recognize recognize the year 1812 our country our colonies are at war with Britain yet again man Britain's plan is real simple we're going to mass all of our Armada we are going to drive it if you will orale it if you will in Chesapeake Bay once we get into ches Bay we're going to take over parts of Maryland in the port once we get there we're going to march on to DC plan is working seamlessly till they get to Bladensburg right outside the port city as a result of it it is the biggest battle of the Revolutionary War there is cornage everywhere I'm telling you there's Red Coats there's colonists there's militia there's Farmers there's people who are just trying to help man anybody and everybody the Red Coats have done the damage it goes down in history quote as the greatest disgrace to the Americas end quote they've decided to march on they march on to DC they burn the city they burn the White House they burn the capital building and then have to repaint it with only they have of white paint hence the term White House as a result of it man the cornage is so great still at Bladensburg they go find a Dr Bennis he said when he gets there he said there are so many bodies the rumor has it that he could walk across the field without touching the ground by just stepping on that many bodies and he didn't care red coat colonist militia Friend or Foe he's helping everybody for a week's time he is amputating he is saving he is burying he's doing all he can do meanwhile the Red Coats have taken over Capitol Hill they have burned the building and now coming back they get to the city a little small city outside of Maryland they decided well this is going to be easier said than done wine women and song after a couple hours we have more wine more women more song the problem is it happens to be Dr benn's Hometown so as he's finally getting in from Bladensburg what does he see they're burning buildings they're ravaging people they're taking advantage I mean it's ugly he gets into a brewhaha with two of the men beats him up pretty well probably deserving of it they throw him in jail one of them escapes he goes back all the way to Chesapeake Bay he gets the Admiral the Admiral gets their group together they come find Dr Bennis they haul him all the way back to chesp Bay put him in a ship put him in the bottom of it and put him in irons as a result man the colonist are Furious so who better to go than Mr key he's a prominent attorney he's a loyal colonist so they get him man this is what happened they go through the story of Bladensburg Dr Bennis the the pillaging and the plundering he finally goes out to ches Bay he arrives on the ship of the Admiral says Admiral I understand you have one of our colonists Dr Bennett he said yes we do he said well I need you to let him go said that's not going to happen he said let me make sure I understand Admiral that man saved 2third of your group you got them here today you wouldn't have half the soldiers you got if it wasn't for that man he single-handedly kept people alive in Bladensburg he said that's a true statement good point he said however I cannot let you leave now uh we're about to bomb a fort if you go they'll know where I'm at they'll know our strength you're going to have to just stand and bear it he said but when it's over we both walk free he said absolutely well Dr Bennis and he explains to Dr Bennis the story this is what's going to happen then all of a sudden man the bombs and the rocket start and man you would have thought that the world had come to an end Dr Bennis is yelling up tell me what you see he said man it's he said there's bombs bursting in air he said there's this red glare that has come from the Rockets he said the smoke is so great but I can still see the flag truly we are the land of the free and the home of the brave I pray you recognize that as a star spangle Banner if not this is going to be an ugly death up here I can just promise you my brother and sister in Christ that is the point it's recognition that is exactly what that gospel is about it's recognizing Christ for who he is my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink if I am not in you and you are not in me you will not have eternal life he says it five times in seven verses my flesh my blood how is it 2,000 years later we still can't get it right it's a relic it's a theory it's an understanding it's conjecture it's just a representation he never said it he is the word made flesh do you think it's ironic coincidental it's a happen stance that he is born in the city of David the city of bread he is born in a manger a food trough and we call him the bread of life and he just Echoes that sentiment that he is the bread for the life of the world my brother and sister Christ 11 times in this in this gospel he uses the word I me or myself yet nowhere does he say anything else about some type of understanding or just conjecture now stop you are a first century Jew you know the Old Testament like the back of your hand you know the Psalms by heart please The Ten Commandments I've got those memorized in my head in Deuteronomy I tattooed them on my children's forehead my brother sister and Christ this is what's happened prior to him making the statement Christ is in the middle of a synagogue he is two blocks from Peter's house he's right off the Sea of Galilee where he's making the statement my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink right before he gets there he's coming through Samaria he meets the lady at the well you know the one that was married five times on her sixth husband remember seven to a Jew is the most complete number of the world seven days of creation seven years to build a temple the lady does not stay with that husband she becomes a follower of Christ we believe she ultimately becomes a religious he's the seventh husband once he leaves and visits with her he goes to a place called Capernaum he meets an official there that official tells him that his son is ill he tells that man don't worry about it your faith will save him at that hour the seventh hour his son was cured when he gets back to his home in Capernaum he asked him when was he cured they said quote the seventh hour the good Lord has just walked through Jerusalem M and as a result of it he's at the to what they call the pool of Betha the pool of Betha this is where the cripples or handicap would go they would wait for the water to Ripple because they believe that the Angel Michael may have come and then they get in the man is so crippled and handicap he can't get it so the good Lord tells him to pick up his mat and walk 38 years 38 he's standing by that pool to a Jew that number represents the Mone of time that you were were at the mountain of cadesh until you entered the promised land this is where Moses broke the Ten Commandments for a Jew you and I would have picked up on that number that it's significant it goes into the 40 now my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord is walking a little bit farther and they're starving for food 5,000 remember 5,000 men that means 10,000 men and women that means 15,000 men women and children five loaves of bread and two fish what's important for you and I to understand it's a foretelling of what is to come do you understand that Christ did not feed one person he only fed the 12 and once he gave the bread to the 12 then he said now go feed them why because if I feed you directly you will never go to my Apostles if I hear your confession you will not go to my Apostles if you hear my baptism you will not go to the apostles everything must go through them they are the start of the church Pentecost is when things will begin my brother and sister in Christ remember this when the good Lord said take this and eat for this is my body when he said eat in Greek it's trogo take it and gnaw on it chew it swallow it does that sound like a theory or a relic to you my brother and sister in Christ when you hear the argument that it says do this in memory of me go back to the original language how many times have I spoken to you to you everybody thinks the first prostitute in scripture was Mary Magdalene the first prostitute in scripture was the translator I promise you if he translates it correctly he translates it to animis do this in sacrifice of me another Words My Brothers and Sisters in Christ he's saying do it do it not have a recollection understanding you're translated in English 2,000 years later go back to the language now listen to me my brother and sister in Christ in the Old Testament there's things that you need to understand in the Garden of Eden there were two trees one of good of evil and one life Everlasting and he reminds Adam and Eve that if you don't eat of the tree and as a result of it you will live forever what's his last words in the gospel that if you eat of me you will live forever as a Jew you and I would picked up on this we would have known instantly what he's getting at my brother and sister in Christ remember this when the good Lord is making this Proclamation my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink I can just see the walls if you will I could just see the walls of the synagogue begin to crumble I could see all the Pharisees and Sadducees lined up shaking their head saying well we couldn't have missed it we're a Pharisee we're a sadducee he is two blocks from Peter's house when he finishes the proclamation Peter is walking up to him as they walk back to his house Lord do you know what you're saying you're saying that if they don't eat of you they're going to think you're cannibalistic he doesn't change his mind he doesn't say you know what Peter let me go back in and fix it because we're just going to lose votes as if I came running for an office the fact of the matter is he tells Peter again my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you're not in me you don't have eternal life that's it Peter no if no hands no butts you're either in or you're out make your call man do you know the next line are those people who left him do you know what line that is in scripture John 66 six there are 40,000 faiths in the world today and only us have the body blood soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ there were only two faiths when Christ started the church you were either Jew or you were a Catholic that's it Catholic means according to the whole it becomes so popular it becomes Universal but if you do these four things you break bread you sing Psalms you listen to the apostles and you gather then you are no longer Jew but you are Catholic almost 1200 years there are only two guys in the game Martin Luther shows up a former priest marries a former nun and all of a sudden we got 40,000 people to deal with now you think the good Lord sat on his hands for over a thousand years and said well they'll figure it out it's close enough give or take if there was a problem in the church he would have addressed it especially the teaching about his body blood soul and Divinity my brother and sister in Christ remember everything in the Old Testament is a foretelling of what is to come the Old Testament is never greater than the O than the new the Old Testament is just a foretelling the New Testament is a fulfilling think about what people are telling you when they say the Eucharist isn't true my brother and sister in Christ in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were drawn to a tree and they took from it in the New Testament the good Lord and his his mother were drawn to a tree and they put his he put his hands to it and they nailed him to it in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were drawn to sin and brought sin into the world the good Lord Is In The Garden of Gethsemane and guess what at the end of the day he brought salvation to the world Adam and Eve came with no sin and left with sin the Blessed Mother and the good Lord came with no sin and left with salvation of the world the New Testament is always greater why is it that when Jonah and yes he's a real person any proper name is no longer parabolic Adam and Eve don't get there name till after they're kicked out of the garden which means names are important that's why you and I have names as a result of it Jonah descends he's in a whale he dies in the whale read the story it's a funeral durge the people believe that that's a great sign and what does the good Lord said that might have been that way in the Old Testament but in the New Testament there's a greater sign than Jonah I will descend to the dead for three days but with it I will bring Salvation all Jonah did was Return to Nineveh Noah only saved eight people the good Lord saying I've come to save the world my brother and sister in Christ the old the New Testament is always better so if the Old Testament had blessed bread from heaven when Mana fell they believe it fell from the altar of God and they believe that was done by St Michael and it was blessed bread are you telling me now 2,000 years later he got it wrong that everything else the New Testament is far greater than the old except with the most important thing of all the bread of life that the Jews had it right that it's blessed bread and all we gets a relic so now the Old Testament is more important than the new no way no how you just made Christ to be a liar there are some 20 words in Greek and Aramaic that said Theory conjecture understanding or Relic he uses none of them my flesh is my brother and sister in Christ I'm The God Who is and who was and who is to come he's not coming he never was there's no one to wait for it's the same is it's a stin my brothers and sisters in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later will people recognize that you believe in the Eucharist on how you receive it when you come to receiving will everybody else that's watching say now that was a disciple of Jesus Christ he believes that the Eucharist is true we sit at home because of a pandemic I don't care what you believe about it but what it doesn't change the fact is you can't receive the Eucharist at home so at some point you and I are going to have to step out somewhere along the way you and I going to have the courage to receive the body blood soul and Divinity you got to suck it up it is awfully frustrating to be part of a church that at times we Proclaim it to be one thing and when the pandemic comes we start acquiescing you either believe in him or you do not you either made the gates to heaven or you did not will people recognize that you are a good Catholic because the way you make the sign of the cross before you eat in public will they recognize you as a good Catholic when they say lead us in prayer and you're saying oh they're getting a hell married today and you pray it clearly in this distinctly will you make sure and defend her honor and her veil and stop blaming the church for not teaching you it's your soul at stake stop blaming the priest in the church you learn as much as you care to learn and at the end of day she's true I've already been or studied almost everything out there I'm telling you she is true we have been unfortunate and how we've handled and spoke with y'all it has been unfortunate that we haven't educated you in the manner that we should but at the end of the day we can only do so much at some point Point it'll be your soul that will stand before him you'll be there naked and alone will Christ reckon you as a child of his or he will not what is going to be your excuse well you don't understand but I think I do no you don't you see it wasn't my fault well it could have been mine my brother and sister in Christ it's Paramount that you receive the Eucharist don't you walk out them doors and leave these gates with the same worry that you walked in here with have you forgotten that this is his house have you forgotten that he is God and we are not stop being hypocritical he is either God or he's not if you came here and you bit your knee and you received him then that's who it is he is The Great I Am All Things come through him not a hair on your head gets touched nothing happens in your world until he ordains it and if he wants it then you suck it up and run with it because at the end of the day that's what he wants you and I will never get better at being a good catholic christian unless we are pushed we become come like a days ago we start staying at home it becomes too easy the Eucharist is everything if you leave here with that same worry that is the hype of being hypocritical people need to know that you're a follower of Jesus Christ that you believe in the church that you believe his mother was ever virgin and that it begins and ends with the start of the Apostles my brother and sister Christ I leave you with this John Paul II was spot on every problem in the world every problem in the world world the solution to it is the host amen amen no y'all can do better than that amen there you go father son holy spirit amen<\p>

price price as in a price to pay willingly it's the 1880s and you know in the 1880s 65 to 85% of the people lived in the rural country they lived in the countryside that's amazing that some 65% of the people did the 1880s but for Richard man it's just what he wants he he prefers to live in that way as a result of such he's doing okay you need to understand Richard though Richard is the manager of the train depot and he will tell you that he just loves what he does to a point he will tell you there's anything I can do I will do can do does do jack of all trades master none but that boy got a motor and he can flat run as a result of it m comes in off the train his job is to collect it and distribute it his job is to collect and distribute the mail from the towns and The Villages and get it on the train he's responsible if you will for telegrams and the telegraph incoming and outgoing not to mention he's got the cargo and the boxes that come on the trains not to mention he's also responsible for lining up the tracks for the train to go on destinations times Etc one day Richard's taking care of business and all of a sudden he sees this one box all it's got on it is an address to a store being that he's the mailman in Persona if you will he sees the box he looks at it saysi just make this doing one of my drops he goes through the town he all of a sudden he comes to the store and he tells the store look this box is for you he said no it's not for me it's just a scam he said well it's he's got your name on it's got the store's name on it anyway and I mean it's got your address he said Richard look he opens a box and it's it's glasses a lot of sunglasses for the most part he said I didn't order these they come from Chicago they're going to tell you that you can sell them for $12 each uh 14 and you can and sell and you can keep the 12 you send two to me and he says it's a scam he said I'm not even doing it he said it's just a scam he said well let me ask you is it possible that we could sell these sunglasses for 14 and still pay them to 12 he said well yeah there's a market for it he said uh he says it's glasses it's watches it it's it's a little bit everything he said well can I sell the watches for the same thing and he said yeah you can he said because people are hooked on time different time zones we travel in different states people are working longer during the day he said I'm telling you you can but Richard there's a price to pay and he said well I know it's going to be the difference no no no he said no no I'm not talking economics he said I'm talking you still got a train depot you still got packages you still got mail you still got the Telegraph and now you're going to add this to your plate I'm going to tell you you're not going to be home a lot so Richard takes the back he said well can I take it and start he said it's yours he goes back and he starts thinking about how could I distribute these glasses and these watches and he starts taking sheets of paper Richard does and he starts making like pictures of them and then he starts stapling them together then he puts it together in the mail since he's got to distribute the mail and then when he's Distributing he start his own little mini catalog as a result of it the numbers are coming in people are buying glasses people are buying watches to a point that he needs to get a partner so Richard goes to a guy named ala and he tells ala he said look I can't fix him but if you don't fix them I'm only going to have a one-time sale Alvin says okay I'll fix them he said tell what we'll just split the profits he said good deal first 2 3 months $5,000 profit and then Here Comes the bad news the people in Chicago are saying well we're going to continue to sell it but you really need to come here so he turns to his Budd Richard does and said here's the bad news the price we going to pay to keep doing this because there's only so many Su glasses and and watches we can sell in this County we need to move to Chicago Alva said man I'm not moving to Chicago I'm a country person I love where I'm at I'm not moving he said if we don't move this job is over they move they do the same concept they start their own catalog you and I growing up used to get it every Christmas he told Alva we name the company after you robu he said no only if we name it after you Richard Richard Sears Sears and robu because somebody was willing to pay the price that is exactly that gospel the good Lord is asking his apostles are you willing to pay the price more than you think that you're going to have to love me more than your mom and dad you're going to have to love me more than your children and your children are going to have to love me more than they love you now that's the price you're going to have to pay now stop you're a first century Jew Matthew is a Jew he is a tax collector Matthew's other name sometimes is Levi he's very articulate he is very Jewish now remember as a tax collector remember this my brother and sister Christ the Jews don't like you CU you're taking money from them the Gentiles don't like you because you're a Jew the Romans don't like you because you're taking money but you're adding a tax on top of the money that's your own tax and therefore you're the probably the wealthiest guy in the whole County and as a result of such this is why Matthew is speaking Matthew speaks to the Jews a 100 times in his gospel he talks about what it's like to be in the Old Testament so he's going to assume as a Jew that you understand how he writes he breaks his gospel up into five categories one is the call of the Apostles that's what this is when he calls the apostles do you ever notice that he only calls Peter first every time in Judas always last do you notice that Peter is the only one that had a name changed kayi in Aramaic Boulder massive remember he speaks to them in Aramaic not Greek which would have meant Little Boulder that's why he called him kayi that's why John refers to him as kayi my brothers Christ Peter is the first to anoint Peter's the first to hold a counsel Peter is the first to baptize Peter's the first to do a miracle he's the first to defend him that's why he is protos and dominant now he has called the apostles together now remember you're a good Jew you know scripture like the back of your hands you know all about Ezekiel you know all about Daniel you know Elisha Elijah you know about Daniel you know all the prophets you know the Miracles that they did remember the Old Testament Hebrew scripture is structured in a way where it's always pointing to the coming of Christ they all do the same types of Miracles the blind sea the lame walk the dead rise until one guy comes along and then he says your sins are forgiven and then he makes reference to himself I am my brother and sister in Christ he has called the apostles together and you know what's amazing as a Jew you know the Commandments equally well but you know what you know better than the Commandments you know the shama that's the Ten Commandments in our vernacular the shama would be tied to your wrist in a little box it'd be a little miniature scroll and on the scroll it would say the Lord our God is one we will love him with our whole heart a whole mind and our whole soul that's the first commandment so for him to say that you must love me more than your parents more than your children and your children should love me more than they love you he is saying I am my brother and sister in Christ remember it back in the story in Matthew remember that one of the first Miracles there was a a handicapped person was paralyzed they lowered him down in the house that was Peter's house by tradition and all of a sudden the good Lord comes out and says your sins are forgiven get up and walk all the Pharisees are sitting on the inside of the house are saying well how can he forgive sins Only God Can and the good Lord says well so that you will know I am pick up your mat and walk in other words he's telling the disciples I'm the one you've waited for I'm the Messiah as a result of such Your Love must be greater than that and as a result of such you got to be willing to pay the price whatever the price may be now my brother sister Christ go back in scripture everybody that followed Christ pays the price you know the god longus the one that stabbed Our Savior whether that is his name or not is irrelevant longinus means speartip but for the sake of argument he Spears the good Lord the good Lord is already dead but yet he continues to believe which means he's Divine that's why I kiss the altar that's where his wound would have been as a result of such he makes a statement and says these seven or eight words truly this man was the son of God talk about p a price for making a proclamation you are a centurion you are the head of a legion you are pilate's right-hand man and you just made a proclamation truly this man is a Son of God which said pilate you were not only wrong you're dead wrong you Jews that put this up y'all lied and you are now dead wrong my brother sister in Christ he doesn't have employment he's not going to have a pension plan or a health plan you know what happens to him he finally Ates the Blessed Mother and according to tradition brings her the spear tip it's about a foot and a half long he brings it to her he leaves what he's doing he goes to a country called capid doia for two years he lives off of whatever he can get preaching the gospel he is one of the most dominant preachers in his whole area in capadia which is turkey and you know what's amazing pilate sends centurions to go grab him and kill him and according to tradition when they get get to capid doia they have nowhere to stay so they stay there not recognizing him he feeds them takes care of them and houses them and then has to tell him I am longus as a result they behead him and they take the head all the way back to pilate a price he paid for making seven short words willingly he paid the price what if you're Joseph of arthea I mean man do you know Joseph was a fison do you know he was part of the hedrin man nothing happens until that group heads it up until they say it's okay for him to come out and put Christ in his tomb you know what you just told the rest of the Pharisees the the whole Sanhedrin man y'all were wrong I told y'all not to do anything when he put him in his tomb and they closed that rock that was the beginning of the end of Joseph arthea do you know according to tradition Caesar got wind of it pilot puts him on a boat to go all the way to Rome so that you can be held in court oh I bet that's going to be a fair trial the boat sinks another boat's got to pick him up he ends up going to another country and starting a monastery and dies there he has to leave his country and his family in order to defend the statement and the price that he pays is today that Monastery is still alive and well my brother and sister Christ did you know that when Peter was martyred on that