#338 Cardinal Burke - The New Testament

0:00Cardinal Burke, welcome back for day two. Good to be back. So much better night last night. Good. Thanks be to God. But so yesterday we spent all day going over the Old Testament and a very brief overview of it. Today we will be going over the New Testament, brief overview again. So thank you again for coming and now start off with the same introduction as yesterday just in case anybody didn't hear it. Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, you're an American Cardinal widely respected for your expertise in canon law and church governance. You previously served as Archbishop of St. Louis and prefect of the Apostolic Signature, the church's highest judicial court. Pope Benedict XVI elevated you to the College of Cardinals in 2010.

1:02You are known internationally for your defense of traditional Catholic doctrine and sacred liturgy, marriage, family and the sacraments. You also are the founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Cross, Wisconsin, which you established as a place of pilgrimage, prayer and spiritual renewal. Once again, welcome today too. Thank you very much. And so before we get started, I was just hope we could start in prayer again. Sure. The name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Oh, my de God, we ask your blessing upon our conversation today as we seek to understand more deeply your Holy Word, transmitted to us in the Holy Bible and the sacred scriptures. And most especially in the New Testament, the account of the fullness of the revelation of your love for us in our Lord Jesus Christ.

2:06We ask you to grant us a great wisdom in understanding everything that you wish to teach us through the Holy Scriptures. And we ask this in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son who is with you in the Holy Spirit, one God forever endeavor. Amen. Amen. And the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So the New Testament. So we left off yesterday with, I think we kind of left off with some covenants that weren't yet fulfilled in the Old Testament. But I think that the biggest, most controversial question about the Old Testament is, did Jesus resurrect from the dead? It was to be the ongoing argument and basically the overall arc of the New Testament.

3:10So where do we begin? Well, the resurrection is first of all testified to by a host of witnesses. We have the four gospels which all have an account of the resurrection of our Lord and of his appearance for 40 days after his resurrection and his resurrected body and his glorious body before his ascension to heaven, to the right hand of the Father. And these accounts are historical. All the claims that have been made to question this resty of the gospels have been proven to be false. And there are other arguments apart from the direct testimony that we receive in the

4:12gospels, the fact of the empty tomb of our Lord and his tomb was found completely empty. His body had been completely transformed and there are no relics of our Lord Jesus in the sense of hair or bones or anything because he was glorified in his whole body at his resurrection. And he now is at the right hand of the Father in his glorified body. We see two many other testimonies to the resurrection. One of the most striking ones is the conversion of Saint Paul. Saint Paul was a Pharisee, a very ardent Jew who persecuted aggressively the church and

5:12believers. He was present at the stoning to death of Saint Stephen, the first martyr, the Saint Stephen, the decan. The account tells us that the people were stoning him, throwing the stones that killed him, laid their garments at the foot of a young man named Saul. Saint Paul's name was Saul and after his conversion he became known as Paul. And he was on his way to persecute the church further, had authorization to bring Christians into court and for their condemnation when he was thrown from his horse and the Lord spoke to him, appeared to him and said to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? And then he asked and our Lord said, well, you're persecuting me and my members and those

6:16who are part of my mystical body. And at that instructed him to go to Damascus where he would find a Christian who would help him to be baptized. And at that he was blind from the moment of the apparition and as soon as he was baptized, something like scales fell from his eyes and he could see again. And he becomes the great teacher of the faith. His letters in the New Testament are just an incredible treasure of teaching about the true nature by Lord. The salvation is one for us. What this means for us. He has to the oldest account of the institution of the Holy Eucharist because he had encountered in Corinth where he was teaching the faith.

7:18The people were abusing the celebration of the Eucharist, using it as a time to eat and drink and excess and so forth and not paying attention to the heart of the Eucharist, which is the renewal of the Lord's supper. And so St. Paul in confronting them said, I hand on to you that which I have first received that are Lord on the night before he died and then he gives the whole account of the, and then says in very clear language, he said, he eats and drinks the body and blood of our Lord without recognizing our Lord, eats and drinks is on condemnation. In other words, to approach sacred religiously, the Holy Eucharist is a most grievous sin. But anyway, another proof is St. Paul, the miracle of his writings and the whole way in which the church went, the apostles, when our Lord was crucified all, but John fled

8:26and Peter even denied our Lord three times when he was in the Peter, our Lord was being questioned. He was warming himself at a fire and people said, weren't you also one of his, you have, you speak like a Galilean, our Lord was from Galilee and he denied that he knew our Lord. And with, with the, our Lord's apparitions after the, his resurrection and then after he ascended to the right end of the Father and sent the Holy Spirit, these apostles who were also fearful, they were hiding in the upper room for, for afraid to be arrested. They went out and boldly proclaimed the gospel and all of them were, were martyrs except St. John, but St. John, of course, gave us a, a most wonderful account of our, of our Lord in his gospel. And he was the one who took the blessed mother into his home after our Lord's death and

9:30he had had very privileged knowledge of our Lord because our blessed mother would have recounted to him. She lived several years afterwards, would have recounted to him so many things about our Lord. So the, the, some two claim that the gospels were written very late, but there's evidence now that they, they were written very close to the, the time that after our Lord died, there, there wasn't something that was written, you know, a century or so later. What is the evidence? The evidence is done to study the manuscripts because we have manuscripts of the gospels and, and then also a study of the, the accounts themselves and comparing them with other writings of the same time and they're able to, to, to fix the date much, much earlier. So they were written less than a century? Yes, they were written less than a century after our Lord died.

10:34They were, they were written in that period after his death when they were the initial preaching of the gospel because we have, we have to remember too that in that, in those times, in, in that culture, that people were accustomed to memorize long accounts and, and very accurately so there was, there's a, what was called the oral tradition and people would hand on long accounts of things that had happened and this was true also of course with the, the apostles and the disciples of our Lord. And with that then, the gospels were written. There are four gospels as you know and the three of them are called synoptic because they're very similar. St. John's is, is, is distinct in that it has a much more elaborate theological presentation of our Lord and it isn't, that isn't because it was later. It simply was a particular gift that he had, especially being the Lord's beloved disciple

11:43and also taking the care of his, his mother. But so through the, from these oral traditions, then people began to, to write down these accounts and many of the accounts for instance in the synoptic gospels are exactly the same with the accounts of the, of the healings, miracles, parables. Some of you find that one gospel you don't find in another but that shouldn't surprise us that, that one gospel writer would have taken down in a count that perhaps another one did not depending on who their sources were. any of this written down is a journal in ongoing journal during the life of Christ. There would have been people would have been writing down his sayings and I

12:47supposed to a certain extent to who we hear for instance when he gears people that the people were in wonderment about what he did and one can imagine that somebody would have written down then an account of this he ending of the for instance of the woman who had had emerged for 30 years and she just touched the camera of his garment and she was healed because she had strong faith she believed that he could heal her and then he cured the son of the servant of the Centurion that account. That's a very an account that's remembered every day at Mass because when the Centurion came to ask her to come to heal his son or servant

13:52he or Lord said, well come and do it and he said no I'm not worthy that you should enter under my roof just say the word. Oh you have to do a say the word and my son will be healed and indeed that's what happened our Lord recognized his strong faith and he showed him your son is healed and the Centurion on his way home met his servants who told him that it was exactly at the hour that he met our Lord that the healing took place. So the gospels are simply rich with all of these accounts and I mentioned this latest translation with such ample notes but there are also studies of each of the gospels and they are there's just a richness there and

14:56the gospels are historically authentic. There's also an expert in philosophy and Aristotle Laman by the name of Michael Picolic he teaches to Catholic University of America but he's very knowledgeable in Greek the language in which the gospels were written and he has written a new translation also with a commentary he has he did the one on St John already drawing especially to our attention content and St John's gospel that reflects his relationship with the Virgin Mary and he said also the commentary on St Matthew in title God's banker because St Matthew was a was a tax collector and then also a commentary I believe it's on St Mark because

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18:13and now for the recipe for the biggest and best shit of your entire life. Bubs collagen peptides mixed with Bubs apple cider vinegar gummies and you have a recipe for success every day. Bubs collagen peptides, Bubs apple cider vinegar gummies. Ready to upgrade your life? Visit BubsNaturals.com today and use promo code Sean for 20% off your order. BubsNaturals.com slash Sean. So before we get too far into the gospels I wanted to just kind of do a brief overview of the New Testament. How many books are there? There are 27 books in the New Testament. There are the four gospels and then there are the quite a called the epistles or the letters of Saint Paul and then there are what are called the the Catholic epistles and those are

19:24letters of St. Peter, two letters of St. Peter, St. James, a letter, St. Jude letter and three letters of St. John and sometimes to the distinguished in Saint Paul you have these large letters that are written to a whole group that are to the Romans, two letters to the Corinthians, two letters to the Thessalonians, the Colossians, people of Colosse. But then there are what are called the pastoral epistles and those he wrote to St. Timothy and St. Titus who were early bishops to instruct them on how to be good bishops and the really quite wonderful meditations for a bishop today. And then the conclusion of the Bible is the book of Revelation or what's called the Apocalypse. This is a vision that Saint John has his gospel, his three letters

