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163: The Second Commandment of God · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. We are going to
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get into the Second Commandment today. And as you know, were working through
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the Father Spirago's exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church. And yes, it actually
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does take about a week's worth of shows to cover one commandment. So if
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you think you know everything about the ten Commandments, just hold on a little
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bit, because I guarantee he will surprise you. But as usual, we
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start with a couple questions and answers from radio replies, classic book from the
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thirties and forties where two priests answered often very confrontational, hostile questions by Protestant
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and atheist callers, and the one today this bit hostile says, the constantly
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changing laws of the Catholic Church show that her principles are man made, and
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they answer, the principles of Catholic Church are not man made, nor can
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her constitution given her by Christ ever be changed. But just as many small
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bylaws can be made and repelled in a country without essentially changing constitutional laws,
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so when the Catholic Church special disciplinary laws can be enacted as special time to
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meet the special needs without any constitutional change in the religion. At the Reformation,
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however, men left the Catholic Church and set up new constitutions for themselves
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and their sex sex sects, in case you're wondering, can be called indeed
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man made religions. A person says the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and fallibility
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the Pope were not believed before eighteen fifty four and eighteen seventy, respectfully,
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yet had to be believed after those dates. And they answered, both doctrines
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were believed in so far as Catholics believed in the revelation given by Christ,
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which contained these doctrines implicitly. When the Church defined them, she merely made
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it explicit, and of faith what had been hitherto implicit gave not a new
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but truth. She gave not a new truth, but simply made these matters
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clear by defining these doctrines to be part of the revelations brought us by Christ.
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The church is here for that. Indeed, of what use is a
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teaching church if she does not teach? All doubts concerning the correct interpretation of
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the original Christian doctrine on these two subjects were cleared away by these definitions,
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and today the four hundred million Catholics in the world know the truth and accept
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it without hesitation. See there's one more from this person. Ah. Yes.
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The Catholic Church is described in One Timothy four one through three. In
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the latter time, some shall depart from the faith, teaching doctrines of devils,
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speaking lies and hypocrisy, forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats.
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Where has her infallibility? And they answer, I'm afraid this is a
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case of mistaken identity. The Catholic Church is not in this description. All
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through the ages, men have departed from the faith in departing from the Catholic
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Church. Thus, in the sixteenth century the Protestants departed from the original faith
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and having and have been departing from each other ever since, going further and
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further into conflicting heresies. The Catholic Church does not teach the doctrines of devils.
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No church warns her children so earnestly against the devil as the Catholic Church.
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She clearly teaches that lies are never justified. The references to marriage and
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the eating of meats, you simply do not understand. Saint Paul warns the
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early Christians against those who would say that marriage is of itself evil and also
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the eating of meat. That's right. The Catholic Church does not encourage vegetarianism,
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no matter what you were caught in your Catholic college. We get a
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lot of just absolute bs from these social and environmental justice people try to say
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Jesus was a vegetarian. When Jesus very clearly, hey, wham at the
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past meal, ate fish as the first thing he did when he came to
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the apostles at the resurrection. You can go to when Moses and his family
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were saved from the flood and he said God, God said to him,
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I give you the animals of the earth to eat. And I think I
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could get into a more specific quote of that. But and another time Jesus
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actually said a sign of the Antichrist would be one who teaches, or well,
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actually I should say a sign of false teachers. All false teachers,
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all to teach opposing a doctrine to that of the Catholic Church, are indeed
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antichrist. But because they are anti to the teaching of Christ. I don't
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mean like the Antichrist, but all false teachers, false prophets, false religions.
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One of the ways they can be identified is the forbidding of eating of
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meat. So if you're in a Catholic college, or you got a kid
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at a Catholic college and they're professors telling them that the Catholic Church says they
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shouldn't eat meat, that they should be vegetarians or vegans, pull your kid
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out of the school right away, get all the money back you can,
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and get in touch with the board of trustees and tell them they have apostate
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a heretic teaching in their school and circulate it very well in that diocese and
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have that person condemned and fired because they have no place in Catholicism. They
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worship a God that is different than ours. They worship a Gaya, not
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a God well anyway, But the Catholic Church does not forbid marriage. She
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certainly says to her young men, you may marry, or if you feel
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that you are called to such a life, you may become a priest.
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But if you become a priest, you may not marry. That is a
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very different thing. Meantime, the fact that she forbids meet, especially on
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Fridays, shows that she does permit it on other days. Yes, you
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can actually use logic to refute the idiotic arguments of liberals. They are incapable
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of logic. Logic and liberalism are not compatible. You know. You can
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call it liberalism, progressivism, socialism, social and environmental justice, whatever,
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It's not logical at its core, nor is it in keeping with the true
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tenets of the true religion. So we will go on now to the second
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commandment. We'll get comfortable in my big, squeaky leather chair here. I
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usually try to edit that out, but a lot of times I cannot help
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the chair make some noise when I move around. But let's look here it
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the second commandment of God. The second commandment is this, thou shalt not
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take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. That is to say,
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thou shall not utter it without reverence. By the name of God is
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not meant the mere word alone, but the majesty pertaining or appertaining he says
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to the most High. Obviously, this follows very logically on our last discussion
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about taking oaths, ors or swearing. You know, when you take an
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oath or you swear that you're telling the truth or whatever, you are taking
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the Lord's name. You were saying, so help me God, I am
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telling the truth, or I will keep this promise. So this is something
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you know. It's interesting to see how the first commandment leads to the second.