proverbial day did you know his wife according to tradition was martyred as well remember brother Christ according to the tradition when they were about to take Peter and turn him upside down he looked at his wife for she was about to be martyred because she's the wife of Peter that's the price she will pay he says remember the Lord and go with God my brothers and sisters in Christ there is a price to pay to being a follower of Jesus Christ there's going to be there is going to be a price to pay to be a follower of Jesus Christ and to be part of holy mother Church you and I are not getting out of this game free if they martyred our Our Savior and all of the Apostles even the gospel writers even the gospel of Mark they drug him to the street until he was dead even the Gospel of Luke he was eventually hunged you and I really think that we're going to end up just going through life like it's a parade route you and I are going to have to pay the price of being Catholic and being true to Mother Church in our teachings how many times you need to start proving yourself on Small Things how many times when people say let us pray that you make sure the sign of the cross is made clearly and distinctly how many times when they say let us pray you jump in and say I will pray how many times when you jump in and pray you give him the hell Mary oh wait a minute you don't want to offend him I mean because now you're going to have to defend her honor and her veil that's the price you pay are you going to say well I just didn't want to hurt their feelings but I have no problem disparaging hers will you not make the sign of the cross because you don't want to hurt their feelings but you have no problem hurting his my brother and sister in Christ there's a price to be prayed for being Catholic in the world today and it's going to be coming sooner than you and I think the fact of the matter is how good are you at sticking to your guns my brothers Christ will you continue to go to the sacrament of confession the saic confession is scriptural it was in existence before the coming of Christ l 5 and 6 Hebrews 5 in the New Testament I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one no one should take it upon themselves but how many times do I hear people say oh I just go to the good lord well so did I back in the day I mean heck I'm a pretty good guy I haven't killed anybody more importantly it wasn't my fault it was y'all's it's easy to get forgiveness when you're judge jury and executioner my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to go to the sacraments when everybody else tells you not to are you willing to go to mass in an arena when everybody else says I'd rather watch it on television that way I can watch it while I'm having coffee I can have a snack I can watch it in my pajamas the Messiah of the world comes at Mass Heaven and Earth touch and you're telling me it's more important that I watch it instead of be present my brother in Christ that's fallen and be careful we don't fall much more I do understand there are precautions in the wind and I get that but at some point the Eucharist is the Eucharist and in that little host all the solutions of the world will reside John Paul II my brother in Christ I'm asking you to stick to your guns I'm asking you to do what is necessary to make sure that you finish and pay the price when that person calls you and it's so you're so tired of talking to him because you end up in the same Circle I mean you start one hour and the next hour you're in the same spot will you take the phone call instead of watching the television or making an excuse why you can't are you a good catholic christian or are you not would Christ walk away would do Apostles have walked away are you willing when somebody says pray for me when you say the words I will pray for you are you being truthful or you just giving them rhetoric my brothers Christ when you tell somebody you're going to pray for them you must pray for them and especially for those that do not like you Matthew would tell you it's it's easy to pray for other Tax Collectors for I was one the question you got to ask yourself will you pray for those that have this stain by the mere mention of your name causes them to spit will you pray for them because if you're not no one is I'm asking you to persevere I'm asking you to dig in and dig hard because at the end of the day if you get to the gate and you do not recognize anybody on the other side of that gate you're at the wrong gate you're headed to hell because they're disembodied they look like animals if you have no friends in heaven you're at the wrong gate and there's nothing I can do for you if you and I do not learn to persevere and pay the price I promise you we will pay even a greater price my brothers and sister in Christ you make that sign of the cross you pray the hell Mary if you don't know how to defend the church then go learn it stop blaming mother Church you do what you got to do ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ you got to do what you got to do it's a priority we got one job one job only is make it to Heaven I do not care about your profession your job your Camp your income your health plan I don't care the only thing that matters is did you or did you not make Heaven yes or no pay the price I leave you with this my brother and sister in Christ there will be there will be a price to speaking the truth there will be a price to speak the truth but there will be even a greater price not to act on it pay it forward pay it in advance pay it fully pay the price amen amen no no I'm work way too hard for that one amen there you go the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

weeds are wheat weeds are wheat my brother in Christ it's about the 1950s 1960s his name is Gerard and Gerard is a can do does do type of guy he is New York City in and out he loves the big city man he if you were to ask him he will tell you New York is in the very essence in the marrow of his bones he will tell you that he will do anything to stay in the big city he actually will tell you that not only I want to be part of the big city I want to be part of the big tent and you might assume that he's talking about movies television radios and he probably is to an extent but his desire is that he wants to be the best trapas artist the world has ever seen he actually wants to be in the circus he wants to be in the main tent as a matter of fact brother Christ he's so Dev out about wanting to do this he's decided to pick up his family and move all the way to Australia he gets to Australia and he's getting his opportunity but let's be honest you don't start at the big tent right away so he's doing little odd andin jobs he does okay with it but at the end of the day there's other issues there's a lack of money so he's decided I'm going to do whatever I got to do he starts working in the docks at night that way he can subsidize his income and his family and then all of a sudden Manny gets a pay check and he's going home one night five gentlemen catch him going home and say they want his money he tells him not only no but heck no ah I see where's your mind Brothers and Sisters in Christ as a result of it man it turns into a brewhaha it turns into a melee they beat him Gerard like there's no tomorrow when it was all said and done five on one not only did they break his eyes to such an extent that it was coming loose of the socket they broke his nose so bad that if it wouldn't have been for the skin I'm not sure they could have located it they gave him a concussion they knocked every tooth out of his head they broke both his arms they broke both his legs my brother and sister in Christ when the police showed up they called the morg they didn't call the hospital they actually put him in the hearse and the guy that put him in says I think I heard something he goes back and he's got a little voice left in him they immediately get him to the hospital one year not a weekend not a couple of days God forbid outpatient you're in out in 24 hours and that's not enough one year he's in the hospital they finally put him back together he is so hideous looking that they actually make a movie about him later in life called the man with no face the man with no face big hint big hint as a result of it man he's decided that as Catholic as he is he's going to go to church they probably think Satan would have entered when they seem he sits in a Pew contemplating whether it's time to take his life tell me the good Lord doesn't work as he works a priest came in wearing his clerics easy to recognize he sees this man crying in a Pew and when he sees his face he tries not to make that sudden jerk back he sits next to him and says talk to me he said there's nothing to say he said I think I'm going to take my life he said you're getting confused with the weeds and the wheat there's work for you and we can make it happen he asked him what can be done about it he said give me a chance to give one doctor just to help you with your look and one dentist if what I've done is failure then you can romp in the weeds all you want fair enough he finds the surgeon he finds the dentist puts him back together again he starts to work again at the circus and then finds out that man you know he's a pretty handsome guy pretty soon he starts getting bit parts and this and that next thing you know my brother's Christ he's even producing movies like Heartbreak Ridge The Passion of Christ he's the star and Lethal Weapon and you know him as Mel Gerard Gibson all because somebody took the time to explain the difference between the weeds and the wheat that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ how well did you listen did you hear our savior say you have ears but you do not hear or worse you do not listen you have eyes but you do not see gross is your heart now stop you're a first century Jew and now you understand the dynamic you understand that Isaiah is the prophet and for this got to quote Isaiah he is either equal to or better than because everybody in the New Testament has to be greater than that of the old the good Lord does everything Isaiah does the blind see the lame walk the dead rise he prophesizes and he also forgives sins so for him to do that you and I as a Jew would have taken a step back saying man he's quoting Isaiah now remember brother and sister in Christ you need to remember this too he said for those who hear and listen And for those who see he said you will grow 30-fold 60-fold 100 fold if you got tenfold in Scripture that was miraculous if you were Sevenfold in Scripture that was called profound so for you to get 30 60 or 100 tells you how profound it is if you listen and you see my brother s Christ I need you to understand that there were four different options first it fell on a path next it fell on Rocky ground then you found out that it fell in the thorns and then fell brother and sister in Christ that it fell on rich soil one out of four understand understand it nothing's changed today only one out of four 25% of the people are following through with our faith look around you it's too hot it's too this it's to that I will remind you that Christ his masses once he started proclaiming the mass and the apostles we either played on a mountain side in a cemet below ground or sneaking between people's houses My Brother and Sisters in Christ you need to understand that one out of 25 how is it my brothers and sisters in Christ every funeral I go to every funeral whether I'm a priest or not whether I'm participating or not everybody's in a better spot everybody I had a dear friend I went I was a priest as I am now I wasn't a speaker another Reverend was speaking I went because I knew my BR my brother that has passed is in trouble and I needed to offer a Mass for him the Reverend stood up and said he's in a better spot I remember thinking I'm in the wrong room there is no way my boy made it I know him I know his ways and the way he went about the world there in lies the point point my brother and sister Christ go back in scripture while you're going back in scripture ask yourself this one question where do you sit are you on the path because it's going to sprout just because it's on good decent ground but it's very shallow are you going to be in the middle of the Thorns where the world will choke it off the world will choke it off with money and power and Prestige and anxiety maybe Brothers and Sisters in Christ it's on Rocky song that it's not going to last any longer than the day the first time frustration comes to your life the first time somebody pushes back you're going to fold your ttin and go away are you have you taken the time to put forth the effort to make sure that you now have planted your seeds among the wheat 75% are planting theirs among the weeds that's the problem now look go back in scripture if there's ever one time where the good Lord is trying to get people to think think go back to the story remember when the woman is being caught in prostitution you ever noticed the man's never caught I mean he was involved I'm just saying you know what it's like being a priest you're like Switzerland you're not on either side but it sure is good just to throw rocks just cuz you can my brother and sister in Christ in that story the scribes and Pharisees come up and says we found a woman and prostitution now what you're not being told is where this argument takes place within earshot of a centurion near the Roman Roman court and why is that important because nobody can kill anybody until that Centurion gets it blessed by the authorities so the the the Pharisee or the sadducee if you will the Scribe is saying Lord according to Jewish faith we are to Stone her what do you say in other words you say Stone him and the centurion's going to have an argument you say not the stoner then we're going to have an argument in other words nobody is stopping to think in other words they're trying to pull you into the weeds so the good Lord begins to talk to him and then as he's talking to him he generally gets down on his knees and he starts to take his finger and I don't believe he wrote the sin into the the ground because then he would look at you and then he would look at me and then he'd make the symbol of the sin that way you and I knew exactly who he was talking to and some just stood there he stands back up and he says well man you without the first sin throw the first stone nobody's moving nobody's decided what they're going to do the good Lord's trying to pull them to the wheat and get out of the weeds they're not listening and he gets back down on his knees again and begins to write as they begin to drop their rocks and walk away and pretty soon nobody is there to make the argument do you know why he waited till everybody left because according to the Jewish law and to the Roman law two or three are gathered in my name you got to have two witnesses to Stone anybody or to have any argument now you have no argument you have no Witnesses so the Centurion can go about his business and you can go back and study the law that you profanely gave to me he's trying to get people out of the weeds and into the wheat well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later what path are you on Brothers and Sisters in Christ let me ask you are you in the weeds or the wheat or you on the one PL path that you planted your soil and you planted that seed deep let me ask you if we're only talking about our faith as Catholic Christians for you to be able to say you're on the right path and that it was planted in deep soil means you know the Ten Commandments first and foremost in order that's why he wrote them that way that's why the first three do with th relationship with Christ and the next six if you will the next seven deal with our relationship ship with one another and that there there's only one commandment that's contingent and that's the fourth honor your mother and father and you'll live a long life in the land that I've given you dishonor them and your life will be tumultuous if you do not know the Commandments and the words of St John if you say you love me but do not know my Commandments his words not mine you're a liar so if you're on the right path then you already know the Commandments if you're on the right path can you defend the honor of the Blessed Mother as being ever virgin how long have you been Catholic can you defend the concept of purgatory or confession or the seven sacraments or that you need to have a covenantal relationship with Jesus Christ far greater than a personal relationship Christ is also Divine we need to consume the Eucharist so because we were made in His image therefore our relationship needs to be covenantal are you willing to defend the faith how much have you studied our faith do you only study it when I come up here and yell and scream for every 10 minutes My Brother and Sisters in Christ it's a way of life what about it work are you willing to make sure that you do what you do to plant The Good Seed of Jesus Christ when you go to work and everybody else has lost their minds when everybody else only calls your name when they need help your phone is the only phone that rings when go south are you willing to pick up that phone Simon and answer it because you want to make sure that the seeds were planted were that of Jesus Christ and that the seeds will produce wheat when you get that email or that text message or you get home are you going to make sure that you cultivate the wheat and not the weeds my brother's Christ every day you should I should take counsel and ask ourselves very simply did I produce more weeds or more wheat did I bring people that were lost to the wheat or did I leave them in the weeds or did I plant weeds around them in regards to our faith and not being able to explain it or take time to study it I'm only relying on just on Sundays to get my fill we spend all week putting knots in our rope and we think one hour on Sunday is going to remove it my brother and sister in Christ that's what Paul was talking about that's what Isaiah's come that's why the good Lord says man are you listening with your ears are you watching me with your eyes if I were to watch you all day whether you say nothing or not if I watched you would at the end of the day I say now that was a disciple of Jesus Christ would I walk up to you at the end of the day and say my child God bless you for being my disciple on this Earth I will welcome you home to the table of all of my children or will I say depart from me for I don't know you yeah you spelled my name and you judged me you condemned my priest you cursed them in darkness and I will shed light I got on emails and Facebook and I gave people the business my brother in Christ every action that you and I take every thought we're going to stand before him and be accountable every thought every action it's either going to produce wheat or it will be thrown into the weeds my brothers and sisters in Christ I leave you with this at the end of the day this is what you and I believe as Catholic Christians and as the Jew descendants of the Jews Jeremiah made the argument that the good Lord will either write your name in the Earth or he'll either write it in the book of life that's why he's bending down to write there your sins he's telling them that if you keep going I'm not only going to write your sin in the earth I'm going to write your name that's why we don't know the name of the rich man and Lazarus when that incident took place because his name's not in the book of life it was written in the earth ask yourself each and every day was your name written on the earth or was it written in the Book of Life was it a wheat that you produced or was it that you produced wheat amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

weed as in singular weed it's the 1920s 1930s he's been laying in a field all day he has been laying in a field of weeds all day just waiting for that opportunity he knows the little girl is going to come out to play It's the grandmother's house she loves to be outside I'm just going to sit and wait hours go by he knows that she's going to come out you see he's just got to wait you see you got to understand and first of all the girl is absolutely adorable she's about yay tall pigtails but kind of brownish hair to her shoulder she has these freckles across her face very light skin and she's always loves the outdoors he knows this you see because he's her dad he's really trying to kidnap her is what he's trying to do man he's waited so long he's become tired exasperated he decides to sit up against a tree and he starts to look around the field and he says man it's just nothing but weeds how aopo my whole life is one big weed it's been nothing but weeds he started thinking back that his dad died when he was five he gets to high school and he doesn't quite have the grades it would help if you show up but Harlen has decided no I'm not as a result man he doesn't get through high school he's got to come back later and finish he's decided deed that man he's got to do something with his life so he decides that I'm going to join the Army he gets there turns into a little bit of a brew haa with a couple of soldiers he gets Le he gets he goes awall he's got to leave man he left he never even became a private as a result he said man I got to find some other work he decides that man I'll go I tell you what I'll do I'll drive a street car goes to work for a street car gets into an argument with some of the passengers another brewhaha in sores as a result of it he said man I got to find me another job so he leaves he says man I'm going be a farmer that's what I'm I'm going to be a farmer Harlin has no green thumb therefore there is no Farm therefore he has lost even more money as a result of it he's decided that you know I I just need to do something you know he actually finished high school go studies to be an attorney takes the bar passes in his first trial he does such a magnificent job until the very end when his client and him getting an argument and a fight ensues in the courtroom he's disbarred as a result of it man he can't even make ends meat he tried to sell tires he tried to sell insurance he tried to sell cars and now he's sitting in a field hoping against hope that he could see his daughter he came home one day his wife had taken sold all their goods moved back home to a grandmother that's her house that's why he's out there he just wants to see his daughter he's finally decided you know there's only one thing in my life I've Done Right Out of all the weeds in my life the one thing I did as I married the right woman albeit we're estranged and I have a beautiful daughter man next thing you know he's decided I'm just going to go go back to work he tries little in and odd jobs man he built a this a pressure cooker that was absolutely well beyond his years man he started going back to try and sell cars and next thing you know he meets his friend and his friend tells him look go back back to your wife do what you got to do you know you harling you only do one thing good man besides fight that's obvious he says the only thing you do is run a gas station and the only thing in that gas station that's worth anything is the chicken that you make yeah my brothers and sisters in Christ it's when he decides to go back and do what he does best notwithstanding all the weeds you and I come to know Harland as the colonel because he gets back with his wife and they BR another child in the world and today you and I have KFC because he recognized that he needed to get the weeds out of his life that is exactly that gospel this is why the good Lord tells them no don't pull the weeds let me do it you take care of yourself I will handle the weeds of the world now stop you're a first century Jew please remember this whenever the good Lord talks parabolically he's speaking in in Parables look for the twist something that just doesn't seem logical two weekends ago a farmer went and got seed he threw seed Upon A pathway he threw seed in the Rocks he threw seed in the thorns and he finally planted on good soil what farmer spends 75% of his Goods on ground that he know it will not grow there's the twist there's where the good Lord wants you to look at it it's totally contrary to what you think instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing are they in the Thorns are they are the rocks are they on the beaten path the only thing you need to worry about is where are you relative to him and did you realize only 25% of the people get it look around my brother and sister in Christ the parable that he's now speaking to you with you mean to tell me that you hear a story that overnight 24 hours weeds are now growing and when you come out what farmer wouldn't already start pulling the weeds granted it's diabolical that the weeds have shown up overnight but why wouldn't he allow you to pull it cuz he's trying to tell you I need you to start with the small weed the one that's in you and not in everybody else I need you to start small so that you will know where I want you to be so that you will be in the 25% that I'm after because 75% are falling away my brother and sister in Christ when he talks about Le do you know to a Jew when you speak of Leaven to raise bread if you will they use that to describe the Pharisees and Sadducees who walk around in pump and Circumstance and he's saying no don't be that way but because I used Levan this is how it will be when you decide to take care of that one weed it will start to grow within you and then it'll be contagious between you and your spouse then you and your spouse and your children and then your family and then your neighbors you have to start all there is where he's driving home the point my brother and sister in Christ when he said a mustard seed and that it would grow into a beautiful Bush have you seen a mustard plant have you seen the shrub at its height it's a 10- foot tumble weed instead of saying the Cedars of Lebanon or the massive Oak he said if you start small I promise you no matter what you come out like if you follow me people will come to you to find me even in a mustard plant a mustard shrub a tree my brothers and sisters in Christ therein lies the point he's asking you to focus just on the weed that grows within you and I so that we can prune it so that we can grow closer to him look go back in Scripture it doesn't take long for weeds to grow within six days of creation Lucifer has already been planted and is already removing Adam and Eve man and woman my brother and sister in Christ Noah is not up the mountain excuse me Moses is not up the mountain 40 days and they're already building a golden calf in order to get that calf built somebody had to start early they didn't wait till the 40th Day so somewhere less than half the days weeds grew Judas turns Our Savior over and in 24 hours he goes from the Apostle Judas blind sea lame walk dead Rock to the son of predition and it would have been better You' never been born that's how dominant one weed can be well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother sister in Christ you and I need to look inwardly and ask ourselves what is the one thing we need to stop doing and what is the one thing we need to start doing what is the one thing that we need to stop doing how much time do you and I spend on our cell phones emails text messages if you and I are on the phone texting talking or whatever more than we are praying that's disordered that has to stop that's one thing that has to stop if you're on the computer not out I'm talking about outside of work more than you are reading or studying about Christ or reading a spiritual book it's disordered if you spend more time talking about others than Jesus Christ that is the height of disorder my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord