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Speaker 0 00:00:00 Now much of what we'll speak about in this conference, I've talked about elsewhere, but it's not because I can't think of other things to say. There are certain things that I really, uh, I repeat because I feel almost an emergency, an urgency to speak about them. Although there'll be some citations, uh, the whole talk has too many sources to cite all of them. They edit the codes. Like I always do have an edit and cut and pasted, paraphrase and so forth. It's not an academic exercise. Anyway, I'm very impressed. And the name of the father, the son, Holy ghost statement, this account is based largely on that. A frantic saving Weniger during the reign of Diocletian Diocletian was the Roman ampere, a great persecutor of Christians. He rules from two 84 to three Oh five. During the rate of completion lived a man named shin.
Speaker 0 00:01:02 ACS Janisa has hated Catholics with a passion. He's an immoral insolent man. He's devoted heart and soul tie. Dollar tree is also a famous pagan actor, comedian and playwright kind of guy would fit right in the Hollywood realizing that nothing would please the emperor more than mocking Christians. He acquainted himself with the simmer ceremonies of baptism and wrote a skit representing that sacrament with all the ceremonies as ridiculously as possible Vampyr is core and a great crowd. We're all present on the day of the performance. So the comedy routine began Tenicia is pretended to be sick. And he fell down and called on his friends to bring him something, to relieve his suffering. When they had done this, he said, I feel like I'm going to die. I want to become a Christian and they should baptize me. And so everything's brought on stage. That's used in baptism, the pagan actor playing a priest came on stage in order to baptize the poor alien Genesio is all the questions were put to him that are made to those, or be about baptize. Cause ceremony was performed itself and Chris and man, or that they have heard all of the people are shot. And with laughter,
Speaker 0 00:02:27 Very moment that the actor poured the water over his head and a pig and actors were scoffing and blessing and the most, uh, sacrament of baptism, God illuminated the heart and mind of Genesis with a Ray of divine grace. Suddenly you could see the truth of Christianity and loudly earnest, the proclaimed, his faith and she's Christ. Now his companions had no idea. What did just happen is they're continuing this blast was mockery. When the whole ceremony is performed, they throw a white robe with <inaudible> tears. It's mocking the garment that in those days, uh, was given to the newly baptized adults even. And then they presented it to the papal amid grace shouts and hilarity Janiece has turned to the emperor. The other spectators that confess him with great dignity. What had taken place within it. That until his, until that day, it was pagan blindness. It's Scott that Christianity had intended for everyone's amusement to mock baptism with its performance, but that it's hard. It suddenly changed during the sacral. It just get, and he decided to become a Christian. He said that before they baptized him, he'd seen an angel
Speaker 2 00:03:45 Angel showed him a book
Speaker 0 00:03:48 Which all has passed make, would these have been recorded? Any insured at all, be washed away by Holy baptism. When the baptism water was poured over him, he had seen the heavens opened, felt a hand touch him. And then he saw that all those sins were wiped off the page of his Holy book. He renounced idolatry say that Jesus Christ was the son of God and the Redeemer of the world, and that he would henceforth live and die. A Christian, The death penalty to be a Christian. He closed his speech with a passion exportation of the emperor and off present to follow his example and embrace Christ worship. The one true God. Well, initially everybody was laughing uproariously cause they thought it was part of this kid. The laughter started dying down. It's become clear to the emperor and the audience that Janiece CEUs was not choking.
Speaker 2 00:04:47 Wasn't it?
Speaker 0 00:04:49 The Amber realizing that Genesis was serious, became enraged, gave orders. His garment should be immediately torn from it should be whip was scourges in clubs before all the people and then cast in prison Palazzi and the prefect received orders to renew this punishment daily until Janiece would abandon his new faith and sacrifice to the pagan gods. So Denise has just dragged on the rack, torn with iron hooks from the torches, as tDCS was being tortured. The prefect urge him to submit to Imperial command and sacrificed to the pagan gods that he might save his life. Canisius replied. Your Amber is, but a mortal man, whoever desires the favor of such may seek it over him. I prayed in the mortal King of heaven and earth and will never forsake him. I know that he who receiving Holy baptism is the true King. And I repent for having so often mocked and offended him.
Speaker 0 00:05:56 I will not obey Diocletian whose rain will soon be over and will. One day become is not. You may torture me therefore, as much as you like I'll remain faithful to my God. If you had the part and killed me a hundred times, who would not be able to take him out of my heart or my mouth, Paul shin was a provoked as fearless. Then repeated his words, the emperor who ordered him beheaded, that sentence was executed in the year of our Lord three Oh three does st. Jude atheists who from a dollar tree, became a Christian from a score for Christianity, a field, a fearless confessor of the Lord receive the crown of modernity.
Speaker 0 00:06:39 Now the acts don't mention it, but thought a lot. I'm just going to insert my opinion. I assume that when st. GDC has had that vision at the same time, we've got that grace. There was a grace given to the actor, playing the priest to suddenly intend to do what the church intended to do and not lock at that moment. That's my assumption. That's why the baptism took because if it had simply been a mockery, it wouldn't have taken, he would have gotten some kind of baptism of blood, certainly at the end, but it's obvious from the acts and these are authentic acts that he got it. So that's my assumption. That's just an insertion into it, but I, I think we'll find out the next life, but I'm pretty sure that's what happened. You see these kinds of things in the margins regularly for one of the soldiers, March him off.
Speaker 0 00:07:25 All of a sudden gets the grace and embrace the two. You can read the almonds, the story of the martyrdom of Saint elements and the vendor will be a history of England, ecclesiastical history of England. And when st. Alvin's marching off to be martyred, one of the, one of the soldiers with them decides I'm going to be a Catholic tune is about his blood, right? Then as a consequence, he got the crazy noise, marching the guy off to his death. Of course the modernists, they thought everything seemed to think this is a legend and Saint Judy's hysteric existed, but he's already venerated wrong. Within the very century died in the fourth century. There's a church built his honor already in Rome. So there's people that would have been alive that knew of it. They may or may not have seen it, but they were certainly within living memory.
