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Hello, everybody.
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This is Deacon Louis Zemlick with the Diocese of Kalmazou.
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We're glad you're with us here today for this 24th Sunday in ordinary time.
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Some beautiful scripture readings, but also, you know, a lot to pray about, too, right?
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And um, you know, our prayers go out to all the uh first responders, especially those uh in 9-11.
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We mentioned 9-11, of course, last week and uh 25 years.
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And um, you know, they had a beautiful mass at uh St.
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Augustine's on uh Friday.
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Um unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend that, but it was um you know, it's something they have this blue mass, which is for all first responders, uh, and they do that annually, but this was a special, a special one that the bishop did, Bishop Losey, and thank you, Bishop Losey.
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Uh God bless you.
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You're we're blessed with such a wonderful bishop here in the Diocese of Kalamazoo.
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But um, you know, my brothers and sisters, this is the battle against good and evil.
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It's the battle between good and evil.
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Not saying that you don't, I don't think it's gonna end until Christ returns.
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I I'm pretty sure of that.
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Um, but we are called to battle against evil.
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It's uh it's a battle against from truth to lies, right?
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And none of us like the truth, right?
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None of us like the truth unless it's benefiting us.
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Then we love the truth, then we want justice, you know, we want all those things.
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But um, man, we are uh we are sinful, we are naughty, we are a lot of, we're uh we're a lot of things, us human beings.
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Uh but the one thing we I know that God loves us, uh, but I also know that we are all sinners.
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But uh pray, my brothers and sisters, pray, pray, pray.
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And as I look through the calendar here, you know, we had Friday, it was 9-11, and of course we pray and pray for all first responders, pray for people who put their lives on the line every day for you and for me, you know, uh to just you know, once in a while say thank you.
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You know, yes, they're human beings, yes, they do make mistakes, but uh, you know, they've chosen a career that is a very difficult one.
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Um then also uh yesterday, the most holy name of Mary, Saturday the 12th, and it gets but keeps getting better.
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And then today is the 13th, uh June 13th, excuse me, June 13th, September 13th, 2026.
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And I always do a shout out to our Our Lady of Fatima because the 13th day of the month, the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima.
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So 13th is a very special day.
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Uh a lot of grace, a lot of uh prayers are answered, of course, today on Sunday, which is also a great day for miracles.
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And then keeps getting better.
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Tomorrow is the exaltation of the Holy Cross.
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Tuesday, the 15th, Our Lady of Sorrows, the 16th, Saint Cornelius, Cyprian Martyrs, Thursday, the 17th, uh there's Saint Bilomain, Hildegard, and Albert.
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Friday, Saint Edith and Saint Stanislaus, and then Saint uh Januarius uh on the 19th, um coming up this week.
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And uh just a lot to pray about, a lot of people that need help out there, my brothers and sisters.
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So please reach out to people in love, not in religious rigor, okay?
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Not in religious rigor, but in love or or or this um, you know, and and and I get it.
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I understand that when when people find the Lord and you're on fire for Jesus, so on and so forth, but remember the rest of the people out there, don't leave them behind, okay?
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Don't leave the people who aren't quite there yet, don't know Jesus quite yet, don't know the Blessed Mother quite yet, don't know the sacraments quite yet.
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And many of our Protestant brothers and sisters, some who listen to this program, you know, they're they're not all on board with the sacraments.
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They're just not, you know, I don't understand why you guys have to do that stuff.
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Well, that's what scripture tells us.
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Scripture's all about, it's all about uh in the scriptures, all about holiness.
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But great readings today, which will lend themselves to some of this sacramental nature of the church, sacramental nature of the of God, of Jesus, right?
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So here we go.
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It is uh first reading is from the book of Sirach, a wisdom book that is not in many, not in any of the Protestant Bibles, maybe in one of the really old school, uh, you might find it in an old school King James version, but it is a wisdom book, one of the uh seven wisdom books that are, you know, first and second Maccabees, parts of Judith, parts of Esther, uh Book of Wisdom, ironically, right?
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Are left out of first and second Maccabees, I think I already said that.
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And uh Sirach and Baruch.
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Yes, those books are not in the Protestant Bible, so it's like, hey, come on, you guys.
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And people say, Well, you know, you Catholics added those in.
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It's like, no, it's just the opposite.
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The Protestants took those books out of the original canon, took them out of the original canon.
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Get that right?
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Took them out of the original canon.
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So here we go.
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So our first reading from the book of Sirach.
