How to live with hope in God through secure financial investments ｜ Drew Mason
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Drew Mason, founder and head of St. Joseph's Partners, joins the John Henry Weston Show to talk about how Catholics can prepare for the end of the dollar and the dawn of gold and silver in the future.
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To say, I knew this was going to happen, but I just didn't do anything about it. I stood there
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like a deer in headlights. It's not difficult. It shouldn't be scary. This is not Armageddon.
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This is saying the sun's going to come up the day after the dollar paradigm ends.
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It's a question, have you taken the steps necessary to be ready so that your family
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Hey, my friends, with all the craziness going on around the Holy Land, still in Russia, Ukraine,
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and also in the Far East, I wanted to bring you an update on the financial markets so that
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you can help prepare your families for what's coming. And not only prepare financially, which
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we help you to do with our great partnership with St. Joseph Partners, who are really, really
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highly rated and trustworthy. Folks who sell gold, who sell silver, who enable people to make safe
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investments for their families, but also wanted to talk about spiritual preparation and how that's
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important and the ways to do it properly. Our guest today on the John Henry Weston Show is Drew Mason.
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Uh, who is the founder and head of St. Joseph's Partners. Stay tuned.
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Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
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So, Drew, if we can start off with what's going on financially, because I know many of us are paying
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attention to the world and what's happening there. We see the war in the Holy Land. We see Russia,
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Ukraine still going on, and noises from the Far East as well. There's so much instability in our world.
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How is that being reflected in the financial markets, and why should Catholics be concerned to
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Thank you, John Henry. So, since we've been together, the events have been extremely noteworthy
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in the markets, too. The headlines may hold up one story to tell, but what we see happening is a
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greater focus, and I would say an urgency being displayed on the part of governments to sell,
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reduce their holdings in dollar assets, T-bills, T-bonds, and moving into gold. So, 2023 will be a
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record year where the world's central banks who control all the money that we use, who really
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control the savings of the working class, they're voting with their wallets, sell dollars, buy gold.
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We have even had, since we spoke last, John Henry, at least one of the European central banks
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admit that they are preparing for a new gold standard. The central banks, really everyone
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around the world is recognizing the dollar's day as a sole reserve currency is ending. And when you
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look at the price of gold in world currencies, it's hitting all-time highs. And not only is it hitting
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an all-time high, but the rate of change is accelerating, meaning the speed in which gold's price is
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ascending relative to these world currencies is getting faster, the curve is getting steeper.
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People are saying, we need to have some gold. It's an incredible admission for the central banks to say,
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yes, the reason we are buying gold is because we see this new paradigm unfolding where we'll be back
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to where we were previously in financial history, that the world will use gold as a currency for trading
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and for wealth preservation. In addition, John Henry, we had an extremely noteworthy comment article come
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out. And it was written by one of the most respected investors of our generation, who is the former
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CEO of PIMCO Asset Management. PIMCO runs over a trillion dollars. It's trillion with a T, most of it
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in bonds. And what he admitted is that we are seeing the U.S. Treasury bond, which is denominated in
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dollars, we are seeing it, quote, unquote, lose its strategic significance, end quote. So really,
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all financial advisors today build their models, their recommendations to families upon this notion
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that the T-bill, the dollar, is the risk, what they call the risk-free asset. It's as close as
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to perfect safety as you can get. And when you look at the construction of portfolios, this is still
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the rubrics that they are using. Now, what this PIMCO CEO is admitting is this is totally flawed.
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The foundation upon which Americans and families around the world are building their financial
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futures on is broken. And it begs the question, OK, well, if that's the case, isn't history again
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going to manifest itself that a currency like the dollar and all of its instruments, CDs, T-bills,
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T-bonds, aren't they, as has always happened in history, going to see their value, the purchasing
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power they represent, implode. And that's what he is suggesting we are in the early innings of.
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When that happens, people look for something that is safe and liquid. And when they begin asking
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themselves then, what is safe? They're going to be reminded, not just the last 50 years or 100 years,
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but going back as far as we can find in financial history, gold has worked. And so we think that is
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the insight that these central banks are looking at to give them this urgency to diversify into gold.
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So we would say to all families out there, we are called to be good stewards. You concluded John
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Henry by saying, why should Catholic families do something? We're concluded to be good stewards.