Speaker 0 00:08:09 And that church was repaired at seven 14 by product carrier, the third. So if you come across and stuff, you can just ignore that. It's typical modernist, you know, babble Satan ECS face day. So August 25th, it's Patrik saying in the bed, actors, lawyers, barristers, clowns, comedians, converts dancers, epileptics, musicians, painters, Tanakh, buffers, and victims of torture, patron, Saint of victims of torture. That's equally important to know. So don't forget that the very same hand of the Lord. And we turned solver persecutor of the church and to st. Paul, the great apostle instantly turned to an AC is from
Speaker 2 00:08:56 Peg into a sane and the very act public act
Speaker 0 00:09:03 Sacrilegious act of mocking. Holy baptism, in that very act. I think about that and very publicly mocking Holy baptism in immoral pig burning with hatred of Christ, his church and the moral pig, and who deserve to be struck down in a very active sacrilegious mockery
Speaker 2 00:09:22 Has instead of instantly converted. Think about that. That's the mercies of God. And think about this. God's mighty hand. Hasn't lost any of its power,
Speaker 0 00:09:37 No matter how great the center, no matter how vicious the man, God can
Speaker 2 00:09:42 Still instant convert him. It's a good reminder that although we should hate sin, we must take sin. We should do. Did he ever
Speaker 0 00:09:52 So careful never to despise the center there, but
Speaker 2 00:09:55 <inaudible> anyway, and we don't know what that's here might not turn out some day to be a Saint John easy is what a beautiful example of modern martyr is the Greek word for what the martyrs are amazing witnesses to the absolute importance of the Holy things. The absolute importance of our relationship with Christ with his mother, but the Holy church
Speaker 0 00:10:27 To absolute importance of the truths of our faith.
Speaker 2 00:10:30 These things are well worth dying for they're well worth dying for,
Speaker 0 00:10:38 And with the little reflection we can see that his Mark, his witnessed teaches us that if these things are well worth dying
Speaker 2 00:10:44 Four, and they are, then they must be worth living for. And if we truly take on such a supernatural prospective, what does it mean? That the, to our faith?
Speaker 0 00:10:58 Well, the fond meaning that gives chore life any true.
Speaker 2 00:11:01 That's, we're dying for this word of living for what are you willing to die for to serious question? I can't answer it for you. What are you willing to die for more? Are you afraid to die? If so, why are you afraid of your particular judgment? If so, why? What are you doing about that? You're going to die. No one gets out of this alive. You're going to die. What the what's worth are, what are you willing to die for? What are the monitors? Tell us when you look at that crucifix, what does that tell you?
Speaker 2 00:12:10 Any word, any truth that's worth dying for is worth living for what are you living for? What are you living for? And things to meditate on as we approach Holy week, what do you live in for? You don't need me the Italia to most Americans. And that certainly includes Catholics are living principally for the things of this world. That's not even remotely controversial claim. Spring break is going on all over our country. Doesn't even seem to raise an eyebrow. What kind of country is that? We claim we're a Christian country. That's a laugh, it's public Hayden or something. All these poor kids are tangled up in it.
Speaker 2 00:13:19 We're Catholics. We claim her fall on him. What does he have to say about how we ought to live, turn to the scriptures? In fact, one of my favorite scriptures, it's the gospel of Saint Matthew, chapter six, verses 31 to 33, be not anxious, therefore saying what show aid or what shall we drink or where, where the show would be clothed for. After all these things, do the heat and seek for your father, know that you have need of all these things seek you there for first, the kingdom of God and his justice. And all these things shall be added on you. Close quote, inspired in their part of God. It isn't that we don't need those things. We do need those. I think you need to keep things in perspective. I love that scripture anxious there for saying, what chill are you, or what shall we drink or whatever was Shelby code for after all of these things, do the havens father. Not that you have need of all these things. Siki there for first, the kingdom of God and his justice. All these things shall be added unto you.
Speaker 2 00:14:49 Sir. Lord commands us to worry about our temporal needs. Brother, put our trust in the heavenly father to turn our focus away from the things of the world and direct our minds and our hearts towards the things of heaven, to lift up our eyes from earthly horizons to seek first, the kingdom of God and his justice and the temporal things will come in their place. That raises two obvious questions. What does it mean to seek first, the kingdom of God? And how can we tell if we're doing it? What does it mean to seek first, the kingdom of God and how can each one of us tell if he's doing it
Speaker 0 00:15:34 In order to answer these questions, we better have a better,
Speaker 2 00:15:37 Ideally we better know what we're talking about. We speak of the keynote. God, what is the kingdom of God? Was that me?
Speaker 0 00:15:43 The 1917 Catholic encyclopedia
Speaker 2 00:15:45 Explains to the maturity of Christ. Preaching concerns. The kingdom of God, it's various aspects. It's precise, maybe in the way it is to be attained.
Speaker 0 00:15:57 According to Christ, the kingdom of God means not so much
Speaker 2 00:16:00 Good to be attained hoarder place, although it includes those meetings.
Speaker 0 00:16:06 And it's rather a tone of mind. It stands for an influence which must permeate men's minds. If it would be one with him
Speaker 2 00:16:13 And attained his ideals,
Speaker 0 00:16:17 The kingdom of God means then the ruling of God in our hearts, it means those principles, which are opposed to and separate us from the kingdom of the world and the devil. It means a favorable influence of grace. It means the church as that divine institution, whereby we might make sure of attaining the spirit of Christ. And so when that ultimate kingdom of God, where he reigns with it
Speaker 2 00:16:44 And in the Holy city, the neutralism coming down out of heaven from God, thus the Catholic encyclopedia.
Speaker 0 00:16:54 So in our Lord speaks the kingdom of God. He's speaking of a whole group, whole cluster of related ideas is there praying to a state of mind is a friend, a permeated influence in the minds of men, which propel them towards unity with God and conformity to God's will. And God's commandments. He's referring to the ruling of God in our hearts is referring to those principles, which apologize to and separate us from the kingdom of the world. And the devil is referring to the federal influence of grace. He's referring to the Catholic church
Speaker 2 00:17:28 And ultimately he's referring to the heavenly kingdom of God where he reigns world without end.