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And there's no catechism teaching on this either.
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So this is right to your hearts, my brothers and sisters.
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You need to do something about it.
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Church isn't gonna tell you what to do about this particular scripture today.
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You have to figure out what you need to do.
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And I'm telling you that before I even read it.
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So it's Sirach chapter 27, verse 30 through chapter 28, verse 7.
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Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.
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The vengeful will suffer the Lord's vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail.
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Forgive your neighbor injustice, then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.
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Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the Lord?
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Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself?
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Can he seek pardon for his own sins?
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If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins?
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Remember your last days, set enmity aside.
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Remember death and decay, and cease from sin.
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Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor.
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Remember the Most High's covenant and overlook faults.
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The word of the Lord, thanks be to God.
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That overlook thoughts is over overlook faults is to overlook the faults of people in your life to be merciful.
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I love that.
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Okay.
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Uh maybe you can use a little bit of that to overlook some of your faults.
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Yeah, you know what I mean.
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Okay, Psalm 103.
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Our next reading, Psalm 103, verses 1 through 4, and then 9 through 12.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all my being, bless his holy name.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion, he pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills, he redeems your life from destruction, crowns you with kindness and compassion.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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He will not always chide, nor does he keep his wrath forever, not according to his sins does he deal with us, nor does he requit us according to our crimes.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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For as the heavens are as high as above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness towards those who fear him, as far as the east is from the west, so far as he has put our transgressions from us.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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Our second reading is from the book of Romans, chapter fourteen, verses seven through nine.
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Brothers and sisters, none of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.
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For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord.
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So then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, for this is why Christ died and came to life, that we might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
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The word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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Our reading, gospel reading today is from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 18, verse 21 through 35.
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I think this is just a longer reading.
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I don't think there's a short one, but you'll find out when you go to Mass.
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So try to go to Mass.
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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
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Glory to you, O Lord.
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Peter approached Jesus and asked him, Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive?
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As many as seven times?
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Jesus answered, I say to you, not seven times but seventy seven times.
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That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king, who decided to settle his accounts with his servants.
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When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.
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Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property in payment for the debt.
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At that the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.
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Moved with compassion the master of the servant let move the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan.
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When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed who owed him a much smaller amount.
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He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, pay back what you owe.
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Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, Be patient with me and I will pay you back.
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But he refused.
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Instead, he had the fellow servant put into prison until he paid back the debt.
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Now when his fellow servant when his fellow servants saw that what had happened, they were deeply disturbed and went to their master and reported the whole affair.
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His master summoned him and said to him, You wicked servant, I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.
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Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had had pity on you?
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Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt.
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So so will my heavenly father do with you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.
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The gospel of the Lord.
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Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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May the words of this gospel wipe away our sins.
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Well, welcome, my brothers and sisters.
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Oh, I have to venerate those scriptures.
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So beautiful.
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And it's worth reading two or three extra times to see like, well, which one am I?
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And where am I in this?
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And we'll continue on.
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But welcome to um the podcast.
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My name is Deacon Louis Zemlick here on uh in the Diocese of Kalmazou.
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Used to be called the Epiphany Radio Program back in the day.
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Uh, but it's uh there's lots of epiphany, I think there's a multiple epiphany out there, including the main epiphany, right?
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Uh after Christmas time, uh the coming of the three kings.
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And so I like that epiphany too.
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I'm just gonna say that right now because I like that epiphany too, because every moment of our life, every single day, good, bad, or otherwise, can be an epiphany of sorts, right?
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Can be an awakening that she whiz.
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Maybe, you know, I've had people talking to me about this the last few weeks, too.
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You know, you have these thoughts.
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We have these thoughts that go through our minds constantly.
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And we focus on things, good, bad, and otherwise.
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We focus on things maybe we shouldn't focus on.
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And ask, ask God to take those things away.
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Tell Satan to get away from you, right?
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Live your life, be happy, don't be a jerk, right?
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Don't be a jerk.
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It's a anything, I think that's an old SpongeBob uh episode like don't be a jerk.
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It's Christmas, something like that.
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Anyway, uh, easier said than done, my brothers and sisters.
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So many of us carry trauma around, so many of us carry uh uh regrets or even anger we have towards our parents, even though they've been dead for 40 years, we're still angry at our parents or our old business partners or whatever.
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But I'll tell you what, it's a waste of time.
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It really is.
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Because what God wants us to do is to forgive and move on.
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Forgive and move on.
