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You think I'm Teresa Tommy I'm a Catholic connection U.S. Bishops praising the governor of Kansas for signing into law protections for databased adoption agencies the bishops say it puts children 1st Kansas governor Jeb Collier Catholic up for election as for his political rivals criticize him for signing the bell he says St Thomas More who was beheaded for standing up to Catholic teaching is his inspiration in Iraq goes into effect in July worshippers in Cuba remembering 20 victims of last week's plane crash or evangelicals they were coming home from a retreat for married couples 110 people killed in the wreck near her Donna and more than 200 active and retired military personnel wrapping up a week long pilgrimage to Lourdes Today the group has been at the Marian shine since last week the visit organized by the Archdiocese of military services and the Knights of Columbus corners of the Catholic perspective as it is double duty and News dot com I'm Teresa Tommy and when called to communion with Dr David enter starts now. Topping. Coming up. I can't think of anything to. Do anything you like to preach. This is cultic communion with Dr David Englanders. Deputy in global. Everybody welcome again to call the Communion this is a Catholic brothers and sisters if you've got a question about the Catholic faith that we can get that probe that question answered on this program here's our phone number 833-2888 pm That's 833288398 secs You can also text the letters E.W.T.N. 255000 wait for our. It's in the text as your 1st name and your brief question message and data rates may apply again the phone number 83328. Michael Burchfield is our producer back a density is handling the phones Jeff person is on social media so you can also ask your questions via Facebook or You Tube get those right here in the studio I'm Tom Price along with Dr David Enders on how are you today couldn't be better and you my friend you know doing pretty decent. I have been instructed Yes by the higher ups. It is time to be to mention a book. And the book is a book that I wrote all right and the title of the book is The Catholic Church saved my marriage discovering hidden grace in the sacrament of matrimony and it's going to be released by publishing June 21st. Already available for preorder on Amazon and Sophie instate Press website and you know we do a lot of politics on the show talking about the truth of the Catholic faith and I wanted to write a book that showed that these abstract ideas have real purchase in a human life namely my own and that I know that of which I speak because I went from being kind of miserable fellow with a bad situation to living a life of marital bliss because of the teaching in the grace of the Catholic Church so if you want to read that story check out the Catholic Church save my marriage by David Enders available very soon and already has preorder we've been waiting for this book for a long time I remember asking you years ago so David has that book coming in. And then one of my one of my best friends you know is. Yes brilliant guy wonderful Dominican priest elision I did the pope's newspaper for a very long time work solicitor amount of is the 1st English language editor of that paper and if it. For him and I asked him one time said you never write a book. And he said the perfect was the enemy of the good. And if I could tell you the number of half starts I've got like whole file sections on my computer desktop it's like 1st attempt 2nd attempt 3rd book out apologetics you know and and thanks also to. Taylor Hancock here it. Who would stand outside the radio studio and tap your foot and bug me and be like we're waiting on that manuscript that well us and we hope that this is the 1st of many books for you my friend I appreciate you let's begin here as we're getting the phones screen by the way that number 833288 here's an e-mail to get things started this is from Gabriel in Hollywood Florida he says My Jewish friend claims that Saint Paul is a liar since he never met Jesus in person and also that Catholics killed more Jews during the Spanish Inquisition than Arabs How should I respond to these 2 accusations OK thanks question 1st of all St Paul did meet Jesus. He did meet his is the better man the red to Damascus trysts struck him off the horse OK was your friend present on the road to Damascus one simple match is this it wasn't there that he cannot gainsay what Paul said that he did in fact make rice but I would say Paul is pretty darn honest because there are places in Paul's correspondents where he is asked questions about the teaching of our Lord and He will actually say this I have from the Lord. But on this other question. I'm just going to give you an answer as somebody who is you know. Make a formal you know good judgment. In particular he does this so when Paul didn't have direct revelation from Chrisy didn't claim to. Right. But he did claim to have had direct revelation from Christ and so therefore it unless your friend has some ability to falsify that claim you just have to consider the Barretts of the claim and whether or not as good evidence for Paul's. For for Paul's claim now. Paul was not insane he was a highly intelligent person he was regarded by his contemporaries as well he was a liberal it once said they like the fact that he was showing such deference to Gentiles All right that was the kind of liberal thing he was doing and of course he wasn't he was. A model Roman Senate because he didn't care too much about the cult of the Emperor he cared more about worshipping God So he got in trouble and he got beat up a lot but Presidential a murdered but nobody accused him of being a fool All right. And yet he was willing to undergo unbelievable hardship and depravation eventually dying the death of a martyr was imprisoned for years was chased out of town you know a ship wrecked you know lived on the edge for a long long time we could have been you know basically a tenured professor at Harvard all right he had that kind of that kind of. Trained with Gmail and he could have risen to the top of the ribbon it been a hot shot Jewish scholar he chose instead a life of exile torture and death most people don't do that if they are selling a lot you know most people who sell lies the hucksters want to get rich Paul did anything but. You know that that again doesn't prove false claims we get a look at other evidence for that but I think it makes the claim that Paul was an intentional liar deceiver very very hard to swallow OK OK Now with respect to kill more Jews. So. I would recommend a couple books because where these are these are book like questions right. One of them is called The Myth of the end Elisi of paradise the myth of the end the lazy in paradise that actually considers what life was like in Islamic Spain OK and it wasn't paradise it wasn't paradise as the song. And. Then you know let's look around the world today. Where do all Jews live. In Israel and the United States about. 95 percent of world Jewry lives on if you place your right historically Christian country and energy state right where they live don't ask who's calling for the United Nation of tears. Well countries of the world today are they are they specifically targeted right for for. For prosecution for programs for restriction of civil rights and so forth it's not historically Christian countries all right and. Now I mean granted I mean. You know I'm not trying to gloss the Holocaust I mean it's horrible I mean that anybody actually understands this are obviously Jesus suffered horrific things that they had suppressions OK I'm not doubt about it no doubt about it right but. But in the world where you see this happening right when it comes to kind of digging down into the details of the Spanish Inquisition and look I'm no apologies for the Spanish Inquisition right absolutely not churches the bill is 2000 years old got a 1000000000 people it's covered the globe it's good it represents all kinds of cultures all kinds of political regimes you know kinds of. Considerations in a country where everybody is catholic definition all the criminals are Catholic right I mean there's the bad things are going to be done by Catholic people because there's just so believe in many of them and they're made out of humans all right I'm not here to defend everything that the Catholic Church the individual Catholics or even groups of Catholics or governments or Catholics have ever done it's not my job and I'm interested in. That being said I would read Thomas mad on the Spanish Inquisition Professor Thomas met him St Louis University is a lot of misinformation about the Inquisition of what actually happened how many people suffered under what circumstances are the common stereotype is false stereotype is false. But clearly clearly. The church. Has has apologized continues to apologize recognizes the legitimate suffering of Jesus the heads of Catholic people down through the centuries and I mean I think John Paul the 2nd went out of his way to say this is not what we're about and we're sorry OK. So there you go OK. Gabriel thank you so much for your question I hope that's helpful for you and your friend there in the Hollywood Florida when we come back we'll be talking with Ryan in St Louis we have a line open for you right now at 833288 pm That's 833288398 secs coming up next Ryan in Saint Louis this is called the communion here on E.W.T.N. . 