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The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. I'm gonna just
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finish up today with Father Spirago's writings on the Rosary. You know, last
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week we talked specifically about the Hell Mary, what he said about the ave
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and did the Rosary is such a powerful prayer, and with the wars going
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on, you know, I've already explained to you we need to be praying
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the Rosary as was some mother asked at Fatima for world peace. So we'll
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get into that, but we'll start, as usual with a couple of questions
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and answers from radio replies. Now you may remember they're speaking with someone who's
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questioning the Christian faith, and they say the person asks or states, I
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guess I am glad my religion rests upon its own intrinsic good, not upon
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foolish miracles, to which the priest replied, whence came your religion? Did
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you invent for your And are you sure that because it is pleasing to you,
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it is therefore pleasing to God? Did he tell you so? And
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how can you say you are glad that your religion ignores facts? That does
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not seem to be an intrinsically good position? Remember also that revelation given by
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God is not only guaranteed by miracles, but really does rest also upon the
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firm foundation of its own intrinsic good. Your religion, including the denial of
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facts, does not. And you know, many people make religions today of
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essentially their politics. Liberals especially will deny all the teachings of the Catholic Church
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that they don't like, or of Christianity in general that they don't like,
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and justify it that they're a good person, they're kind, they're inclusive.
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Actually there are anything, but it's not to fail to warn somebody walking blindly
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off a cliff. It's not kind to say that homosexuality or abortion or divorce
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is right. It's not kind to turn a blind eye to things that will
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lead to the disruption of people's souls. And as far as being inclusive,
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there anything, but they contemn everybody who thinks otherwise than they do. There
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is no one more intolerant and exclusive than a so called open minded liberal.
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The person goes on, why did God perform incomprehensible miracles for the Jews before
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they before the period known as historical The answer men cannot be expected to believe
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in a doctrine of God, unless they have manifest signs that God is really
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speaking. But what do you mean by incomprehensible? If you mean that we
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cannot believe that they occurred, then the whole of historic science is useless.
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If you mean that they really happened, but no man can comprehend the laws
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accounting for them, you are right. A miracle is a fact that occurs
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in a naturally incomprehensible way. If we could fully account for it apart from
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God, it would be because we could account for it by ordinary laws of
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nature, and then it would not be a miracle. Finally, if God
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performed miracles before a period known as historical, we would know nothing of them.
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We know of them through history. And you know, as I mentioned
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last week and just referenced a while ago, one of the greatest miracles of
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the last hundred years or so, well, a little bit more than that,
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I guess it was nineteen seventeen, were the miracles at Fatima. And
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as far as being historical, the miracle of the sun, for instance,
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was witness and recorded by what do you call meteorologists astronomists, I guess people
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studying astrological event astronomers, there's the word astronomers and scientists in many countries,
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you know, far away from Fatima, and even by Soviets Soviet scientists,
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and those were then suppressed. So miracles do happen in our modern time.
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I mean, there have been many instances, several instances in which the priests
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has held up the hosts, the bread and the eucharists and it's turned into
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bleeding flesh. These are miracles that if people saw them, they would have
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to acknowledge the existence of God and his Holy Catholic Church. But as in
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the case of Fatima, the Masonic Order did everything it could suppress that information
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from getting into national news papers and news services. In case of these the
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eucharistic miracles, they have often happened in communist atheist governments, countries run by
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communists atheist governments, and they've done everything they can to suppress it. And
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then again you also just have a liberal, secular news media that has no
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interest in showing the miracles that are happening today. I mean you would think,
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I mean, someone would be done at Lords documenting all the miracles of
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healing, But I mean Lords has been around for what a couple hundred years
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now, and it's like old news. People just either believe it or not
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and take it for granted. If they do believe it honestly, if the
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press, if the media did their job in reporting the miracles that happen with
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some frequency. I mean, like you know, just recently, the nun
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her name escapes me right now, but you know her body didn't is totally
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preserved, didn't decompose after she died. You think Protestants are getting that,
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you see things, think people are seeing that on the six o'clock news,
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Secular seeing it. If the miracles that happen with regularity frequency, I mean,
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maybe not every day. I mean, it wouldn't be a miracle if
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it happened all the time, but at least a few at each person's life
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time. There are serious miracles that you could document. And if that was
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actually shown, you know on the six o'clock news, if people even watch
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that anymore, put on the front pages of the newspapers, you see millions
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of people convert to Catholicism. And that's the very reason they suppress it.
