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Show 168: The 4th, 5th and 6th Commandments of the Church · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I'm trying to
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get one more podcast in this week before the hurricane
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rolls in here. It's probably gonna be over us by
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around seven pm tomorrow night. The I should cross over us,
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so the outer bands are hitting us now, have been
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all day. Say you prayer for everyone's safety. The storm
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has already killed several people. But you know been through
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many many hurricanes. I'm not just pray and trust God
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to take care of things as prepared as possible. If
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you are in the path of the storm and you
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still have time to get out, be sure you have
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the necessities water, food, fuel for cooking, and heat. Shelter obviously,
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and you know, if you need an electric generator, it's
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probably too late to buy one, but can figure out
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how you can charge up batteries ahead of time if
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you need batteries on hand for flashlights and such. But
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make sure your cell phone's charged and hunker down and
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wait it out. I mean, that's all we can do
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at this point. I would very much like to get
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in the car and go up to my home in
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the mountains where this worm is not gonna hit. But
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I got family that needs help out in this part
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of the state where we're going to get rather slammed.
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It looks like but comparatively, I mean, you know, I've
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been through terrible flooding from Hurricane Katrina the past few
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that hit North Carolina hard, major flooding in the east,
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high winds. Doesn't look to be like the worst by
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any means. I tell you. I remember as a kid
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watching Hurricane Hugo come in from the what's the Linko
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Viaduct on the Blue Riche Parkway, and it was amazing.
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If you ever want to see something incredible, if you
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ever have an opportunity like that to actually look down
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from above on a hurricane, it's really impressive. Of course,
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then when it gets on top of you, it's not
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much fun, but you know the power of nature. I mean,
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it will make you feel very very small, very very small.
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So let's pick up or we left off. We've been
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talking about people infallibility and radio replies and the questioner
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asks the priest, have you to believe the pope whether
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what he says is true or not? And they answer,
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if a thing be not true, it is not to
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be accepted as true no matter who says it. But
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When the Pope defines infallibly, he cannot say what is
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not true, And the Catholic accepts his official teaching precisely
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because it is infallibly true. If prior to a definition,
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a Catholic was of diverse opinion, then once the Pope
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has given the definition, such a Catholic becomes aware that
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his conjecture was erroneous and abandon it and abandons it
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in order to have the truth. And they continue, if
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you are not obliged to believe all that the Pope says,
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how say that he is infallible? And they answer, because
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he is not infallible in everything. He is infallible only
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when he speaks in virtue of his supreme office as
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head of the Church on matters of faith and morals.
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He notifies us when he intends to define in accordance
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with all the conditions required for infallibility. This restriction is
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a set occasion. This restriction to set occasions is as
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reasonable as the restriction of the jurisdiction of a civil
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judge official to his official decision in court. And the
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person asks why does not the pope define facts about evolution?
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And they answer that is a question of science. Not
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of faith or morals. The Pope is not infallible in
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every possible question, nor has the Church ever maintained him
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to be so. If you have difficulties because the Pope
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is not infallible when he is not supposed to be infallible,
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you have only yourself to blame. And they're asked or
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person I guess posits. Many things show the utter fallibility
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of your fallible. Pope's blessing sixth is the fifth blessed
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the Armada. Yet it was destroyed as much by the
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wrath of heaven as by the English leaders. And hey,
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answer you mean by a storm. There's a great difference
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between the wrath of heaven and the wrath of the heavens.
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On your principles, every man who has ever suffered a shipwreck,
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wher has been drowned or struck by lightning, is a
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wicked wretch and the victim of God's anger. I am
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happy as you are that the Aramada failed, but I
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do not admit that God gave no grace to those
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poor men on that ill fated fleet in virtue of
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the Pope's blessing, nor will I admit that God's curse
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was on the fleet as a whole, any more than
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God's curse rested on Englishmen when they lost the American
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War of Independence. We are too ready to distribute God's
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curse and blessing according to our own prejudices regarding ourselves
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and the fitting object of blessing. Only. In any case,
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blessing bestowed upon various enterprises by the Pope has no
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connection whatsoever with his prerogative of infallibility. Person says, the
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Archbishop of Peru was blessed by the Pope and died
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of poison forty three days later, And they answer, you
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do not say which archbishop. But even so infallibility does
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not come into question. Meantime, the blessing of the Pope,
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or even if you wish of God, is not intended
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to warn off every possible temporal evil, including death. God
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blessed job, yet it did not preserve him from temporal trials.