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Price is the answer either John Ricardo John Chapter 11 persons 2126 this is the story of Lazarus Lazarus has died Lazarus is one of his best friends just before this passage we hear the news that Mark and Mary send word to Jesus that the one you love is sick and the next line in the scripture is now because Jesus loves Martha and Mary and Lazarus he stayed where he was his friends and I needed can heal that seen him heal before and yet somehow because he loves him and Lazarus to die and then Jesus said I was up 3 days later and is created by Mark and Mary and found him with the words Lord if you had been here my brother would never have died rather to talk about for many of us in our lives we ask the Lord to do one thing because we're certain it is what we think is best when in fact he has something which far surpasses what we asked for the challenge is in waiting for that to happen to go through a very trying times which oftentimes makes us wonder does he really care. To address. The secular press just doesn't get our story they don't even understand and so it's common to get story straight to get the story out that leading Catholic voices really tell you to be in radio. Standing. Coming to. My work colleagues or me anyway Dr David him. 3. Believe me I need another great show tonight another Anjelica live classic said 8 pm Eastern mother talks about odds and ends she lends her perspective on a variety of topics focusing on the odds and ends of our faith and there are certainly a lot of them we track a lot of them right here on this program but you check out Mother Angelica live classics they're called classics for a reason tonight 8 pm Eastern on either radio and television if you're ready now let's go to the phones at 833288 E.W.T.N. We begin with Ryan in St Louis listening on covenant radio Ryan what's on your mind today. Hi Thanks for taking my call and I ran into a job and witnessed over the weekend and one of the arguments that he presented to me to kind of discredit both Catholics and Christians in general was the fact that during like World War 2 you would have Christians fighting Christians in a war and by that time that you'd always witnesses claim neutrality you think because they claim neutrality that they are the true Christians and that it's well maybe a blemish on Christians. Really really when the critics point out just wanting a doctor enters my approach that thinks Please show me in sacred scripture where Christ or the Apostles or tradition to you for that matter to show me in Revelation or Christ of the Apostles. Identify political neutrality as a mark of Christian disciple. Up. I I don't think that that claim has any war at at all all right Jesus does not call us to political neutrality. I did act on the contrary. The Bible admonishes us to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's our right to recognise that bear the power of the sword do so by God's providential design that we have taxes to have taxes honor to honor custom to have custom. And so Christians are citizens of. St Augustine put it in the earthly city and we owe honor and deference to the earthly city. Which includes the the right and sometimes the obligation to military defense. And under rare circumstances even wars of aggression if they're just wars right so I find this claim that somehow political to trial that he is is a mark of Christian discipleship to be patently absurd All right. And contrary to reason so you know if you take the position that I have to be politically neutral. Armed or political conflict I would say that you have told me I have to look bottom eyes myself as a citizen I don't want to belong to a religion that tells me after all the bottom I's myself that I am my reason or my rational capacity to make forms judgments about about the common good and sometimes the necessity to lay down my life or to wrest other people's lives in defense of more noble and just conception of the Civil Order All right so may not let people given their lives down through the centuries for the defense of faith and family and fatherland and and for justice as they as in their potential judgment they are best able to conceive people can make mistakes about what the just state of affairs is all right that's tragedy right that's a mark of our fall in the center ignorance right but it's certainly no certainly no virtue to hold myself to live and disavow any responsibility towards the public good including that the necessity of bearing arms so I just think that's an absurd basis as I think it's untrue namely regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses fella telling me that I have as witness as ever. Defended himself when assaulted in his own home. For that matter that no Jehovah's Witnesses ever engaged in a criminal act of aggression is patently absurd and at the political level Ah you know in anticipating this call I have an opportunity to see what calls are going to come down the pike but 3 seconds before you got on the air I pulled up the website of the Jehovah's Witnesses and I just typed in Catholics. All right I tried all kinds of rubble aggression against the Catholic Church on their website all kinds of political attacks on Catholicism All right you know including the church's political stances So give me a break. Great great call Thank you so much for that that opens up a lot for you right now we do have 2 lines open at 833288 E.W.T.N. That's 833-288-3986 is a a text now from John in Missouri who wants to know is prayer for a soul in purgatory akin to a character reference for a person applying for parole Thanks John you get the idea they're praying for a soul in purgatory can to a character if it's No OK All right here's a better analogy. Praying for a soul in Purgatory is more like play paying someone's bond. On their behalf to get them out of jail OK All right so so except that in that context jail serves a different function when you can but when you can tie spawning somebody out of jail the purpose of that jail that particular imprisonment is not it's not punitive but merely to you know if there's an anticipation they might be a flight risk they need to have a need to make sure this person can show up for trial. Magine tweak the analogy a little bit a Maginot the judge actually impose a sentence for a crime. You know you can pay a $1000.00 fine or you can do 30 days in the clink. And you stepped up and said hey all out up a 1000 bucks to get him out of the clinic All right that's a better analogy because when we pray for the souls in purgatory we're saying we're not actually saying we're not we're not voting for this person's character and all we're actually saying that is they deserve what they're getting and as I guess what I'm getting. We're going to get what we deserve this guy is deserving when you get it. But can the merit of my prayers count against you know time served. OK sounds good and we thank you that for that text if you'd like to text as you can do that here at E.W.T.N. It's called a communion or give us a call 83328 E.W.T.N. Let's go now to Bahrain and Douglasville Pennsylvania listening online E.W.T.N. Dot com Hey Maury what's on your mind today. And I will explain the call meaner and more in a moment. And. I think. I'm the real. Campbell Brown. And I didn't really think. Very. Ellie but when I go out that I want I was thinking about it and I did you know going in the right direction and I was thinking about. You know that even though. There is. You know. In this particularly. A lot of them are. They don't even get water and I also don't know what is going on in one thing maybe. Thank you I appreciate it thank you so much so lot of personal I'm very sorry about the struggle that you're having with your beloved dog an animal and you know we got a bunch of dogs at my house and I am an animal guy my wife is an animal person and my son wants to be a vet and I'm sensitive OK and I and I thought that's rough and I'm sorry for you. A lot like a lot of what she said your sister there are some things I would add OK here's the basic thing people are not dogs people are not dogs folks forget that believe it or not folks forget that people are not dogs OK And and it's not just a question of ownership it's not just that I have dominion over the dog and God has dominion over me as a national point but that's not really the turning factor OK. The determining factor is it's not intrinsically wrong to kill a dog. It is not intrinsically wrong to kill a dog right it is in transit clear wrong to intend the death of a innocent human person when it's not in defense of oneself or one's country and it's not a judicial punishment imposed for a horrific crime all right it is not intense interest there only kill. It is wrong under most circumstances to kill a human being right. Because the. The value of a dog's life is not proportionate or equivalent in any way to the value of human life developing human life is potentially infinite potentially infinite because we have the capacity to enter into a relationship with Almighty God through grace that will last into all eternity and if we don't take up that opportunity to