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Person says, must I believe in miracles? Record in the Gospels, believe
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a thing which cannot be substantiated in order to be saved. They answer,
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you are not asked to believe anything which cannot be substantiated in order to be
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saved by what rule of evidence? Then? Can miracles of the Gospel be
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substantiated by sworn affi David or in other words aff a David I should say,
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or in other words words, by written declaration on oath. If in
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a modern court I offered documentary evidence given by my friend Jones, the court
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would wish to be satisfied concerning five things. One did Jones write this statement
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or is it forgery? Two? Is it just as Jones wrote it?
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Or has it been altered or tampered with by interested parties? Three? Did
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Jones have reliable knowledge or could he have been misinformed? Four? Granted his
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knowledge was granted his knowledge? Was he telling the truth or lying? Five?
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Does he make this statement under oath before God? Now? When I
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offer the Gospels as documentary evidence, I am prepared to prove that the assigned
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authors wrote the books, that the books have not been tampered with, that
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the writers had first hand knowledge, that they did not lie, and that
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they gave their testimony under oath before God, so we'll continue on that theme
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tomorrow. Now let's finish up with Father Spirago. As I've said, this
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comes from exhaustive explanation of the Catechism written in the Well somewhere around the eighteen
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nineties, and it's a really classic book. It's over seven hundred pages long,
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which is why most people never read it. But I think certainly there's
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great benefit in spending some time reading. I've been reading it two pages a
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day since last August and I'm almost finished. I'm on page seven hundred and
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five or so, and I have learned a lot, a whole lot.
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There's a lot, you know. The modern Catechism is wonderful. It really
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is. Yeah, I mean, it's a great church document. It's when
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I go to, you know, my first thing I grab when someone asked
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me about a Catholic doctrine or a moral issue. And it's so well documented,
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so source, so logical. But honestly, I'm not going to say
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that Father Spirago's exhaustive explanation of the Catechism is better, but in many ways
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it actually is. It's more enjoyable to read. He gives a lot of
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historical depth, a lot of quotes from Saints. It's less textbook like in
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nature, it's more conversational. And I really do think everyone who receives any
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kind of Catholic education, whether you know, formally or informally, would be
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well served by having this book as one of the texts you know, that
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they're taught from that they have to read. We are not. I I
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hate to say have to read, because I was the kind of kid if
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you told me I had to read it, I didn't want to read it.
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But this is actually enjoyable to read. Now. Father Spiago says of
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the Rosary, was the suppliant suppliant? I guess it's suppliant. I've never
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heard that word actually spoken aloud. S U P P l I n T.
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That is a you know, a person who was making supplicant prayer.
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You know, the supplant, suppliant suppliant who prays fervently, is wont to
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repeat over and over again the words that come from the depth of his heart.
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Our Lord did this on Mount Olivet. David in the Psalm Psalm I
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can't remember which song that is anyway, exclaims no less than twenty seven times
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his mercy endureth forever you know, it's one of the big criticisms Protestants have
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of the Rosary, that is repetitive. And you know Jesus warn against repetitive
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prayer. Well, we're also told that the angels I am before the throat
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of God, saying Holy, Holy, Holy, over and over and over.
