MIRACLE! St. Michael statue on President Trump's bedside tableļ¼ Fr. Altman tells the story
Summary
In this episode of The John A. Weston Show, Father Altman talks about the controversial video in which he says that Pope Francis is going to hell. He also talks about why he doesn't want anyone else to go to hell, and why he thinks it's a good thing that Jesus went to hell first.
Transcript
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What is this about President Trump and a statue that you gave him?
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I don't think I've publicly mentioned this before.
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I mean, I've told a few people who there's nothing less than miraculous.
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We are finally back with someone who's very familiar to you all.
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that we actually aired an old show with him that was very popular with you
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But we wanted to talk to Father about a few very controversial things.
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which was one of the last ones we saw from him.
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Oh, it's always just so good to see you, my hero.
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Let's begin as we always do, with your sign of the cross.
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Heavenly Father, guide our words, guide our knowledge, guide our wisdom,
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so that we can give to others in service to you the truth of our faith,
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that all might see the light of Christ and follow you along the narrow path to the narrow gate.
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And we ask for this grace in nominipatris, affiliates, spiritus, sancti.
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So, one of the things that happened with your now super famous video with regard to Pope Francis
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and that he's not Pope, that's very well understood.
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Archbishop Vigano has expressed doubts that, you know, he's not the Pope,
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As has Archbishop Jan Pavalenga of formerly Kazakhstan.
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And so, all of them have expressed these doubts for years, actually, before you,
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at least with regard to Archbishop Jan Pavalenga and Bishop Grasida.
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But in your statement, you talked about how he's going to hell,
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and then later you talked about how because of the evil they're doing,
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I think that was the phrase that I usually use.
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It did because if you put all of it together, and I know you didn't say it,
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but it seemed if you put it all together, you were hoping that they go to hell
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And we had a call about this, but you were also very ill.
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I had my albuterol several times before I came into the room tonight.
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But there's going to be a lot of people now praying for you because Father Altman's not
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doing well, hasn't been doing well for a long, long, long time.
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So I think I made a joke today about somebody at the USCCB has a pin, the voodoo doll,
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Because, I mean, I know that because I speak to you on a personal level, then, and I know
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what you're thinking is you want the Pope to convert.
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And people need to understand that, first of all, I don't want anybody to go to hell.
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Almighty God, our Father, doesn't want anybody to go to hell.
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Jesus came so that people wouldn't have to go to hell.
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But he also said many will and few will choose that narrow road to the narrow gate.
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So, I mean, we're deluding ourselves if we don't think, including myself, I might end
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I always say martyrdom is the only way I'm going to make it.
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My greatest concern with Jorge Borgoglio and so many other shepherds of the church, just
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like it was in Jesus' day, was concern for all the souls that are being led astray down
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that broad road to destruction through all the various heresies and apostasies and anti-Catholic
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I mean, that is, you mentioned the word trajectory, I think, in our private conversation.
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And, I mean, the trajectory is like straight down.
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It's like one of those rise, like demon drop at Cedar Point in Ohio.
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But you are what you do, you become what you practice.
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And Judas practiced betrayal long before the big betrayal.
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So, Jorge Borgoglio wants to pretend he's not in hell.
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And then he's got that picture where Jesus goes down.
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But there's a demand, there's a requirement for us, who know better, to demand, to repent.
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He said, what are you brood of vipers doing coming here?
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I mean, that's straight out of the gospel, Matthew chapter 3.
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So, what I'd say to Jorge Borgoglio, show some evidence.
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And you tell me, John Henry, you who know way more than I could ever dream of knowing
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about the things that are going on in the church.
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You tell me some evidence that any of these vipers have repented.
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What I see is they keep piling it on more and more.
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I want you to go to heaven as much as I'd want Jorge Borgoglio to go to heaven.
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But if he's leading you astray and you're following, it's like the blind following the
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He was the doctor, Nathanson, Bernard Nathanson, who had participated in, what, 50,000 abortions,
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Send him, Father, in heaven, someone who will be that one light where he will see the error
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We ask you this, Father, because if he does, he will reset the trajectory of so many.
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Show some evidence of his repentance before he dies.
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And we ask you this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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You know, she's that singer that was, oh, she represents, I mean, that name, how she's
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If she repented, imagine the impact she would have.