enter into our relationship got through it through 3 grace for all eternity the alternative is relatively dire it's an eternity without God. And so the the drama of decision making about human life is fraught with a total consequence all right when a dog dies it's sad but that's all she wrote. All right and and dogs cannot redeem their suffering. All right there's no this. The I don't cannot offer it's suffering for the sake of Christ's Body the Church. It's just suffering it's a tragedy it's just suffering all right if I were if I alleviate the suffering of a dog well you know I've done a small good thing not a thing of eternal consequence just a thing of merely temporal natural consequence but it's it's pretty small in the scale of the hierarchy of goods right I should try to eliminate the suffering of humans and the Catholic Church does goes out of her way to eliminate the suffering of humans but the elimination of human suffering is not the highest good there are higher goods all right this is why humans have the capacity to freely choose suffering. For the sake of some greater and more noble good everybody who lays their life down for for for the country for example for their spouse or kids chooses suffering for a more noble good all right all of us are called to do this we're all called to say with a busted Virgin Mary be done to me according to the word right God allows human suffering because he intends to bring out of it as a greater good we don't necessarily see that greater good Inus life but the horizon of human life is eternity. And to say to God I know perfectly well that you don't have a good reason for allowing this suffering is presumption of the highest order. I can't possibly say that to God if I'm suffering and God is good he's got a reason I don't have to see it for him to have a reason all right and and it is just it's not just a question of faith it's a matter of justice for me in acknowledging God's dominion and sovereignty and this is where your point about sovereignty comes in to say if he allows it he has a reason all right and and it's not within my competence or jurisdiction to take a human life when eternity hangs in the balance OK Is that helpful for you Maureen . Barry. Thank you you are most welcome this is called a communion here on E.W.T.N. I'll give you our phone number here that is 833288 if you have a question for Dr David address 833-288-3986 in a moment here we're going to get to Joe in Kennewick Washington who has a question regarding Lutherans also Wanda in key go Harbor Michigan. Has a question about Anglicans will also get to a text from Jose who wants to know about the 7 sleepers are you familiar with the 7 Sleepers David. Not a whole lot I think you're going to be checking that. On the Internet will also get to something here from Tanya. Check it out today on You Tube So coming up here on this edition of call to communion here on. A given that phone number one more time since we do have a couple lines open 33288. That's 833288398 secs call to Communion on E.W.T.N. The global Catholic Radio Network to stay with us. You're listening to a spotlight minute on Catholic Radio Network. Simply since Jesus never talked about homosexual activity he must have been OK with it. Well you never mentioned poking your neighbor in a I that doesn't mean it was OK with it overturn ritual laws of the Old Testament but when it came to moral laws he actually raised the bar so it's safe to say he wouldn't condone homosexual activity so where does that leave the 1.6 percent of people who identify as having same sex attraction with a call to a loveless life where they have to hate themselves if that were true I can't blame people for thinking we're bigots but the truth is a person's attractions don't define who they are and physical intimacy is not the only way to experience it thanks to the groups like courage check out courage Arcee dot org And more and more people with same sex attraction finding their real identity love they were made in church this is close to being real life Catholic dot com. Why are there so few practicing Catholics in public office and by practicing I mean the docs to all the churches teachings there are many thousands of good Catholic candidates for school boards mayor seats state senate congress governorships even the presidency they're out there some of them may be listening right now. We need to spend less time complaining about so Catholics out there and more of our time encouraging the real ones to get in the game. In the catechism the Catholic Church number 1915 we read as far as possible citizens should take an active part in public life. To be run public life is not easy the times are tough but really as tough as the 1st say 300 years of the church has always Catholics facedown more fearsome enemies than the ones we face today I think so too. And Patrick Ottman attach a cousin got me to be a saint what else is there. Brought to you by the Catholic radio that work. Life. Explore the challenges are sharing marriage and family life more like 10 am Eastern one central one most of these we can station. 3. DAY It's Wednesday edition of. W T And we've got a line open for you at the moment 833288 E.W.T.N. We also have a couple of texts to tackle here and here's one from Jose who says I have a Muslim friend who told me a story about the 7 sleepers that is common among our faiths can you tell me about it thanks Jose. Yeah thanks so this is a legend that emerges 1st in the Christian tradition about. 70 young people who were accused of being Christians during the dition persecution in the 3rd century illegibly entered into a cave to hide and slept there for something like 300 years and then emerge. And it was circulated in some of them are ologies Saints lives of especially Syria and Christianity which is presumably how it would have made its way into Arabia because of it because he records it as a revelation that he received. From from my point of view as a Christian a story and this is the legend. This is a legend that arose and you know the daughter of saints lives in antiquity is replete with legendary accretion and some of its fanciful today and it's certainly not obligatory for Christians to believe everything. They redid Saints lives far from it and we approach these like we would any other ancient text with a certain about of critical scrutiny and I find it that edge to historical episode and maybe tells me something you know. Ethnographic Lior or anthropologically about the culture of Syriac Christianity and the Elephant 6 centuries but it's certainly not we talk about it as part of the Christian faith. In a extraordinarily loose loose way in a robot way yes you know. You know. Certain kinds of Italians are part of the Christian faith. It's certainly not essential for a better Christian belief now it's different if you're a Muslim right because it's this episode is is recorded in a crowd of Muslims are going to the crowd is authoritative they're going to they're going to regard the story as authoritative right but but if I were dialogue with a muscle person this is not certainly not for a start there are a lot more commonalities and differences between Islam and Christianity that are a lot more substantive right and I mean honestly I'd like to start a conversation with the nation the being of God and the ways in which the Muslim conception of God is like and unlike the Christian conception of God because it's alike in some respects and very unlike in other respects and I think that there's no more important auction to treat than the action of God in ways in which we think same in the ways which we think differently and this is not not one of the central issues is a curiosity it is indeed Jose thank you so much for your text back to the phones now 833288 E.W.T.N. Here is Wanda in key go Harbor Michigan Heather wonder what's on your mind today. Oh good afternoon I mentioned how much and by. Any. I learned that their own. Me and then I think. I'll just say but. They. Have. Thank you very much thank you very much I really appreciate the question and we did have a little bit of a phone cut out here when. Sense since the Anglican Church of the Episcopal Church also confesses the Nicene Creed All right which of course is a Catholic redesign mean that they're part of Catholicism right and be answered the question is No No they are not the origin of the Anglican Church was in the 16th century when King Henry the 8th. Wanted to reject the authority of the pope and make himself the head of the church in England and so he actually lived the church is the physical buildings as well as the clergy under his control those who yielded to his will others gave up their lives in martyrdom. From obedience to the pope and he set up his own church. And and there were bishops at the time and Catholic lay people as well who were seized to follow King Henry because they were good Catholics they believe the Church founded by Christ and they were not going to leave it no matter what St Thomas Moore and John Fisher are 2 celebrated examples of people who gave their lives in defense of the Catholic faith rather than yield to kings and reasonable intranet whole demands now the Kings to send and Queen Elizabeth. Actually had to start with Edward King Edward. Changed the English Church even more and