Fr. Altman： The PLOT to REPLACE the Catholic Church
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In this episode of The John Hunter Weston Show, Father James Altman joins us to talk about his experience as a priest in the early days of the holed church and how he was able to speak the truth to his parishioners.
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they keep pulling these things out and sooner or later the faith topples. This is what they're
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doing and they're doing it knowingly and they're doing it intentionally
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because they're trying to establish one world religion.
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Hello my friends, welcome to the John Hunter Weston Show. I have for you a very special guest,
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a great friend of mine and I know someone whom you all love so very much. He's the one who
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we all discovered during the horrific days of COVID when we were locked out of our churches
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and we tuned in to try and find a priest who would dare to speak the truth to us, who would give us
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while we couldn't receive Jesus in person, give us his truth. Very few of those and this one we all
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know and love. He's Father James Altman. Father, so good to be with you. God bless you.
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Hi Henry, that's a very nice introduction. Thank you. You said nice things about me.
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We were in that together. I remember that well. Father, let's begin as you always do at the sign
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Amen. Heavenly Father, guide our voices, guide our minds, guide our hearts toward you as we speak
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to those, your other children. Let us together grow stronger in our faith, put on the armor of God
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so that we can be protected against the insidious snares of the devil. And we ask of this grace and
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this blessing. Amen. Amen. So Father, we've got a few things here to talk about, but I want to talk
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first about your books because you've got two books. I mean, this is funny because I was given
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a preview copy. Thank you for that, by the way. That was beautiful. I remember reading it thinking,
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oh, what a breath of fresh air because it was just the old faith, the faith of our fathers
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presented in a way without flowery language, without kind of mumbo jumbo that you can't understand.
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It was very plain, full of stories. I love it. It's one that I definitely recommend to teens,
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especially parents looking to give your kids something solid. There's that. Now, the thing is,
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you just released another book, that book, by the way, called Truth at Last. It was funny. I was
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talking with one of your publishers, Beverly, and I said, hey, she asked for a blurb on the book. So I'm
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sorry if that drives sales away from you, but I did. I said, I said, you were a modern day John the
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Baptist. And it's because you speak the truth and you say the uncomfortable saying that got his head
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lopped off. And Father, I don't know. I know how that story ends. I don't like that reference.
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No, but it is, it is true. Although when looking it up, it's funny because everybody knows Buddha
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vipers, a term which you actually used yourself. And it is used in the scriptures by John the Baptist,
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but it's also used by our Lord himself. Repeatedly, Matthew chapter 23, like seven times. I know.
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So this is the funny thing because I always call you like a modern day John the Baptist,
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which I think is still true. Um, but actually, you know, your role, your priestly role in Persona
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Christi, which happens on the altar, I know, but boy, you sound a lot like him because it's actually
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Jesus who has way more insulting terms like hypocrites, brood of vipers. Um, you, you
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whited sepulchers, which is kind of like, oh gosh, they paint the outside white and nice and the
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insides full of decay and gross. I really thought of in my heart when I was doing the blurb,
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I thought, yeah, that's, that's what this is. What was your inspiration there? Because, um,
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it is, I know I'm going to talk to you about all of what's going on in the church today too, but
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this was for you, uh, a work you, you've been holed up, unable to do public things. Your,
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your parish family stolen from you or you stolen from your parish family, whichever way you want to
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put it. Actually both suffered. Uh, what the bishop did, it wasn't just to me,
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but it was to every parish fit, not even just my parish family, because, you know, we, we talk in
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the canceled priests about where I'm not actually the one that's been canceled because I'm still
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speaking. The, the priests who are in the pulpit who are afraid to speak, they are actually the ones
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who have been canceled. They use me as a tool to bludgeon every other priest into silence. And when
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you realize how it, how grave insidious, the widespread, uh, ramification of taking a priest
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of, uh, we've decided to start calling it being exiled, not canceled because I'm in exile. Like
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St. Athanasius was five or seven times, depending on who's coming. The ones that they've canceled are
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the ones who are still in the pulpits. I can't remember why I started saying that, but it seemed to
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make sense. Interesting. So what inspired the book? Why, why the book? Why now? Sure. One of the great
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graces, uh, when I was first ordained, uh, I was supposed to be up in Stevens Point at another parish
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at chaplain at another high school where it wasn't having, it did not have a Catholic identity. Uh,
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by God's grace and blessing, somehow I ended up in Wisconsin Rapids at Asuncion high school,
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which was head and shoulders above the other six school systems in terms of Catholic identity.
