The John-Henry Westen Show - How the Saints Survived Torture ｜ COVID-Era Tyranny

00:00:00.000 So, have you ever wondered how you would hold up under torture?

00:00:05.760 So, let me say right off the bat that this might be one of those shows that you might not want to watch if you're faint-hearted.

00:00:13.060 Because I'm going to talk about how to survive under torture like the saints did.

00:00:17.800 So, have you ever wondered how you would hold up under torture?

00:00:21.680 What if they threatened your family?

00:00:23.840 And that all you have to do to make your torture stop or threats against your family or whatever stop is just a little denunciation of your neighbor that's unjust.

00:00:38.660 You know, just a pinch of incense to the gods.

00:00:42.200 And just injection with an experimental vaccine that might be linked to abortion somehow.

00:00:49.880 Or denial of Jesus Christ.

00:00:51.620 Just a small thing.

00:00:53.980 Are you ready for such a trial?

00:00:56.460 What would you do to make the pain stop?

00:00:59.800 First of all, part one.

00:01:02.040 What we just went through.

00:01:03.680 We need to be clear.

00:01:04.900 It's not that long ago.

00:01:06.080 It's just a few years ago.

00:01:07.700 We were looking down the barrel of a gun.

00:01:10.480 Governments around the world were requiring their populations to stay home, to wear masks, to close their businesses.

00:01:16.520 And worst of all, forcing churches to close and forbidding the holy sacrifice of the mass and other sacraments.

00:01:24.340 But one of the most insidious measures in the time that we just experienced was the vaccine mandates, which were appearing in different countries and actually causing people to lose their jobs for refusal to comply.

00:01:37.560 You will refuse the ability to go and visit your relatives, sometimes even see your children if you're in a hospital.

00:01:45.640 The rhetoric around these mandates was simply shocking.

00:01:50.300 What we saw at the time looked like the beginning of a global communist tyranny in which we were going to be the ones thrown into the gulag.

00:02:00.540 You think that's an exaggeration?

00:02:02.180 Well, you might.

00:02:02.680 But it's become actually really difficult to find this stuff on YouTube and Google, to find the records of what happens.

00:02:11.880 In many cases, searching on LifeSite News was the only way I could pull up the videos and accounts from what happened at that time.

00:02:21.140 And again, it's only a couple of years.

00:02:22.960 It's only a few years ago.

00:02:25.260 So let's see why it's not exaggerated at all to say this.

00:02:31.220 Take Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, where I live.

00:02:35.160 He had the government freeze the bank accounts of the brave truckers who were protesting against these tyrannical mandates and tried to make their stand about them being Nazis.

00:02:49.340 Listen to this.

00:02:50.480 The time to go home is now.

00:02:53.360 Trudeau invoking emergency powers, allowing the government to remove cars and trucks, suspend their insurance,

00:02:59.060 and even freeze truckers' personal and corporate bank accounts.

00:03:02.780 He says the powers will be limited in scope and that he's not calling in the military.

00:03:06.900 That's brought weeks of protest over vaccine mandates and COVID restrictions to Ottawa and disrupted daily life.

00:03:13.340 On Sunday, two dozen people were arrested.

00:03:16.080 Officials are also blocking donations for truckers.

00:03:19.260 A Canadian judge freezing more than $8 million in donations to a crowdfunding site.

00:03:23.880 And remember, too, some of those truckers are still in jail today.

00:03:30.020 Well, let's go on.

00:03:31.360 There's also Jacinda Ardern.

00:03:34.160 Remember her?

00:03:34.800 Prime Minister of New Zealand.

00:03:36.620 She was truly outrageous.

00:03:38.440 In August of 2021, she locked down the entire country over one single COVID case as part of her, you could say, dystopian zero COVID policy.

00:03:49.960 But the things she came out with were, well, at the start of COVID.

00:03:57.500 She told New Zealanders that her government was your single source of truth and to disregard anything to the contrary.

00:04:06.520 That sounds incredible, but here's it in her own words.

00:04:10.100 I want to send a clear message to the New Zealand public.

00:04:13.240 We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily.

00:04:17.380 You can trust us as a source of that information.

00:04:21.080 You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health.

00:04:25.760 For that information, do feel free to visit at any time to clarify any rumour you may hear, covid19.govt.nz.

00:04:35.180 Otherwise, dismiss anything else.

00:04:38.040 We will continue to be your single source of truth.

00:04:40.860 We will provide information frequently.

00:04:43.080 We will share everything we can, everything you are, else you see, a grain of salt.

00:04:49.620 Isn't that amazing?

00:04:50.820 But she was extremely zealous about the mandates as well.

00:04:55.580 Listen to this.

00:04:56.280 So long as there's people who are eligible who haven't been vaccinated, we've got work to do.

00:05:00.320 You know, I don't think I'll ever be satisfied so long as there's someone who's too, you know, who is eligible and hasn't been.

00:05:06.040 And that's why I've said this, there's not going to be an endpoint to this vaccination program once we've, obviously, we're rolling up boosters now.

00:05:13.880 So we've got another, you know, wave of people that we need to make sure that we're protecting again.

00:05:18.560 So those who were vaccinated six months ago, we really need them to come back or we need to go to them.

00:05:23.860 So she said, so long as there are people who are eligible who haven't been vaccinated, we've got work to do.

00:05:29.940 She said, I don't think I will ever be satisfied as long as there's somebody who is eligible and hasn't been basically jabbed.

00:05:39.340 Okay.

00:05:40.720 And what about those who didn't want to satisfy Ardern?

00:05:45.620 What happened to them?

00:05:46.420 Well, she was completely open about that.

00:05:49.160 She said, it's going to be a two-tiered society based around vaccine certificates.

00:05:55.040 Listen to it for yourself.

00:05:56.280 So you basically said this is going to be like, well, it's almost like you probably don't see it like this, the two different classes of people.

00:06:02.780 If you're vaccinated or if you're unvaccinated, you have all these rights.

00:06:05.500 If you are vaccinated.

00:06:06.600 That is what it is.

00:06:07.680 So, yep.

00:06:08.640 Yep.

00:06:09.000 And it wasn't even only her.

00:06:10.400 Dan Andrews, the premier of the state of Victoria in Australia, was also notorious for introducing crazy rules, arresting pregnant women in the night for breaches of COVID rules, deploying what spiked news called some of the most potent sub-lethal weaponry in the world.

00:06:30.120 Against protesters and speaking like a crazed tin pot tyrant.

00:06:35.100 He said the same thing as Ardern about a different, about different classes.

00:06:40.720 Actually, you have to listen to this.

00:06:42.240 But yes, there's going to be a vaccinated economy and you get to participate that.

00:06:46.580 You get to participate in that if you are vaccinated.

00:06:49.020 So, just one more.

00:06:50.620 There's Michael Gunner of the Northern Territory in Australia slamming, and with a passion that looks kind of demonic, anyone who disagreed with his vaccine mandates.

00:07:01.980 The guy looked like he was about to kill someone.

00:07:04.940 Watch for yourself.

00:07:05.680 If you are anti-mandate, you are absolutely anti-vax.

00:07:08.640 I don't care what your personal vaccination status is.

00:07:10.540 If you support, champion, give a green light, give comfort to, support anybody who argues against the vaccine, you are an anti-vaxxer.

00:07:19.000 Absolutely.

00:07:20.060 Your personal vaccination status is utterly irrelevant.

00:07:23.160 And if you are out there in any way, shape or form campaigning against this mandate, you are absolutely anti-vax.

00:07:29.840 If you say pro-persuasion, stuff it, shove it.

00:07:33.980 Can you believe that?

00:07:34.620 And it was in this guy's jurisdiction that the Northern Territory that Australia was setting up quarantine camps, sorry, quarantine hotels, in places like Howard Springs.

00:07:47.660 So, when you see people like Gunner and the other ideas just set out about two-tiered societies and so on, what sort of direction do you think these camps would be heading in?

00:07:59.280 Like I said before, it looked like the direction was the gulag, the prison camp, the labor camp, the concentration camp, the death camp, with us, with you and me as inmates.

00:08:12.060 What an incredibly dark time that was.

00:08:14.780 And I don't know if you remember, but there were a number of 54-day, 15-decade rosary crusades around that time.

00:08:24.620 And at different times, they seemed to drive back the threats or at least keep them at bay.

00:08:30.400 But all of this basically came to an end on February 22nd, 2022, when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

00:08:38.420 And just like that, the focus changed and the talk of the vaccine mandates either disappeared or faded away.

00:08:45.980 Why am I telling you all this?

00:08:47.660 Well, many of us have forgotten it all.

00:08:49.980 And it's hard to find the evidence now, like I just said.

00:08:53.580 I've been tempted to think that the COVID narrative and its tyrannical regime are over and gone.

00:09:01.060 But we have to remember that we never actually really defeated this thing.

00:09:07.080 We never drove it back.

00:09:08.960 No major figure has truly repented.

00:09:11.620 All the infrastructure is in place or simply suspended and ready for another global crisis.

00:09:18.680 In other words, we may soon find ourselves looking down the barrel of mandates and thinking about camps again.

00:09:24.680 And that's what brings us to the second and main part of the show.

00:09:28.460 Getting ready for the rise of what you might call the regime or whatever you want to call it.

00:09:33.320 In this video, I'm going to talk about the regime, by which I'm going to mean whatever tyrannical regime it is that rises in the future and tries to oppress us.

00:09:44.840 We can't know what it's going to be.

00:09:47.260 It could be more COVID or medical tyranny.

00:09:50.260 It could be war tyranny. 0.73

00:09:52.320 It could be the apocalypse.

00:09:53.900 But as the sun rises in the east, we can know that one regime or another will rise again too.

00:10:01.920 And so, you know, even though we're spared right now here, our brothers in the Holy Land, in the Far East, they're suffering.

00:10:09.820 They're going through exactly this, which can come upon us at any time.

00:10:14.500 We need to realize now that unless Almighty God decides to spare us, we are still on a trajectory toward global to territorial revolution and truly atrocious persecution and suffering.

00:10:29.920 So we need to prepare ourselves now to adhere to the good, the true, and the beautiful above all things, even in the face of suffering and death.

00:10:39.440 How are we going to do that?

