The John-Henry Westen Show - Fr. Altman： The PLOT to REPLACE the Catholic Church

00:00:00.000 they keep pulling these things out and sooner or later the faith topples. This is what they're

00:00:05.240 doing and they're doing it knowingly and they're doing it intentionally

00:00:08.360 because they're trying to establish one world religion.

00:00:13.720 Hello my friends, welcome to the John Hunter Weston Show. I have for you a very special guest,

00:00:18.740 a great friend of mine and I know someone whom you all love so very much. He's the one who

00:00:23.640 we all discovered during the horrific days of COVID when we were locked out of our churches

00:00:28.900 and we tuned in to try and find a priest who would dare to speak the truth to us, who would give us

00:00:34.380 while we couldn't receive Jesus in person, give us his truth. Very few of those and this one we all

00:00:41.780 know and love. He's Father James Altman. Father, so good to be with you. God bless you.

00:00:46.140 Hi Henry, that's a very nice introduction. Thank you. You said nice things about me.

00:00:50.580 We were in that together. I remember that well. Father, let's begin as you always do at the sign

00:00:54.640 of the cross. If you wouldn't lead us please.

00:00:56.260 Amen. Heavenly Father, guide our voices, guide our minds, guide our hearts toward you as we speak

00:01:04.620 to those, your other children. Let us together grow stronger in our faith, put on the armor of God

00:01:10.120 so that we can be protected against the insidious snares of the devil. And we ask of this grace and

00:01:14.460 this blessing. Amen. Amen. So Father, we've got a few things here to talk about, but I want to talk

00:01:23.480 first about your books because you've got two books. I mean, this is funny because I was given

00:01:28.680 a preview copy. Thank you for that, by the way. That was beautiful. I remember reading it thinking,

00:01:32.620 oh, what a breath of fresh air because it was just the old faith, the faith of our fathers

00:01:41.180 presented in a way without flowery language, without kind of mumbo jumbo that you can't understand.

00:01:48.160 It was very plain, full of stories. I love it. It's one that I definitely recommend to teens,

00:01:55.720 especially parents looking to give your kids something solid. There's that. Now, the thing is,

00:02:02.280 you just released another book, that book, by the way, called Truth at Last. It was funny. I was

00:02:07.880 talking with one of your publishers, Beverly, and I said, hey, she asked for a blurb on the book. So I'm

00:02:12.900 sorry if that drives sales away from you, but I did. I said, I said, you were a modern day John the

00:02:19.840 Baptist. And it's because you speak the truth and you say the uncomfortable saying that got his head

00:02:28.000 lopped off. And Father, I don't know. I know how that story ends. I don't like that reference.

00:02:34.640 No, but it is, it is true. Although when looking it up, it's funny because everybody knows Buddha

00:02:40.980 vipers, a term which you actually used yourself. And it is used in the scriptures by John the Baptist,

00:02:46.580 but it's also used by our Lord himself. Repeatedly, Matthew chapter 23, like seven times. I know.

00:02:56.300 So this is the funny thing because I always call you like a modern day John the Baptist,

00:03:00.860 which I think is still true. Um, but actually, you know, your role, your priestly role in Persona

00:03:08.080 Christi, which happens on the altar, I know, but boy, you sound a lot like him because it's actually

00:03:12.340 Jesus who has way more insulting terms like hypocrites, brood of vipers. Um, you, you

00:03:19.480 whited sepulchers, which is kind of like, oh gosh, they paint the outside white and nice and the

00:03:25.580 insides full of decay and gross. I really thought of in my heart when I was doing the blurb,

00:03:30.700 I thought, yeah, that's, that's what this is. What was your inspiration there? Because, um,

00:03:36.200 it is, I know I'm going to talk to you about all of what's going on in the church today too, but

00:03:39.640 this was for you, uh, a work you, you've been holed up, unable to do public things. Your,

00:03:45.940 your parish family stolen from you or you stolen from your parish family, whichever way you want to

00:03:51.260 put it. Actually both suffered. Uh, what the bishop did, it wasn't just to me,

00:03:55.760 but it was to every parish fit, not even just my parish family, because, you know, we, we talk in

00:04:01.180 the canceled priests about where I'm not actually the one that's been canceled because I'm still