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If the Pope blessed me, and a few days afterwards
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you put arstic in my tea, I fully expect that
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I should die. Nor would death within forty three days
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prove the futility of the Pope's blessing any more than
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death within forty three years. The Pope did not bless
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the arch The Pope did not bless the archbishop. If
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your facts be true, in order that poison would have
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no effect upon him. There are much more important things
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than that. But all such difficulties as these are beside
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the point where infallibility is concerned. First find out what
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the Catholic Church teaches concerning infallibility, noting it's the limits
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which your claim to which your claim is confined, and
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then restrict your examination to the question of those limits.
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All right, we'll now get into the third precept or
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commandment of the Church, and this of course coming from
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Father Sparago's exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church. And that
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is well. Actually, this will be the third and fourth.
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In the third and fourth Commander of the Church enjoins
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upon us the duty of approaching the sacrament of Penance
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and receiving Holy Communion at Easter. Holy communion ought to
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be received often because it is the food of the soul.
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That soul will be starved, which for a long time
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does not receive nourishment. Our Lord says, except you eat
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the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
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you shall have no life in you John six point
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fifty four. The early Christians used originally to receive Holy
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communion every day, later on only on three great feasts Christmas, Easter,
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and Pentecost, and when in the Middle Ages the fervor
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of many grew cold, the Council of Lateran in twelve
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fifteen ordained that all Christians who are capable of distinguishing
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good from evil were obliged to confess their sins at
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least once the year, and at Easter at least devoutly
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to receive the sacrament of the Altar. The Council of
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Trin expresses the wish that the confession also be made
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at Easter, for it says throughout the whole Church, the
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salutary custom prevails of making confession of sin during the
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holy and most suitable season of Wind, a custom which
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the Church approves and accepts as pious and most certainly
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to be retained. Holy communion should be preceded by confession,
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lest any man should approach Holy Communion in a state
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of mortal sin. The Easter communion is no exception to
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this rule. The obligation of the Easter precept is not
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fulfilled by a sacrilegious communion, nor by an invalid confession.
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Although the Church only requires every Christian to confess the
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sins once a year, yet it need hardly be said
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that if any man has the misfortune to fall into
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mortal sin, he should go to confession without delay. The
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time for fulfilling the Easter precept was formerly only two weeks,
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from Palm Sunday to Low Sunday. It is now extended
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in most all dioceses from the first Sunday of Lent
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to Low Sunday, sometimes even a Trinity Sunday. It is
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fitting that we should receive holy communion at Easter, because
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it was just before Easter Day, on Holy Thursday, that
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our Lord institute the adorable sacrament of the Altar. At
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Christ also arose from the dead. If we make a
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really good confession, we, in a spiritual sense, also rise
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from the dead. For the soul which is mortal. For
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the soul which is in mortal sin, is spiritually dead
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though the sacrament of penance. Through the sacrament of Penance,
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it receives the Holy Spirit again and spiritual life is
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again restored to it at the grave of the risen Redeemer,
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the Angel said to the woman, why seek you the
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living with the dead. He is not here, he has risen.
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Would that our guardian angel could say the same of us,
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when the devil after Easter thinks to find us still
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sleeping in the sepulture of sin. You seek the living
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with the dead, that converted with the sinners. He is
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not here, as Christ has risen from the dead, so
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we may also walk in newness Romans six ' four.
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The Church allows Catholics to make their Easter confession elsewhere
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than in their parish church. The Church is aware that
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some find it easier to disclose the wounds of their
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soul to a stranger, and she permits us in order
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to prevent such persons from approaching the sacraments unworthily. Formerly,
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everyone was bound to go to his parish priest as
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a mark of respect. Christian burial can be denied to
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a Catholic who has not been in the habit of
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receiving the sacrament at Easter and who dies unrepentant. That's
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something a lot of people get very confused about. You're
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actually supposed to be in communion with the Catholic Church,
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meaning you've been a confession, have been receiving communion and
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hopefully the last rites to be buried in a Catholic cemetery.