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So I didn't have to fight with staff, with administrators about Catholic identity. I just,
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I spoke like I do now and it was accepted that no grit, no grief from them at all. And so, uh,
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when you speak the truth like that, we had, I don't know, maybe average class of 40 ish per year.
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And every year, some of the kids weren't baptized. Some were Protestant every year when you taught,
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uh, really in like little parables, kids could become kids now because I'm old. Kids could
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understand it. And, uh, and every year there were converts. They would come into the church at Peter
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and Paul every single year. And in fact, the seventh year, after I was chaplain for six years,
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the seventh year, I had a residual one. One of my students come into the Catholic church.
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The impetus for this came and I was constantly encouraged by staff, by teachers. Father,
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you should make a book about these lessons that you keep teaching. I call them life lessons.
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So finally I had, uh, time, uh, on my hands. And so I was able to put some of them together.
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That, that book that you're talking about, it actually, so I think it's about 60 pages,
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something like that. It actually was about six times that. And, and the publisher got ahold of it and
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said, father, nobody's ever going to read this. It's too much. You need to have it chopped down
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into easier to digest lessons of, you know, five or six pages per lesson. And don't even always call
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them lessons because people don't like that, like have to get lessened. So, um, from that then came
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with the help of a great publisher and editor, Bev, uh, came that, that book volume one. And the reason
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this body was because she took out at least two thirds of the full book and then chopped down
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what was in the remaining third. So it was easily digestible. So maybe I'm, you know, get too wordy
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or I'm so used to listening to long lectures in college. That's what I give. Anybody who's had
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to suffer through my homilies knows that's true. That was the impetus for it is, is to, to take then
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what I, uh, practiced for six years, trying to convey the truth of the Catholic church to all
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the students, Catholic and even not baptized. And, and the, the fruit of that practice, uh,
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comes across then in this little book. And it's exactly why I think this book is great for parents
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to get for their kids who are, especially if they're entering high school or whatever, it's just
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the faith taught clearly in the way you wish you were taught it. Um, so I would very much encourage
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it. Let's get onto one of the issues, uh, that's going on in the world today. Uh, it's particularly
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poignant right now in the United States. Um, in, I'm going to come at this from a very different angle
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with regard to immigration and what's going on in trying to fix the problem. There are real issues
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problems with, uh, people being deported who shouldn't be, who were there for years and years
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and years. Yes, illegally, but because some Democrats tried to have cheaper labor or whatever,
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they're there and they've been there for years. They're doing their best. They might've been in
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process trying to get the thing done, but having problems, a lot of them got caught up in this.
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How do we get to the heart of this and deal with it properly?
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Well, first of all, as to the Pope and the bishops, they're heretics because the Catholic
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teaching is crystal clear about how, and you can read it yourself. I'm not making, don't take my
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word for it. It's been the teaching all along. Uh, it's in the catechism that each country has a
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right to establish laws with regard to who gets to come in. Rome itself, the Vatican itself has its
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own set of rules and a 30 foot high, high wall. So when the bishops who are paid handsomely over
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$3 billion that got cut off when they were no longer able to aid and abet illegal invasion,
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that's, this is what it's all about. And now watch, because I just gave a homily on this very topic.
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For the last 39 years from Ronald Reagan in 1981, straightforward to now, Reagan deported,
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I think it was something like 8 million. Clinton deported something like 12 million.
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Obama deported, let's see, no, there's someone in Bush deported 10 million. Obama deported 6 million.
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And during the first administration of Trump, 45, he only deported 2 million. And then in the first
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two years of Biden, he deported 2,700,000. So in two years, Biden already deported over 700,000 more
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than Trump, 45 deported in four years. And there was not one peep out of any bishop the entire time.
