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Speaker 0 00:12 <inaudible>
Speaker 1 00:22 and seeing the city. Jesus wept over named the father and the son the Holy Ghost. Amen. Why was our Lord crying over truths alone? The great doctor, the church, the venerable Bede gives three reasons
Speaker 1 00:40 he was grieved or the blindness hardheartedness in utter and gratitude of the people tourism because they would not receive him as their Messiah and Savior. As a result of the rejecting him, he saw that his labor and sufferings for them, for the most part would be in vain. They'd be frustrated, they'd be rendered, have no effect, and he saw the vengeance of God being poured out upon them during the destruction of the temple and their nation by the Roman legions under Titus. Now keep in mind that today's Gospel when he's looking over Jerusalem and crying over him actually takes place on Palm Sunday. Our Lord has just written in a town with the people spreading their cloaks on the ground before crying out Hosanna. The son of David blesses you. Comes in the name of Lord, who was on the highest. He's just recently raised Lazarus from the dead.
Speaker 1 01:42 A man had been lying dead in a tomb for days, and so many people were aware of this. That is the inspired, inerrant word of God tells us. In John 11 the chief priests and Pharisees had a meeting and said, quote, what do we do for this man's death? Many miracles, if we let him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take where place and nation closed. Cool. So they know who he is. He knows the Messiah, they recognize his miracles, and the leaders have recognized from the beginning that our lord had been sent by God in the very beginning of our Lord's public ministry, Nicodemus had come under the cover of darkness to speak with our Lord. A nicotine was, was a member of the Sanhedrin to Supreme Governing Council, the Jews, the religious governing council. And he approaches our Lord by cover of night and tells him, rabbi, we know that our comma teacher from God, for no man can do these signs, which star does and less God be with him.
Speaker 0 02:54 Oh,
Speaker 1 02:55 so they knew our Lord was sent by God. By this time. They know he's the, but they just don't want to lose their power. They don't want to submit, but because he's the way and the truth and life, because no man can go to the father saved by him and they're very refusal to submit and they're very refusal to follow him. By that very act, they've closed the door of heaven to themselves. It just a few days he's going to pour out his precious blood on the cross. He's going to redeem them from their sins and open the gates of heaven and mankind. It's going to be of no avail for so many of his own people. It's going to be of no avail. We're reminded of this horrific reality every day in the last gospel. Where are we? Here in him was life and life was the light of men. He came onto his own and his own received him. Not.
Speaker 1 03:57 Now we can see why our Lord is crying. Today's Gospel. He's crying over Jerusalem because he sees that so many of his people, his chosen people whom he loves so much will consciously, willfully and maliciously reject him, and in doing so, they reject the only possible means for them to gain heaven. And he's weeping because he can foresee the absolute horrors that are waiting this doomed city because he knows full well that a people who reject the known truth are doom to blindness and perversity as his holy word teaches. And Hebrews 10 26 and 27 if we send willfully after having knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain dreadful expectation of judgement and the rage of a fire which will consume the adversaries. And the hey dot. Cometary states quote, this speaks to the sin of willful apostasy from the known truth after which we have all manner of reason to look for a dreadful judgment the more because apostates from the known truth seldom or never have the grace to return to it again, close. Cool. Those who sin willfully after having knowledge of the truth, have all manner of reason to look for a dreadful judgment because apostates from the known truth seldom or never have the grace to return to it. So they should be filled with a fearful expectation of judgement and look forward to the fury of a raging fire which will consume them.
Speaker 1 05:44 His holy word teaches in the first chapter of Saint Paul's letter to Romans that are other nightmarish consequences for society like Jerusalem and the time of our Lord, a society that deliberately rejects the non truths about God. I quote, but I will edit it for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth for what can be known about God is plain to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature, namely his eternal power and deity has been clearly perceived as the things that have been made. So they are without excuse for although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they came, became futile in their thinking. And their senseless minds were darkened, claiming to be wise, they became fools. Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.