is telling you to stop worrying about the world and worrying about you you will not change the world by opinion you will only change the world by action my brothers Christ that is Mother Teresa that is the point of the Gospel he's saying there's got to be one thing that you need to stop doing is it that one extra drink oh but father I can stop whenever I want then please do so because you're killing everybody else man is it pornography is it the computer you and I both know that once you get into that computer you're there for hours man look at Facebook if you spend more time responding to Facebook than you do in prayer on your knees that is disordered it must stop there is one thing that you and I need to start doing is walking away from conversations that do not compel us to bring us closer to Christ how safe how safe is somebody else's name on your lips that's the bottom line I don't want to hear well father I was just saying good what you just said was a lie it was imprudent it's bearing false witness because whether it's true or not nobody told you to be the town crier so once you put it on the Internet or the email or you hit sin congratulations you've done bought into the sin of commandment 8 now you got to go to confession before you come to receive this is how easy the evil one gets in our game he starts intertwining our thoughts and getting us to react because we are passionate because we are people with appetites in St Thomas's words so what I'm asking you to do is stop and think before you respond before you act why because that's where the evil one resides he resides at the very end so when someone starts speaking about somebody else would it be best for you and I to say at least man let's pray for them or better yet just walk away my brother and sister in Christ what are the one things that you and I need to stop doing is how much time do we spend in front of the television could we not spend a little more time just in prayer to go by the Adoration Chapel to sit before him my brother and sister in Christ to help a family member that's in need to get on a phone to go see a loved one you haven't talked to to go by the nursing home to do what it takes to make help a family out my brother and sister in Christ the problem of the world today is we are narcissistic if it's not the way I want it when I want it and how I want it then I will not participate then so be it and when you stand before him you tell him because I'm not going to take the hit for the sin I am not going to stand up and say Lord I'm sorry I shrunk in front of you I know I stutter and stammer but during the homy for some reason for the last 10 years it's never been the case and you want me to cow toow and say that I'm not going to say it but at the end of the day gossip and slander destroy our church it destroys our families it destroys our fabric that is why our church is in trouble trouble that is why our families are in trouble that's why we're in trouble my brother and sister in Christ you and I always have one thing that we need to start doing and one thing that we need to stop doing I'm asking you to make it start today I don't care if you get up and you fall down get back up I don't care if you get up and you fall down a 100 times get up I don't care if you want to have a pity party great step on the side kick your dog do what you got to do now get in the game because you came in on this day and you're going home on this day everything in between is what we will be judged on my Mercy doesn't want it but Justice demands it stop looking at Christ as a big marshmallow in the words of one of our great Saints she said his Mercy stops on the day of your passing and then only judgment is left you have up until this day to make amends go to confession do the best you can and just love one another my brothers and sisters in Christ I leave you with this at the end of the day there is no greater gift than the Eucharist outside of the Eucharist it's it's confession I'm telling you find a priest and go pick one thing in your life that you need to stop doing and one thing in your life you need to start doing amen the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

fence fence as in standing or walking the fence in other words not taking a decision not making up your mind being on the fence it's the 1980s his name is Daryl Daryl is a I think it's Sinex New York he is a New York boy he's a Catholic New York boy now he's not the poster child for Catholicism but he is today back in the day he'll tell you man he said said life was kind of ups and downs more for me and my family I had three three family members or three sisters and brothers and as a result he said man my mom and dad my dad was a bodybuilder my mom she was the quintessential mom he'll tell you that man no sooner they got started they got divorced and next thing you know man he's moving to Miami with his other siblings and his mom he'll tell you he said man grammar school was okay but High School there you got to be identified a certain way and he said as much as I like doing plays I loved boxing even better in high school 27 and three he was that good he decided that he needed the discipline of boxing because it kept him out of trouble per se kept him off of drugs and alcohol but when he did the play called the serpent in high school he said man there was just something about it and he said but it didn't have the discipline well man next thing you know he's out of high school and man you're good at boxing and then he said said I kept going and he said then I met one guy who hit me so hard he actually gave me a concussion he said man I'm one step ahead of the law and everything that happens he said I'm losing it my sister comes to me gives me $400 and said get to New York I'm going to introduce you to this one guy who does a little playwriting maybe you can get on a little stage a little screen do it makes him ends meet he goes to New York City but you don't make money right away he's in a show called The Diner which did okay and then he decided Well man maybe I should try something else and he's still just one step ahead of the law finally his sister contacts me and says look you got to stop walking the fence you're either going to be an actor or you can go back to being a fighter but you're going to have to make up your decision you can't run both of these he said well I need the discipline of the fighting and the boxing she goes no what you need is the discipline to be a good actor because as soon as you ever got involved you would find out it's every bit as disciplined as the other life and man can I tell you he starts getting in movies bits and pieces here he did a movie called Once Upon a Time in Mexico I can see no one here saw it but that's okay from that he gets into another movie called nine and a half weeks from that one he gets in another one called Harley-Davidson in the marbor man he gets in another one called The Rain Maker then he's in another one called the iron man he's actually in the the little show that comes on called The Expendables with with Stallone you know what's amazing My Brother and Sisters in Christ is that you know Mickey roor but you'd have to actually see what he looks like and then you would recognizing for who he is you know today if you and I were to ask him what is the one thing that got you off the fence he would tell you it's my two dogs and my priest named father Petey to this day he is a devout Catholic talk about get off the fence that is exactly that gospel my brother sister in Christ four times in as many paragraphs the good Lord says the Kingdom of Heaven is like this my brother and sister in Christ three of the four are Parables now listen stop make sure you're a first century Jew you and I now know after being with Christ for three years that whenever he speaks parabolically there's always a Twist something that doesn't seem logical that's where he wants you to focus because that illogical point is what he wants you to focus on for example you're walking by a field you notice that they have a a treasure instead of just taking the treasure and continue on your way you decided to take it Go bury it go sell everything you have and hopefully by the field he said so you and I know something's not right well obviously the apostles didn't know either because that's why he gives a second Parable he said it's like a man who finds a precious Pearl he sells everything he has his home his clothing his food so he can buy the one Pearl so that he can buy a bigger home more clothing more food well you can't wear the Pearl you can't eat it and you better hope you sell it quickly that's what the good Lord is saying listen to what's happening my brother Jus Christ what the good Lord is saying is you can't steal Heaven you can't buy your way in so therefore when you find a treasure or a pearl and to make sure that the apostles understand that you can't steal it if you and I were there with Christ and we had all this knowledge of living here today he would say the Kingdom of Heaven is like a baseball field if you would like to steal second base you're going to have to take your foot off of first you and I will now understand that to get to second it takes Faith but you're going to have to act and you're going to have to walk out your comfort zone now the apostles must be understanding why because the next thing is the Kingdom of Heaven is like the angels and when they come they're going to separate the good from the bad they're not going to say lukewarm or all those who are walk in the fence I'm a part-time Catholic or I'm a Christian I worship God in the field and the Duck Blind the deer stand I worship him on the baseball field I commune with him he created nature so you would know he exists by its beauty but there is only one place where he is physically located therefore to keep holy my day and being that he's the only thing holy I need to be in front of him it's so profound that the apostles finally get it and he says you think the Scribe are important you think they have knowledge because they know the legal and they know words they know language he said you will be better than the scribes for the scribes only know the Old Testament but you and I are going to write the new you can't steal second with your foot on first you're going to have to get off the fence now look go back in scripture all of our best players or people that made a decision to get off the fence are never to be part of it they make have been on the other side but once they planted their flag and crossed over to Catholicism to Christianity man they that's where they stayed now for everyone that did that there is a Judas who says I'mma Walk the Line with Christ for three years three years you were considered an apostle the blind see the lame walk and the dead rise money gets into your craw and you simply can't get away from it in 48 hours hours you go from an apostle and ultimately one day you would have been St Judas to have been better you've never been born you're the son of predition what about Pilate is that not the greatest fence Walker of our day I mean here he is trying to patronize the Jews all the while keep Caesar happy so that I can stay in control so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull out a bowl and towel and wash my hands but brother Christ how many people still do that today today say oh man he's just washing his hands of it how many people today use the anal analogy man he just moves the decimal point that's where he is he's waiting for his 30 pieces of silver but I promise you for every one of those there's another one on the other side take Joseph of arthea do you think that he waited to the very last second to say I'd give up my tomb remember he's from the Sanhedrin he's a devout Jew one once he gave up his tomb he has forever planted his flag he said look I'm not walking the fence I may have been a Jew and will always remain a Jew but I now know him to be the Messiah two years later oh what I take it back within a year he has been called to Rome to justify giving up his tomb to the Messiah so much so according to tradition that when his sh ship sinks he actually goes to another country and starts a monastery still existing today that's what it takes to plant your flag and say I no longer I'm going to walk the fence my brother Christ long guus how much courage did it take when this crucifixion is going on you are paid by Rome your boss is the quintessential fence Walker for you to turn in the middle of the crucifixion and say truly that man was the son of God you you can take your 401k and put it on the side you can take all the P power and Prestige of being a follower and being the right-hand man a pilot what he said was I'm not going to walk the fence either he is or he is not and now that I believe two years later do you know that Rome sends Alle Legion after him and according to tradition they were looking for him in a city they actually sat down to eat with this man and as they started to eat and he was feeding all the different Souls soers one of them recognized him and said you're longinus and he said yes I am I'm the one you're looking for well we're going to pretend we didn't find you but no you're not because I'm not going to walk the fence I'm a Believer in Jesus Christ as I made my Proclamation they beheaded him and took his head back either to Rome or to pilate my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later you've got us you and I I need to stop walking that fence on the issues of holy mother Church you're either Catholic or you are not there are seven sacrements or there are not I've already been pretty much every Faith there is if not I have studied it so therefore if our argument is I believe in the sacraments father but confession I go directly to the big guy let's make sure we understand what we just said I don't care what it says in scripture in Leviticus that before the time of Christ there was confession confession Christ makes the statement I came to fulfill the law not change it so therefore I can't change confession did you know that in Leviticus you had to confess your sins publicly and based on the animal you bought for the sacrifice they could have pretty much dictated what your sin was when John the Baptist is in the Jordan he is baptizing them for the Forgiveness of sins how does Matthew know that if he's not listening to what's being said my brother and sister in Christ Hebrews 5 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins and no one is to take it upon themselves but yet we got the unmitigated goal and our argument is well God is the only one that can forgive sins my brother sister in Christ that's not the question the question is does confession need to be said and it does it was that way in Leviticus it was in Hebrews 5 and in chapter 20 of John he'll tell you go out and heal them and forgive them of your sin sins my brother sister Christ I don't understand the argument if you and I die on the same day and the good Lord looks at you and says you know what you're right I should have said something 2,000 years ago what the heck come on in I've been hearing your sins you know what you're very forgiving of yourself but I digress I'm going to say wait a minute I've been following your rulebook so if you let him in you got to let me in but if he turns to you and says you knew better but you chose differently then you can walk the fence there in lies the point my brother and sister Christ how many times do you go to baptism and I hear people say well father you know I got to make sure that I can accept Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior before him baptized stop John the Baptist is baptized in the womb that's why the baby leaped at Mary's greeting when she walked in the house of Elizabeth first intercessory prayer in the New Testament not with standing if you go back to First Peter and he'll tell you that baptism is the new circumcision 8 days old when you were circumcised as as a Jew that was for the Rems of that original sin confirmation is when you stand up on your own two feet and confirm that I believe in Jesus Christ I believe in the teachings of his church I believe she was ever virgin I believe in what was proclaimed in the Apostles Creed that's why you stand up and make the proclam of what your parents said was true 15 or 20 years ago what I can't understand is how you can't understand it because now youve become the greatest fence Walker because you're saying well I'm not real sure but are you studying it well no I'm working at it well no no no did you study it because if you had then you wouldn't be walking backwards because when you stand before him and he ask you I noticed you never got confirmed well I was working on it well we're a little late now now because you're here so how am I supposed to assume that you're going to change your mind well you're changing your mind because you see me but you didn't think enough of me during your time you forget my brother and sister in Christ Mercy only lasts up until the day of your judgment once you and I pass there's no mercy it's only judgment Mercy takes place while you and I are alive because we have the ability to ask for it my brother and in Christ the sacraments of getting married in the church do you know why the good Lord wants you in front of his Tabernacle because at the wedding of canaa I stood there y'all don't even know the name of the couple 2,000 years later that's how important I be there so if you decide to get married on the beach on the balcony in the Mountaintop please understand yes God is omnipresent that is true but he's not physically present like he is here what if he's at the wedding to canaa but he's he's there as God another other words he's not physically present who's taking care of the wine who's filling the jars who's doing the blessing there in lies the point my brother and sister in Christ how many times do I hear people say you know if priest would marry we wouldn't have a pedophile issue wow how disordered is that my brother and sister in Christ I can tell you right now I love Mother church with my whole heart my whole mind and my whole soul and it hadn't been for his mother I wouldn't be here to speak to you you can only have one woman in your life you bring a family into this equation and I can promise you you'll never see your priest again because the demands are too great it is a gift it's a supernatural gift and that's why it takes father Howard and not so long to go through the go through the Seminary because it takes five or six years for you to make the adjustment that indeed were you called did you accept the calling are you willing to live the calling remember B Christ you either accept the church for who she is or you walk the fence how many times in your life are you walking the fence about what to do with someone in your family how many times are you walking the fence about whether you should go down this path or the other for work or relationship should I move forward over here should I even buy this house what about the car my brother Christ do me a favor go to conf confession on a consistent basis so the gap between you and God is small the further you get away from Christ and you try to discern which way to go everything is in the way work people relationships life the world the pandemic the virus money rent the note everything you got to go to confession and close the gap remember this nowhere in scripture did Christ ever baptize anyone or did he hear their confession I don't care what your argument is when Christ wrote the sins of the people the symbols of the sins on the ground you notice he didn't call them out and say well Bob that's yours that that's yours John that's yours Mark right there just in case you missed it he just wrote the symbol so that he wouldn't Proclaim out loud what was Mary magdalene's answer if you will his answer to her was go and do not sin again he didn't ask her what she was there for he never once said Is it true my brother and sister in Christ when Peter goes to the good Lord and He forgives him if you will for his three denials and asking Peter do you love me what's Peter's confession well I do love you Lord no I do I Lord you know everything that's not a confession My Brother and Sisters in Christ Peter later realizes that the Forgiveness can only come from Christ my brother and sister in Christ sometimes you and I have to make a decision and what I'm asking you to do is go to confession to close that Gap do it on a consistent basis remember Proverbs the average holy person sins seven times a day don't go to confession for a month that's 200 don't go for a year that's over 2,000 don't go for a decade that's 20,000 what type of relationship do you have my brother and sister in Christ when you receive the Eucharist it is the Eucharist the body blood soul and Divinity how you and I can jump to the fact that it's a relic or Theory or conjecture is unbelievable because if God is the word made flesh and he is and if the word says this is my body and he is a fulfillment of what Paul calls the New Covenant and therefore Judas never partook of the meal he partook of the uh the urve then why is it that you and I are so afraid of it so much so during the pandemic man we got more rules on how to receive the communion is it not the body blood soul and Divinity of our savior it either is or it isn't we can't walk the walk we can't stand on the fence sometimes you and I have to say Lord I've gone to confession I've gone to spiritual Direction I have obtained some advice and I've gone to adoration not just what the good Lord puts on my heart you always need somebody with you usually a priest so that you can discern what's from the evil one and what's from God and then said Lord I'm going down this path block it if you block it open it if you want but I feel this is the right decision and then full forward go forward my brother and sister in Christ remember this you and I do not have the luxury of waiting look at the world around you ask yourself are are we going better is it going to change the only time a car runs itself is when it's going downhill my brother sister in Christ you got to pick a side you got to plant your flag you either believe in mother church or you do not you either believe in the sacraments or do you not you either believe the Eucharist is true or you do not you either believe that he is omnipresent and Omni important and all powerful or you do not when you and I go to vote for an election that's coming up make sure you understand something abortion is wrong intrinsically there's nothing we can do to fix it other than stop it so when it comes time to vote and I hear people say it well I'm just not a I'm sorry father but I'm just not a a one type of guy in other words there's many issues I tell you what if you believe God is all powerful and all knowing but you like the economic policy of this one but he's okay for abortion you honestly believe God is not the king of supply and demand that God is not the king of economy and that because you killed my children I'm going to bless your plans because you got a good way with people because you have foreign policy my brother Christ what will we tell the Messiah when he says I don't want to hear any questions I got one question where are my children well Lord you got wait minut Lord work with me here we got a good plan where are my children well we have choice and so you do you have chosen to pick the fence and I Leave You In the words of Johnny Cash if there is a fence Between Heaven and Hell the fence will be owned by Satan amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

share share as in Sharing it's the year is 1901 Buffalo New York the home of the Pan-American Expo oh no be careful here it is the Expo it's the Expo around the world it'll be over 1 million people will come to this thing it covers over 300 acres they've got everything everything they've got rides they got entertainment they got music they got shows they even got all the newest invention the inventions Rumor Has It Edison himself will come he will light over 200 oh Excuse Me 2 million light bulbs using the water from Niagara Falls 30 miles away people are coming just to go to hear it matter of fact there's another rumor going around that the first roller coaster will used well I got to tell you William red you have said well if I'm if they're doing that and Edison's going to be there and and and they're going to have a roller coaster which I've heard so much about I I need to go they even going to have the ship in which the guy is going to go around the world the ship is called the spray I bet it's not more than 40 foot long that's going to be on display he said I got to get a booth I got to get my product out there and the top it all off who's the guest speaker President McKinley himself man they get crowds after crowds after crowds the first evening over 1 million light bulbs are lit thanks to Edison man the show is a big hit William McKinley comes in and he gives a talk and you should have hit her words y'all they were so profound he said Expos are the timekeeper of the world's events it's a record for all the inventions a timekeeper of all the inventions and and Records will kept for the world man he gives a talk man people couldn't believe it they were so ecstatic he's going through shaking people's hands out of nowhere a man stops shoots him twice man Panic ensues man one group of people jump on the shooter another people up pick it up Mr uh President Buchanan you know what they planned unbeknown to everybody they built a fullscale emergency room thinking with 1 million people surely they're going to have problems who would have thought man the president's been shot man they're rushing him over they're getting him in the room man the first bullet goes in hits a rib and leaves the second bullet they can't find man Panic is ensuing man they're getting everybody cleared out they're trying to save the President William roten who's one of the little display people is going to him and saying man look I can help you let me share it let let take my invention you can keep it I don't care just use it we can't you you just you don't know what the side effects are are of your equipment we just can't he said compared to what lead poisoning you can't find the bullet what do you have to lose we can't risk it President McKinley dies eight days later my brother and sister in Christ two inventions were not allowed to be used for years after that show the roller coaster never made it because they were afraid people were going to fall and William ronen's x-ray machine which could have saved the president's life if they had just used it shared it or just borrowed it my brother and sister in Christ that is exactly that gospel my brother and sister in Christ did you hear what the good Lord said looking up to heaven stop that's why you see me hold the gifts and bring it up like this and I look up that's where we get it from He blesses he breaks it that's why I break a piece of the host and put it in the chalice and then he feeds them my brother and sister in Christ did you not hear him bring the gifts to me five loaves of bread and two fish now stop stop you are a first century Jew you and I have all the knowledge of the Old Testament we are Jews by descent we know Isaiah we know Elijah Elisha we know them all and as a result this is what you need to understand this event takes place on Sunday afternoon on Sunday actually a foretelling of what is is to come my brother and sister in Christ he feeds 5,000 men which means Jews only count the men this is why they don't count women and children because it's closer to 10,000 people five loaves of bread two fish to a Jew the number five is very significant it represents the first five books of the Bible but you notice there are also