00:10:41.920 So let's start with one basic principle.

00:10:44.140 We can do nothing without Christ and His grace.

00:10:47.440 But there is still this question.

00:10:50.420 How do we try to open ourselves, dispose ourselves, if you will, to Christ's grace?

00:10:58.240 And to answer that question, I want to share with you some articles written by my colleague at LifeSite News, Sean Wright.

00:11:04.700 Amazing articles about what I'm going to share with you today.

00:11:08.720 Sean Wright's articles encourage us to look at those who lived under tyranny and intense suffering, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who spent eight years in the Russian gulag system.

00:11:20.240 Sean and I have worked together on this presentation, which is all about internalizing the lessons that these heroes learned in the fire,

00:11:30.140 and thus immunize ourselves as far as possible from the coming darkness of the regime.

00:11:35.840 And this is a dark topic, but it doesn't have to be gloomy.

00:11:43.060 Yeah, we're going to talk about how to get through really horrible things.

00:11:47.400 We're even going to paint it out.

00:11:48.500 Like, being arrested, interrogated, tortured, your family threatened, so on.

00:11:55.220 We're going to go through step by step, but we're going to see the practical ways to pass through them with our souls intact.

00:12:02.320 And that's why I think this is so important.

00:12:05.260 For so long, you know, you think to yourself, gosh, what in the world am I going to do when and if that happens?

00:12:11.840 God willing, it doesn't happen, but what if it does?

00:12:14.360 Am I going to lose my faith?

00:12:15.540 Am I going to just do that?

00:12:16.060 Yeah, I'll do whatever.

00:12:16.720 As they say, Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was the Babylon regime we're slouching towards. 0.95

00:12:22.640 So, this is not a counsel to despair or surrender after all.

00:12:27.540 It may be that none of this comes to pass in our lifetimes, God willing.

00:12:32.200 In many places, the sun is setting, but it's not yet night.

00:12:37.420 And even under those currently living under tyrannical regimes, they can still hope for the right things,

00:12:44.000 like the return of true liberty, the disruption of the tyrannical machine that is harming them right now.

00:12:50.400 So, we also have to keep fighting against these tyrannies to our, you know, well, really to our deaths and try to prevent the monstrous regime from rising again.

00:13:02.280 But even if none of this comes to pass in our lifetimes, we're going to see that these lessons, these methods are going to be beneficial for our lives on the spiritual and natural levels, and they can help us draw closer to God.

00:13:17.400 So, let's start at the beginning.

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00:13:57.260 So, let's talk about the start of the process of preparing for tyranny, getting ready now for being arrested by the regime.

00:14:06.560 Solzhenitsyn's famous work, The Gulag Archipelago, is a history of really crazy time, in which people were being arrested, left, right, and center.

00:14:20.020 They were tortured, interrogated, sent off to the gulag slave camps.

00:14:24.340 And why?

00:14:26.900 Really for nothing, on the basis of the most trivial and flimsy charges possible.

00:14:31.640 Often, they'd be arrested on the basis of false charges made by friends or enemies or families or colleagues.

00:14:38.320 And in the first volume, Solzhenitsyn spends about 40 pages recounting the methods used by the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, to extract such false confessions and denunciations,

00:14:51.920 which were often made in some deluded hope that they would help the accuser himself or his loved ones.

00:14:58.600 And that's really what we're going to get into, because they make these false confessions, you know, to save their lives or to save the lives of their loved ones.

00:15:09.480 So, after the grueling accounts that he gives in The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn asks this question.

00:15:17.480 He says,

00:15:17.800 So, what is the answer?

00:15:19.700 How can you stand your ground when you are weak and sensitive to pain, when people you love are still alive, when you are unprepared?

00:15:26.840 What do you need to make you stronger than the interrogator and the whole trap?

00:15:32.140 And, you know, that's the million-dollar question.

00:15:34.660 He at once gives us the answer.

00:15:37.580 First, he says that we should try to avoid getting into that situation to begin with.

00:15:43.060 Okay.

00:15:44.120 We should be fighting against the emergence of the regime, and once it emerges, we should not allow ourselves to be arrested.

00:15:51.600 Solzhenitsyn gives haunting accounts of a man who was nearly arrested one day, but he escaped.

00:15:59.460 But then he stayed in his own hometown rather than frying away or running away, and he was arrested the next day.

00:16:07.180 When that day comes, we should refuse to go quietly.

00:16:11.460 He gives another example of the secret police being hampered by a woman who started making a massive scene when they tried to arrest her.

00:16:19.460 But once they've got us, once they've arrested us, then what?

00:16:26.080 So I'm going to give you his answer in full, and then we'll break it down.

00:16:29.920 And it's going to sound brutal, I know, but this is what Solzhenitsyn said.

00:16:34.020 From the moment you go to prison, you must put your cozy past firmly behind you.

00:16:38.940 At the threshold, you must say to yourself, quote,

00:16:41.600 My life is over.

00:16:43.080 A little early to be sure, but there's nothing to be done about it.

00:16:47.440 I shall never return to freedom.

00:16:49.440 I am condemned to die.

00:16:51.260 Now or a little later.

00:16:53.080 But later on, in truth, it will be even harder.

00:16:56.240 And so the sooner the better.

00:16:57.320 I no longer have any property whatsoever.

00:17:01.220 For me, those I love have died, and for them I have died.

00:17:05.180 From today on, my body is useless and alien to me.

00:17:08.480 Only my spirit and conscience remain precious and important to me.

00:17:12.680 Confronted by a prisoner like that, the interrogator will tremble, he says.

00:17:17.180 Only the man who has renounced everything can win that victory.

00:17:21.520 So, this is one of the most profound passages in all of modern literature, and it contains so much truth.

00:17:31.580 So, let's start at the very top.

00:17:34.080 He says that once we are in prison, we have to put our cozy past firmly behind us.

00:17:39.500 We must give up all personal petty hopes that we will save our own skins and return to the outside world.

00:17:45.960 So, we all know that hope is a virtue, but that's when it's applied to our eternal reward in heaven.

00:17:53.720 It's very misleading to apply this to everyday things like a return to liberty, comfort, or loved ones.

00:18:00.660 We must not despair of our salvation or of the defeat of this wicked rebellion against both God and his creatures.

00:18:08.520 But once we have fallen into the gears of the machine, let's say, our only hope is to stop this kind of worldly hoping.

00:18:18.040 We must decide that we will only do what is right, and that we will do nothing that is wrong,

00:18:25.740 and discount all the hopes of escape through some kind of good behavior for the guards, confessions,

00:18:31.860 or doing whatever we have to do to, you know, get freedom.

00:18:37.300 Our only hope, once we have reached that stage, is to stop hoping in worldly things and to wait,

00:18:44.800 all the while trying, with God's grace, to make ourselves into a little piece of unbreakable iron.

00:18:50.960 One way to do this is to ask ourselves, why would we even want to be free?

00:18:56.240 Why would we want to live in the outside world of freedom if it becomes freedom of tyranny, vaccine mandates, denial of Christ?

00:19:04.160 It would be better to have internal spiritual mental freedom in a slave labor camp than to pay the price of internal spiritual mental slavery in the free world of the regime.

00:19:16.740 It really seems that Zolzhenitsyn reached a point of realizing that the freedom of the Soviet Union outside the camps,

00:19:25.360 which was built on the progressive destruction of the integrity of its citizens, was a greater hell than the gulag itself.

00:19:33.800 And really, why would we want to live freely in the monstrous regime which the globalists, technocrats, and servants of Satan are seeking to build?

00:19:44.180 Well, Zolzhenitsyn, for example, returned himself, when he was released, to a marriage in which he and his wife no longer knew each other,

00:19:51.980 and this marriage actually broke down.

00:19:54.380 However, he also lived for many decades more and under reasonably good conditions,

00:20:00.180 and, you know, the kind that we've spent in most of our lives, and so he was able to write and inspire us today.

00:20:07.200 But in any case, the crucial reason that he managed to return to the world is that, in a certain sense, he had stopped hoping that he would return to the world.

00:20:18.400 So, how do we stop hoping without giving in to despair?

00:20:23.180 And what does it mean in practice?

00:20:25.560 Like Zolzhenitsyn said, it is to consider ourselves already dead.

00:20:30.140 Here's what he said, and I quote,

00:20:34.060 At the threshold, you must say to yourself, my life is over, a little early to be sure, but there is nothing to be done about it.

00:20:39.960 I shall never return to freedom.

00:20:41.700 I am condemned to die, now or a little later.

00:20:44.040 But later on, in truth, it will be even harder, and so the sooner the better.

00:20:49.580 Quite a bit to unpack there.

00:20:51.720 So, there are some great comparisons here with the Japanese samurai text Hagakure.

00:20:58.000 That text famously said, the way of the warrior is death.

00:21:02.120 So, these samurai warriors held themselves ready to die or sacrifice themselves at any moment, having already considered themselves to be dead,

00:21:10.480 and when given the choice to be always ready to choose death over life, to prefer death to life, if given the choice for the sake of their lord.

00:21:21.020 Now, you might say that's morbid, but not for us Catholics.

00:21:26.040 We have a lord greater than any samurai had.

00:21:30.760 And our lord, Jesus Christ, also told us,

00:21:34.340 He that will save his life shall lose it, and he that shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

00:21:40.260 You'll see that in Matthew 16, 25.

00:21:42.000 So, once we are in those gears of the regime's machine, let there be no more frantic grasping at preserving our lives.

00:21:51.180 This is unworthy of soldiers of Christ, especially when it involves anything that will soil our consciences.

00:21:58.040 Rather, we should see ourselves as already dead and just waiting for the clock to time out.

00:22:03.140 Perhaps we should always see things in the light of death and in the light of what comes hereafter.

00:22:09.980 But let's be honest, it's very hard to do that when we are comfortable.

00:22:15.100 It's inevitable that now, when things start to look better, when we all feel a little bit more comfortable, it's harder.

00:22:22.840 It certainly seemed easier back in 2020 and 2021 when it felt that we were looking in the face of death already.

00:22:29.820 But here's the thing, we're almost guaranteed to be back in situations like that sooner than we think.

00:22:38.080 The readiness is all.

00:22:40.620 That's what Shakespeare said in Hamlet.