Speaker 1 06:51 God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion, committing shameless acts, and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit, to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a reprobate sense and to improper conduct. They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife to sea malignity. They're gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die. They not only do them, but approve those who practice them. Close quote, the inspired, inerrant word of God saw our Lord cries over Jews. And because he knows full well that people have rejected the known truth are doomed to blindness and perversities of the most heinous types.
Speaker 1 08:06 And as we all know, so it came to pass and I witnessed named Flavius. Josephus described one of the very powerful factions in Jerusalem before the city was destroyed in 78 d by the Roman legions under Titus. Now as we listened to this, we should think about what we've just learned from the word of God about a society that deliberately rejects the known truths about God. So I'll read from Josephus quote, their inclination to plunder was insatiable and the murdering of the men and abusing of the women was sport to them. They also indulge themselves and feminine wantonness. They decked their hair and put on women's garments that they might appear very attractive. They had paints under their eyes and imitated not only the ornaments, but also the less of women were guilty of such intolerable uncleanness. And they invented unlawful pleasures of that soar.
Speaker 1 09:03 And thus did they roll themselves up and down the city as in a house of ill repute and to file it entirely with their impure actions. Naval their faces looked like the faces of women they killed with the right hands and when their gate was a feminine, they presently attacked men and became warriors and drew their swords from under their finally died, cloaks. They ran everybody through whom they alighted upon close quote, Flavius Josephus. So our Lord cries over and because he knew full well that people have rejected the known truth, have rejected truth incarnate, are doomed, blindness, the perversities of the most heinous types and considering the types of sins that so many embraced have only looked forward to the fury of a fire which will torture them without consuming them. You don't need me to tell you that in our day and age we find ourselves living in an analogous situation, so let's consider that.
Speaker 1 10:06 But before we do, let's be clear that today we're going to be talking about a movement, a whole militant culture of unrepentant sinners, and we're not going to be speaking about particular individuals who may be struggling with particular kinds of sins or perversions. After all, as the inspired inerrant word of God makes clear those individuals have been present in the pews right from the beginning of the church, and I quote from First Corinthians chapter six I'll read verses nine through 12 St Paul. No you not. That the unjust shall not possess the Kingdom of God. Do not air neither fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the feminine, nor the liars with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers nor extortioners shall possess the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you, but you are washed, but you're sanctified, but you're justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the spirit of our God.
Speaker 1 11:13 Close quote Saint Paul points out that right there in the Catholic congregation corn, some had been fornicators, some had been idolaters, some had been adulterers, some had been a feminine, some had been liars with mankind, some had been thieves, some have been covetous, some even drunkards, some had been railers and some had been x tortures, but now they had all been washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the spirit of our God. So for any particular individuals who may well be struggling with particular kinds of sins or perversions, there is, and there has been from the beginning, obviously a serious Sacramento life and a serious devotion to our lady, especially to Holy Rosary and of you, Gannon, martyrs has to take first place. Well, we can also recommend other things. Courage, metal, metal health professionals associated with north and to books, the battle for normality, my peace.
Speaker 1 12:16 I give you the battle for normality. My peace I give you. Okay. That being said, let's consider our current cultural situation, finding ourselves as we do, living in the smoking, runes of what once was known as Christendom. Find ourselves immersed in a people who for in large part have rejected the known true who have rejected truth incarnate and continue to reject truth incarnate and an ever creasy numbers are locked in blindness and perversities of the most heinous types. We'll start by quoting from the work of Dr. Scott lively. He's it price and preacher along with Kevin Abrams, north of docks too. Is it coauthor of the pink swastika, a very well documented boat book about the actual roots and history of the Nazi party. Since he's a protestant, he's going to use the term Christian Church and a prostitute sense, but what she means in invisible church are true believers, whereas the correct understanding which we profess in the creed is a Catholic church is a visible Church of true teachers founded on Peter. That being said, everyone here is going to understand his point as usual, I have cuts blind and I think for obvious reasons, edited the quotes, all the rest of the quotes for rest of the sermon. Scott lively.