Speaker 0 00:17:36 So when our Lord speaks the kingdom of God, he's referring, not just to him, but to a state of be a way of living. Thank you. Speaking, acting by men or headed towards him when he speaks of men seeking that first is afraid of those men who have turned their focus away from the things of the world and a first director of their minds and hearts towards the things of heaven. He's afraid of men who live with their intellects
Speaker 2 00:18:07 Truth and the wills guided by charity
Speaker 0 00:18:11 To men who have truly taken a heart description, that the truth will set them free to men who are marked by an absolute devotion to truth whose drive to know and embrace the truth. No matter how painful or inconvenient might be for them personally, to men who also recognize clearly their will
Speaker 2 00:18:34 To be guided by charity charity, that's specific,
Speaker 0 00:18:37 Typically Christian virtue, that's supernatural power that was ported our souls at baptism and gives him an ability to love God above all things
Speaker 2 00:18:48 And his neighbors himself for love of God,
Speaker 0 00:18:52 Men who also recognize clearly that their wills have been made to be guided by charity. And as a result have also taken to heart the scriptures that even if they should have all knowledge,
Speaker 2 00:19:02 I have all faith to have not charity there, nothing. In other words, they realize that charity is indeed the greatest virtue. In other words,
Speaker 0 00:19:15 The men who are seeking purse, the kingdom of God, and it's just,
Speaker 2 00:19:18 Just Harlow's man. And only those men who decided to be guided by both truth and charity, without counting the cost without counting the cost
Speaker 0 00:19:37 To men who are seeking first, the kingdom of God
Speaker 2 00:19:40 And his chapters are those the man. And only if it was a man who decided to be guided by truth and charity without counting the cost,
Speaker 0 00:19:52 The great French Abbott father, Manuel Andre discussed this very point
Speaker 2 00:19:57 In 1880 essay. I called
Speaker 0 00:20:01 The two great faculties of man
Speaker 2 00:20:04 And our intelligence and well, yeah,
Speaker 0 00:20:07 The intelligence being more elevated, more noble than the will sheds light upon the will. And it reveals to it, the object
Speaker 2 00:20:14 Towards what you must bend.
Speaker 0 00:20:17 It follows that we must have an insatiable desire to know the true and the good Sarah well-made will, may not run the whisk of going astray, inclining, blindly towards an object, but it's not for us.
Speaker 2 00:20:31 The true that is not for us. The good close call,
Speaker 0 00:20:38 But how many millions,
Speaker 2 00:20:40 Countless millions, okay.
Speaker 0 00:20:43 Are inclining blindly towards objects that are not for the truth.
Speaker 2 00:20:49 They're not for them. The gun, how many millions
Speaker 0 00:20:55 Are declining blindly towards objects that they're not for them and true. Not for them to could the millions that declined blinds
Speaker 2 00:21:02 Towards all various perversions. The millions inclined blindly towards drugs
Speaker 0 00:21:09 Demands had climbed blindly
Speaker 2 00:21:11 What's money, power, the million to declined blindly towards him, respect and the drive to fit in, to take only one example, the millions union pier images 20 years ago. You could've never convinced me that in the near future practical Catholics
Speaker 0 00:21:39 Guys are still going to mass and he's traveling with impurity. And yet, in spite of that,
Speaker 2 00:21:46 They'd be carrying around triple X, movie theaters in their pockets. One of these so called smartphones.
Speaker 0 00:21:54 Then when the priest told him to get rid of it,
Speaker 2 00:21:59 It's unbelievable. Where's it kid. Now, it's not a stupid question. Where's he getting? Are they really seeking first? The kingdom of God and his chest?
Speaker 0 00:22:18 And when the priest explains these guys, if they try to go to confession, they can't
Speaker 2 00:22:23 And on his dad to contrition
Speaker 0 00:22:26 Because enact attrition after promise God, and that is it
Speaker 2 00:22:30 At the almighty God
Speaker 0 00:22:32 Denture promise God and the divide, not only as sin,
Speaker 2 00:22:36 But the near occasion of sin. And there it is in their pocket. Those are just empty words. They need nothing. They simply can't make
Speaker 0 00:22:58 A valid confession unless they
Speaker 2 00:23:00 Remove the occasion of sin. And even if a priest
Speaker 0 00:23:05 It's so ignorant that he actually tries to absolve something like this, there's nothing going to happen. Phil. His words of just ricochet off that absolution will just ricochet off. It has absolutely no effect. It can't.
Speaker 2 00:23:20 You have any effect because the person is living in the near occasion of sin. The man is left in his sins.
Speaker 0 00:23:30 And if the priest realizes what he's doing, then he's just committed
Speaker 2 00:23:35 And that's insane. And it's everywhere.
Speaker 0 00:23:41 It's like the guy that wants stuff. Isn't contraception. Won't the act properly with his wife.
Speaker 2 00:23:47 It's drunk. Won't give up the booze
Speaker 0 00:23:51 About the drugs. So like the guy who's sitting, he won't give up the girl. So to guy in a bad marriage, if any of these guys go to confession, they can make
Speaker 2 00:24:05 And honest act of contrition because in the act of contrition, they have to promise God, they're going to avoid the near occasion sin, but they're living in an education of sin. And as long as they're not avoiding it, those words mean nothing. Absolution is not some kind of magic formula. The penitent has to have a firm purpose of amendment four, the validity of the sacrament, not affirmed purpose to keep right on living in the near occasion of sin and try to cover the feds by going to confession long work, it's insane. And it's everywhere, everywhere. Where is it getting them? Are they really seeking first? The kingdom of God and his justice. Now we could multiply examples like this all day.
Speaker 0 00:25:15 The underlying problem here is perfectly obvious. The sad truth,
Speaker 2 00:25:19 Okay.