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But we don't, we we think that it's it's it's fun, like we're having a good time, but it's not because we become what we hate.
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You hear what I'm saying?
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You become what you hate.
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You hated your parents for this, that, or the other thing, you become that.
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You hate your brother or sister for this, that, and the other thing, you become that.
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You hate your old boss because this, that, and the other thing, you become that.
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Because God is trying to teach you not to be like that.
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See?
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And the reason why you didn't like it before is this this this very um common knowledge, wisdom, so so to speak, like from the book of Sirach.
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You know, if one who if if one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins?
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Wow.
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Think about that.
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If you're a bad person, you're bad, you like to be bad, like to be naughty.
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It's not gonna be good.
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It's gonna end very badly.
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Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.
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The vengeful will suffer the Lord's vengeance.
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Ouch! Yeah, that goes for all of us.
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Remove yourself from slavery and forgive.
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I wrote that down earlier.
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Remove yourself from slavery and forgive.
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You hold yourself in bondage when you hate.
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You hold yourself in bondage, you hold yourself, you are a prisoner of your own doing, your own making.
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Become a prisoner within your own your own body, your own self, right?
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Your whole family.
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Okay, I gotta I gotta go keep going here.
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Okay, psalm breeding.
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Just no, oh yes, there is no one thing from CRAC is 2489 in the catalog, and it's uh of the catechism, and it's CRAC 2716.
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Not an exact hit on this, but listen to this respect for the truth.
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If you have respect for the truth, you're gonna be okay.
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But the question is, do you have respect for the truth?
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If you do, then you worship God because God is the truth, God is God is all truth, God is pure truth.
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Charity and respect for the truth should dictate the response to every request for information or communication, the good and the safety of others, respect for privacy and for the common good are sufficient reasons for being silent about what ought not to be known or making use of discrete language, the duty to avoid scandal of the commands, strict discretion.
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No one is bound to reveal the truth to someone who does not have a right to know it.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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2489 of the Catechism.
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So maybe you're not religious, maybe this side or the other thing, but you believe in the truth.
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Print this out.
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2489 of the Catechism, and look at it.
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Comes from Sirach also comes.
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Here we go again.
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Proverbs, that's in the Protestant Bible.
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Look up Proverbs 25, 9 through 10.
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See, it's about truth, my brothers and sisters.
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And the book of Sirach is a good book, it's a good book for everyone.
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And also, and and the verse from Proverbs is very good too, 25, 9, 11.
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All right, here we go.
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Our psalm reading.
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God carries out his plan in divine providence.
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The prayer of the Psalms is the great school of his trust.
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Trust.
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Psalm 22, Psalm 30, 32, 35, 103, 138.
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We just got done with 103.
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So isn't that great?
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Trust.
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You see a little pattern coming here?
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Trust.
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Truth.
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You know, you want to live a life of lies, life of uh I don't care what anybody thinks, I hate everyone.
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It's not gonna be good.
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It's gonna be really bad.
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It's gonna be really yucky.
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Don't do that.
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There's a different way.
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There's a different way to live.
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The way of light.
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The sacraments in the Holy Catholic Church.
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Here we go, Romans 14.
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I will come again and glory.
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Romans 14.
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Communion in spiritual goods.
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Also with Romans.
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Contrition, the reception of the sacrament ought to be prepared by the examination of conscience.
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More truth.
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The truth, my brothers and sisters.
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The truth will set you free.
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The passages best suited for this can be found in the Ten Commandments, the moral catechesis of the gospels, and the apostolic letters, such as the Sermon on the Mount and Apostolic Teachings, Romans 12, Matthew 5, 1 Corinthians 12, Galatians 5, Ephesians, chapters 4 through 6.
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I love that.
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All of Galatians, Galatians 5, Ephesians 4 through 6.
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Saw that last week, too.
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The whole chapters on the moral teachings.
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That's what it's all about.
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And here we go, my brothers and sisters.
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The new law or the law of the gospel, the moral catechesis of the gospel teachings.
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Colossians chapters 3 and 4.
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Ephesians chapters 4 and 5.
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First Corinthians chapters 12 and 13.
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Romans chapter 12, 13.
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All of these are on the new law or the law of the gospels.
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So beautiful.
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All right.
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Powers of the keys of the kingdom.
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Reconciliation.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
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Do you believe in forgiveness?
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And understand this: all the sacraments in the Catholic Church, all of the sacraments in the Catholic Church, once again he said, all of the sacraments in the Catholic Church are given and received by the hands of Jesus through the priest, through the deacon.