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We owe reverence to Almighty God because he is a Lord of infinite majesty
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and of infinite bounty. Reverence is a mixture of fear, love, and
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esteem. If it was said of a monarch that he had millions of subjects,
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and that he had an army of hundreds of thousands of warriors who could
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take a field at his command, and that by a word of his lips
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he could make happiness or misery of multitudes, you would fear that monarch.
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But if you were told of his goodness, his endeavors to promote the way
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welfare of his subjects, you would love and esteem him. So you will
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feel towards God if you contemplate his infinite perfections and his great love towards man.
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Consider the perfections of God. There are upon earth some fifteen hundred million
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human beings. Well, there are a lot more than there were in the
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eighteen nineties when Father fresh Warrago read this. But don't worry, all you
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people that are so worried about social and environmental justice. You could still take
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the entire population of the United States and relocate everyone to Texas and they'd all
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have about an acre of land apiece. We are not overpopulated, nor are
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we anywhere near the level that the earth can support humanity. In fact,
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we can produce more food now cheaper than we ever could before. We can
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also and we should begin to clean up our water. That's my biggest concern
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is that all the plastics in the water, honestly, and that really does
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need to be addressed. But it is certainly within the powers of the human
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being to do just that without us. If you suddenly removed all every human
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from the face of the earth right now, who would clean up the water?
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Trust me, the fish and the deer aren't going to do it.
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Okay, you can say, well, you know humans did this in the
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first place. Yeah, yeah, we did. But we have the problem.
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We are the crown of creation, as the Bible says, the all
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of nature actually serves us, and then we steward it and cared for it
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and protect it right and make sure it's here for the next generation. That's
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the right way to look at environmentalism, not humanity, is a blight upon
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the earth. But humanity can screw things up and humanity can fix it.
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And humanity is the only logical reasonable animal if you want to look at it
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that way, that can do that. And you could say, well,
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without human beings, you know, the world be so much better, you
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know what. You go back and look at paleontology and all that, and
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you can see where a lightning strike calls forest fires that burned hundreds and thousands
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of acres, killing, you know, millions of animals. You know,
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God made man who can actually be a firefighter to stop that, you know,
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and you can I could go through every you know, we can manage
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populations of animals. You know, deer have mass die offs if they're not
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enough predators. And man, you know, is a predator whose job is
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to kill and eat a deer in part right, we can call the herd.
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And it's actually better for the help and the overall growth and everything of
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the deer. They without being cold, whether it's by a man or by
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a coyote or a you know whatever, they will exhaust their food source and
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you have mass starvation dieoffs and mass outbreaks of disease. And that's true for
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just about really every animal population on earth, a lot of them. We
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don't really mess with a whole lot anymore. If you get too many coyotes,
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they can absolutely wipe out entire herds of deer and smaller animals. Coyote
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eats about seventy pounds of meat a day, the average coyote does, and
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it just you know, runs rampant and slaughters everything you can find, right,
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And if it does that enough, it cannot only wipe out entire populations
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of the animals it eats, but then they will starve to death because they
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have no more food. Only man can go out and trap a coyote.
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There's not I mean, there are a couple of animals that can scare off
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a coyote, but there are not Nothing other than man can stop coyotes from
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decimating huge populations of all kinds of animals. And that's just one example,
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you know. But anyway, let's get back to the topic. So he
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says, Okay, God, there are upon the aar some fifteen million human
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beings. We just said that. Of course, now like three billion or
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something or four billion whatever, any one of whom. And for those that
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say we got to reduce the population. You know, we got to practice
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birth control and abortion. How do you know you're not going to get rid
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of the very one that's going to cure cancer, or the very one that's
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going to come up with a solution and cleaning the plastics out of the ocean,
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or the very one that could bring world peace or something. You know,
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you don't. Only God knows who each person is, and oftentimes he
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rises up, what is say in the Bible of the week, to confound
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the strong, the well, essentially the dumb, to confound the intelligence.
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I mean, we often see coming from the most poor and humble circumstances,
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someone without a lot of education that just does incredible things, someone that doesn't
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come from money. So I mean, and you know, I mean,
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I've said a thousand times you never see a more loving, kind, generous
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heart than you will in a child with down syndrome or an adult. You
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know, they actually get to stay pure and good. And I mean to
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say that they don't deserve to live is purely evil. And I'm sorry,
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But in your Catholic colleges and universities, that's exactly where the environmental social justice
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people are hitting. That's always the end result. It always starts with let's
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clean up the air and water, or let's give to the poor, and
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it ends with let's slaughter thirty million people. You think I'm exaggerating, Get
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the big Black Book of Communism and read about how two hundred million people were
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killed by their own governments, supposedly for their own good. And I don't
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think that even includes Hitler, Okay, or Mussolini, because this the Black
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Book of Communism, specifically about communists. Guests, national socialists and fascists are
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very similar, same ideology, but I don't think they're actually included in that.