00:22:43.260 And, again, I'm not counseling despair.

00:22:47.340 But it is crucial that we prepare for this, and more importantly, for a holy death.

00:22:52.520 The moment of death will be the most important moment of our lives,

00:22:55.820 determining whether we have succeeded or failed as Christians and as men.

00:23:01.820 But there's another area where we're all especially vulnerable.

00:23:08.180 It's one thing to prepare yourself to die rather than compromise on your integrity.

00:23:12.820 But what if they're coming after your family?

00:23:15.260 And this is where it gets really intense.

00:23:17.900 What if they're coming after your children and threatening them to do God knows what to them,

00:23:21.880 or other loved ones on the outside?

00:23:24.240 Loved ones on the outside seem to be the greatest leverage for the strongest people who would otherwise endure anything.

00:23:34.960 What then?

00:23:36.200 Well, Zatunitsyn answers this question, too.

00:23:39.340 He says that once inside the machine, we should say to ourselves, and I quote again for you,

00:23:44.160 I no longer have any property whatsoever.

00:23:46.160 For me, those I love have died.

00:23:48.580 And for them, I have died.

00:23:51.520 Now, that's pretty brutal.

00:23:52.780 These are really, really hard words.

00:23:56.940 They apply not only to those already in prison camps, but even to the early stages before conviction and sentencing.

00:24:04.380 This is when tyrannical forces can do their best to leverage victims into making false confessions,

00:24:10.240 denouncing or betraying others, committing grotesque immorality,

00:24:14.480 or doing other things that soil a person's conscience.

00:24:17.780 If we're inside a prison system, leaving a house and family, wife or husband or children on the outside,

00:24:26.820 shouldn't we do what we can to secure their safety and comfort?

00:24:30.820 Should we be prepared to cut deals with those in control?

00:24:35.220 But how do you think we're really going to do that?

00:24:40.220 Do you think you can really trust the very people that put you in prison for doing the right thing, for loving Christ?

00:24:47.320 Do you think you can really trust them to keep their end of the bargain up, to take care of your family?

00:24:53.160 Really? I don't think so.

00:24:56.200 Unlike the Russians in the early 20th century, we know how these revolutionaries proceeded. 0.71

00:25:02.960 We know that the instigators of the regime will not be able to be trusted in any promise they make,

00:25:10.160 whether to liberate us or to spare our lives or to spare us physical suffering or to spare our families.

00:25:15.520 We must trust in the only thing we can trust in, and that's in God, not in tyrants.

00:25:22.880 You can't make plea bargains with devils.

00:25:26.600 It is cold, it is hard, it is brutal, but those inside will have to accept that they are now powerless to help those outside and vice versa.

00:25:36.520 If, when inside the machine, we can consider our property and our loved ones to have already gone,

00:25:43.240 perhaps it will be easier to deal with the temptation to do something stupid to save ourselves or them.

00:25:50.760 The paradox is that, in this situation, the only hope of seeing our loved ones again is for us and them to consider each other already dead 0.96

00:26:02.220 and to refuse any pointless, foolish attempt to deny this paradox.

00:26:07.380 But here's a temptation that will come if we don't internalize this attitude.

00:26:12.060 There are accounts of prisoners on worthless promises doing grossly immoral things for their jailers or torturers.

00:26:22.020 There are even accounts of the spouses of prisoners doing the same, committing even sexual impropriety with officials or prison guards

00:26:31.740 on the promise of getting better conditions for their loved ones.

00:26:35.420 What insanity is that?

00:26:37.480 Perhaps, at the time, the people thought that these horrible things would somehow achieve something positive. 1.00

00:26:46.440 But it is the stupidest, most foolish thing possible to believe that a wicked man's promise to you, 1.00

00:26:55.380 if you do something criminal, if you do something evil, that it's going to make it better on the outside. 1.00

00:27:01.620 It should be obvious to us that men so wicked as to instigate or cooperate with a tyrannical regime

00:27:09.540 cannot be trusted to honor promises to help us, especially at the price of immorality on our parts.

00:27:16.720 So it's definitely true that those who have families and children are vulnerable in a particular way to the predations of tyrants.

00:27:24.560 Really, anyone who loves anyone else is vulnerable in that way.

00:27:27.940 But our duty to protect, provide, and be present for our families are powerful motivations to make us compromise

00:27:35.280 and comply with tyranny to do something truly evil.

00:27:39.520 These duties really rule out any cheap boasting about how one would rather suffer and die for what is right than ever compromise.

00:27:48.700 These duties to family and loved ones and our responsibilities there can make it super difficult

00:27:54.640 to know where we should draw our lines.

00:27:58.440 Many family men living under tyranny, such as St. Thomas More, and mothers such as Margaret Clitheroe,

00:28:05.160 have had to navigate these same questions when living under tyrannical regimes.

00:28:09.860 The fact that there aren't hard and fast rules is precisely what makes it so difficult

00:28:15.260 and agonizing to realize what to do in these situations.

00:28:18.920 So here are some of the worries which we could present to ourselves when faced with a truly tyrannical demand,

00:28:27.820 harmful to our nations, our freedom, our consciences, and the faith.

00:28:32.440 So you think to yourself,

00:28:34.100 Oh, if I don't comply with the regime, then perhaps it will prevent us from buying food,

00:28:39.700 and perhaps I will have to watch my family starve.

00:28:42.460 Or, if I don't comply, then perhaps I will lose my job and be unable to pay the mortgage,

00:28:49.140 and perhaps I will have to watch my family starve and be homeless.

00:28:52.040 Or, if I don't comply, then perhaps I will go to prison and my family will be vulnerable.

00:28:58.400 How will I fulfill my duties to educate and raise them?

00:29:02.020 What would my spouse do without my help?

00:29:04.260 Or, you could say to yourself,

00:29:07.420 If my spouse and I both go to prison,

00:29:09.580 then perhaps the children will be taken and could be harmed in various ways.

00:29:13.400 Or perhaps, if they leave us at liberty,

00:29:16.840 they could split up the family in other ways, leading to the same consequences.

00:29:21.760 Or, perhaps without a father or mother present,

00:29:25.180 the children would lose the faith,

00:29:26.740 or will be assimilated into the amorphous revolutionary mass and wind up in hell. 0.57

00:29:31.780 Or, if I do not comply and make this false confession or denounce my neighbors falsely,

00:29:38.240 then perhaps these interrogators will do what they are threatening and arrest my family members.

00:29:44.440 Or, if I do not comply and cooperate with brutal prison discipline against my fellow prisoners,

00:29:49.960 or if I do commit this act of sexual immorality,

00:29:55.080 then perhaps better things will come of it.

00:29:57.520 Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

00:30:01.860 But also, perhaps not.

00:30:03.820 And again, you're trusting

00:30:05.020 evil people

00:30:07.560 to hold up their end of a promise,

00:30:10.600 which they break all the time.

00:30:13.040 But these are real fears, based on realistic possibilities.

00:30:17.060 There are

00:30:17.980 some things that we can do

00:30:19.520 to start mitigating these problems.

00:30:21.820 Like, for instance, trying to

00:30:23.600 live without a mortgage, if at all possible.

00:30:25.580 But there is an imaginative exercise that Sean put down,

00:30:31.860 one of his friends told him about,

00:30:34.040 and to kind of answer this.

00:30:38.560 When you're alone, in the quiet,

00:30:41.180 think clearly and ask yourself these questions.

00:30:44.620 Imagine, in the face of some hypothetical,

00:30:48.320 intolerable, tyrannical command

00:30:50.780 of whatever nature,

00:30:52.260 that you must do something evil or whatever.

00:30:55.380 Now, you're in prison,

00:30:56.460 and you're captured.

00:30:57.020 There's no way out.

00:30:58.260 You're asked to do this horrible thing.

00:31:00.460 So imagine that you knew

00:31:02.300 that whatever you did,

00:31:04.840 your family would be okay.

00:31:06.640 You knew that they would be looked after.

00:31:09.980 You knew that your children would be safe.

00:31:11.760 Your wife would be fine.

00:31:14.100 What would you do then?

00:31:16.140 Would you obey the evil command?

00:31:19.960 Or wouldn't you?

00:31:22.760 Okay.

00:31:24.220 It's kind of obvious.

00:31:25.440 We wouldn't do it then.

00:31:26.220 But imagine if you also knew

00:31:28.360 that they would,

00:31:31.100 that your family,

00:31:32.440 would keep the faith

00:31:33.800 and ultimately be saved,

00:31:36.520 whatever happens.

00:31:38.200 Would you then

00:31:39.300 do the evil thing

00:31:41.060 that they're asking you to do?

00:31:42.680 Of course not.

00:31:44.640 Imagine if you knew

00:31:45.740 that you would not be broken,

00:31:48.060 or at least that

00:31:48.760 you would be given the grace from God

00:31:50.580 to return to grace

00:31:52.000 and persevere to the end.

00:31:53.820 Then what would you do?

00:31:55.260 Of course you'd

00:31:56.980 refuse to comply.

00:31:59.200 And imagine

00:31:59.880 if you had the guarantee

00:32:01.800 that all these things

00:32:03.520 would be fine

00:32:04.200 and that your loved ones

00:32:05.380 would be looked after

00:32:06.120 in every respect.

00:32:08.040 What would you do

00:32:08.940 in the face of wicked,

00:32:11.060 tyrannical commands?

00:32:13.200 We all know.

00:32:14.980 We would not comply.

00:32:16.720 If we had these guarantees,

00:32:18.380 none of us would comply,

00:32:19.880 and we know it.

00:32:22.040 The point of this

00:32:23.560 imaginative exercise

00:32:24.840 is to discount the distractions,

00:32:26.720 cut away the layers of fear

00:32:28.240 to get to the heart

00:32:29.320 of what we really think.

00:32:30.360 What we really think

00:32:32.740 is that we should not comply

00:32:34.380 with certain things

00:32:35.640 that are evil.

00:32:36.680 And once we have seen that,

00:32:38.780 I don't think we can unsee it.

00:32:42.140 Do we have such guarantees

00:32:43.700 that all will be well?

00:32:45.200 No.

