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#532 Now For Some Very Good News! "The Great Sacrament of Marriage"...Welcome to the Wedding Feast · Claymore: Become Who You Are

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: There's some very good news.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the wedding feast.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Some time ago there was a young woman in her early 20s that did a video and it went viral, and in it she just very you know energetically but very even-handedly expressed the frustration that she felt about all the evils and twisting and distortions of humanity all around her.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: And she said this this may sit well for some people and may not sit well for others.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: I hate Pride Month, and not because I care about who you want to love, but because I'm sick of the corporate pandering.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sick of seeing all these drag shows where bearded men wrapped in fishnets and BDSM outfits are grinding their man bulges into the faces of children.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I'm sick of society pushing children to transition.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of men dressing up as women to victimize other women in sports and public restrooms, locker rooms and life.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: We have pride flags painted on our sidewalks, they're flying from our embassies, they're hanging in our schools, and yet a group that claims to be so deeply marginalized has an entire month dedicated to one of the seven deadly sins, and I'm supposed to tolerate it.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: What once was a call for people just to mind their own business and love who they want to love has turned into a campaign to force people, regardless of religious beliefs, to accept a certain way of life that they don't want to accept, and a trend to destroy childhood innocence in an attempt to validate sick adults, and I don't want any part of it.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: The only rainbow I celebrate is God's promise, and the only pride I want to have is pride for my country.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: End quote.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: You know this insanity is going on.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: I had a conversation with my dad, an old World War II vet, and we were talking about.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: You know, is this insanity any worse than World War II and the murder of millions of Jews and Catholics and Holocaust?
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: And the answer is yes, unprecedented in human history, what we're experiencing today, because we've completely obliterated objective truth, including the Ten Commandments, and even the truth of the biological reality of our bodies, created male or female.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: We are living in an unprecedented time of opinions that there's only my truth or your truth.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with that?
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Sounds like freedom Sounds good until it doesn't, and there's many reasons for that.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: But let me just touch on two.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Number one personal freedom, freedom to do whatever we like.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this Is an alcoholic free?
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: Is an alcoholic free?
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they're free to physically get up and pour themselves another drink.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: But are they really free?
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: Anyone who's lived with an alcoholic or a drug addict and I have, we know the answer to that Is a young man looking at pornography free.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: He may think he's free, but as someone who works with young men, as I do, again struggling to break free from pornography, I can assure you they're not experiencing freedom.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Unless we begin to choose what's true, good and beautiful, especially the beauty and goodness of authentic life and love, we begin to be enslaved by the very choices and actions we thought made us free.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: And then the external acts, the external evil that that young girl is talking about.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: All began here, on the battle of the individual human heart and the choices we each make between truth and lies, good and evil, beauty and everything that profanes beauty.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: But this is good news.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: This is very good news, because the solution also lies within here.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: It starts with you, it starts with me, when we all admit that I am the solution and allow our hearts to be redeemed, and then go out and be the good that our redeemed hearts have become to love people in the truth and live out the truth in love.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: This changes everything.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: This fulfills the very meaning of our very creation.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: This isn't brain surgery, it's the two great commandments Love God, be filled with divine life and love, and then go out and be that divine love in the world, express it, make it visible in the world.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: That's why we're created.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: This gets me to number two, the external allowing other people's freedom as license to do whatever they want into this created world.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: As licensed to do whatever they want into this created world, you know, when a naive person says to me there is no truth, only your truth or my truth, they have no idea that they are unleashing the collective power of evil into the culture and into our world Of all those people who have given their hearts over, who have accepted evil into their hearts, and they go out and manifest that evil in the world.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: What happens if we allow them to do whatever they want?
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: They become tyrants, thieves, whatever they have license.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: See, this is freedom, this license.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: And there are plenty of bad actors in the world.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: We see this and they're going to create havoc for you.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're not free.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: We've become enslaved to our own homes, afraid to go out.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Well, jesus comes into the story and simply states this objective truth.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: In the beginning it was not.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: So.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: I want to read you from Matthew, chapter 19.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: In here it's fascinating, it's beautiful.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Jesus is going to point us to the beginning before sin twice.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: In here it's in the context of the Pharisees who came up to Jesus, came up to him and tested him by asking is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: And Jesus answered have you not read that he who made them from the beginning, made them male and female, and said for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: So there are no longer two, but one.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: What, therefore?