Speaker 0 00:25:21 It's really a terrifying truth. Is it to all appearances
Speaker 2 00:25:24 Because only God congestion the arts, but tall appearances the majority of our population. And I certainly include the praise and the practical Catholics, tall appearances. Majority of our population are not seeking first. The Keenan God, ms. Justice, where is it getting them unless they changed directions. They're going to wind up where they're headed. We continue
Speaker 0 00:26:11 Father Emmanuel quote. We must have an insatiable disease
Speaker 2 00:26:15 Desire to know the true and the good
Speaker 0 00:26:18 So that our will, may not run the risk of going astray. Inclining, blindly towards an object that is not for us. The true that is not for us. The good
Speaker 2 00:26:28 Now, listen, this is an 1880,
Speaker 0 00:26:30 But the majority of Catholics do not have this hunger, this true thirst for the truth to which our Lord has promised
Speaker 2 00:26:38 Eternal satisfaction, close quotes, father Emmanuel, the of Catholics, do not have this hunger, this thirst for the truth to which our Lord has promised to internal satisfaction. What is that ever true? It's terrifying, but it's true. You know, it's not a bit uncommon to meet Catholics no more and a whole lot more about the lives of Hollywood actors than they do about the same, to know a lot more about football than they do about the gospel. The majority of Catholics do not have this hunger, this thirst for the truth to which our Lord has promised eternal satisfaction, but the truth and own that truth is going to set us free. Think about that. We can't achieve union with Christ without well living in the truth. And if we don't have union with the ham, we can't be saved.
Speaker 2 00:27:50 We can achieve union with Christ without living the truth. And if we don't have union with the hands, we can't be saying that truth matters. The truth is worth dying for it's the truth. Only the truth that can set us free. And in that light, let's look more carefully at the absolute necessity of living the truth in order to achieve that union with Christ to that end a rape from a common trap, that specific topic, it was written almost six years ago, and it wasn't written for the man. And few it's actually written for nuns since God is true. You did assault with God will depend on the degree to which the soul recognizes the truth and is willing to sacrifice all things for the truth.
Speaker 2 00:28:51 Since God is true, the universe soul with God will depend on the degree to which the soul recognizes the truth as one, to sacrifice all things for the truth. Love for God can be equated with the love for the truth closed quote, is that not the lesson of Saint JDCs? Is that not the lesson I beat you and only marketers. Everyone needs to burn this into his mind since God is true. Union of his soul with God will depend on the degree to which the soul recognizes the truth and so willing to sacrifice all things for the truth. Love for God can be equated with love for the truth. We continue
Speaker 0 00:29:48 In view of his clearly understood fact.
Speaker 2 00:29:51 It is staggering.
Speaker 0 00:29:53 The religious can play with the truth for their own satisfaction. When God has plainly designed the human intellect for the search for truth for him, anyone seeking God needs tremendous honesty.
Speaker 2 00:30:07 And it is very rare. Let's do that
Speaker 0 00:30:12 Staggering that anyone can play with the truth for his own satisfaction when God has planted assigned the human and luck for that
Speaker 2 00:30:18 Search for truth for him, anyone seeking God needs tremendous honesty and just very rare.
Speaker 0 00:30:28 It's difficult. To be honest,
Speaker 2 00:30:29 If you don't have the bigness required,
Speaker 0 00:30:32 The virtue of honesty, well, the dishonesty is conscious
Speaker 2 00:30:36 Or unconscious. It prevents the progress, the soul to God, to everybody here that where the dishonesty is conscious or unconscious, it prevents progress. And so to God, how can that be?
Speaker 0 00:30:54 Okay. Potter? I can see what conscious dishonesty prevent the progress of his soul towards God, but how can unconscious dishonesty prevent the progress of the soul?
Speaker 2 00:31:04 God, that doesn't seem to make sense. Actually, it's easy to explain
Speaker 0 00:31:10 Since God can ode to C or B to C it's against,
Speaker 2 00:31:14 This is an age to build on a lie, unless it's denied.
Speaker 0 00:31:21 Anyone sees things as
Speaker 2 00:31:23 They are rather than
Speaker 0 00:31:26 Finished. She wants them to be God by giving her the grace,
Speaker 2 00:31:29 She seeks would be building on an air that bears your painting.
Speaker 0 00:31:36 Since he neither can save or be deceived, it's against God's nature to build on a lie. Unless someone sees things as they are rather than as he wants him to be God, by building on him, giving him the grace. He seeks, we, we built
Speaker 2 00:31:49 Hang on in hair. Every one of us, he's just strived for a simple love of the truth, regardless of how much it pleases or displaces us. The main obstacle to honesty lies in the heart,
Speaker 0 00:32:08 Inconvenience and trouble is sewing from it.
Speaker 2 00:32:12 Cause it leaves no rest until one does. What's right. So true. The main obstacle to honesty lies in the face of the inconvenience and trouble concealing from him. How often do we see people with gifts,
Speaker 0 00:32:28 Consciousness who just won't allow themselves
Speaker 2 00:32:30 The face, then convenience in trouble, their misbehaviors,
Speaker 0 00:32:35 And how often do you see them dream up? So many excuses decide they want to do, and then construct these arguments to justify their sins or they trapped themselves. And so much purposely muddled thinking. They occupied themselves as so much useless activity on the effort to distract or guilty
Speaker 2 00:32:53 The consciousness. But each one of us needs to strive for simple loans for the truth, regardless of how much it pleases or displeases us. The main obstacle, honesty lies in the heart face, the inconvenience and trouble and sewing from it. We continue. Honesty is the virtue by which the child sees that she deserved this bank,
Speaker 0 00:33:21 The loose woman mitts did. She bought her troubles on herself. The drunk confesses that no one else poured the whiskey down.