instituted different rites of ordination and at that moment the English Church lost any claim to valid historic succession or valid priesthood so they ceased to have true priests so they ceased to have a real Eucharist. And then of course they they later articulated a whole set of doctrinal beliefs in addition to the Nicene Creed called the $39.00 Articles and the $39.00 Articles are not Catholic at all not Catholic at all. They reject Catholic doctrine in a number of places so Anglicanism is a species of Protestantism that that we would like to be Catholic and isn't OK OK Very good thank you so much for your call one day yeah you might want to check out the movie one of my all time favorites a man for all season oh yeah there you go Great Man oh man that is very powerful Here's a related question from Joe in Kennewick Washington listen to us online E.W.T.N. Dot com there Joe what's on your mind today. I was watching the morning. Church. And you're probably going to be asked questions. They had the same night I think 3. I believe in the church you know. I guess the answer would probably be the same. Color Yeah I appreciate the question so the historical circumstances are a little bit different. But but here's how it shakes out so in the 16th century Martin Luther course was the projector of the Lutheran tradition was in fact a Catholic priest he was also in August Amy and Monk and he was a theologian he was a school Assoc the election and he began to get into some public debates about matters of Catholic practice that was not unusual at the time it was not I mean people debated stuff all day long and he was just kind of doing that like like anybody else would but but his his complaints gained a lot of notoriety because of the novelty of his suggestions and also the the the the. How vituperative how how caustic and abusive his position was a core against the church and eventually letters criticisms of church belief in practice. Get enough traction publicly that they sort of came to a head and Luther was ordered to recant. Some of his teachings to yield to the authority of the church which he refused to do but here he said in so. Pope Leo the 10th excommunicated Luther in 1520 and rather than yield to the authority of the church litter went off and started as a group started his own reformation and and then. That issue to eventually end there I decided doctrinal statements doctrinal standards and sacrament practice and so forth and so they went off and you know became their on their own group right separate from the Catholic Church founded by Christ but of course Luther was sensitive to the claim of novelty right he was sensitive to the claim that he was doing something new that he was breaking away from the Church founded by Jesus and so naturally he didn't accept that characterization of his behavior all right he tried to make out like it was the pope who was wrong and Luther who was right all right and that the real continuity between ancient church and his time was with loser not with the Roman Catholics and and so all the reformers did this all of the Protestants of the 16th centuries they said not we're really the Catholic Church you guys are the newcomers right now it was a spurious claim is a false claim evil easily falsifiable but that was the that was the political That was the propaganda right whether you're talking about the Lutherans of the Presbyterians the Calvinist the Anglicans all these new groups they say we're really the real Catholic Church and you guys are are illegitimate All right so that they were going they all wanted to lay hold to the claim that they were Catholic right and try to establish that they had the greater continuity with the ancient church and the position is just manifestly absurd on the face of it because prior to Luther there were no Lutherans true and no is there anybody in the world you know from north to south east or west who ever believed anything like the Lutheran confession of a relative or confession holy novel invention that Luther pulled out of here all right but nevertheless that was the claim. And that's why they would that they would use the term the Holy Catholic Church in their creed here they are they were trying to make the claim that they in fact worth the Catholic Church by Jesus but I mean it's manifestly false Joe thank you so much for your call 833. Is our number 833288398 secs This is called communion Hirani W.T.F. Tanya is watching us on You Tube right now Tanya says Please explain how the Holy Spirit enters a man and how do you know you have it OK thanks I appreciate the question so you should not think of the spirit its influence in your life as one of spatial location. Right so it is not as though it is not as though you know deep within your heart there is a cavity filled by a small homunculus you know which is how I conceived it when I was a child for I was Catholic I grew up in a church they said you know Jesus will come live in your heart and so I imagined that you know some place around the left a Orla you know there was a little room and Jesus would come set up shop there OK so that's not the right way to conceive of it because God is a spirit right I mean he's not spatially located he has no body OK but there are a number of passages of sacred scripture where we're promised that the Spirit will come into all us in some manner and St Thomas Aquinas gives I think the best interpretation of this this is the this is the authoritative teaching of the church has totally OPEC's up the same language in his and psychical of the Holy Spirit. And it is this that the Holy Spirit or for that matter the bless the Trinity and well the believer in the way in which they are the known one is in the know or and the beloved is in the lover. OK so let's unpack that a little bit consider the way in which I'm a married man yes I don't consider the manner in which of a married man consider this I am a married man I can say quite truthfully that my wife tools in my heart. And similarly in what manner I know and love her. I know what makes her tick I know what gets her goat I know what gets her up in the morning her values her goals her aspirations are mine. I want her to flourish I want what she wants for her sake. She is to me like a 2nd self. And I desire to see the world through her eyes. That's very intimate she draws in me as the known as an hour as the beloved is an a lark. It is in this way that a plus eternity dwells in those that have faith and grace has in us as the nearness and our and the beloved as in the lover and with the help of God's grace we can come to see the world through Christ's eyes. And we in fact recapitulate the mysteries of his divine life dying with have been rising again through baptism the Pascal mystery present to us in the Eucharist at a mass and all the sacraments in marriage as we imitate the love of Christ he gave himself for the sake of his spouse his bride which is the church. And we find ourselves walking Christ's. Steps after him. All right mystically through the sacrament all action. But not by way of a special compartment next to the left or OK play not Anyway thank you so much for your text their time here we do appreciate it glad you're watching us today on You Tube This is called communion here on E.W.T.N. In a moment we'll get to Nancy in Rockingham North Carolina 1st of all I want to tell you about this fabulous book and I'm going to point it out to those of you who are watching us right now on Facebook or You Tube and this would be a brand new book available from E.W.T.N. Publishing it's called his angels at our side understanding their power in our souls and in the world by Father John Horgan this is a great book Father Horgan unveils the surprising role of angels in our lives and what you must do to gain their help you will learn how to imitate the angels and prayer and how they offer you the Enlightenment and encouragement God so desperately wants to give you by praying with the angels you'll be strengthened for what lies ahead and you'll be better able to discern and do the Lord's will in all of your actions can't recommend it highly enough his angels at our side understanding their power in our souls and in the world by very good friend of E.W.T.N. Father John Horgan it is available right now at E.W.T.N. R.C. Dot com. R C dot com call to Communion in progress here on E.W.T.N. Let us indeed go to Nancy in a Rockingham North Carolina in and see what's on your mind today I have a query about. Her. Now. Having. About I had. Other ads. About. There are no right now. That they are. Thank you Nancy this is a wonderful fantastic question so 1st of all let me talk a little bit about the competence of the pope and the magisterium. Same Paul tells us and in the books I can create the ends he says of the apostles he says how are men to regard us how are men to regard us look at us apostles he says your god us as stewards who have been entrusted with the mysteries of salvation OK And then he goes on to say that that he says don't pass judgment at the present time I says I don't even judge myself it's God He was my judge. And so St Paul explains to us that those who have charge of the church as mysteries are Faith heard auctions are practices for morals will be held to account by God for what they do they will be God will hold