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: God has joined together.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: God has joined us together.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: Let no man separate, let no man put asunder.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: And they said to him why then did Moses command one allow divorce in the Old Testament?
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: And so that a man could put his wife away?
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: And he said to them listen to this, jesus always talks about the heart.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: Huh, he said it was because about the heart.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: Huh, he said it was because of the hardness of your heart that you allowed divorce.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: And Moses allowed divorce in the Old Testament, but from the beginning, the way it was created to be, it was not so.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Again, listen to this one, all this confusion that this young girl is expressing about, you know, pride flags and gay marriage, and we could add abortion to that and all these kind of things.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: We don't even know the distinction between men and women anymore.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: And Jesus kind of just cuts through all that in a most beautiful way.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Jesus answered have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: What, therefore, god has joined together?
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: Let no man put asunder.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: See, from the very beginning, before sin, there was a cosmic explosion of Trinitarian love.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: The Garden of Eden had been prepared in five days for a wedding feast.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: On the sixth day, god draws back into himself and he says this in Genesis 1, just two verses, 26 and 28.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: And God created man in his image, in the divine image, he created them.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: How Male and female he created them.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Smiling upon this newly married couple, god blessed them, saying to them be fertile, multiply, fill the earth, bring forth children, for they are very good.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: From the very beginning, god's explosion of Trinitarian love is made visible in the creative world in a sacramental way to our creation, as male and female.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: Well, enter into this, the tempter.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: The tempter was there, the serpent was there, but he was somehow held back from the garden.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: Only man's free will was going to allow him to really step into the story.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: So enter the tempter.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: The mysterium in equitatus, which is a Latin phrase which means the mystery of evil that we see all around us, was unleashed very early, wasn't it?
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: See, satan doesn't have his own clay.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: He can only twist, distort and seek to destroy the imago Dei, the sign that God created good, which is.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: Each one of us created an image of God, but then the fuller image is marriage and the family, because it's Trinitarian love.
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: Now, the serpent.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: This is Genesis, chapter three, first verse through five.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: Now, the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the Lord God had made.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: And the serpent asked the woman did God really tell you not to eat from the trees of the garden?
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: The woman answered the serpent we may eat from the fruit of the trees in the garden.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: It's only from the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said you shall not eat of it and even touch it, lest you die.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: But the serpent said to the woman you certainly will not die, god.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: Death won't enter into this world, no, god knows.
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: Well, the moment you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, who know what is good and what is evil.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Can you see the Genesis, the very beginning of this evil, where we've distorted it so much?
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Now We've totally thrown out objective truth.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: Nothing's holding back evil anymore, not even the shepherds in our church, unfortunately.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: So what's the good news?
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: Because God is still here.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: God is still here and God wants to marry us.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: God wants to marry us, and that sacramental marriage is a sign of all that.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: So I want to read you something from John Paul II.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: It was a letter that he put out to young people Delecti Amici, which means dear friends in Italian, and he wrote this letter to young people and this was going to be the start of World Youth Day that he started all over the world.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Right, and he says this to young people, and this is to all of us, of course.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: I wish to examine, together with you, young people, whom I'm addressing in this letter, the question that, in a certain sense, is at the heart of the youth of all of you.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: This is one of the central questions of human life, at the same time one of the central themes of reflection, creativity and culture.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: It's also one of the main biblical themes and the one to which I personally have devoted much reflection and analysis, and this is, of course, in this theology of the body that he had just finished.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: God created human beings, male and female, thereby introducing into the history of the human race that special duality, together with complete equality in the matter of human dignity and with marvelous complementarity in the matter of the dignity and with marvelous complementarity in the matter of the division of the attributes, properties and tasks linked with the masculinity and femininity of the human being.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: Thus, this is a theme that's necessarily inscribed in the personal eye of each one of us, and your youth is a period when this great theme affects in an experimental and creative way, the body and soul of every young man and every young woman and manifests itself in the youthful conscience together with the fundamental discovery of the personal I.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: We don't know who we are anymore.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: We're beloved children of God, called into a love story of God, called into a love story.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Then, also, on the horizon of a young heart, a new experience occurs the experience of love, the desire of the heart to love.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: It's in our hearts already and it's there because we are to manifest this in the world, which, from the beginning, has to be included in that plan of life which youth spontaneously creates and forms In each separate case.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: All of this has its own unrepeatable subjective expression.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: Each one of us are called into that story.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: So be convinced, get into your heart that this is a call from God, who created man in his own image and likeness, as male and female.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: This is the very first thing that God wants to say to us in the Bible, isn't it that he created us in his image?