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If Jorge Bergoglu repented, and he's very much in need of it.
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Well, I could imagine because while he's in the opposite direction, he has what it would
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Because he has no care whatsoever what people think.
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He would take all the evil guys, which is maybe most, and just say, goodbye.
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Because that's sort of what he's done on the other end.
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And all of a sudden, he's the greatest supporter and gave his life for Christ.
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I'll tell you a funny story, Father, because I actually have a story.
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I haven't really told it much, but I had a conversation.
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But anyway, I had a conversation with a Mother Superior who was losing her father, Bishop,
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And I had a friend, Bishop, who was one of the persons looking into his case.
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And she came up to me and asked if I happened to know him.
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And it was funny because I got the news that he was taken down.
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And I called the Mother Superior and I was walking on my way to church.
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And I hung up with her and they were very, very sad.
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And I thought, gosh, he is wrecking the church.
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He's hurting so many people, dragging a father away from his children.
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And they were very much his daughters, you know.
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And then I was like, oh, that's like exactly Saul.
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He needs a conversion like Saul to become Paul.
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And if our Lord is going to actually intervene, because he tends not to do it quite that dramatically.
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But when it has eternal significance for so many people, 2,000 years worth of Catholics.
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What better person than to just knock him off his horse.
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Because the results, as you said, he would have to, out of good conscience, go and clean house.
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It was the reading of the conversion of St. Paul.
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And I didn't know if I was supposed to take that as a sign.
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But it's funny, too, because Bishop Schneider is the one who started praying openly for
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I've had private conversations with him on a couple of occasions, maybe as many as three
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And he may have said that directly to Jorge Bergoglu himself.
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Wouldn't surprise me because he's the one who took up the Holy Father when he went to
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Francis seemed to back off a little, but then went hardcore again.
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I wanted to also talk to you about President Trump.
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Because you've been to like Mar-a-Lago every other week.
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I've been really blessed to be friends with people there and in the process of being there.
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To have met so many incredible people who are very familiar with the political side,
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are very familiar with the deep state, which we know exists not just in the state, but in
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But the ramifications for state and church are the same.
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Bad things happen and it's hard to clean house.
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Remember his famous line during his first election?
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But I don't think he, I mean, this is just my personal opinion.
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I don't think he, because in the business world, right?
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Well, it doesn't work that way in the government.
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And so he's faced a lot of opposition from Republicans too, from fake Republicans, from
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So should he get in again as the population wants, demonstrably, overwhelmingly, maybe
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And you know, right away he was hit with, of course, then the COVID nightmare, the biological
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And that, if you're trying to fix a country, and then you have this huge thing, which shut
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I'm not disappointed in my, in his lack of fulfillment of the promises that he was trying
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But I almost fear if he does get reelected, which he should be, if there's an honest and
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true election, what the ramifications will come from the left again, what catastrophe
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they will create, that they're already planning, because they plan, like if they plan those,
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They're already there planning, because they know it's a distinct possibility.
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No matter what happens, we better fasten our seatbelts and pray, pray, because our help
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is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth.
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It's not in any politician, including Donald Trump.
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What is this about President Trump and a statue that you gave him?
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So this is, I don't think, I don't think I've publicly mentioned this before.
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I mean, I've told a few people, it was nothing less than miraculous, that I knew I was going
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down, there had a big Catholics for Trump prayer thing.
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And so there's like a thousand people in this big ballroom at Mar-a-Lago.
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I knew I was flying down on Monday, because it was Tuesday the 19th, if he's to St. Joseph.
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And on, so late Saturday, Oscar Delgado, who, you know him, right?
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And you know he won that four and a half million, and he gave it all to Adoration Chapels and
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Of Arlena Cabello, yes, exactly, in Rwanda, in case people don't know what that is.
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So I was frustrated with Oscar, but I respect Oscar.
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So I get down to Houston, Minnesota, and he meets me in a sacristy there, in a private
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chapel, because I was celebrating a private mass down there.
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And he hands me this box in it, and he says it's a statue of St. Michael that he got at
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He says, you have to give this to President Trump.
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Well, okay, you can't get within 10 feet of President Trump.
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And if you get nine and a half feet, there's going to be three guys that are going to take
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And I'd been to Marlowe at this point, I think, I think this would be my fifth time there.
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You see him walking, and he's a very humble man.