20:31and then the Apocalypse is a vision he had while living on the island of Patmos and it's a vision of the final times and it's probably one of the most challenging books of the Bible to read to understand but also very beautiful because he describes eternal life as a wedding feast, the wedding feast of the Lamb of Jesus, the Lamb of God and it's finally on the last day our Lord restores everything to the Father. You were asking yesterday why did God permit our Lord and undergo what he underwent and other sufferings and that is because we live in this time, the victory has been

21:32one by our Lord Jesus Christ but now it must be realized in each of our lives and St. Paul said we have to fill out in our lives the sufferings of Christ as his members. If we're living members of our Lord Jesus Christ that means that yes we enjoy all the hope and confidence of the final victory but we also share in the suffering until that day comes when our Lord returns in glory and restores everything to the Father and Saint that the Apocalypse merits are reading it's just more difficult or more challenging to read and that completes then the the New Testament. So if the books were written even close to a century later how long were people living

22:37that then? How do we know those accounts were so accurate if they were not written during the time of Jesus? Because they're handed on from those who knew our Lord and look for instance he was not one of the Apostles but he knew our Lord and he knew the Apostles and so he was able to access to the knowledge exactly and all of the writers well of course a lot of good part of the New Testament is a writings of St. John or is also St. Luke that only wrote his gospel but he wrote the Acts of the Apostles well I'm sorry I that there I was deficient when I was describing the books of the New Testament they're the four gospels and then before the epistles of St. Paul

23:37are the Acts of the Apostles a very important book it's the account of the first years of the of the Church's life and that is written by St. Luke okay and then there we find for instance the accounts of Paul's journeys after being a persecuted of the Church he was converted became we call them the Apostle of the Nations but he traveled all the inhabited world of that time a good part of it preaching the gospel and that's why you have and then finally ended his days in Rome where did the New Testament start the New Testament starts in in in in the Holy Land in in in Judean Galilee and well Nazareth Bethlehem well Nazareth and our lady receives the announcement that she's be the mother of the Savior she

24:41conceives in her room the God the Son and he unites his divine nature to our human nature to taking human flesh from her the father being the Holy Spirit or the worshadering of the Holy Spirit and then birth of our Lord and Bethlehem in Judea but then the Nazareth the hidden life of our garden till he was 30 he he was at home with this with the bus of mother and St Joseph we have a couple of accounts for instance of when he was 12 they went for the annual pilgrimage to the the temple and that would be a big pilgrimage all kinds of relatives and so forth and his parents that he was with some relatives as they were heading back home and it turns out he wasn't

25:41and they went back to Jerusalem then and they found him in the temple he was only 12 years old but he was conversing with the the the rabbi is the great doctors of the Jewish faith about the whole mystery of salvation and it says that they were astounded by his knowledge of course he he was God the Son and but for the rest when he was 30 then he St. Luke recounts he went into the synagogue and he opened the book of the prophet Isaiah this is another indication for us too about the power of the word of God and he he read the account the prophet Isaiah about the coming of the Messiah and then he closed the the parchment and said

26:41today this is fulfilled in your midst in other words he identified himself as the the anointed of the Lord and then of course he was baptized by St. John and the Jordan and and St. John the the Baptist announced to the people that that this is the one whom we've been awaiting I mean he says I I must decrease because people were going to John and great numbers because he was announcing the coming of the Messiah of the Savior then when he baptized or Lord he said he must increase I must decrease I'm not worthy to to tie the strings on his sandals and then so I said behold the Lamb of God and with that also as we call we call every day at

27:46Mass when the priest shows the host he says behold the Lamb of God behold him who takes away the sins of the world the blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb and that text from the Mass we have we have from the gospel we also have the reference to to the book of the of the Apocalypse to Apocalypse to eternal life and then we respond and Lord I'm not worthy that you should enter into my roof say but save at the word of my soul shall be healed in the way of the the gospel response of the Centurion who recognizes in Jesus God the Son incarnate why did God have to son his only son this is the great mystery of his is love for us obviously God can do all things but how did he choose to restore the restore the plan that he had from the

28:49beginning when he created Adam and Eve he wanted them to be to be his co-workers to be stewards of this wonderful creation Garden of Eden and then they became proud just like we are today you know no longer recognize and that we come from the hand to God we get the idea oh I'm so high in my either because of our talents or money or whatever it might be our power people so they go off and they're oh well Adam and Eve the serpent came along said oh God told you not to eat from that tree because he knows if you eat from that tree you become like him well why within the world would they want to become God you know that's there's an active pride they no longer want to be the son and daughter of God but they want to be God himself and so they fall for the the trick and and and they sin so how does God choose to to restore the friendship which could have done

29:54in a number of ways but he does it in the most marvelous way by coming himself sending God the Son in our human nature to to redeem it and so that we by being incorporated in Christ could share that victory so Christ wins the he never committed a sin our Lord obviously he's God the Son but he took all our sins upon himself and to restore and died for them to restore our our communion with God the Father and so it's just this it's really incomprehensible way spend our whole lives trying to understand how great God's love is for us that he would have his own son suffer a really cruel passion and death I'm sure you've probably seen the the passion Mel Gibson's film that he did a great service because

31:01he brought out sometimes people can have a kind of sanitized understanding of the passion and death of our Lord but in that film it shows how what the how cruel it was the the flagulations the beatings them so much loss of blood the carrying of the cross the crucifixion itself which was a horrible form of death bias fixation and but in any case get back to the point all of this was so that we might finally get it through our thick skulls how much God loves us who we are because he's created in his own image and likeness and therefore his son to give us the spiritual power to overcome the sin and death in our lives to be forever with him

32:03and his his great desires that we should be forever with him in the kingdom of heaven so if Christ was God the son was God yes and God is the beginning and the end and everything in between exactly did they have the same thoughts at the same time yes he was that he was at one mind yes there's a beautiful passage in the gospels in which our Lord praise that we might all be one see is one with the Father and even and that is the great mystery of redemption is that it is possible for us with the help of God's grace to attain an ever greater union of mind and heart with God himself and to find therefore our perfect happiness but the our Lord himself as he was

33:11dying on the cross he first of all in the agony in the garden he prayed to it was terrible he saw what was coming they say that he was in such agony that he was sweating blood and he prayed to the Father to take this the chalice of his suffering away but then he concluded the prayer but not my will but I will be done and so to hanging on the cross he cried out in the words of the Psalm my God my God why have you forsaken me we see the the agony not that he thought that the Father had forsaken him but that his suffering was so great that he he cried out in those words but then he was at peace he gave us the blessed mother's our mother and and and and breathe this last

34:12it said it's consummated he he accomplished the great work and then so he did have his own individual thoughts as well oh yes yes well he he he was he had a human nature connect linked to his divine nature mother divine nature permitted him always to to to understand the Father's will and to to pursue relentlessly and at various points in the gospel he will say I've come to do the will of the Father it is not I but my father he he's always referring us to the Father and but he he suffered in our human nature of course and that that would have led him to cry out in those in those words but of of the scriptures but at the same time to accept to accept his

35:15his his death so they shared they shared thoughts and Christ had individual thoughts yes is there any indications of when he knew he was the Son of God we understand that he would have known that from the very beginning that even he's 12 years old he's in the temple and when Mary and Joseph blessed mother and St. Joseph arrive and she says to him son why have you done this to us my Father and I've been searching for you your father and I have been searching you for three days and he says to her did you not know that I must be in my father's house and this is clearly an indication its consciousness of of who he was yes with the true human nature but at the same time with

36:17the consciousness that came from his divine nature of being incarnate to to carry out a mission and of course he he shows God's love throughout his public ministry in words and deeds we we say in the parables these wonderful teachings for instance the parable of the good shepherd of the prodigal son he teaches us always about God's infinite love and mercy his justice but a justice which desires to to be fulfilled in great his great act of love but also in the deeds in the miracles we see for instance a wonderful miracle the feeding of the five thousand and the prefigurement of the Holy Eucharist I mentioned about the healing of the

37:20of the woman who had suffered for so many years of the hamorage the the healing of the manborn blind this wonderful account in St. John's gospel but there any the number of these miracles which are we could say this that the truth announced in the in the teaching then is actuated in the goodness of the of all his actions always healing restoring people of course even more importantly freeing people from demons we find us in the gospel that the the people who in some way had been Satan had taken hold of them they encountered our Lord they immediately knew that that he had power over them he was God and and so there various accounts two of where our Lord freed

38:21individuals from the demons and always to when he was going to heal someone or save them he always said your sins are forgiven and and that this is the most important healing is of our sins forgiven and then he also then healed them physically but the conference is of the woman caught in adultery the adultery in the Jewish religion was punished by by being stoned by being put to death and so he he finds the people ready to stone this woman who had been caught in adultery and he says that he was without sin throw the first stone and the people all reflect on that and they gradually they they're all gone it's just him with the woman and and he says through so no one

39:25here to accuse you and she said no Lord and he said go away but sin no more in other words he saved her from this from being stoned but at the same time instructed her very clearly that she should stop a life of adulterous behavior would you say that does the new testament make the Old Testament's rules obsolete is this a new way to live no the new testament brings to fulfillment everything that is taught and everything that happened in the Old Testament finds its fulfillment that that's not a cancellation or Lord himself said in the sermon on the mount