two fish the good Lord is saying yes there's the Old Testament but now there's the new they will now come to know that the number two is hugely significant that's why we have two candles the old and the new my brother and sister in Christ you need to understand that Genesis started on a Sunday creation of the world on Sunday the Resurrection on a Sunday if you and I would go back to Leviticus like around chapters 25 or so you will hear Moses say that on the seventh day you will worship but it is also okay when you go to Jerusalem in particular that when you go to Jerusalem you do it on the eighth day Sunday is the first day the 8th day is Sunday yet again go back to the Acts of the Apostles around chapter 20 St Paul's letter to the Corinthians around like chapter 16 my brother and sister in Christ they're talking about the first day of the week is the day that they are celebrating this is why you and I celebrate the mass and the Sabbath on Sunday even the Jews were arguing on whether Saturday was the Jewish feast or the Sabbath the Pharisees and Sadducees believed it but they were very political the Essen Jews John the Baptist believed it was on Tuesday and Wednesday so therefore My Brother and Sisters in Christ when we say that it should have been why did we not celebrate it on Saturday because Christ is the lord of the Sabbath the Sabbath is not Lord over him I started the world on a Sunday and I Resurrected and built a new creation on Sunday my Apostles celebrated on Sunday and it is a Perpetual institution as you heard in the very first reading from Isaiah my brothers and sisters in Christ you and I need to understand everybody thought that Isaiah was the man everybody thought Elijah was the man everybody thought Elisha was the man they even thought Moses remember no matter how great Moses Elijah Isaiah or Elisha are none forgave sins yes the blind see the lame walk the dead rise but yet no one forgive sins why is this important listen to me everything in the Old Testament has to be less than everything in the New Testament the New Testament is a foretelling of what is to come it is Christ himself the New Testament must always be greater a man and woman are drawn to a tree as I spoke to you earlier they brought sin into the world man and woman drawn into the tree at the crucifixion to golgatha and even to Gethsemane they brought salvation into the world my brother to Christ in the Garden of Eden they didn't have names once they sinned they had names he brought in the Book of Life they raised their hand to steal from the tree he raised his hand to bring us the tree back and to restore it he gave us life life Everlasting Elijah yeah he wore camel skin but all he talked about was the coming of the Savior John the Baptist wore camel skin and actually pointed to him my brother and sister Christ the 12 tribes that CHR that that God set up one being the Levites none of them cured none of them forgave sins but the 12 apostles the blind seed the lame walk the dead rise and forgiveness of sins so when Christ starts to forgive sins he's telling everybody in the Old Testament I can do what Moses Elijah Elisha and Isaiah do and tfold more this is why he tells the man pick up your mat and walk and they saying what who are you only God can forgive sins and he said so that they will know that I am pick up your mat and walk your sins are forgiven so that they would know that he is God my brother and sister Christ for him to take the bread now remember go back to the Old Testament again Elija has feeds about 200 people with a 100 loaves of bread so for him to feed 10,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish it's greater than therefore he's driving home the point that if they got blessed bread in the desert how can ours be a relic or Theory or conjecture because it would be less than it can't be this is why he says my flesh is True Food and my blood is true dram if you do not share it with me you will not have eternal life communion in the Greek communio in Latin cania means to participate in his sacrifice that is why you and I must partake about it give us this day our daily bread he is the word made flesh the good Lord said this is my body he didn't say it's a relic a theory a conjecture an understanding just kind of get with it if you can just whenever you pass me don't you understand he's trying to say if you do not share my body and my blood you will not have eternal life there is nothing I can do for you if you do not participate it's your soul and it's mine and I'll hold you accountable for it because I told you where I sit I will be with you to the very end my brothers to Christ you heard the good Lord say I'm the God who was who is and who is to come the same Greek word is then did I mean that theoretically that I'm not coming back I highly doubt it look at the world we're in now my brothers and sisters in Christ he's talking about that you need to learn to share among one another look go back in Scripture say what you want about Mary Magdalene but you know the gift that that woman shared with you and I the gift of perseverance she said no matter how bad things got you could have beat that woman you could have rented her out which they probably did you could have cursed her maligned her and beat her down that woman is showing up on Easter Sunday she does not care there are guards in the way she doesn't care there's a boulder in the way she can't move she doesn't care that the guards she meets are the same ones that brutalized her before she'd rather be near a dead savior than Li people that is the gift of perseverance the first to see the Risen Christ even before Peter himself my brother in Christ you know the gift that Peter gave you and I the gift of being resilient say what you want about him we do I do man we always using Peter's the stepchild the doormat man that's Peter you know first he thinks he can take care of a boat when the storm's coming can't do that thinks he can walk on water well didn't really accomplish that tries to convince the good Lord that that's really not the body blood soul and Divinity the good Lord calls him Satan did you ever find it ironic that in scripture when the good Lord says my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you're not in me you do not have eternal life it is Peter that goes to him and says Lord Lord come come we're going to lose these people they're going to probably think it's cannibalistic Christ rebukes him by calling him the name of the greatest Nemesis not Peter you're disordered Peter you're misunderstood Peter you're just not thinking it through he said Satan put that in your head and you pitched it to me if I'm not in you and you are not in me you will not have eternal life my brother and sister in Christ and then there were those who walked away John 6 6 6 some irony coincidental or Theory 40,000 fath in the world today and only one has remained true my brother and sister in Christ you know what the good thief gave you and I the good thief said you're never too late to say you're sorry seconds before they break his legs Remember Me Lord he's so sorry he can't even say sorry just remember me Lord just have a thought an understanding just remember my Essence this day you'll be with me in Paradise you're never too late to say you're so sorry you know what Judas gave you and I that the words I'm sorry outside of thank you are probably the greatest words in our vocabulary not texted said my brother and sister in Christ he's two words away from still being St Judas today I'm sorry my brother and sister Christ you know what Maas who took judas's place you know what his gift to you and I is just when you think nobody can touch you just when you think nobody cares what you're doing just when you think you've been with the disciples and the apostles for the last three years you have seen the blind sea the L walk the dead rise you had hadn't seen part of the crucifixion and the resurrection and the Assumption into heaven and nobody gave you your 15 minutes and then all of a sudden they got to replace Judas and Mias is chosen my brother and sister Christ he taught you and I that the good Lord will give you your due when he wants you to receive it it's his gift to you it's your gift that you and I are using Maas told us to hang in there to finish the race my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later what gifts do you and I share with your family and friends with one another my brother in Christ what share what do you every time you meet somebody every time you talk to somebody every email text message every time you even drive by somebody you're either sharing advice or you're Sharing The Virtue every time because you are never neutral to him you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him every conversation thought email or text message everything you do either brings you closer or away therefore if everything is on that line then therefore you and I are either given a vice or a virtue well let's see my brother and sister in Christ what about the virtue of Justice would you treat everyone the same period because that's what Christ did Rich or poor tall or short black or white this country or another will you treat everybody with Justice will you treat everybody with Prudence the right thing the right way which means probably saying absolutely nothing will you temper your desires to do what you want so that others can do what they want my brother in Christ will you give them the virtue of fortitude that means that you will dig your heels in and you'll do whatever it takes for the good of the greater of all and less about me we live in a world where we are narcissistic everything begins and ends with how it impacts me the problem is we don't stop to thinking about how it impacts everybody else we are quick to bring out Vice man Pride anger gluttony lust a sloth and envy which one of these demons is the ones that haunt you and you're lucky if it's only one do you have to win every the argument and that's what you bring to the table that you're going to win the argument at all costs and you don't care who you trample you don't care whose throat you step on you're going to win because we're keeping score oh we're keeping score and he's the only Keeper of the score are you so angry that you can't have a conversation without bringing four-letter words into it you know back in the day of the Jews we couldn't even say the word God we had to say Yahweh or Adam and I today we use God as a curse word we use the fu you telling me that's not out of the mouth of Satan did you bring the vice of over drinking to your family and food have we brought slothful and being lazy to our F family and spread it that we no longer work for a living we depend on somebody else to pay us are we envious of others so much so that it dominates our conversations that we gossip and slander so bad that we do it just so tongue and sheap do we bring the vice of complaining to the table if you say if you complain more than you say thank you or I'm sorry we're disordered We complain way too much I bet it's not cold out here I'm just saying my brother and sister in Christ here lies the point at the end of the day you and I have been given a gift love of God love of neighbor you and I must share the Eucharist and then we must share it with other people think about what I'm telling you you and I the only way we will ever grow is that you and I share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others we share the Eucharist and what it means with others because one day you and I are going to be judged and we're going to stand before him and he is either going to say one or two things welcome home my child where have you been I have waited and waited for you welcome to my table of all of my Saints or depart from me for I do not know you yeah you yelled my name you proclaimed me but your love of neighbor was nowhere to be found be gone that's it all eternity the only good gift is a shared gift if you get to some Pearly Gates or a set of gates and you do not recognize anybody inside those Gates then you're at the wrong gate and there's nothing I can do for you because in hell you won't recognize anyone because we will be grotesque and animalistic according to the Saints but if you make it to the Pearly Gates everyone that helped you helped and is now going to help you remember Brother and Sisters in Christ we're going to get to heaven on somebody else's coattails so I'll leave you with this in a few minutes you and I are about to receive the the Eucharist it is the body blood soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ it's not a relic it's not Theory it's not conjecture you know better it is him I can feel it I'm telling you you can touch him he's making his Essence known it's his glorified body be respectful of him and receive him give me this day our daily bread 25% of the Catholics still remain true to the teaching hold your ground finish this race and I promise you you will share eternal life with the king of kings and welcome to my table of all of my Saints amen I've been yelling for well over 10 minutes amen if son holy spirit amen<\p>

portrait as in a self-portrait a painting of oneself it's the 1970s his name is Phillip Phillip is a UK boy he is United Kingdom boy through and through his mom worked for the circus and his dad well he was a commercial pilot if you and I were to ask Phillip what was grammar school like he said it was a little tumultuous he said it was different every every year I'm in a different country if you were to ask Philip how was high school he would say it's an unmitigated disaster he said Not only am I going to different schools in different countries I have such a thick dialect man it's just you were just the poster boy for being bullied he said it was tumultuous I finally did graduate he said but man I didn't know what I wanted to do and then my my parents told me of a story that my great-grandfather was a standin of all people John Wayne he said that that's it I'm going to be an actor he does a commercial for Pac-Man of all things it gets him started he does another one with Charlton hon called Treasure Island it's going okay but then man the the wheels start to come off I mean let's just face it there's not many people in demand that have a different dialect and so thick to do American movie movies he gets in a couple movies one of them was called uh the Hustler it was okay he got in another one called little woman it was a little better and he said but man no matter what I touched just seemed to fall apart he said I was the poster child for man somebody that thought they could but they really never had it then all of a sudden he gets his first Big Break he gets the 310 to Yuma the movie and man all of a sudden people start to pick their head up and notice then he's in another one where he gets um he does a little bit of everything he's he's kind of U multifaceted he gets in a movie called hostiles which where he's like in a fort and he's in out the Wild Wild West and they're trying to break into the country so to speak it did okay and then all of a sudden man things started to bounce his way and finally he gets his big break he is the first non-american or unamerican if you will a non-american to play the role of Bruce Wayne that absolutely did no good I could see that from here man my brother and sister in Christ matter of fact if they did a portrait of him today he would tell you man if you're going to do a painting to me I want to be in my costume he said man it's got over 100 moving Parts he says go to the bathroom first cuz once you in that baby you ain't coming out for a while he said claustrophobic the whole movie was claustrophobic he said man you got to think about it I'm the first guy to play Bruce Wayne that's that's a non-american he said man I'm in Batman Returns Man I'm In The Dark Knight The Dark Knight comes again man my brother and sister in Christ you know him is Christian Bale okay you don't know who he is he's Batman that's the point it's all about a self-portrait that is exactly what that gospel is you know what's amazing if you and I were to pay a picture of Peter this would have been the gospel that we would have painted here he is in a boat with the other 11 the good Lord is out cu remember the first time he's with the good Lord It's just him and him him and the good Lord fishing it's midnight cuz they fish at night remember the Sea of Galilee as a result man he says Lord I've been out fishing all night throw your nets over Peter you know how Peter threw the nuts out Lord I'm the fisherman your Carpenter you want the Nets out great great there they're out they catch so many fish this Elm sinks the boat he drops in the boat and says depart from me Lord I'm a I'm a sinful man just him and the good Lord the next time Peter's in a boat a storm's coming the good Lord's asleep in the bow you know the story Lord do you care that we're about to perish he didn't wake him up because you know why because he's just a carpenter I'm the Fisher man I've been on this seene my whole life man this is my home away from home I'm the man and now all of a sudden man he can't even take care of a storm this time the good Lord is saying yeah Peter you have confidence in me when I'm right here well this time I'm going to be 50 yards out there Lord if it is you tell me to come come my brother s Christ that's the portrait we painted Peter he's walking on water the wind begins to blow he turns his head and man next thing you know he's drowning that's the portrait we paint but I bet you if we ask the good Lord to paint him I bet you he would paint it differently I bet he would paint Peter crucified upside down and I bet the words at the bottom of the painting which says this is my rock and I did build my church on him my brother and sister in Christ that's the portra that God painted for Peter not the one that you and I paint so all too often now stop go back in scripture the good Lord has just fed 5,000 to 10,000 people with five loaves of bread into two fish for you and I as a devout Jew that brings back a lot of memories that all of a sudden they don't have enough food to feed 1 million people in the desert and then all of a sudden Mana falls from the altar of God and as a result you and I as a Jew would start to think wait a minute that looks awfully familiar five loaves of bread and two fish the number five represents the first five books of the Bible the number two will now come to represent a new beginning the old and now the New Testament 12 wicker baskets full you and I now know that the number 12 is significant cuz there was 12 tribes there were 12 Apostles and now we have 12 wicker baskets full as a Jew you and I are starting to say man this sounds awfully familiar is this bread from heaven like it was out there and it was blessed bread and make sure you understand this my brother sister Christ when they are out after he's already fed everybody please make sure you understand the good Lord did not feed one of the 10,000 people he only fed the 12 and then said now you go feed them why because I'm not going to be here in a couple years they will look for me and they will not find me but they will find you Peter James John the B Thomas and you through Matias therefore I will not baptize I will not hear your confession because you will look for me and I am not here so I only feed them this is why priest give the communion to the Eucharistic ministers and the Eucharistic ministers feed you you cannot self communicate only the priest can that's why I consume the host at the mass make sure you understand the good Lord goes up to the mountain To Pray by himself every Jew would have been there would have realized wait a minute the only people going up mountains Moses goes up to talk to God Elijah goes up and hear God in the whispering and now of a sudden he's going up to the mountain to pray my brother and sister in Christ they are on the water from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. this is very common for the Jewish people to be out on the water remember the Sea of Galilee is the everything revolves around the Sea of Galilee still to this day do you know today that you and I cannot fish with a real C pole you can only netfish on the Sea of Galilee because that's how they did it they're netf fishing my brother and sister Christ from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. the [   ] Crow is the 3:00 a.m. me when the good Lord tells Peter you'll deny me so many times before the [   ] crows that type of a situation that's where he's at that's the time frame in which Peter is out there on the boat my brother sister in Christ think about what's happened they see him walking on water he's just fed 10,000 people he's went up a mountain and now he's walking on water this is why they drop in the boat when he finally gets in and do him homage for a Jew when you say you give somebody homage what you're saying is you're going to do one of three or four things you're either going to Bow you're going to glex you're going to kiss his foot or you going to lay prostrate on the ground so for them to say we did him homage they have now come to have an A theophany like Moses talked and Elijah saw well now we've come to believe because when he said it is I it's Ergo of me it is I am so now they come to recognize him so now this is the Son of God that's why you hear him say what they want and remember this say what you want about Peter there are 11 other guys in that boat and nobody moved moreover when he was drowning they still didn't move nothing like a good set of friends can you imagine them all on one side of the boat with those little bitty alligator arms here Peter grab my hand my brother and sister Christ make sure you understand Peter did walk out there the good Lord did save him and he did walk back to the boat the good Lord never carried him so Peter did walk on the water my brother and sister in Christ the portrait that Christ would paint would not be the one that you and I just painted why did you doubt oh you of little faith as a good Lord pulling Peter from the water I'm telling you the one he would have painted is him upside down preaching for three hours the gospel with the adage at the bottom for this is my rock and I did build my church go back in scripture I bet you if I painted a portrait of someone you and I may not know who he is but if God painted the portrait you and I would recognize him immediately case in point if I told you that he was a farmer's farmer he had two sons he was married a devout Jew he is a big man and if you and I would have taken a portrait I'm sure it' have been with his wife and his children in front of all their crops not a speck of blood to be found but I bet you if we took a picture and made a portrait like the good Lord did of this man you and I would have seen him carrying a cross with no family in the picture drenched in blood trying to hold our good Lord and you would have said man that's Simon of sirene isn't it ironic that Simon as Irene may have painted himself this way but the good Lord now has a new portrait and because he does his name's in The Book of Life and we don't even know his last name we just know he's from Northern Africa what if I painted the picture for you that all of a sudden man he's in his white robes he would have had gold tassels a golden collar he would have had gold trim he would have had sandals that were Immaculate he would have been part of the Sanhedrin he might have been standing next to a big beautiful column he might have had several books in his hand and you have said man that is an important man that's the portrait that he might have painted but then all of a sudden the good Lord decides to paint a different portrait he's outside of a tomb his white beautiful garment is covered in blood his hair is disheveled he has no fame or no fortune and he's Bowing in front of a tomb with his head against The Rock saying forgive me Lord for I have been a sinful man you would have known him as Joseph of arthea two years later he's had to leave the country because his life is in danger he actually starts in the Abbey my brother and sister in Christ if I saw if we painted this guy painted his own portrait I bet you it would have been in front of all of his Legion I bet you he had had his helmet in his hand his hand on his sword he would have had all the ribbons they would have standed up in front and as soon as you saw his face You' have said man that's the man but I bet you the portrait that the good Lord would have had is that he would have had his back to the painter he'd have been facing the crucifix with his sword on the ground and his helmet rolled to the side with the words truly that man was the son of God you would have known him as longinus my brother and sister in Christ if you and I would have met Saul the portrait would have been a man with many horses and Beautiful Homes he's taught by gel himself he'd have had all the books laid out in front of him with money Fame and Fortune and I bet the PO pit that the good Lord has of him is his head on a chopping block with no books no money no Fame no fortune he's balding he is almost probably to a point of his life where he could barely just even stand up that's the Paul that Christ would have painted well now hear you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and sister Christ if somebody or yourself was to paint a portrait about you or I was to paint one about me what would we put in the picture when we put all our diplomas on the back wall so everybody can notice how intellectual we are maybe they put all our patents and trademarks and copyrights all of our intellectual property so they can understand our prow maybe we could put a bank statement at the bottom so they could show how much money we accumulated as if it was ours maybe they had all our sports memorabilia maybe they had all our knickknacks maybe they would have had our favorite dress our favorite clothes my brother sister in Christ don't you understand every one of those items every one of those items are immediately worthless Upon Our death the minute that portrait was painted it is now useless because not one of those things will go forward with us my brother and sister in Christ if you painted a portrait of yourself would there be anything on you that somebody would look at it and say look they're in the b top right hand corner on the shelf behind those six bucks to the right down an edch I think it's a rosary would you even have a Rosary in your picture would you be carrying a crucifix in your hands would behind you be an image of Christ if you were a Eucharistic Minister would it be you holding a chalice if you were an Al the server would it be you holding the cross if you were a reader would it be you here at the holding the book of the gospels my brother s Christ ask yourself what would be in your portrait that would go with you to life Everlasting and what in that portrait would be of this world the world that will come to an end if Christ painted your portrait which he will and is doing as I speak what would he put in the picture which one of the seven deadly demons would he say that's behind you that seems to be over encompassing what would he have in front of you that you said that's the god that you worshiped in L of me was it your money your Camp your car maybe it was all the deer heads behind you maybe it was all the fish you caught maybe it was all the memorabilia and your sports and your Awards wearing that picture would Christ say now that is a child of mine brother and sister in Christ remember he is going to paint a portrait the question for you and I is what would be in that if you had to pick five things just five okay four one you pick one thing to stick in there so that at the end of the day when Christ says now that is a child of mine would you be standing there with a crucifix would you have a Bible in your hand that you've read would you have a rosary would you be on your knees with your head bowed would it be a computer with your face buried in it would it be your cell phone so you can text and all we get is the top of your head is it your car your house your Camp my brother sister in Christ you and I are painting a self-portrait and it will be corrected by Jesus Christ on the day of our judgment that's the problem it's going to be way late into this game my brother and sister in Christ I am begging you you must learn to find your knees you must go to the sacraments how would your children know that they are following the right church if it's not a part of our daily life well there she is praying the rosary again well at least somebody's praying oh there she go she's got to go to mass even we're on vacation don't tell me you couldn't find the church you can find Disney World world you can find the church you can find another country find the church my brothers Christ will your children know when they see you in a portrait that's Mama that's daddy that's my spouse that's my children those are my parents man they go nowhere without making sure they pray they got religious books all over the house man they can't turn into a room without seeing a crucifix or the picture of the Blessed Mother don't you see if the portrait you F does not have some relic of Christ then why would he welcome you home he wouldn't because this is why we're here you came in on this day we're going home on this day and on that day there is no more Mercy there's just judgment you had all this time in between to make a portrait of yourself my brother and sister Christ I leave you with this of all people President Lincoln I don't know which you may think of President Lincoln it's irrelevant but if you were to ask people back in the day tell me what did Abraham Lincoln look like there was a man that was going to be at a debate and when he saw President Lincoln he quote said I've never met a man so ugly so disfigured it was almost repulsive in the debate the other gentleman stands up and says Mr Lincoln if I were to paint a portrait of you I would paint you as being two-faced Mr Lincoln stood up and said do you honestly believe I'm two faced the gentleman said absolutely he said well if I had another face don't you think I would have changed it by now man my brother and S Christ make sure the portrait that you paint has some relic of Christ more relics of Christ than relics of the secular world for that is going to be the portrait that Christ will come to amen amen<\p>