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And it doesn't include the hundreds of millions of deaths by abortion practice in
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China, practice in Russia, practice especially in the United States, and England
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and Ireland. Unfortunately, I mean, you know, I'm sorry. Ireland
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is essentially lost. It's no longer even a Christian country. Neither is France,
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and neither is England. Maybe it will be again someday. But America
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is just barely hold on, and not by much, not by much at
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all. Canada's lost, Mexico is just barely hanging on. Brazil. I
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could go down the list of these, you know, a lot these were
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Catholic countries except for America and in Canada, of course, except for you
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know, certain provinces, but they're now. I mean what Mexico now has
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a communist lady who's its president. I guess she's also Jewish, but she's
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not religious or anything. A communist running Brazil, you know, it's in.
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Canada is probably one of the most hostile to religious nations in the entire
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world, hostile to any religion that's even vaguely Christian. They love Muslims.
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Boy, do they love Muslims. You know, I thought I was Muslim.
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I'd probably be moving to Canada right now, or you know, maybe
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Ireland or Norway or somewhere where you know, you're actually England certainly where you're
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going to be treated like a king because you're the people have been taught to
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hate their own country, They've been taught to hate their own religion, They've
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been taught to hate their own ancestry. And see, that's why I say
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liberalism or whatever you want to call it, is at its heart a mental
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disorder that is suicidal, because you are taught to hate everything that you are
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until what do you do eventually cut your genitals off and pretend you're a cat
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or something. You know, you remember a few years ago when we would
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have thought that was insane, and now it's like normalized. That's the problem.
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That's the problem. You can go pull up the you know, they
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had the psychologists, psychiatrists. They use this guide called the DSM to give
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a proper diagnosis to a mental condition. Go get like DSM three, dyem
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four. We're talking like nineteen seventies still and it says homosexuality is a mental
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disorder. By I think then the DSM five they took that out and now
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have normalized it. You know, that's that's the end result sterile unions and
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in euthanasia, which is now very popular in Canada. Yeah, I mean
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you get sick, and what do you have to live for if you don't
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believe in God, you don't believe in heaven. Yeah. So the doctors
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whose first vowel is the hippocritic oath of do no harm are now, you
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know, mutilating the generals of children and killing people for a living and making
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a lot of money doing it, a lot of money. So anyway,
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oh, where were we? Okay, so he hears their prayers. These
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are all the people on earth, whatever number they are at the time.
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He hears their prayers, he helps them in their necessities, he rewards or
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punishes them. For the most part here below, How vast is the knowledge
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of the supreme being. Millions of orbs revolve in space. God created them
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all, He maintains them all. He gives him all motion. How boundless
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is his power? Think of the unseen world alone, people by millions of
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celestial spirits. He knows each one, He preserves each one in existence.
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He guides and directs each one, and by each and all he is adored.
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How great is his majesty? Who is like the among the strong?
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Oh Lord, who is like to the glorious and holiness, terrible and praise
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worthy? Doing wonders It's Exodus fifteen eleven. On account of the great majesty
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of God, we should fear him, and we should love him by reason
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of his infinite goodness. Fear and love are the component parts of reverence.
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In the second Commandment, God commands us in the first place to show the
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due respect to his divine majesty. This we must do in the following manner.
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We should frequently call upon the name of God with true and heartfelt devotion,
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especially the commandment of all we do and in time of trouble Newton the
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Great Astronomer. Newton, the Great Astronomer, had the deepest respect for the
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name of God. He uncovered his head and bowed low whenever it was uttered
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in his presence. Made of our Christians bow their head when they pronounce the
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name of Jesus and prayer. The priest does so in celebrating mass. Sat
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Ignatious Bishop of Antioch, who when a child is said to have been,
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he whom our lords set in the midst of the disciples. At the time
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we said, whosoever shall humble himself as his child is greater, is the
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greater in the Kingdom of Heaven. This is amazing, you know, in
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the early Church writing, I've told you many times said it was the early
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Church writers, the early Church fathers as we call them, who really led
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me to understand the Catholic Church is the real and true Church. Santy Nations
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is one of like the first four I guess, right after the Apostles,
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you know, after the Bible, the first generation of Christians post the Apostolic
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order. Well, he was very much in the Apostolic time, and was
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actually the child that Jesus pointed to and said, who shall ever so humble
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himself as this little child, He is greater in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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I absolutely encourage you to read Saint Ignatious, Saint Jerome, Saint Justin,
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Martyr, St Pope Save Clement of Rome. It will give you more to
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understand and defend your faith and just about anything really, and all this stuff's
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available online for free now, which is absolutely amazing. Anyway, short before
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before his death, he said, this name shall never leave my lips or
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be effaced from my heart. And in fact, after his martyrdom, the
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Holy Name was found inscribed in his heart. Yes, according to legend,
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he was killed for his faith and the name of Jesus was found printed essentially
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on his heart. In alidany of the Holy name, we invoke the name
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of Jesus again and again because it is the most powerful of all names,
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and through it we can obtain all we need. If you ask the Father
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anything in my name, he will give it to you. That's John sixteen
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twenty three. By the name of Jesus. The apostles in saints work miracles.