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If you know to God one day as a thousand years, and a
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thousand years is one day, imagine how often he hears the Our Father being
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prayed in Catholic and Protestant churches alike. And if you if one day this
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is a thousand days, and a thousand days is a thousand years is one
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year one day, I get my tongue twisted. If you just said the
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Our Father on a weekly basis, you've actually repeated that prayer fifty two times
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in a year, you know, So you really do have to put the
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warning against repetitive prayer in context. And as Father's Sparaga points out, David
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said twenty seven times in one psalm his mercy endureth forever. St. Francis
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of ASSISI spent whole nights repeating my Lord, my God in my all The
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devout servants of Mary used to address her frequently in the words of the Archangel,
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adding one ave maria to another as one places roses in a wreath.
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The Rosary is a prayer in which the Our Father, followed by ten hell
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marys, is repeated five or fifteen times, accompanied by meditation of the life,
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the Passion, and the exhultation of the Redeemer. We begin the Rosary
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with a creed and three hell maryes for the increase within us of the three
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theological virtues. While reciting the Rosary, everyone must hold his own rosary in
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his hand and touch the beads as he prays. But if several persons join
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in saying it, it is only necessary for one to hold the rosary and
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the others. Is only one person to necessary to hold the Rosary. In
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order thereby to regulate the number of prayers. The Rosary is divided, and
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the joyful, the sorrowful, and the glorious mysteries. In the first we
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honor God, the Father who sent us the Savior. In the second,
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God the Son who redeemed it. To the third God the Holy Ghost,
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who sanctifizes. And of course now we have the luminous mysteries as well.
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And you can pray the Rosary without rosary beats. By the way, there's
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no actual rule that you have to hold a rosary. You can count it
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on your fingers if need be. It's better to say the prayer even if
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you don't say it ideally, then not to say it at all. You
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know, everybody's going to get distracted, and this is something distractions should certainly
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be avoided in prayer. But I believe with Saint Jose Maria Scriva who said
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that don't let that dissuade you from saying your prayers, even if you're tired
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and you say them imperfectly or you're distracted. He said that you start out
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by saying the our Father, and you're addressing God the father as his child.
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And he said, you know what, father is going to be upset
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or offended if his small child is trying to recite something and gets distracted and
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has to keep, you know, coming back to it, or makes mistakes
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along the way. He's gonna be proud of the effort. He's going to
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be grateful, full of love for the effort that the child makes. And
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I thought it was I mean, Santa Screeba was a pretty tough good I
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mean, he was not a uh, you know, go along, get
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along, touchy feely kind of you know, make excuses for people type of
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priest or. Saint. Uh. He was really strict and stern in a
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lot of ways, and he was very vocal. He was known for really
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calling people out and uh, you know, being kind of tough on him
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and one of my favorite saints. Actually I love his books. But anyway,
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for him to say that, for you know, one of the most
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stern of priests to say that really impressed me. Really made it a difference
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actually in my prayer life, because my mind wanders. I try my best
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to concentrate, but I can easily have two things going in my head at
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one time. I think most people can, some more so than others.
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The rosary owes its origin to Saint Dominic. The Hermits of the first centuries,
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who could not read the psalter, used to receave one Our Father and
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one hill Mary in place of every psalm, and in order to note the
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number they said, they made use of small stones or seeds strung on a
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chord. Saint Dominic was the first who made the custom general of substituting one
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hundred and fifty hill Mary's for the one hundred and fifty psalms. Hence the
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rosary used to be called the psalter of Mary. Salter means collection of psalms.
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Basically, when about the year twelve hundred, the heresies of the Albigencies
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wrought great mischief in the south of France and north of Italy, Saint Dominic
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was commissioned by the Pope to preach in refutation of the erroneous tenants. His
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efforts availed little, and he besought the aid of the Mother of God.
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She appeared to him and bade him make use of the rosary as a weapon
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against her enemies. He accordingly introduced it everywhere, and before long it had
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affected the conversion of more than one hundred thousand heretics. So you think we
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don't need that today, you know, I mean, walk around and take
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a walk every day, walk your dog, pray the rosaries. You walk
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around the neighborhood, and pray for the conversion of all the people in all
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those houses who you know or lapse Catholics or don't go to church at all,
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or Protestants, or of another religion, or have no religion. The
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use of the rosary soon spread throughout Christendom, and it became a most popular
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devotion. It is a method of prayer at wants, simple and sublime.