we are just me it's about I my brother and sister in Christ the year 1775 our country our nation moreover our colonies are involved in a a great dispute a great battle the war the Revolutionary War the King has made his decision and that is final but I got to tell you it may have been a war for the colonies and it may have been a war for our nation and it may have been a great battle but I got to tell you for Patrick his War had already started seven years ago he met the woman of his dreams Sally man they were soulmates from the get-go like teeth in a gear he would tell you that their life even though they came from two different worlds he would tell you man my wife she came for means he said we couldn't rub two sticks together he said she lived if you will on the right side of the tracks I didn't even know there were tracks everything her family touched turned to Gold Everything I touched turned to Brown good some of you got it my brother and sister in Christ man and he says they were doing well until their sixth child when Netty came into the world then problems abounded man it it was almost something traumatic must have happened to his wife Sally man it's just psychological and physical the mental man she she started forgetting people's names his children's names his names she started getting out of control to a point that the only one that could even physically be around her would have been just Patrick as a matter of fact he said he worked hard just tried to keep her together and friends would come over and say Patrick man it's time you you maybe you need to isolate her more a kind way of saying put her away his words to them this ain't about me it's about we in sickness and in health and good times and bad till death do we part it's about we he said where do you want me to place her in the building that they call quote this was the name of their building the home for the insane and the idiots he said no I can't have it they decide to leave him be man next thing you know within a month a rider comes up to him he's sitting on the porch with his children and his wife he said the the country is convened the Assembly of Virginia has been called we need to go to the legislature they're asking for a vote Patrick said don't go to the assembly Red Coats will be watching go to the church they won't know to look there St John of the Cross man everybody's waiting to see where he stands I mean he's got children his wife is it's going to be a little bit of a challenge man the country's about to go under he walks in and it is packed in St John Church I think people have literally come not just to hear the vote they want to see where Pat sits they have lined the walls he walks in my brother and sister in Christ and only in the words of Patrick he said my friends my fellow countrymen I come here today to tell you there is no greater patriotism in the world there's no greater honor in the world than to be a patriot of the United States our colonies now what I have to say may offend some but if I do not say it I will be a traitor to my country I will be a traitor to my Messiah as perfect timing for a Train My Brother and Sisters in Christ and they say the evil one does not exist my friends in Christ he says if I am a traitor to my country and if I don't Proclaim what I know I'll be a traitor to my Messiah I have petitioned the king I have written the king I've had adversaries or emissaries go on my behalf to the king I have done done all that I can I have supplicated him I have paid him if I were to show up he would put my hands in feet and chains and he'd probably kiss me on my cheek like that of Judas but at the end of the day Give me liberty or give me death my brother and sister Christ the words of Patrick Henry because it was all about we as a country we as a family and we as one as a couple that is exactly that gospel that woman is going on behalf of her daughter I have come on behalf of her there is not just me it is all about my daughter it's about we now stop make sure you understand what's going on here remember you're a first century Jew you know scripture like the back of your hands with that being said when you go to the areas of tire in siden if you and I lived in Jerusalem it would be several days journey to get up to the Sea of Galilee to where Peter lives at Capernaum it would take us another 50 miles another couple of days to get to Ty and then another couple days to get the sidon it's all on the coast they are very Pagan they will worship idols they will actually burn their children at stake and offer it to the gods if you and I were to go back in the book of wisdom wisdom and read back they would give you all the different degrees this is where the good Lord is going when he gets there you notice that this lady who comes to see him calls him son of David have mercy on me for a woman in that Pagan part of the world to make a public Proclamation referring to him from the line of David calling him Lord giving him homage my brother of Christ this would have been unheard of for her to do it and I can promise you she would not not not only not be welcome in her country her life would be put in Peril but because it was that important that she be there on behalf of her daughter she will endure and what does the good Lord do man he ignored it would it not been better that he just screamed at her acknowledged my presence breathed on me looked looked at me he ignores her so much so the apostles don't even speak to her they speak directly to him Lord send her away and the Lord makes the statement I've come from the lost sheep of Israel now stop you're a Jew 10 tribes to the north Isaiah's prophecy they're going to be scattered throughout the world the two tribes to the South will be overr by the Babylonians I've come from the lost sheep remember when he told Peter Peter feed my Lambs my Apostles feed my sheep that's the people of Israel more importantly the 12 tribes take and then feed and take care of my sheep I.E you and I my brother and sister in Christ she is proclaiming him to be the Messiah they're ignoring her and then she says Lord even the dogs get the scraps off the table the dogs would have been you and I we would have been the Gentiles and the pagans and he says your faith has saved your daughter as you wish at that very second at that hour the the child is cured my brothers Christ when you heard her say Lord have mercy this is where you and I get Lord have mercy Christ have mercy Lord have mercy this is where you and I get it from from her making the proclamation my brother and sister in Christ she's a we she's all about her daughter the powers and the prayers of a mother are so powerful and so could they be for you and I if we would pray with such intensity and we would pray with such perseverance and we would pray with such tenacity that no matter how many times the answer is no you and I will stay the course that's what she's bringing to the table and she's bringing it on behalf of somebody else not even for herself my brother Christ go back in scripture look at all the great players in Scripture that were weeds think about it man there there's Lazarus the wealthiest man in all of his time man there's nothing he's not involved in Fabrics clothing crops animals me it he's everything he is the guy of his day and when the good Lord is crucified and he resurrects he walks away from everything he takes Martha and Mary and they depart leaving the keys on the door if you will whoever wants it he eventually becomes a bishop in Tradition my brother in Christ that is the consumate we say what you want about Mary Magdalene but at the end of the day she'd rather be next to a dead savior than a live person on Easter Sunday that is a consumate we and her reward hard the first to see the Risen Christ my brother Christ Paul Saul who became Paul that's a we I'm going leave my fame my fortune my money and everything so I can be beaten I can be scourged I can be stoned and the ships I go on sink and at the end of the day I'll beheaded that is how important it is to me I be close to Christ my brothers and sisters in Christ but for every one of the we there's always a me that's pilate man if I align myself with that person man I'll be kicked out of the armpit of the world I won't even have a chance to ever get to Rome let me just wash my hands of it 2,000 years later you and I use the same analogy when we say oh they just wash their hands of it his name is no longer in the Book of Life can you imagine my brother sister Christ the point I'm bringing to you is very subtle but very true are you a we or are we so narcissistic and self-absorbed it's all about me myself included my brother and sister in Christ when somebody ask you to pray for them will you say okay but I got let let me you need to pray for me no no are you going to pray for them like this woman when you do your prayers are you praying for others first and you last or your petitions first moreover are you willing to pray for others and say Lord if you take care of them that's good enough for me and then our prayers never get mentioned my brother and sister in Christ when that friend calls you on the phone and you know you're going to be on that phone for a good hour you're going to be in the same spot one hour from now after you get finished because it's the same story over and over and over again are you willing to sit and listen and to be the person Christ asked you to be love of God and love of neighbor will you sit and listen again and be sympathetic and caring for the cross that they carry Simon that's right are you a Simon Simon is a dedicated we Simon is the one I've got my children I have come for I I've traveled to Jerusalem I've already bought my animal I've got my one-year-old and blemished lamb I've come here for my week of Passover and you're going to conscript me to be in the Army to carry the cross of a thief and a murderer next to two guys that I wouldn't spit on if they were on fire his name's in the book of life because he's the consumate we my brother and sister in Christ will you stay on the phone with them will you pray for them when it's all said and done say let us pray for two or three gathered in our name my brother and sister in Christ when somebody calls you at work and says man man uh can you do this for me are you going to pull out the old calculator and decimal point say I'm sorry that's above my pay grade I I just don't do that it's not my job description are we going to do what Christ would do because they called you Simon I don't care if they got everybody else's phone number but the only one they can find at work is you I don't care that your family has all these issues and the only one taking care of Mom and Dad is you well Simon that's because you've been called and The Graces are twofold upon you will you do it at work because that's what you do is a good Catholic and a good Christian will you do it when somebody says man can you run this extra errand can you stay a little earlier can you get up a little sooner when you get home can you help prepare the meal will you help children will you help clean up afterwards or you just going to walk away I mean you did Dirty the plate you could at least clean it will you at least clean your room I mean you didn't have to build it didn't have to pay for it all you got to do is breathe oxygen and live in it can you help is it all about we my brother and sister Christ look at the world we're in we are self-absorbed in narcissistic we want everything on our own terms including praying the mass how diabolical I want it on my terms yet he carried a cross 12T tall 8ft wide one mile we beat him like a ritten mule over 6,000 wounds not count the 8 in Nails in his hands the 16in nail drove through his feet which they had to back out because they got it wrong the number of times they dropped the crucifix which we believe was twice with a crown of thorns on his head which what gave him over 100 wounds but I'll be darn father if I'm going to come out there and sweat so be it my brother and sister in Christ at some point you and I have to become become sacrificial we have to pay the price to be what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ which means we have to be last in everything we do it's in helping others is first helping our family is first helping our spouse is first our parents and our children if you answered every question as if you were in second place you will be better served in the long run my brothers and sisters in Christ I am begging you to fight the fight of a self-absorbed world that is what modernism is postmodernism it's all about me I have a truth and is my truth there is only one truth there's only one way and it's Jesus Christ it begins and ends with him you're either a follower of him or you are not you either made heaven or you did not you're either in the gates or you are not there is nobody in heaven that is self-absorbed and it's all about number one I can promise you that that is why love of neighbor is so important I'll leave you with this there are a number of things that take absolutely zero Talent there are a number of things that take absolutely zero Talent getting somewhere on time takes no Talent having energy takes no Talent putting forth effort takes no Talent putting forth passion takes no Talent having the right body language takes no talent and becoming a we takes no talent but until you do you will not have any of the ones I just mentioned amen the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

keys keys as in the key to the way of life a key to peace a key to understanding a key to carrier cross our country is embarked in a great World War World War II it has now encompassed the whole world Britain has become quite concerned so has the United States because if you are part of that war I.E a soldier you end up in one of four categories if you made it through the war and you were did so then you are obviously you were lucky you were one of the very few so you would get through the war either by making it I.E being alive you would be wounded you would pass would be killed or you would be a prisoner War which subsequently would be a desence for over half of them as a result of it more and more prisoners are being garnered especially in Germany as a result the prime minister of England has got together with one of his generals and he said it's Paramount that we save our soldiers the PS it's a 50% mortality rate and of the remaining 45% they will come out damaged if you will physically mentally spiritually only a few percentage will make it out unharmed it's important that we get them out we need them out we need the reinforcements we need them to fight the fight we needed to call disarray in the country of Germany as a result the General calls other generals to the table and he says I need a plan on how to get our prisoners out what would be the one key and they said look before you get started General every one of the men there said look there is one soldier that we think we need to speak to his name is Clayton don't get lost his name is just Clayton as a result of it he said why is he so important he said well General he's he's got a Houdini complex that's all I can explain it he said I've come to know him he's the only one that's ever escaped a prisoner War Camp he's the only one we know that's made it all the way back and we need his input he would be the key he said bring him to me he brings him he comes in the general says well tell me Mr Clayton what's the key he said well there are three things that are important he said first and foremost you need to understand how a concentration camp works if you become a p you were interviewed by a psychiatrist that psychiatrist will evaluate each and every one of you and put you in the barracks that way they have people thinking similar they know how to control that barracks if they need to put you in um like a quarantine if you will or they need isolation they can do that too there would be a 15t bob wire fence around all the barracks another 15 or 20 foot would be another 15t fence around bobbed wire in between it landmines dogs bombs Guns Etc and then another 100 yards out would be pill boxes all facing in with lights that would come on arbitrarily he said you got to understand once you get in your chance of getting out are tough but there are some keys he said well before you get started what's this Houdini complex that you seem to suffer from he said well growing up I went to see Harry Houdini and he gets in this box they put it with chains they drop it down and next thing you know he's out and I I just knew that can't be possible so I stood up in the middle of the congregation or the group at the circus and said for $100 I bet you that if I'd take care of that box and I have somebody build it you can't get out Houdini said give me the dollar $100 I'll take it and we'll do with it he gets with the carpenter he lines out the box puts it out there next show they come next Saturday he said he comes they put Houdini in the box boom he gets out within minutes he goes up to the guys afterwards and said man I gave that guy $100 he said well no you only gave him 50 he said No I gave him 100 he said no he took 50 and he gave the carpenter 50 to build a box and he said ever since then I'm obsessed with getting out so I escaped he said what's the key to escape he said I need three things I need a map I need money I need a compass he said well well maybe we could put it in the heel of your shoe and he said and he said with all due respect General and do what he said make sure you understand something when you're outside that gate you got one job it's to run and when you get tired run some more and when you think you're about to throw up you keep running you don't have time to take your heel off look at it what if it's raining and you got a map or is the compass is it broken I mean you're going to put your heel back on he said General it's not going to work give me some time within a week he comes back he brings all the generals in Clayton walks in and lays out this game on a board everybody looks at him and he said that is the key and he said let me make sure I understand this we've been sitting on our hands waiting for a week you gave me this theory about all you do is run and you need a map encompassing money and you bring out this game sitting on a board he said that's exactly right he said explain it to me he said well we're going to take the money and where it says community chest we're going to put it inside the board and then when it says over here chance we're going to put the map and over here in free parking and go to jail we're going to put a compass and in the middle we're going to put a guy like Mr Moneybags Grandpa Moneybags a board game that you and I still play to this day and you and I call it Monopoly over 40,000 men escape prison P during World War II because of the game Monopoly because they gave it to the Red Cross and the Red Cross gave it to the Germans and the Germans saw it as a board game to keep them entertained all the while giving them the keys to get out my brothers and sisters in Christ that is exactly that gospel how well did we listen and to you Peter I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven now stop you and I are first century Jews we are listening to this it's important that you and I understand some things cesaria Philippi was about a one or two mile walk from where they were to get to where they needed to be and if you were at and I at ceria Philippi we would be sitting at the bottom of a cliff the mountain would probably be to the tops of those trees at the top of it would be the Temple of pan p a n all the gods would be up there the same ones you dealt with if you had lived in the time of Moses the same ones that they destroyed with the 10 plagues you would see the statues all up at the top so he's asking who do people say that I am thinking that they may look and go up that way the intermediary between the gods and you and I is a guy by the name of pan Peter Pan is where Walt Disney gets it my brother and sister in Christ it's a place on a theology that's diabolical as a result did you hear their answers so who do y'all say that I am Jeremiah Elijah John the Baptist and Prophets my brothers Christ you know what they have in common They're All Dead therefore the people that are responding must think there's something Supernatural about it because it's not right because he's doing things that they're not doing my brother and sister in Christ and when Peter says you're the son of the Living God he says Flesh and Bones didn't tell you that my father in Heaven well why didn't he tell it to the other 11 because Peter is protos Peter's the Prime Minister Peter is the eliakim of the New Testament where he is now overseeing the whole house my brother and sister in Christ make sure you understand how significant this passage is when he gives Peter the keys to Heaven did you realize this isn't whatever happens in heaven I want you to do it on Earth it's just the opposite they're so important whatever you do here on Earth is how I will handle it here in heaven oh yes the holy spirit will come so you know the understandings of heaven but it will begin here and whatever you bind here will be bound and whatever you leave loose Peter so will it be up above my brother and sister in Christ he has the keys and they're temporary because the same way it was in the Old Testament with Isaiah my brother brother Christ did Eli come not get the keys from someone else and he too will pass them on hence why Peter will pass them on Peter lius Cletus evestus Alexander torus henus pasus all the way to Francis my brothers Christ this isn't one in done now he changes his name that's hugely significant to you and I because the people in the scripture that got their name changed only happened only a handful of times and it was very significant Abram which in their language would mean like father or exalted father is now called Abraham the father of the multitudes he goes from very little of a family if non-existent to the family of multitudes my brother and sister in Christ Jacob to Israel Saul to Paul Simon to Peter everybody knows that that name changes significant this is why popes change their names because ontologically they are changed to the Vicor of Christ my brother and sister in Christ it's more going on in Peter's world than you think he makes the proclamation you are the son of the Living God you think it's ironic happen stance million to one shot that the Apostle Creed begins with Peter's words I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth for he's the only one to have heard it my brother and sister in Christ do you think it's not significant that he's telling Peter even though you saw all this you've now heard from my Father in heaven my brothers and sisters in Christ do you know when he changes his name in the in the in the Aramaic remember Christ speaks to his Apostles not in English not in Greek he speaks in Aramaic and the word is Kaya k p ha or kayas we sometimes pronounce it sephus in the readings in Greek a little bit it's pronounced that way but it's a hard SE my brother's Christ kayi means massive Bolder and why is that important because you and I as a Jew know that they have what they call a foundation stone in the temple which is the stone that they would have place down and then put the temple or the Tabernacle on top of the stone and the temple on top of the stone Therefore your Temple's built on the stone and Upon This Rock I will build my church once again every Jew would have recognized that that name changed and to make it a massive Boulder if you translate it to the Greek it's going to mean little Stone but if you go to John's gospel if you go later in Matthew you'll hear even Paul and John referred to him as kayi an Aramaic a massive Boulder this is why Peter's listed first and Judas is last this is why Peter's name is mentioned over 180 times in scripture the next closest Apostle John at about 30 and combined all the rest are less than my brothers Christ that is why he's the first to make the proclamations he is the first to baptize the first to do a miracle the first to make a decision he's the first in the Apostles Creed because he is protos he is dominant My Brother and Sisters in Christ if you and I were to go back all the way in scripture and now that Peter has assumed the prime ministership over the house until it is time for him to return the keys my brothers Christ do you know that when the pope dies they break his ring so that he can no longer seal documents he can no longer stamp approval because the keys are about to be passed my brother Christ if you and I were to go back in scripture the key to peace in the world is Jesus Christ it was back then and it still is today when Moses is taken over 1 million people out of Egypt to the promised land of which only two make it they're in the they're about to cross the Red Sea did you find it ironic that the soldiers and the Chariots are coming he's got the water between him and now the solders on the other end and he's caught the only way he brings peace is to pray to God and ask for help for his intercession the key to peace to Moses was God