40:28you're not think that I've come to abolish the law and the prophets that would be a way of referring to the Old Testament and not come to abolish them but to fulfill them and then he says and not even one aorta not even one die of the law or the prophets it will be destroyed until all but rather fulfilled in in him and that's his understanding and we never find our Lord speaking against the Old Covenant but always in in terms of its fulfillment in him the new covenant in his body and blood and his through his suffering and death on Calvary he establishes the new and then it is the covenant there can't be anything more than that that this the covenant of love between God and and man so when you say earlier you said when I asked if Christ and God share the mind

41:32and if they have the same thoughts at the same time and it sounds like yes and no they'll Christ has his own individual thoughts but they also share thoughts and you brought up unity of oneness the God wants us all to be is that the message is that the message in the New Testament is that you treat it when I it's just to be clear when I said Christ has his own thoughts yes he yeah his own thoughts as it's got the son and kind of but they were always in harmony with the Father and that's probably I wasn't clear enough about that our Lord is our Lord is never thinking in a way contrary to the Father's will and he that if one one reads the Gospels this comes across very clearly and he he always what he he he

42:33began his public ministry he said the kingdom of of heaven is at hand the kingdom of God is at hand repent and believe in the gospel and that's his soul mission and any and he thought that he had of course they were his own but they were always in harmony with with the Father and that's why in that prayer that I mentioned that you just alluded to which you just alluded he he says that he is great gift to us is that we should be of one mind and heart with him who is always one mind and heart with the Father that that we would enjoy that communion between the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit and so we this is something that many times we don't think about but we we are called to to share in the life of the Holy Trinity not that we

43:37are God but that we are participants through the through divine grace in the in the life of God himself and the more we cooperate with divine grace the more we draw closer to to the to the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit why was marriage chosen that's all that's all the mystery of God's love it's wonderful that's why I smile because when you think about it the marry was chosen from all time because God knew from all time that he would would save us and and so and that would come even as he spoke to the serpent made the

44:38first promise of salvation that a woman would bear a son who would crush the head of Satan why was she chosen because in this great mystery of God's love he wanted to be redeemed by one of us one like us and the only way you can be like us is to be born of a woman you know people say well God could have just sent our Lord directly on the earth but no he he wanted then then Christ wouldn't have been a human he would have been something else but no he wanted us to be saved by someone like us in everything but sin and so marry and to be one like us and everything you have to be born of a woman so he chose Mary to be

45:39the mother and then he to repair her from the moment of her conception she shared already in Christ saving work in the redemption that he would accomplish she was preserved from any stain of sin only a sinless virgin could could be the mother of God could be the could carry out this great mission and all of that is to this further glory of God it only makes us love God more and want to praise him more you people say well if you believe that about the blessed mother you're diminishing who Jesus is God not at all in fact it's it the more one knows and loves the mother of God the more one knows and loves are only be got in sun because she marry is all for Jesus her whole life it's nothing but directed toward Jesus and his saving mission

46:47and so when we get close to her she draws us into that great mystery in which she participated in a unique way to be to be the mother of God this is something only one person had that gift had that gift and she that was the blessed virgin Mary and that's why we we we so we love our blessed mother so much and we have so much devotion to her but but we understand that the Savior is her son but we we love her for the part that she played in and bringing him into the world and of course she was his first and best disciple is she the mother of that all mother should aspire to be absolutely she is every mother should desire most of all that that Christ be that their

47:58children be alive in Christ their eternal salvation every mother should desire most of all to bring our Lord to her children the most important thing that's why when parents receive the great gift of a new human life excuse me the first thing they want for their children of course they're nourishing them and keeping them warm and clean and everything the baby but the first thing they want is to bring the child to the church to receive the grace of baptism to be to become alive in Christ and to begin to to grow and develop into the who should we say the full man in Christ that we're all called to be does God suffer yes God suffered in all you have to do is look at the crucifix and you see how God suffered in in our human nature does it make I guess what I mean

49:04does he feel emotion does he suffer today does he look at humanity today does he suffer did he look at it before Christ was born before his suffering and suffer well yes God knows all things he sees that his children are going astray and he's trying to reach them calling all of us to be his his messengers to reach out to others he's trying or most of all in the church through the sacraments trying to bring his children back to him and to their eternal salvation the God doesn't want anybody to to live in sin or to to suffer eternal death and so the God is all compassionate I suppose that that would be the best way to discover the the suffering of God is he's full of compassion for us and wants to draw us to himself

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52:13as long as you're a paying customer that's mwinkbox.com slash us or us is christ and marry the new out of an eve yes with it in the church we refer to christ's new Adam he was the father of us all there are first parents and he failed in his mission but that mission was finally accomplished in our Lord Jesus Christ and and his cooperator was eve as his bride the companion that God gave to him and Crees should and so she too who have had failed its bus of virgin Mary is the woman who restores then the the dignity of woman restores the woman to her place in in God's plan and so that's why we call the our Lord the new Adam and

53:20the bus of virgin Mary the the new eve and we believe that when this is depicted in some religious art but after Lord died on the cross and was buried he descended into hell what not hell in the sense of the place of eternal punishment but what is sometimes referred to his hideous in the words all the people who had died all the just people in the Old Testament and we believe that Adam and Eve too repented of their of their sin and and and strove then to to live in communion with God and we have you know it King David we have well Moses all the great figures that they were in this place waiting for the Savior and and that our Lord descended to that place and brought them to heaven and

54:24they want and some of the sacred art especially in the eastern churches it shows him taking Adam and Eve by the hand and leading them out of this place of waiting for redemption to share in the redemption and it said in the scriptures that the graves met many the graves of the just when at the moment of Christ death were opened and and and we understand that these souls then body body and soul were were taken to heaven Adam and Eve were supposed to live forever correct well they're supposed to live forever yes they would have they would have lived forever in the friendship of God the the it was through their sin that death came into the world there were so if when Christ came it was to forgive us it was it was to forgive us for all of our sins all

55:27sins can right and so that we could live forever so why are we not living forever well we we do if we die in him okay he when we die we our soul goes immediately for for judgment and and if we are if we depended of our sins and made satisfaction for them we received directly into to heaven if not we spend time in purgatory a place in which we're prepared for heaven by fulfilling the satisfaction people who we say have an untimely death who die without being able to through their suffering and and be ready to enter heaven they they go to purgatory and there their purified of any sinfulness in their lives the we call the temporal punishment due to their sins

56:34and then they go to heaven too where we talk about the churches the church glorious saints in heaven the church suffering those in purgatory who are being purified to and when the air purified to go to heaven then the church militant those of us who are here still fighting the battle and waiting for for our Lord to call us home so if we say he will come again to judge both the living and the dead yes what does that mean if our souls immediately go to judgment if we die what it means is that he will he will judge the living those who are still when he comes at the end of the time some people will still be on earth and so he will judge those but then

57:36he will also then judge those that are still in in purgatory and the of course those who have gone to heaven already they they have been judged and been found worthy to to be in the company of the blessed Trinity with the angels and all the saints we believe that on that last day on the day of the Lord's final coming that the bodies of all the just will be restored to them in glory like our Lord's own glorious body we call that the resurrection of the body and so those those who have already gone to heaven the souls have gone to heaven their bodies will be restored to them they will be in glory with our Lord our blessed mother already enjoys that privilege when when she died she was assumed body and soul and to heaven and so she enjoys that that life already and there

58:41some people think also for instance that St Joseph was one of those who would have had the Lord's death and resurrection would have come out from the tomb and that in that moment he would have assumed body and soul and to heaven too it's that's not church church doesn't teach that family but it also doesn't condemn that thought that that could be possible when we're talking about purgatory is there any mention of purgatory in the Bible in the scriptures we find a very strong message of it in the two books of the Maccabees the Old Testament in which there is an account of a battle and and the number of soldiers were killed of the Maccabees and when they took their bodies to bury them they discovered that some of them had pagan

59:46amulets or little statues or whatever on them which would of course be a serious sin and so what do you mean by tattoos these weren't tattoos they were like to have choose little objects like you might like a way where metal for instance we do today but it wasn't wasn't something holy it was of a pagan it's connected with the pagan gods in other words it would have been an active of idolatry you'd grievousin and so they took up a collection to have prayers said for them and took sent to Jerusalem that too and in the scriptures very clear it's a good thing to pray for the dead that there that they might be freed from any sins that they had committed

1:00:46and that they might be received into eternal life and we the churches understood this from the very beginning that was we are one in communion not only with the saints in heaven but also with the deceased who have not gone to heaven and that therefore we should help them by praying for them and then also asking them to to pray for us they they have an ability to pray and help us even as we're called to help them by our prayers and so that is a very serious part of our Christian life we the whole month of November is is dedicated to what we call the poor souls the souls and purgatory to pray

