apostles anointed with oil many
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who are sick, and healed them Mark six thirteen. Again,
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reach your Bible. They are thus a remedy and a shield.
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It is a superstition of the part of is it
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superstition on the part of the soldier who carries with
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him a blessed crucifix when he goes to battle, hoping
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that God's mercy may be his protection. By no means,
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Nor is the sick man to blame if he sprinkles
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himself frequently with holy water, thinking thus to accelerate his recovery.
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We must beware of trusting too much in the efficacy
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of sacramentals, or imputing to them more power than the
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prayer that the Church imparts upon them. They are not
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like the sacraments. The sacraments confer upon those who receive
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them the grace of the Holy Spirit. The sacramentals only
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purify the soul and render it more fit for the
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reception of sanctifying grace. The sacramentals derive all their power
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from the prayers of the Church. It is in the
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name of the Church that the priest blesses them. The
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petitions of the Church have immense power, for they are
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united to the prayer of Our Lord and the implications
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of the Saints. The sacramentals can, however, only be used
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with prophet by a person who is free from mortal sin,
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and he uses them in the spirit of faith and confidence.
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The effect of the sacramentals depends upon the worthiness and
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the pious disposition of the individual who uses him. Those
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who live in mortal sin will derive no more benefit
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from wearing some blessed object or from the use of
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holy water than the Jews did from bringing the ark
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of the Covenant into the field of battle when they
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had encouraged God's wrath by their sins First King four four.
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Nor will they profit one who places no confidence in
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them any more than prayer prophets. A man who does
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not ask in faith nothing wavering. Because it's James one
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to six. Our Lord abstained from working many miracles in
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some places because of the unbelief the inhabitants Matthew thirteen eighteen.
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Remember what he said to the woman who touched him
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thy faith hath made the whole mark five thirty four.
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We find that devout Christians always reverence sacramentos and use
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them diligently. They wear blessed objects in their person, They
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frequently take holy water. They like to say their prayers
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in consecrated places, knowing that prayers offered in a church.
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That prayer offered in a church is more efficacious than
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that which is offered elsewhere in times of temptation or sickness.
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Above all, we should have recourse to the assistance afforded
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by sacramentals. I wholeheartedly endorse that statement. Not that my
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endorsement carries any weight, but literally, the more blessed objects,
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the more holy water, the more blessed salt, and more
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blessed oil, the more pictures of saints, the more statues
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of the blessed Virgin Mary, the more images of the
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Sacred Heart, the more crucifixes, the more divine mercy. Whatever
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rosaries you have in your house, the better off you're
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going to be. Because Satan and his demons cannot abide
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being around them or near them. You need to have
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them blessed by a priest like brown scapulars. Okay, they
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wear out frequently. Five years is probably the maximum your
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scapolo is going to last, even if you've got a
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really nice one. Okay, it needs to be buried. It's
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a blessed object. It needs to be buried, or it
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can be burned in certain cases, like the blessed palm
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crosses we get on Palm Sunday, those can be burned.
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In fact, that's what the ashes on ash Wednesday are
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supposed to be made from. But they should be buried.
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And a prayer said, as if you were doing a
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little funeral, because they've become holy objects. If you cannot
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keep them in a special place with your other sacramentals,
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keep them together, don't just throw them away, don't discard them.
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And that is something the priest stands in the stead
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of God. His hands are Jesus' hands, his mouth is
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Jesus's mouth, his words are Jesus's words, and when he
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blesses that object, it is something holy and you can't
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just disregard it. You do need to treat it properly
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and put as many of them as you can on
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your person in your house, if you can get one
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of those, like I don't even know how many different
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scapulars there are, I mean, like a dozen. I have
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no idea. There are a lot. There's the brown one,
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the white one, the blue one, the red one. They
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all have meaning. And sometimes you can get one that's
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like all them put together, and it's like a little
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book of scapulars you can just wear around your neck.
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Do so if you combine one of those, get your
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missile blessed. Get a permanent missile, not you know, the
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disposable you know, annual one we have in church, paperback.
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Get a real you know, a good missile, good you
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know prayer book. Get a good uh oh what am
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I trying? The liturgy of the hours? I can't remember
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this like coming to me right now. It's called get
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these things. Oh well, love the little chapel of the
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Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that little blue
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prayer book we can carry with us always, get it blessed.
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Ask your priests. Make sure you have a blessed crucifix
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at least in your house. Have blessed items in your bedroom.
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Would add a doubt, because when you're asleep you're very
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vulnerable to evil influences. Have them in every room, have
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them in your car, have them on your person, have
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them in your house, have them in your office. Get rosaries,
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buy as or make as many roses as you can
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have the ask the priest to bless them. Hand them
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out to people. Just hand them out crucifixes, even to
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your you know your Protestant friends. Give them a blessed
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object and tell them I Priest blessed this object, and
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I hope it's special to me. I hope it'd be
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special to you. They'll either accept or they won't. But
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if it's given to them with a humble heart, do
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you're going to accept it and they're going to be grateful.
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I got a bunch of white scapulars from the Holy
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Face Confraternity and a Protestant, very evangelical, no bias against
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Catholics at all, very evangelical guy that worked at the
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grocery store nearby. Great guy, a really nice guy, a
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very smart guy. Always want to pray for me before
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I'd leave the store. You know, you'd walk out of
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the car with me and say can I say I
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prayer for You'd be like, yeah, absolutely, thanks you know,
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nice guy had real hard life. I got one of
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those and I said, I said, this is a scapular.