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Generally speaking, in former centuries, the fact that one is
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buried in a Catholic cemetery is a sign that they
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were in full communion with the Church. And you know,
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the priests and any religious in the area, and all
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faithful Catholics are supposed to pray for everybody in a
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Christian in a Catholic cemetery. We're actually supposed to make
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the sign of the Cross whenever we pass any cemetery,
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and we continue to pray for those whom we believe
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to be either in purgatory or saints in heaven. That
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is part of being part of the body of Christ.
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To be buried in a Catholic cemetery. In America, we
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have so many commercial cemeteries, cemeteries that aren't related to
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any church of any denomination. And you know, for non Christians,
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that's certainly necessary. I mean the potters Field, you know
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from the Bible, we all remember that. But it really
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is a true shame for a Catholic not to be
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buried in a Catholic cemetery. I think it used to
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be forbidden for Catholics not to be buried in a
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Catholic cemetery if they were in communion with the church.
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Definitely make every single effort you can to be buried
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in a Catholic cemetery so that you have all the
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prayers of faithful Catholics to help you in purgatory. I mean,
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that is really one of those last things that people forget.
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That's so very very important, very important. In fact. You know,
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in my book Christian History of Verbal Medicine, we talked
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about the famous doctor Paracelsus Bombastis on Hollenheim. I think
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I only got about half his name, Theophrastus, Yes, Paracelsus,
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Theophrastus Bombastis von Hohenheim, who was a very controversial figure,
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and he was an alchemist and at various times was
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not in communion with the Catholic Church. He was raised
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Catholic actually, and was an Einslten, very famous pilgrimage place,
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very connected with Saint Hildegard van Benjin and Sat Meinrad.
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It's an in Germany, beautiful place. His father was very devout.
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He was raised Catholic and one of the priests that
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taught in the medical school at university was an alchemist.
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Most scientists really were back then. That was kind of
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they didn't differentially ate a whole lot. But his professor,
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his head professor held seances and talked with the dead,
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and you're not allowed to do that as a Catholic. Okay,
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So I mean he was really kind of led astray
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early in life on that it seems by all evidence
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that he renounced all, you know, occult practices and returned
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to the Catholic Church before where he died. He was
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at one point near the end of his life called
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a Protestant and he replied, I will not burn with Luther.
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He stated he was a faithful Catholic. And he is
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buried in a Catholic church in a church cemetery in Germany,
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and there is a sculpture of him in the church
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that indicates that he did return to full communion with
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the Catholic Church. A lot of people don't want to
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admit that there are a lot of people that are
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very into occult sciences that well, several over the couple hundred,
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I mean, this was like what twelve hundred a d
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or so, I mean, you know, this is going back aways.
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A lot of people wrote false books in his name,
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counterfeit books claiming that he was like you know, this
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high sorcerer of alchemy. I mean, a lot of the
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Freemasons have tried to and Rosie Crucians and others have
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tried to adopt his legacy. But evident show that he
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died a faithful Catholic, at least in the opinion of
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his parish priest. And if that be the case, his
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parish priest gave him last rites, and he was forgiven
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his sins and is hopefully a saint in heaven now,
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regardless of his former actions, have been many people converted
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on their death beds from murders and all kinds of
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horrible stuff, apostases and all that. When you see someone
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buried in a Catholic cemetery, especially if it was more
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than one hundred or one hundred and fifty years ago
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when things started going a little crazy in Western Europe
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and the United States, very good indication that person is
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a faithful Catholic. And it's very appropriate. I mean, as
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it says in the second book of Macterbi's to say
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prayers for the dead. The Bible actually instructs us to
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do that, which is why Martin Luther had to cut
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that chapter out of the Bible because he didn't want
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Protestants to know that there was such a thing as
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purgatory and that prayers were necessary for the dead. Christian
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burial can be denied a Catholic who has not been
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in the habit of receiving the seconds at Easter and
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dies und repentant. This is done in the case of
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one whose neglect of his duty is publicly known and
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who has been admonished in vain by his pastor. In
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the case of Paracelsus, he was one of the most
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public figures in Europe, so I mean again that would
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have been very publicly known. Before refusing Christian burial, the
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priest is bound to refer the matter to the bishop,
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and if time does not allow this, he takes the
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most lenient course the fifth Commandment of the Church. By
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the fifth command of the Church, we are bound to
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contribute to the support of our pastors. And let's see,
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we actually we have time to do the sixth Commandment.