them to account that means there is no guarantee there's no guarantee that Pope's bishops priests deacons anyone who is an ordained person a church well necessarily they do the job well. With one exception with one exception when the church teaches the faith the content of the Catholic faith All right. In either ears doctrinal commitment or or moral teaching. And proposes a doctrine. As divinely revealed or something to be definitively held by the faithful. At that moment the Holy Spirit preserves the church from error. All right. That is very rare. It is not often that that happens you know when the pope says what he really does here is something that all Catholics are bound to believe by divine authority. He's not going to make a mistake. The kinds of situations that you are alluding to don't fall under that description so let me give you an example all right from history let's say the pope says. I think that we should go to war to preserve the Papal States in the pope peace to have a large kingdom he was not only the pope but he was also Cain of the Papal States the type says I think we should go to war to preserve the Papal States and I'm going to wage war against the Holy Roman Emperor. That's the sap and more than once . We are not obligated to believe. That that was a good idea or a bad idea it might have been a lousy idea all right. Let me give you another example Pope John the 22nd. Died in the early 15th century I think I think it was. I can remember is days maybe 14 doesn't matter there are 1414 century John the 22nd held in a rainy as opinion. About a matter of Catholic theology he never taught it as a divinely revealed it's just that if he said it's opinion and he went out of his way to promote that opinion among the Episcopal and the bishops at the time said but Iraq. Eventually backed down all right it was his private opinion OK if I can jump in one of my favorite quotes from Fulton chain on this very topic he said famously If the Pope said I think everybody ought to go out and buy a 100 shares of General Motors. You don't have to believe that you know and you certainly don't have to go out and buy that right but that even that that analogy is good but it even goes so far as to addressing matters of a church policy right because the here's here's the qualification when the Pope or the Bishop or the priest alright exercises his juridical or executive authority essentially to manage the institution that is the Catholic Church. Has authority to do that. Another example let's say in my diocese to diocese of Birmingham. My office I work for the Diocese of Birmingham I work in the catechetical office their education department let's say we find some catechetical resource a textbook a video program or something and then this is just a bang up also a program and we think and maybe the bishop agrees with us and every priest in the diocese I have this book and we go tell all the priests Yeah you get this book. OK. And then some priest over here says no not yet in the book I'm using this other book. When obligated to believe that his decision to get this book or the other book is in any way the right word or guided by the Holy Spirit anything like that he's he's capable of making a mistake about them and so are we for that matter he might look at us and go I don't care if this is coming from the bishop's office that's a terrible book and I'm not going to use it policy their policies are right they can be revised right now policies have regard for the welfare of the church or talk should certain things or Borel things like that and and and that's a preventable decision like trying to assess what's the right course of action what policies should be pursued as we're teaching the faith that's you know that was not up for the debate is that the pope has the right to insist on uncertain policies and programs that he wants the church to execute he has the right to do that and an . Absolute yes sir I submit your pope but I'm not obligated to believe that he messes that his judgments are necessarily the right judgments and history may prove history has shown folks that were wise prudent and did wonderful things histories give us examples of popes who were imprudent and foolish in the terrible things and the pagan philosopher Aristotle once said Call no man happy until he is dead. And I think that's good advice St Paul said don't judge let God judge you know and that's kind of you know that's the position I think we have to take should let let let God and to a certain extent history pass judgment on the wisdom of any pontificate Well you know it's just we don't have enough information and let him do what he wants to do and pray for the pope every day pray that he makes wise choices it's not my job to make those decisions. And there we go OK Nancy thank you so much for your call Eva is 9 years old she is watching us on You Tube right now in man Gere Auckland New Zealand How about that. Question is where the angels alive when Adam was created Yeah yeah they were. OK. There that's where we're going to leave it Jack is I know now we're going to read a 1st rate is it Howard Ohio listening on St Gabriel radio radio we just have a moment what's your question please. Yeah thank you and I'm interested in possibly becoming Catholic and I am proud of that I don't I'm 61 years old I don't really have problems with a lot of the things like many Protestants my one thing that I. Trained to know ina praying no doubt in my reading in my limited understanding I'm not quite sure how it started at and then I don't mean to be at all unfolding or I would be very changing but amen any natural goal or something I don't know that guy I'm not I'm not understanding why he now it's a fairly rich on kid and having a prayer OK thanks appreciate it so I wish I had tons of time on this call I don't have tons of time call back later if I don't get your in your question answered number one don't pray no they notice if they're not doing it for you don't know I'm OK we're not obligated to take up any particular devotion is a Catholic the only thing we're obligated to take up is the is the sacraments the sacraments and then highly recommended is the is the divine office of the bravery the liturgy of the hours which is essentially the Psalter the daily prayer of the church I think obligatory in prayer life is the liturgy All right don't intervene as they don't work for you don't do them they're optional Secondly the the suggestion that Venus might be suspicious superstitious perfectly reasonable accusation you're right they can base it prestigious the Catechism of the Catholic Church in paragraph 2111 says that every prayer that we take up including the prayers of the liturgy can be approached superstitiously and it is a danger to avoid It's a sin against the 1st Commandment to pray any prayer. Even the prayers of the liturgy of those acts in a superstitious way treating them as if they are magic is the set of superstition do Catholics fall into that guess what every human being on the planet is prone to the scent of superstition on it because superstition is essential irrational religion and are can keep us inside our pride in our ignorance and other winds of said make us prone to this and other habits will sense of the human species Catholics like everybody else can commit the sin of superstition and the religious tradition is exempt from that. So. Those are those are I think your concerns are are valid and can be mitigated and we can make a path you into the church why someone might take up a no brainer in a way that is not superstitious is now beyond the scope of this from call because I hear the music coming out and I have run out of time but I would love to talk to you about more about having us but certainly don't let that stop you from coming into the church just put the loveliness aside and don't but there you go thank you so much for your call I wish we could get to Jack in Killeen Texas with flat out of time Jack to college back tomorrow and there were a couple attacks we couldn't get to we'll try to tackle those on that tomorrow's program Dr David I understand you my friend thanks Dan do the show each and every Monday through Friday at 2 pm Eastern with an encore at 11 pm Eastern add a best of on Sunday at 8 pm I'm Tom Price have a wonderful day see you tomorrow here on called the commute. 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Bodily existence can also be lived as opening oneself up as the developing freedom of the person who shares himself we all know that discrepancy to the transcending the limits we touch one another intimately close to each other what people call telepathy is only an extreme case of what to a lesser extent happens among us it didn't move from dark to being close to each other even at a distance the resurrection means quite simply that the body ceases to be a limit and that it's capacity to Communion remain so Jesus could rise from the dead and did rise from the dead because he had become the son and as the one who loved on the cross the one who shares himself wholly with. To have risen from the dead means to be communicable it signifies being the one who is open to give himself I don't know that basis we can understand the Jesus in the speech about the Ukraine. 