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Where were the bishops when Reagan was deporting, you know, what was it? 8 million. Where were the
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bishops when Clinton deported 12 million? Where were the bishops when Obama deported 6 million?
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Where were the bishops then? Not one peep. They didn't have a word to say about any of it. There's,
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there's something when you add it all up as, I don't know, it's 20, 30 million that were deported
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under all the other presidents. And Trump has deported less than any of them, far less, far less. In
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one case, like 10 million less than the other guys, right? Where were the bishops? They didn't say
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anything, but now they are because they got cut off from the gravy train of over $3 billion to aid and
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bet. Not just illegals coming in, the illegal invasion, but a half a million of unaccompanied
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minors. These bishops have blood on their hands. Unaccompanied minors. If people understood how evil
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the bishops were, I don't know why they don't get this, but it's because the media is anti-Trump.
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And there's, I mean, we could go into the whole global story about the globalists, Zionists,
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that are trying to run the world, establish one world government that come right out and admit it
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like David Rockefeller. Here's the thing over the past hundred years, you wouldn't know this because
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you're kind of Canadian. Over the last hundred years, there's been basically Republicans and
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Democrats. And over that hundred years, there have been 35 years, including Clinton, Obama, and Biden,
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where the Democrats controlled the White House, the Senate, and the Congress. 35 of those years.
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And during that time when they had absolute power, they did nothing, nothing, nothing to change the
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immigration laws. They did nothing. The laws were just fine because the laws allow for it's well over a
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million per year to come in legally, right? They did nothing. And then all of a sudden, now that it's Trump,
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then they have Trump derangement syndrome. Now and only now are they complaining. The hypocrisy
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is absolutely off the charts. Hello, my friends. I want to thank you so much for your prayers,
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your giving. God bless you, my friends. And thank you. We've got another issue that is also pressing
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because, well, there's a bunch of issues. I haven't talked to you in a while. I know it's been a while.
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It has been. And so much has gone on that especially, yes, in the States, but then in the church as well.
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But one of the ones that I needed some clarity on, and I think our viewers would very much appreciate
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clarity on, is this idea of Our Lady. Now, give us your thoughts on these titles of Our Lady that
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we're apparently now not supposed to use. But I notice many good priests, including Father Charles
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Murr, who's on Faith and Reason. He always ends off praying for the intercession of Our Lady,
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co-redemptrix and mediatrix of all graces. Is this too confusing for Protestants? Is this
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is this something that, you know, it's best left unsaid, even though it may not be false?
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This is a brand new concoction. When I was in high school, we had a teacher, civics teacher,
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who said, now remember guys, remember kids, when somebody does something, there's the stated reason
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which sounds good, but there's a real reason behind it. He's speaking specifically about government
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and why they're really doing what they're doing. So you remember in Vatican II, when they destroyed the
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sanctuaries and destroyed the holy sacrifice at the mass, the stated reason which ostensibly was good
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was to make it more accessible to people. The real reason, according to Bognini and the boys,
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was to destroy the mass, to remove anything from our sanctuaries and from the sacred liturgy
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that would be even a shadow of a stumbling block to a Protestant. In other words, make us just another
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Protestant denomination. That was the underlying working principle of the people who destroyed
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the holy sacrifice of the mass in their committee, their non-dogmatic committee after Vatican II.
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We don't give a damn if it offends a Protestant because we're Catholic, right? We're not going to
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apologize for the Holy Eucharist, for the sacrament confession, for the veneration of relics, for our
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veneration of the Blessed Mother, Queen Mother of the King of the Universe. And you know from that
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section in 1 Chronicles, it goes from King David and Bathsheba, and he's dying, and Bathsheba comes in
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to say something to the king, her husband, and she has to bow down to the king. Well, then David dies,
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her son Solomon becomes king, and when the queen mother comes in, Solomon has to get up off his throne
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and bow down to his mother, to the queen mother. There's a commandment, it's called commandment number
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four, right? And then he has to put a chair next to his chair, and then she says to him, son, I've been out
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with the people, and I collected up some of their petitions, some of the requests that they want made, so I'm
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going to give them to you, son, Solomon, King Solomon, and you're going to do it because I told you to, right?