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Joseph protected his family and led them, got them out of trouble when his child was potentially going
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to be persecuted from Bethlehem. We are called to be good stewards. And financially, how are you going
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to look yourself in the mirror? How are you going to be accountable for the blessings that you've been
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entrusted with so far when this accelerates and the dollars lose their value? To say, I knew this was
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going to happen, but I just didn't do anything about it. I stood there like a deer in headlights.
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It's not difficult. It shouldn't be scary. This is not Armageddon. This is saying the sun's going to
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come up the day after the dollar paradigm ends. It's a question, have you taken the steps necessary
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to be ready so that your family can have great opportunities for the future? As this new financial
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paradigm unfolds, he who has the gold will have greater influence. And we want Christians to have
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even greater influence in society moving forward. And again, the ability to protect your family,
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give them great opportunities. It's interesting you mentioned St. Joseph there because in gifting his
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son at his birth, our Lord chose to bring the wise men there who gifted them with, yes, frankincense and
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myrrh, but also with gold right from the get-go. So it's just an interesting thing there,
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if you have a comment about that. It's embarrassing, John, but when we named this
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firm St. Joseph Partners, we didn't have this big understanding of why we were doing that. We just
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felt led to do it and obeyed. And as you reflect on the life of St. Joseph, isn't he so representative
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of us today, right? The government clearly hated his family. They wanted to kill his family. And he
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figured out, obviously with great help from the Holy Spirit, a role model for us, he looked at the
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Holy Spirit and had great inspiration on how to protect his family. And in all likelihood,
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having just been given gold, gold may have been central to how they function as he led them out
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into the desert and into Africa for three years. Because back then, as is the case today, if you
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have gold, wherever you are in the world, you have liquidity, you have wealth, the ability to protect
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him and care for your family. I liked what you said there, that we want Christians to have a means
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of influence in the world. Let's talk about that. Because there's different opinions out there about,
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you know, wealth and Christianity and what we're supposed to do with it. And talk to us a little bit
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about that. Because I think it's a really interesting concept. There is a concept within,
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it was, it's in Judaism, it was there in ancient Judaism, but also in Protestant cultures actually
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have it much more than Catholics, I find anyway, that they support one another inside the faith
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community. They have a preferential option for other Jews and other Protestants. But we seem to be
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a bit lacking, well, more than a bit lacking in that regard inside the Catholic Church.
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You're 100% right, John Henry. And the timeliness of what you're saying is interesting, because
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the recent Daily Mass reading reflected on, if we don't care for our own, we are worse than infidel,
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which is the worst, the scripture describes. If we don't care for our own, we are worse than infidel.
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So, in my opinion, John Henry, Jesus warned us about people who would be in Roman collars,
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who would be wolves in sheep's clothing, who would destroy, as best they could, the church.
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And in my opinion, what we see the bishops doing, having taken billions of dollars from the U.S.
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government, and then choosing to walk away from proclaiming the faith and instead
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to exercise their role, aiding the U.S. government with illegal immigrants and preaching to people to
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go and take your money and go to foreign nations and build houses for people you don't know or do
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whatever it is. In contrast, what Jesus did when he sent out his apostles was singular. He told them
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to evangelize, and he sent them first to his own. And so, if you think about it and you pray about it,
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I think you're going to conclude that one of the many important and one of the most important
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strategies for Satan to destroy the church has been that he would use the influence of bishops
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to speak and guide Catholics who care about their faith, essentially to walk away from evangelization
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and to go do social justice. Instead, what we should be doing is bringing the faith to our own.
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We have an absolute epidemic. Where is the epidemic? It's right now in the Catholic Church with our youth
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and with our families. Dropout rates, 90%. 90%. What's the percent of those people who are going to make
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it to heaven? Who knows? Why? Because when they've been in Catholic schools, they haven't been formed
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correctly. They haven't been taught scripture. Because Jesus said, you're easily fooled because
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you don't know scripture. It's not a coincidence our children are not taught scripture. So, just think,
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if we can get some of these leaders, lay leaders, and I call out to you, decide that you are not going
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to support financially the diocese or this charity or that charity that's social. You are going to focus
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on evangelization, on reaching out to the kids, whether it's yourselves hiring people to go out
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and minister to these children to teach them or some of the great organizations that are already
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in place to do this. This is what we have to do to take back the church. I submit, John Henry, that right
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now, if we could see our youth as heaven sees it, it is set to be a field of blaze. All we need is
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is a little spark of the Holy Spirit. And we're going to see a scripture describes the fire start
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going through the stubble at an incredible rate. The youth are so hungry. They have been face to face
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with evil. They are empty from the way they've been formed. They are looking for the light. And if we
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will take it to them, if you will take it to them, they will respond. And this is how we'll renew the
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church. And then as we're reading about in scriptures today at the masses, God lets the nation
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suffer. He lets suffering go on. He lets horrible leadership take place. He lets injustice reign
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until we repent. And that is the first job of us as Christians and as evangelists is to say,
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let's go, let's repent, let's obey the Lord. And once we do that, then the blessings will come
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and we will take back our church and we will take back our country.