1:01:47for them to honor the dead to pray for for eternal life for them and there's also the possibility as we know the merits of our Lord by his passion and death are infinite and also the the saints who that such holy lives they they merit graces for others we always say to people when they're suffering something terrible don't forget to offer this for the souls in purgatory or for others in the church who are suffering because our sufferings when we accept them unite them to those of Christ that can be maritorious for for others who are who are struggling or some great suffering or for the souls in purgatory and in the church then we're able through the church to

1:02:47gain indulgences for the for the ourselves and also for the faithful departed to hasten their arrival in heaven and this is all a very beautiful aspect of our life in the church to often we don't think about that that the communion of saints includes not not only us and we're saints in the making we're but also those souls and purgatoryans we all work to help one another to to attain eternal life in heaven. When did the one did the ridiculing the persecution the rassing Jesus began? Oh practically from the from the very beginning of his public ministry there were those who said who was who was who he forgives sins who only God forgives sins he's a

1:03:52blasphemer they tried to one point they were going to throw him off a cliff but he slipped through their their midst and there were there it's really complicated reasons why people opposed him but mostly they they didn't want to accept that the Messiah was not an earthly ruler wasn't somebody who would come to to make everybody richer to to make everybody politically free but that he had come to to save us from sin that his his victory was the was over sin and over evil and so they they rejected him and so they and of course we see the combination of it he enters Jerusalem for the last his last Passover he's 33 years old he's and

1:04:59is he enters Jerusalem the people are all cheering him but then the high priests and others who were plotting against him had found one of his apostles who was a traitor Judas scarier and then plotted for his arrest and and his his condemnation and they went bunches by that was a bromine he he wanted to release Jesus but he had this mob on his hands those who had first been healing our Lord as he came into Jerusalem then turned and so palette tried never way to release Jesus even there was a custom every year he would release one one prisoner and he he suggested the people that he would release Jesus and they said they yelled crucify him crucify him and so he finally

1:06:11that's what he did he let him he let him be crucified and but that was the combination of the wall the hatred toward our Lord uh just the stubborn refusal to accept him as uh as our Lord and Savior did anybody realize that the prophecies were coming true from the old Tussle yes they were very they were just people for instance two two individuals we know about from the gospels our Nicodemus who who was a Pharisee and who uh came to Jesus as a scripture says in the night he he realized who Jesus was but he couldn't if he had been known among the other high priests he would have uh he would have been

1:07:13in trouble so he came to but when our Lord died he and and and Joseph of Ehermathia was another just man who recognized that our Lord was was truly the Messiah they came and and took care that he had a Reverend burial because normally would have just been uh thrown in a common grave but Joseph of Ehermathia had a tomb that uh and our Lord was buried there but and there were others as well of course the holy women are blessed mother but also Mary Magdalene and and uh other holy women who were with our Lord and St. John of course was was always with them and then the the other apostles they they received uh finally our Lord had told them why it had come

1:08:15but their minds were eventually through the grace of the Holy Spirit they understood and they remained faithful but but even at the moment of his death itself there were those who to understood that that he was the fulfillment of all the prophecies and uh well the after his resurrection and ascension the sending of the Holy Spirit the church spread very rapidly the the power of the risen Christ was clearly visible in the the conversions and the spread of the of the faith St. Paul's letters are especially wonderful in that regard because we read that that there weren't troubles sometimes people think that the early years of the church that everything was was just perfect know there were people who in who also were optimistic in the church in those days in St. Paul had to confront it

1:09:17we find teachings with regard to sexual morality and honesty and so forth and that uh what he he had to he had to address but uh nevertheless notwithstanding these faults which are always going to be present as long as man suffers from the effects of original sin and it's not cooperate with God's grace notwithstanding that the church spread in a in a most wonderful way and with the history of the church and the evangelization of the nations uh it's just replete and then the catalog of saints many of many of whom are martyrs who uh infidelity to Christ and giving witness to Christ to others uh actually died were put to death we're just coming it's interesting very soon there will be beodified some martyrs who were in uh what is President Day George of

1:10:25the diocese of Savannah but they were Franciscan friars who came to preach to the Indian the Native Americans in that area um I think it was called at that time old Florida but in in any case they came and of course as part of the teaching of the faith they taught that that marriages between one man and one woman and there was a practice among some of the Indians of men taking more than one wife and so they taught this to the people and the people were same excepting it and were baptized including this chief but then he wanted to take a second wife and of course he wanted the priest to bless us he had been baptized and the priest told him no you can't do that uh marriages uh in our Lord Jesus taught uh the man takes uh to himself a wife and uh and the two of them become one

1:11:33flesh and and so the chief then had killed him and then went to the other Franciscans who were with him I think the total number I should remember this I think was five uh and tried to get one of them to say no no this is the right you can take a second wife and they all said no to so they all gave their lives to be faithful to Christ with regard to marriage this is this is one example of course it's very close to home here uh but it's an example of uh of of the grace of the risen Christ which is immeasurable and unceasing it does there's no no limit to it and it's timeless until it's final coming and who are the apostles the apostles were the first Pishops uh our Lord

1:12:35we see from this is a very good question by the way our Lord from the very beginning of his public ministry he chooses twelve men for what purpose he gives them a more intense teaching so that when he died uh uh just min i'll talk about the last supper that when he died they before he died the night before he died at the last supper he conferred on them the grace to be able to act in his person to be priests the were priests bishops uh to in order to first of all to to offer the holy sacrifice of the mass but also to forgive sins uh to be his pastoral presence in the church to even as his his love expressed in the last supper and in his christ's fiction and

1:13:41death is is the holy Eucharist divine love made flesh we say uh so also his pastoral love offering the last supper uh forgiving sins is is in his priests and so we have in the church what we call a hierarchical communion all of us are one but they in that communion is served by those who are charged to be the the priests the teachers of the faith the celebrants of the the sacred mysteries and the and the guides the moral guides for for the faithful and so that is though those are the apostles and they they were recognized from the very moment of our our lord throughout his public ministry they were recognized as as being chosen for a very special service and then after

1:14:50our lord's passion and death and the coming of the holy spirit they were the ones who went out for instance baptizing uh confirming giving the second of confirmation celebrating the Eucharist uh uninding the sick uh general teaching teaching the faith with the authority we talk about the apostolic tradition uh and also teaching the the good morals that are required of of a Christian how were they chosen chosen directly by our lord well how did he make the decision to choose them well i wouldn't presume to to know his mind it uh and it's interesting because he chose uh they were a very smart they weren't all you know

1:15:50they weren't they weren't they weren't all like John they've had to register but the Peter was a tax collector then the uh there were two brothers uh James and John were called the Wornergies they were very zealous they were the sons of thunder they called them but but uh he he saw on each of these men uh gifts that would serve his pastoral mission and then he he chose them and he formed them he had to he had to instruct them teach them sometimes and manage them when he had announced that that he would have to suffer and die to save a same Peter said oh no that the never print that can't happen and so forth uh lord said to him get behind me Satan you're thinking like a man and not like god and so uh and then the mother of James and John were

1:16:54was also uh asking if she didn't understand correctly and obviously they didn't either that he wasn't going to establish an earthy kingdom where he would have power and money and so she's asking if her two sons can be on his right and his left as he in his kingdom and he tells her well that's not mine to decide but god the father but they will he asked her were they willing to share in the in in his in his suffering and in the the bitter chalice that he would from which he would drink and uh and they say yes of course and and he says well you you will but they only later came to understand the what this meant with the suffering that they would and both of them died Hwojian did not John died an

1:17:55atro death but James was uh was uh uh the bishop of Jerusalem and he was uh that was James the greater and he was uh martyred and fidelity to Christ so were they all chosen at once uh in very short time early on in the gospel there is an account of the choosing of the 12 and uh uh the talks about particularly chose uh uh James and John and then the um uh uh Philip goes to getting the Thannu wants to bring him to Sarah Lord but then it's like within a short period of time uh he has the 12 together and they

1:19:00in the gospel announces their names. Was Judas an apostle? Yes. Why would God choose somebody that would betray Him? Well, perhaps it's a lesson to all the apostles and their successors that being chosen to be apostle doesn't mean that you can't betray our Lord. Judas is a meditation for all of us who are priests and bishops that we must be faithful to our Lord in all things. What happened to Judas? He hung himself. He sold Jesus for thirty coins. He betrayed Him. Then he went back to try to prepare and he realized what he had done and they tried to give the money back.

1:20:01They took it and they bought a platter of land called the Pottersfield, but he then dispaired. He hung himself. That's very sad. We talk about sin against the Holy Spirit and what is that sin? It's the despair of God's mercy. That's what happened with Judas Peter to be a traitor Lord in the sense he denied that he knew him. Now he didn't take money to Judas as much as he was. Betrayal in the sense that he took money to hand over and learn to those that would kill him. That's very repugnant. But Peter denied him, but the gospel tells us that he wept and he was sorrowful and

1:21:05he trusted in God's mercy. Who are the disciples? The disciples were all those who came to follow Jesus. They de-shaped. They are students of the Master and the disciples. But the apostles were also students. Yes, they were. They were the chosen ones. You could say in a way the apostles were part of the... They were among the disciples, but who had been called to exercise this particular office in the church as shepherds of the flock as leaders. Would you say that the gospels are the most important part of the New Testament? Yes, absolutely. Why? Because they are the account of the saving work of our Lord Jesus Christ of His words and deeds by which we are saved. I have a big end of Saint Paul, obviously, and also the other apostles and so forth.