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We can wrap this one up today. Hey, I've gotten
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all he's done in a week. This is fantastic. The
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sixth command of the Church, Marriage and the penitential seasons.
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The sixth Commandment. Marriage with non Catholics is forbidden. Discuss that.
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I guess was yesterday or no day before yesterday. Maybe
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it was yesterday. I don't know. We'll get into this. Now.
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Marriage is no longer forbidden among Catholics, it's still very
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difficult and discouraged. And remember you cannot marry or date,
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even date anyone who has been divorced but not annulled.
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That is committing adultery, very very serious. Okay, you need
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to talk with your priest about that. If you're interested
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in someone who's been divorced, you need to try to
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convince them to speak with the priest and seek an annoyment.
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As I said, I have never been successful in that.
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Divorced Protestants do not like to be told that they
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are committing adultery, no matter how I say it as
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subtly as possible, like my church requires this. If you'll
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do it, I'll pay for it. They still get offended
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and they know they're divorced, and that's the end of it.
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They're no longer married. Well, the church says they are,
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because Jesus said they are. You know, he actually said, essentially,
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if you dated or married a divorced woman, you were
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both committing adultery. So marriages are not to be solemnized
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during fixed seasons. The penitential times are from the beginning
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of Advent into the Epiphany, and from ash Wednesday until
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it lows Sunday. In other words, you can't get married
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during Lent because it's a time of penance, it's not
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a time of celebration. This rule is made by the
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Council Trent. Formerly, the prohibition also included the period between
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Monday of Rogation week until the first Sunday after Pentecost
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in some countries, and at the present time it applies
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to the Rogation days an all fast. Throughout here, Advent
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and Lent are seasons of pennants and sorrow for sins
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and festivities ill accord with sorrow. Moreover, an Advent, the
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Church proposes the mystery of the incarnation, and in Lent
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the mystery of the redemption of our mediation, and it
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would be unseemly to avert our minds from these solemn
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subjects to worldly amusements. The bishop can give permission for
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marriages to be contracted privately during these times, but for
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their public solemnoni is solemnization, the authority of the Holy
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See is necessary. Concerts are not forbidden, but dances are as.
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You know, you're not supposed to go to a dance
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during advent. You know a lot of people have celebrations
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and dances and such during the admin season. Not supposed
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to do that. Actually, those who transgress this command exposed
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themselves to the judgment of God. Threatened by the prophet,
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I will turn your feasts into mourning. It's aim as
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eight ten, and y'all, I will just go ahead and
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wrap it up there. It's a nice short one. I
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think I actually kept an under twenty minutes for once.
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You know, that was actually my goal to do a
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twenty minute podcast each day. I'm lucky really if I
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can do three a week, and they usually run an
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hour or so. But what are you going to do?
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You know? These are heavy topics and they have to
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be explained and discussed. Hopefully, God willing, next Monday, if
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not sooner, but probably Monday, we will get into the
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fourth of the ten commandments, and that the fourth commandment
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enjoins us to honor, joins us a punt. In the
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fourth commandment, God enjoins upon us to honor His representatives
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on earth, that is to say, our parents and both
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the ecclesiastical and secure authorities. So there's a lot more
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to it than just honor their father and thy mother.
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It's actually really been misrepresented, especially in modern America, our
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so called democraty, the democracy that was founded as a republic.
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But anyway, we will get into that, and I think, yeah,
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you're gonna find it really interesting. Probably talk a little
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bit about the influence of the Masonic Order in the
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overthrow of governments, as I mean, the two stated goals
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overthrow all monarchies and especially the Catholic Church. So the
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influence of the Masons so pretty much found in America
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except for my ancestor, Charles Taylor, Charles Carroll, the only Catholic,
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very similar to the motives of the ones who started
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the French Revolution, which was really the first communist revolution,
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all of it saying throw off all authority. You know,
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at least in America they said we have no king
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but God. Because they were Protestant, obviously in France they
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were not religious at all. They did their best to
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stamp out religion. You know, they were misrepresenting and ignoring
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the ten Commandments. So you, I mean, this is going
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to turn on its head a lot of stuff that
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you probably learned in school. And it's a little uncomfortable
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to talk about some of these topics, but they do
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need to be investigated. You know. The first rebel was
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Satan saw Lensky. Hillary Clinton's mentor wrote in his book
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Rules for Radicals that he dedicated the book to Satan.