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What you're saying there, Drew, is quite controversial.
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And I agree with you a hundred percent that the over-focus on the care for the poor, this sort
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of outreach, has become sort of the only thing. It seems like the whole focus of the church right
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from Pope Francis down is against, actually, evangelization, proselytization as it's characterized
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or caricatured. And it is work with the poor for the poor, do this, that, and the other thing.
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Everything but evangelize. And I want to bring to mind something that Mother Miriam said, which I
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think was so accurate, but deemed even to be dangerous. Because she said something rather
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stunning. She said the greatest form of antisemitism is keeping Jesus from the Jews. And it's so stunning
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because she means it to include the whole of Nazism and everything else. She's saying that the greatest
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form of antisemitism was not even under the Nazis. It's when we refuse to evangelize our Jewish brothers
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and sisters, our Islamic brothers and sisters, Buddhists go down the list. If we're not bringing Jesus,
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to them, we are harming. If we purposefully deny them Christ, we are inviting damnation in our own
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heads as well. It's really stunning. And your call to invest in evangelization is, I think, the most
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important call. The scriptures tell us, seek first the kingdom of God and all the rest shall be given
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too. I'd love your take. Supporting what you're saying, allow me to share a scripture passage that
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I don't think most Catholics are aware of. This is from Sirach chapter 12. So you can look this up
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when you do. When you do a good deed, make sure you know who is benefiting from it. Then what you do will
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not be wasted. You won't be repaid for any kindness you show to a devout person. If he doesn't repay you the
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most high will, no good ever comes to a person who gives comfort to the wicked. It is not a righteous act.
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Give to religious people, but don't help sinners. Do good to humble people, but don't give anything
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to those who are not devout. Don't give them food, or they will use your kindness against you. Every good
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thing you do for such people will bring you twice as much trouble in return. The most high himself hates
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sinners, and he will punish them. Give to good people, but do not help sinners.
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Yes, that was Sirach chapter 12. That was not me. That is Sirach chapter 12, and we'll get that to you,
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and you can put it up there. What verses are those? Sirach chapter 12?
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I believe that is verse 1 through 7. We'll get that to you for sure. But if you think about that,
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and you relate that to Jesus, again, think about his comments. We had Mary at his feet adoring him,
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right? A prelude to the Eucharist adoring him. And Martha said, get her off her knees. Get her out
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here and help me to serve the food. And she just said, Mary has chosen the better part. And later,
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we see Martha clearly learn from that and embrace that as we want to lead with adoring Jesus. What did
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Mother Teresa say, patron saint perhaps of our ages? She didn't say the world will be renewed when
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everyone goes out and helps a poor person. She said the world will be renewed when every parish has
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adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. So she's seeing what is job one, what is most important. And again,
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think about what Jesus did. He said, the poor you always have with us. But he channeled the
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apostles. He sent them out two by two. He didn't isolate them like our current bishops have isolated
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our current priests. Sent out two by two to go out and evangelize. So it is the most politically
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incorrect charity to talk about Jesus and making him the center of our world. The fact that it's so
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incorrect should be a hint to us that it is so important.
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You raise an interesting point there. And it would sound to many like the perfect counterpoint to what
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you said, because you raised Mother Teresa. Isn't she the model of helping the poor and not evangelizing?