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The prayers are so easy that a child can repeat them, and the mysteries
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are so profound that they supply a subject from meditation to the most learned theologians.
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It is a prayer of contemplation as well as a prayer of supplication,
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for it places before the mind the principal prayer, the principal truth of the
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faith. The Rosary is a compendium on the Gospel, a complete and practical
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manual of instruction, wherein the chief points of Christian doctrine are presented under the
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guise of prayer. By meditation on the events from our Lord's life, faith
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and charity are increased, and from the example of our divine Redeemer we learn
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to be humble, gentle, obedient. We are incited to imitate the virtues
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which the mysteries teached, to strive after what they promise us. Moreover,
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the union of vocal and mental prayer makes the Rosary easy, pleasant, and
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profitable as a method prayers unrivaled. The longer and more devoutly it is practiced,
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the more one appreciates its excellence and becomes convinced of its supernatural origin.
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I absolutely agree with that statement. Praying the Rosary daily has made a huge
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difference in my life. Huge. Okay, you honestly probably wouldn't recognize me
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as the person I am today as compared to about three years ago. And
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that's a very good thing. And I've also found that whenever one is experiencing
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any kind of grief, whether death of a loved one, relationship troubles,
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you know, get dumped, or whatever, praying the Rosary is the very
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best thing for the sadness to be comforted. It's fantastic, actually, he
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says. The Rosary is well pleasing to God because of its humility and because
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of it because it is an imitation of the unceasing song of praise sung by
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the angels. Rosary is the prayer of the humble, for in it well
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known truths are simply stated and constantly repeated. The proud despise it, but
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God, who looks down on low things, approves of it. It is
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an imitation of the angels song. We read in Holy Scripture that angelic choirs
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cry to one another, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of Hosts,
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all the earth is full of his glory. It's from Isaiah. And
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when we recite the Rosary, we praise the Mother of God in a similar
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manner. And is beyond a doubt that this form of prayer is most acceptable
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to the Mother of God, for when she appeared at Lord, she had
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a rosary in her hand. But Pious the Ninth unhesitatingly asserts that it is
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her gift to men, and that she loves no other prayer as well.
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The Rosary is a most useful devotion, for by it we obtain great graces
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and sure help in time of trouble. Many indulgences are besides attached to it
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is a very treasury of graces. Many sinners owe their conversion to it.
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It possesses marvelous power to banish sin and restore to the transgressor to a state
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of grace. By it the just growing virtue. All the saints who have
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lived subsequently to the institution of the Rosary have been assiduous in its use,
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and this may have contributed largely to their sanctification. Several holy bishops and servants
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of God are known to have pledged themselves by vow to recite it daily.
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Saint Charles Borromeo, despite the numerous pressing duties of his position, recited it
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every day with the seminarians, for seminarists and the members of his household.
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Blessed Clement Hofbauer was accustomed to say the Rosary while passing through the streets of
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Vienna, and rarely did he recite it in vain for the conversion of a
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sinner. It is recorded that several distinguished officers and victorious commanders that they never
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gain aged in battle without first saying the Rosary, and to this they attributed
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their military success. The Rosary has been called the thermometer of Christianity for the
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reason that where it is diligently recited, faith is ardent and good works are
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manifest, and where it is neglected, religion is at a low ebb.
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Definitely being neglected. In our country right now, in seasons of general calamity,
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miraculous aid has been granted to Christendom by means of the Rosary. This
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was especially the case in the wars with the Turks, the victory at Leponto,
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which we discussed last week, the deliverance of Vienna, the victory of
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Belgrade. We're all owing to the power of the Rosary. We need to
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be praying the Rosary for peace right now, for world War three breaks out.
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To say it, to devastate it. As understatedly as I can.
