Catholic activist Jesse Romero lays out the spiritual tools needed to fight the devil
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Jesse Romero is a Catholic lay evangelist, author, and speaker. He has been a Catholic all of his life, and has been involved in the fight against Satanism for over 40 years. In this episode, Jesse talks about what it means to be a Catholic in the face of Satanism, and why he believes Satanism is real.
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Hello friends and welcome to the John Henry Weston show, Confronting Satan Head On.
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That's what we're talking about today and we have with us someone who does that like on a daily
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basis. His name is Jesse Romero. He's a great Catholic activist known to many of you.
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You're going to want to stay tuned and find out what's going on with SatanCon.
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Let's begin as we always do at the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Jesse Romero, welcome to the program.
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Thank you, John. Thank you for having me on, brother.
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Jesse, I know you very well. Can you give people like a 30-second snapshot of who is Jesse Romero?
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I'm a retired Los Angeles deputy sheriff and I'm a Catholic lay evangelist, a Catholic speaker and
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author. I've been a Catholic all my life. I've been married for 38 years. I have three young adult
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kids all practicing their faith. I have five grandchildren starting to come. Thanks be to
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God. I'm just somebody who's a faithful son of the church and I've got an apostolic duty and mandate
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to proclaim the truth until my heart stops just like everybody else out there.
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You know, Terry is a good friend of LifeSite. Terry runs the Bishop Strickland Hour with Bishop Strickland,
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of course. And that's how I met Jesse Romero through Terry Barber and just such a dynamic pair.
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They run together the Terry and Jesse Barber show, which just to get to know the character of Jesse
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Romero and Terry Barber is that they keep getting booted off these places for being too faithful.
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So it's great to be with you, Jesse. So let's get into this. You are heading up a direct confrontation
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with SatanCon. Let us know what's that, what is that and what's it all about?
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February 11th, 12th and 13th, the Temple of Satan is coming to Scottsdale, Arizona,
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which is in the, is a city in the Diocese of Phoenix. I live in the Diocese of Phoenix and they're
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going to have their first religious convention. It's going to be a three-day event at the Saguaro
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Hotel. And the leader of the Temple of Satan, he's, he's one of the co-founders, Lucy and Greaves is
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going to be here. They're going to be doing again, hexes, curses, incantations, sex magic. And without a
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doubt, what they do when they get all together, they do a black mass. They're not going to publicize
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that because they don't want to give more negative publicity, but I've had all the parishes in
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Scottsdale, all the four parishes, they're on notice. People are receiving right now the Eucharist
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very reverently. And there are, there are men all around watching people receive Holy Communion
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for the next couple of weeks, because we anticipate they're going to try to infiltrate one of the
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Catholic churches and steal the Holy Eucharist for their black mass, which is basically their,
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their grand finale and their, and their events. Yeah. Now, just so that everybody knows, Satanism
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is real. There's no funny stuff here. It's not like this is all made believe because it's not made
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believe. These people are doing something that confronts the spiritual realities that are there,
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whether some of them believe it or not, or just doing it for the fun of it or to be stupid or
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whatever they're doing. These are real things. Given that this is real, are you not afraid,
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concerned? What, what is your motivation to go ahead and do this anyway? You know, that Satan
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is more powerful than we are more powerful than all mankind. So why would you think that you would
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go up against this sort of directly? We are protected, John. So long as you live in a state of
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sanctifying grace, that means in a right relationship with God, free from mortal sin. And if you've got
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mortal sin, go to confession ASAP, a state of grace also means that you're also constantly fighting
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against even venial sin. You're in a right relationship with God. As the Bible says in
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John 15, 13 to 15, you're a friend of God, a friend of God. That's what it means to live in a state of
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sanctifying grace, frequently having the sacraments of Christ flowing through our soul. This way, there are
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no impediments to grace. The only impediment to grace is mortal sin. If you live in a state of grace,
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every single exorcist that teaches right now in all the schools of exorcism teach that living in a
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state of grace, you're protected from the diabolical. You cannot be afflicted. Generally speaking, there
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are exceptions, very few, but generally speaking, if you're in a state of grace, that's, that's what
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St. Paul calls the armor of God. Also as Catholics, we have to remember that the Bible tells us that
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Ephesians chapter five, verse 11, it says, take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness,
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but instead expose them. And as Catholics, we have to live by faith, not by fear. And the Bible does
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say in Philippians 4, 13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And as Catholics,
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we have a duty and obligation. In fact, you know, actually what I'm following, the Bishop of Phoenix,
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Bishop Osset, who's a very good holy man. He wrote a document several years ago. It's called
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Into the Breach for Catholic men. If you read that document into the breach, that's exactly what I'm
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following. I am taking Catholic men and women and wives as well. And we're going to go out into the
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breach. What does that mean biblically into the breach? It means that it means that somebody has to
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stand in between the innocent and the evil, the wicked men have to go out there and stand in the
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gap, stand in the breach to forestall destruction. That's what Ezekiel, the prophet was talking about
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in Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 30. And that's what we're doing. We're going to stand there and make
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public reparation for what's going on in that conference, because many of them may be falling
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away Catholics. We want to pray for reparation prayers for the grave evil that's occurring in
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that conference, and also that God gives them the grace of conversion. Because if 25% of Americans are
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baptized Catholic, that means 25% of the attendees of that conference and even organizers are probably
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falling away baptized Catholics. And so we have to stand in the breach and pray for them.