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: In the divine image he created us?
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: Human beings, from the very beginning, were created to be a sacramental, visible sign of God's Trinitarian love in the universe.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: This is you and I.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: John Paul II wrote the human body, with its sex, its masculinity and femininity, seen in the mystery of creation, is not only a source of fruitfulness and procreation, as in the whole natural order, but contains from the very beginning the spousal attribute that's, the power to express love, precisely that love in which the human person becomes a gift and, through that gift, fulfills the very meaning of his being and existence.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: He went on to state his thesis.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: This is John Paul's whole thesis.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: It's so beautiful, so powerful that, when allowed to sink in, will revolutionize the way we understand the human body and our sexuality.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: He said the body, and the body alone, is capable of making visible what is invisible, the spiritual and the divine.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: It was created to transfer into the visible reality of this world that invisible mystery hidden in God from time immemorial, and thus to be a sign of it.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Again, as physical, bodily creatures, we simply cannot see God.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: He's pure spirit.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: But God wanted to make his mystery, this mystery of love, so visible that he stamped it right into our bodies by creating us, male and female, in his own image.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: The function of this image is to reflect the Trinity in the world, an inscrutable divine communion of three persons.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: This is marriage and the family.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: And John Paul II concludes this man, meaning men and women, became the image and likenesses of God, not only through our own humanity we're all created in the image of God but then the likeness of God to be that in the world but also through the communion of persons, so that we can express love, of which man and woman, right from the beginning, were formed.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: And the Pope adds which man and woman right from the beginning were formed.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: And the Pope adds on all this, right from the beginning, there descended the blessing of fertility linked with human procreation.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: See, this is part of it.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Can you see why the death of a child in the womb is just such a disaster to us?
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Thus, in this dimension, a primordial sacrament in the beginning was constituted, understood as a sign.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: So this is marriage, again the primordial sacrament, the first sacrament that makes visible in the world God in the world, like all the sacraments do, but this was the only one we needed at that time.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Right, there's no sin in the world.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: So, and this sign is efficacious, it means it actually brings divine love into the world, transmits in the visible world that invisible mystery hidden in God from all eternity.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: And this is the mystery of truth and love.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Truth and love.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Can you see why, when truth gets distorted, there is no objective truth.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Love gets distorted too.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Love is reduced to just a feeling and then to an act.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: And you see, it's amazing how this all got twisted.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: See, this is the mystery of truth and love, the mystery of divine life in which man really participates In man, created in the image of God, the very sacramentality of creation, the sacramentality of the whole world.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: All of the world is a sacrament the stars, the sun that comes out, but it's us created, male and female.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: That actually is the fullness of that sign of God's love and beauty in the world, and through our bodies, masculinity and femininity, man becomes the visible sign of truth and love, which has its source in God itself and was revealed already in the mystery of creation.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Together with man, holiness has entered the visible world naked, without shame.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: That's from all the way from Genesis.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Do you see what I said?