the father and he opens up the Seas he crosses over on dry land the miracle behind the miracle as most of them have the deaf man who hears in blind man who sees and then begins to speak but yet they never had the ability to learn the language the second miracle here Moses crossed in the promised land for 40 years he feeds them on Mana 40 years they live off communion one item and one item only my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you are not in me you do not have eternal life my brother and sister in Christ there are those who left them John 6 6 6 my brother and sister in Christ this is where the key to our life is it begins and ends with Jesus Christ Saul is blinded for three days in order for him to come to recognize the Messiah and he goes from Saul to Paul because the key to his world was not the trappings of being a Pharisee the key to his world wasn't his money fame or Fortune his bank balance or his intellect his key to peace in his life was Jesus Christ my brothers and S Christ he believed the Eucharist is true go back and read First Corinthians did he not say roughly around chapter 10 that this is the coup of blessing is the cup of blessing which is the third cup which is what we celebrate at the sacrifice of the mass did he not say that is not this chalice the blood of Christ is not the bread we break the body of Christ my brother and sister in Christ all the great players throughout scripture all knew that their peace begins and ends with Jesus Christ with god with the Trinity the question for you and I is is 2,000 years later I think we've forgotten it or we've acknowledged it we have an understanding of it we recognize it but we don't participate in that peace my brother s Christ how often look in the world that we live in we're in a pandemic world that has lost its way we have no moral compass we can Riot on the streets so much for social distancing but yet I can't even pray with inside my own confines because I can't put more than 40 people inside a church my brother and sister in Christ everything is boiled down to an issue of color did you ever think this would happen in our world and I'm telling you there's only one thing that will bring peace back to our world and that's Jesus Christ and if you and I don't find our knes we will never find a way back to peace you want peace in your family then y'all need to start praying together you want peace in your family pray in the morning together pray before meals make sure you pray before y'all go to bed pray as a unit when you just get married or your couples and your children are gone you want peace between you you you need to pray together I do not care that you hold hand sing come by yah and you enjoy the same movies at the end of the day it all begins and ends with Jesus Christ if you do not have him in your life you will never have peace do you not understand it begins and ends with the Eucharist that is where your peace begins and ends you and I will not be able to generate it we are already bent towards concupisent from the very beginning of time the only only place peace was was in the garden and once sent into the world and we left the world is now the devil's oyster look at it we have lost our way because we haven't found our needs my brother in Christ you want a better relationship with your children with your parents are you praying together I mean there's only so much pop psychology to go around you can only talk about it for so much but at the end of the day you must learn to pray together because that's what's going to be the glue to hold you together that's what's going to make you comp um understanding brother Christ democracy only works if Christ stays in the game because you and I know deep town in our heart of hearts written Jeremiah is his name he was written on our hearts therefore we know intimately right from wrong so what I'm asking you you got a problem at work then pray before you get there pray before you wake up when you wake up in the morning okay after you have your cup of coffee now go pray pick a spot in your house for just a minute before you turn on the television what are you looking for good news come on you're going to read the front page the sports page Brothers Christ if you want bad news just wait for it watch news at the end of the day my brother Christ it's got to begin and end with Christ when you're in your car turn your radio off and listen or pray my brother Christ turn your cell phones off stop worrying about the text messages learn to pray it begins and ends with him don't you see the Eucharist is our way of being fed we're in the desert and we will be here longer than I think people care to understand brother Christ there's nothing coming we haven't found our knees think about it do you honestly believe the good Lord is going to allow you and I to go back to the way the world was just because we burned a few beads we said a few prayers and yet we're going to go back to killing our children where are my children Lord we got a good economic plan I did not ask you that I want to know where my kids are they're coming well we see we have free choice to hell you are and that's where you'll belong you take care of my children I took care of you and I came for you yeah you have choice and I will hold you to it but nobody has the right to touch my children of all ages and of all colors and of all religions and of all sex my brother and sister in Christ I'm begging you to take time to go to adoration I don't care if it's for five minutes once a week it's it's five minutes you can't just drive by and stick your head in the church go in adoration ginu Fleck bow and and walk out you you you just you're so busy are you so busy doing your job you forget your job your job is to get to heaven that's the only job you and I got my brother and sister in Christ in screw tape later letters there's a story about Lucifer talking to his son and his son says pop them people I got them them people in they meet I got them I'mma get that group on Pride I'm going to get that little group right there in Anger I'm going to get the group in the back on gluttony oh man that group over there man that's lust I'm going to get this group over here that's average sloth money and then I'm going get this group on Envy he said Son you you're not very bright all you got to do is steal their peace and you'll get them all John Paul is right to all the problems of the world the Eucharist is the solution that's the key amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

names names if I were to ask you there's this quarterback some may say mediocre but we would probably say oh he's far greater than that he's probably our greatest player ever to put on a Saint's uniform they could probably rename the city more or less I'd ask you his name you'd say oh man that's Drew Brees if I ask you who's the greatest quarterback in the today some may debate the issue but his name may be in the top two or three if I asked you man tell me of a great college coach some may say Nick Sabin not here but somewhere it's Sabin my brother and sister in Christ is the last name my brother Christ you may say his name is at Aron man he probably had the greatest college team ever in the last well two or three decades name may be true my brother and sister in Christ you I know what you're saying well yeah father I I I I know those names because I'm part of the world I understand the names of the world I understand how they're applied so if I were to say he's a great actor you would probably say well tell me something about him I would tell you that he's probably one of the greatest actors of our day has been for the last three decades if I tell you that he was in movies like The Bucket List he was in Chara Shanker Redemption he even played God Almighty then you would say man do you know who say it louder Morgan Freeman for the six people that know who he is y'all are all tax exempt my brother and sister in Christ if I told you that spaghetti westerns became possible you say oh Father I know that Clint e would get to something that I'm that I'm maybe not I may be marginalized in Abraham's the father of Isaac who's the father of Jacob who's the father of Judah who's the father of Perez who's the mother of tar who gave life to Perez who gave it to herah who gave it to Ram who's the father of aminadab who's the father of Sneezy Dopey and grumpy ah ah father but we know those names I just gave us the genealogy of Jesus Christ does that tell you how far we have fallen we knew all about movies we knew about sports but when it came to the Life of Christ man I could have thrown those names in I could have probably thrown in maybe I could have said his name was vixen or Blitzen or some other name would we even have known it my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing so let's say we understand the ways of the world if you do not get seven out of 10 of these right then we don't even know the ways of the world seven out of 10 six ain't of 10 ain't passing and I'm even going to give you a bonus question to make sure that you could possibly make the promised land if I told you who's on a $1 bill said man I got that that's Washington I told you a $5 bill you'd say oh man that's Lincoln I got you if I ask you who's on a $10 Bill some of you would say man that's Alexander Hamilton if I told you it's a $20 bill you might say Andrew Jackson you'd be correct if I set a $50 bill would you know that it's uliss Grant if I told you it was a $100 bill would you know it's all about the Franklin if I told you it was a $500 bill oh well man the test is going south it would be McKinley if I told you a $1,000 bill would you know it's Cleveland Grover Cleveland if I told you it was a $5,000 bill would you know his name was Madison if I told you it was $10,000 would you know that it's salmon Chase if I told you there's a $100,000 bill I'm just looking to see if anybody looks in their wallet that's all I'm doing right now would would you know my brother it's woodro Wilson did you get seven out of 10 I tell you what I'm going to give you a bonus question the $2 bill would you remember that his name was Jefferson and I tell you what for all the money we just discussed they actually printed a $3 bill at one time would you have any idea whose name was on that Santa Claus true story my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the names that is exactly the point of what the good Lord is doing now stop get behind me Satan you are nothing but an obstacle to me now you need to understand where this is taking place stop you are first century Jew we have been traveling with the apostles now for over a year and a half maybe two it's going into his third year he has dragged us all the way to cesaria Philippi that's that place up on the mountain where all the gods that were the people proclaimed where the god of pan was the intermediary between us and those gods and he sat us in a big circle and he says who do you say that I am first words Jeremiah the prophet you just heard Elijah John the Baptist you know what's amazing they're all dead but there must be something Supernatural about him for them to use past prophets he just asked him who do you say that I am Peter of all stands and says Lord You're the son of the Living God Flesh and Bones didn't tell that Peter It could only have come from one spot my Father in heaven and you Peter will be my rock Boulder and Aramaic cuz that's the language they would have spoke Greek and lethos which would have been smaller rock he spoke in Aramaic Boulder Ki as a matter of fact John refers to him sometimes we pronounce it sephus it's a hard C it's a massive Boulder he just changed his name called him the massive Boulder and for you and I guess what as a first century Jew we knew that there was a stone inside the temple where the Tabernacle and the temple resided they called it the foundation Stone so for him to change his name and call him the Boulder and then refer to him as the stone my brother and sister in Christ there's no doubt that he is protos that he is dominant that he is the lead and Judas would have been last only for a temporary time until he's removed the point being my brother and sister in Christ Christ now has changed his name it hasn't been a day and a half he is now told him you went from Simon to kayi to Satan and then if that's not bad enough the good Lord says you're an obstacle to me do you know what that is in in their language scandalon that's where we get the word scandal from it means stumbling Stone just an obstacle in my way that I will just kick aside from Simon to massive Boulder and it wasn't bad enough he didn't stop he called you Satan I don't know about you Christ turns and calls us Satan is that a good time just dig a hole and bear yourself and be done with life and now he's called him you're nothing more than a stumbling Stone scandalon my brothers and sisters in Christ go back in scripture names are important to you and I in the Garden of Eden if I were to ask you since you know so much of names what was the name of the couple in the Garden of Eden most of us would jump in and immediately say it's Adam and Eve and I would say stop and think Adam Adama means ground for he was made of the ground that's why from dust we are and dust we shall return that's why we play that game that's why you need to be buried on Holy Ground that's why you need to go back on the ground and not on a shelf not up on a credenza not up on a mantle or spread throughout nature my brother and sister in Christ in the Garden of Eden when they ate of the fruit what does the good Lord do as he walks through the garden man man where are you I'm hiding why are you hiding well I'm I'm not clothed why is that oh it's not me first passing the buck the woman you gave me woman where are you they're not calling them by names he's calling by man and woman they don't get the names or the moniker of Adam doesn't stick until after they're kicked out of the garden where she picks up the name Eve therefore names are important he knew you in your mother's womb the prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah and Elijah he knew your name in your mother's womb you and I are now going to be judged because if we lived in the garden there would be no need to have names because there would have been no sin but once sin in the equation we now all have names my brother and sister in Christ think for a minute all the apostles that you know however many you can name how many of them do you know their last name none that's how important your giving name is my brother and sister in Christ I want you to think about it go to the crucifixion everybody that's named in the crucifixion if I told you what they did I bet you know their name if I told you that he pulled out a bowl and towel you'd say oh that's pilot my brother and sister in Christ 2,000 years later that's his moniker he pulled out a bowl and towel we know him by his name my brother and sister in Christ if I told you that he was standing there the whole time and he was a job was to get Christ from this point to this point make sure you do not stop make sure he does not die make sure you crucify him because Rome will come and if they hang me I will hang you before me Pilot's conversation to none other than longinus but if I told you that he turned at the crucifixion and said truly this man was the son of God you would know his name is longinus and the irony is we're not sure of that other than his name is speartip because we believed he was the one that speared Christ if I told you that his he's well picked up at the cross and carried it with Christ you'd say man that's Simon all we know he's of sirene in Northern Africa if I told you he gave up his tomb you'd say Joseph of arthea if I told you that she stayed in the middle of the of the road and put her an imprint on his face so that he could wipe it you'd say that's Veronica that is her name we believe but the name also means true icon to this day on Easter Sunday it was with Pope Benedict and John Paul you would actually see that up on the altar on Easter Sunday my brother and sister in Christ there's only one name probably more but there's only one name per se that's more important than yours and mine and that's his name that every knee shall Bend and every H head shall bow my brother and sister in Christ you heard our savior say it I Am The Great I Am there is no beginning and no end I'm the alpha and the Omega I'm the gatekeeper I'm the shepherd I am the Messiah my brother and sister in Christ if I ask you to go to the wedding of canaa would you know the name of the couple that got married it's been 2,000 years and we still do not know the name of the couple which tells you how important it is that God be present at your marriage it's so important that their names are not important come on 7 Days that's how long they've been there that's why they need so much wine do you understand the significance of why Christ is there only at the petition of his mother and the minute she tells him that they are out of wine and he says my hour has not yet come what does this have to do with me she says do whatever he tells you she already knows that the minute she says that his name goes from being Jesus the son of Mary and Joseph to The Great I Am he's decided to go public early at her insistance he is the seventh jar that blood and water will not flow from my side to the crucifixion so I will fill the six jars you have here because six is incomplete and seven is the most complete number in the world seven days of creation seven years to build the temple seven jars notwithstanding six jars 30 gallons of wine each 180 gallons Catholic wedding just saying my brother and sister in Christ here in lies the point this is why you and I must get married in the church or eventually come back to the church to get your marriage blessed because we must be physically in front of him that's why the sacraments are physical because he came back incarnational that means he was here physically that means we had to participate physically the question for you and I is is our name in The Book of Life or is it not yes or no you made heaven or you didn't it begins and ends with do you know the Commandments yes or no it's all about your soul my soul do you know the Commandments it's not going to be good enough to say well there's thou shall not kill heck of a start there there's got that Mom and Dad thing oh yeah I got to love God three out of 10's not going to make it because if you break any of the other seven you broke the first one and the problem in the world today is is that we trample on the eth commandment and don't even know it because we haven't committed it and there is no excuse for not knowing scripture there is no excuse for saying the church didn't teach me there is no excuse well they never mentioned it in school it's your soul it's mine you will be held accountable on the day of our judgment it's me and him there will be no arbitrator there's no attorney there's no counsel there will be no friends and when he asked me do you know my Commandments Mark I would like to hear them because you sure had easy problems trampling them what will be my answer well I didn't really understand it you know the priest kept talking about it differently I no I'm I'm I'm talking to you I named you in your mother's womb I gave you a soul do you understand that bearing false witness every time you open your mouth publicly against someone else to lower their standing you have broken the commandment and to receive communion is now you've doubled down on immortal sin just that simple you can call it what you want to call it and justify it because it's true father got nothing to do with it nobody said that you're the the judge the good Lord said I will judge you he just said I will pay you I will repay you according to your Deeds my brother and sister in Christ when you and I go to work work is the means for people to know that we are tied to Christ I tell you what my brother and sister in Christ if you don't know the 10 I can only tell you that's on you I know my 10 and I am guarded excessively about them because I know that'll actually separate me from our savior and I cannot receive the Eucharist or the sacraments of the church until I have joined him back if I want my name in The Book of Life I need to know the 10 once you get past the 10 ask yourself if somebody was to describe you in 10 words or less I mention your name would they what would be the first words out of their mouth would it be about your hobbies oh he's a fisherman he's a hunter she's this she's that would it be your work ethic would it be your personality would it be your temperament at what point would they say anything about your faith if we're that far down the food chain we got a problem if somebody goes to describe You by name and the word Catholic doesn't show up to numbers 3 4 5 6 7 whatever that's problematic because the problem is the ways of the world according to St Paul in Rome 2,000 years ago is still true today at the end of the day your name is got to be in the book of life it's going to be predicated on how you act it'll be predicated on your ability to withstand and take the hits to receive the Commandments and follow them so when somebody meets you if I asked them to describe you would they say that was a disciple of Jesus Christ that woman is Catholic that husband is Catholic and then they describe them brothers Christ would they see it in the way you and I walk would they see it in the way you and I talk would they see it in the way we go about our jobs drive around town would they know it by just reading the emails over our shoulders would they know it by the text message that you and I sent just in the past week my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this your name and my name is all will'll ever have we came into the world on this day and we're going on home this day it's non-negotiable my brother in Christ I am begging you I study the saints that have gone before us in our church fathers and Judgment Day is not a picnic I'm going to repay you for what you have done what will he say to you and I will he say to you and I welcome home my child I have waited in and waited for you I was so pleased to see you bring your children to mass I was so pleased in how you educated them I am so please thank you thank you thank you for introducing me to your family your children your friends and at work at the tip of your tongue was my sign of the cross in my name welcome welcome to the table of all of my children and my Saints for all eternity or will he look at you and me and say depart from me I don't even know your name Amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

listen as in to just listen I know you may hear it but the question is are we listening the years's about 1835 Mr Alexander is worried he has reason to be he has been when our country became a country he has been through the wars even that of 1812 but now he's concerned about a recession he's concerned about a depression he's worried about his two daughters they have come to me him and they have told Mr Alexander man we feel the country is about to slide he said it is he said our president Mr Martin Van buan who he affectionately referred to as Martin Van ruin whatever he touches it gets ruined he said well I need to speak to your two husband William and James he brings them together and he says look I am not only concerned about my daughters I am concerned about you and your well-being he said I do understand that you are both entrepreneurial type guys and you have your own business one of you William if you will makes candles James you make soap but here's the problem our country is going to go through a recession it's going to be grave we haven't recovered from the war as a result of such animal fat is dominant in our time of of which you make candles and you James make soap I'm going to ask you to combine your services it'll be about $3500 each so that y'all can learn to work together you will not survive just on candles and just on soap but you may survive together I just need you to listen at the end of the day he's convinced them $3,500 each they have combined they have starting to do well the recession hits the depression follows man the country is on its heels albe it it's only the 1830s as a result man there're starving to make ends meat but they survive on their way out as a result of it to grab a quick bite to return to work they decided just happen stance they left the machine that makes the soap running they leave it run as a result to such and coming back in next thing they notice it's put so much air into the soap that it begins to float but yes that's right and you do know that soap it's the soap that we've made a commercial that it's 99 whatever perc pure you and I call it Ivory soap you know what's amazing my brothers and sisters in Christ it's not because of an accident per se that their company now begins to flourish it becomes one of the most dominant companies in the world today as a matter of fact at one time they they did so many commercials during these little drama shows during the mornings and afternoons that they now became soap operas yes you know William and James you know him as William Proctor and James gamble is Proctor and Gamble all because they listen long ago to their father-in-law Mr Alexander that is exactly that gospel three to four times the good Lord uses the word you're not listening now stop he says if you are listening then they will understand if people don't listen then you need to get two or three in their name if they still don't listen then you are to go to the church now remember you are a first century Jew you know exactly the conversation the good Lord is speaking only to the 12 my brother and sister in Christ he has just made Peter The Rock he has just told Peter that not only are you the rock but he has now called him Satan and then not only did he call him Satan but he called him a stumbling Stone scandalon in Greek my brother and sister in Christ Peter is going from the height of height of keys and his name Chang to being called Satan to a stumbling Stone and now he's telling them that when two or three of you gathered in their name whatever y'all decide for the church is how it will be in heaven and on Earth he didn't say that's how it will be on earth and subsequently in heaven he did just the opposite he said it there be this way in heaven and subsequently that way on the earth he's telling them you better make sure and listen now remember Matthew is a devout Jew Matthew is a Roman citizen he is a tax collector that means he knows several languages he understands money he also has a lot of it as a result of it the Jews don't like him because he collects money from the Jews the Rome doesn't like him because he's probably wealthier than most of the centurions and governors of their day but one thing there is about Matthew that nobody speaks to is that he was pretty straightforward he would he would not charge somebody more than others just because my brother Christ whenever you read Matthew's gospel he's all about the facts you and I know him as a Jew we've run across him at the tax table we've met him out when he's talking to the Jews we met him when he's speaking to the Romans we may have even been by his house when he speaks he is all about the facts it's this it cost you this you do that it's going to be this that's the law that's what the Jews believe if you look at his gospel five times he breaks the gospel up he talks about The Sermon on the Mount he talks about the apostles he talks about Parables and how Christ explained it and and now he's using the word eklesia in Greek he's referring to the church listen to me he's talking about a place to a Jew you and I would have said he either means the temple or