00:04:04.840 speaking. The, the priests who are in the pulpit who are afraid to speak, they are actually the ones

00:04:12.240 who have been canceled. They use me as a tool to bludgeon every other priest into silence. And when

00:04:19.260 you realize how it, how grave insidious, the widespread, uh, ramification of taking a priest

00:04:30.520 of, uh, we've decided to start calling it being exiled, not canceled because I'm in exile. Like

00:04:36.520 St. Athanasius was five or seven times, depending on who's coming. The ones that they've canceled are

00:04:41.220 the ones who are still in the pulpits. I can't remember why I started saying that, but it seemed to

00:04:45.020 make sense. Interesting. So what inspired the book? Why, why the book? Why now? Sure. One of the great

00:04:51.380 graces, uh, when I was first ordained, uh, I was supposed to be up in Stevens Point at another parish

00:04:57.920 at chaplain at another high school where it wasn't having, it did not have a Catholic identity. Uh,

00:05:03.960 by God's grace and blessing, somehow I ended up in Wisconsin Rapids at Asuncion high school,

00:05:09.300 which was head and shoulders above the other six school systems in terms of Catholic identity.

00:05:13.660 So I didn't have to fight with staff, with administrators about Catholic identity. I just,

00:05:20.780 I spoke like I do now and it was accepted that no grit, no grief from them at all. And so, uh,

00:05:28.140 when you speak the truth like that, we had, I don't know, maybe average class of 40 ish per year.

00:05:33.440 And every year, some of the kids weren't baptized. Some were Protestant every year when you taught,

00:05:38.400 uh, really in like little parables, kids could become kids now because I'm old. Kids could

00:05:44.420 understand it. And, uh, and every year there were converts. They would come into the church at Peter

00:05:49.640 and Paul every single year. And in fact, the seventh year, after I was chaplain for six years,

00:05:54.200 the seventh year, I had a residual one. One of my students come into the Catholic church.

00:05:58.080 The impetus for this came and I was constantly encouraged by staff, by teachers. Father,

00:06:02.500 you should make a book about these lessons that you keep teaching. I call them life lessons.

00:06:06.080 So finally I had, uh, time, uh, on my hands. And so I was able to put some of them together.

00:06:12.720 That, that book that you're talking about, it actually, so I think it's about 60 pages,

00:06:17.680 something like that. It actually was about six times that. And, and the publisher got ahold of it and

00:06:23.960 said, father, nobody's ever going to read this. It's too much. You need to have it chopped down

00:06:29.500 into easier to digest lessons of, you know, five or six pages per lesson. And don't even always call

00:06:37.280 them lessons because people don't like that, like have to get lessened. So, um, from that then came

00:06:43.020 with the help of a great publisher and editor, Bev, uh, came that, that book volume one. And the reason

00:06:48.640 this body was because she took out at least two thirds of the full book and then chopped down 0.98

00:06:55.300 what was in the remaining third. So it was easily digestible. So maybe I'm, you know, get too wordy

00:07:00.660 or I'm so used to listening to long lectures in college. That's what I give. Anybody who's had

00:07:07.360 to suffer through my homilies knows that's true. That was the impetus for it is, is to, to take then

00:07:13.160 what I, uh, practiced for six years, trying to convey the truth of the Catholic church to all

00:07:20.140 the students, Catholic and even not baptized. And, and the, the fruit of that practice, uh,

00:07:27.840 comes across then in this little book. And it's exactly why I think this book is great for parents

00:07:34.200 to get for their kids who are, especially if they're entering high school or whatever, it's just

00:07:38.700 the faith taught clearly in the way you wish you were taught it. Um, so I would very much encourage

00:07:46.320 it. Let's get onto one of the issues, uh, that's going on in the world today. Uh, it's particularly

00:07:51.880 poignant right now in the United States. Um, in, I'm going to come at this from a very different angle

00:07:59.720 with regard to immigration and what's going on in trying to fix the problem. There are real issues

00:08:08.500 problems with, uh, people being deported who shouldn't be, who were there for years and years

00:08:14.780 and years. Yes, illegally, but because some Democrats tried to have cheaper labor or whatever,

00:08:21.680 they're there and they've been there for years. They're doing their best. They might've been in

00:08:25.500 process trying to get the thing done, but having problems, a lot of them got caught up in this.