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T.n. Global Catholic radio that. Christ is the answer with other John Ricardo I mean I'm sure ad nauseum to the guys who are here a line from open an extramarital you say over and over again to be a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice. As a result of an event encounter a meeting with the living God in a person of Jesus Christ. And nothing will ask what it means to be a massive Christmas Day from Washington d.c. . Like network e.w.t.n. Back to regular n.d. Now I myself in the mirror and I think I was the young guy when really where do you go wrong with this mirror honey my temptation is to focus on what I've lost because I think back on it in my youth I did not ponder the stuff of faith like I do now but what I've gained is. Close. The relationship with the doctor is then with a regular m.d. These days when pm Eastern galaxy and radio. Listen to more you learn. What you t.n. . Welcome to the camp again where Kempley truth is so fresh daily we've made you a reservation in the luxury of going to do so come on in and see what's on the menu today now here's your host you can jam rhythms. Ratings and welcome to camp a cafe and begin Jeff setting a ledger is going to build the Catholic café it's Christmas time. Merry Christmas to you Tom Dorian my co-host and friend I'm glad you're here thanks for having me there is no hustle and bustle of the season right in the middle of it and you look I'm going to hustle and bustle today we are not going to stop even to put a hat on you don't have any Think of stocking hat or any way of keeping your hair from below and put on put it on because we're going to race through some stuff here because you know we think about Christmas is interesting and I know you experience and I experience that we've had done shows about it right just about the fact that we have that this Christmas season is a blur and it is right I mean just everything from the shopping the parties the eating the family and friends you know a little bit of church in there yeah a day that you know and in about 26 it's all over I saw a tree on the curb it already has every time everywhere I say it I do people really still do that they do terrible So it's like I'm not saying that's the way and I know that most of our loyal listeners are good or preach in the choir some good folks out there that I know we can all kind of fall into that pattern of just watching this thing go by not realize not just me to release you know smell the flowers get in and just yet take it in right and we behold it exactly we did a show and behold that way but you know I think and it's also interesting too by the way like you know we have this time off we look forward to time off and we go back to work even more time. You're right about has been doing nothing but like nonstop movement and party and we don't ever really have time to slow down so you know I do marvel always at the wisdom of Holy Mother Church and her specifically and her little liturgical counter you know we start the new year with Advent right and we've done a show we've done several shows on Advent But I want to just kind of I want to blaze through the liturgical counter that takes us through Christmas and just help us to stop and say like well that's kind of cool I don't realize that was there right maybe I should be in and some of this is past us but I think if we still see if we see the wisdom of it of logic and maybe you look forward to it next year I don't know when there's still some Christmas left so people can hear some of this and and get something out of it but you know certainly Christmas a lot you don't realize it really is the season itself liturgically does not start until Christmas Day by Christmas Eve is when it starts but really we prepare for Christmas with that liturgical season of Advent correct but we talk about that it's a perfect prep time it's it's the natural buildup right it's days of camping we literally account for Sunday 2nd Sunday just for Sundays and even the thirds and we have a little build up a little god at a sun a little excitement happening there we're preparing for the feast I were doing the church knows that we're cooking and shopping and decorating but you know we're building into it right and maybe a regionally when it was 1st started we didn't there was a lot of shopping I understand that but but Wyndham is something that travels through the ages and still applies and I think this still applies even today right at this the church recognizes we need a time of preparation before Christmas before we welcome the Christ child at the end carnation we need a time of preparation and we've talked about what is the number one thing Tom the women thing we always do when we prepare for any Everyone our top 10 lists always have I should be a confession and that's why it's a cool one because like advantage that time to prepare to receive the savior right so we go to confession you know clean out. And so all the advent readings where they focus on it that I was like on the 2 comings of Jesus you know the Incarnation also the end of time John the Baptist's Mary and Joseph Even Saint Nicholas you know gets in on the act with that when we have a feast a frame a December sex and so that there are also these various feast days that lead us in the Christmas and then right after Christmas that I think sometimes we don't often notice so I want to spend some time literally with the calendar great idea right when what's going to happen on you know on the calendar and have a ton of notes I can see of it he hasn't done it yet well we know we know what Adam's all about right right but even during Advent there are some of these awesome feasts like let's look at December 6th we talked about well that's Saint Nicholas Right right well that's an obvious one and we all know the stories about behind Saint Nicholas and some people do some wonderful traditions like exchange gifts and things like that on December 6th a little taste of Christmas Right right and again the connection of Santa Claus and St Nicholas is always some something needed just recognizing the church even sees a place for St Nicholas in in this this festive time is leading into Christmas I know the traditions of Christmas as they are today you know the secular ones aren't the same as what the church invasions but just understand there is a connection right so then December 7th that's the feast of St Ambrose he was the 4th century bishop of Milan. And he was a great preacher and it was very influential in the conversion of Saint Augustan right back in the 4th century Well he wrote a beautiful. Song or chant that song at advent in fact it's in the literature the hours of the church from December 12th 17th to the 24th It's called veni read them toward gentium come Redeemer of the nations and so St Ambrose in his in his beautiful writing and his in his gift here of this calling to mind in Advent the coming of the Savior looking forward to Christmas and so December 7th an opportunity for us to look forward to Christmas and that. Way December 8th of course as the Makah conceptional was a virgin mary right of course Mary was prepared from the very beginning for the Incarnation right so that's why we have this immaculate conception right now where we are again we're seeing these readings about Mary and all this and certainly Mary and Joseph place and feel part of the Christmas story are you bringing Jesus there and so we're preparing ourselves and we see her as the ideal vessel to bring Jesus to us and this is an opportunity for us to herald that I to venerate her and to realise just her place in the Christmas story and how she was prepared from all time for Christmas right for the incarnation so then there's December 9th and the 12th I connect these 2 because it's saint one Diego on the 9th and then there is Our Lady of Guadalupe on the 12th right and you know we all know the story to some degree but the 1530s that one day it was visited by the bus at Virgin Mary up on hill in Mexico and course the people in believe in the bishop didn't believe him and then you know he wanted the base want a sign so Mary says you know don't take the roses that are on the Hill and of course there's images of the Roses and like snow covered hill is in the middle of winter time right right the miracle there right the rows of the bus at Virgin Mary present at Christmas time and again her they wear nice in the winter time of this taking place and of course he opened his tilma to the bishop when all these roses poured out and there's the image on his Telma And I wonder like is that maybe the 1st Christmas card I don't know. I just region and I know that we don't teach that but you know it's like an image right and that image is still running you'll see that Christmas are all marks patron saint exactly at the at the church that was built there Yes Ok so then we go backwards one day from the 12th December 11th and we have Pope Damascus the 1st now is in the 4th century and again Who is he well a lot of like I don't know is once again on the calendar you need yeah the masses that sounds kind of important I don't know what is that and we start to realize that he was. The pope that presided over the Council of Rome and this is the 1st council in $382.00 where we 1st determine the canon of scripture that would have don't