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Saint Peter said to the lame man in the gate of the temple.
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In the name of Jesus, Christ arise and walk it's Acts three six.
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Christ promised that in his name the devil should be cast out Mark sixteen seventeen.
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The devils tremble to the name of Jesus. They take flight when they
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hear it, even when it is uttered by evil men. So great is
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its potency. The name of Jesus is also all powerful to fill the heart
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with joy. It is compared to oil and canicals one two. As oil
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gives light, alleviates pain, and affords nourishment, so does the name of
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Jesus when we call upon it. Saint Vincent pra Rare declares it to be
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a defense in all dangers of spiritual and temporal. All dangers both spiritual and
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temporal, and this means of healing bodily infirmities. All graces are combined in
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the Holy name. There is no other name under having given to men,
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whereby we must be saved. Acts four twelve. At the name of Jesus,
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every niece should bow of those that are in heaven and on earth and
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under the earth. Philippians two ten. An indulgence of twenty five days is
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granted for each invocation of the Holy Name, and and a plein plenary that
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means a full indulgence at the hour of death for those who have frequently invoked
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it it during life. That's according to Clement the Thirteenth, that was granted
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in seventeen fifty nine. To pronounce the name is indispensable for obtaining the indulgence
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at the hour of death. Would that every Christian would say, with Saint
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Bernard, the name of Jesus's honey to the taste, melody to the ear,
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and joy to the heart. No one who clings to mortal sin can
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devoutly call this name. No man can say the can say the Lord Jesus,
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but the Holy Ghost. It's first Corinthians twelve three. In beginning every
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wish, before every action, however insignificant, we should call in the name
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of God and make a sign of the cross with the usual words. All
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whatsoever you do in word or in work, do in the name of the
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Lord Jesus Christ. It's Colossians three seventeen. Thus thus we shall merit the
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divine blessing and earn a reward for every action. Our Lord promises that anyone
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who gives to another a cup of cold water, and his name shall not
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be unrewarded. It's mark nine point forty. We should also call upon the
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name of God in the time of trouble. He said, call upon me
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in the day of trouble, I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me.
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In the year sixteen eighty three, Christians obtained a brilliant victory over the
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Turks. Their battle cry was the names of Jesus and Mary. In the
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hour of death. Above all, we should breathe the name of Jesus,
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like Saint Stephen, whose last words were Lord, Jesus received my spirit at
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seven fifty eight. We ought to show respect for all that appertains to divine
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worship, more especially for the servants of God, for holy places, sacred
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things, and religious ceremonies. We ought to show respect for the ministers of
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God in this In this count, Rudolph of Habsburg said an excellent example.
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One day, when he went out hunting, he met a priest carrying the
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blessed sacrament to the sick. Instantly he dismounted and offered him his horse to
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the priest, And when the latter on his return, gave back the horse
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to the count. He would not take it, saying it must thenceforth be
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devoted to the service of the sanctuary. The priest predicted that good fortune and
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happiness would attend to his career, and so it did. Nine years later,
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Rudolph was elected emperor. The Lord bids us reverence his priest. He
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says, he that despiseth you, despiseth me. Luke ten sixteen, touch
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not my anointed in Oh gosh, what was that? I think, King
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David. It doesn't matter anyway, And Saint John Christossum says that the honor
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shown to the priest has shown to God himself. God also requires us to
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show respect to holy places and things. When He appeared to Moses in the
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burning bush, and Moses approached somewhat near, he said to him, come
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not nigh hither. Put off they show's shoes from thy feet, For the
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place whereupon thou standeth is holy ground Exodus three five. Under the old dispensation,
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the people were strictly forbidden to touch the ark of the Covenant numbers four
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fifteen, reverenced by sanctuary. Leviticus twenty sixty two enter into the House of
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God, as if you were entering into heaven and leave behind you all the
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savors of the earth. Holiness becomes thy house, O Lord. That's from
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Psalms. We should also manifest respect for all religious service. Saint Elizabeth of
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Hungary removed her crown from her head whenever she heard the Mass out of respect
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for the Gospel. We stand up when it's read, and we preserve a
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grave demeanor when we approach the sacraments. We ought frequently to praise and magnify
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God on account of his infinite perfections and goodness, especially when He reveals his
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professions in a certain especial manner or confers a benefit upon us. Three children
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in the Fiery Furnace sang a canticle of praise when God preserved them from being
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hurt by the flames. It's Daniel three. When Tobias received his sight,
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he immediately blessed the Lord Tobit eleven seventeen. You know, and again,
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if you don't have Tobad in your Bible, you don't have a real Bible.
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You need a real Bible, So go get a Catholic Bible, not
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a counterfeit Protestant Bible in which words or Jesus will changed and several books removed
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entirely. Remember the Magnificad, the song of praise utter by the Mother of
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God, and the Benedictus, the caanical of thanksgiving pronounced by Zacharias on his
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cure in luke I. Whenever you receive any favor from God, say diogratchius,
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thanks be to God, or glory be to the Father, etc.