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Again, together with man, when God created us?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Holiness has entered the world.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: God's divine life, the world created for him, the sacraments of the world and the sacram.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Holiness has entered the world.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: God's divine life, the world created for him, the sacraments of the world and the sacraments of man in the world comes forth from this divine source of holiness and is instituted at the same time for holiness.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: See, this is why we are the solution.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: We can summarize this whole biblical story in five words, the whole Bible in five words.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: God wants to marry us.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: God wants to marry us.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Jesus, the eternal bridegroom this is good news comes into the story pursues us to the ends of the earth seeking intimacy with us.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: That sounds too good to be true, but that's the very logic of our Christianity.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: God created us with his love story inscribed in our hearts.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: We ache for this.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Just sit quietly with our hearts.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: And then he took more.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: He stamped it right into our very bodies.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: The Bible begins in the book of Genesis how it's in an earthly paradise with a marriage of who, Adam and Eve.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: It ends in the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, in a heavenly paradise with the marriage of the Lamb Christ and the church In the Old Testament.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: It's spousal language that's used most often to describe God's love for his people.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: It's over and over.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Let me just read you something from Isaiah.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: This is chapter 62.5.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: This is what God says as a young man marries a virgin, your builder God shall marry you.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: As a bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so shall your God rejoice in you.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: God created the sacramental sign of marriage in the family to be a tiny.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Give us a little tiny taste of the union, the communion that God calls us personally into.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: See.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: This is really the good news.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: The great sacrament of marriage is a sign of the intimacy God wants with us, and right in the middle of the Bible, is what it's the song of songs, erotic love poetry that the saints and mystics wrote about so often.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Because it gave them the vocabulary to express their passionate love for God.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Finally, in the New Testament, where did Jesus perform his first miracle?
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: At a wedding feast Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: You know, recently someone posted a picture of Russell Brandt.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: He became a Christian.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: He's on fire right now.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: But I've known him for many, many years, going back when he was struggling with alcohol and drugs and porn addictions and all kinds of things.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: And so recently he was on a video on Rumble reciting the rosary and encouraging people to do the same.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Formerly.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You know, brand himself has millions of followers on social media and he's often shared that he had been sober and free from addictions for 17 years now, after struggling with drugs, alcohol, infidelity, pornography.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Another post was of Candace Owens and Tammy Peterson, the wife of Jordan Peterson, who have decided to become a Catholic.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Come into the church.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Huh, I replied to the posts and now for some very good news.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: In the midst of chaos, this is so important, the chaos we see all around us.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: It's a reminder that God's at work pursuing us.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: If only we are seekers after the truth.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Concluding with this Easter, there was a record number of baptisms in France.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Now France is falling.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Its culture has declined.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: It was the most Catholic country in the world at one time.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: And then what happens now?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: It's amazing what's going on.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So 12,000 people, adults and adolescents, become baptized a record in France.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: See, underneath all of this evil that we see on the and it's real are people coming into the church, coming into it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So how can this be?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Aren't the attacks by the morally reprehensive government officials in the deep state in the United States, canada, across Western Europe, finally putting an end to God and his church?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So why is there hope?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: How can this be?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Aren't the attacks coming from within the Catholic church by her morally reprehensible shepherds in the deep church in the deep church, just like the deep state, who bring evil into the church and try to destroy her from within?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: This is nothing new.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: These shepherds scoff at reverent priests, beautiful liturgy, biblical sexual ethics, the Father James Martins of the world, and serve as chaplains to the World Economic Forum.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Aren't they finally putting an end to God and his church?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: No, it goes on, doesn't it?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Why the hope?