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Great question, John Henry. And we are hopeful that the missionaries of charity will have a
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conversation with us to really delve into this in a public venue about that. But again, those are her
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words, that if you want to renew the world, we have to have adoration first. And I think, John Henry,
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you know, one of the greatest scripture scholars of all time is Satan, right? He was quoting scripture
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to Jesus. He knows it. And he takes the scriptures and he twists them for his own benefit. And I believe
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one of the words he likes to use most in the notions is love. It's really not love. It's really
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misplaced love, or in some cases, outright disobedience to the Lord, right? When he came to
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Peter and the church was just founded, Peter was just made the rock. He was the leader. That whole scene
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in scripture, which is why you and I are Catholic to this day. He didn't go to Peter and say,
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hey, Peter, I'm Satan. I want to destroy Jesus. I want to destroy the church. I'm a nobody, but I'm
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just full of hate. Let's go destroy him. You knew that wouldn't have worked. So we see him
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whispering to Peter, hey, Peter, you love Jesus, don't you? Peter, do you love him? Well, Peter,
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if you love him, you can't let him crucify him. Come on, Peter, are you a man? Stand up.
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Don't just sit there and let them do that to him. We see Peter is so worked up by Satan.
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And with his good heart, he goes out and Jesus says, Satan, get behind me. The only time he ever
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describes anyone and addresses anyone as Satan in scriptures was to the person who was, at that
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moment in time, our first pontiff, our first church leader. And when we see scriptures that can be
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interpreted in different ways, I submit, John Henry, what we want to do is we want to look at
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the scripture that is the most definitive, that is the most clear and overlay that to scripture that
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is more ambiguous or vague, right? So scriptures clearly talk to us about loving. What is love,
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though? To Mother Miriam's point, love is carrying the gospel. That's the ultimate love, right? So that
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someone doesn't miss out on heaven. And who should we love? His brothers, he said, right? Or his
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brothers, what you talked about at the top of the show. His brothers and his sisters are those who
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obey the commandments. That's who we should be beginning with, with our charity. And then it
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talks about, you know, giving to others. But what did St. Paul say? He was crystal clear,
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work or starve. So was St. Paul full of hate? Or is that actually love? Counseling someone who is
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depending on other people's charity, that's not going to go well with the Lord. You got to pick
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yourself up and you got to work or starve. Again, those are not my words. Who cares what I say? This
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is exactly what the scripture, what the scripture is saying. So I submit, John Henry, we're not putting
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any effort, any time into evangelization. We're putting it all into social justice and it's not
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working well. It's not working well. We want to go to evangelization and let the Holy Spirit rain down
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and I want to make sure this is coming across in a wrapper of optimism and hope and enthusiasm for
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the future. Because one of the most beautiful realities is that evil and Satan has had to pump
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so much money, so much effort into all these lies to get people to believe them. But we just need
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one witness like you watching this show to go out and talk to a high school student or to support
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an evangelization program at a school. Just one witness, that'll be the Holy Spirit getting into
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that child and that'll be the spark that runs ablaze. So it's really a very uneven playing field to our
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advantage if we'll just focus like our Lord encouraged his, like our Lord led the apostles to focus and turn to
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him. Wanted to just answer some of, you know, the thought vis-a-vis Mother Teresa. Unlike a lot of the
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missionary work you might say today by lay people, even orders who refuse to wear a habit, Mother Teresa
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was very insistent about wearing a religious habit. Everyone knew who she was and who her sisters
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were because they wore a religious habit. They were the brides of Christ. There was no question
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anybody thought, oh, maybe this is someone else. This is someone not related to Catholicism.
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This is someone who is just working out of charity and we love her and only her and we don't give a
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thought to where she comes from. No. In fact, she made it known as well that they had hours of adoration
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every day themselves. And this is the power that from which she drew. And of course, she did even baptize
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some of the people who asked for baptism because she let her actions being the hands of Christ, the eyes of
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Christ, the voice of Christ manifest to them in a way that wasn't overbearing. It couldn't be said of her that
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she was forcing religion down anyone's throat. But what she was doing is demonstrating it. Her work,
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I think, is rightfully described as a work of evangelization rather than anything else. More
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so than a work of charity for the poor and whatever else. It's a true charity for the poor. She,
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of course, knew the greatest form of evangelization is not to save the body. It's to save them for
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eternal life. So she did exactly that. Although the, I think, false caricature of her is the one
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that's all about helping the poor in trying to not evangelize. That is a false characterization.