00:08:32.260 How do we get to the heart of this and deal with it properly?

00:08:34.980 Well, first of all, as to the Pope and the bishops, they're heretics because the Catholic 0.98

00:08:40.680 teaching is crystal clear about how, and you can read it yourself. I'm not making, don't take my

00:08:45.720 word for it. It's been the teaching all along. Uh, it's in the catechism that each country has a

00:08:52.220 right to establish laws with regard to who gets to come in. Rome itself, the Vatican itself has its

00:08:59.600 own set of rules and a 30 foot high, high wall. So when the bishops who are paid handsomely over

00:09:06.700 $3 billion that got cut off when they were no longer able to aid and abet illegal invasion,

00:09:13.640 that's, this is what it's all about. And now watch, because I just gave a homily on this very topic.

00:09:18.260 For the last 39 years from Ronald Reagan in 1981, straightforward to now, Reagan deported,

00:09:26.280 I think it was something like 8 million. Clinton deported something like 12 million.

00:09:31.260 Obama deported, let's see, no, there's someone in Bush deported 10 million. Obama deported 6 million.

00:09:38.000 And during the first administration of Trump, 45, he only deported 2 million. And then in the first

00:09:44.160 two years of Biden, he deported 2,700,000. So in two years, Biden already deported over 700,000 more

00:09:53.260 than Trump, 45 deported in four years. And there was not one peep out of any bishop the entire time.

00:10:04.040 Where were the bishops when Reagan was deporting, you know, what was it? 8 million. Where were the

00:10:09.240 bishops when Clinton deported 12 million? Where were the bishops when Obama deported 6 million?

00:10:14.300 Where were the bishops then? Not one peep. They didn't have a word to say about any of it. There's,

00:10:21.020 there's something when you add it all up as, I don't know, it's 20, 30 million that were deported

00:10:25.020 under all the other presidents. And Trump has deported less than any of them, far less, far less. In

00:10:31.800 one case, like 10 million less than the other guys, right? Where were the bishops? They didn't say

00:10:39.020 anything, but now they are because they got cut off from the gravy train of over $3 billion to aid and

00:10:47.200 bet. Not just illegals coming in, the illegal invasion, but a half a million of unaccompanied

00:10:52.800 minors. These bishops have blood on their hands. Unaccompanied minors. If people understood how evil

00:11:01.280 the bishops were, I don't know why they don't get this, but it's because the media is anti-Trump.

00:11:08.400 And there's, I mean, we could go into the whole global story about the globalists, Zionists,

00:11:12.320 that are trying to run the world, establish one world government that come right out and admit it

00:11:16.520 like David Rockefeller. Here's the thing over the past hundred years, you wouldn't know this because

00:11:20.680 you're kind of Canadian. Over the last hundred years, there's been basically Republicans and

00:11:26.840 Democrats. And over that hundred years, there have been 35 years, including Clinton, Obama, and Biden,

00:11:33.420 where the Democrats controlled the White House, the Senate, and the Congress. 35 of those years.

00:11:42.280 And during that time when they had absolute power, they did nothing, nothing, nothing to change the

00:11:49.800 immigration laws. They did nothing. The laws were just fine because the laws allow for it's well over a 0.99

00:11:55.860 million per year to come in legally, right? They did nothing. And then all of a sudden, now that it's Trump,

00:12:03.420 then they have Trump derangement syndrome. Now and only now are they complaining. The hypocrisy

00:12:10.380 is absolutely off the charts. Hello, my friends. I want to thank you so much for your prayers,

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00:12:44.220 your giving. God bless you, my friends. And thank you. We've got another issue that is also pressing

00:12:51.220 because, well, there's a bunch of issues. I haven't talked to you in a while. I know it's been a while.

00:12:56.640 It has been. And so much has gone on that especially, yes, in the States, but then in the church as well.

00:13:06.340 But one of the ones that I needed some clarity on, and I think our viewers would very much appreciate

00:13:12.180 clarity on, is this idea of Our Lady. Now, give us your thoughts on these titles of Our Lady that

00:13:22.340 we're apparently now not supposed to use. But I notice many good priests, including Father Charles

00:13:28.160 Murr, who's on Faith and Reason. He always ends off praying for the intercession of Our Lady,

00:13:34.140 co-redemptrix and mediatrix of all graces. Is this too confusing for Protestants? Is this

00:13:39.140 is this something that, you know, it's best left unsaid, even though it may not be false?