1:22:10They all have wonderful things in them. But everything that they have that's wonderful is pointing to the heart of the redemption which is Jesus Christ. In God the Son and in incarnate, who suffered died, who rose from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father and sent the Holy Spirit upon the church. And so the gospels is Matthew, Mark, Luke, Luke, and John. What happened to the other eight apostles? Why didn't they write the book? They were four gospel writers, not all apostles. They're not. No. Okay. Mark was neither a pastor, nor a Luke. Okay. Not all the apostles, not all the apostles, but a gospel. There are some, what they call pseudo-gospels. People came up with, one was attributed to the same James, but they're not part of the,

1:23:13they're not recognized as, as gospels by the church. And so, but, Mark had a special connection with St. Peter and Luke, they were closely associated, but they were not apostles. Oh, God. And the, the other is, well, Jude left us in a pistle and James, but the other apostles did not leave us writings. Oh, God. Do the gospels contradict each other at all? No. There's no contradiction in the gospels. They, over time, people have also put the gospels together in one text, and there you see certain accounts are found in all the gospels, some found in two gospels, three gospels,

1:24:20but there is no contradiction. Were the apostles with him all the time, all 12 of them? Yes. But we understand from the gospels, they accompanied him everywhere. They left their nets and followed him, and they were fishermen mostly, but he called them. He called Matthew, was sitting at the text collector's place. He called them, and they, and they, they followed him, and from that moment on, they were completely at his service. Let's talk about the last supper. What was the significance? This is very important. Our Lord has come into Jerusalem, He came into Jerusalem knowing that it would, He would have to embrace his passion and death. So on the night before the passion began, He brought the disciples together, or what's

1:25:30the Passover meal. It was the annual celebration of the Passover, of the great liberation of God's people from slavery in Egypt. He brought them together, and in that meal, He said things in His power, God, that instituted two sacraments. The sacrament of all sacraments, as we say, the Holy Eucharist, He took the bread and the wine, and said, this is my body, which will be given up for you. This is the cup of my blood, which we poured out for you. By that, He signified that we would share in the salvation that He won for us by giving

1:26:33His body up to death by pouring out His life blood in a sacramental way, that He would make always present that salvation by a sacrament, which would be nothing less than a share in His very body and blood. In other words, to receive Him, body, blood, soul, and divinity into our very being. At that moment, He anticipated the salvation that He would win for us on Calvary by instituting the Holy Eucharist. At the same time, He commanded the twelve to do this in memory of Me, and He instituted the Holy priesthood so that because Christ, He was going to die, and He knew that. He wanted to leave those who would perpetuate until the last day, the offering of the Holy

1:27:40Eucharist so that He would always be able to feed the man in every age and every place with His saving body and blood. The last supper Holy Thursday is for us. Easter Sunday is the great victory, but it's inseparably connected with the last supper because the gift of Easter Sunday, the gift of eternal life, comes to us sacramentally. Through the Holy Eucharist offered by the priest to act in Christ's person to bring us the sacrament. It's not something, you know, some people say, well, if there isn't a priest, the people can just come together and have the Eucharist know. This is a Christ wielded in this way that there should be a consecrated

1:28:42man who offers the Holy Eucharist for us so that we can be strengthened and with the gift of Christ's very life, and also it's a pledge of eternal life. And St. Thomas's beautiful text of sacrament can be even more holy banquet in which Christ is received. The memory of His Passion is renewed. We are given the pledge of eternal life with everything this most wonderful sacrament. That's why also, if you see the Holy Eucharist in the Holy Communion at Mass, but it's such a great mystery that we also worship the Holy Eucharist outside of Mass so that we never lose sight of the truth that this is the body and blood, solid body blood, solid divinity of Christ.

1:29:46And so we put the blessed sacrament in the beautiful, what we call monstros or ostensarium, and we pray before the Holy Eucharist. Also, when we pass a church, if it's possible for us, we go in and make a visit to our Lord in the Tabernacle, because the hosts are consecrated at Mass, because our Lord wants to be with people at all times, even when the Mass is not being celebrated, the Eucharist is reserved in the Tabernacle. People pray there, but then also if someone is sick, if someone is dying, the priest takes the sacred ost, goes to them so that they can die with our Lord with them. On their way from this life to the life which is to come, or that they can be strengthened when they're weak and need that help.

1:30:46This is the wonderful sacrament in the church. There are seven sacraments, as you know, but the sacrament, the most blessed sacrament, as we call it, is the Holy Eucharist, and the priesthood in separately connected to it. So, is it a symbol of the body and blood of Christ, or is it a symbol? No, it is the body and blood of Christ. It is the body and blood of Christ. That's why we treat the Eucharist with such great reverence. If it were just a symbol, and there are Christians who are not Catholic, who think that the Eucharist is just a symbolic meal, and so after the Eucharist, they just throw the hosts away that are not used. But we can never do that, because we believe this is a teaching, the word that was found at the Council of Trent to express this transubstantiation, that the very substance of the bread is changed into the body of Christ, Christ himself coming to feed us.

1:32:03And the accidents, it looks like bread, but the substance by the action of divine grace is the body of Christ. And the last supper was on Friday. It was on Thursday. It was on Thursday. Christ died for us on Good Friday. And the evening of Holy Thursday, we call it. He celebrated the, his last supper, the Passover meal, which was transformed. We call it another large supper. It's the first Eucharist. Is that considered the first mass? Yes. I'm always looking for things that help me stay focused without feeling wired or packed with questionable ingredients. I like clean products. Simple, intentional, and something that actually fits into the day. That's why I've been using ultra pouches. Ultra gives you the pouch experience built with zero nicotine and zero caffeine. And you're probably thinking if there's no nicotine and no caffeine, what's actually in it?

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1:35:28So we just covered the last supper and everything that that meant with the Eucharist. How long after the last supper? Did they come get him and why did they come get him? Well, he went out to pray in the garden of Get Summary with Peter James and John. And they came to get him because they've, well, it's complicated to put, but it's simply they said that he was stirring up trouble that the Romans then would, in some way, crush them or their idea was to get him away. So a way that's the seem to be a threat to do the Roman government. He wasn't in fact because there was no part of his public ministry where he was trying, for instance, to gather troops or to, you know, set up some kind of government that just wasn't his mission.

1:36:37What did the Roman government believe at the time? The Roman said they occupied Palestine, the Holy Land today. And they had a Roman governor there by the name of Pontius Pilot. And he, and that's why they, they brought our Lord. When they arrested him, they took him to Pontius Pilot to ask that he be condemned to death and Pontius Pilot. But first, after the last supper he went out directly to the Garden of Get Summary and he prayed there. And he's prayed, his prayer was so intense that they say, he perspired blood. He knew that the passion was at hand. And so it was while he was praying in the Garden of Get Summary that Judas arrived with the soldiers and they arrested him.

1:37:47The famous sign, how did Judas indicate who he was so the soldiers would arrest him, he kissed him enough to him. And in that culture it wouldn't be unusual for to give somebody a kiss. We're not talking about some passionate kiss, but to kiss them on the cheek, this is a normal way of greeting. And our Lord said to Judas, Judas, you would betray me with a kiss. In other words, a sign of friendship of bond instead it was, but that's what happened. And they, so they took him and took him before Pontius Pilot. And he eventually condemned him to death by crucifixion. It's clear that he said to the people, he said, I find nothing in this man to condemn him.

1:38:52But the people even said that he presented to them Christ to the mess, their king, and the people responded, we have no king but Caesar. There, the king of the Romans. So then develops the whole story of the Passion and our Lord is scourged, he's mocked. And then has to take up this arduous walk from the Praetarium where he was condemned to Calvary to this hill nearby, dragging the wood of the cross on his shoulders. And eventually they arrive at Calvary, and then he's nailed to the cross and the cross is lifted. And this is, it's particularly agonizing in form of death because the way to the body, pulling down on the chest, the person eventually dies of asphyxiation.

1:40:14Yet he's pushing himself up to get a breath, and at a certain point the body is so weak that, and we have the account in the gospels of our Lord's Passion and Death. And in the gospel of John is particularly rich. And our Lord gives us, but they call the seven last words of our Lord, but among them are the words which he gave us the blessed mother, his mother as our mother, said to John, the evangelist to us, to put the cross with Mary and Mary Magdalene. The woman behold your son, he says to his mother, and behold, and then he says to John, behold your mother. And so we see that our Lord is confiding the church, especially to the intercession of care, the blessed mother, and then he dies.

1:41:15Where were the apostles at this time? They had all scattered except for John. They were, they were around but hiding. They didn't want to fear, fear. They were all afraid. We have to say they were cowardly lot and except for John. So he, and after his death there is very significant, our Lord permits that the Roman soldier, well they came, and he was crucified with two other men who were real criminals. And one of them mocked our Lord and the other one when we called dismissed the good thief. He said he recommended his co-hard saying, we're here dying because we've been in crimes. He's not done anything. You should not mock him.