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I mean, you should be screaming from the rooftops pray the Rosary for peace
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because we're facing potential World War three nuclear war. Okay, and regardless,
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I mean, what happened in Israel about a week ago, what was happening
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in Ukraine. These are horror, horrific events. Anything we can do,
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and if it's something as simple as praying for fifteen minutes a day, I
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mean, what less could you do? Me? But what would have more
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of an impact? Nothing? Nothing would have more of an impact. It
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was said that the beads of the chaplet did more execution than the bullets of
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his soldiers. Well, it was in thanksgiving for these victories at the Holy
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See Institute the Feasts of the Holy Rosary, which we just celebrated last week
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on the first Sunday of October. I guess it was last week. Could
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have been a little bit more than that. Now, Pope six Is the
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Fourth declared that many dangers which threaten the world or are averted and the wrath
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of God is appeased by the prayers of the Rosary. Our holy Father Leo
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the thirteenth says, as in Saint Dominic's time, reproved a sure remedy for
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the evils of the age, So it may now affect much toward the amelioration
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of the eels that afflict society. Everyone who recites the Rosary must feel its
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supernatural power. There is no prayer which affords more consolation in affliction, more
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tranquility to the troubled breasts. I will tell you that when I was considering
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converting through Thoicism more than twenty years ago now, I began planning the Rosary,
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and one night I was just kneeling by my bed praying the Rosary,
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and this kind of wave of heat went over me. I began shaking.
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I kind of had some visions and I could feel, basically, I would
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say, an evil that had partial possession of me being removed. It was
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incredible, and from that point on the a lot of the anger and depression
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that had affected me in my youth was gone. I mean, you know,
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I had sort of a troubled childhood and I was pretty self destructive there
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for a while and something had old of me, And I think if people
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prayed the Rosary, it would do a great deal to help with anxiety,
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depression, anger, suicide, et cetera. So it's another there's something I
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can personally attest to. I've told my priest at the time, and he's
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like, you know, this stuff happens, Like okay, welcome to the
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Catholic Church, where you know miracles happen every day. Anyway, there is
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no prayer which affords more consolation, affliction, more tranquility to the troubled breast.
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It sues in sorrow. It imparts the peace spoken of in the Gospel.
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Another proof of its excellence is the hatred and contempt, where with unbelievers
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regard it very true. Protestants hate the Rosary, Liberals hate the Rosary,
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Secularist atheists. I mean they see you pray in the Rosary and it's just
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like well, you know, water on the witch and the Wizard of Oz.
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You know. Anyway, eye, he says, the devil incites them
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to to cry fruit. What is a fruitful source of grace to the Christian
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and by which souls are wrested from his grasp? The Rosary has been richly
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indulgenced by the Holy See, and the recital of it, strongly urged upon
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the faithful, and indulgence of one hundred days may be gained for every potter
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and ave, every our father and every hell Mary. Okay, and you
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know we don't talk a lot about indulgences anymore. They haven't gone away.
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An indulgence essentially simply saying, in order, you know, to do penance
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right, you would have in old times when you went to confession and you
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can confess your sins, the priest would probably give you a much harder penance
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than he does today. You may even have to take a pilgrimage, but
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he would say, spend so many days fasting, or so many days,
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you know, doing these good works to make up for what you've done wrong.
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An indulgence is a prayer to which that penance is attached. Right,
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so this prayer is worth one hundred days of print penance or three hundred days
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of penance. Well, for every our father and hell Mary, an indulgence
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of one hundred days maybe gain. Now we don't say things in terms of
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days anymore because it just confused people. People thought, well, that's the
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equivalent to how many days of it's been in purgatory or whatever. Now that
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wasn't you know, it's not the way it works. But understand that that's
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why we don't get such tough penances anymore, because these prayers are the equivalent
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of that many days of penance. And that's could a lot of us could
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not do the penances that were common in the Middle Ages, for instance,
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eating nothing but bread and water for a month or a year. You know,
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pilgrimage is to Jerusalem building churches. I mean, these were really tough
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penances. And you know it's said or I think Father's Varago actually explained.