00:32:46.620 But discovering

00:32:48.140 what we really think

00:32:49.700 and what we know

00:32:50.720 we should do

00:32:51.520 will allow us

00:32:52.980 to clearly think

00:32:54.180 when making

00:32:55.860 these difficult decisions.

00:32:58.080 But having discovered

00:32:59.260 what we think

00:33:00.140 how should we act?

00:33:03.920 So in the classic work

00:33:05.700 The Imitation of Christ,

00:33:07.260 Thomas A. Kempis

00:33:07.960 presents an example

00:33:09.120 which has

00:33:10.080 fresh relevance

00:33:11.380 to all of us,

00:33:12.280 whether or not

00:33:12.800 we have children.

00:33:14.220 One day,

00:33:15.340 when a certain man

00:33:16.480 who wavered

00:33:17.520 often anxiously

00:33:18.540 between hope and fear

00:33:19.680 was struck with sadness,

00:33:21.100 he knelt in humble prayer

00:33:22.560 before the altar

00:33:23.360 of a church.

00:33:24.660 While meditating

00:33:25.700 on these things,

00:33:26.760 he said,

00:33:27.140 Oh, if I only knew

00:33:29.400 whether I should be,

00:33:30.720 whether I should persevere

00:33:31.700 to the end.

00:33:33.000 Instantly,

00:33:33.660 he heard within

00:33:34.620 the divine answer,

00:33:36.320 If you knew this,

00:33:37.620 what would you do?

00:33:39.560 Do now

00:33:40.520 what you would do then

00:33:41.760 and you will be

00:33:43.000 quite secure.

00:33:44.980 Immediately consoled

00:33:46.380 and comforted,

00:33:47.440 the man resigned himself

00:33:48.880 to the divine will

00:33:50.160 and the anxious

00:33:51.320 uncertainty ceased.

00:33:53.160 His curiosity

00:33:54.080 no longer sought

00:33:55.300 to know what

00:33:56.320 the future held

00:33:57.300 for him

00:33:57.660 and he tried

00:33:59.560 instead to find

00:34:00.360 the perfect,

00:34:01.260 the acceptable

00:34:01.860 will of God

00:34:02.620 in the beginning

00:34:03.660 and end

00:34:04.480 of every good work.

00:34:06.640 So, what does this

00:34:07.300 mean for us

00:34:07.820 in thinking about

00:34:08.580 how to prepare

00:34:09.400 for the coming

00:34:10.060 tyrannical regime?

00:34:11.660 Well, in this,

00:34:13.940 anxiety about

00:34:14.980 our own strength

00:34:16.060 and anxiety

00:34:17.000 about our families

00:34:17.900 are two different

00:34:19.100 examples of one thing.

00:34:20.820 That's fear

00:34:21.260 about the future.

00:34:22.560 What the imitation

00:34:23.160 of Christ

00:34:23.760 tells us to do

00:34:25.300 is to stop worrying

00:34:26.740 about the ends

00:34:27.940 and focus on the means.

00:34:29.300 We must focus

00:34:30.340 on what is truly

00:34:31.560 important and necessary

00:34:32.620 for us to do

00:34:33.380 and do it.

00:34:34.940 Trusting the future

00:34:36.480 to God's hands.

00:34:38.620 A man does not get 1.00

00:34:39.640 to his destination

00:34:40.920 by endlessly worrying

00:34:42.460 about the distance

00:34:43.360 but rather by putting

00:34:44.560 one foot in front

00:34:45.460 of another

00:34:45.800 and trusting

00:34:46.560 that each step

00:34:47.940 will get him

00:34:48.560 to where he needs to be.

00:34:50.360 Acting as if

00:34:51.100 we trust God

00:34:52.360 could be a powerful way

00:34:53.980 to actually

00:34:54.760 come to trust God.

00:34:56.940 Putting our fears

00:34:57.780 to a side

00:34:58.480 and trusting God

00:34:59.780 with the outcomes

00:35:00.780 of things

00:35:01.260 and acting as if

00:35:02.560 we trust him.

00:35:03.740 These are the only ways

00:35:04.840 that we can do

00:35:05.720 what is right

00:35:06.400 and persevere.

00:35:08.260 Even in this,

00:35:09.180 we must rely

00:35:09.940 on him

00:35:10.680 and in his grace

00:35:12.320 and not on our own strength.

00:35:13.960 Perhaps

00:35:14.400 they will break us

00:35:15.980 but still

00:35:17.020 we must

00:35:17.580 trust in him.

00:35:19.100 In the words of Job, 0.98

00:35:20.400 although he should kill me, 0.97

00:35:22.640 I will trust in him. 0.98

00:35:23.620 That's from Job 13.15.

00:35:25.240 So, what else can we do?

00:35:27.180 Like I said,

00:35:28.520 the agents

00:35:29.120 of this regime

00:35:30.060 cannot be trusted

00:35:31.180 so appeasement

00:35:32.520 and compliance

00:35:33.300 will not help us

00:35:34.180 escape their wickedness

00:35:35.220 nor will they

00:35:36.380 protect our loved ones.

00:35:37.900 The only hope

00:35:38.960 we have

00:35:39.500 is to stop hoping

00:35:41.140 that the tsunami

00:35:42.600 will not break over us

00:35:44.200 and to stop hoping

00:35:45.380 that these things

00:35:46.340 will resolve themselves

00:35:47.500 by our mere compliance.

00:35:49.040 And if the regime

00:35:50.800 really does

00:35:51.740 rise up

00:35:52.560 and take us

00:35:53.200 as its prisoners,

00:35:54.220 stop hoping

00:35:54.920 that we can help

00:35:55.760 our families

00:35:56.320 or those outside.

00:35:57.840 We must refuse

00:35:59.060 whatever evil

00:36:00.260 is thrust upon us

00:36:01.200 and let the chips

00:36:03.000 fall where they may.

00:36:04.420 The way to really help them

00:36:05.840 will be

00:36:06.500 to remain faithful.

00:36:08.700 So,

00:36:09.720 these psychological preparations

00:36:12.080 for what lies ahead

00:36:13.440 may seem cold,

00:36:14.680 hard,

00:36:15.140 and kind of unfeeling,

00:36:16.680 but

00:36:16.920 they are.

00:36:18.940 But we know

00:36:19.980 we have to step back

00:36:22.000 in this way

00:36:22.840 to see

00:36:23.500 the cold,

00:36:24.240 hard,

00:36:24.480 and unfeeling reality

00:36:25.560 that's right in front of us.

00:36:27.740 But,

00:36:28.560 this should not make us

00:36:29.480 cold

00:36:29.980 or hard

00:36:31.080 towards our families.

00:36:32.000 On the contrary,

00:36:33.200 seeing the reality

00:36:34.260 of what

00:36:35.180 it really matters,

00:36:37.600 of what really matters

00:36:38.720 in the world,

00:36:39.320 of what we will

00:36:40.260 not tolerate

00:36:41.440 or accept

00:36:41.980 and what we

00:36:42.580 do not want

00:36:43.640 for our children's future

00:36:44.680 is actually

00:36:45.960 quite liberating.

00:36:46.920 In fact,

00:36:48.340 it lets us,

00:36:49.200 it leads us

00:36:49.900 to love our loved ones

00:36:51.180 more and more,

00:36:52.980 knowing that one day,

00:36:54.420 perhaps soon,

00:36:55.260 a great sacrifice

00:36:56.260 may be asked of us

00:36:57.160 allows us to appreciate

00:36:58.620 each extra day

00:36:59.640 we have with our families.

00:37:02.000 Tyrants,

00:37:03.140 through history,

00:37:03.920 have always relied

00:37:05.080 on futile,

00:37:06.480 natural,

00:37:06.980 and personal hopes

00:37:07.800 to keep their victims

00:37:08.760 silent and compliant.

00:37:10.280 As Zoltanitsyn wrote,

00:37:11.480 and I quote,

00:37:11.860 every man

00:37:13.120 always has handy

00:37:14.880 a dozen

00:37:15.580 glib little reasons

00:37:16.800 why he is right

00:37:18.700 not to sacrifice himself.

00:37:21.460 You might say

00:37:22.280 our families

00:37:22.760 and our spouses,

00:37:23.900 our loved ones,

00:37:24.820 are certainly not

00:37:25.740 glib little reasons

00:37:27.020 for making decisions.

00:37:28.640 The same applies 0.97

00:37:29.740 to the realistic fear

00:37:31.420 of being broken

00:37:32.320 by monsters

00:37:33.100 and even losing

00:37:33.920 our salvation.

00:37:35.360 But we must stop

00:37:36.420 thinking

00:37:37.000 about outcomes

00:37:38.520 which are

00:37:38.980 out of our control,

00:37:39.760 and now focus solely

00:37:41.740 on our duties

00:37:42.720 and what is right

00:37:43.500 and what is true

00:37:44.540 and what is good

00:37:45.560 and what is beautiful.

00:37:47.180 And it's only by doing so

00:37:49.020 that we can hope

00:37:50.040 to help our families

00:37:51.480 and to influence

00:37:52.440 those outcomes anyway.

00:37:54.700 Pope Pius XI said,

00:37:56.420 men must look for

00:37:58.000 the peace of Christ

00:37:59.420 in the kingdom of Christ.

00:38:01.480 And he urged

00:38:02.260 that the faithful

00:38:02.840 give public honor

00:38:03.900 to Christ the King

00:38:04.760 so that individuals

00:38:05.880 and states

00:38:06.520 would submit once more

00:38:07.940 to the rule

00:38:08.880 of their Savior.

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00:38:26.840 Christ,

00:38:28.240 who hears in self

00:38:29.640 truth,

00:38:30.500 goodness,

00:38:30.880 and beauty,

00:38:31.540 for whose sake

00:38:32.320 we must do our duties

00:38:33.520 and refuse

00:38:34.280 the unacceptable,

00:38:35.380 said this,

00:38:35.920 everyone that has

00:38:37.920 left house

00:38:38.520 or brethren

00:38:39.080 or sisters

00:38:39.560 or father

00:38:40.060 or mother

00:38:40.420 or wife

00:38:40.860 or children

00:38:41.360 or lands

00:38:42.240 for my namesake

00:38:43.260 shall receive

00:38:44.300 a hundredfold

00:38:45.320 shall possess

00:38:46.120 life everlasting.