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It's not the priest baptizing you or the priest forgiving your sins.
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It is Jesus Himself.
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Jesus healing.
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Jesus baptizing.
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Jesus confirming.
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Jesus witnessing the marriage.
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You know, the priest and deacon witness the marriage.
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But it's God who takes care of the heavy work.
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Always been that way.
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So believe all that garbage you hear.
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Powers of the keys of the kingdom.
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And Jesus has set up that priesthood, the holy orders, given us the ability, given us, given the priests, the form of the priests in such a way that they are able to forgive these sins.
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And here we go on the forgiveness of this, too.
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All right.
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And forgive us our trespasses.
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We forgive those who trespass against us as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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Do you forgive?
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Maybe you don't forgive.
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You know, I don't forgive anybody.
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Well, that's toxic.
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They call that toxicity.
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They talk, you know, you're it's impossible, my brothers and sisters, to live that way.
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And I pray for you, I pray for you, if that's the condition you're in right now, uh, I pray for you.
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Listen to this.
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2843 of the Catechism.
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Thus the Lord's words on forgiveness, the love that loves to the end, becoming a living reality.
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The parable of the merciless servant which crowns the Lord's teaching on ecclesial communion ends with these words, so also my heavenly Father will do everyone to you if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.
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It is there, in fact, in the depth of the heart that everything is bound and loosed.
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In the heart your heart, it is not in our power not to feel or to forget an offense, but in the heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit, turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory in transforming the hurt into intercession.
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You hear that?
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Your greatest liability, your greatest liability becomes your greatest asset because you choose God's way.
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You choose God's path rather than Satan's path, rather than the devil's path to destruction and death and unhappiness and anger.
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Finally, this Pope Leo said this this way there is no limit or measure to the essential, essentially divine forgiveness.
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Whether one speaks of sins as in Luke 11 or deaths as in Matthew six, we always we are always debtors.
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Owe no one anything except to love one another.
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The communion of the Holy Trinity is the source and criterion of truth, of truth.
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In every relationship, it is lived out in prayer above all in the Holy Eucharist, Holy Communion.
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The truth, the truth, the truth.
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You know, the people say you can't handle the truth.
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People are like, I don't want the truth.
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You know, I just want to look at Facebook and I just want to I just want to hate these politicians over here, and I want to hate these people over there.
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I want to hate the people in this religion or that religion, those people, this, this.
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And I'm not talking about justice or anything like that.
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Don't go there.
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God will provide the justice, and there should be justice, and people should be punished, and people should go to prison for life.
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For life.
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But my brothers and sisters, we are called to pray for one another.
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We're called to love one another, and it can both be done.
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But don't get yourself fixated in on hatred and anger and vengeance and all of that.
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But fix your mind on love.
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L-O-V-E love.
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Forgive your brother or sister, forgive them.
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Right?
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And when they do things to insult you over and over again, pray for them.
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This is what you do for sick people.
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Because they are sick.
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And if you're listening to this and you don't forgive your brother from your heart, you are sick.
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You are a sick person and you need help.
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And I hope that you listen to this program regularly.
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I hope that you pray.
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I hope you ask the Holy Spirit, listen, what is this trinity of love?
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This is what God has taught us.
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You know, way back when they call it a heresy.
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Some religions call it a heresy.
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That as Christians, we're heretics.
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We're believing in all these gods, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
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No, that's the family, my brothers and sisters.
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That's the family of love.
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It's the trinity of love, it's the trinity of forgiveness.
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The problem is, is maybe the religion that you practice doesn't practice that.
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You might be Christian, you might be Hindu or Muslim or Sikh or whatever, but if you don't practice love, love of everyone, then you're lost.
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You're truly lost.
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And you know that in your heart.
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Turn to Jesus.
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Turn to Jesus.
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Ask the Blessed Mother Mary.
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Mother Mary, show me what the truth is.
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Show me the truth about Jesus.
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Show me the truth about God.
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Show me the truth about myself.
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Help me to grow in holiness.
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Because that's what we want.
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We want to be holy.
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We want to be good.
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We want to be loving.
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We want that.
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It's difficult, and it cannot be done without God's help.
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May Almighty God bless you all.
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In the name of the Father, the Son, Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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God bless you all.
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Pray for all first responders, my brothers and sisters.
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Put their lives on the line for us every day.
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And pray for all the teachers and the children and the unborn and new mothers.
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God bless you all.
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I love you.