1:42:18And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom, which was an expression of, of a belief in eternal life. And our Lord said today, you would be with me in paradise. And so we believe that, that thief was actually one of the first to share in the grace of salvation in the Christ one. But anyway, what I wanted to get to was, I'd already died. And so the soldiers came and what they did with, to make sure that these criminals were dead, they'd break their legs. So they did that with the two thieves that were buried with them, the two criminals. When they came to him, he was clearly already dead. And so they didn't break his legs, but what the Roman soldier pierced his side going into his heart with the spear. And the scripture says blood and water flowed out.

1:43:29And for us, this is a sign of the sacramental grace that comes to us in virtue of Christ, passion and death. And it's the water, baptism, the blood of the Holy Eucharist, the body blood of Christ. And that's also then at the heart of a great devotion in the church, the sacred heart of Jesus. We often, you've seen the image of our Lord and He's holding His heart, showing His heart to us. And that's simply a reminder to us that our Lord is with us always in the church. And His heart never ceases to beat with love for us. And that heart is not glorious after His resurrection. And that's a, for us is such a wonderful truth. Do we have any idea of how big His discipleship was at the time of the crucifixion?

1:44:34It was large. We hear many accounts, for instance, that the sermon on the Mount that the large crowd followed him. People were, well, they had been going to John the Baptist before our Lord began His public ministry. And the people were looking for the Savior. So there, I wouldn't be able to put a numerical figure on it, but let us just say that there were a sizable group of people who were following Him. But it wasn't, it was no match for the Roman army. No, no, no. And he, he wasn't arming them physically. He was arming them spiritually. So they were, they wouldn't have been in any position to fight the Romans.

1:45:35And the fact of the matter is that the high priests and the leaders of the Jewish people had, had whipped up a sizable crowd that were actually asking for our Lord's execution. Because it's clear that Pontius Pilate didn't want to, didn't want to have him executed. And even Pilate's wife sent a message to him that she had a dream about Jesus and that he shouldn't condemn him to death. When the people were shouting and he saw that there was a riot at hand, this among the Jewish people, not obviously the followers of Jesus, then he, he succumbed and he said, then you know, take him and crucify him.

1:46:36What happened to him? What happened to Pontius Pilate? I can't remember what, how he ended his days, you know, he continued on there. He's mentioned in the greed that we pray every Sunday at Mass suffered, my Lord suffered under Pontius Pilate. I seem to recall that he came to a sad end, but I don't, it's not coming clearly in my head what happened to him, but that's certainly able to be researched. But I have the recollection that he came to us and kind of a sad end. How did the discipleship grow after? Well, I guess maybe we should save that question until after the resurrection. Okay. So what happened in between?

1:47:36So our Lord, as I was mentioning before Joseph of Arimathea was a just man, he was among the leaders of the Jewish people, but a just man who was a disciple of Jesus. He had, he went to Pilate and said, I would like the body of Jesus. The varied pilot was surprised that he was already dead, but then when he found out that he was, he gave the body to Joseph of Arimathea. So he, together with Nicodemus, and then of course the blessed mother and the holy women, they prepared Jesus' body for burial and they buried him in this tomb. It would have been carved into the, into the hillside, a stone, stone tomb. Why did he get his own tomb? Because he, for I suspect it was the one in which he intended himself to be buried in time and that he gave it to Jesus.

1:48:41He was that, who gave it? I loved our Lord that much and was that dedicated to him. Who gave it to Jesus? Joseph of Arimathea. Okay. And so, Lord Lardus buried it on Friday. He died at three o'clock in the afternoon, buried that evening. And some time between his burial on Friday evening and the morning of Sunday, the resurrection took place. And the only way we can describe it is that there's an explosion of light because his bodily remains, his poor tortured body, was glorified, he came back to life and

1:49:44he had a holy transformed way and then began a series of his apparitions before he days then he appeared to the apostles who were hiding in the upper room. They're still scared. So they're hiding in the upper room. He appeared to them once. Thomas wasn't there and the other apostles told Thomas they had seen the Lordy sit on us. I put my hand into his side and see these wounds. I won't believe it. And the Lordy came back then following Sunday and showed himself to Thomas. And Thomas was overcome. He cleaned my Lord and my God. He recognized Jesus immediately. He appeared to the apostles who were fishing. Some of them had gone back to fishing.

1:50:46He appeared on the side of the sea with them and offered them breakfast. And they recognized and it was the Lord who appeared to them. Then there's the very famous account of the two disciples who after our Lord's death on Friday are walking to the neighboring town from Jerusalem to a mess. And they're lamenting that the demise of our Lord and he appears to them but they don't recognize him. And he says what they're talking about and they say, are you the only person in Jerusalem? Does it know about what happened to Jesus of Nazareth? Then they recount the whole thing to them and then he said, you haven't understood and he explained to them. Jesus gets back to the point we've made several times in our conversation. Eve then interpreted the whole scriptures for them to show that he in fact was the fulfillment of the promise of salvation.

1:51:59They arrived where they were going to stay and they said, don for me and he breaks the bread in the same way that at the last supper they recognized that it's him and then he disappears. But it's very powerful. They said they recognized him in the Eucharist and the breaking of the bread. He disappeared right in front of them. And so at the end of those forty days he called the apostles together and the foot of the mount of the ascension and instructed them to go forth. First he told them to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit and then he also instructed them to go out and to teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit. And then at that he ascended into heaven. He was lifted up from away from their sight.

1:53:05And they went back then that was a ascension Thursday. They went back and they prayed for nine days for the gift of the Holy Spirit that had been promised to them. That's where the practice comes of a novena in the church. Nine days of prayer. The first novena was the nine days of prayer from Holy Thursday to Pentecost Sunday. And on Pentecost they're in the upper room still hiding for fear of the Jews. And there's this tremendous wind and then they see like little flames of fire above their heads. And it was ascending God the Father and God the Son sending the Holy Spirit upon them. And these disciples who up to that point were fearful and weak, becomes simply bold. And here goes out and announces in a very forceful way the truth about our Lord, about the redemption he had accomplished. And they say that day alone several thousand people were baptized.

1:54:17And from that Pentecost Sunday it's just this constant flow of the grace of the Holy Spirit. As people are taught to receive the gift of faith they ask for baptism there. They are baptized and become members of the church's mystical body of Christ. So grew exponentially after the resurrection. They grew exponentially after the resurrection. It was incredible and under persecution. It wasn't as if they were free just to do whatever they wanted. Yes, they did go out and preach fearlessly but they were persecuted for it. And there were many martyrs. I say all the apostles except John were put to death. But they went, we know that St. Thomas went as far as India. They went all over the world to bring the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And yes, it's really that in itself is a miracle.

1:55:26How long after his death did the apostles live? They lived to be different ages. Some were murdered earlier. Some later John of course wasn't murdered. And he lived to a good age. And he's the one that didn't flee. He didn't flee. He remained always with our Lord. He seemed like maybe he was one of the younger apostles and that he was particularly devoted to our Lord and that our Lord called him his beloved disciple. He had a special closeness to our Lord. Somebody who you can see from his gospel to understood very deeply who our Lord was and what his mission was and was completely invested in it.

1:56:30How many times did he reappear? That's a good question. Several times. I don't know the exact number but I would think that there must have been at least the counts and the gospels. I would say 10 or 15 times. How do 15 times? But the last time was when he ascended into heaven. Yes. We don't know because there are the accounts in the gospels but he clearly could have appeared more times than not all the accounts are there. In fact, it says that he appeared many times. For instance, there's no direct account of an appearance to our Blessed Mother but we can't help but think that he surely appeared to her.

1:57:47The first appearance was probably to our Blessed Mother and then the other ones that followed from it. Why do you think there's no writings for Mary and the New Testament? I think that first of all, she's always presents herself as the handmade of the Lord, the one who's serving him. I think that her account of his life is the gospel according to St. John. She invited him so many things about our Lord's public ministries, his passion, his death, his resurrection. That's where we find the last words we have from our Blessed Mother in the gospel at the wedding feast of Kena, the last recorded words. We have beautiful, for instance, when she visited Elizabeth, she had conceived our Lord and she learned from the Archangel Gabriel that Elizabeth was pregnant with John the Baptist already six months pregnant.

1:59:01She went immediately to help her and there's this beautiful Elizabeth. I acknowledge to her as the mother of a gamer and then she has this beautiful prayer, the Magnificat. But the last words she's with Jesus at the supper at Kena, the wedding feast of Kena, and they're in out of wine for the guests. She takes the wine stewards to our Lord and says to them, do whatever he tells you. That's her last words. Those are beautiful words from our Blessed Mother. Just remember that. Do we do whatever our Lord tells us? That's what she's leading us to do. When did we figure out he would come again? Did he tell us? Yes. I will be with you until the end of the end of the age, end of time.

2:00:06Yes, he's promised to return to us and glory on the last day. There's nothing like fall and Tennessee. You can feel it coming the second the heat breaks. The air turns crisp. The flags go up on the porches. The grills fire up and from Friday night under the lights to Saturday and Sunday afternoon, the whole state runs on one thing. Football doesn't matter who you are, where you work or what your week looked like. When game day hits, everybody's locked in. Neighbors you haven't seen all summer are suddenly in your driveway. The group chats light up. Everybody's got an opinion. Everybody's got to match up. They can't wait for. And the whole weekend gets planned around kickoff. It's the best time of year. And around here, it's about as close to a holiday as it gets. And the weight is over.