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And frequently repeat the salutation let Jesus Christ be praise. In some parts of
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Germany and Switzerland, this pious greeting takes the place of saying good morning,
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that's that's nice. I doubt they do that anymore, or good day,
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and is in use among us. And I think Father of Sprago's and Czechoslovakia's,
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so maybe they did the same thing. And if you are prevented by
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infirmities from praising God with your lips at any rate, praise Him in your
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heart. For God, who hears not as we hear, requires not audible
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sound. He reads the heart, and it's content with our good will.
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Yes, God, here's your thoughts when you pray to him, And well,
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he hears everything. He's omnipotent and omnission and Jesus said that the saints
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in heaven are like God. So when Protestants say they can't hear your prayers,
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well, actually they can, and it's actually their job to hear your
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prayers and pray for you and work help with the salviafic mission of Christ.
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They help save you because they care about you. We're part of the Body
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of Christ, part of the community of Saints, and we're called to love
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for each other and pray for each other. Bless the Lord, oh my
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soul, and let all that is within me, bless his holy name.
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Bless the Lord, oh my soul, And I will never forget all that
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he hath done for me. Is from Psalms. I will bless the Lord
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at all times. His praise shall always be in my mouth. Also from
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Psalms, I think all this is blessed be the name of the Lord.
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From henceforth, now and forever, from the rising of the sun into the
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going down the same the name of the Lord is worthy of praise. In
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praising God, we do the best for ourselves, for therefore we draw down
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upon ourselves the divine blessing and great abundance. Furthermore, God prohibits everything which
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is a violation of the reverence due to His divine majesty, in particular the
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taking of the name of God in vain. Many people have the habit of
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thoughtlessly exclaiming it every trifle that surprises them, Good Lord or my God,
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and the like. It is a bad habit. Correct yourselves of it,
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and endeavor to correct others, as it shows a want of doe reverence for
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the name of God. Those who truly love God cannot stand by unmoved and
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hear His holy name profaned. The careless, flippant use of the name of
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God or of any other sacred name, is at least of anal sin.
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Let not the naming of God be unusual, and let not the naming of
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God be usual in thy mouth, For thou shalt not escape free from sin
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Ecclesiastes twenty three to ten. For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that
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shall take the name of the Lord word his God in vain. Exodus twenty
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seven, verse Chapter twenty, verse seven. We take good care, since
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Saint John christosom not to wear out our best clothes by putting them on every
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day. So we must beware lest we thoughtlessly utter the name of God,
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which is worthy of the profoundest reverence. The Jews did not venture to pronounce
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the word Jehovah Jehovah whatever, as the Jews did not venture to pronounce the
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word Jehovah or Jehovah when they spoke of the Lord. That's something the Jehovah's
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witnesses and the Tory observant don't really get. They always talk about Jesus as
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Yeshua and God as Jehovah, and the Jews consider those The name Jehovah especially
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to be such a holy name, especially in its Hebrew spelling of like Yahweh.
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That's that name was never meant to be spoken, is actually written in
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an unpronoun ouncible way because it was considered to be so holy. And on
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the topic of swearing, he says by this has meant the use of holy
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names in a moment of anger as an imprecation against certain persons or things.
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For instance, parents when angry wish ill to their children using the name of
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God or heaven workmen call down evil and the tools they employ. Out of
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the mouth of a Christian, none but blessing should proceed first Peter three nine.
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Should the same mouth, wherewith we pray, wherewith we receive the sacred
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body of the Lord. Be employed to curse our neighbor and offend against God.
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Almighty God often punishes those who curse others by allowing the curse to be
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fulfilled. Saint Augustine speaks of a certain motherhood cursed her refractory sons or disobedient
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sons. They having gone so far as to strike her. Immediately they were
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seized with convulsions, convulsive movements of the limbs, from which, after wandering
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through many lands, they were at length cured at Hippo by touching the relics
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of Saint. Even Saint Ignatius of Loyola once asking alms of a Spanish nobleman.
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The latter flew into a rage and said, may I be burned alive
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if you are not a rogue deserving the hangman's rope. Certainly shortly after,
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on the occasion of festivities to celebrate the birth of an heir to the throne,
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a barrel of gunpowder exploded in the nobleman's house, and he was so
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severely burned that he expired in agony a few days later. Working people who
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curse and swear over their work or called down imprecations upon the horses they are
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driving, cannot expect their labor to prosper. Thus God rewards those who use
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bad language. He loved cursing, and it shall come upon him. That's
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also from Psalms. A man who indulges the bad habit of swearing commits many
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sins and is in danger of eternal perdition. As one tells from the language
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of a speaker of what country he is a native. So when oaths flow
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freely from a man's lips when making clue that he belongs to Hell, there
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is reason to fear that he does not belong to the Kingdom of God,
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for he talks the language of Hell. The fathers who used to consider swearing
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as the fathers used to consider swearing a sign of perdition, Those who curse
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shall perish. That's in Psalms. They shall not possess the Kingdom of God.