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So anyway, so he, so I take it down, and I'm going to this big thing, right?
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There's like a thousand people there, and I was very nervous, because, you know, I look
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And I knew I had to walk, and I've always been uncomfortable with strangers, so I knew
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I had to walk in that thousand-person ballroom.
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So anyway, so I go into dinner, and I have this box with me, sitting in the table, and
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I'm thinking, well, he was, I think he was up in New York, because he was still in that
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stupid trial, that abomination of a trial, the abomination that it was.
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So I didn't even know if he was going to be there tonight, but I thought, at least I
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can say to Oscar, Oscar, I took the box with me, never saw him, never had a chance, he
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Then dinner finally was over, and then there was this, I call it the swarm.
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Um, and because people want to say hello and visit, and get selfies, and the like, and
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I literally, myself and two musicians, were the last people going out the door at the
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There's a couple cleanup crew in there, but as for attendance, myself and two musicians,
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and at this point, it's like after five or six hours, and I said, I need to, where's
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And they pointed down the hallway this way, so I went there.
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And so when I came out, I literally was the last person to leave the venue, and I
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didn't know how to get to where I was going, because it's clear on the other side of
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Mur-a-Lago, along the beach, and we call them McBannas.
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So I, I spotted a security guard, a young security guard, and I said, can you at least
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And we walked by, and it was very close to the front door of where the president is,
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and we just kept walking, because you don't, you don't meander there.
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I finally got to a point where I knew where I was, and so I was carrying the box, and
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So I started walking, and so you walk out past this, I don't know how to describe it,
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but past this area, and then eventually you walk down this curvy sidewalk, go over to
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And on that entire time that I had been there, I'd never seen a single person on the grass.
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I'd be afraid to step off that sidewalk, because if you, if you get into, where are they
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So I happened to see over to my left, two young, young men, and I thought, what are
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I just kept walking, and all of a sudden I hear, Father Altman.
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You've heard about the Eucharistic revival that's going on.
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The pilgrimage is going to culminate in Indiana at the Eucharistic Congress.
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We are holding a traditional Latin math steps away from the main Congress center, because
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we learned at first there was no traditional Latin mass, not on the schedule, and we thought,
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We found Victory Field right across, steps away from where the Congress is being held
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We learned that since then, there were some announcements of other Latin masses that are
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So if you are in the traditional Latin mass, you thought, oh, I can't go to the Congress
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And this is Father James Altman, who's going to be there.
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Lifesight's going to be inside the Congress as well, as is Vicki Yamasaki.
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We hope you join us and sign up for this free event, free lunches because of a generous donor.
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As he said, I'm actually going to be at the Eucharistic Congress, and I'm going to walk
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away from my booth so that I can enjoy this traditional Latin mass and these three great
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speakers that will offer insights into why it is that so many Catholics no longer believe
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As we know, in our Catholic culture, in our Catholic teaching, there's a phrase,
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lexorandi, lexorgedendi, as we pray, so we believe.
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And through the traditional Latin mass, it inspires such depth of prayer.
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And so we're trying to inspire that belief in the real presence because without which
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Thus, what we're doing will actually be throwing fuel on the fire revival, a belief in the real
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presence, the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the Holy Eucharist.
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Father, I'm thrilled for the opportunity to remind you what you can be doing to renew your
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own personal devotion to the Eucharist and also how to get others to remind them to deepen
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their faith in worshiping our Lord in the Eucharist.
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So based on my own experience, it's just going to be a great opportunity to remind people of
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what the church teaches us that our lives are supposed to revolve around the Holy Eucharist.
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I'm going to walk right across the street to Victory Field and join you for this beautiful
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traditional Latin mass on July 19th and hear from these three fantastic speakers.
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And maybe you can catch the other traditional Latin mass the day before with Archbishop Corte
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That's just under two miles at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, smaller parish.
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It can seat about 400, so you better get a seat early there.
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Join us, our friends, at Victory Field on July 19th, right steps away from the Eucharistic
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God bless you and look forward to seeing you there.
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Now, nobody knows who Bo is, but Bo was at my table.
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I'm really bad with names and faces, but I recognized him.
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And so I walked over to, because you can't be rude and just, so I walked over and right
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now it's about a quarter to 11, quarter to midnight.
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I mean, when I left that venue, it was, I was literally the last person out.