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That is how we understand, through our Judeo history, through our Catholic history, the status of our
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blessed mother, and I was just thinking about this the other day, because I know this to be true, you know,
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when a mother gives birth to a child, you know, nine months, the mother's heart's here, the baby's
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heart's down here, nine months, Jesus was in the womb of our blessed mother. Science now tells us that the
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child's stem cells, some of them remain within the mother's body, because in God's plan, the mom has to keep
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alive, because the mom is supposed to be taking care of that newborn baby, so if there's something
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health-wise wrong with the mother, those baby's stem cells can help fix it. When you realize that
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Jesus's stem cells are in the body of our blessed mother, the only woman, all ages would call me
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blessed, because the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name, yet you cannot venerate
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Mary enough, no matter what title it is, and if a Protestant doesn't like it, I don't give a damn.
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I thought it was weird, Father, because those titles aren't confusing to me, even from a
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Protestant perspective, because you can biblically ground them. If Paul said, you know, I make up in
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my own body that which is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, and if that's in terms of a redemptrix,
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being a co-redeemer with Christ, Paul is saying that himself, and then with regard to mediatrics of
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all graces, it's in the Bible we learn all grace and truth come through Jesus Christ, and then we
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know that Jesus comes through Mary. But the one that is kind of confusing, and I noticed they don't talk
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about going back and redoing that one, is the assumption of our deity, because that's extra
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biblical. So if you're going to do something not to confuse the Protestants, why aren't they revisiting
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that? I guess you can't do that because it's dogma, maybe. Well, they can't, because once that dogma,
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the infallible dogma is established, even these heretics and apostates in the hierarchy are reticent
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to try and say, oh, that's been dogma for the last 100, 200 years, because it's really based on 2,000
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years of Catholic sacred tradition. Even they aren't going to go there, but they're picking on this one
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title. Because if you can have Mary as the Immaculate Conception, if you can have Mary as assumed into
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heaven, this is small potatoes. So why are they doing it? Why are they doing it? Aren't there
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enough things in the world to worry about? Then start attacking the titles of our Blessed Mother.
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What they're doing is these are insidious, chipping away. It's rat poison, right? That's pure rat poison,
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because it only takes a little bit of rat poison. Because if they can chip away at this thing,
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they can chip away at other things. And slowly but surely, incrementally,
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once they chipped away at a nothing. Remember those kids games where there's a bunch of logs
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stacked on each other, and you got to pull one out and hope the whole thing doesn't topple and
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pull another one out and hope it doesn't topple? They keep pulling these things out. And sooner or
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later, the faith topples. This is what they're doing. And they're doing it knowingly, and they're
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doing it intentionally, because they're trying to establish one world, one world religion.
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I had one sort of follow up for you. And that is, bring back your book into this, because
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you mentioned rat poison. Now, rat poison is part of your book as well. And I think that's really
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important, because for all the people who read, who actually read this document cutting up Our Lady,
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co-redemptrix, and mediatrix of all graces. It doesn't sound bad. It sounds like they're trying
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to honor Our Lady, but this is just not such a good idea right now. So tell us about rat poison,
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why that's such a powerful example. It was in your book. Tell us about that.
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Well, it comes from a true story. Since I was a little kid, we didn't have daycare. That's from hell,
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not from heaven. Mary didn't shuffle Jesus off to daycare so she could have a career. So my mom
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would have to take us to the grocery store. And sooner or later, you have to go down the toxic
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chemical aisle. And my little boy eyes would spy that box of rat poison with a skull and crossbones.
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There's actually a black skull and crossbones and a black rat upside down dead. And I thought to
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myself, because I'm a picky eater, I like what I like. I'll eat it seven days a week, but not stuff I
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don't like. So I used to say to myself, why would a rat eat that rat poison?
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Because it has to taste terribly if it's going to kill you dead. And then I'm down 30 years later
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on. Now I'm an adult. I'm downstate Michigan and I go to keep the Lord's day holy. And the priest
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gave a homily that started out, does anybody here wonder why a rat eats rat poison? And it's because
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he said 90% of what's in that box tastes really, really good to a rat. He doesn't know the difference
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of the 10% poison. It's all mixed in there. So he gobbles it all down and it kills him dead.