want to be ratified in other councils and so like the Bible what books belonged in the Bible and he was the pope by the way Damascus was the pope that commissioned Jerome's original Rome to translate the Scriptures into Latin making them into the vulgar the language of the people the Latin Vulgate which now everyone can read sort of like promulgating we see they're the stories of Jesus the story of salvation hence the story of Christmas right and it's coming into it's it's the reality of the Incarnation all carried in this by Once we start to realize that this is where we get our Christmas stories and we read the stories in the Bible and we treasure them and the church recognizes them in the church gave us this Bible and we start to see the connection on December 11th as we're preparing for Christmas to come we're realizing hey let's stop and reflect upon the scriptures or they were reading so much from December 13th This is St Lucie and St Lucie was a 3rd century saint and she was a consecrated virgin and so for you know her because she's one of the things that way and forms of her martyrdom was she had her eyes gouged out because she wouldn't marry she was a country to Virgin and her mother you know had a troll there too. Wealthy son of a wealthy pay again and didn't go well she was being martyred and I took her eyes as I see it so play with her their eyes on the their eyes on it but she sees the patroness of the blind of optometrists an ophthalmologist which is kind of interesting because if she's the only that we have the the something that she has as a weapon so this is this beautiful virgin in a picture with holding a platter with 2 eyeballs on it but again so I make the connection with like our eyes need to be wide open to Christmas time we need be awaiting the Savior and so often we're talking about being awake and alert because the Savior is coming that you know the. Like a thief in the night right and so again being awake and alert and so say Lucy pray for us that we are 13th especially that we are awake and alert when when the Christ child comes but also when reason Jesus Christ comes at the end of all time and so all the sights and sounds of Christmas that lead us in that direction well say Lisey's right there right so she's helping us to see that so let's go to December the 14th this is St John of the cross that's his face day and he's a 16th century say a saint he is a Jesuit as a doctor of the church he wrote all these great works and you know he was associated with a Saint Teresa of Avalon and while he was there with her in the latter days of his life latter years of his life he had a vision of the crucified Christ right and he drove through this image and it drew the image it's a unique image it's like it's from above like over Christ had looking down on the on the Christ on the cross and so the Saint John the transmit see this connection of the cross but where he was when he grew that the monastery that he was in with Saint Teresa of Avila is the Monastery of the incarnation so seen as a kind of there's a Christmas connection is a little scripture said Henri of the cross and seeing the crucified Christ and again we're reminded by the crucified Christ Jesus was born to die right right and so the gift of mirth from the from the $31.00 of the 3 wise men so now we're going to jump to December 21st all right all right we have Saint Peter can a.c.s. He's also a Jesuit he's from the 16th century and so he was big time into the defense of the church inner teachings against the project reformation of the time which was just inflamed right and just eating away at the church through those years and it reminds us that we have to disband the religious meaning of Christmas really associate with the with. But the teachings of the church so he was an ardent defense a defender of the church and her teachings right all of them in the same way we got to stand up and Christmas has become this secular wonder has it not really as you and I recognize we've been to them the masses we know how beautiful we know that the spiritual religious and the theological reading realisation that that Christmas is so important a real reason for the sea and the reason for the season right are when our favorite bumper stickers but we have to defend that we do and so Saint Peter Canisius is somebody who can remind us that we need to we need to we need to be letting people know what the reason for the season is right we need to defend the church at all at all costs so we are halfway through our list and we're halfway through our show so this is good right you're on the air so we're talking about all the wonderful saints that come our way during the Christmas season advent and Christmas in preparation for the Incarnation and then to the rest of the Christmas season all those great feasts of the church that help us to see the big picture of Christmas I love the big picture stuff right and so another big picture thing is this is the catholic half a radio program we read a visit our website the Catholic Cafe dot com And also I'd love to hear from you send me what you got for Christmas I'd like to see that Christmas list fulfilled right now I hope it's like peace love and joy for all the world all that kind of stuff to decongest at the camp it happened at Camelback. And best present and this is another great moment in churches. Understatement of the millennium to say that at a very early Church proved to be difficult in trying times for believers in the Lord Jesus not only were they considered outcast by the Jews of their day but in. Had obviously set her sights on the fledgling church as well in fact even while many of the original 12 apostles were still alive countless Christians were being martyred by the Roman authorities for their newfound faith in Christ and His Church one of the worst enemies of the early church was Emperor Nero the year 6480 proved to be the height of his persecution of Christians this is the year that Rome burned and 2 thirds of the Eternal City lay in ruins it is that that narrow minded set the fires intentionally so that he could rebuild the city as he saw fit or that he simply wanted to create a reason to gain support from the Roman citizens for his persecution of the church but regardless of why the fires were started Nero needed a scapegoat and he blamed the early Christians he soon began a bloody rampage of persecution torture and death the likes of which had never been seen and. Many non-Christian ancient historians have documented and usually gruesome deaths that were perpetrated on these early faithful many were crucified many dressed in animal skins and thrown to wild beasts for entertainment and tradition tells us that some are even used as Human Torches to light the streets of Rome. Because of the means of death the Church finally remembers each of these 1st martyrs called the proto martyrs of Rome their steadfast love of Christ even in the face of a cruel death would stand as a shining example for Christians for nearly 2000 years. While Nero's goal was to supplant the Christian movement and stifle the growth of the church actions and end up backfiring the kind of martyrs show that they were ready and willing to share in the suffering and ultimate resurrection of Jesus this serves only to inspire and motivate the persecuted Christians in fact the more the church was persecuted the more it grew no. Who knows the exact number of martyrs who paid the ultimate price for their fate at this time in history that they get to witness has made a lasting impact on the people of God they can think church has dedicated decided that it can see any in their honor. At the proto martyrs they have been celebrated by the church universal 39 Best present and this and then another great moment in church history. Welcome them to the Catholic café here's the entire. Banking Ledger is going to build of the Catholic café I am decongest And I'm saying what I'm doing and we're talking about Christmas the Christmas season big picture look a little surgical calendar and trying to figure out like like there's all these things in there and some of these fees that we don't really focus a lot on but they're part of the Christmas story or they can there are aspects of their lives that lead us deeper into an appreciation for the guess that came to us at the Incarnation right so we finished off with Saint Peter Canisius and we know that we have to defend the sort of religious meaning behind Christmas and indeed our Christianity in a world that's gone extremely secular also there's another on the Sumburgh 23rd like we get right up on the 25th but here's December 23rd we have Saint John of Conti and he's a 15th century priest now he was very very popular and loved and you know what happens to people like imagine liking it when people are really just like people love their mom people today just love them love love them other people start to get a little jealous it done as happened with him and he was so popular he was loved just had a great following and then he was unjustly accused of wrongdoing I mean just out of jealousy and and things and so you start to realize you know that he is going down but. What's amazing is in all of this in all the trials he had all kinds of trials as well as life he bore them all with patience and and humor and