00:13:44.820 This is a brand new concoction. When I was in high school, we had a teacher, civics teacher,

00:13:49.920 who said, now remember guys, remember kids, when somebody does something, there's the stated reason

00:13:56.300 which sounds good, but there's a real reason behind it. He's speaking specifically about government

00:14:02.040 and why they're really doing what they're doing. So you remember in Vatican II, when they destroyed the

00:14:08.180 sanctuaries and destroyed the holy sacrifice at the mass, the stated reason which ostensibly was good

00:14:13.260 was to make it more accessible to people. The real reason, according to Bognini and the boys,

00:14:20.860 was to destroy the mass, to remove anything from our sanctuaries and from the sacred liturgy

00:14:27.820 that would be even a shadow of a stumbling block to a Protestant. In other words, make us just another 0.98

00:14:33.180 Protestant denomination. That was the underlying working principle of the people who destroyed 1.00

00:14:38.260 the holy sacrifice of the mass in their committee, their non-dogmatic committee after Vatican II.

00:14:42.980 We don't give a damn if it offends a Protestant because we're Catholic, right? We're not going to

00:14:51.100 apologize for the Holy Eucharist, for the sacrament confession, for the veneration of relics, for our

00:14:56.980 veneration of the Blessed Mother, Queen Mother of the King of the Universe. And you know from that

00:15:02.780 section in 1 Chronicles, it goes from King David and Bathsheba, and he's dying, and Bathsheba comes in

00:15:09.520 to say something to the king, her husband, and she has to bow down to the king. Well, then David dies,

00:15:15.900 her son Solomon becomes king, and when the queen mother comes in, Solomon has to get up off his throne 0.97

00:15:22.220 and bow down to his mother, to the queen mother. There's a commandment, it's called commandment number

00:15:27.160 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

00:15:35.220 with the people, and I collected up some of their petitions, some of the requests that they want made, so I'm

00:15:40.940 going to give them to you, son, Solomon, King Solomon, and you're going to do it because I told you to, right?

00:15:46.680 That is how we understand, through our Judeo history, through our Catholic history, the status of our

00:15:54.580 blessed mother, and I was just thinking about this the other day, because I know this to be true, you know,

00:15:58.580 when a mother gives birth to a child, you know, nine months, the mother's heart's here, the baby's

00:16:03.560 heart's down here, nine months, Jesus was in the womb of our blessed mother. Science now tells us that the

00:16:11.460 child's stem cells, some of them remain within the mother's body, because in God's plan, the mom has to keep

00:16:20.480 alive, because the mom is supposed to be taking care of that newborn baby, so if there's something

00:16:24.180 health-wise wrong with the mother, those baby's stem cells can help fix it. When you realize that 0.65

00:16:30.540 Jesus's stem cells are in the body of our blessed mother, the only woman, all ages would call me

00:16:38.680 blessed, because the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name, yet you cannot venerate

00:16:44.520 Mary enough, no matter what title it is, and if a Protestant doesn't like it, I don't give a damn.

00:16:50.700 I thought it was weird, Father, because those titles aren't confusing to me, even from a

00:16:58.660 Protestant perspective, because you can biblically ground them. If Paul said, you know, I make up in

00:17:04.420 my own body that which is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, and if that's in terms of a redemptrix,

00:17:10.360 being a co-redeemer with Christ, Paul is saying that himself, and then with regard to mediatrics of 0.91

00:17:15.800 all graces, it's in the Bible we learn all grace and truth come through Jesus Christ, and then we

00:17:21.860 know that Jesus comes through Mary. But the one that is kind of confusing, and I noticed they don't talk

00:17:28.100 about going back and redoing that one, is the assumption of our deity, because that's extra

00:17:33.560 biblical. So if you're going to do something not to confuse the Protestants, why aren't they revisiting

00:17:39.460 that? I guess you can't do that because it's dogma, maybe. Well, they can't, because once that dogma,

00:17:43.860 the infallible dogma is established, even these heretics and apostates in the hierarchy are reticent

00:17:51.800 to try and say, oh, that's been dogma for the last 100, 200 years, because it's really based on 2,000