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That's from Corinthians six' ten. Ordinary swearing as a venial sin provided
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no serious evils worked on one's neighbor. Yet it is a greater sin than
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taking God's name in vain, because not only is it disrespect towards God,
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but an offense against charity, and that would be, of course, using
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God's name as a a curse. We're not supposed to do that in decorous
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behavior towards persons who are connected to the service of God. Holy places and
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sacred objects are actions. As we treat a priest in his priestly capacity,
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so we treat God himself. For Christ said, he that despises you who
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despises me Luke ten sixteen. He who abuses or despises a priest is guilty
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of dishonoring God and deserves the same chastisement as the Jews who abuse and despise
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the son of God. Saint John Christossom says that the want of respect for
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ecclesiastical superiors is a source of all evil. How severely the little boys were
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punished. You mock the prophet Alicia or Elisias. I think it's Alicia.
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He uses the old spelling in four Kings two twenty four. We also offend
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God by unseemly behavior in church, laughing, whispering, steering about, lolling,
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etcetera. I would say, you know, checking Twitter or Facebook on
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your cell phone or texting would certainly fall in that category. Saint Ambrose says
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that people who have behaved badly in church, that they come with small sins
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and go away with great ones. Insults offered to God in his house are
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more offensive to him than offered elsewhere. We ourselves resent most of all rudeness.
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Show them to us in our house. This is why the meek and
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gentle Savior drove those who bought and sold out of the temple, saying,
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my house shall be caught a house a prayer, But you have made a
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den of thieves, said Matthew twenty one thirteen. If any man violate the
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temple of God him, God shall destroy first commit Corinthians three seventeen. The
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same respect as due to holy things as to holy places. When David was
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bringing the art back to Jerusalem and Israelite named Ozo ventured to lay hold of
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it, God struck him and he died. Second King six's seven King
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oziahs was punished with leprosy because he entered the sanctuary, and when to burn
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incense to disturb religious services or to show contempt for them, is also sinful.
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Of this sin. The sons of Heli were guilty when they interfered with
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the Jewish sacrifices in first Kings two. In the present day, some evil
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disposed persons interrupt sub sermons, processions, and other services, or insult priests
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who are taking the bus to sacrament to the sick. These offenders are punishable
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by law as disturbers of divine worship, and that certainly happened recently here in
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the United States. Blasphemy of this sin Those are guilty who revile God his
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saints, who speak contemptuously of objects connected with worship. The Emperor Julian the
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Apostate would often speak of the Son of God as the Galilean, which at
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the time the word was considered an insult. Even at his death, which
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was occasioned by the thrust of a lance, he said to have exclaimed,
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thou hast conquered O Galilean. Ungodly persons are often heard to utter bitter revilings
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against God, especially in times of suffering and affliction, as if they did
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not deserve the trials he sends him. It has blasphemy to speak scornfully of
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God or to his actions, or to attribute to a creature that which is
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the prerogative of the Creator. The people sinned. Thus when King Herod made
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an oration to them and cried, it is the voice of God and not
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of a man. That's an Acts twenty two. The Jews committed this sin.
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God says that by the mouth, by the mouth of the prophets,
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my name is continually blasphemed all day long. Isaiah, I guess that's what
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was that. I can't remember the chapter on that one. To speak contemptuously
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of holy places and things is a kind of blasphemy as a reflection upon God,
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whom we are told to praise in his holy places and the psalms.
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Sacrilege is another kind of blasphemy. It is it consists of putting an improper
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and degrading use which pertains the service of God. The king of Babylon,
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Baltazar, committed sacrilege, which in committed sacrilege when in a state of aebriation,
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he commanded the sacred vessels that have been taken from the Temple of Jerusalem,
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where they were used in the worship of God, to be brought it
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to serve as drinking cups of the feast. The mutilation of statues, or
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to face and crucifixes a statue is a sacrilege and that's happening a lot these
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days too. Would it not be considered a treasonable act to treat the crown
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or the portrait of an earthly monarch with such contempt? Again, those who
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receive sacraments unworthily, who appropriate to themselves church property, or who commit a
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theft in the church come under the same condemnation. As you know. When
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King Henry took all Catholic lands and basically just gave them to his friends and
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supporters, turned some of them, you know, of course, into Anglican
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churches, he created a grave sacrilege. It is said that that Jews and
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Freemasons have sometimes obtained consecrated hosts which they subject horrible profanation. So to Wiches
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and New Age types in our time, such conduct is simply satanic, and
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yes it is. Blasphemy is essentially a diabolical sin, and one of the
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gravest transgressions. Blasphemy may be called a sin peculiar to devils and reprobates,
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for his holy spirits speaks by the mouth of the good, so the devil
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speaks by the mouth of the blasphemer. According to Saint Bernadin, the blasphemer
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is worse than a dog, For a dog does not bite the master who
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is kind to him when he chastises him, whereas the blasphemer reviles God from
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whom he has received so many benefits, obviously of the fact that God only
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afflicts him for his own good. When the saintly Bishop Polycarp in others first
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five or six church Fathers definitely read Polycarp was offered his life if he would
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blasphere Christ, he said, for eighty six years I have served him,
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and he has done me nothing but good. How can I speak evil of
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my king and Master. Saint Jerome, another one of the early church fathers,
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says that all sins are slight in comparison with this, For by all
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others, one offends against God directly indirectly. But this sin offends against the
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Most High himself, not against his image, whom hast thou blaspheme, against
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whom hast thou exalted thy voice, against the Holy One of Israel. That's
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four kings. Oh, I can't remember nineteen yes, nineteen twenty two.