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Why the hope?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Why are people who see evil all around them and even within the church still drawn to her sacraments, her beauty, her stained glass, the incense, the bells, the rosary?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Why the hope?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: It's because their hearts have been opened to the mystery of Jesus Christ, the bridegroom, who's the head of the church.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Their hearts have been touched.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: When you open yourself up, something will happen to your heart.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: The bridegroom, jesus Christ, never tires of pursuing his bride, especially the lost sheep, to the ends of the earth, seeking intimacy with you.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: That sounds too good to be true, right, but this is the very logic of Christianity.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: See, they have seen something of the ugliness, the lies, the falsehoods that make up their daily reality, and they know that something has gone very wrong.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And it dawns on them Men, men and women have forgotten God.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: So they go out and they seek something more than this world has to offer, and they get in touch with the deep stirring within their own hearts and are led to the narrow gate that leads to the body of Christ, his bride, own hearts, and are led to the neural gate that leads to the body of Christ, his bride, the church.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Why their hope?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Because they have discovered that this love has a name God is love.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: These words from the first letter of John expressed with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: The Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny are all expressed there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: God is love.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: It's not that we love God, but that God loved us first into existence.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: In the book of John, we've come to know and believe in the love God has for us.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: That's what St John says.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Being Christian, then, see, is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty philosophical idea, but an encounter with an event, an encounter with a person which gives life a new horizon and gives each of us a decisive direction for our lives.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: The Catechism of the Catholic Church you know that big book about everything Catholic does not begin with an ethical teaching or some lofty philosophical or theological idea.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Again, part one, section one, chapter one, begins with desire.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: The desire for God is written in the human heart, and it's because God created man by.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: We were created by God, in God, for God, and God never ceases to draw us to himself.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Only in God will we find the truth, the truth and happiness that we never stop searching for.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: That's why people are coming into the church.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Much depends on the fact that you, on this path too, should follow Christ, that you should not flee from him when you are occupied in this manner.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: John Paul writes, which you will rightly consider the great event of your heart.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Listen to your heart, he says, a matter that exists only between you and God.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I want you to believe, he said, to be convinced that this great matter has a definitive dimension in God.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Who is love in God, who is the absolute unity of his divinity is also a communion of persons Father, son and Holy Spirit.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I want you to believe John Paul said, to be convinced that your human great mystery has its beginning in God, who is the creator and is rooted in Christ, the Redeemer, who, as spouse, gave himself to us and who teaches all husbands and wives how to give themselves in full measure of each one's personal dignity.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Christ teaches us love.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: He teaches us love Granted.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It may be difficult, when looking up at a crucifix, to believe that the bleeding and tormented body of Jesus Christ hanging on there portrays love right.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I think about this again when we look up at Jesus on the cross.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe, right?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: What is that bleeding, tormented body of Christ hanging on the cross Does it portray it?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Is that a love story?
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Ah, that's exactly the reality.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: This is my body, given for you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Not only given, but given for you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And not only given for you, but given to the last drop unto death death on a cross.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: No greater love Jesus said in the Gospel of John than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Then, with his mother, mary, st John and a few others, including Mary Magdalene, looking up beneath the cross as he was dying, hanging there, knowing that it was close to being finished.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: What does Jesus say?
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: He says I thirst.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Imagine you were there and you hear these words as you look up at him taking his last breath.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I thirst, looking down at you, I thirst for you.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I give up my life for you.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: And then what does he say?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And it's finished, it's consummated.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And he bows his head and gave up his spirit.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Ooh, what's consummated?