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You know, this was humanity coming out of paganism and they needed those tough
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penances as discipline. Now we have all these graces and gifts of all these
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incredible prayers given to us by the blessed Virgin Mary in many cases and other
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times, you know, by Jesus himself. I mean, it's we're very
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privileged, even though all things considered, I'd much rather live in the Middle
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Ages because you know, I'm an agrarium type of guy. I don't go
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in for a lot of technology and sci fi and all that kind of junk.
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Sorry y'all. Probably some sci fi geeks just got offended. But I
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couldn't care less about that stuff. I don't care about aliens, and I
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don't care about computers. I just use it to make a living in another
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time. Well, actually, you know, my ancestors include people like Saint
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Edward the Confessor and King Richard Lonheart. So I probably would have been pretty
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well off back then. But I would have been very happy, honestly,
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just to a little farm, just just to be a peasant, if I
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had enough to get by and provide for my family, because I like to
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garden and farm, I like to hunt and fish, and you know,
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so I you know, I can go weeks at a time without electricity.
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It doesn't bother me or phase me very much at all. I grew up
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that way. I mean, hurricane and knock something out, and ice storm
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and knock something out. You live in a rural area, and they turn
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the electricity back on for three or four weeks. So I'm very comfortable with
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primitive conditions. But still I have to admit what incredible grace it is to
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have these indulgence prayers. I memorize, I try to memorize one a week.
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Seriously, I'm an indulgenced prayer usually well older prayers. You know,
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I'm going back to like Father Sparaga's era or you know, Pious the Tents
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era and before things changed. And if the prayer says three hundred days,
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some of them say seven years indulgence hatched this prayer. You know, I'm
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going to rememborize that prayer because it's pretty big. That's one that was obviously
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very highly regarded by the Pope at the time. So anyway, okay,
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so let's go back to that indulgence of one hundred days may be gained for
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every potter and ave our Father and Hell Mary, if five consecutive decades be
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said on a properly indulgenous roastary, you got to have your rosary blessed by
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a priest. Okay, our Holy Father Leo the thirteenth. I think that's
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who the Pope was when Father Sparger was writing this. I believe that'd be
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the case. Has decreed that every day during the month of October, this
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month, the month of the Holy Rosary, together with the Litany of Loretto,
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be said in church, either during the parish mass or in the afternoon
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with the blessed sacrament exposed. For every time of assisting at this devotion,
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seven years and seven quarantines are granted. That's that's other language we don't use
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anymore. Your catechism will explain that still means the same, but we just
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don't put it in terms of years and days anymore because it confused people.
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That That's basically all it comes down to. Protestants are incredibly confused about indulgences,
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by the way. They think they know what it is. They have
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no clue. They don't even know what an indulgence is. They just know
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that Protestantism hates indulgences. Well, God gave his church the power to bind
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and loose. God gave his pope and bishops and priests the ability to act
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in his stead and say, Okay, your sin is absolved. Now in
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order to make up for it, goes do this penance. They don't like
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that. They don't believe that. They don't believe God gave priests the power
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to forgive sins, even though he said Jesus says specifically in the Gospel John
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who sends you, Who's who sends you? Forgive? They are forgiven who
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sends you retain they are tain. He literally gave them the apostles his authority,
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because it says who but God can forgive sins? Well, God gave
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that authority to his apostles, and they gave their authority to their successors.
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No Protestant, no other church has an ability that authority. And it's wonderful.
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I mean, it's one of the greatest reasons to be Catholic. Let
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me see, Pope Pious the Ninth bequeathed as a legacy to the faithful,
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this admonition. Let the Rosary, this simple, beautiful method of prayer,
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enriched with many indulgences, be habitually recited of an evening in every household.