00:17:57.540 years of Catholic sacred tradition. Even they aren't going to go there, but they're picking on this one

00:18:02.320 title. Because if you can have Mary as the Immaculate Conception, if you can have Mary as assumed into

00:18:07.500 heaven, this is small potatoes. So why are they doing it? Why are they doing it? Aren't there

00:18:13.580 enough things in the world to worry about? Then start attacking the titles of our Blessed Mother. 0.99

00:18:20.800 What they're doing is these are insidious, chipping away. It's rat poison, right? That's pure rat poison,

00:18:28.740 because it only takes a little bit of rat poison. Because if they can chip away at this thing,

00:18:32.480 they can chip away at other things. And slowly but surely, incrementally,

00:18:36.660 once they chipped away at a nothing. Remember those kids games where there's a bunch of logs

00:18:41.800 stacked on each other, and you got to pull one out and hope the whole thing doesn't topple and

00:18:45.440 pull another one out and hope it doesn't topple? They keep pulling these things out. And sooner or

00:18:50.240 later, the faith topples. This is what they're doing. And they're doing it knowingly, and they're

00:18:55.740 doing it intentionally, because they're trying to establish one world, one world religion.

00:19:00.340 I had one sort of follow up for you. And that is, bring back your book into this, because

00:19:07.800 you mentioned rat poison. Now, rat poison is part of your book as well. And I think that's really

00:19:15.040 important, because for all the people who read, who actually read this document cutting up Our Lady,

00:19:23.180 co-redemptrix, and mediatrix of all graces. It doesn't sound bad. It sounds like they're trying

00:19:31.060 to honor Our Lady, but this is just not such a good idea right now. So tell us about rat poison,

00:19:38.780 why that's such a powerful example. It was in your book. Tell us about that.

00:19:43.240 Well, it comes from a true story. Since I was a little kid, we didn't have daycare. That's from hell,

00:19:48.660 not from heaven. Mary didn't shuffle Jesus off to daycare so she could have a career. So my mom 0.85

00:19:54.060 would have to take us to the grocery store. And sooner or later, you have to go down the toxic

00:19:57.920 chemical aisle. And my little boy eyes would spy that box of rat poison with a skull and crossbones.

00:20:03.860 There's actually a black skull and crossbones and a black rat upside down dead. And I thought to

00:20:09.620 myself, because I'm a picky eater, I like what I like. I'll eat it seven days a week, but not stuff I

00:20:14.780 don't like. So I used to say to myself, why would a rat eat that rat poison?

00:20:18.360 Because it has to taste terribly if it's going to kill you dead. And then I'm down 30 years later

00:20:24.580 on. Now I'm an adult. I'm downstate Michigan and I go to keep the Lord's day holy. And the priest

00:20:29.980 gave a homily that started out, does anybody here wonder why a rat eats rat poison? And it's because

00:20:36.460 he said 90% of what's in that box tastes really, really good to a rat. He doesn't know the difference

00:20:42.540 of the 10% poison. It's all mixed in there. So he gobbles it all down and it kills him dead.

00:20:46.660 Well, literally about a year ago, year and a half ago, maybe I got up the courage to touch

00:20:53.120 and pick up that box of rat poison. And look, it turns out it's only 1% that's poison. 1% is arsenic.

00:20:59.080 99% is really good. So now if you don't know your faith, you're vulnerable to the rat poison,

00:21:07.400 which ultimately will kill your faith dead. And it's, and it's the rat poison are little things

00:21:13.340 that seem not significant, sort of inconsequential little things. So like chipping away at Mary's

00:21:20.500 titles. Well, if you can chip away at that title, maybe we can chip away at some other titles too.

00:21:26.300 Father, tell us where we can get your books. And I should mention there's a second book as well.

00:21:31.480 It is called Treasures of the Catholic Church, 2000 Years of Saints and Martyrs in five minutes a day.

00:21:39.140 So the Liturgy of the Hours, the bravery that priests and nuns are supposed to pray every day,

00:21:42.860 five times a day. There's a part called the officer readings. And there's a second part,

00:21:47.620 it includes three Psalms and includes the first reading, usually from sacred scripture.