00:38:47.660 Do we really think

00:38:49.020 this hundredfold reward

00:38:51.300 is for us alone

00:38:52.760 and has no relevance

00:38:54.300 to those loved ones

00:38:55.960 that we've left?

00:38:57.300 Certainly not.

00:38:59.380 These words

00:39:00.380 surely also have

00:39:01.760 some application

00:39:02.560 to the welfare

00:39:03.280 of those we love.

00:39:04.240 God loves us

00:39:05.820 and our families,

00:39:06.940 our wives 0.97

00:39:07.400 and our children

00:39:08.020 much more so

00:39:09.540 than we ever could.

00:39:11.040 He is more capable

00:39:12.140 of looking after us

00:39:13.380 and them

00:39:14.100 than we are.

00:39:15.880 He will look after us

00:39:17.080 and them

00:39:17.720 in the best way possible

00:39:20.420 even if

00:39:22.040 that may look strange

00:39:23.480 or disastrous to us.

00:39:26.160 God can be trusted.

00:39:27.780 He must be trusted.

00:39:29.740 It can all be well

00:39:31.280 in the end,

00:39:32.020 particularly in matters

00:39:33.200 of grace and salvation

00:39:34.140 because God

00:39:34.940 will provide

00:39:35.800 all of us

00:39:36.820 and our families

00:39:37.520 with the graces

00:39:38.140 sufficient for us

00:39:39.200 to get through.

00:39:40.180 The alternative

00:39:41.140 is trusting ourselves

00:39:42.960 to obtain our own victories

00:39:44.300 and to protect our families

00:39:45.520 under a tyranny

00:39:46.200 and that will get us nowhere.

00:39:48.800 We can remind ourselves

00:39:50.180 that the reason

00:39:51.180 we must refuse

00:39:52.100 the monstrous hellscape

00:39:53.460 the tyrants are building

00:39:54.960 is because

00:39:55.640 we love our families

00:39:56.660 and our children

00:39:57.240 too much for that.

00:39:58.980 And as Zolchynitsyn says

00:40:00.480 to those outside the gulag,

00:40:02.040 rub your eyes

00:40:03.060 and purify your heart

00:40:04.120 and prize above all else

00:40:05.780 in the world

00:40:06.580 those you love

00:40:07.720 and you wish well.

00:40:09.660 Do not hurt them

00:40:10.720 or scold them

00:40:11.640 and never part from them

00:40:13.120 in anger.

00:40:14.220 After all,

00:40:15.280 you simply do not know

00:40:16.780 it might be your last act

00:40:18.460 before your arrest

00:40:19.520 and that will be how

00:40:21.020 you are imprinted

00:40:22.260 in their memory.

00:40:23.500 God will make

00:40:24.100 all things new

00:40:24.880 even if this is preceded

00:40:26.560 by seemingly

00:40:27.260 incomprehensible sufferings.

00:40:28.820 He did not say

00:40:30.240 that we would be free

00:40:31.760 from any such things

00:40:32.840 but rather that

00:40:33.760 after them

00:40:34.560 he will wipe away

00:40:35.740 every tear.

00:40:36.740 If we pray,

00:40:38.080 abide in him

00:40:39.020 and at least

00:40:40.040 act as if we trust him,

00:40:41.900 he will not disappoint.

00:40:43.900 He will not forsake us.

00:40:45.700 But let's get back

00:40:46.540 to Zolchynitsyn

00:40:47.200 and think about

00:40:49.240 what all this will mean

00:40:50.980 in terms of

00:40:51.940 excruciating

00:40:52.860 bodily suffering.

00:40:54.940 So this is horrible

00:40:56.660 to think about.

00:40:57.620 Continuing with the passage

00:40:58.980 Zolchynitsyn says

00:41:00.180 that the prisoner

00:41:01.880 of the regime

00:41:02.860 should say to himself,

00:41:04.860 from today on 0.56

00:41:05.480 my body is useless 0.88

00:41:06.560 and alien to me, 0.82

00:41:07.580 only my spirit

00:41:08.580 and conscience

00:41:09.140 remain precious

00:41:09.840 and important to me.

00:41:11.560 When we're on the outside

00:41:12.620 and still free

00:41:13.520 and haven't experienced

00:41:14.820 what Zolchynitsyn

00:41:15.620 and others experienced,

00:41:16.720 we can only say

00:41:17.760 in the abstract

00:41:18.720 that this is

00:41:19.960 definitely true.

00:41:21.160 We must fix it

00:41:22.160 in our minds

00:41:22.820 so that we're ready

00:41:24.440 to affirm it

00:41:25.360 when it becomes reality.

00:41:28.940 This is obviously

00:41:30.220 not a denial

00:41:32.040 of the body

00:41:32.820 or some weird

00:41:33.760 kind of Gnostic sense

00:41:35.040 that, you know,

00:41:35.680 I could meditate

00:41:36.440 and it'll all be gone.

00:41:37.360 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:41:38.440 It's simply a recognition

00:41:39.880 that the rest

00:41:40.580 of the prisoner's

00:41:41.300 time on earth

00:41:42.020 will be one

00:41:42.780 of bodily suffering

00:41:43.680 and that this

00:41:44.940 should be accepted

00:41:46.700 and accounted for

00:41:47.980 by making a priority

00:41:50.400 of the soul.

00:41:51.400 After all,

00:41:51.980 our Lord says

00:41:52.700 don't fear them

00:41:54.180 that kill the body

00:41:54.920 and are not able

00:41:55.700 to kill the soul

00:41:56.340 but rather fear him 0.99

00:41:57.840 that can destroy

00:41:58.820 both body and soul

00:41:59.980 in hell.

00:42:01.260 All we can say

00:42:02.140 is that under conditions

00:42:03.640 of torture

00:42:04.180 we must continue

00:42:05.260 to say no

00:42:06.200 and endure

00:42:07.220 what we must.

00:42:09.160 And we can't do that

00:42:09.940 by ourselves.

00:42:10.540 We must lean on God

00:42:11.700 and follow the example

00:42:13.160 of the saints.

00:42:14.300 Sometimes pictures

00:42:15.200 or statues of the saints

00:42:16.340 seem kind of

00:42:17.140 overly rarifying.

00:42:18.460 They're especially

00:42:19.020 in, you know,

00:42:19.820 the sentimental part

00:42:20.860 or so.

00:42:22.220 Some accounts

00:42:22.820 of the martyrdom

00:42:23.520 can seem like

00:42:24.180 mere stories

00:42:24.780 but the saints

00:42:26.100 and the martyrs

00:42:26.820 were real men

00:42:27.740 and women. 0.98

00:42:28.300 The English martyrs

00:42:29.180 of the Reformation

00:42:29.860 perhaps

00:42:30.560 they're probably

00:42:32.120 the most accessible

00:42:33.540 group of saints

00:42:34.300 to inspire us

00:42:34.980 because it was only

00:42:35.700 500 years ago.

00:42:36.800 While that might seem

00:42:37.420 like a long time

00:42:38.120 it's not that long

00:42:40.680 at all

00:42:41.140 but

00:42:42.020 in the scheme

00:42:43.600 of Christianity

00:42:44.200 it's really nothing.

00:42:45.600 So those martyrs

00:42:47.980 were men

00:42:48.860 and women

00:42:49.240 like us

00:42:49.880 recent enough

00:42:51.140 and speaking

00:42:52.180 our language

00:42:53.140 unlike

00:42:55.200 you know

00:42:55.700 before that

00:42:56.380 when it would have

00:42:56.840 been hard

00:42:57.300 for us to understand

00:42:58.360 and the accounts

00:42:59.820 of their tortures

00:43:00.720 and horrible deaths

00:43:01.820 by hanging

00:43:02.540 drawing

00:43:03.000 and quartering

00:43:03.760 go look up

00:43:04.420 what that means

00:43:05.020 if you want to know

00:43:05.900 and priests

00:43:07.720 that happened

00:43:08.200 to priests

00:43:08.600 like Edmund Campion

00:43:09.540 Robert Southwell

00:43:10.520 Cuthbert Maine

00:43:11.880 John Payne

00:43:12.660 Henry Garnett

00:43:13.380 and that's not to mention

00:43:14.960 the less horrible deaths

00:43:16.700 of men like

00:43:17.240 St. Thomas More

00:43:18.000 or John Fisher

00:43:18.760 who were

00:43:19.800 they weren't tortured

00:43:21.000 like that

00:43:21.420 but they were

00:43:21.960 beheaded

00:43:23.060 or hanged. 0.99

00:43:24.200 So

00:43:24.520 what about

00:43:25.700 the North American

00:43:26.860 martyrs

00:43:27.620 like St. Jean de Brebeuf

00:43:28.980 who was tortured

00:43:29.700 and killed

00:43:30.220 even partly eaten

00:43:31.600 by the Iroquois

00:43:32.700 tribesmen

00:43:33.380 they ate Brebeuf's

00:43:34.620 heart

00:43:34.860 so that they could

00:43:35.560 inherit the incredible

00:43:36.540 supernatural courage

00:43:37.720 and fortitude

00:43:38.640 that he displayed

00:43:39.420 while they were

00:43:40.760 torturing him.

00:43:42.340 Tortures which included

00:43:43.300 by the way

00:43:43.820 being beaten

00:43:45.440 baptized

00:43:46.080 in boiling water

00:43:47.200 having a collar

00:43:48.060 made out of

00:43:48.680 burning metal

00:43:50.060 having his fingernails

00:43:52.020 pulled out

00:43:52.540 I'm not even

00:43:54.380 going to go on

00:43:54.800 from there

00:43:55.240 all the while

00:43:56.660 he continued

00:43:57.500 to talk about God

00:43:58.620 and their need

00:43:59.660 to convert

00:44:00.100 to Jesus Christ

00:44:00.980 their loving Savior.

00:44:02.780 You can see

00:44:03.480 why they were

00:44:03.960 impressed

00:44:04.360 and wanted

00:44:05.340 such fortitude.