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Her sisters, also still around in the world today, have that same, you know, spirit of
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evangelization. And her great courage, Sean, when in the face of the most powerful on earth, the
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Clintons, when she came to America, she talked about abortion. The worst thing to talk about with the
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Clintons, but there she was. And talking also about the greater poverty in the West because of our lack
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of faith than they have in India with all of the physical poor and destitution that goes on there.
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And there she was, John Henry, following Jesus's model for the day, each day, right? So many times in
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scripture, we see Jesus going out well before dawn, well before sunrise, during the fourth watch to
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pray. And that's the model she followed, too, that we should all be following, whether we're doctors,
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school teachers, students, to just begin the day with him in prayer, adoring him, and then whatever else
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it is we are called to do, we'll have a totally different spirit and tone about it.
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I'd love to talk to you about that last bit, too, because that is an important thing, whatever we're
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called to do. How do you get there? How do you know what you're called to do? Day to day, we have the time
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that we're allotted. How do we spend it? How do we pay attention to what God wants us to do? And how do we
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All the youth who are watching this, how can you make any important decisions without praying about it? You have a
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ticket, you have an opportunity to sit down one on one with the CEO of the universe who turns the lights on in the
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sun every morning, and who is incredibly focused on just you, and all the details, he took the time to number the
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hairs on your head. He knows everything about you. But he's not going to force himself on you. He wants to be
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invited into your life. So I submit we do just what our Lord did. And that is get up early when the
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spirit most likes to talk, right? That's why Jesus went out early. That's when we see the spirit talking
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and God visiting humanity in the Garden of Eden at fourth watch, which is about three to six a.m.
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Get up early and reach out to him. Begin by praising him. That's what we're supposed to do. Our prayer
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should be dominated by praise, not gimme, gimme, gimme, but praise. Just realizing how awesome you
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are, how majestic you are, and singing to him, right? How many times does scripture say to sing? So even
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early in the morning there, just praising him, singing. I submit we read scriptures. My favorite
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scripture study tool is the daily readings at mass. It's what's going to be the most widely studied
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scripture passages in the world that day. There are no coincidences. That's what's on the spirit's
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mind. And then after you've consumed that, I encourage you to pray the rosary and just ask him,
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you know, say to him, what would you have me do in this specific situation? Where should I go to school?
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What should I pursue? And just be ready for very gentle thoughts to start flowing through your mind.
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And if the thought contradicts the commandments or scripture, you know it's not from God. But if it
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is not in contradiction to those, then it's fair game to discern. And if it's a thought that has a
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piece to it, it has a, it stays with you. It doesn't just fly out your ear and you forget about
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it right away, but you remember it has that power. If it's a thought maybe you hadn't had before,
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those are all the fingerprints of the Lord trying to gently whisper to you, say to you, this is what's
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best for you. And contrary to what Satan seems to try to do with so many youth, where he seems to say,
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oh, if you don't want to do that, then that must be the Lord's will. The spirit's full of joy.
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Look for a quickening in your spirit that you say, yeah, that sounds good. I'd like to do that. If it
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makes you excited about it, then that's another good sign that it's the Lord revealing his plans to you.
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Because again, his scriptures say, I have plans to prosper you. He desires that we would be healthy
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and happy. He's giving us the tools to do that. And today in the youth, I would say, please start
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fasting as well as we are obligated to do. I know your pastors don't tell you we're obligated to fast
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each week, but we are. And this is the spiritual army that, the spiritual armor that our lady said
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is so powerful that it keeps evil away from us. Imagine if evil just had to back off of your family,
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couldn't be trying to wreck the lives of your children or your loved ones. You will find,
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because remember, that's how Jesus started his ministry, right? 40 days of fasting to make sure
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he was hearing the Lord correctly. Do that. And I think you're going to find how exciting it is
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that the Lord wants to speak directly to you, not only through a teacher or through maybe a spiritual
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advisor, but he wants to talk, the Spirit must talk directly to you. And I think you'll find it
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I'm going to remind everyone, we've got a show out with Drew about prayer and fasting, about fasting
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Wednesdays and Fridays, as the early church did in the dedicated talks about, tells us about doing that,
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a bread and water fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, as the early church used to do. So stunning stuff.
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I encourage you to go watch that. Also, Drew, I want to thank you for your advice to families on how
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to prepare themselves for the times to come, both spiritually and also financially, in a way to
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prosper God's people. God bless you, Drew, and thank you.
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And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
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