wherever the people gather one or the other he's now talking about Christ in his church so that wherever I am you must also be my brother and sister in Christ he's telling them you better listen to me because you are the church and therefore whatever you bind and he's telling the apostles this now remember only Peter got the keys there is a difference but how they now have the full authority of the church so that James and John and Philip and Bartholomew and Simon and thus and youu maias and you too uh uh Simon uh the the Lesser James the Lesser my brother Christ he's telling them you need to listen because whatever you tie down is how it will be my brother Christ go back in scripture all of our best players know how to listen what would it have been if Noah had turned and said man build a boat man you're talking a year years there's not a cloud in the sky what if Noah just simply refused to listen what if the Blessed Mother albe it at the age of 14 man I'm sor sorry Angel I hear what you have to say that's beyond me my brother and sister in Christ what if the good thief dismiss in his heart of hearts does not listen to what the good Lord is talking to him internally man they're about to break his shin so that he will suffocate and when everybody's around and everybody's listening he proclaims out loud Lord just remember me have a thought of me just have a glimpse of me a recollection he is seconds before he loses his life he will go into convulsions and lose his mind and his thoughts but he makes one Proclamation because he listened in his heart of hearts that that truly had to be the Son of God my brother and sister in Christ it had to impact longinus because no sooner than he passes longinus makes the Proclamation truly that man's the Son of God Rome was listening too it cost him his job and his retirement his money and his Prestige and within two years he'll be beheaded by the same men that followed him into battle as they track him down to return his head back to Pilot my brother and sister in Christ but for everyone who listens there's always somebody that just fails to understand pilate if he had just listened to his wife and let that man go he's a holy man I've had dreams of him I've had nightmares do not pass judgment on him did he honestly believe that pulling out a bowl and towel and washing your hands and you're exonerated when you could have let him go and for decades and years the blind will see and the lame will walk and the dead will rise but yet he refused to listen my brother and sister Christ what about the other three guest when he's on the cross and the good thief says Remember Me Lord instead of complaining and saying if you're a God get down and bring me down with you man what what has he got to lose he's going to die in seconds why wouldn't he just stand up and say man I'm a Gambling Man yes Lord so be it remember me too he refused to listen to a guy he had been a crime with for over 40 years they have butchered and murdered people at the drop of a hat you know what's amazing my brothers and sisters in Christ is those two thieves actually met Christ 30 years earlier according to St Augustine and St anel that's right when when Joseph gets the word take Mary and her son and flee the only place to go is through the desert if you go go by water it's expensive it's public if you go by the desert the chances of being seen are nominal except by the thief that controls the desert dismus made his dad look like a Boy Scout according to the church fathers they do cross paths Christ is 2 years old he's still Christ and when they meet dismus tells gestos the bad thief if you will we need to let this one go look at him if God could come down that's how he would look have you seen a more beautiful child let's let him go and then he says to Christ Remember Me this day should our paths ever cross the good thief bad thief wasn't listening then he asked for 40 pieces of silver of which his buddy paid him to allow them to go through and now at the crucifixion seconds before his death one more opportunity to Proclaim Christ the savior of the world and he stiff arms it my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how good of a listener are you and I my brother and sister Christ do you and I listen when the church speaks do we well let's see when the good Lord in his church speaks about going to confession when when's the last time you've been the church tells us in Proverbs that the average holy person I'm not saying you're not holy send seven times a day don't go to confession for a month that's over 200 sins don't go for a year it's almost 2400 sins what type of relationship you have with anybody much less god with over 200 sins on your soul my brother and sister in Christ tell me in scripture where it says I can go directly to Jesus Christ and I can bypass the law that you put into fact Hebrews 5 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves yet how many times do I hear no I I I'm just going to the big guy well that's novel however how many confessions did the good Lord hear while he was on Earth scripturally none how many baptized none but yet we no longer want to listen because we know better St John in the gospel go out and heal them and forgive them of their sins St Paul to the Corinthians reconciliation has been given to us what I don't understand is why it's so hard to just listen and do it I don't care if you pre-shop I don't care if you cherry pick seven times a day if you've been over 30 days how much further will you wait do you curse more are you moody or temperamental are you angry then I can tell you you're too far removed do you listen to the church when she talks to you about making sure you go to mass and making sure you receive the Eucharist my brothers Christ I understand what's going on in the world but at some point you and I need to receive the Eucharist it's the body blood soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ it is not a relic it's not Theory it's not conjecture that's a lie and stop buying it you know it's the truth I can feel it and don't tell me you can't either that's why you come here wherever he is we must be this is his home and we must receive him we go nowhere without him my brother and sister in Christ are you listening to the church when they say you need to get the marriage an olded because that's not Catholic answers to divorce it's the church's way of rectifying what was a natural marriage men and women get married all the time and a sacramental marriage one that got married in the church under the right pretext my brother and sister in Christ are you listening to the church when she speaks not just about the Eucharist about the anointing of the sick about getting your child baptized you want your child to have eternal life yes or no they had to circumcise 8 days old Peter told you and I in in First Peter circumcision baptism is the new circumcision they circumcise to be blessed in the removal of the sin so therefore why do you wait to be baptized so that you can acknowledge Christ but yet you carry the sin of Adam and Eve my brother and sister in Christ think for a second do you listen to one another when they speak look in the world today let me ask you rhetorically when you sit down to visit with somebody and they begin to talk are you listening let's see when your phone dings do you pick it up in the middle of the conversation to return a text my brother and sister Christ are you on the phone already and responding to a text that somebody sends you in the middle of the conversation you can't be listening when you sit at the dinner table or have a cup of coffee and that phone dings do you pick it up to read it even though they're sitting right across from you what do you think the message to that person that they just set upon you just fit me in when you can catch every other word oh I get it you're multitasking you're a poor juggler stop it sit at the table with your family and friends and give them there your undivided attention and when they come to you with an issue will you do me the favor and just listen don't jump in and speak over them don't jump in and tell them how to fix it or tell them man you think this is bad wait till this part happens my brother and sister in Christ how well do you and I listen when you're you want to hear what Christ has to say to you and I turn off your radios turn off your cell phones turn off your television remember Moses and Elijah only hear Christ speak in the quiet every time Christ wanted to speak to his father in he would go to the mountains to pray so that he could be alone how much time do you spend in adoration I don't care if it's 5 minutes I don't care if you go in ginu flect and leave all I'm saying is it's directly proportional to the peace in your life you want peace in your life then learn to listen only way you can learn to listen is to give him time and the only way that you'll give him time is that you must go to his house or wherever he's present you can't have it both ways you can't pray the Rosary in front of the television are you kidding me my brother and sister in Christ you need to understand the church is true you need to understand that her teachings regardless of the inequities of those that are in control of the church doesn't change the authenticity of holy mother church at the end of the day she is true and the Eucharist is the source and summon of Our Lives my brothers Christ I am begging you to start to listen to what the church has been talking to you about our teachings I need you to begin to listen to what people say on whether it's for the election or on being set on television I need you to start to listen for the truth and if you somehow another believe that killing our children is in any way acceptable to our Savior oh oh my God then you're disordered and you are lost I don't want to hear the argument that I'm more than a one issue person what other issue is there oh please you're going to tell me it's okay to kill my children and in the same mouth tell me healthc care you're telling me you're going to kill my children but I got a great economic plan I'm the god of Economics I'm the god of supply and demand did I not tell Peter you need coins for taxes the first fish you catch take the coins and go pay Peter opens the fish pulls out not one but two Peter says I don't need the second one he says pay for me so now I need to understand well he's got it they understand well I just don't like what he does or I don't like this my brother's Christ we go nowhere without Christ he is everything he is in every thought every action every word that we do he knows your thoughts before you do them he knows how you drive how you respond how you get up how you lay down he knows your prayers and your intention he understands every thought so how is it that you and I simply refuse to listen my brother and sister in Christ I'm begging you the fight in this world has nothing to to do with a donkey very little to do with an elephant and everything to do with the lamb listen to me you are either a follower of Jesus Christ in his church or you are not the cafeteria is closed it's time for you and I to make our bed and it will be made as you and I leave it and I leave you with the words of Martin Luther Martin Luther King excuse me Martin Luther I digress Martin Luther King I have found it true I have found it true that I will not teach myself anything I will not teach myself anything as long as I'm speaking if I want to learn anything then I must remain silent and learn to listen she's true she's always been true it's now you and time for you and I now to plant our flag amen amen the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

forgiveness forgiveness his name is Edwin he lives in the year 1840 1860 and I have to tell you he is absolutely the greatest actor of his day Bar None there is nothing this man can't do drama murder comedy he's got it all you think the actors of today they hold n a candle to Edwin I got to tell he is so good at what he does he's not only popular in the United States Edwin is equally popular in England it's the 1840s 1860s I mean in two countries he did MC Beth for 100 consecutive nights pack every night as a result you know what's amazing about Edwin Live and Let Live he lives a simple life power money Prestige Fame he's got it all there's nowhere Edwin can go without people seeing him want to talk to him get his autograph if pictures were available back in the day they surely would have taken him man he couldn't walk down the street on his own that's Edwin he really never cared he was a very forgiving heart man life is going good one day he's decided to take a train out of DC and he's waiting on the platform you know you've seen it in the old western movies right that train starts coming in that coupling is a little too big and as a result you see that train come in starts to shake same way when it takes off until that momentum kind of catches up well the platforms back in those days would Shake cuz they're attached to the rails as a result man the platform is packed and every how could you not miss Edwin I mean everybody knows him they're looking they're pointing they're staring Edwin stays in the back doesn't want to be bothered loves people but rather be left alone all of a sudden man the train's coming into the station and man there's a blood curling scream only a mother could yell as a result man everybody is's Frozen she's yelling for her boy he is Fallen between the tracks he's about to get caught between the cars she is paralyzed with fear and she is screaming for her son nobody moves not one Les Edwin Edwin begins to fight through the crowd pushing and whatever he gets to the rail he sees the child wraps his foot around the rail grabs it with one hand reaches between the cars and pulls him there is no way he should have made it that's that one gives the child back to his mom stands him up the the mother can barely get the words thank you out balling her eyes out the little boy is petrified with fear Edwin's decided just to walk away man the crowd couldn't believe it if anybody who could have lost everything that's Edwin you know what's amazing Edwin lived his whole life like that about the year 1864 1865 Edwin's brother gets in so much trouble it leaks on towards Edwin to a point that it cost him everything you know when Edwin died not a penny to his name lived in the same House wore only two sets of clothes you know when they found him dead they had a letter on him and everybody would tell you the only thing he cared about was that letter didn't care he lost money didn't care that his brother ruined his reputation didn't care about anything it was a letter from a general working on General Grant staff a thank you letter now listen thanking him for saving the life of a young boy whose father the young boy's father had been killed by Edwin's brother you see Edwin's last name is booth and his brother is none other than John wils Booth the young boy he said was Robert Todd Lincoln the woman that screamed was Mary Lincoln that's Edwin forgive and forget they said when his brother did what he did and assassinated the president he just felt shame for him he felt sorry for him and for the country to lose such a great man my brothers and sisters in Christ that is the gospel on this side right here my brother in Christ My Brother and Sisters in Christ it's all about forgiveness listen to what the good Lord says You must forgive now make sure you understand the setting and understand what the numbers and all mean my brother in Christ according to tradition small T Peter is having a conversation about Judas he's about had all he can stand he's tired of forgiving him him and Judas didn't get along since day one as a result of in he's saying how many times Lord seven times Peter's trying to shorten the number Peter's counting the good Lord now if you translate it correctly I would tell you that the translation is probably closer to 7 time 70 and not 77 but hear me out this is why I believe this to be true my brother Christ go back to um Cain and Abel if you and I are a first century Jew numbers are important seven is the most complete number in the world seven days of creation seven years to build the temple three is the most perfect number in the world Father Son and Holy Spirit so sevens are important if you go back to Cain and Abel there'll be several years where Cain will be looking over his shoulder for what he did to Abel in other words there'll be consternation anxiety and worry if you go a few more Generations there's a guy by the name of lamech who kills somebody in a heated B uh brawl and as a result it's 7 time 70 see how long it's starting to get in other words you committed the sin that's your F there's your Penance you commit the same sin again now your Penance is growing so now my brother and sister in Christ if you go into the Book of Daniel as a Jew you and I know that 490 is the ultimate and forgiveness that if you want to be totally resolved from the sin just pay up 490 years seven times 70 my brother and sister in Christ This is why the good Lord is saying you got to forgive Peter like the ultimate Jew 7 time 70 490 years that means you got to cut it loose and let it go because if you don't then I'm not going to pull the wood plank out of your eye until you have remitted all that you owe in the spiritual prison Heaven's Hospital Purgatory because no one enters Heaven until you are perfectly clean Revelations 21 go back and read Matthew 5 my brother and sister Christ Heaven's hospital was agreed to by the Jews they believed in purgatory what I'm trying to tell you is he's telling Peter be careful you don't offer forgiveness now you're going to owe me later and you will not get out until you paid the last penny now my brothers of Christ now stop you heard the parable about the money that was owed remember every time you hear a parable but this guy owed a huge debt remember look for the twist in a parable something that's not logical not reasonable and here's the issue when you hear huge debt if you and I were to go back to the original language what you and I would find out is that he owed 10,000 talents stop 10,000 talents that's a gold coin is one Talent you and I would be worker bees in the days of the of the Jews in the Rome we would be paid a daer a day the size of a dime the whole dime is yours to spend any way you would like a day get sick get hurt not making it no dime for you you work a whole year you get 365 daer one gold Talent is worth 6,000 daer think about what is that if my 14 15 years of salary 10,000 talents that you owe the king my brother sister in Christ it's almost like 60 million days 160 some odd 60,000 years of income that's how much he owed the king the number is exorbitant you and I as a Jew said wait a minute 10,000 talents you're lucky you see one in a lifetime see it not get it he's saying that the debt was owed was so great and the King absolved it provided that you gave it You Paid It Forward but if you don't I'm going to get it back from you in either this world or the world to come so when he goes to the guy do you know how much he owes a 100 Diner a 100 days and he's throwing him in the debtor's prison remember there's no prison for for um for murder you just they just kill you debtor's prison is just for debts and the only way you get out is if you pay your debt or someone pays it for you so to throw someone in jail for 100 dinary when you hold 10,000 talents 60 million days 160,000 years that's when the good Lord loses it that's when the king says this is my righteous anger my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players understand it think about it for a second you're Peter man you're Peter you you are going to be the leader of his church for all eternity statues will be made keys in your hand the Bible in the other if you will and as a result you will make bound on Heaven you will Bound in heaven what you bound on Earth he didn't say it the other way he didn't say you bind it on Earth and you can do it up here too he's say wherever you bind it it'll be bound that way on me too my brother in Christ Peter has his name changed to Kaya Boulder massive in Aramaic in Greek it means something different but the they speak in Aramaic the apostles do to the to uh to Jesus massive Boulder it also means foundation stone to a Jew you and I know that's what the temple was built on he told Peter man you're going to be my Boulder which I'll build my temple my Tabernacle you know I know exactly where Peter sit he sits number one now listen Peter is denied him three times if the good Lord doesn't make a purposeful effort to forgive Peter think about what Peter's doing after the crucifixion and subsequent Resurrection what does Peter go do he goes fishing he's going back to his old way of life he's not coming back he's lost he only knows what he knows the good Lord is is gone and then all of a sudden they're fishing there's only seven of them maybe that's because they were only seven Fisher I don't know but I'll tell you this he swims 100 yards to sit next to a charcoal fire the same type of fire in which he denied Our Savior only twice in scriptures that word used charcoal and as a result of it Peter do you love me now all the apostles are there and Peter says well Lord you you know I do Peter do you love me yeah you know I do L Peter do you love Love Me Lord you know everything you know I love you I hope so Peter Cuz someday they're going to take you where you don't want to go and dress you like you never been dressed and they're going to do it upside down and for three hours you will Proclaim my name if he does not forgive Peter do we have a rock of which to build our church do you know Mary Magdalene went to our good Lord according to tradition big tea not little tea three different times people are pulling away the world's pulling her money's pulling her fame's pulling her Fortune her looks are pulling her away she finally gets in front of our savior if he does not help forgive her which we actually believe is the same woman that's about to be stoned in which he writes the sins of the other people or the symbol of the sins into of the ground will she get up on that day and go and go look for him on Easter Sunday or would she say man what what's the point whatever if he does not forgive her she will not be the first to see the Risen Christ my brother and sister Christ but because he does forgive her he's telling you and I that no matter how far you have fallen I will always forgive you provided you come back to me you've got to at least turn your head and acknowledge me do you know they said Peter cried so much for those three days that when Christ was gone that they said the creases in his cheek never healed my brother and sister in Christ if he doesn't knock Paul from the horse or Chariot because it says he fell to the ground he fell at distance Paul had plenty of money Saul back in those days my brother and s in Christ does he become the Paul that you and I know where in other words he's bringing converts back to the church my brothers Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how forgiving are you and I to other people no father you don't understand they have gotten on Facebook they have gotten on the internet they have gotten together at dinners and coffees and sat around the table and have trashed me do you think they didn't do it to the good Lord did they not do it to the Blessed Mother you're pregnant and where was Joseph your son thinks he's the Messiah you don't think they spoke ill of the good Lord or Peter or James or John or Nathaniel or Bartholomew or Thomas or Matias or for James the Lesser James the Greater My Brother and Sisters in Christ how forgiving are you and I when somebody puts our name on the Internet and Facebook and trashes us how forgiving are we or do we want our pound of Flesh and then some do we want our restitution does the good Lord say if they hit you on your left cheek to give them your right do you understand that for me to hit you on your right cheek I need to backhand you he's talking about verbal my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to walk away do you honestly want to allow them to attach themselves to you for days and weeks and months and years so much so that the mere mention of that person's name will cause you to get so mad you could beat them within an inch of their life and walk away with a smile on your face and the debt and the regret will pound you for the rest of your life my brothers and sister in Christ will you be able to forgive it and let it go when somebody says man they've abused you and woe to them who's raised a hand to you and if it was a priest then the what waits for him you won't know part of my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to walk away and when you say you forgive somebody it's it there ain't no going back to the well don't get in an argument and then go back and bring it back up and say well let me tell you you think that's great well here let me tell you what I thought when you did this yes or no you either forgave them or you didn't your word is your bond that's all we've got it is hard but I got to tell you until you learn to forgive one another you might as well put that suction right up to your heart you could be on the most pristine day you could be on the beach you could be walking in the fields you could be in the deer stand the Doug mine the ball field you could be walking with your loved ones somebody mentions one name you could take a tire iron out and finish the business that's when you know it's gone too far my brother and sister Christ when you're tired of being tired tired of being tired you will finally cut it Loose because why did you allow somebody to get so attached to you that you can't E 10 years later you're still harboring it five years later two weeks two months I understand it takes time I get it too but at some point you got to cut it loose and Let It Go I mean how much more time are you allowing them to roll around in this real estate your mind is very expensive and you're allowing them to run rentree why because the devil has put the thought and you've entertained it and now they take with you no matter where you go you could be this city another city this country or another this job or another this relationship or another and it follows you because you haven't cut it loose and said Lord I'm tired I'm tired of them I'm tired of the family I'm tired of the relationship I'm tired of the people at work I'm tired of the people that I deal with I'm tired of my neighbors at some point when you're tired of being tired I pray that you cut it Loose because at the end of the day they're not spending one second worried about you you're not even on the radar never have been never will be and they do not deserve any more of your time enough they have taken enough of your life cut it loose and Let It Go be done with them and when that thought enters your head give it back to the good Lord I don't care if you got to do it a thousand times in a day the more you pray the less the evil one will return my brother and sister in Christ there's a great story and I leave you with this there's a cab driver who 20 years ago was well above the curve he decided to get his own cab and spend all the extra money putting thermoses in the back hot chocolate coffee cold drink several different newspapers he got so good at what he did that when people would come to the airport they'd actually call him Uber 20 years before he had a clientele that he never even had to show up for the airport he just had to wait for the calls one day he picks this guy up and he says I got to tell you ever since I've seen what you're doing this is utterly amazing he said man I got coffee back here I got I got the Wall Street Journal I got this I got USA Today I got what I want he said man no problem I just love what I do he's driving along he gets caught behind a truck a garbage truck true story he said man that garbage truck pulls out Cuts him off the guy in the back he's already lost his control he said man I can't believe that b b believe believe guy did that cab driver never says nothing the guy gets out of the truck takes the garbage and starts yelling and screaming and throwing it all about the car God never budges goes around and keeps going finally the guy in the back seat can gets his composure and says okay stop you mean to tell me that what you just went through didn't bother you has it pissed you off he said just because someone throws garbage at my feet nobody told me to pick it up same is true for you and I cut it loose and Let It Go Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