Speaker 1 13:39 50 years ago, San Francisco behavior was illegal throughout the entire world except in Sweden were had been decriminalized in 1938 he had it in the space of just a half a century. This tiny one to 3% of the population have made themselves a global political power with greater influence in the courtrooms and legislatures of the world than the Church of Jesus Christ. You should let that sink in.
Speaker 3 14:17 Okay?
Speaker 1 14:18 It just a few years. This tiny fraction is one to 3% of the population have made themselves a global political power with greater influence in the courtrooms and legislatures of the world than the Church of Jesus Christ. This astonishing transformation surpasses that of Darwinism, Marxism, and even Islam and its spreed and breadth of reach. During this time, these militants have every secular institution in their path in the United States. The first to fall was American psychiatric association in 1973 when activists using brown shirt, tactics of disruption and intimidation forced the APA to remove this behavior from its list of mental disorders. The next to last entity to fall was the United States military. The most recent and final sexual institution of fall was the boy scouts of America. Let's pause on that for a second. In the year 2000 the U S Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right of the boy scouts to discriminate against these people, and yet even with that Supreme Court decision last year, they caved in. These people have defeated every secular institution with his specific policy against their behavior. In these United States, every single one, the boy scouts, the boy Scott held out longer than the U S Marine Corps. It is a relentless implacable pursuit. They want the whole world to be dominated by their sexual freedom ethic and they will punish anyone and everyone who disagrees with them.
Speaker 1 16:31 There are no more secular institutions standing in these United States. They'd have a policy against them. They've won any bets. Where are they going to turn to next? Scott lively. What defines this movement is an implacable militancy intent on conquest and control like the indestructable robot from the future in the movie the Terminator, they never, ever, ever, ever give up parenthetical note. Why don't they ever give up? Because the movement is being guided and driven by intelligence that never sleep and never quit. Back to Scott loudly now that the last secular barriers to this agenda have been crushed. All of their weapons and all their warriors will be focused on the last remaining obstacle to their power. The Christian Church, they have always intended to attack the church and the final stage of their conquest of our culture as early as 1980 that sounds funny to put it in those terms.
Speaker 1 17:53 As early as 1987 they openly admitted this plan in an article which later became the basis for their primary strategic blueprint. That's Scott live now. I'll read quotes that he's assembled. Here are a few slit quotations from this 1987 article which captured cynical tone and goals and further of the larger agenda. These quotes from the article, the first order of business is desensitation of the American public concerning us and our rights in the early stages of any campaign to reach straight America. The masses should not be shocked and repelled bright, pure, premature exposure to our behavior itself. Instead, the imagery should be downplayed and our rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible. First that the camel get his nose inside the tent only later is unsightly derriere.
Speaker 4 18:59 Next quote.
Speaker 1 19:00 So far, Hollywood has provided our best covert weapon in the battle, desensitized the mainstream.
Speaker 4 19:09 Next call,
Speaker 1 19:11 we must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straits will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of protector. If we're presented instead as a strong and prideful tribe promoting a rigidly nonconformist and deviant lifestyle, we're more likely to be seen as a public menace that justifies resistance and oppression. For that reason, we must forego the temptation to Strut our pride publicly when it conflicts with the victim and image.
Speaker 4 19:45 Next call.
Speaker 1 19:47 The mainstream should be told that we are victims of fate, the sense that most of us never had a choice to accept or reject our preference. The message must read as far as we can tell we're born this way just as you were born, heterosexual or white or black or bright or athletic. Next quote, our campaign should not demand direct support for our practices. Should instead take anti-discrimination as its theme and last quote at a later stage of the media campaign for rights. It'll be time to get tough with remaining opponents. To be blunt. They must be vilified. We intend to make those opposed to us look so nasty that average Americans wanted to associate themselves from such types, close quotes.