00:21:51.140 Then it has a second reading, which is my favorite part of the whole officer readings

00:21:54.700 ever. And it's because for 2000 years, we have collections of the writings of saints for each

00:22:02.300 day. And it takes five minutes or less to read it. There's over 200 saints and over 40 martyrs

00:22:09.920 included in this book, their writings for each day, for every season, for every feast day.

00:22:17.020 I think there's a total of about 596 pages, because sometimes there's seasons or dates will overlap with

00:22:24.620 the saints feast day. And you could go to that saint feast day. Some of the four big ones in there

00:22:29.800 are St. Augustine. I think he's in there 60 or 70 times. There's St. Ambrose, St. Leo the Great,

00:22:36.460 I think St. Gregory the Great. I think those are the four biggest ones. And they're the ones that are

00:22:39.640 in there. The most, there's an index in the back. And each saint, when they give their little writing,

00:22:48.000 typically quotes multiple times sacred scripture. So I went through and painstakingly,

00:22:54.620 looked up every single scriptural site, thousands, and found it in sacred scripture,

00:23:02.020 because there's no clues. You just had to hear the words, you have to look it up on like Google

00:23:06.260 search or duck, duck, go or whatever, and find where it is. And then I put it at, I italicized

00:23:11.900 and put the quote from sacred scripture in red. And then I put a superscript of it of the actual

00:23:17.020 citation. So when you read something that a saint wrote, you can go back and look at the sacred

00:23:21.520 scripture that they're saying. And why is this important? Because sooner or later, if you read

00:23:27.580 this, you will suddenly come to realize that the Catholic church, the true Catholic church,

00:23:34.000 the unchanged and changeable truth or deposit faith is 2000 years old. It is unchanged and

00:23:39.060 unchangeable. And you will be putting on the armor of God such that you will then recognize instantly

00:23:45.340 when people like Tucho Fernandez or Jorge Bergoglio go heretical. This is by reading this for five

00:23:54.540 minutes a day, you put on the armor of God. And isn't that what we're supposed to do? And I'll tell

00:23:58.880 you something I found out that I didn't know myself as I went through from day one, first Sunday

00:24:03.060 of Advent, right through the entire liturgical year. This is what I found out. There were a lot of

00:24:08.440 recurring, recurring themes, recurring sacred scripture passages. And one of them was Sirach

00:24:17.700 chapter two, verse one. And I thought, what is that? Because I kept seeing it. And it goes something

00:24:25.400 like this. I'm not going to do the best job quoting him, but it's like, if you son go to follow God,

00:24:32.820 God, prepare yourself for trials. That's Old Testament. And all these New Testament saints and

00:24:41.920 martyrs are quoting the Old Testament. If you go to, if you're going to be a Christian, if you're going 0.64

00:24:47.140 to be a Catholic, if you're going to follow God, watch out, trouble's coming your way. Jesus told us

00:24:52.260 that, right? Jesus himself warned us. But when you're finding that these, all these icons of our Catholic

00:24:59.340 church history, saints and martyrs who died for the faith are saying that same thing, you suddenly

00:25:04.620 realize they learned what Jesus taught. They lived and died for it. And so when you see these modern

00:25:12.220 apostates bringing out the orange bongo drummers, you say to yourself, why do I need to go learn

00:25:18.760 something from the orange bongo drummer? What does he have to teach me about repentance, confession,

00:25:23.640 reconciliation, absolution, reception of the Holy Eucharist in the state of grace? What does the

00:25:28.560 orange bongo drummer, because those are important, those are necessary for eternal life, right? What

00:25:33.940 does that orange bongo drummer got to teach me something? I'll tell you who's got something to 1.00

00:25:37.080 teach me. Irenaeus, Bishop Martyr, right? He's got something to teach me. I can read him in five

00:25:42.700 minutes one day. I don't have to go asking, tracking down an orange bongo player.

00:25:47.840 Father, one more reflection, and then your final blessing, if you would, and the reflection on this.

00:25:52.480 So I watched this beautiful video of a priest, Father Ambrose, I believe his name is, from St.