00:44:07.040 So

00:44:07.240 these men

00:44:08.780 these saints

00:44:09.500 and they were women 0.97

00:44:10.540 of course as well

00:44:11.360 were just like

00:44:12.540 you and me

00:44:12.960 the same blood

00:44:15.280 that they shed

00:44:16.380 for Christ

00:44:16.960 which flowed

00:44:17.940 during horrible

00:44:18.900 tortures

00:44:19.400 is no different

00:44:20.860 than the blood

00:44:21.360 that flows

00:44:21.980 in our veins

00:44:22.940 as well.

00:44:24.120 We're made

00:44:24.700 of the same stuff

00:44:25.500 as them

00:44:25.940 though we might

00:44:28.100 not be English

00:44:29.560 like the English 0.77

00:44:30.340 martyrs

00:44:30.740 or French

00:44:31.300 like Jean de Brebeuf

00:44:32.760 or descend

00:44:33.740 from these saints

00:44:34.480 we can still

00:44:35.480 see them

00:44:36.080 as our glorious

00:44:37.160 brothers and sisters.

00:44:38.100 let us strive

00:44:39.960 to live up

00:44:40.700 to our

00:44:41.760 Christian family's

00:44:43.200 honor

00:44:43.440 and know

00:44:44.580 that they

00:44:45.200 want to help

00:44:46.060 us do so

00:44:46.480 with their prayers.

00:44:47.180 In addition to this

00:44:48.180 let's fix in our minds

00:44:49.700 the truth

00:44:50.280 of the classic

00:44:51.740 penny catechism

00:44:52.640 I must take

00:44:54.080 most care

00:44:54.800 of my soul

00:44:55.720 as opposed

00:44:56.400 to my body

00:44:57.000 and do we need

00:44:59.000 we need to do

00:45:00.680 start doing that

00:45:01.340 today.

00:45:01.880 So we're

00:45:04.300 unlikely to have

00:45:05.400 the full array

00:45:06.480 of things like

00:45:07.380 hot showers

00:45:08.160 coffee

00:45:08.680 wine

00:45:09.140 chocolate

00:45:09.540 and physical

00:45:10.160 ease

00:45:10.440 in the future

00:45:12.000 regime.

00:45:13.040 I don't think

00:45:13.800 that's what they

00:45:14.500 have in store

00:45:14.980 for us.

00:45:15.720 So at the very

00:45:16.560 least

00:45:16.900 we can look

00:45:17.560 for ways

00:45:17.900 to start

00:45:18.280 preparing

00:45:18.640 ourselves

00:45:19.020 now.

00:45:20.180 Going back

00:45:20.980 to Zoltzunitsyn

00:45:21.600 he said

00:45:21.980 confronted by

00:45:23.200 such a prisoner

00:45:24.000 a prisoner

00:45:24.860 that is

00:45:25.780 who has

00:45:26.720 put his

00:45:27.880 cozy past

00:45:28.480 behind him

00:45:29.060 recognized

00:45:29.600 that he is

00:45:30.220 essentially

00:45:30.660 already dead

00:45:31.340 and has

00:45:31.680 put aside

00:45:32.400 all natural

00:45:33.080 hope for

00:45:33.600 freedom

00:45:33.960 or thinking

00:45:34.720 that he can

00:45:35.340 influence

00:45:35.900 the outside

00:45:36.340 world

00:45:36.680 his loved

00:45:37.160 ones

00:45:37.440 and property

00:45:38.380 and reconcile

00:45:39.200 himself to a

00:45:40.100 life of pain

00:45:40.780 in which his

00:45:41.700 body is useless

00:45:42.820 and only his

00:45:43.900 spirit and

00:45:44.560 conscience are

00:45:45.160 precious.

00:45:46.400 Confronted by

00:45:47.080 such a prisoner

00:45:47.800 the interrogator

00:45:48.740 will tremble.

00:45:50.360 Only the man

00:45:50.960 who has

00:45:51.400 renounced

00:45:52.140 everything

00:45:52.840 can win

00:45:54.220 that victory.

00:45:55.000 So there's

00:45:55.340 one famous

00:45:55.900 priest

00:45:56.300 Father

00:45:56.700 Walter

00:45:57.360 Sizek 0.99

00:45:58.100 who exemplifies

00:45:59.600 this in

00:46:00.260 spades.

00:46:00.860 Father

00:46:01.940 Sizek 0.99

00:46:02.320 was an

00:46:02.820 American

00:46:03.280 Jesuit

00:46:03.740 who was

00:46:04.640 sent

00:46:04.920 into

00:46:05.500 Soviet

00:46:06.020 Russia

00:46:06.400 as a

00:46:06.960 missionary

00:46:07.220 in 1937.

00:46:08.600 He was

00:46:09.060 captured

00:46:09.460 and endured

00:46:10.060 23 years

00:46:12.220 of imprisonment

00:46:13.380 labor camps

00:46:14.300 including

00:46:14.900 five years

00:46:15.940 of solitary

00:46:16.920 confinement.

00:46:17.960 He's the

00:46:18.660 author of

00:46:19.500 He Leadeth

00:46:20.840 Me

00:46:21.080 and another

00:46:21.780 book

00:46:22.140 With God

00:46:23.020 in Russia.

00:46:23.900 He Leadeth

00:46:24.420 Me

00:46:24.580 is all about

00:46:25.680 trust in

00:46:26.260 providence

00:46:26.580 and this

00:46:27.040 is really

00:46:27.820 the whole

00:46:28.660 and entire

00:46:29.320 key.

00:46:31.000 At the

00:46:31.760 beginning

00:46:32.140 of his

00:46:32.620 arrest

00:46:32.960 imprisonment

00:46:33.700 and interrogation

00:46:34.580 he tried

00:46:35.340 to make

00:46:35.800 himself

00:46:36.120 strong

00:46:36.700 through his

00:46:37.280 own means

00:46:37.940 and you

00:46:39.700 know what

00:46:39.920 that doesn't

00:46:40.260 work.

00:46:41.100 If you

00:46:41.400 think to

00:46:41.740 yourself

00:46:41.960 I'm

00:46:42.280 strong

00:46:42.540 I'm

00:46:42.800 going to

00:46:43.180 tough it

00:46:43.480 out

00:46:43.680 that's

00:46:44.220 not

00:46:44.320 going to

00:46:44.460 work.

00:46:45.580 Father

00:46:46.080 Walter

00:46:46.420 Sizek 0.99

00:46:46.740 did that

00:46:47.220 and

00:46:48.840 it

00:46:50.260 failed.

00:46:51.040 He

00:46:51.520 suffered

00:46:52.000 what he

00:46:52.440 saw

00:46:52.700 as a

00:46:53.120 catastrophic

00:46:53.660 failure.

00:46:54.140 he agreed

00:46:55.420 to sign

00:46:56.040 a false

00:46:56.520 confession

00:46:57.020 and to

00:46:58.520 be sent

00:46:59.100 back as

00:47:00.040 an agent

00:47:00.640 of the

00:47:01.060 Soviets 0.97

00:47:01.620 in Rome.

00:47:04.360 Under enough

00:47:05.360 pressure he

00:47:06.160 eventually cracked

00:47:07.020 and he said

00:47:07.880 that he would

00:47:08.340 agree to

00:47:09.120 whatever terms

00:47:09.900 and so the

00:47:11.220 process of

00:47:11.900 making this

00:47:12.640 happen started.

00:47:14.860 Father Sizek

00:47:15.500 was crushed

00:47:16.320 and you know

00:47:17.980 what?