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And you know, Catholics, as Catholics, we believe that certain
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blessings are conferred on those who are where this scapular.
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You know, I'm not asking you to believe this, but
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this is the face of Jesus. This is the face
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from Veronica's cloth. And I thought you'd like to have it.
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And he was overjoyed. I mean, He's like, this is
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the face of Jesus. I'm like, yeah, man, this is
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the face of Jesus. You know, seriously, and I mean
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it did never once crossed his mind to think this
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is something Catholic and weird. I don't want, you know,
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I said, you know, this is something that means a
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lot to me, and I want to share it with you.
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If you present medals. Oh gosh, you can get so
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many miraculous medals. There are companies that give free miraculous metals,
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or you can order like one hundred of them for
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ten dollars or something. Right, take a box in and
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have them, your priests, bless them, leave them everywhere you go,
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give them to everybody. You know, miraculous metals carry them
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so many blessings and conversions and just amazing healings. Go
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to the hospital, go to the nursing home, pass them
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out like candy. But you know, do you tell someone
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this is special to me, I hope it'll be special
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with you for you, so they don't just look at
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and throw it away. Okay you can't. Just you know,
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you got to tell somebody this is meaningful to me,
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and I want you to accept it as a gift
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from me, and then they'll keep it in case you
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you know, you might show up again and ask them
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about it. Right, People don't normally throw away a gift
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you give them because they don't want to be embarrassed
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if you come back and say, hey, what happened to
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that I gave you? Yeah, that's just human nature. So
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you can absolutely get sacramentals gosh green scapular. I think
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it's particularly good for healing, miraculous metal for conversions, and
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I mean the person does not have to be Catholic.
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You can you can be giving out sacramentals to everyone.
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And actually it's kind of interesting, you know, like when
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you go to a parade and they throw out candy, Well,
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there are a lot of origins for that. There have
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been secular parades. You know, you can go back to
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like ancient Rome and Greece, and yeah, they you know,
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the officials would go down the street and they'd be
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a big celebration with horns. They'd throw out bread to
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the crowds and all that. That's part of it. But
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a big part of it is in the Middle Ages
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when they would you know, like have a Corpus Christi
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procession or something, a big feast day in the Catholic Church,
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and they'd have a big parade and they'd take a
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you know, statue of the blessed version of Mary and
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they'd throw you know, put roses out and everything whatever
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they had. A lot of what was being thrown out
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were items blessed by a priest, and it would often
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be in the form of food like pretzels for instance,
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or other like you know, blessed bread items or sweets
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that they might have had at the time were often distributed.
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And Catholic feast days and festivals, and that's actually a
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sacramental It's just like when the priests goes through the
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church once a year and sprinkles is all with holy water.
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That's a sacramental. I mean, if we, as Catholics literally
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carried on us some blessed salt or some holy water,
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and every room in every place we walked into gave
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it a little sprinkle instead of prayer. Do you know
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how much good that would do? Imagine what a different
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place your DMV would be if a bunch of Catholics
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kept going in there and blessing it with holy water
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and salt. People may not be so nasty your prisons,
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your hospitals, your courtrooms. You cannot buy a law like
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sprinkle blessed salt in someone's food without their knowledge. That
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is illegal. Don't do that. Or holy water and do
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their drink or something weird like that. Okay, you don't
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do that, but you can absolutely sprinkle some in the
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room doorway when you walk through, say a silent prayer
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across yourself. No problem at all, No problem at all
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with that. In fact, we should be doing that. We
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should be doing that at every possible opportunity to drive
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the evil out of our world. Every street in your town,
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if you can sprinkle some holy water on it, do so.
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Every classroom in your child's school, do so. I mean,
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I cannot emphasize enough how important Sacramentos are. I cannot
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emphasize that enough. And I would also love and I
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hope to do this when things get settled down a
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little more and I got a place to call home
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permanently again after the hurricane and everything, I would really
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like to set up a little roadside shrine or a
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little grotto or something. I mean, there is like up
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at my place in the mountains, you can hike into
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the woods, and I think the Lutherans put a little
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chapel out there. It's a beautiful little place, just got
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a little cross and some benches and a little shelter
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and they have and it's nice. You know. I would
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love to do the same thing for Catholics. Find a
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little place in the national forest and just put a
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little you know, shrine or you know, beside a trail somewhere.
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You know, you got to understand, you know, some body
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is going to probably deface it at some point. It's
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something you're going to have to accept and you're gonna
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have to repair it and you have to watch over it.
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But it's a wonderful thing to do. Really, it's a
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wonderful thing to do. You know, some people would take
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crucifixes and kind of hide them in trees in the
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woods and say a prayer that the whole forest and
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everybody that enters into it would be blessed. Another wonderful
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thing to do. Remember what it says in Maccabees, it's
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an honorable thought to pray for the dead. Even if
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people don't understand it or appreciate it, God will so.
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And remember that every every town, every forest, every park,
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every space on this world in this world, every church
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and every I mean every community has its own guardian angel.
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So that's another thing we can do, is invoke that
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guardian angels protection. Yeah. So anyway, y'all have a wonderful week,
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stay safe and warm, and I will talk to you
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next time.