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Well, literally about a year ago, year and a half ago, maybe I got up the courage to touch
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and pick up that box of rat poison. And look, it turns out it's only 1% that's poison. 1% is arsenic.
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99% is really good. So now if you don't know your faith, you're vulnerable to the rat poison,
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which ultimately will kill your faith dead. And it's, and it's the rat poison are little things
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that seem not significant, sort of inconsequential little things. So like chipping away at Mary's
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titles. Well, if you can chip away at that title, maybe we can chip away at some other titles too.
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Father, tell us where we can get your books. And I should mention there's a second book as well.
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It is called Treasures of the Catholic Church, 2000 Years of Saints and Martyrs in five minutes a day.
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So the Liturgy of the Hours, the bravery that priests and nuns are supposed to pray every day,
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five times a day. There's a part called the officer readings. And there's a second part,
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it includes three Psalms and includes the first reading, usually from sacred scripture.
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Then it has a second reading, which is my favorite part of the whole officer readings
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ever. And it's because for 2000 years, we have collections of the writings of saints for each
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day. And it takes five minutes or less to read it. There's over 200 saints and over 40 martyrs
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included in this book, their writings for each day, for every season, for every feast day.
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I think there's a total of about 596 pages, because sometimes there's seasons or dates will overlap with
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the saints feast day. And you could go to that saint feast day. Some of the four big ones in there
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are St. Augustine. I think he's in there 60 or 70 times. There's St. Ambrose, St. Leo the Great,
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I think St. Gregory the Great. I think those are the four biggest ones. And they're the ones that are
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in there. The most, there's an index in the back. And each saint, when they give their little writing,
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typically quotes multiple times sacred scripture. So I went through and painstakingly,
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looked up every single scriptural site, thousands, and found it in sacred scripture,
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because there's no clues. You just had to hear the words, you have to look it up on like Google
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search or duck, duck, go or whatever, and find where it is. And then I put it at, I italicized
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and put the quote from sacred scripture in red. And then I put a superscript of it of the actual
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citation. So when you read something that a saint wrote, you can go back and look at the sacred
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scripture that they're saying. And why is this important? Because sooner or later, if you read
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this, you will suddenly come to realize that the Catholic church, the true Catholic church,
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the unchanged and changeable truth or deposit faith is 2000 years old. It is unchanged and
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unchangeable. And you will be putting on the armor of God such that you will then recognize instantly
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when people like Tucho Fernandez or Jorge Bergoglio go heretical. This is by reading this for five
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minutes a day, you put on the armor of God. And isn't that what we're supposed to do? And I'll tell
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you something I found out that I didn't know myself as I went through from day one, first Sunday
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of Advent, right through the entire liturgical year. This is what I found out. There were a lot of
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recurring, recurring themes, recurring sacred scripture passages. And one of them was Sirach
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chapter two, verse one. And I thought, what is that? Because I kept seeing it. And it goes something
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like this. I'm not going to do the best job quoting him, but it's like, if you son go to follow God,
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God, prepare yourself for trials. That's Old Testament. And all these New Testament saints and
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martyrs are quoting the Old Testament. If you go to, if you're going to be a Christian, if you're going
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to be a Catholic, if you're going to follow God, watch out, trouble's coming your way. Jesus told us
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that, right? Jesus himself warned us. But when you're finding that these, all these icons of our Catholic
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church history, saints and martyrs who died for the faith are saying that same thing, you suddenly
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realize they learned what Jesus taught. They lived and died for it. And so when you see these modern
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apostates bringing out the orange bongo drummers, you say to yourself, why do I need to go learn
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something from the orange bongo drummer? What does he have to teach me about repentance, confession,
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reconciliation, absolution, reception of the Holy Eucharist in the state of grace? What does the
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orange bongo drummer, because those are important, those are necessary for eternal life, right? What
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does that orange bongo drummer got to teach me something? I'll tell you who's got something to
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teach me. Irenaeus, Bishop Martyr, right? He's got something to teach me. I can read him in five
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minutes one day. I don't have to go asking, tracking down an orange bongo player.