just like kindness one was turned away at a feast because his his his cloak was not new enough or whatever and he just said Ok and he went home got a new cloak and and came back is what he would do things like that these are all part of his story and that good humor and that love and that joy we have that Christmas time we want that we do that we sing about it and one of his great quotes easy he says fight all error but do it with good humor patience kindness and love and Ethan thank my good no don't we need to do that at Christmas time we do mean like right before Jesus comes when we need to be more tuned in with good humor patience kindness and love than ever because this season can kind of pull us apart Oh yeah right Sam arrests and all the stuff going on here I used to tell me you're all your family we all have it oh yeah all this stuff going on and connecting with people and making sure this is wrapped in that person's invited right and then it's like you know we need that patience kindness and love that could humor and that's what Saint John of Conti reminds us and then of course December 25th we know that big day so it's a memorable day it is a memorable day in fact it's like the most memorable day it's certainly it's the Incarnation right it's it's Christmas certainly but it's when everything changed I mean quite literally the word would never be the same ever again this is why this is you know the year that it is because we started counting from Christmas as if everything changed that's right the Incarnation and so. You know our salvation that the Prince of Peace I mean all of that we all know that all the Christmas carols on time of the good Carol in a Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and I'm talking about the good religious carols all don't speak of the tidings of comfort and joy and all the stuff that we that we yearn for and then all that was given to us because of the birth of this child we recognize that we've done lots of shows about Christmas and so. Everyone knows about Christmas and then everyone knows as you pointed out that it's not over it's not it's not over like is it is it over on the night of the 25th right now no Certainly it's not we we know that but so many people you saw a Christmas tree on your way over here it's funny but it's also sad yes it is but a lot didn't realize that song The 12 Days of Christmas is starts on December 23rd as for a end leads us to the feast of the Epitome That's exactly right so it's not over till it's over as fat ladies and whatever involved in singing apparently but you know we need to realize that there's a whole season here so Christmas is just beginning so interestingly the very 1st. Christian saint martyr that we have on December 26th is St Stephen Fry He is the 1st martyr of the day can do upright a martyr he's a deacon page and they can see they have one of the original 7 deacons and he was martyred right by none other than Paul he ordered his martyrdom back when he was so all right so and so into interestingly you know the 1st and happens Jesus was born and now all the sudden we're parading out martyrs incredible Now there's a connection we you know we start to realize that we're being a Christian is not going to be easy it's not and it's even more difficult now that Jesus has come and said like this is the deal this is the fullness of Revelation right this crisis child right and so now we start to like Ok that's not easy. And there's martyrs and we look to Stephen this great deacon and we look to him and and realize that we too were called into martyrdom in many different ways in our life right right now right after him is Saint John the Apostle on December 27th we have the feast of St John the Apostle also is John the Evangelist right and so you know here it's interesting we're called to spread the good news just like he is an evangelist right we have John the Apostle as evangelist we're all called also called to be evangelists. And so Jesus is here we need to shout this from the mountain tops that's what we're called to do and and right and so you know go to hell in a mountain I don't think John apostle wrote that song but really I didn't but the idea is that we need to go down the mountain why because we stand on that mountain we can reach everybody right right and so John the Apostle on the 27th reminds us don't just keep this Christmas to ourselves but I don't know the joy of Christmas and I love the 1st chapter of John of course right where in the beginning was the word the word was God The Word was God was with God of the Word was God right let's get down a few verses and it's like and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us like that's beautiful I mean as you know again that's the Christmas story right and it's very hard December the 28th right here's the feast of the Holy Innocents get more martyrs. And that's just stuff I mean we all remember the story of King Herod is like I don't want this Jesus writing born so let's just kill all of the infants 2 years young 2 years and younger just make sure we get them all horrific so horrific is an understatement right just I don't know how many people babies die but with the Church celebrates them even though they're Jewish they're Christian martyrs because they died for Jesus Christ trying and on this day we can especially think about those who have nothing those who are killed through abortion those who are martyrs that die that others might live right and certainly all the unnamed unheralded who suffer persecution in Jesus's name right the feast of the holy innocence is a is a beautiful beautiful way to do that right it's some for us but it's part of the meaning of Christmas right what comes with Christmas and of course December 31st is the Feast of the Holy Family we know it's all about family Jesus being born into a family we know that salvation was born of the family therefore our families are important and the Holy Family should be our model and I'm doing that just as there's so much more to it but but the idea of this of being a Christian family nowadays it's tough we did a story on it. We did as well we've done shows in almost all these things January 1st as so many of Mary the mother the Holy Mother of God is one of the oldest recognized Christian feast days and it's again it's back to to Mary and her role then and still her role now right Mary is always will be important to the church church because she she leads us to her son Jesus January 2nd St Basil the Great and St Gregory of. And so Gregory and it they're both 4th Century Saints and they're associated with light right there and it's really neat the lights at Christmas time certainly are still glowing just on the tree and course the Light of Christ burn brightly and these 2 bishops there are 2 great bishops and I love their prayer that we say on their feast day on January 2nd god who are pleased to give light to your church by the example and teaching of the bishop's Saints basil and Gregory grant we pray that any Milly we may learn your truth and practice it faithfully in charity to our Lord Jesus Christ your Son etc etc It's a beautiful beautiful prayer of course that start with you you gave light to your church and so this Christmas lights remind us of those 2 great visions January 3rd the most holy name of Jesus so this is where true power is it's in the name of Jesus and I just I love the danceable story we read it right and the angel Gable Gabriel the Angel Gabriel when he came to Mary said and behold you will conceive a new woman bear a son and you shall name him Jesus write the name Jesus he will be great and will be called Son of the most high and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David it's not Ralph you know it's not Joe Jr It's Jesus and there's power in that name we need to know that and there's another great saint We don't want to forget January for St Elizabeth and see she's the 1st native born citizen of the us to be canonized but also a patroness of Catholic schools but we can all be saints right that's right right in this is one of our home grown ones and also January 5th St John Newman a new man. An American Also he couldn't get ordained in Europe but he's in America and a patron of Catholic education so the 2 of them remind us that we need to support a Catholic schools education and spreading the gospel truth January sticks of course the a penny perfect the revelation Christ came for the world not just for the right for everyone a revelation to the whole world right and certainly wise men still see Cam force January the 8 rounds of Christmas with the Feast of that as a lord we all have to be baptized without our baptismal promises I never thought we would get into it all you did great we have come to the end just look at the big picture of the Christmas season Holy Mother Church she so wise and of course we keep coming back to Mary Mary who is the Mother of God but also Mary she's the mother of chief of Jesus recently but I'm the mother of Christmas right so we have her to thank for that so let's invoke her holy name hell mary full of grace the Lord is with bless it aren't our men women and bless the fruit of the Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for centers now at the hour of our death a man. 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