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2:03:35There will be no more sin or death. And simply that joy, the eternal joy of being in the company of God. How do we get the book of revelations? Saint John the Apostle had these visions at Patmos Island where he was living with our blessed mother. And he describes and read at the beginning of it. How it happened that he received these these visions and he wrote them down. What were they? Well, for instance, the vision of the coming of the Lord in glory to inaugurate the wedding feast is wedding feast in which all those who are saved would take part.

2:04:38There are other visions that are letters to the very important cities at that time in the church. So there's quite a variety. But the principal ones are of our Lord seated in glory returning to consummate his saving work by turning over all the things that he did. Being to the father. How does it end? It's simply when the stand of the vision is that our Lord himself descends to earth. It is glory and the flush and blood. Yes, but glorified remember that the time is resurrection is when this is some is a mystery. To us we don't understand how it is that it is his body, but it's his glorified body. For instance, he can pass from one place to another without using a door. And this is recounted in the scriptures.

2:05:58It's hard for us to understand that. Well, of course, it's beyond our comprehension. It's not something we've experienced, but the scriptures are sure that that is indeed what will happen. A lot of people are scared of the end times. Yes, should they be? No, if if one is living striving to live a good and just life, there's nothing about which to be afraid. Our Lord comes to save all that is good and to save the just. People, because you don't have an experience of this, people are afraid of it, but we have the promises of our Lord. And our Lord is never going to deceive us. He's never going to tell us lies. So we know that you come to save the living in the dead.

2:07:10And so we just have confidence. We don't know what it will be, but we have confidence that our Lord will be true to his promises. People are often times wanting to predict when the world will come to an end. I'm sure you've heard this from time to time, people even say, you know, what's going to happen in 1984 or something like that. And the the asked our Lord and he said basically the response was, it's not we shouldn't be worried about that. That's the concern of God the Father. He will bring the world to an end when the time is right. We just have to be watching and ready to receive him. We have to have our belt tightened and be looking for our Lord. Have our eyes fixed on him and waiting for us coming.

2:08:13And he tells about the good and faithful servants who when the Master returns they're ready to receive him. And that's how we should be not worrying about when it's going to happen, but only be concerned that every day, every moment of the day that we are ready to receive our Lord that we're looking for him and that we're welcoming with all our hearts. That was quite sick a few years ago with this COVID. It was in August of 2021. And it's at a very severe attack of an infection. I was taken to the hospital and the doctors told me that I was dying. And they asked they wanted to put me on a ventilator. They said that was the only hope they would have to save me. The people said to me, well, when they told you we're dying, we weren't you terrified.

2:09:29And I said, no, to be honest, I wasn't because I'm a priest. I had been preparing at that time. I had been a priest for 46 years. I said, I've prepared so many people to die. I assisted them in dying in our guard promises that those who die in him will pass from this life to eternal life. So I just understood that now my time had arrived. I said, the only thought I had was that I wasn't planning on dying. And I was thinking all the things that I left undone. But I wasn't terrified at the idea of dying with simply the wish I had been a little better organized, so to speak. But that's the way we should live. All of us, this life as a pilgrimage, we're not meant to be in this world forever.

2:10:35And so we should be a peace and live in a way that we're ready to meet our Lord. Is heaven here? No. Heaven will be a new heaven and a new earth, according to the Holy Scriptures. So the earth will be transformed. Exactly. So it won't be this world that we know it but transformed in a way that we can't know how that is. Sometimes artists have attempted to express it, but it's simply something beyond anything we could imagine. But we know that it will be, because it will be God in His fullness, that it will be completely beautiful and good and true. So if you're living, what it happens to something you will not die. Yes, that means exactly that you will be transformed as a living.

2:11:39And this comes up and people are asking our Lord about whether St. John, whether John the beloved disciple, whether he was going to die and so forth. Our Lord just simply says that when the some will be alive at the time, but all will be caught up into heaven, into this new earth, which will be the new heavens and new earth transformed completely redeemed. So it might be here. Yes. Well, we have to say that our Lord of every, everything that He makes that is good is enduring.

2:12:43And so that in some way He will make the goodness of His creation and His creation is good. We appreciate so many good things. For instance, this beautiful place here in Tennessee and other. So somehow all that goodness will endure, but in a transformed way. Do you think that the gateway to heaven is wide or narrow? Our Lord says it's narrow. I think He says that to us because human beings have a tendency to be presumptuous and to think, oh, I'll do whatever I want and God will forgive me. We can ever presume upon the divine mercy. And so I always like to think that we should think that we better be on our best behavior.

2:13:51And if we're and be always striving for that, all of us have our faults to be sure. But we shouldn't presume upon God's mercy, but always have that genuine sorrow for our sins. And it is I had to be more fully reflection of the goodness of Christ. And that sense, I think, it's narrow. And the other hand in the book of the apocalypse, when it talks about the great assembly of those who are saved, it says that first of the 14,000 or 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. And then it says there was a crowd of the save that is innumerable. And so I'm sure that our Lord's mercy will be very abundant, but we don't presume upon it.

2:15:01And it's your kind, but I don't presume upon your kindness by doing wicked things to you. In other words, and so the same way, even their own parents, their parents are good to us. We have great reverence for them. We don't want in any way to displease them. We count upon them understanding and forgiving us for our faults. But at the same time, we have great reverence. And with regard to our Lord, it's called fear of the Lord, one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit that we recognize how infinitely good God is. He is done for us more than it was imaginable in His goodness. And therefore we want to be our best and we're sorry for the ways in which we fail our Lord.

2:16:01In recent homily, you spoke about the call to martyrdom in the family and the family life, particularly for men, his husbands, fathers and leaders of the home. What does it look like in practical terms to live out that kind of sacrificial love for our wives, marriages and children? It means that a man has to strive to be as virtuous as he can be, be a model for his children and that way to be a protector of his wife. And St. Joseph is our great model of this. How he protected Oysmarian, the child Jesus, the flight indeed of the home of Nazareth, his work, his carpentry construction, constructing buildings. Because we, so for a man today, in a society which there's so much corruption, I think today, for instance, the young people are assaulted with this pornography and it's so available to them.

2:17:20It's on the phones. They don't have to be particularly clever to be exposed to this. And so fathers have to be vigilant and insist with their children that what is good and right for them and to discipline them also when the child needs to be disciplined to correct them. Sometimes people, they want to be, they want to be pals with their children. Well, if father is not called to be a buddy of his children, he's called to be the father, the skewer guide, the protector. And so sometimes he has to say no. And the child might say, I hate you and run off and hide in his room or something. But in the long run, he's going to be very grateful to that father who told him no before something that was not for his good. And so we have to have the courage to say no.

2:18:25No, this is an even one for a while, our child or wherever it is that we said no to dyslexis for it. And I've had to experience because I've lived a long time as a priest and a bishop of people writing to me and telling me that they didn't understand something that I did, especially as a bishop, but they wanted to write it and tell me that now they understand and they they thank me for insisting whatever it was. And that's the way we should be as fathers to we're in this for the long haul for eternal life. And therefore we aren't looking for the immediate gratification of a child says, oh, I love you and we're looking for the long term good of that child and that the child will eventually understand and be very grateful.

2:19:36And the important thing is that we've fulfilled our responsibility before God and in God to be a father of a family. I got a hot question for you. You ready? I'm ready as I would be able to be or no book. If demons are real, how can an ordinary person actually fight them? The only in Christ, the only Christ says the power to repel demons to cast them out to get them away from us. And in the church we have the formal prayers called exorcisms to drive away the demons. But those prayers are all said in the name of Christ. The priest never says, I know it's Christ who drives out the demons. We invoke the Archangel and so forth. And in Christ even as we saw in the gospels when our Lord cast out demons, demons can be cast out.

2:20:52But only in him if we would presume to battle the devil on our own, we will be defeated. This is a great temptation for exorcists. These are the priests who are charged with saying the prayers of the church to free people from the evil one. Either his obsession or his possession were even worse of the person. The voice of temptation, the exorcist is fighting this fight with Christ. But he can be tempted to see it as his battle. And I'm going to drive that devil out. And that's fatal. Because we can't. They have powers that we don't. Preed in natural powers and only the supernatural power of Christ himself can cast them out.

2:21:52Did you see that a lot? More than I would like. It seems in the present time, and I know this from talking to brother Bishop and so forth. And I exercised. There's a lot of demonic activity going on. And I think part of it is that for there was a period not so distant past where people said, oh, Christ is conquered Satan and so forth. Nothing to worry about. Well, no, Christ has conquered him and he continues to conquer him. But Satan continues to prowl about the world as a letter of St. Peter is seeking whom he may devour. And Satan hates us because we're made in the image and likeness of God and we're destined to be with God.