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: The marriage, the bridegroom who gave himself to his bride.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: We say yes, we receive him into ourselves, the sacrament, the sacrificial sign, this oblation to the father for us that brings us back into union and communion with God himself, as it was in the beginning.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: You know, a little while later, a Roman centurion, following orders, would come up and thrust his lance into their bridegroom's heart and out came water and blood.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: This is what Sister Faustina was told to bring into the world.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: With the image of the divine mercy that you see right behind me, the marriage of the lamb is consummated there on the cross, and what pours out of his heart is water and blood.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Now listen to this.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Archbishop Fulton Sheen summarizes the teaching of countless saints and mystics, and he gets this right from St Augustine in the fourth century.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Now, this is it Now what we've always thought, and rightly so, of Christ, the Son on the cross and the mother beneath him?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Right, mary's beneath him.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: But that's not the complete picture.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: That's not the deep understanding.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Who is the Lord on the cross and the mother beneath him?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Right, mary's beneath him.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: But that's not the complete picture.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: That's not the deep understanding.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Who is the Lord on the cross?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: He's the new Adam.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And now where's the new Eve?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: At the foot of the cross?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Ooh, if Eve became in the beginning the mother of the living, of the natural order, is not this woman?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: He's talking about our blessed mother at the foot of the cross to become another mother, ah, yes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And so the bridegroom looks down at the bride now.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: So, now he's looking down, he no longer calls her mother, he calls her woman.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: She is to be the symbol of the church.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Huh, woman, ooh woman.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: If Eve became the mother again of the natural order, here's the spiritual mother huh, coming into the church and the bridegroom looks down and his beloved looks at the church.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And there, here, right here, beneath the cross, is the beginning, the birth of the church.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: And as St Augustine puts it, bishop Sheen said, and he said I'm quoting him verbatim the heavenly bridegroom left the heavenly chambers with the presage of the nuptials before him to take on and unite with his bride.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: He came to the marriage bed of the cross a bed of not a pleasure but a pain and united himself with the woman and consummated the union forever, as it were.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: The blood and the water that came from the side of Christ was the spiritual seminal fluid that impregnated the church.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: This is a sacramental way to impregnated the church.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: This is a sacramental way to impregnate the church, right, it's amazing sacramental sign, of which our marriage is the actual, concrete, visible sign in the reality of this, but we're expressing God's love for us, god's love for his bride, the church which, when we say yes, we are all part of.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: And so these nuptials, woman, there's your son.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: And he asked Mary to look over who he calls woman now, to look over at John the Baptist, john the evangelist, and he said there's your son.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: So take her and take him right.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And this is the beginning of the church.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Christ gave himself up for her, the church, his bride, that she might be immaculate and spotless.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: It's so beautiful, isn't it?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So John takes Mary home, mary goes home with John and then they go out and they start right.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: This is the seed of the whole.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Church Comes right from here.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Jesus gave this act of oblation and enduring presence through his institution.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: How do we come into union and communion with Jesus directly, like they did at the foot of the cross?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: How do we do it today?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Ah, he instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper, right before this event.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: What did he do at the Last Supper?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: He anticipated his death and resurrection by giving his disciples and the bread and wine, his very self, his body and blood, as the new manna.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: The ancient world had dimly perceived that man's real food, what truly nourishes him as man is ultimately the logos Jesus Christ, eternal wisdom.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: The same logos now truly becomes food for us as love.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: The Eucharist draws us into Jesus' act of self-oblation, more than just statically receiving the incarnate logos right Statically, if we read scripture, if we pray, we're receiving him, aren't we?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: But now we enter into the very dynamic of the self-giving.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: The imagery of marriage between God and Israel in the Old Testament is now realized in a way previously inconceivable.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: It had meant standing in God's presence, but now it becomes union with God through sharing in Jesus' self-giving, sharing his body and blood.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: The sacramental mysticism grounded in God's movement toward us operates at a radically different level and lifts us to far greater heights than anything that any human mystical elevation could ever accomplish.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Dear young friends, john Paul, I'll finish with the way John Paul ended this part of his letter to young people Dear young friends, do not allow this treasure that I've been describing all through here to be taken from you.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Do not inscribe in the plan of your life a deformed, impoverished and falsified content.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Love rejoices in the truth.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Seek out the truth where it is to be really found, if necessary, be resolved.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: He said to go against the current of popular opinion and propaganda slogans.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: This was written in 1985.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: We're looking back at these slogans that this young girl did such a good job unpacking when I started out today, and again I'm going to say, if necessary he wrote, be resolved to go against the current of popular opinion and propaganda slogans.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Do not be afraid of the love that places clear demands on people.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: These demands, as you find them in the constant teaching of the church, the bridegroom.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: The church is not a building, the church is us are precisely capable, he said, of making your love a true love.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Amazing, right, as I get ready to leave for mass in a few minutes now, today, to unite myself, think about this.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to unite myself with the eternal bridegroom.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: The eternal bridegroom who gives himself on that alternate mass, his body, blood, soul and divinity, and then he turns and he pours this out to us.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: This is some very, very good news.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: See you at Mass, everyone.