00:47:18.320 In some ways

00:47:19.300 he needed to 0.71

00:47:19.980 be crushed 0.51

00:47:20.420 because in 0.97

00:47:21.360 that state

00:47:22.000 of having

00:47:23.060 been crushed

00:47:23.700 trying it

00:47:24.340 on his

00:47:24.560 own

00:47:24.700 strength

00:47:25.080 he realized

00:47:26.080 that he

00:47:26.620 had been

00:47:26.860 trying to

00:47:27.280 do it

00:47:27.520 all himself

00:47:28.000 rather than

00:47:28.640 leaning on

00:47:29.120 God and

00:47:29.740 letting God

00:47:31.040 lead and

00:47:31.900 sustain him

00:47:32.460 and that

00:47:33.400 my friends

00:47:34.040 is the key

00:47:34.600 it's the

00:47:35.040 only way

00:47:35.820 if you think

00:47:36.920 you're going

00:47:37.160 to be tough

00:47:37.600 and you're

00:47:38.140 going to

00:47:38.260 endure the

00:47:38.620 torture

00:47:38.880 you won't

00:47:40.020 you have

00:47:41.820 to trust

00:47:42.380 in God

00:47:42.820 you have

00:47:43.460 to place

00:47:44.060 that crazy

00:47:44.560 trust in

00:47:44.980 God and

00:47:45.280 just say

00:47:45.600 no

00:47:45.860 and let

00:47:47.720 come what

00:47:48.120 may

00:47:48.360 trusting

00:47:49.160 that God

00:47:49.680 will help

00:47:50.040 you deal

00:47:51.360 with it

00:47:51.740 because he's

00:47:52.500 the only one

00:47:53.000 that can

00:47:53.400 that's the

00:47:55.140 point of

00:47:55.620 everything we've

00:47:56.640 been talking

00:47:57.080 about

00:47:57.360 this show

00:47:58.980 might seem

00:47:59.700 like I'm

00:48:00.160 setting out

00:48:00.680 different ways

00:48:01.480 to make

00:48:01.780 ourselves

00:48:02.080 strong

00:48:02.600 and we've

00:48:03.720 sort of

00:48:04.500 spoken like

00:48:05.000 that

00:48:05.240 but

00:48:05.600 the heart

00:48:06.620 of the matter

00:48:07.060 is disposing

00:48:08.040 ourselves to

00:48:08.680 God's grace

00:48:09.360 reducing our

00:48:10.360 attachments to

00:48:11.320 hopes to

00:48:12.080 zero and

00:48:12.840 letting him

00:48:13.840 live and

00:48:14.580 triumph in

00:48:15.200 us

00:48:15.380 as Father

00:48:16.300 Sizek learned 0.88

00:48:17.100 his lesson

00:48:18.060 and abandoned

00:48:19.220 himself to

00:48:20.520 the peace

00:48:21.220 in the

00:48:21.800 divine

00:48:22.060 will of

00:48:22.400 God

00:48:22.660 I was

00:48:24.740 sure

00:48:25.180 he said

00:48:25.900 completely

00:48:26.960 sure

00:48:27.400 that when

00:48:28.000 a moment

00:48:28.480 of decision

00:48:28.980 came he

00:48:29.620 would lead

00:48:30.380 me on the

00:48:30.700 right path

00:48:31.240 and so it

00:48:32.140 happened

00:48:32.360 so here's

00:48:32.760 what happened

00:48:33.080 to Father

00:48:33.340 Sizek 0.99

00:48:33.640 after he

00:48:34.780 mentally said

00:48:36.660 that's it

00:48:37.420 I'm going to

00:48:37.820 follow God

00:48:38.160 I'm going to

00:48:38.380 lean on him

00:48:38.900 I'm not going

00:48:39.680 to trust

00:48:40.000 myself anymore

00:48:40.760 here's what

00:48:41.960 happened

00:48:42.280 and I'll quote

00:48:43.360 from the book

00:48:43.920 again from

00:48:44.380 Father Sizek

00:48:44.960 when at

00:48:46.220 last the

00:48:46.660 interrogator

00:48:47.400 asked me to

00:48:48.140 sign the

00:48:48.740 agreement

00:48:49.020 remember he

00:48:49.600 had already

00:48:50.040 agreed and

00:48:50.900 they were

00:48:51.080 drawing up

00:48:51.540 the papers

00:48:51.920 to sign the

00:48:52.400 agreement

00:48:52.720 he was going

00:48:53.160 to go be a

00:48:53.880 spy in Rome

00:48:54.540 for them

00:48:54.940 he was going

00:48:55.260 to sign his

00:48:55.740 confession

00:48:56.220 when at

00:48:57.640 last the

00:48:58.060 interrogator

00:48:58.560 asked me to

00:48:59.060 sign an

00:48:59.600 agreement

00:48:59.980 covering the

00:49:00.960 Roman business

00:49:01.600 I just

00:49:03.200 refused

00:49:03.680 I had

00:49:05.260 not thought of

00:49:06.700 doing so in

00:49:07.280 advance

00:49:07.580 in fact I

00:49:08.380 had simply

00:49:08.820 gone along

00:49:09.480 with everything

00:49:10.320 up to that

00:49:10.760 point but

00:49:11.200 suddenly it

00:49:12.180 seemed the

00:49:12.980 only thing to

00:49:13.640 do and I

00:49:14.540 did it

00:49:14.940 he just

00:49:15.680 refused

00:49:16.280 he became

00:49:17.800 this is the

00:49:18.220 guard now

00:49:18.540 he became

00:49:19.340 violently angry

00:49:20.600 and threatened

00:49:21.160 me with

00:49:21.600 immediate 1.00

00:49:22.060 execution

00:49:22.700 and you know

00:49:23.940 what he says

00:49:24.620 I felt no

00:49:25.440 fear at all

00:49:26.140 I think I

00:49:27.260 smiled

00:49:27.700 I knew then

00:49:29.800 that I had

00:49:30.880 won

00:49:31.200 when he called

00:49:32.800 for the guards

00:49:33.360 to lead me

00:49:33.900 away and I

00:49:34.660 had no

00:49:35.160 assurance but

00:49:36.280 that they

00:49:36.820 were leading

00:49:37.520 me before a

00:49:38.360 firing squad

00:49:38.960 I went with

00:49:40.280 them as if

00:49:41.300 they were so

00:49:42.000 many ministers

00:49:42.840 of grace

00:49:43.340 I felt his

00:49:44.420 presence in

00:49:45.040 the moment

00:49:45.580 and knew

00:49:46.780 it drew me

00:49:47.900 toward a

00:49:48.340 future of

00:49:48.860 his design

00:49:49.520 and purpose

00:49:50.320 I wished for

00:49:51.000 nothing more

00:49:51.980 end quote

00:49:52.700 isn't it

00:49:53.780 amazing

00:49:54.160 I think I

00:49:55.560 smiled

00:49:56.080 I knew

00:49:57.500 then I

00:49:58.360 had won

00:49:58.880 beautiful

00:50:00.260 but what a

00:50:01.920 temptation it

00:50:02.680 will be if

00:50:03.420 we find

00:50:03.880 ourselves between

00:50:04.640 the hammer

00:50:05.260 and the anvil

00:50:05.980 to depart

00:50:06.760 from all

00:50:08.100 this advice

00:50:08.800 from Zoltz

00:50:09.240 and think

00:50:10.420 that we

00:50:10.940 need not

00:50:11.520 abandon

00:50:11.980 everything

00:50:12.580 as we

00:50:12.920 have

00:50:13.020 discussed

00:50:13.380 or that

00:50:14.540 we can

00:50:14.860 compromise

00:50:15.360 just a

00:50:15.900 little bit

00:50:16.380 it will

00:50:17.760 be most

00:50:19.100 tempting

00:50:19.620 to think

00:50:20.480 that we

00:50:21.120 are different

00:50:21.800 or that

00:50:22.520 our situation

00:50:23.620 our jailer

00:50:24.480 or whatever

00:50:25.040 are different

00:50:25.940 no no no

00:50:27.620 our only hope

00:50:29.380 is to

00:50:30.440 renounce

00:50:31.080 all

00:50:31.760 and to

00:50:32.560 refuse

00:50:32.980 to comply

00:50:33.600 to compromise

00:50:34.220 to confess

00:50:34.860 to denounce

00:50:35.820 to inform

00:50:36.480 to hope

00:50:37.120 falsely

00:50:37.640 or to sin

00:50:38.460 in any way

00:50:39.500 at all

00:50:40.120 however

00:50:41.300 let's be real

00:50:42.100 this might all

00:50:43.400 sound nice

00:50:44.240 on the outside

00:50:44.780 but as

00:50:45.340 Zoltz

00:50:45.800 Nitschen adds

00:50:46.580 but how

00:50:47.560 can one

00:50:48.080 turn one's

00:50:48.920 body to stone

00:50:49.780 how indeed

00:50:50.720 can we become

00:50:51.760 like the grit

00:50:53.100 that will break

00:50:53.920 the gears

00:50:54.360 of the machine

00:50:54.960 the answer

00:50:56.700 he gives

00:50:57.160 is important

00:50:57.700 even if it's

00:50:58.620 insufficient

00:50:59.120 in its context

00:51:00.040 he tells us

00:51:00.960 that those

00:51:01.580 who persevered

00:51:02.980 did so

00:51:03.740 by quote

00:51:04.560 by firm

00:51:05.800 religious

00:51:06.600 and moral

00:51:07.360 principles

00:51:08.000 now he gives

00:51:09.940 some great

00:51:10.340 examples

00:51:10.900 such as that

00:51:11.520 of Nikolai

00:51:12.340 Berdeyev

00:51:13.580 a philosopher

00:51:14.800 he says

00:51:15.260 Berdeyev

00:51:16.180 did not humiliate

00:51:17.400 himself

00:51:17.760 he did not

00:51:18.380 beg or plead

00:51:19.160 he set forth

00:51:20.280 firmly

00:51:20.640 those religious

00:51:21.240 and moral

00:51:21.600 principles

00:51:22.040 which had

00:51:22.960 led him

00:51:23.400 to refuse

00:51:23.860 to accept

00:51:24.420 the political

00:51:25.260 authority

00:51:25.960 established

00:51:26.400 in Russia

00:51:26.900 and not only

00:51:28.460 did they come

00:51:29.340 to the conclusion

00:51:30.160 that he would 0.84

00:51:30.980 be useless

00:51:31.560 for a trial 0.95

00:51:32.200 but they liberated

00:51:33.300 him

00:51:33.600 he gives

00:51:34.720 another

00:51:35.160 stirring example

00:51:36.280 of an old

00:51:36.740 lady

00:51:37.080 who was

00:51:37.720 interrogated

00:51:38.360 for having

00:51:38.800 helped

00:51:39.140 the orthodox

00:51:40.160 metropolitan

00:51:40.820 bishop

00:51:41.240 escape

00:51:41.680 the country

00:51:42.200 her words

00:51:43.220 to her

00:51:43.600 interrogators

00:51:44.440 were

00:51:44.800 quote

00:51:45.360 there is

00:51:46.320 nothing

00:51:46.640 you can

00:51:47.020 do

00:51:47.300 with me

00:51:48.020 even if

00:51:48.560 you cut

00:51:48.920 me into 0.96

00:51:49.260 pieces

00:51:49.560 after all

00:51:50.640 you are

00:51:51.440 afraid

00:51:51.900 of your