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These are my last words to you. The memorial I leave behind me Again
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he said, if the whole, in the whole of the Vatican, Vatican,
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there is no greater treasure than the Rosary. And since he mentioned the
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whitley of Loretto, it's very brief. I'll just go ahead and tell you
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what that is, because I didn't know what it was until I read this
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book. Me and a Catholic now from his twenty years, no one ever
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told me what the litany of Loretto was it was just something I heard every
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now and then. Well. The Litany of Loretto is a form of prayer
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in which the most glorious titles are given to the Mother of God, and
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her intercession is unceasingly implored. The Litany of Loretto takes its origin and its
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name from the place of pilgrimage in Italy, Loretto, where the Holy House
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of Nazareth now stands. That this is actually the house Jesus grew up in,
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and it was actually brought there by angels. Now there's a miracle that
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if Protestants knew about, they couldn't be Protestant anymore. That's actually mind blowing.
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Angels took the House of Jesus from Bethlehem to several places before Loretto.
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Fascinating, and that's I mean, wow, how can you deny miracles if
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you realize that a two thousand year old house was transported to Italy from Nazareth
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by angels. In this litany, first of all, God is called upon
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for mercy, as in the Curie Alison that you know, Lord, have
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mercy, Christ have mercy, yeah, the mess. This is followed by
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the invocation of the Most Holy Trinity. Then the blessed Mother of God is
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invoked and her intercessions with sought. These invocations may be divided into six groups.
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The first three invocations express her special prerogatives, her sanctity, her divine
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maternity, her immaculate virginity. Two, her perfections as mother are enumerated Mother
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of Christ. Three she is extolled in virtue of her virginity, virgin,
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most prudent, et cetera. Four. Her glories are then depicted under a
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number of figures and types mirror of justice, et cetera. Five. Mary
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is next shown in her relation to the Church militant, health of the sick,
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et cetera. Church militant is us, We're the living Church. And
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finally her relation to the Church triumphant that's the Church in Heaven, Queen of
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Angels, etc. At the conclusion of the litany, confiding in the meditation
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of our advocate, we appeal to her divine son, beseeching him to spare,
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to hear, to have mercy on us. Several of the invocations have
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been added by the Holy See in the course of the centuries. For instance,
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help of Christians after the victory over the Turks, Queen conceded without original
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sin after the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and the custom of
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reciting the Rosary and public. Oh, and Queen of the Most Holy Rosary,
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on the introduction of the custom of reciting the Rosary and public during the
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month of October, get out there, say your Rosary and public. If
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your parish isn't doing that, call the priest and remind him. We're supposed
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to pray the Rosary and public during the month of October. An indulgence of
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three hundred days may be gained for each recital of this litany, this slidey,
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the loretta takes me five minutes to pray. Well longer if you get
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a met of course, you can meditate on it from a fifteen minutes.
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That's an indulgence of three hundred days. That's the equivalents of three hundred days
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of doing physical penance in the Middle Ages. Think about that. The Salve
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Regina, or hell Holy Queen, as it's called, was composed in ten
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oh nine by Blessed Herman. In eleven forty six, the illustrious Saint Bernard
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added to it the sweet words Oh clement ol pious, old sweet Virgin Mary.
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So, y'all, you want peace in the world. You went into
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the horrible violence going on in Ukraine and Israel and Palestine. You want an
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into abortion, You want an into the violence that's going on in our country,
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which we do have. More people are killed by murder and assault and
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drug overdoses in America than in most wars on a daily, on a yearly
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basis. We literally that's how violent our nation is. We have nothing to
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be proud of in that regard. And I'm totally pro gun. I think
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everyone should carry a gun and defend themselves and everyone who's innocent and weak.
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It's not a matter of guns, it's a matter of hearts. It takes
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a human being to pull that trigger. You want to change that, you
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want to make things better. Pray the Rosary, pray the lit in the
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e Flretto, pray in general, Pray, pray, pray, pray,
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And yeah, I mean those indulgence prayers. Even though the teaching on it
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has been clarified, still very very important. Like I said, try to
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memorize one every week or every month. If you may have memorize one a
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year, Think about how much benefit that would have so anyway. In the
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words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry and I'll talk
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to you tomorrow.