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All other sins arise from human frailty or ignorance, but blasphemy comes from malice
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of the human heart. According to Saint Bernard. Other sins bring some advantage
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to the sinner. Pride desires to gain importance, average money, in temperance,
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the the intemperance, the pleasures of the table. But this sin brings
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a man, no prophet, no pleasure. The Jews punish the blasphem with
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death. Saint Thomas Aquinas declared blasphemy to be immortal sin unless it is committed
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in a hasty moment without deliberation. Aughtest thou not to fear that fire will
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fall from heaven upon thee and consume thee. If thou dost venture to disperse
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the name of the Almighty, will not the earth open and swallow thee up?
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Deceiveth not thyself, O man, Thou cannot Thou canst not escape the
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hand of the onipotent God. Saint Ephrem said that God punishes blasphemy with severe
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chastisement in time and with everlasting damnation hereafter. Is also punishable by human law.
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Well, it used to be, and it still should be. God
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is not mocked Galatians six seven. When King Baldazzar profaned the vessels of the
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sanctuary, judgment fell upon him. Immediately. Let me just back up here,
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I said before, I'm not a free speech absolutist. This is alte
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An excellent example. When governments obeyed the Catholic Church, blasphemy was a crime
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illegal, and I believe that is part of the authority given by God to
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the Church to prohibit such things as blasphemy, And that means one cannot be
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a totally opposed to censorship. I think obviously the Church has a duty to
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prevent blasphemy, as it offends God and is harmful to the person who does
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it. Now you would say that the person should be free to blaspheme God
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only once. Well, the person's certainly not going to escape the punishment of
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God. But what of the people who hear and are influenced by him?
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Children, you know, as are being taught in our public schools right now.
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So no, I am not a free speech hip salutist anymore than I
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would keep my mouth shut if a blind person was walking toward a cliff.
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I'm going to say, don't do that. That's dangerous, and the only
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authority giving God's power on earth, the supreme King of the universe, should
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have the ability to make laws for the benefit of the good. Don't kill
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don't blaspheme, don't commit adultry. All those should actually be punishable crimes.
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And you know, we don't punish adultery anymore, and we certainly don't punish
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blasphemy, and we're pretty picky about what murders we punish these days. You
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can kill children with impunity, you know. Anyway, So are judgment fell
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upon him, and immediately an unseen hand wrote his fate upon the wall.
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That same night the enemy entered his city. He was slain, and his
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kingdom became part of the Persian Empire. Daniel Chapter five. Sinachur Rib,
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king of Assyria, blasphemed God. Shortly after, he lost two hundred thousand
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men in the war against the Hebrews and was assassinated by his own sons.
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Michael, the third Emperor Constantinople, made public mockery of the sacrament on the
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feast of the Ascension. At night, there was tremendous earthquake, and sometime
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later the emperor was murdered, and Israel Like cursed God in the wilderness.
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He was put into prison till Moses had ascertained what was God's will? The
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Lord said, let all the people stone him. That's Leviticus, as a
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man who throws a stone up into the sky cannot up into the sky,
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cannot touch, must less injure any of the heavenly bodies, but may broke
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his own head if the stone falls back upon him. So Rismouth's words do
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no harm to the being against whom they are directed. They only fall back
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upon the head of the one who utters them, and to his own perdition.
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Thus the blasphemer wets the sword to pierce his own heart. According to
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Saint John christossm Our, Lord says that whoever reviles his neighbors shall be in
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danger of hell fire. In Matthew five twenty two, how much more he
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who reviles God under the old law, when God was not so well known,
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it was said he that curseth father or mother shall die the death Exodus
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twenty one seventeen. How much more shall judgment overtake those who, in this
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age of knowledge and enlightenment, curse not their parents but the Lord their God.
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They shall be cursed that all despise thee. That's from tobd. He
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that blasphemeth the name of the Lord dying, let him die. That's also
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for Leviticus blasphemy is also punished by secure authority, as I said it used
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to be and should be. Saint Louis of France made a law that anyone
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who blasphemed God should be se on the lips with a red hot iron.
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That's pretty tough. This was done to a wealthy citizen of Paris, with
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a result that before long no blasphemous word was heard in the kingdom. Saint
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Jerome, on one occasion, rebuked an ungodly man for his impious words.
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When asked, he said, a dog may bark in his master's defense,
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and am I to stand silent when God's holy name is blasphemed? I would
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sooner die than forbear to speak. I think we can actually wrap this one
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up. The last topic under his simony, and that consists of the selling
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of spiritual things for money essentially or the equivalent of money. And this is
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really interesting. We can get in well. I have before the various heresies
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the Gnostics and really leading up to the Freemason's start with Simon. Simon the
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magician Simony. He was the one that tried to buy salvation through the apostles
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In the Middle Ages. Simony was a common bishop sees and beneficies. Benefic
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I can't pronounce that word for some reason today b E n E F I
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c ees. It's not a hard word, but my tongue is getting twisted.