Speaker 2 00:33:27 It was throughout. Honestly,
Speaker 0 00:33:30 He's the virtue by which the religious sees that only she can stand in a way of God's work in her soul, but he refuses to lay her failures at the door of persecution, misunderstanding for preparation, for whatever happens or any of the countless forms of stuff,
Speaker 2 00:33:46 Justification, honesty,
Speaker 0 00:33:49 Ritual with which she searches her soul for the obstacles to grace, which define them regardless of their unplanned pleasantness. The main stimulus to honesty is the prospect of its rewards, which make the pain involved
Speaker 2 00:34:05 It's acceptable and reasonable
Speaker 0 00:34:09 Honesty is the shortest route
Speaker 2 00:34:11 To truth. That is to say to God, honesty is the shortest route to God. The goal is reached through the Babylist soul against slavery to sell
Speaker 0 00:34:24 The truth, which makes men free liberates them from emotional clamor for the immediate physical good.
Speaker 2 00:34:30 What you see tasted touched her, the smell. It raises them above the senses
Speaker 0 00:34:37 Where the prize of true level weights, truly three, and therefore the honest religious unenchanted by herself.
Speaker 2 00:34:45 It's the greatest little vol along with God closed, quote, these are thoughts they're very much worth meditating on and taking to heart very much a huge amount of the work that a priest does. If he's really trying to help people growing on us. He's trying to get him to be honest with themselves and take responsibility. It's not by pointing things out. People have to take responsibility. Sure. Churches in disaster is that some obstacle God and I can be insane. Sure. Our society is falling apart. Did good. Does this surprise God, I can't become a Saint
Speaker 0 00:35:34 It's staggering that anyone can play with the truth for his own satisfaction.
Speaker 2 00:35:38 God has plummeted designed the human intellect for a search for truth for him. And he wants seeking God needs tremendous honesty. That's very rare.
Speaker 0 00:35:49 She's conscious or unconscious. It prevents
Speaker 2 00:35:51 The progress to soul to God is against God's nature to build on a lie.
Speaker 0 00:35:58 Someone sees things as they are rather than as he wants him to be God by giving them the grace he sees
Speaker 2 00:36:04 We'll be building on a lie.
Speaker 0 00:36:07 Chairman could, will depends on honesty, a simple love for the church, regardless of how
Speaker 2 00:36:12 Bunch of pleases or displeases her. How common is this sort of honesty? Don't worry about anything else right now. Look in your own heart in your own honor. Do you have a sense,
Speaker 0 00:36:28 Simple love for the truth
Speaker 2 00:36:31 Godless of how much it pleases or displays as you have,
Speaker 0 00:36:39 If we're really serious about the truth. There are two other factors to be
Speaker 2 00:36:43 Wade, besides honesty, objectivity, objectivity, and dishonesty. Okay. Let's briefly consider each intern objectivity.
Speaker 0 00:36:55 Cool. It is not enough to want to be honest.
Speaker 2 00:36:59 It's not enough to,
Speaker 0 00:37:00 To be honest, we have to strive to be as objective as possible. Project activity is the ability to see things as they really are. Subjectivity is saying things to one's own eyes or as one. Thanks for matches him to be a nun as objectives. The degree that she does see things
Speaker 2 00:37:16 As they are
Speaker 0 00:37:18 Christ asked the blind man, what, without that I should do to me to which the blind man replied
Speaker 2 00:37:25 Rabbi that I might see,
Speaker 0 00:37:28 There's nothing average, religious needs more than to see her prior to God should be lower than I might say. She should pray to see things as they are not as she wishes them to be the ability of the religious to be objective will determine to a large degree,
Speaker 2 00:37:45 Her progress in relation to God or a neighbor. In other words, it's not enough to want to be honest. The Ferriss
Speaker 0 00:37:55 We're so intent on their own. And the van identified their purposes with those of God through blind selfishness, they were almost completely subjective about Christ because they saw him as a threat to themselves. The leaders of the people, they saw him as a threat to the Jewish religion. The Jewish people think that that's why they include it was expedient for one man to die. The nation subjectivity made them disclose discard his claims to the shy ship. Despite the undoubted signs, he worked
Speaker 2 00:38:29 His divinity.
Speaker 0 00:38:31 Our Lord went out of his way to warn about subjectivity. When he told the parable of the unjust servant who forgiven much himself, throttled his fellow servant for a much smaller crime. His tragedy was he saw everything from his own point of view. Had he not lost all that? Nearly all objectivity. He had been the first to see the enormity of what he did see things from his own little viewpoint. He ultimately discharged himself. The object of religious life is union with God and should be the object.
Speaker 2 00:39:03 Each one of us. Cause that's what baptism means. But
Speaker 0 00:39:07 Religious life is union with God. It's all to him. And for religious to seek God who is a little like yourself,
Speaker 2 00:39:14 But it's hardly been objective Christ crucified.
Speaker 0 00:39:18 Well, he was dying on the cross to win for them. The grace of fate, we're screaming at him to come down and they believe in
Speaker 2 00:39:28 Those seeking God on their own terms should not be the least bit surprised if they never find him seeking God on their own terms should not be the least bit surprised if they never find him the religious who does not end up in his eternal embrace praise, a horrible price for willful blindness, close call kids. Not to want to be honest. We have to strive to be subjective as possible. Objectivity is the ability to see things as they really are
Speaker 0 00:40:04 Conductivity determines to a large degree, our progress in relationship
Speaker 2 00:40:08 God and her neighbor, those seeking God in their own terms should not be the least bit surprised if they never find them. What you thinking? Okay. Wishful thinking, okay, this is a religion of the truth.
Speaker 0 00:40:28 There's 40 11 religions out there of wishful thing.
Speaker 2 00:40:31 Okay. This is a religion of dishonesty. If we're really sorry.
Speaker 0 00:40:38 True. Obviously you have to rigorously label it. Dishonesty. What isn't obvious. Is there some more subtle for me?