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Hello, everybody.
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This is Deacon Louis Zemlick with the Diocese of Kalmazou.
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We're glad you're with us here today for this 24th Sunday in ordinary time.
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Some beautiful scripture readings, but also, you know, a lot to pray about, too, right?
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And um, you know, our prayers go out to all the uh first responders, especially those uh in 9-11.
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We mentioned 9-11, of course, last week and uh 25 years.
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And um, you know, they had a beautiful mass at uh St.
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Augustine's on uh Friday.
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Um unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend that, but it was um you know, it's something they have this blue mass, which is for all first responders, uh, and they do that annually, but this was a special, a special one that the bishop did, Bishop Losey, and thank you, Bishop Losey.
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Uh God bless you.
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You're we're blessed with such a wonderful bishop here in the Diocese of Kalamazoo.
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But um, you know, my brothers and sisters, this is the battle against good and evil.
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It's the battle between good and evil.
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Not saying that you don't, I don't think it's gonna end until Christ returns.
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I I'm pretty sure of that.
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Um, but we are called to battle against evil.
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It's uh it's a battle against from truth to lies, right?
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And none of us like the truth, right?
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None of us like the truth unless it's benefiting us.
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Then we love the truth, then we want justice, you know, we want all those things.
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But um, man, we are uh we are sinful, we are naughty, we are a lot of, we're uh we're a lot of things, us human beings.
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Uh but the one thing we I know that God loves us, uh, but I also know that we are all sinners.
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But uh pray, my brothers and sisters, pray, pray, pray.
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And as I look through the calendar here, you know, we had Friday, it was 9-11, and of course we pray and pray for all first responders, pray for people who put their lives on the line every day for you and for me, you know, uh to just you know, once in a while say thank you.
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You know, yes, they're human beings, yes, they do make mistakes, but uh, you know, they've chosen a career that is a very difficult one.
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Um then also uh yesterday, the most holy name of Mary, Saturday the 12th, and it gets but keeps getting better.
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And then today is the 13th, uh June 13th, excuse me, June 13th, September 13th, 2026.
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And I always do a shout out to our Our Lady of Fatima because the 13th day of the month, the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima.
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So 13th is a very special day.
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Uh a lot of grace, a lot of uh prayers are answered, of course, today on Sunday, which is also a great day for miracles.
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And then keeps getting better.
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Tomorrow is the exaltation of the Holy Cross.
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Tuesday, the 15th, Our Lady of Sorrows, the 16th, Saint Cornelius, Cyprian Martyrs, Thursday, the 17th, uh there's Saint Bilomain, Hildegard, and Albert.
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Friday, Saint Edith and Saint Stanislaus, and then Saint uh Januarius uh on the 19th, um coming up this week.
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And uh just a lot to pray about, a lot of people that need help out there, my brothers and sisters.
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So please reach out to people in love, not in religious rigor, okay?
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Not in religious rigor, but in love or or or this um, you know, and and and I get it.
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I understand that when when people find the Lord and you're on fire for Jesus, so on and so forth, but remember the rest of the people out there, don't leave them behind, okay?
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Don't leave the people who aren't quite there yet, don't know Jesus quite yet, don't know the Blessed Mother quite yet, don't know the sacraments quite yet.
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And many of our Protestant brothers and sisters, some who listen to this program, you know, they're they're not all on board with the sacraments.
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They're just not, you know, I don't understand why you guys have to do that stuff.
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Well, that's what scripture tells us.
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Scripture's all about, it's all about uh in the scriptures, all about holiness.
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But great readings today, which will lend themselves to some of this sacramental nature of the church, sacramental nature of the of God, of Jesus, right?
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So here we go.
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It is uh first reading is from the book of Sirach, a wisdom book that is not in many, not in any of the Protestant Bibles, maybe in one of the really old school, uh, you might find it in an old school King James version, but it is a wisdom book, one of the uh seven wisdom books that are, you know, first and second Maccabees, parts of Judith, parts of Esther, uh Book of Wisdom, ironically, right?
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Are left out of first and second Maccabees, I think I already said that.
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And uh Sirach and Baruch.
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Yes, those books are not in the Protestant Bible, so it's like, hey, come on, you guys.
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And people say, Well, you know, you Catholics added those in.
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It's like, no, it's just the opposite.
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The Protestants took those books out of the original canon, took them out of the original canon.
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Get that right?
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Took them out of the original canon.
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So here we go.
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So our first reading from the book of Sirach.