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We're sometimes sold to the highest bidder. It is simony to offer priests
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money for absolution, to sell relics, or to charge a higher price for
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objects such as crosses and rosaries because they may have been blessed. You can
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sell a rosary but charge more for it because it's been blessed by a priest.
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That's simony. The sin takes its name from Simon, the magician,
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who offered the apostles money when he saw that by the imposition of their hands
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the Holy Ghost was given, saying, give me also this power, that
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on whomsoever I shall lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.
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That's Acts eight nineteen. He who is guilty of sin of simony is excommunicated.
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The words of Saint Paul to him in reply, were thy money perished
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with because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
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Acts eight twenty. He actually went on and started his own church and
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called himself the Messiah and started a lot of the errors that Protestants still believe
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to this day. To give money for masses is, however, not simony.
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It is much the same as giving someone alms and asking for his prayers.
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Nor is the payment of fees to the parish priests for the exercise of
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his ministerial function to be recognized as simony, because these fees are not a
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price paid for the discharge of spiritual duties, but a contribution toward the maintenance
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of the priest. You know, it's a stipend. That's a big mistake
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Protestants make, thinking that we actually pay the priest to do confession or something.
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They're not allowed to take money for hearing confession, but if there's some
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special work that they need to do outside of their regular duties, it's okay
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to, you know, pay them for their time, not for their spiritual
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duties. Otherwise, Saint Paul would not have written these words. They who
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work in the Holy Place eat things that eat the things that are of the
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Holy Place, and they that serve the altar partake with the altar. So
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the Lord ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel.
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And in other words, it's okay for a priest to have a salary,
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just as it's okay for a Protestant minister to have a salary. Our priests
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so take aveolop poverty, and they don't make a whole much more than just
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to provide for their clothes and their food. And you know, in fact,
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they really don't make any more than that. And it'scepting very rare occasions.
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But anyway, the object of the Confraternity the Holy Face is to make
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reparation for blasphemies and in reverences committed against God. And I am a member
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of the Confraternity the Holy Place. I urge you strongly to join it.
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It's free again, this is one of those free things the church does.
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Look it up online. It's based in France. You may have to do
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let Google translate the page if you don't read French. And anyway, it's
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prayers we say to the Holy Face of Jesus is preserved on the cloth from
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Saint Veronica, and it is to make reparation for blasphemies and sins against the
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Church and communism, especially communism. He says, it is well known that
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our Lord miraculously imprinted his sacred countenance upon the cloth handed to him by Saint
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Veronica on the way to Calvary. The Emperor Tiberius, when sick, have
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this cloth brought to Rome, and the mere sight of it suffice to cure
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him. Veronica is said to have given it to Saint Clement, That's Pope,
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Saint Clement, the third Pope. The fellow worker was Saint Peter.
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Yes, he was ordained by Saint Peter, where it is yet preserved.
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In eighteen forty nine, at Christmas it was exposed and for three hours it
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was surrounded by a halo brilliant light. The cloth still bears the impression of
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our Lord's features. They are distinctly discertible and show how he was maltreated by
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the barbarous soldiery. In fact, this image affords striking evidence for the irreverence
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of man towards God. The sight of it inspires us with pious horror and
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heartfelt contrition. For a long time no copy was permitted to be made of
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it. This is no longer the case, and the prince of it are
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now venerated. God making known his miracle by God making known by miracles and
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speedy answers to prayers. How highly approves this devotion, they'll send you a
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white scapular I wear around my neck mostly daily. Okay, it kind of
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gets in the way, like if I'm doing hard, sweaty work, I
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might take it off for a minute. But it's a white scapeo with the
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face of God on it, as it's one of the devotions I really believe
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in and practice daily. At a lacante in Spain, after a long period
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of drought, a picture of the Holy Face was carried in a procession.
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A tear was seen to roll down the eyes of the picture, and a
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few days later rain fell abundantly. In tours. A large number of cures
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were affected in the presence of the Holy Face, and it was there by
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means of the exertions of the pious m. Du pont. I cannot remember
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his first name. I think he's actually venerable now, But anyway, that
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the Confraternity of the Holy Face was instituted, its object being to make atonement
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for the sins of blasphemy. In the revelations of Saint Gertrude, we read
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their Lord said to her, those who venerate the image of my humanity,
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my human countenance as his face shall be interiorly enlightened by the radiance of My
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Godhead. And to Sister Saint Pierre in eighteen forty five, he said,
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as one can purchase whatever one will the coin of the Realm stamped with the
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King's head, So those who adore my countenance will obtain all they desire.
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Again, the more you seek to effaced from my countenance the marks of the
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disfigurement caused by the blasphemers, the more I will restore your soul to face
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by sin, to its original beauty, so that it may peer as if
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it just came from the waters of baptism. So y'all, I'm going to
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leave you that. With that, we actually wrapped up the second Commandment.
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Do check out the Confraternity of the Holy Face. I think it's one of
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one of the It's one of my favorite devotions. That's when I practice daily
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and really believe in. So remember the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray,
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hope and don't worry, and I will talk to you next time.