00:51:52.200 bosses

00:51:52.540 and you

00:51:53.180 are afraid

00:51:53.680 of each

00:51:53.980 other

00:51:54.200 and you

00:51:54.640 are even

00:51:55.040 afraid

00:51:55.400 of killing 1.00

00:51:55.840 me 1.00

00:51:56.180 because

00:51:56.860 you would

00:51:57.660 lose

00:51:57.960 a possible

00:51:58.500 informant

00:51:59.040 but I

00:52:00.460 am not

00:52:00.840 afraid

00:52:01.240 of anything

00:52:01.840 I would

00:52:02.420 be glad

00:52:03.000 to be

00:52:03.360 judged

00:52:03.620 by God

00:52:04.280 right this

00:52:05.040 minute

00:52:05.460 isn't it

00:52:06.980 amazing

00:52:07.320 but standing

00:52:09.260 firm

00:52:09.580 is impossible

00:52:10.640 without the

00:52:11.300 grace of God

00:52:11.760 the reason

00:52:12.980 the answer

00:52:13.820 above is

00:52:14.320 insufficient

00:52:14.840 is because

00:52:15.840 even if

00:52:16.580 religious and

00:52:17.180 moral principles

00:52:17.900 can sustain

00:52:19.000 men to

00:52:19.420 great degree

00:52:20.320 in the

00:52:21.060 abstract

00:52:21.520 the religious

00:52:22.420 and moral

00:52:22.780 principles

00:52:23.420 which are

00:52:24.400 true

00:52:24.900 and these

00:52:25.460 which are

00:52:25.900 in accord

00:52:26.500 with the

00:52:26.800 Catholic

00:52:27.040 faith

00:52:27.320 and with

00:52:28.120 natural

00:52:28.760 reason

00:52:29.180 reading

00:52:30.420 Zoltzenich

00:52:31.020 or having

00:52:32.280 firm

00:52:32.940 principles

00:52:33.460 are not

00:52:34.240 guarantees

00:52:34.660 that we

00:52:35.200 will be

00:52:35.500 protected

00:52:36.000 from falling

00:52:36.660 away into

00:52:37.100 despair

00:52:37.540 or into

00:52:38.340 temptations

00:52:39.060 of natural

00:52:39.700 hopes

00:52:40.060 plus

00:52:41.380 and more

00:52:42.060 importantly

00:52:42.480 having the

00:52:43.960 right principles

00:52:44.720 isn't what

00:52:45.840 will sustain

00:52:46.340 us

00:52:46.600 it's only

00:52:47.360 the grace

00:52:47.680 of God

00:52:47.980 that will

00:52:48.340 inside

00:52:50.560 or outside

00:52:51.240 we must

00:52:52.020 all pray

00:52:53.040 because prayer

00:52:54.000 is the

00:52:54.540 ordinary way

00:52:55.700 the ordinary

00:52:56.300 means by

00:52:56.900 which God

00:52:57.540 wishes to

00:52:58.040 give us

00:52:58.560 disgrace

00:52:59.460 so starting

00:53:00.280 with prayer

00:53:00.780 we should

00:53:01.820 realize that

00:53:02.400 we can do

00:53:03.080 nothing

00:53:03.720 on our own

00:53:04.500 that's the

00:53:05.300 most important

00:53:05.820 lesson

00:53:06.120 remember it's

00:53:06.660 like the

00:53:06.920 first step

00:53:07.380 in the

00:53:07.680 steps to

00:53:08.120 overcome

00:53:08.520 alcoholism

00:53:09.160 the 10

00:53:09.820 step program

00:53:10.360 you start

00:53:11.340 with acknowledging

00:53:11.980 that you're

00:53:12.360 powerless

00:53:12.740 we must

00:53:14.040 recognize

00:53:14.480 without God

00:53:15.140 we can do

00:53:16.060 nothing

00:53:16.420 and we

00:53:18.780 must make

00:53:19.140 a serious

00:53:19.560 commitment

00:53:19.960 to spend

00:53:20.680 time

00:53:21.900 with God

00:53:22.740 in prayer

00:53:23.120 not just

00:53:23.900 the saying

00:53:24.600 of prayers

00:53:25.120 it's great

00:53:25.720 to say

00:53:26.180 the rosary

00:53:26.560 and stuff

00:53:26.820 but of

00:53:27.580 retreating

00:53:28.200 into God

00:53:28.800 resting

00:53:29.280 in God

00:53:29.680 sort of

00:53:30.300 like

00:53:30.480 imagining

00:53:32.020 yourself

00:53:32.540 being in

00:53:33.400 the arms

00:53:33.900 of God

00:53:34.200 and that's

00:53:34.540 it

00:53:34.700 just stay

00:53:35.480 there

00:53:35.700 with him

00:53:36.160 we don't

00:53:38.120 know

00:53:38.500 if this

00:53:39.320 next wave

00:53:40.160 of tyranny

00:53:41.000 is going to

00:53:41.480 come tomorrow

00:53:42.080 or decades

00:53:43.520 from now

00:53:43.960 perhaps beyond

00:53:44.680 our lifetimes

00:53:45.160 but we do

00:53:45.740 know

00:53:46.120 how to

00:53:46.940 prepare

00:53:47.240 we must

00:53:47.880 be free

00:53:48.600 internally

00:53:49.520 even if

00:53:50.580 externally

00:53:51.380 imprisoned

00:53:51.940 so

00:53:53.260 but

00:53:53.940 you have

00:53:54.620 to be

00:53:54.820 cautious

00:53:55.120 we're

00:53:56.320 not

00:53:56.600 yet

00:53:56.980 in a

00:53:57.380 regime

00:53:57.700 prison

00:53:58.060 camp

00:53:58.440 and

00:53:59.360 while

00:53:59.940 things

00:54:00.200 are

00:54:00.340 not

00:54:00.580 yet

00:54:00.960 hopeless

00:54:01.440 our

00:54:02.520 time

00:54:02.780 is

00:54:02.940 short

00:54:03.240 it's

00:54:03.960 short

00:54:04.200 either

00:54:04.640 way

00:54:05.000 our

00:54:05.960 Lord

00:54:06.200 said

00:54:06.580 the

00:54:07.060 night

00:54:07.280 is

00:54:07.440 coming

00:54:07.720 when

00:54:08.140 no

00:54:08.420 man

00:54:08.700 can

00:54:08.880 work

00:54:09.200 some

00:54:10.480 groups

00:54:10.900 of

00:54:11.120 communists

00:54:11.620 especially

00:54:12.260 in

00:54:12.660 Romania

00:54:13.060 tried

00:54:13.800 to

00:54:14.040 take

00:54:14.400 even

00:54:14.960 that

00:54:15.340 away

00:54:15.580 from

00:54:15.780 prisoners

00:54:16.140 in

00:54:16.380 some

00:54:16.620 camps

00:54:16.940 which

00:54:17.460 shows

00:54:17.720 the

00:54:17.900 importance

00:54:18.340 of

00:54:18.860 praying

00:54:19.220 now

00:54:19.580 they

00:54:20.040 tried

00:54:20.320 to

00:54:20.540 make

00:54:20.760 them

00:54:20.980 not

00:54:21.300 pray

00:54:21.660 those

00:54:23.080 who

00:54:23.300 fall

00:54:23.680 into

00:54:23.980 the

00:54:24.180 jaws

00:54:24.560 of

00:54:25.040 the

00:54:25.180 beast

00:54:25.460 must

00:54:26.180 hold

00:54:26.780 on

00:54:27.300 and

00:54:27.560 not

00:54:28.000 give

00:54:28.260 in

00:54:28.420 as

00:54:28.840 our

00:54:28.980 Lord

00:54:29.160 says

00:54:29.560 to

00:54:29.900 the

00:54:30.060 church

00:54:30.400 at

00:54:30.640 Laodicea

00:54:31.200 in the

00:54:31.460 Apocalypse

00:54:31.920 those

00:54:33.060 whom I

00:54:33.400 love

00:54:33.600 I

00:54:33.740 rebuke

00:54:34.100 and

00:54:34.240 chastise

00:54:34.760 be

00:54:35.340 zealous

00:54:35.760 therefore

00:54:36.160 and do

00:54:36.460 penance

00:54:36.860 he

00:54:37.580 who

00:54:38.740 overcomes

00:54:39.440 I

00:54:39.940 will

00:54:40.120 permit

00:54:40.460 him

00:54:40.680 to

00:54:40.860 sit

00:54:41.180 with

00:54:41.380 me

00:54:41.500 upon

00:54:41.700 my

00:54:41.940 throne

00:54:42.280 as

00:54:43.100 I

00:54:43.380 also

00:54:43.800 have

00:54:44.060 overcome

00:54:44.600 and

00:54:45.100 have

00:54:45.240 sat

00:54:45.600 with

00:54:45.800 my

00:54:45.940 father

00:54:46.380 on

00:54:46.700 his

00:54:46.940 throne

00:54:47.220 our

00:54:48.720 Lord

00:54:48.960 Jesus

00:54:49.220 Christ

00:54:49.680 is

00:54:50.420 the

00:54:50.600 way

00:54:50.820 the

00:54:51.120 truth

00:54:51.440 and

00:54:51.700 the

00:54:51.840 life

00:54:52.100 let

00:54:52.820 us

00:54:52.940 adhere

00:54:53.340 to

00:54:53.540 him

00:54:53.740 believe

00:54:54.520 his

00:54:54.760 words

00:54:55.100 hope

00:54:55.780 and

00:54:56.020 trust

00:54:56.340 in

00:54:56.540 his

00:54:56.680 grace

00:54:56.960 and

00:54:57.600 love

00:54:57.940 him

00:54:58.160 with

00:54:58.480 all

00:54:58.820 of

00:54:58.920 our

00:54:59.020 hearts

00:54:59.380 minds

00:55:00.120 souls

00:55:00.920 and

00:55:01.160 strength

00:55:01.480 let

00:55:02.240 us

00:55:02.400 decide

00:55:02.900 now

00:55:03.480 that

00:55:04.200 whatever

00:55:04.800 the

00:55:05.040 cost

00:55:05.340 we

00:55:05.480 will

00:55:05.640 never

00:55:06.100 depart

00:55:06.520 willingly

00:55:06.920 from

00:55:07.220 Christ

00:55:07.520 our

00:55:07.720 Lord

00:55:07.940 who

00:55:08.560 himself

00:55:09.080 is

00:55:09.600 the

00:55:09.720 most

00:55:09.920 perfect

00:55:10.900 goodness

00:55:11.380 truth

00:55:11.840 and

00:55:12.160 beauty

00:55:12.440 starting

00:55:13.700 with

00:55:13.900 prayer

00:55:14.160 we

00:55:14.800 should

00:55:15.020 realize

00:55:15.380 that

00:55:15.800 we

00:55:15.940 can

00:55:16.160 do

00:55:16.380 nothing

00:55:16.980 on

00:55:17.220 our

00:55:17.380 own

00:55:17.600 and

00:55:18.860 make

00:55:19.280 a

00:55:19.580 serious

00:55:19.980 commitment

00:55:20.460 to

00:55:20.760 spend

00:55:21.100 time

00:55:21.840 with

00:55:22.320 God

00:55:22.680 in

00:55:22.920 prayer

00:55:23.240 not

00:55:24.120 just

00:55:24.340 the

00:55:24.520 saying

00:55:24.800 of

00:55:24.920 prayers

00:55:25.120 again

00:55:25.380 but

00:55:25.820 of

00:55:26.000 retreating

00:55:26.740 into

00:55:27.100 God

00:55:27.480 and

00:55:28.080 resting

00:55:28.560 in

00:55:29.060 him

00:55:29.360 God

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00:55:38.400 I'm

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00:55:39.520 Keith

00:55:39.940 Fournier

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The John-Henry Westen Show - March 07, 2025

How the Saints Survived Torture ｜ COVID-Era Tyranny

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