00:25:57.640 Michael's Abbey in California. Oh, nice! And he said this one line that I just thought was so

00:26:04.200 striking. He said, the biggest problem in the world today, and in the church today, is not the

00:26:10.040 bishops, it's not the politicians, it's me, because I'm not yet a saint. Your closing thoughts with that,

00:26:17.600 your final blessing would be great. You know, St. Philip Neri has a quote that goes like this,

00:26:22.160 cast yourselves in the arms of God and rest assured if he wants anything of you, he'll fit you for the task

00:26:26.420 and give you the strength. It's been on every email I've sent out since 2007. The biggest problem

00:26:31.380 is me, is I'm not a saint. We're not all called to be David. God called one to be David. He anointed

00:26:36.640 him, Samuel anointed him, he went out, what did he do? He killed Goliath. You know, the Israelites were

00:26:42.160 looking at Goliath and thought he's too big to kill, and David looks at him and says, he's too big to miss.

00:26:46.220 So he follows God and does his job as God called him to do. If we're waking up every morning and

00:26:54.180 saying, Lord, what would you have me do today? Here I am, Lord. Wasn't that Samuel with Elijah? I think

00:27:00.520 that's where that came from. Here I am, Lord. I've come to do your will. If you start each day that

00:27:05.420 way and then train to enter into the battle, then you will become the saint God has called you to be.

00:27:13.640 But if you say to yourself, if you ask yourself this question, what am I called to be? And you

00:27:17.980 don't know the answer, it means you haven't been seeking. And Jesus promised if you seek, you will

00:27:23.440 find. So if you don't know the answer, you haven't been seeking, and that's all on you, buddy. Ambrose said

00:27:27.920 is 100% true. Each one of us is called to be a saint. But if you don't even know what that looks

00:27:33.160 like, if you haven't even tried, if you haven't spent one hour a day trying to be a saint, then

00:27:38.520 you're not ready to be put in the game. And that's the parable of the talents, isn't it? God gave you

00:27:44.200 10 talents. You show up at his door, and he says, well, what do you got to show me for all those

00:27:49.800 talents I gave you? And your hands are empty? Because you didn't train, you didn't practice, you didn't

00:27:55.320 play in the game of, you didn't work in God's vineyard? It's not going to go well for you that day.

00:28:01.500 So yeah, the problem is, the problem is, is that the bishops haven't told you, haven't taught you

00:28:08.880 that, but you should know that yourself just by reading sacred scripture. You just read the

00:28:12.400 gospels, and you're going to know, hmm, I've got talents. What am I supposed to do with them? Jesus

00:28:16.760 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

00:28:23.600 blame it all on the bishops. You have to look in the mirror and say, what have I done? What have I done

00:28:28.720 today? What have I done every day? And then maybe, you know, it's not too late, it's never too late

00:28:34.080 to change, to metanoia, to turn back to God, like the prodigal son, who's wasted. Isn't that what the

00:28:40.880 prodigal son did? He wasted everything on wine, women, and song, on worldly temporal things. He

00:28:46.580 finally came back, he turned around, and the father welcomed him. It is not too late, it is never too late,

00:28:51.820 turn back. But when you turn back, that means you have to change. It means you have to start showing up for

00:28:59.360 practice, because you're part of the Catholic team, right? It's not all about you. It's about what are you

00:29:05.140 doing to help the team? And if you don't know the answer to that question, again, you haven't sought and you

00:29:10.560 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

00:29:16.760 going to have my morning offering. I'm going to offer myself to God. Here I am, Lord, do with me what

00:29:22.460 you will. And then train and practice, so that he can then put you in the game when the time comes.

00:29:29.280 So Ambrose said the right thing. And now your blessing, Father. All right. Well, let us pray.

00:29:34.700 In nomine, pa'atris, ephilius, spiritus, sancti, amen. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. And through

00:29:41.240 the intercession of St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor of the church, through the intercession of every

00:29:46.320 martyr who has shown us how to live our lives so that we can be witnesses of our faith and be a

00:29:53.020 brighter light of Christ in this world. Through their intercession, through the intercession, especially

00:29:57.460 of our blessed mother, Mary, co-redemptrix and mediatrix of all graces, may Almighty God bless

00:30:03.820 you, fill you with grace, give you the courage, the wisdom, the strength to work in his vineyard.

00:30:09.500 We ask this blessing in nomine, pa'atris, ephilius, spiritus, sancti, amen. Amen.

00:30:13.820 Thank you, Father Altman. God bless you. And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - December 12, 2025

Fr. Altman： The PLOT to REPLACE the Catholic Church

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