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It's an incredible thing, because your concern, yes, to make reparation to our good Lord for the
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offenses that are being committed right there, but also to sort of recapture their souls for Christ,
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their souls that they have themselves almost seemingly willingly, perhaps not so some of them,
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but given over to Satan with all the confusion that's going on there. But tell us, what is,
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you know, the specifics of the program? When should you meet? Where do you meet? What are you guys doing?
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Where can people sign up as well? By next Monday, we're going to have a landing page. And as soon as I
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know the name of the landing page, we're having meetings right now, I'll give it to you so you can
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put it out on live site. It'll be a landing page where all the information is going to be. But essentially,
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it's going to be a peaceful, prayerful protest. Bring your rosaries, bring your sacramentals,
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make sure you've gone to confession that week. In other words, we want to make sure you're in a state
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of sanctifying grace. If you're not a serious Catholic, don't show up. Okay, this is not,
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you know, this, this is not for the faint hearted. We're going to be protesting in front of the
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Saguaro Hotel in downtown Scottsdale. On the sidewalk, obviously, the police department says,
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absolutely, it's your right to do so. City Hall, I've already checked with them. It's your right to do so.
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The only thing that they've asked us is don't bring any amplification devices like microphones
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and speakers, but we can bring bullhorns. And so we're going to be meeting from 12 noon to 3 p.m.
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We're not going to be there all day, eight hours, 10 hours. We don't want to give them undue publicity.
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We don't want to give them all kinds of fanfare and all kinds of media attention that they don't
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deserve. What we're going to do is something very surgical. It's a surgical strike.
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What do I mean by that? 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior was dying for our
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sins on Calvary and redeeming the world from 12 to 3 on a cross. And there's a lot of parking around
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the area. And all this will be in the website, the landing page next Monday. It'll all be there.
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We're to park the public restrooms, everything will be there. And so what we want is for people
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to pray. We're going to start off at the 12 noon Angelus and we'll end up with the three o'clock
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divine mercy. We'll be praying for three hours, four rosaries, Psalms in between, a spiritual
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warfare, deprecatory prayers approved for the lady in between the rosaries. We'll be chanting
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Gregorian chant. And why are we doing this? Because our prayers, John, what it does, we're calling the
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grace of conversion upon them, number one. Number two, we're making reparation to God for the
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incantations, curses, and hexes, and sex magic that's happening inside that building. We're making
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reparation to God because of the grave evil. And number three, also, Catholic prayer is what it does.
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It sabotages and it blocks the potency and the power of their curses. We want to pray to protect
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all the people of Scottsdale, all the people, the Catholics, especially the people of goodwill.
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That's what Catholic prayer does. What it does, it like pulls the plug from a computer and it just
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jams their signal. It jams their curses. It sabotages their communication. And so that's exactly why we need
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to be there. When you pray from 12 to 3, remember when you were a kid, John, you probably do this
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with your kids as well. My parents are from Mexico. They used to say, on Good Friday from 12 to 3,
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you're not going to do anything. We're going to go to the church. You're going to sit there and just
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look at the stations of the cross and pray, take a book to read and pray. You're not going to do
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anything, no TV, no radio, no plane from 12 to 3 every Good Friday. That was standard and I still do it
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with my family. Why? Because we're meditating upon what Christ did in those three hours,
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the holiest three hours of human history. This is why we're choosing those three hours to pray.
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Because as we pray from 12 to 3, our prayers are flowing with the blood of Jesus downstream.
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And they have more power, more merit, more efficacy. Because we're praying at the time Christ
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was redeeming the world, including those Satanists. It would be an example. You go to a river,
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the Colorado River, just to take a name. And you say, man, I want to swim fast. I want to just get
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a rush. You're a young guy. I want to just go fast. Well, are you going to swim upstream? No,
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you're not going to be able to swim that fast. What if you swim downstream? Man, you're going to go
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like a, you're going to be like a canoe. That's what happens when you pray from 12 to 3 p.m.
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And you unite your prayers with Christ on Calvary. It has a lot more power and merit and efficacy
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because it's being carried mystically by the blood of Jesus.
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Let me ask you something, because this is on a lot of people's minds today.
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We are living in a very strange time. There is all sorts of consternation going on.
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And I know for you and I, we didn't live through some of the great battles of the Church,
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Second Vatican Council and the changes to the Mass, etc., etc. But at least in my lifetime,
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the consternation that's going on right now over coronavirus and the whole confusion in the Church
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with Pope Francis and everything, it's mind-boggling. You have veritable people who I would have
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considered saints, but on two sides of an issue that's so stark right now that is just unbelievable.