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So my only image of Baron is at the inauguration.
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So when Bo says, this is my friend, Baron, I immediately say, I felt like an idiot, the
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And I looked up and sure enough, and I was able then to give him that statue and he gave
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The next morning, Cameron texted me and said, hey, I heard you ran into Baron.
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This is why I've been blessed to go there, hopefully being a presence of Christ, a light
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But the fact of the matter is, is that the statue did get into President Trump's hands,
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She interviewed me in the ballroom after all things were all right.
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So then we had to redo like a second chunk of the interview.
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And then all these other people that I was held up to the very last moment so that when
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I'm walking back, after getting a little shortcut help from one of those guards, that I would
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run into the very only person that I would ever know that I could give that statue to,
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Because you had the miracle the day before also that Oscar knew to fly out to get to you the
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That's nuts because he hears you're going there.
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Now, I don't even know how he knew I was going because I wasn't on the menu, so to speak.
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And even if you were going there, who says you're going to see drunk?
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And in fact, he didn't come that night, the President.
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We all hoped that maybe he could just a little wave, but no, he wasn't even there that night.
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So who better than how blessed I was in God's providence to run into the one person that
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I could give that to that would give it to him?
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And so then I hear back that it was on his desk and perhaps on his bed stand.
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That St. Michael statue from the cave in Italy that got into his hands.
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I made a video some time ago now because I was so convinced.
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President Trump wants to take on the deep state and wants to take on the globalists.
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But those are just monikers we use for the Satanists.
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This is the fruit of the Masons and the fruit of every demonic plan.
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But we have all sorts of nice names for it now.
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They're the ones who want to do the great reset.
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Do you know somebody was just telling me today over there in Davos where they were so creeped
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out because there's these brand new huge buildings, World Health Organization, all these other
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They're building the central headquarters of their globalist domination.
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They're building and he was so creeped out by it.
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I mean, we call them nice names, but they're not nice.
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So, even Donald Trump, even as Donald Trump as President of the United States with all
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of his prowess and even if the U.S. were on its game, they still couldn't defeat Satan,
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Because they're up against powers and principalities.
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This is not just because what he's talking about taking down, I don't know that he understands
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And then he wants to do that as a non-Catholic.
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So, I see in the statue of St. Michael some real hope because, look, I love what President
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The only president to ever show up at Right to Life.
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However, he also just did this huge push for IVF, he and all the Republicans.
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And then he had Rick Grinnell and the commercial from Rick Grinnell was so bad.
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This is what a lot of the wannabe Catholics who try and say, yeah, but Trump is, how Trump
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Just like with Bernard Nathanson, that I think I talked about in the opening prayer, in his
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conversion, or I talked about when I was talking about Jorge Bacoglio.
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We all would like, watch, now people, you need to hear this.
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And I'd like you to tell me, right here, right now, you give me the name of one perfect Catholic.
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Well, maybe him, but who of us is perfect in our decision-making, in our lives of faith,
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You tell me the name of one person, and then quit complaining about the one person who's
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John Stowe's down there flying the pride flag above his cathedral, and they're doing
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John Stowe, who's holding this huge thing down in St. Louis Archdiocese.
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Well, how about we start talking about the bishops?
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Because if he was Catholic, if he were truly Catholic, he might be constrained in some of
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the positions that he will hold forth, which would prevent him from being reelected, allowing
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And as a wise person in national intelligence at the forefront of national intelligence told
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me, if the Democrats win on January 20th, 2025, we will officially be a communist nation.
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So if he posited certain absolute Catholic positions, now he's a man of integrity, I think.
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And if he believes something, that's what he's going to do.
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So if he held purely Catholic views right now, that might impair November 2024.
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So once that happens, maybe that's the time that in the grace of his openness, his soul
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was open to hear the voice of God when God spoke to him.
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I believe President Trump is open to hearing truth and would convert to the depth of faith
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But anybody that wants to criticize him now, you go talk to John Stowe first and all the
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Strickland was the only one that spoke against James Martin at the U.S. CCB meetings, right?
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That put him in the sights of Jorge Bergoglio, right?
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You want to complain about Trump, you complain about the other 299 bishops.
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Because every single one of them is guilty by their silence.
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And I talked about that today with several different examples from very great people
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like Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who said, silence in the face of evil is evil itself.