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The first rebel right when Martin Luther said he'd no
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longer accept the authority of the pope and the bishops
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and tried to destroy the priesthood again. All that is
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prohibited by the fourth of the Ten Commandments. So we're
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going to get into that, y'all. Stay safe. One tip
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I learned growing up both in you spent half my
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childhood in the mountains and half of the coast. Whether
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it's a hurricane coming in or an ice storm, and
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you think you might be without power for several days,
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I'll give you a couple of tips here. First of all,
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if you haven't already, go get a couple of gallons
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of milk, put them in the freezer, freeze them hard.
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And if the power goes out, and you can do
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this with a couple of gallons of water as well,
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just regular milk gallon sized jugs. Right, they won't split,
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They freeze the they expand they'll be fine. Let them
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freeze hard. It takes about twenty four hours to jump
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on it. If the power goes out. Take them and
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put them in the refrigerator. They will stay frozen for
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about forty eight to seventy two hours if you leave
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the door shut, and they will keep everything in the
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refrigerator cold. You can actually keep everything in the refrigerator
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cold for about four or five days if you have
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those solid blocks of ice slowly melting in there. And
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you know, of course you start to drink the cold
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milk and such effort falls. Shake it up, you know,
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redistribute the fats in the milk, and it'll be just fine.
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Keep your refrigerator door closed as much as possible. Go
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ahead and take out anything that's perishable, meat, vegetables, anything
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that would go bad, cheeses even, and make a big
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pot of soup. Yes, cheese and soup is actually really good.
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But you know, get some onions, garlic if you like.
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I always do garlic and onions, celery, peppers, carrots, you know, anything,
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Chop them up, put them in a pot with some butter.
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Go ahead and use your butter if you've got it.
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If not, use some oil, bacon grease. If you have bacon,
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go ahead and fry it up. Use that fat to
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cook with as well as the bacon. Pull the bacon out,
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you know, chop it up, put it back in the
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soup when you're ready. Put all the meat and veggies
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in there. Anything that you think would go bad. If
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it's set in a you know, sixty degree refrigerator for
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three or four days, you know, those cold ice bocks
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are probably going to keep it more around fifty after
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about three days. But go ahead and make a big
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pot of soup, and then if the power goes out,
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all you need to do each day is bring it
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to a simmer to keep it from spoiling. You can
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do that on a little charcoal grill. Put it somewhere
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where it's not going to catch fire, you know, out
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of the weather. You can absolutely bring a pot of
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soup to a boil on a charcoal grill. You can
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use a gas grill. You can use your gas fireplace.
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You can use wood in the fireplace. You can use
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anything that you would normally use in the winter for
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heat to cook. If it's you know, fire obviously not
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if it's an electric heater or something that is you
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can you can use STERNA sterno is really easy. You
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can probably still get that at the grocery store. Shells.
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A really interesting tip is to take a can of
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tuna and oil, take a can opener and just put
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a few holes in the top, stick a wick down
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in the center and light it and the oil will
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actually burn. You can use that as a stove to
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bring a pot of soup to a boil, make some
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hot coffee, and then eat the tuna fully cooked, nice
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and warm. Scramb up the tuna with some eggs, you know,
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whatever you want to do. But that pot of soup
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and frozen milk jugs is really a tip that can
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extend and get you through a few days without electricity.
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So and the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope
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and don't worry, and I'll talk to y'all next week.
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God willing in the creek, don't rise, as Hank Williams
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used to say. And that's Ink Singer. By the way.
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Not a big fan of Hany Junior, but love Hank Sr.
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He was one of the greatest of all time. And
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Take Junior did some decent stuff, you know, a few
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good songs, especially early on. And his grandson, Hank Williams,
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the third he's fantastic, kind of a crazy kind of
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punk rock guy out where the buses don't run, but
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really good. So if y'all never got into Hank Williams,
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make a point of it. Hank Williams and Lefty Frizel
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were just amazing. Ray Price Fair and Young, some of
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the Marty Robbins. I mean, these guys singers like you
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wouldn't believe, like you, I mean, seriously, just phenomenal, great songwriters.
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And I'm going off a tangent anyway, Pray, hope and
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don't worry, and I'll tell it y'all next time.