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Father, one more reflection, and then your final blessing, if you would, and the reflection on this.
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So I watched this beautiful video of a priest, Father Ambrose, I believe his name is, from St.
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Michael's Abbey in California. Oh, nice! And he said this one line that I just thought was so
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striking. He said, the biggest problem in the world today, and in the church today, is not the
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bishops, it's not the politicians, it's me, because I'm not yet a saint. Your closing thoughts with that,
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your final blessing would be great. You know, St. Philip Neri has a quote that goes like this,
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cast yourselves in the arms of God and rest assured if he wants anything of you, he'll fit you for the task
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and give you the strength. It's been on every email I've sent out since 2007. The biggest problem
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is me, is I'm not a saint. We're not all called to be David. God called one to be David. He anointed
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him, Samuel anointed him, he went out, what did he do? He killed Goliath. You know, the Israelites were
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looking at Goliath and thought he's too big to kill, and David looks at him and says, he's too big to miss.
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So he follows God and does his job as God called him to do. If we're waking up every morning and
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saying, Lord, what would you have me do today? Here I am, Lord. Wasn't that Samuel with Elijah? I think
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that's where that came from. Here I am, Lord. I've come to do your will. If you start each day that
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way and then train to enter into the battle, then you will become the saint God has called you to be.
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But if you say to yourself, if you ask yourself this question, what am I called to be? And you
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don't know the answer, it means you haven't been seeking. And Jesus promised if you seek, you will
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find. So if you don't know the answer, you haven't been seeking, and that's all on you, buddy. Ambrose said
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is 100% true. Each one of us is called to be a saint. But if you don't even know what that looks
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like, if you haven't even tried, if you haven't spent one hour a day trying to be a saint, then
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you're not ready to be put in the game. And that's the parable of the talents, isn't it? God gave you
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10 talents. You show up at his door, and he says, well, what do you got to show me for all those
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talents I gave you? And your hands are empty? Because you didn't train, you didn't practice, you didn't
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play in the game of, you didn't work in God's vineyard? It's not going to go well for you that day.
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So yeah, the problem is, the problem is, is that the bishops haven't told you, haven't taught you
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that, but you should know that yourself just by reading sacred scripture. You just read the
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gospels, and you're going to know, hmm, I've got talents. What am I supposed to do with them? Jesus
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is going to ask that question. What do you got to show me for all that I've done for you? So you can't
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blame it all on the bishops. You have to look in the mirror and say, what have I done? What have I done
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today? What have I done every day? And then maybe, you know, it's not too late, it's never too late
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to change, to metanoia, to turn back to God, like the prodigal son, who's wasted. Isn't that what the
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prodigal son did? He wasted everything on wine, women, and song, on worldly temporal things. He
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finally came back, he turned around, and the father welcomed him. It is not too late, it is never too late,
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turn back. But when you turn back, that means you have to change. It means you have to start showing up for
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practice, because you're part of the Catholic team, right? It's not all about you. It's about what are you
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doing to help the team? And if you don't know the answer to that question, again, you haven't sought and you
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haven't found. So it's not too late. Start now. Start the first Sunday of Advent. Make a resolution that every day, I'm
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going to have my morning offering. I'm going to offer myself to God. Here I am, Lord, do with me what
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you will. And then train and practice, so that he can then put you in the game when the time comes.
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So Ambrose said the right thing. And now your blessing, Father. All right. Well, let us pray.
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In nomine, pa'atris, ephilius, spiritus, sancti, amen. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. And through
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the intercession of St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor of the church, through the intercession of every
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martyr who has shown us how to live our lives so that we can be witnesses of our faith and be a
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brighter light of Christ in this world. Through their intercession, through the intercession, especially
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of our blessed mother, Mary, co-redemptrix and mediatrix of all graces, may Almighty God bless
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you, fill you with grace, give you the courage, the wisdom, the strength to work in his vineyard.
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We ask this blessing in nomine, pa'atris, ephilius, spiritus, sancti, amen. Amen.
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Thank you, Father Altman. God bless you. And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
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