Speaker 2 00:40:45 So dishonesty that sometimes can be overlooked, especially in the case of the dishonesty appeal appeals to our own appetites and desires. I quote much
Speaker 0 00:40:57 It's honesty, originates and false teachings
Speaker 2 00:41:00 Or misunderstanding of the truth. False teaching comes largely from an Epic teachers. Misunderstanding
Speaker 0 00:41:06 The truth comes largely from over-emphasis of one tree
Speaker 2 00:41:10 To a detriment of another. For example, the church teaches that the sacraments give grace
Speaker 0 00:41:17 $3 word, $3 phrase expo parade. Perato that's a $3 phrase. It means that there's no obstacle against it. The grace comes from us
Speaker 2 00:41:26 Document itself, okay?
Speaker 0 00:41:28 To infer from this, the fact that the more frequently one goes to Holy communion, the better one is quite misleading and would be true. All things being equal. But in fact, all things are never equal. Many religious wonder. Despite the fact that its members receive community daily, why the community as a whole is not better than it is and the members better than they are. Pastors by scores have wondered why so many of their troubles come from the fervent members of the parish. Why the daily communicants can be among the most perverse centuries. Self-righteous the fact is, although the sacraments do give grace XL or Perato the grace from them works. This is all, here's another free dollar phrase, X, Oprah. Operandus. Now that's a $3 phrase. That means they work according to the dispositions of the one receiver. So that means that the sacraments are fruitful. According to the degree of the love of God and the recipient
Speaker 3 00:42:37 Frequency
Speaker 0 00:42:38 Reception in itself does not determine the progress of the soul and grace. And this is the reason, this is really, really important.
Speaker 3 00:42:48 If we're not
Speaker 0 00:42:49 Since after our first flight community, it's not because there's any black in the most blessed sacrament that's Christ. Their whole entire body was stolen divinity. It's because of our dispositions at the moment of reception. And then what we do as the author points up, the reason this is the reason preparation or communion Thanksgiving afterwards should take prior to religious life over less consequential, devotions closed. It's essential. Okay? If you're a fireman and you got to let you got to go, okay, but when we're going to command, you want to spend that time preparing yourself to receive Holy communion, because it's the almighty God coming to you. And there's only so many times he knows that you don't, there's only so many times you get to receive Holy communion. So want to prepare yourself as much as possible. So you're disposed as creatively as possible. So you can, and this is great.
Speaker 0 00:43:42 Cause you even get an absolution from anything. If he got annoyed at something right beforehand, when you were receiving this, right, and you receive a new and dog, the priest is planet getting your own personal benediction placed in the host on your tongue. So the whole time it can be working on disposing yourself as much as possible. But then there is present. You want to spend that time, thanking him and talking to him about everything you need. I use this example all the time. I suppose somebody says, Hey, you know, why don't you come over? I'm really looking forward to visit. You know, they keep inviting. You finally go over to the house, knock on the door. They'd say, come on in. Can you just step in here? They open. They lock in a broom closet and then they go around. You can hear them in there doing things, walk around and go. What, what kind of stupidity is this? You'd feel completely insulted. First off. They weren't interested in second off ignoring you,
Speaker 2 00:44:34 But isn't that an inscription, most oily communities. So many of our parishes people want to grow in holiness.
Speaker 0 00:44:48 They tell you that you tell them, make a really good preparation for communion, make a good Thanksgiving, but somehow give them that doughnut right away,
Speaker 2 00:44:55 Way more than the heart and the Thanksgiving. You only get so many companions, which came to mind. You started to see conversed. Now, unfortunately there's a lot of dishonesty that rains in traditional circles. When it comes to certain theological realities, autism, I can do this all day. I'm just going to myself to two examples. Both of which combine a dishonesty with a huge dose of subjectivity. Subjectivity is wishful thinking. The constant truth,
Speaker 0 00:45:32 Establish the canonical form necessary for Latin, right calf,
Speaker 2 00:45:37 Next development contract marriage, the absence of a dispensation from the local Bishop. One of the reasons
Speaker 0 00:45:44 Requirements for validity is the marriage must be celebrated
Speaker 2 00:45:49 By the parish priest of the place of marriage or the local ordinary means the local Bishop or priest delegated by either closed court or taken with proper delegation can also witness
Speaker 0 00:46:01 Isn't even debatable. We're talking about the council of Trent here and yet we have all these traditional Catholic couples attempted to contract marriage or independent chapels cellist society st. Potts tempted center for Catholic is no different.
Speaker 2 00:46:17 Then going to justice of the peace, the ding dong wedding, bill Chapman, Reno, Nevada. They go on
Speaker 0 00:46:23 Boyfriend and girlfriend and come back down.
Speaker 2 00:46:25 It's boyfriend and girlfriend with the automotive crisis. They so desperately need. If we're really serious about the truth, obviously then rigorously avoid dishonest too much full thinking, especially in a case where the dishonesty appeals, John appetites and desires are the other example, consider the hierarchical constitution of the church by that, what you mean the people and not the priest under the patient. That's a part of the deposit of faith. That means it comes to us from Jesus Christ himself. The hierarchical constitution of the church is part the deposit of faith, just how
Speaker 0 00:47:16 And traditional circles that we've got to the point where we can convince ourselves that this is okay.
Speaker 2 00:47:23 It's comes from Christ himself. And it's an observable
Speaker 0 00:47:26 Objective reality
Speaker 2 00:47:31 And not to pick on him. He needs our prayers. What dies is Bishop Williamson, the Bishop, which dicastery, which Chancery or carnal in Rome, rather as Bishop Williamson subject, we all know, everyone knows he's not the Bishop of anywhere. He's not under anyone in wrong. Keep in mind that the subject it's a business objection or wrong. Isn't objective reality. It's observable object. We'll be speaking. This means he is not in a proper relationship and a proper submission to the hierarchy of the actual church established by Jesus Christ. Our Lord objective ways of thinking, man, that means he's in Sydney. And so is everyone United with him. This is a salvation issue not to pick on him either. He needs our prayers. What diocese, especially filet Bishop, which die-cast tree Ricardo in Rome, especial place.