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And there's no catechism teaching on this either.
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So this is right to your hearts, my brothers and sisters.
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You need to do something about it.
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Church isn't gonna tell you what to do about this particular scripture today.
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You have to figure out what you need to do.
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And I'm telling you that before I even read it.
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So it's Sirach chapter 27, verse 30 through chapter 28, verse 7.
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Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.
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The vengeful will suffer the Lord's vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail.
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Forgive your neighbor injustice, then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.
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Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the Lord?
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Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself?
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Can he seek pardon for his own sins?
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If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins?
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Remember your last days, set enmity aside.
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Remember death and decay, and cease from sin.
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Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor.
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Remember the Most High's covenant and overlook faults.
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The word of the Lord, thanks be to God.
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That overlook thoughts is over overlook faults is to overlook the faults of people in your life to be merciful.
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I love that.
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Okay.
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Uh maybe you can use a little bit of that to overlook some of your faults.
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Yeah, you know what I mean.
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Okay, Psalm 103.
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Our next reading, Psalm 103, verses 1 through 4, and then 9 through 12.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all my being, bless his holy name.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion, he pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills, he redeems your life from destruction, crowns you with kindness and compassion.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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He will not always chide, nor does he keep his wrath forever, not according to his sins does he deal with us, nor does he requit us according to our crimes.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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For as the heavens are as high as above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness towards those who fear him, as far as the east is from the west, so far as he has put our transgressions from us.
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The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.
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Our second reading is from the book of Romans, chapter fourteen, verses seven through nine.
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Brothers and sisters, none of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.
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For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord.
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So then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, for this is why Christ died and came to life, that we might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
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The word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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Our reading, gospel reading today is from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 18, verse 21 through 35.
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I think this is just a longer reading.
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I don't think there's a short one, but you'll find out when you go to Mass.
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So try to go to Mass.
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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
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Glory to you, O Lord.
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Peter approached Jesus and asked him, Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive?
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As many as seven times?
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Jesus answered, I say to you, not seven times but seventy seven times.
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That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king, who decided to settle his accounts with his servants.
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When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.
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Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property in payment for the debt.
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At that the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.
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Moved with compassion the master of the servant let move the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan.
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When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed who owed him a much smaller amount.
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He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, pay back what you owe.
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Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, Be patient with me and I will pay you back.
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But he refused.
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Instead, he had the fellow servant put into prison until he paid back the debt.
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Now when his fellow servant when his fellow servants saw that what had happened, they were deeply disturbed and went to their master and reported the whole affair.
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His master summoned him and said to him, You wicked servant, I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.
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Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had had pity on you?
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Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt.
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So so will my heavenly father do with you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.
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The gospel of the Lord.
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Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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May the words of this gospel wipe away our sins.
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Well, welcome, my brothers and sisters.
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Oh, I have to venerate those scriptures.
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So beautiful.
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And it's worth reading two or three extra times to see like, well, which one am I?
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And where am I in this?
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And we'll continue on.
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But welcome to um the podcast.
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My name is Deacon Louis Zemlick here on uh in the Diocese of Kalmazou.
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Used to be called the Epiphany Radio Program back in the day.
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Uh, but it's uh there's lots of epiphany, I think there's a multiple epiphany out there, including the main epiphany, right?
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Uh after Christmas time, uh the coming of the three kings.
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And so I like that epiphany too.
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I'm just gonna say that right now because I like that epiphany too, because every moment of our life, every single day, good, bad, or otherwise, can be an epiphany of sorts, right?
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Can be an awakening that she whiz.
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Maybe, you know, I've had people talking to me about this the last few weeks, too.
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You know, you have these thoughts.
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We have these thoughts that go through our minds constantly.
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And we focus on things, good, bad, and otherwise.
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We focus on things maybe we shouldn't focus on.
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And ask, ask God to take those things away.
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Tell Satan to get away from you, right?
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Live your life, be happy, don't be a jerk, right?
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Don't be a jerk.
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It's a anything, I think that's an old SpongeBob uh episode like don't be a jerk.
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It's Christmas, something like that.
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Anyway, uh, easier said than done, my brothers and sisters.
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So many of us carry trauma around, so many of us carry uh uh regrets or even anger we have towards our parents, even though they've been dead for 40 years, we're still angry at our parents or our old business partners or whatever.
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But I'll tell you what, it's a waste of time.
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It really is.
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Because what God wants us to do is to forgive and move on.
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Forgive and move on.