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And Pope Innocent, who said that if you have a duty by doing nothing against evil, then you
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And then Chaput, who doesn't like me, I don't know why, Charles Chaput said, Benedict, his
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opinion is that you don't have to renounce your faith to be an apostate.
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You don't have to renounce it publicly to do it.
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All you have to do is remain silent when you have a duty to speak.
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So until you start ripping people, until you start ripping on John Stowe and every other
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299 bishops that let him get away with this damned apostasy of his, and he's not the only
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one by far, then don't come to me and complain that Trump, who's not a Catholic, is somehow
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But I mean, we want Trump to do what we want Trump to do.
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But how about we get our bishops to do it first?
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And then maybe, then maybe, if we led as true Catholics, the politicians would do as well.
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Remember, Fulton Sheen, he said, if ever the time comes when we fall into the state we're
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in right now, he was very prophetic, it's because for decades, for half a century, it
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None of this would be an issue if, what is it, 80 million Catholics all voted their faith.
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But it's because Catholics have failed as Catholics that we are now faced with the mess we're
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Start with yourself and then see where we can bring along Trump.
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So it would be very interesting for Trump to win the election and become a guy.
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But I don't want it to happen before the election because he might lose.
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You know, in our life, what you can't accomplish in one big leap, you can get with steps incrementally.
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I'd let it be worked out by Providence some other way.
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But it's neat that God worked through you for this statue.
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It's neat that he worked through Oscar, got to you.
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We'll leave it at that because I think that's really neat.
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Tell us, what does that feel like when you know?
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Okay, as a priest, this is a cheating question.
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Well, you're going to ask me some tough questions.
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No, no, this is an easy one because it's like God works through you every single day
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But this is one of those weird circumstances where it could have happened to the laity too.
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God worked through you and you can tell because it's too weird otherwise, the whole statue story?
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Okay, listen, it is nothing less than a miracle.
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When you reflect on that, wow, God just went to me.
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And somehow, for whatever circumstances brought me to that time and place, he was able to use it.
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And as I said, I was reluctant to meet with Oscar the day before.
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I was annoyed because I was busy and I was tired and I was sick.
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When I look at the whole picture of how that all transpired, I'm just dumbfounded and say, why, Lord?
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I'm so unworthy, yeah, Pope St. John Paul II, somebody was talking about him.
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Since I've been here at this conference, I was with Raymond Arroyo, Jim, because I think I mentioned this story maybe two nights ago,
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how Raymond was describing how when he first became part of EWTN, he had to go over to Rome and he had to go into,
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somebody said, you have to go in there and serve the Holy Mass for Pope St. John Paul, well, John Paul, the Holy Father.
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And he was like, well, who wouldn't feel unworthy?
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And he walked in, and I'm trying to use his words, he saw the Pope in almost one of those mystical states,
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When you think of, I said it during a homily, this is where I said it,
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when you think of the Holy Father, John Paul II, and think, why did he have to go to confession once a week, minimally, if not every day?
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Think, what could he possibly do that would be need for confession material?
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But the closer, here's the way it works, the closer you do get to God,
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the closer you encounter him in these kinds of miracles, like that statue,
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And you, like those, the 24 elders on the throne, they cast down their golden crowns upon the glassy sea,
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and they fall down on their face in adoration before the Lamb of God.
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If that is not what, if that does not, if you don't have that feeling,
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you better do some real examination of conscience,
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because you are not on the trajectory that you need to be.
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If we could end up, Father, would you lead us in a prayer for the conversion of President Trump?
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Heavenly Father, we always pray for our leaders,
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that they may see the light of Christ and guide their actions accordingly.
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In this case, let us pray for our very patriotic American leader, President Trump,
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which is the whole purpose of the big Catholics for Catholics, Catholics praying for Trump.
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to withstand the bludgeonings of the left and never give up,
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to fall under the bludgeonings of the left and get back up again,
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that he might come to see the fullness of the light of Christ
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and then bring that light to the people of this country
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as one of your faithful sons and brother in Christ.
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We ask for this conversion in the name of the Father,
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It is so good to see you again, always, as it always is.
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And through the intercession of St. Aloysius Gonzaga,
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who at the age of 21 went amongst the people with the plague
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No, without fear, serve the people in the plague.
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And through the intercession of the Holy Family,