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It brings to mind something that we were told from Our Lady of Fatima about a diabolic
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disorientation. If you wouldn't mind, Jesse, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that and the
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As Catholics, we have to remember that we've been warned about this. Many approved Marian
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apparitions, like Our Lady of Good Success, Our Lady of La Salette, Our Lady of Akita, Japan,
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three off the top of my head that I know about, warned us that we would enter into a time where
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we would see bishops fighting against bishops, cardinals fighting against cardinals, and even
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bishops and cardinals fighting against the Pope. The last visionary, Sister Lucia, in 1980,
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she wrote a letter to Cardinal Kafara. She said that we would enter into a time of diabolical
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disorientation. Pope Paul VI, he used also something similar. He said also, back in the 70s,
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he said that the Church, the word that I want to use a proper word, there would be like the Church
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would be consuming herself. I'll find the word right now. I'll look at my notes somewhere.
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But there would be auto-demolition. In the early 70s, Pope Paul VI, St. Paul VI said that we,
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the Church would enter into a time of auto-demolition, destruction from within. That's what that
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means. Now, this shouldn't surprise us, because as Catholics, we know that we have an arch enemy.
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Pope John Paul II warned us about this back in 76. He gave a, this is when he was Cardinal
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Wojtyla. He spoke at a, at a Eucharistic Congress over in Philadelphia. He said this,
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we're now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church
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of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel between Christ and the Antichrist. The confrontation lies
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within the plans of divine providence. So God is allowing this. Then he says, it is therefore in
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God's plan, and it must be a trial which the Church, that's all of us, you and I, must take
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up and face courageously. Again, Venerable Fulton Sheen also warned us of this, of this present moment
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also. Back in 1967, he said this about, it's in a book called Quotable Quotes from Sheen. He says,
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the world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of the Antichrist
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and the Brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long will the battle
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be? We know not. Whether swords will have to be a sheath, we know not. Whether blood will have to be
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shed, we know not. Whether it'll be an armed conflict, we know not. But in a conflict between
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truth and darkness, truth cannot lose. We have a lot of good voices, John, that have told us
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about this present moment right now. St. Thomas Aquinas told us in the 12th century, he said that
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there are two mystical bodies. He says, you have the mystical body of Christ on earth and the mystical
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body of the devil or the mystical body of the Antichrist. And so St. Gregory says that the mystical
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body of the Antichrist is composed of impious men. That's what we have, John. We have an infiltration
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in the Catholic Church. In Spain, they call this infiltration, the Spanish army, they call it the
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fifth column. The fifth column, this is a term used in Spain in their military. The fifth column is when
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you have people within your ranks that are shooting you in the back during war. We have a fifth column
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in the Catholic Church right now. We have an infiltration. Jesus warned us about this in the Gospels.
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You have weeds and wheat growing up alongside each other. He says, but don't pull the weeds out.
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That's the work of the angels at the end of time. That's what we're living through right now.
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We're living through the fact that the spirit of Judas lives within our church, within the clergy
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and the laity. Amazing. Jesse, well, you are surely taking up the cause of the Brotherhood of Christ.
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You are on the battlefield. And many of us can't be with you to confront Satan Khan, but we will be
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with you in prayer. And Jesse Romero, thank you so much for being with us on this episode of the John
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Hunter Weston Show. Let me just mention, we don't want anybody to come down here that's not from Phoenix.
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We have a lot of great Catholics in Phoenix. Trust me, tens of thousands. I'm only putting this out
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so that wherever you're at around the world, know this, that these guys aren't going to stop here.
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They're coming to your city next. Hopefully we can give you a template. And even the prayers,
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I'll have the prayers all on this landing page next Monday. What we're going to pray, what we're,
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you're going to see everything, the protocol of what we're going to do, how to prepare for nine days
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before going out to this protest. It's all going to be on the website in the event that they take
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this to another city, to Dallas, you know, to Los Angeles. People will know, okay, this is what
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they did in Phoenix, Arizona, the lay people. This is how you prepare for it. These are the prayers
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that you pray when you're there. These are the do's and don'ts. And so all we're asking for is for
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people around the world. Maybe go to mass that day, February 11th, 12th, 13th, go do a holy hour,
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pray a rosary from your house. You know, everybody has a war room, a prayer room. Just remember your
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brothers and sisters in Phoenix, Arizona, as we combat spiritually these dark forces from wherever
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you're at around the world. Just join us in prayer, February 11th, 12th, and 13th. If you want to pray
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along with us next Monday, I'll have John and many others put the landing page on their social media
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so you can go and download the prayers that we'll actually be praying on that day. Thank you so very
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much. God bless you. And to all the prayer warriors that will be joining you out there, Godspeed to all
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of you. Thank you, John. And God bless you. We'll see you next time.
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