Speaker 1 20:42 There's a lot to think about there and we should to round things up. Here's a few enlightening quotes that I've selected from various activists. Just a few first activist recruiting children. You Bet we are. Why would we push anti bullying programs or social studies classes that teach kids about the historical contributions of famous deviance? Unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept our activities as normal. I and a lot of other people want to indoctrinate, recruit, teach, and expose children, try lifestyle and there's nothing wrong with that close quote next activist quote. It's a no brainer that we should have the right to marry each other, but I also think equally that it's a no brainer. The institution of marriage should not exist. Fighting for a marriage. Generally lie involves lying about what we're going to do with marriage when we get there because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change and that is a lie.
Speaker 1 21:53 The institution of marriage is going to change and it should change and again, I don't think it should exist. Close quote, a few choice quotes from a longtime activists. This is a Georgetown law professor. Remember Georgetown is a Jesuit school, I don't say Catholic. It's a Jesuit school, Georgetown law professor and recent appointee to head the equal employment opportunity commission. Now as we hear these statements keep in the back of your mind, executive order 13 six 72 which the president just slide on July 21st in which prohibits discrimination in a civilian federal workplace on the basis of gender identity and hiring by federal contractors on the basis of both orientation and gender identity and paranthetically. If I'm understanding what I read in the papers correctly, it seems like the bishops have taken massive amounts of federal funds, at least the diocese for these a, this elite wave of illegal immigration right now.
Speaker 1 22:56 I wonder if that makes them federal contractors. Just saying, keep that in mind. Now. Keep in mind that the her, this woman's positioned on equal employment opportunity commission and the fact that our bishops have chosen to fight our government on the basis of religious freedom. Now keep all that in the back of your mind as he listen to what she's got to say. It's a member of the administration quote. There can be a conflict between religious liberty and sexual liberty, but in almost all cases, the sexual liberty should win because that's the only way the dignity of our people can be affirmed in any realistic manner. I believe the burden on religious people that will be caused by granting our people fully quality will be justified. That because I believe granting liberty to our people advances a compelling government interest that such an interest cannot be adequately advanced if pockets of resistance are permitted to flourish.
Speaker 4 23:57 Close quotes,
Speaker 1 23:59 the interests of our people cannot be advanced if pockets of resistance are permitted to flourish. Think of where you're sitting right now. This is a pocket of resistance. This is exactly what she means by a pocket of resistance. The interests of our people cannot be advanced if pockets of resistance are permitted to flourish. So what arguments are bishops using in their contest with the federal government?
Speaker 4 24:33 Religious Freedom.
Speaker 1 24:36 And again, think about these statements by the member of administration. I'm gonna walk back through them. Think about that. There can be a conflict between religious liberty and sexual liberty, but in almost all cases, the sexual liberty should win because that's the only way the dignity of our people can be affirmed in a realistic manner. The burden on religious people, the burden on religious people, the burden on religious people that will be caused by our granting, by granting our people fully quality will be justified because granting liberty, Dar people advanced is that compelling government interest and such an interest cannot be adequately advanced. The pockets of resistance are permitted to flourish. Okay, well here we are.
Speaker 1 25:27 There certainly have been individual exceptions, but over the past 50 years we, priests and the bishops silver us have collectively failed to explain and defend the Psalm teaching of Christ himself undirect contraception and sterilization and an intrinsic evil of these apps. And now with the federal government that standing there holding a knife to our throats on this very topic, the best defense our bishops can articulate is not to fearlessly preach the Gospel truth about this subject. In order to the priest to do the same, it's not toter all of us to do pennants for 50 some years of guilty silence and sin. No, no. The sin goes on and the guilty silence is going on and the whole time the lady are contraception and the lady are being sterilized and the doctors, members of the metal community pharmacists are are coming out there, plugs, drugs, jams, jellies in wicked operations, babies are being chemically aborted. Babies are not being conceived and souls are falling into hell like snowflakes and we get the fortnight for freedom.