Speaker 2 00:48:58 We all know, everyone knows it's not the Bishop of anywhere. He's not under anyone in Rome. Submission to Rome is an observable objective reality, objectively speaking. This means he's not in the proper relationship and a proper submission to the hierarchy of the church or Scouts by Jesus Christ. Our Lord I've checked. These means he's in citizen. And so it was everyone sending to him and they'd go wild on the Plavix. If you said anything like that, there's not some drop down clause. Some loophole that says these things apply except in times of crisis, when had the church, not Bennett crisis all the way it goes up and down. But one of the church now I've been in crisis. There's not some dropped on, cause it says acceptance, state of emergency. What else are the deposit of faith is optional. How do we turn? That's according to our own tastes, dowsing rod or theological manual to see which things apply and which things don't seriously.
Speaker 2 00:50:10 What are the exact rules we're picking and choosing if we're really serious about the truth, obviously then we have to rigorously avoid two saunas in wishful thinking, especially in the cases where the dishonesty appealed to our own appetites and desires. Each one of us needs to look into his own heart and be brutally honest with himself, brutally honest. And you're the only one that can answer. Do you have a simple love for the truth, regardless of how much it pleases or displaces you? I can't answer that for you. I can only answer for me each one of you has to answer that question because there's a flip side. There's a flip side. It's terrifying. It's bone chilling in may of 1897, probably the 13th stated
Speaker 0 00:51:11 It's in cyclical and the Holy spirit called whosoever failing by weakness or ignorance may perhaps have some excuse before all mighty God,
Speaker 2 00:51:21 God, but he resists the truth through malice and turns away from it
Speaker 0 00:51:29 Since most grievously
Speaker 2 00:51:33 Against the Holy ghost on this crop.
Speaker 0 00:51:39 Here's the Institute through malice and turns away from it sends most Greeks
Speaker 2 00:51:43 Against the Holy ghost. Now I'm sure we're all well aware of it. It's a terrifying statement of our Lord. We can find it Mark three 29, quote
Speaker 0 00:51:54 He's at she'll blast you against the Holy ghost.
Speaker 2 00:51:57 She'll never have forgiveness, but she'll be guilty of an everlasting sin close quote, resisting the truth. So one of the sins against the Holy ghost and I quit
Speaker 0 00:52:11 Well from a standard Catholic record
Speaker 2 00:52:13 It's work quote
Speaker 0 00:52:16 In particular deliberate resistance, the known truth, maybe regarded, especially directed against the work of the Holy ghost in the soul generally is so hard. The soul to the inspirations of
Speaker 2 00:52:27 Grace, that repentance is unlikely close cloud. Back to Leo on the 13th,
Speaker 0 00:52:36 Whosoever failed by weakness or ignorance may perhaps have some excuse before almighty God, but he resists the truth through malice and turns away from it since most grievously against the Holy ghost. In our days, his sin has become so frequent. He's writing an ATM
Speaker 2 00:52:52 97
Speaker 0 00:52:55 In our days as soon as become so frequent that those dark times seem to have come, which are 14
Speaker 2 00:53:00 Called by st. Paul
Speaker 0 00:53:03 And which men blinded by the just judgment of God should take false fit for truth.
Speaker 2 00:53:08 And shouldn't believe in the Prince of this world who is a liar and the father thereof as a teacher of truth,
Speaker 0 00:53:18 As it says in second Thessalonians, two, 10, first, too many for one got you. Send them the operation air to believe line the last time. Some shall depart from the faith giving key to spirits of air
Speaker 2 00:53:32 And the doctrines of devils close quote, the vicar of Christ. So that's pretty much a cut or dry. We have two basic choices. Do we love the truth? We'll end up loving a lie. Either. We lumped the truth and wound up loving a lie. How many of us here love the truth? What can be brutally honest with yourself?
Speaker 0 00:54:07 You have a simple love for the truth.
Speaker 2 00:54:09 How much it pleases or displeases you take it seriously? Be brutally honest with yourself. It's not a salvation issue. Okay. After you've answered that question, look in your heart again. Ask yourself another salvation. Did she question what kingdom
Speaker 0 00:54:33 Do I customarily live in
Speaker 2 00:54:35 The kingdom of this world or the kingdom of God?
Speaker 0 00:54:41 Remember that when our Lord is speaking, the kingdom of God is free. Not just to have one,
Speaker 2 00:54:46 But a state of the BD way of living and thinking, acting by men or headed towards him,
Speaker 0 00:54:54 Speak to men, seeking them first is referring to those men. Turn the focus away from the things of this world, to the minds,
Speaker 2 00:55:02 Towards the things of God
Speaker 0 00:55:06 Is a friend, a man who live with her intellects guided by truth.
Speaker 2 00:55:09 And the Will's got about charity to men who have truly taken a harder. The scripture. The truth will set them free.
Speaker 0 00:55:16 Two men who are marked with an absolute devotion, the true who's tried to know and embrace the truth, no matter how painful it might be different personally to men who also recognize clearly that their wills
Speaker 2 00:55:29 To be guided by charity. That's supernatural virtue by which a man loves God above all things. He loves his neighbors himself for love of God. As a result of that, he's also taken a heart, even if he has all knowledge and has health, faith, and it has not charity. His because charity is the greatest furniture. Those men who are sneaky person that can't remember God and it's justice are those men. And only those men who decided to be guided by truth for charity without counting the cost. And once we see that, it's easy to see how we can tell if we're seeking first, the kingdom of God,
Speaker 0 00:56:17 Any number of questions we can ask ourselves, do I
Speaker 2 00:56:22 Love all things? God and his will. His commandments, his desires. His love
Speaker 0 00:56:31 Is that first in my life is that true standard
Speaker 2 00:56:35 Of what I am and desire.
Speaker 0 00:56:38 Do I see the spiritual eternal things is priceless
Speaker 2 00:56:41 In temporal goods
Speaker 0 00:56:43 As a relatively small value. Something only to be sought after insubordination. The kingdom of God is things which are Adam by God. So far as they could.
Speaker 2 00:56:53 Can you do my real dud? Where do I focus? My attention
Speaker 0 00:57:01 In time and money spent primarily on things that will certainly perish from the service of God. Am I a Catholic on Sunday?