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But we don't, we we think that it's it's it's fun, like we're having a good time, but it's not because we become what we hate.
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You hear what I'm saying?
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You become what you hate.
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You hated your parents for this, that, or the other thing, you become that.
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You hate your brother or sister for this, that, and the other thing, you become that.
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You hate your old boss because this, that, and the other thing, you become that.
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Because God is trying to teach you not to be like that.
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See?
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And the reason why you didn't like it before is this this this very um common knowledge, wisdom, so so to speak, like from the book of Sirach.
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You know, if one who if if one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins?
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Wow.
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Think about that.
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If you're a bad person, you're bad, you like to be bad, like to be naughty.
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It's not gonna be good.
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It's gonna end very badly.
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Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.
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The vengeful will suffer the Lord's vengeance.
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Ouch! Yeah, that goes for all of us.
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Remove yourself from slavery and forgive.
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I wrote that down earlier.
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Remove yourself from slavery and forgive.
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You hold yourself in bondage when you hate.
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You hold yourself in bondage, you hold yourself, you are a prisoner of your own doing, your own making.
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Become a prisoner within your own your own body, your own self, right?
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Your whole family.
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Okay, I gotta I gotta go keep going here.
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Okay, psalm breeding.
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Just no, oh yes, there is no one thing from CRAC is 2489 in the catalog, and it's uh of the catechism, and it's CRAC 2716.
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Not an exact hit on this, but listen to this respect for the truth.
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If you have respect for the truth, you're gonna be okay.
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But the question is, do you have respect for the truth?
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If you do, then you worship God because God is the truth, God is God is all truth, God is pure truth.
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Charity and respect for the truth should dictate the response to every request for information or communication, the good and the safety of others, respect for privacy and for the common good are sufficient reasons for being silent about what ought not to be known or making use of discrete language, the duty to avoid scandal of the commands, strict discretion.
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No one is bound to reveal the truth to someone who does not have a right to know it.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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2489 of the Catechism.
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So maybe you're not religious, maybe this side or the other thing, but you believe in the truth.
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Print this out.
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2489 of the Catechism, and look at it.
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Comes from Sirach also comes.
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Here we go again.
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Proverbs, that's in the Protestant Bible.
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Look up Proverbs 25, 9 through 10.
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See, it's about truth, my brothers and sisters.
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And the book of Sirach is a good book, it's a good book for everyone.
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And also, and and the verse from Proverbs is very good too, 25, 9, 11.
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All right, here we go.
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Our psalm reading.
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God carries out his plan in divine providence.
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The prayer of the Psalms is the great school of his trust.
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Trust.
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Psalm 22, Psalm 30, 32, 35, 103, 138.
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We just got done with 103.
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So isn't that great?
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Trust.
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You see a little pattern coming here?
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Trust.
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Truth.
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You know, you want to live a life of lies, life of uh I don't care what anybody thinks, I hate everyone.
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It's not gonna be good.
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It's gonna be really bad.
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It's gonna be really yucky.
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Don't do that.
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There's a different way.
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There's a different way to live.
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The way of light.
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The sacraments in the Holy Catholic Church.
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Here we go, Romans 14.
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I will come again and glory.
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Romans 14.
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Communion in spiritual goods.
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Also with Romans.
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Contrition, the reception of the sacrament ought to be prepared by the examination of conscience.
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More truth.
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The truth, my brothers and sisters.
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The truth will set you free.
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The passages best suited for this can be found in the Ten Commandments, the moral catechesis of the gospels, and the apostolic letters, such as the Sermon on the Mount and Apostolic Teachings, Romans 12, Matthew 5, 1 Corinthians 12, Galatians 5, Ephesians, chapters 4 through 6.
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I love that.
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All of Galatians, Galatians 5, Ephesians 4 through 6.
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Saw that last week, too.
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The whole chapters on the moral teachings.
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That's what it's all about.
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And here we go, my brothers and sisters.
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The new law or the law of the gospel, the moral catechesis of the gospel teachings.
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Colossians chapters 3 and 4.
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Ephesians chapters 4 and 5.
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First Corinthians chapters 12 and 13.
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Romans chapter 12, 13.
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All of these are on the new law or the law of the gospels.
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So beautiful.
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All right.
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Powers of the keys of the kingdom.
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Reconciliation.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
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Do you believe in forgiveness?
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And understand this: all the sacraments in the Catholic Church, all of the sacraments in the Catholic Church, once again he said, all of the sacraments in the Catholic Church are given and received by the hands of Jesus through the priest, through the deacon.