Speaker 4 26:43 Okay.
Speaker 1 26:45 It shouldn't be surprising given our sin and our guilty silence that the next pressure being put to bear on us by the third government is in regard to perverse acts. Why shouldn't it be too surprising? Because once we admit the principle that stands behind contraception and direct sterilization, the act created by God himself to allow married couple to cooperate with him in bringing forth new immortal life. Once we admit the principle between co behind contraception and or sterilization at least a minute by our guilty sons and the face of it's almost universal acceptance. A 2012 Gallup poll shows that 82% of American Catholics think contracepting is morally acceptable once we admit the principle that the act is not essentially ordered towards no new life, but as basically a recreational activity than uh, what possible basis can we condemn other conversion perversions?
Speaker 1 27:51 Either the act is ordered towards human knife or it isn't, and if it isn't, then everything goes. And in that regard, yesterday I found myself on the website in the United States conference of Catholic Bishops. Do you have an article posted there which is titled, I'm going to read the title. This is a quote, John Jay College reports no single cause predictor of clergy abuse closed quo. In this amazing article, the lead researcher is quoted as saying that perversion was not a cause of the abuse. Now this is a spectacular answer for anybody that bothers to look at the John Jay report, which is right there on that website. In the bishop's own report, 81% of the abuse was perverted, 81% but we're assured that perversion was not a cause of the abuse in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops thinks we're going to believe this. I mean seriously, seriously, are they actually asking us true reject the known truth. Our bishops as a group are apparently incapable of even identifying or the naming the problem within our own ranks to say nothing of articulating a solution. Given this level of moral obtuseness or cowardness, it's pointless to expect them collectively, not individually cause there are great exceptions, but it's pointless to expect them collectively to address the danger from our ranks.
Speaker 4 29:43 Okay,
Speaker 1 29:44 so it shouldn't be too awfully surprised about the federal government holding another knife to our throats. In regard to perverse apps, let's close with a summary I got from the ADF lawyer group of lawyers that among other things fight these kinds of battles on these kind of marriage issues and other things like that.
Speaker 4 30:04 Federal Court. Cool.
Speaker 1 30:08 The goal of their legal agenda is ultimately not about rights or benefits. The ultimate goal of the agenda is nothing less than full societal acceptance and endorsement of their behaviors and relationships. The goal is to have people think that perversion is morally equivalent to heterosexuality. It's goal is moral validation of their conduct. This is why people of faith who hold the biblical truth that this contact is immoral, pose such a threat and it become the agenda's biggest target. The root is clear move from government prohibition of such behavior to government protection of that behavior. Then from its protection to its promotion and find from promotion to public acceptance and endorsement by compulsion when necessary. That is exactly what is happening. The church is the only institution left standing in the way of the ultimate goal. Consequently, the stakes are measurable and the situation is sobering. Barring divine intervention, the Christian worldview as it pertains to marriage, family and human sexuality, we banished the outer fringes of our society and in many cases
Speaker 4 31:20 outlawed completely close.
Speaker 1 31:26 The goal of their legal agenda is not about rights or benefits. The ultimate goal is nothing less than full societal acceptance and endorsement of their behavior and their relationships. The church is the only institution left standing in the way of that goal. Consequently, the stakes are measurable and the situation is sobering. Buying divine intervention. The Christian worldview, as it pertains to marriage, family, and human sexuality, we banished to the outer fringes of our society and in many cases outlawed completely. What defines this movement is an implacable militancy intent on conquest and control like the indestructable robot from the future in the movie the Terminator, they never,
Speaker 4 32:13 ever, ever, ever give up. Prepare yourself both morally, mentally, and spiritually for a blitzkrieg cause. It's coming. Pray to the Ugandan martyrs and pray your rosary every day. No exceptions.
Speaker 0 32:38 <inaudible>.