Speaker 2 00:57:09 Okay. And American the rest of the week,
Speaker 0 00:57:15 Or if I truly surrendered all aspects of my life to Christ and his church, can I honestly say, Lord, I want to accomplish dialogue
Speaker 2 00:57:25 More than I want to follow mine. In my studies
Speaker 0 00:57:32 Day to day life, my personal affairs, my dealings with my neighbors. Do I truly desire to know the truth? Not that it's convenient from Atrius, but all the truth proper for my state,
Speaker 2 00:57:43 No matter how painful or inconvenient they might be in me personally, am I careful
Speaker 0 00:57:52 To reject and resist political correctness and all its forms to recognize clearly that political pregnancy is at its root. A way of using words and ideas, not as a means of conveying truth, but rather as an expression of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable to say and believe pled company. So two person advise and political correctness, uh, changes or adopts his ideas like women in Hollywood change their clothing styles. It's a question of what's inside
Speaker 2 00:58:25 Fashion.
Speaker 0 00:58:27 The reasonably things is because of their true, not because of their fashionable. There's one thing we can learn from
Speaker 2 00:58:36 It's that the reasonable he thinks it's because whereas dying more and everything matters. Do I have a simple
Speaker 0 00:58:51 Love for the truth, regardless of how much,
Speaker 2 00:58:53 What he says or displays is me of course, while, well,
Speaker 0 00:58:58 Where are the names that you had called? If you don't block by some politically correct position, you let your views people
Speaker 2 00:59:04 You're judgmental. You're a fascist. Yeah.
Speaker 0 00:59:05 <inaudible> patriarchal tyrant, your fundamentalists, blah, blah, blah, blah. These lay a law designed to humiliate the person. So they'll shut up.
Speaker 2 00:59:17 You get on with the program, right? The point here is that political correctness is based on using two fundamental desires to control people, desire to be accepted and the fear of being rejected. Where am I at in regards to, am I more worried about what he thinks of me? 100 people think of me? Do I have a simple love for the truth? Regardless of how much it pleases their displeases me or pleases or displeases my neighbor in my day to day life am my dealing personal affairs. Am I dealing to find Avery is charity, my old writing concern or my thoughts, words, deeds acts. Are they measured against something else besides charity? For example, do I adjust my thoughts? My words, my acts to make things more convenient for me. Do I chest things to increase my popularity? Do I adjust my thoughts where it's an act to crease my world for political advantage?
Speaker 2 01:00:30 Do I adjust my thoughts, words, and acts to gain power, to increase my pleasure in my data to arrive in my personal affairs, my dealings with my neighbors, where do I focus? My attention is cheerleading. My overriding concern, no matter how painful or inconvenient that might be for me personally, no one truly has chaired that he no longer has his own agenda. No matter what cross he wants only what's true because he wills what God wills. He along with longer, same within my kingdom, but he's saying, okay, now, given all that and assuming the devotees, each one of us here is not quite there yet, but still everyone here wants to truly seek the kingdom of God has justice. That each one of us truly wants to be guided by both truth and charity, without counting the cost. Assuming all that let's close with a short reflection, Luke two 35, we read at st.
Speaker 2 01:01:41 Salmon speaking to our lady, the presentation, the temple says, and I own solo us a sword shop here that out of many parts, thoughts may be revealed by the Pearson of our lady saw from immaculate heart. Many grace has happened or now how's crisis will flow from our heart. And each one of us will accept those crazy. And each one of us has opened to those graces, the blessed Virgin, Mary, the matrix of all grace portlets crisis out in all who asked an acceptance within the very depths of our being the truth will be known. In fact, our own thoughts of it revealed insofar as we accept the graces or a check them so many souls don't ask for graces, nor do they accept grace. Instead they turn towards and shoes the kingdom of this world. And that very act their hearts are in that very act.
Speaker 2 01:02:52 They choose things as they want them to be not as they actually are not very active, do not fully embrace the truth. So even though it may even appear at times they're on the right path, it's what in their, in their heart, that really matters where their heart is. That's where they actually are. Our Liddy's soft. My Mac at heart was Martin with her son because that's where her heart was at. So although she did not die physically at the foot of the cross, she's the queen of martyrs because her heart was completely and fully United to that of her son and his death on the cross.
Speaker 2 01:03:34 So each one of us should look at his heart with brutal honesty and ask themselves, am I asking for the grace to truly live in the kingdom of God? Am I asking? They might handle that be God about truth. And I will be guided by charity. Am I asking for the grace of an absolute devotion, the truth and is a grace? That's a very rare grace. You gotta ask for it. Am I asking for the grace of absolute devotion to truth, the grave to strive, to know and embrace the truth on there? How painful or inconvenient might be from me personally? Am I asking for the grace of God, not the ball things, my neighbor as myself for love of God. Am I asking for those criticisms? Am I accepting? The grace is our lady has for me or my content worth where I am in the world.
Speaker 2 01:04:32 We need to look at our hearts as brutal honesty. Maybe we failed tonight. Our Lord fallen short succumbed to political correctness failed our marriage commitments failed, fallen into contraception activities outside of marriage struggles with perverted or websites duties and stayed alive, failed their witness to Christ involves things like immoral Wars, crooked business deals. Dishonest politics may have been involved in criminal behavior, drunkenness, drug use. Have you been making bad confessions sack load his companions broken on command with the church? Whatever the case might be. It's time to rip ban it's is ban or checked anything and everything. That's not pleasing to God. It's time to seek first. The kingdom of God and his justice. It's time to be guided by both truth and charity without counting the cost. It's time to become faithful witnesses to the truth. It's time to become faithful witnesses to on a daily basis. It's time to become faithful witnesses to truth incarnate on a daily pace. It's time to join ranks with st Janisa and all the Holy martyrs to be faithful witnesses to them on a daily basis in all the circumstances of our life. When we live like that, when we live, we'll be well prepared to die for the truth.