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It's not the priest baptizing you or the priest forgiving your sins.
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It is Jesus Himself.
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Jesus healing.
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Jesus baptizing.
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Jesus confirming.
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Jesus witnessing the marriage.
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You know, the priest and deacon witness the marriage.
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But it's God who takes care of the heavy work.
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Always been that way.
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So believe all that garbage you hear.
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Powers of the keys of the kingdom.
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And Jesus has set up that priesthood, the holy orders, given us the ability, given us, given the priests, the form of the priests in such a way that they are able to forgive these sins.
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And here we go on the forgiveness of this, too.
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All right.
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And forgive us our trespasses.
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We forgive those who trespass against us as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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Do you forgive?
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Maybe you don't forgive.
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You know, I don't forgive anybody.
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Well, that's toxic.
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They call that toxicity.
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They talk, you know, you're it's impossible, my brothers and sisters, to live that way.
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And I pray for you, I pray for you, if that's the condition you're in right now, uh, I pray for you.
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Listen to this.
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2843 of the Catechism.
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Thus the Lord's words on forgiveness, the love that loves to the end, becoming a living reality.
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The parable of the merciless servant which crowns the Lord's teaching on ecclesial communion ends with these words, so also my heavenly Father will do everyone to you if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.
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It is there, in fact, in the depth of the heart that everything is bound and loosed.
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In the heart your heart, it is not in our power not to feel or to forget an offense, but in the heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit, turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory in transforming the hurt into intercession.
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You hear that?
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Your greatest liability, your greatest liability becomes your greatest asset because you choose God's way.
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You choose God's path rather than Satan's path, rather than the devil's path to destruction and death and unhappiness and anger.
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Finally, this Pope Leo said this this way there is no limit or measure to the essential, essentially divine forgiveness.
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Whether one speaks of sins as in Luke 11 or deaths as in Matthew six, we always we are always debtors.
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Owe no one anything except to love one another.
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The communion of the Holy Trinity is the source and criterion of truth, of truth.
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In every relationship, it is lived out in prayer above all in the Holy Eucharist, Holy Communion.
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The truth, the truth, the truth.
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You know, the people say you can't handle the truth.
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People are like, I don't want the truth.
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You know, I just want to look at Facebook and I just want to I just want to hate these politicians over here, and I want to hate these people over there.
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I want to hate the people in this religion or that religion, those people, this, this.
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And I'm not talking about justice or anything like that.
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Don't go there.
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God will provide the justice, and there should be justice, and people should be punished, and people should go to prison for life.
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For life.
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But my brothers and sisters, we are called to pray for one another.
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We're called to love one another, and it can both be done.
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But don't get yourself fixated in on hatred and anger and vengeance and all of that.
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But fix your mind on love.
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L-O-V-E love.
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Forgive your brother or sister, forgive them.
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Right?
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And when they do things to insult you over and over again, pray for them.
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This is what you do for sick people.
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Because they are sick.
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And if you're listening to this and you don't forgive your brother from your heart, you are sick.
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You are a sick person and you need help.
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And I hope that you listen to this program regularly.
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I hope that you pray.
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I hope you ask the Holy Spirit, listen, what is this trinity of love?
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This is what God has taught us.
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You know, way back when they call it a heresy.
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Some religions call it a heresy.
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That as Christians, we're heretics.
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We're believing in all these gods, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
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No, that's the family, my brothers and sisters.
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That's the family of love.
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It's the trinity of love, it's the trinity of forgiveness.
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The problem is, is maybe the religion that you practice doesn't practice that.
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You might be Christian, you might be Hindu or Muslim or Sikh or whatever, but if you don't practice love, love of everyone, then you're lost.
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You're truly lost.
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And you know that in your heart.
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Turn to Jesus.
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Turn to Jesus.
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Ask the Blessed Mother Mary.
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Mother Mary, show me what the truth is.
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Show me the truth about Jesus.
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Show me the truth about God.
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Show me the truth about myself.
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Help me to grow in holiness.
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Because that's what we want.
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We want to be holy.
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We want to be good.
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We want to be loving.
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We want that.
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It's difficult, and it cannot be done without God's help.
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May Almighty God bless you all.
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In the name of the Father, the Son, Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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God bless you all.
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Pray for all first responders, my brothers and sisters.
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Put their lives on the line for us every day.
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And pray for all the teachers and the children and the unborn and new mothers.
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God bless you all.
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I love you.