2:22:52And he's rejected all that and he's eternally damned. And so he's coming after people. And but if we pray, if we fortify ourselves with the sacraments, if we take all precautions with regard to the evil one, we can be sure that our Lord won't let him have power over us. But it's for me being to think Satan is never happier than when we think he's not around because then he can really do damage. We have to have our eyes wide open and see, no, this is something that's diabolical. And sadly in the world today and even sometimes in the church, we see things that are diabolical. And they're so evil that they could only come from the evil one himself. Do you see a lot of accessors that say, I'm the one that drove the demon out?

2:23:59I have not encountered that myself. I do have known exorcists who, but not because they were presumptuous, but because the work is so intense and difficult who suffered in their health. And it's a heroic thing. But no, I've really never known an exorcist who did that. What does scripture particular Ephesians particularly Ephesians six and the armor of God teach us about spiritual warfare? And what prayers does the church give ordinary people to drive the devil out of their lives and homes? Well, the ordinary prayers are simply to call upon the Lord and mercy on us to invoke St. Michael the Archangel who is especially advocating to the devil, St. Joseph the Terab Demons.

2:25:03Of course, our blessed mother. These are always in which we arm ourselves and put on the helmet of salvation in this. What is spiritual warfare? There's another way to describe it. St. Paul, at the end of his life, is writing to St. Timothy and he says, time is coming. And he can said, I fought the good fight. I've stayed the course. So we have the military image. We have that athletic image. Then I've kept the faith. In other words, that he trusted and our Lord stayed close to our Lord. And therefore, every day he sold your down in his life. And then he says, for the rest, there is the glory that the Lord has reserved to those who love him.

2:26:16For the person watching who is never prayed of rosary in their life, walk them through it. What should they do tonight? Well, the first thing to do is to understand that the rosary is really a gospel prayer. It's the repetition of the Hail Mary. These are the first part of the Hail Mary. The next part of the memorial is the rosary. The rosary is taken directly, Hail Mary full of grace, the words of our, the archangel Gabriel to the blessed mother of the artist. We bless our Thalman women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, the words of Elizabeth. And then we add holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, known at the hour of our death. It's beautiful prayer. And we pray it while meditating on a mystery of in the life of our Lord of our blessed mother. Traditionally, there were 15 mysteries, the joyful mysteries, sorrowful mysteries, and the glories mysteries, and Popsie John Paul the second added five more.

2:27:26But anyway, so we take and the beads are important because they help us to stay on, stay on course with the prayer. We begin with the Apostles Creed. We say three, our Father and three Hail Mary's for this prayer will increase in us, faith, hope, and charity. And we always pray for our Holy Father for the Pope. And then we begin whatever usually on like on Monday and Sunday and Wednesday. We pray the glories mysteries. And on Monday, joyful, Tuesday, the sorrowful mysteries, Thursday, these luminous mysteries at St. Popsie John Paul the second gave us. Then Friday again, the sorrowful mysteries. And then on Saturday, the joyful mysteries again. But so we let's take for instance the first glories mysteries, the resurrection of our Lord.

2:28:30And so we take into our mind what is the resurrection. Sometimes people even read a little verse from the scripture about it. And then we say this prayer just trying to for we say 10 Hail Mary and our Father in 10 Hail Mary's in a glory be just simply reflecting on our life in Christ as we see it in His resurrection. Then the next mystery is the ascension and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. And you see how that fits in so much with our conversation about the gospel today. You see how it's really a gospel prayer. And then the assumption of our blessed mother and then her coronation is queen of heaven and earth. So those are glorious mysteries. Then we have the joyful mysteries, the enunciation Archangel Gabriel appearing to Mary, the visitation Mary visits Saint Elizabeth, the birth of our Lord and activity is presentation in the temple and then the finding of our Lord in the temple at the age of 12.

2:29:41You see how wonderful this is because we're always we're getting drawing ever closer to the mystery of our Lord's saving work. And by repeating this prayer over and over, this strengthens us in that that reflection. And then the sorrowful mysteries, the agony in the garden, the scourging at the pillar of the crowning with thorns, carrying of the cross and the crucifixion. And then the new luminous mysteries are the baptism of our Lord, the wedding feast at Cana, His proclamation of the kingdom, the transfiguration and then the institution of the Holy Eucharist. And I always like to think too of the Holy priesthood as we were talking about before. So this is a powerful prayer given by our lady to Saint Dominic, a powerful way for us to draw near to our Lord through the intercession of our blessed mother so that we can live more fully in Him.

2:30:48I don't know if that helps. Absolutely helps. Thank you. But get rosary beads because that helps you to just account the prayers and so forth. But it's a very concrete people, it's the rosary beads are not magical, but people like to many people are buried with the rosary in their hands. And it's not because it's some magic, but it's simply a concrete sign of the power of prayer. And so it's always good to have a rosary in your pocket. Makes sense. I got mine right here. Good for you. You've heard me talk about Caldera Lab before and lately the product I've been reaching for the most is the good between being a dad hosting the show, traveling, training and trying to keep up with everything else. I don't have time for some complicated skincare routine. I don't want 10 steps. I don't want a cabinet full of products and I don't want something that takes a bunch of time every morning and every night.

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2:34:04And this is how our Lady appeared to Native American Juan Diego in 1531. And you can see that she appears as the woman in the apocalypse, the woman clothes with the sun, with the moon under her feet and with stars over her eyes. Over her head and then in the hunter garment and so forth are all symbols from that ancient world but all who point to her the reality that she is the mother of God. So it's a very powerful operation that took place from December 9th to the 12th in 1531. I wanted you to have this as a reminder of how close our Lady is to you and how she wants to bring Christ. She says that she's come. She appears in Juan Diego. She says I'm the mother of God. I want a little chapel to be built where I can bring my children to my divine son who alone is our hope and our salvation.

2:35:13And of course, we're coming now 1531, 2031, we 500 years. So we're preparing. I founded the shrine to our native, whether we'll be on the cross, Wisconsin. We're doing a five year preparation. And each year we're reflecting on one of the mysteries in the life of our blessed mother, starting with her magnet conception, with her perpetual virginity, her divine maternity. Her assumption and then her mediation of of all graces. And so we'll be giving all this attention to our blessed mother in order to draw closer to our Lord. And I want to invite you in a special way to visit the shrine of our native bottle of paint across. It's not so far from Tennessee and and then eventually the visitors shrine in Mexico City where you can see the actual the miracle of this too.

2:36:15There's much to say and I don't want to go on and on, but the miracle of this apparition is whether many miraculous aspects, but our Lord left the image on this mantle of Saint Juan Diego. And I was wearing the typical dress of the time and when the bishop asked him for a sign, he went and said, our lady appeared to me. She wants this chaplain. He said, we bring a sign for our lady. Well, she had roses, bloom in the middle of winter on this craggie hill. Where you wouldn't find any flowers. And so and our lady put them in his mantle when he opened the mantle up for the bishop, the flowers fell out, but then her image appeared and that image is still on that garment today in the Basilica and Mexico City. And it's a cactus cloth garment. It should have disintegrated within 30 or 40 years and instead it's still miraculously preserved.

2:37:21So why thank you. Well, you're most welcome. It's a and I brought a book to you about the shrine, but there are many wonderful accounts and millions of people were converted to Christ as a result of her apparition. Millions of millions, literally millions. Well, I think we are already working with your team to do your life story and talk all about this up at the shrine that that would be wonderful. Anything we can do to help our lady, we call ourselves our lady's messengers were the one Diego's were going out and bringing the message of our Lord that she wants us to deliver. This is beautiful. Thank you. Oh, you're most welcome. It'll be hanging up right in here. Okay. That's wonderful. She'll be a good protector.

2:38:27We've wrapped up the Old Testament, the New Testament. I think the overall arc of the New Testament is definitely the resurrection. I know that there is a passion is to be followed. There is to be a movie now coming out on the resurrection. And I think it should be coming out soon. But I hope it is as good. Next Easter next Easter or twenty twenty seven from what I understand. But that is and then forty it's a two-part series. Oh, then the next one is forty days after that. All right. But what I understand. Well, you the resurrection. Of course, it's the moment of the resurrection. But then it's the the apparitions that follow and then the ascension. So that's very good if they're doing that.

2:39:35And so I hope that God, I'm sure God will bless that work. So after this two-part interview series, the Bible can be very intimidating, you know, for for a newbie like myself to get through it. And that's why I'm doing the series starting, you know, it started yesterday. But as I mentioned, we'll go through every single book in the Bible. That's great. You know, people just say, I always say that people just sit down and start, for instance, with the gospels. And then and just take it a little at a time. It's the word of God. And and people, if they do that, they get very much at home with it. And then they want to go more and more even into some of the books of the Bible that are more difficult. And so yes, and that you're going to do every book of the Bible. I think that's wonderful.

2:40:41Thank you. I'll be praying for that that God bless that and that all your hear all your listeners and will there are lives being reached. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you for being here. You're most welcome. Give me a moment of prayer, surely. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Oh, mighty God, we give you thanks for this time, lesson time. We've had together to come to No more deeply. You're divinely inspired word. Has it comes to us in the Holy Scriptures? And we ask you to bless us now as we strive to deepen our knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and therefore our knowledge and of a view. We ask this in our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who is with you in the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever, amen.

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