judging judging his name his name is Al he is a banjo playing disciple he loves to sing Al Al's a composer uh Al's a jailbird let's just be honest and the problem Al is having albe it the 1930s is that he doesn't play well with the other inmates he's been kind of cast side he he he doesn't fit in okay he's been ostracized and it's just more than just being made aloof when matter of fact when they walk by Al they'll make a comment some may spit some may giving the proverbial Brush by some may literally push him by the time he gets back to his cell people will walk by and throw things in it Al is being judged he's being judged harshly be that as it may he is where he is as a matter of fact he's decided that someday if I could just get the inmates to kind of understand me I think it would work out better he decides to put a band together of course he'll be play the banjo he's got a couple others to help join him he will actually sing a song and composes a song called mother absolutely without question a huge flop when I tell you it tanked it tanked matter of fact he thought he got pushed back before you think he got cursed before maybe spit on things thrown in his cell nothing like it's happening now man he's kind of concerned because things are getting a little sideways later that week two cells down from a his friend starts to yell out in the middle of the night he yells out the guards yell back be quiet next thing you know he yells out again they tell him to be quiet he's screaming in pain they telling him to be quiet Al yells out for him they tell him to be quiet man next thing you know that next morning they finally take him to the infirmary man lo as you would have it bleeding ulcer dies in The infirmary man the inmates are besides themselves they have decided that they're going to have a strike a sitdown strike you work in the yard sit down you work in the laundry you'll sit down you work in the construction sit down you make the plates you sit down but the problem is every inmate knows you pull that game you're going into the Solitaire no if ANS or butts about it Al can't handle Solitaire that's the problem claustrophobic can't deal with it he goes on strike he may not even make it out of solitary as a result of such he backs up from it that night from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. because Al knows what waits for him the next day man can I tell you they said he was shaking so bad that you could actually walk by and see the Sheep pulled over his head looks like the Ripple in a wave in a sea in an ocean they said you could hear him crying all night long they said if you would go touch his sheet the next morning stop and wet now I'm not here to judge Al I'm not here to judge Al in his prior life you know at one time alance held Chicago in the palm of his hand at one time he was the greatest warlord they could have ever imagined and the greatest Crime Boss he was the greatest Bootlegger of his day he dies 15 years later from venial disease I'm not here to judge that issue either and you know him as alap but what happened to Al Capone is exactly that is exactly what took place in that gospel everybody's judging everybody and everybody's judging the owner how dare you spend your money like you'd like I mean it's your money surely I can spend it like I would like my brother and sister in Christ now I need you to stop for a minute you're a first century Jew Matthew is the author of this gospel he is the writer of the Gospel the good Lord is the author every time he speaks Matthew always has a propensity to speak towards money he's a tax collector he is a Jew and he's also a Roman and as a result of such he has the privilege as a result he writes this about a parable the good Lord says now I want you to listen to the parable the man goes out and the way you kept time in the Roman day in the day of Christ was 6: a.m. is the start of the day the third hour is at 9: the 6 hour is at noon the 9 hours at 3: and the 12th hour is back at 6:00 p.m. now make sure you understand he goes out of his Vineyard and he goes into the marketplace at the break of day and says I'll pay you a daer remember this is Matthew he's the one that talked about 10,000 talents last weekend a daer is the size of a dime that's what you get for one day's work a whole dime he says if you go now I'll pay you he notices nobody comes and then he goes out again at 9:00 and then all of a sudden he pays them a dime too if they come and work he goes out at noon he comes back out at 3: and then last but not least an hour before he says I'll go one more time and he comes and then when it's time to pay him he pays starting with 5:00 then 3:00 then then noon then 9 and then the early a.m. hours now my brother and sister in Christ just stop for a minute if you and I were to judge that owner would you and I make the argument well it's it's really not fair you see you see because I've been out there for 12 hours I live through the heat of the day you gave me a daer I mean maybe I could see the 9:00 guys but I got to tell you starting noon they should get half of theer I don't even want to speak about what 3:00 and as far as 5:00 you shouldn't even gone and gotten them every time you hear a parable listen for the twist what is it that doesn't seem logical is it logical for you and I to say that it's acceptable to pay a guy that shows up for one hour it's going to take him 20 minutes to figure out what he's got to do another 20 minutes find out where he's got to go well man you only got 20 minutes left to work now here's the point of the first reading my ways are greater than your ways my thoughts are greater than our thoughts the distance is even greater than the distance from Heaven to the earth now you may think it was logical to complain and judge the owner but here's the irony the good Lord is using this to talk about what it meant for him when he created the world he's saying in the very beginning at 6 a.m. if you will I brought Adam and Eve into the world I brought people at 900 a.m. I bring into the world Noah so that we can save families at noon I bring in the world Abraham to save Nations at three I bring in Moses so that he can begin to save people and then at 5:00 I sent my son into the world to save all the Gentiles that have been you and I you and I are the 5:00 people so therefore if we just judge and said we shouldn't get paid he's saying the reason I came at 5: because if I don't come you won't make Heaven it comes 6:00 so stop worrying at 6:00 a.m. whether you made it you made it and as long as you made it what difference does it make if I bring others in whether it's at 9: noon 3 or I send my son into the world that's why he's driving home to point why are you so envious did you not make heaven then what is your complaint it's your soul that I'm coming here for what difference does it make if I decide to go back into the world and it cost me this so I can save even more of my lost children why are you judging me my brother and sister in Christ and if you listen to that last sentence are you envious every Jew that just heard that would have literally taken a step back and said did he just say what I thought he did why are you envious of what I've done stop the translation for a Jew when the good Lord was speaking he would have spoken Greek but to the Jews it would have been an Aramaic my brother and sister in Christ he said did you look at me with an evil eye did you look at me through an evil eye stop go all the way back to Genesis in the Garden of Eden every Jew knows that when they see the tree when they see the tree they desire it they become jealous and envious and they want the tree even though God told them not to eat of it therefore my brother and sister in Christ This is how pride gets started I see the tree I want it it will taste good lust of the flesh lust of the eyes lust of the Flesh and at the end of the day it'll make me wise like God pride is like a pitchfork it has three times that's why it's the table ET for all the seven deadly sins he saying if you commit the sin of judging me then you are looking through the evil eye this is where you and I get the term you were looking at it through the eyes of Adam and Eve who got caught up in Pride and look where it landed them My Brother and Sisters in Christ my brothers Christ listen to me he's saying that if you judge what difference will it be to me than Adam and Eve everybody who judg Christ in scripture go back and think everybody who judged Christ Herod the Great when they told him they being the wise men when they told him look we have come therefore the newborn Kings what is the title of King Herod King of the Jews so when they say we're looking for the newborn king of the Jews he becomes beside himself so much so he issues a proclamation that it must have taken about a year year and a half for the wise men to make it they come from Sheba in Serbia from Persia it's a Year's Journey at least so now he issues a decree everybody from two years down must all be killed he judges looking for Christ he takes his own life as well as the white the life of his favorite wife one of his sons and all of his cabinet he judged Christ he took his own life pilate judges Christ and believes that by the mere washing of his hands he's exonerated 5 to 10 years later he too will take his life arguing over the rights of water with the same Jews that asked him to condemn Christ he too took his life Herod Antipas a Rel to King Herod when pilate said he didn't want to judge him they sent him to Antipas Antipas sends him back to pilate antibus takes his own life and then Judas the coup de Judas it have been better you never been born he called him the son of predition my brother and sister Christ he hangs himself everybody who judges Christ takes condemnation upon themselves my brother and sister in Christ the whole point of the gospel and the readings all the way back from Isaiah to St Paul to the good Lord speaking through Matthew judging is only left for the good Lord remember this my brother and sister in Christ and don't forget when you and I judge people we've made two fatal mistakes one we have literally told the good Lord step away Lord I got this I was there in the beginning I helped you create the the world I did it so in six days I rested with you I know everybody's name in their mother's womb I know every option that they may have had I know every decision they made I know everything about the information I can judge them that's our first mistake we've made ourselves unequal with God not to mention the condemnation of the Judgment itself and then the second biggest mistake is that we will now be judged as a equal that means it's just not your and our sins going back and forth we're now going to be judged on how we judged others as in the shoes of God my brother and sister in Christ you know they say that Purgatory has seven levels I think it's seven because the Jews believe that's the most complete number in the world seven days of creation seven years to build the temple the bottom level of purgatory they say is where most preached in religious land because they have more understanding the bar has been raised well let me help you there's going to be plenty of room down there for everybody who also has judged because you have now raised the bar you have made yourself an equal to God my brother Christ think about it how many times it works have you gone somewhere got a cup of coffee just having a cup of coffee and we're judging our co-workers our boss the people that come the people that go how many times do we judge them just flippantly I can't believe he did that or she did that I can't believe he's doing this I don't understand what they're doing those little statements or sin and now that you begin to share it and begin to bear false witness which is against the eighth commandment and you do so in such a manner that you keep going to the well well let me tell you what I think about him well let me tell you why I think that's wrong every time you and I step out and judge our neighbor the condemnation and the bar begins to rise why because we're going against the Commandment love God and love of neighbor when you bear false witness against your neighbor it has very little to do with whether you're telling the whole truth nothing but the truth who help you God that wasn't the point bearing false witness means you and I are not true witnesses to Jesus Christ and therefore we do not believe in love of neighbor love of neighbor means you don't judge which means that at the end of the day you don't know the options they had to pull from you don't know the background so therefore if you bear false witness and condemn your neighbor your boss your coworker your parents your children My Brother and Sisters in Christ especially spouses be careful about judging your spouse when you get to work and you spread that Venom about what has happened at night because I can assure you people there will not forget and then when you go home and things are better and apologies are made nobody goes back to work and tells everybody that they just bad mouth it's all better now my brother Christ I'm telling you guard your lips especially about your spouse about your children your children guard your lips about your parents my brother and sister in Christ they put clothes on your back a roof overhead they educate you and we're still the best country in the world call it what you will but I don't see anybody leaving the United States as many as those that are coming to go live in another country my brother and sister in Christ when you and I judge we have brought condemnation not on them but on ourselves remember when we pass an opinion on somebody the opinion that's going to stick is the one that's going to be made on us my friends in Christ you know what's amazing some of the people that you think should have no reason to be nice sometimes we're nicer to total strangers than we are to our own family how many times we have a bad day and the first person that gets shot is the first person we see of our family it's reprehensible and it's got to stop I don't want to hear about the world and got the best of you because we're shooting the same people over and over and over again my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this before you judge somebody don't just don't amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

lip service lip service it's the 1970s her name is Mary she lives in Honolulu Hawaii she's got two great parents one by by trade is a biochemist he also kind of likes to dabble and being an author of books if you will his wife the consumate mom consumate nurse and also kind of an editor of Papa's books married will tell you that she had one sister but the one thing they had in common she was Catholic and still is with a big c as a result of it she'll tell you that high school was a little tough first she starts out in Honolulu then she ends up in Australia and when you ask her what was her problem she says I'm an introverts introvert I don't even like eating by myself I won't even go out in public by myself to this day I have to have somebody with me I'd just rather be left alone her mom said but in high school she came to me and said mom I like to do two things I like the ballet and I love drama she said well you know your lifestyle would fit ballet but if you want to get into drama and theater or whatever then you better do it more than give it lip service because it's just not who you are she decides to get into a play now remember now she's in Australia and it's called Christmas in the bush you know the nickname from Australia as a result it kind of makes her kind of gives her a little bit of a name gives her a little bit of confidence a little momentum then she decides well I've got to make that leap of faith and then she finally gets in a little show called it's a little movie called a country physician A Country Practice it did okay then she found another one called like a five River Creek okay nobody saw it but that's okay she was in another show called Vietnam and then all of a sudden man the big step came man can she do it can she can she go out on that step and boy could she you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ most people don't even know what Chanel Number Five is but ever once she got her face on it the world definitely changed do you know know to this day she got the record for being paid the most money for a three-minute commercial 4 million a minute my brother and sister in Christ she was in shows like Days of Thunder she was in Golden Compass she was in the movie um Batman Forever Cold Mountain look I didn't memorize a dozen of these things I ain't even seen the movies I'm just trying to get you there yeah you know her is Mich is Nicole Kidman my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing about her it's her humility it's her Catholicism when they were putting her handprints and her star in you know in the in the Walk of Hollywood she said I've never been so proud to have people walk on me and then the the reporter picked up on it and he said well something about what about is that like how your Catholicism is and she said no I don't give my Catholicism lip service I'm a Catholic I'm a practicing Catholic I even go to regular confession she goes to Regular confession just to make sure you caught that matter of fact and she even got an analment from Mr Cruz my brother and sister in Christ she doesn't give it lip service that is exactly that gospel I want you to make sure you understand the good Lord is making a statement to the Pharisees and Sadducees and to the scribes that prostitutes and tax collectors will enter the kingdom before you because you pay me nothing but lip service now stop make sure you understand they are in a synagogue the people have lined the walls because they know he's going to be there there would be a certain section just for those that have the clout Pharisees Sadducees scribes and he's using what he calls a parable now remember in a parable you got to look for the twist for something that doesn't seem logical that's where he wants you to go a parable was written why because 90% of the people in the day are illiterate and the only way they can pass it on generation to generation is like passing on a story so he says there's two sons in a Vineyard one says yes and then doesn't go the other says I won't go and then does he says you are the you are the one that says I'll go but then I don't you give lip service you gave it to John the Baptist your forefathers gave it to Ezekiel you just heard it they even gave it to Jeremiah and now you're giving it to me that is why the judgment will be harsh my brother and sister in Christ look go back in scripture think of all the greatest players in our day no matter how great your power is if you give the good Lord lip service you will pay accordingly my boy pilot can you imagine you have the guy beaten to an inch of his life he's got so many beatings and scourgings that you got the unmitigated goal to say what is truth the truth is standing right in front of you you can actually touch the truth you can actually converse with the truth and you actually wash your hands in a bowl of towel and feel that exonerates you lip service but I tell you for everyone that had the power that didn't get it there's one that does get it King David the minute that that he kills that man's wife and marries her and loses a son in seven days he loses his son he's in sackcloth and Ashes he's not given good Lord lip service he knows he must repent my brother and sister in Christ no matter how grave your sin is don't all victim to giv lip service like Judas you were so depressed and slipped into Despair and you did that why because you didn't think he could ever forgive you for what you've done and you went and hung yourself and the last thing the good Lord says about you had been better you never been born you took the test and the teacher said it been better you never took the test you think you passed my brothers Christ but for every one of those there's one that knows what it means to be Allin Mary Magdalene she has all seven demons none of the Apostles had it none of the prophets had it none of the Fallen away had it pride anger gluttony lust a sloth and envy but yet she's the first to see the Risen Christ she's not giv him lip service she's all in my brother and sister in Christ it doesn't matter how how late it is in life think about the good thief man he's he's a minute away from having his legs broken and as a result he will suffocate and die an absolute miserable death all he can get out of his mouth is just remember me Lord have a thought of me a passing Glimpse or understanding he's so sorry he can't even get the word sorry out this day you will be with me in Paradise yet just next to him gestas his partner in crime he's yelling at him he's complaining if you're God get me and you off you're going to die in a minute why wouldn't you talk to him and beg for his Mercy even if you didn't think so you've lost nothing but you get you gave him lip service it doesn't matter how old you are when the good Lord calls you to change your chat direction or do something else or get more involved my brother Christ Peter is late in life he's married why why now Lord I've got my boats I've got fishing I've got my house I'm set here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother Christ do we give our good Lord lip service on what we believe do we give our good Lord lip service about being Catholic my brother and sister Christ there are seven sacraments there are non-negotiable I don't care if you like them or you don't it's not up for you and I to decide Jeremiah said it Ezekiel said it Paul said it Christ is say it and now I'm echoing it go back and read scripture Hebrews 5 I'll choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon himself you either in or you're out you either believe the church or you do not you got to stop negotiating what you think is reasonable and logical that's why we're in the suit this is why we have somebody running for president with a big cross on his forehead thinking somehow another it makes him Catholic how disgusting canot be that some point this has got to stop that you are either in the church or you are out it is the same with our speaker you are either Catholic or you are not you either follow the seven sacraments or you do not you either know the Commandments or you do not how in Sam Hill do you think you and I are going to make the promised land when we don't know the Big 10 do you think they know them in heaven you think they learned them after they got there it's what kept them from getting there was the fact that they didn't know and they therefore went against them my brother and sister in Christ how many times if you and I go to confession we ain't 50 ft out the door we committed the same sin that we just walked in there with we judged or we cursed or we gossiped is that not lip service Serv did you just not walk into that confessional and say bless me Father for I've sinned and I gave the sins and it's the same sin over and over and over at what point do you take yourself serious my brothers in Christ you think it's logical that somehow another the greatest sin of our day is gossip and slander but yet we don't stop doing it because we justify it it's true it's irrelevant whether it's true or not nobody made you the town crier what is truth it's him love of neighbor you broke a commandment and then try to defend it breaking it yet again now we've got multiple sins against the Commandment my brother and sister in Christ stop talking about other people stop just stop it is someone else's name as safe on your lips as our own if it's not Shame On Us My Brothers and Sisters in Christ you and I are about to embark on a great journey it's going on in our midst never has our world seen more chaos than they got it now we have seen the world tremble we are arguing about everything now there is nothing that's not there and I promise you you and I better learn to plant our flag and stop giving the good Lord lip service we we must follow his laws and his Commandments we must vote according to his laws no exceptions where are my children you don't understand Lord we got a great policy I got a great economics you have nothing without me you don't even have an essence you don't even have a thought you will not have a name and you will not be born if I don't ordain it and you got the unmitigated G to somehow another bleed on me and say you don't get it step away because there's more issues than that no you either in or you're out and I leave you with this may your actions speak so loud may your actions speak so loud that they never hear your words stay away from lip service amen amen amen there you go<\p>

anyway anyway it's the 1960 his name is Vil voil is born in Springfield Massachusetts he is one of four children Vil has three sisters and he will tell you that his life was was pretty good he said he'll tell you that his mom was a dancer and that his dad was an actually an actor matter of fact his dad was in The Magnificent Seven he played the uh he played the deputy on Bonanza and as a result of it he said you know he always kind of had an inkling about acting but at the end of the day it's all about playing ball baseball from grammar school he was enamored with it matter of fact in high school he was even that much better he told his dad one day and his dad said Son you always need to have a plan B you got to make sure you got something something behind you just in case baseball doesn't wake make it he said Dad everything else is irrelevant it's all about baseball anyway he said son it's never about baseball that's irrelevant anyway go back to grammar school he's so good at baseball his dad said look since I'm doing work for Disney I'm going to get you some work and the 1970s Vogel is so popular he's probably Disney's poster child he was in Daniel Boom he was in the Virginia he was in The Man from Uncle he did a little bit on Gilligan's Island Gilligan's Island cricket cricket as a result of it man he gets a little bit and lost in space and then man his dad said now that's where you need to be be careful he said man this is where you need to be baseball's going to come and go son anyway he's decided he's going to leave and go play ball After High School he gets and he makes the Anaheim Angels minor league goes to turn a double play he gets taken out tears his rotator cuff it's all gone anyway all of a sudden his dad said now do you see why you have to make sure what's a priority to you as a result he starts getting involved in a couple movies his dad gets him involved in a couple more he's in the movies like Escape From New York executive decision he was in a remake of The Poseidon Adventure he was in overboard with gold Deon oh this is going to be ugly you know I didn't memorize a dozen of these things I'm just saying as a result of it man he's in a couple more Tango in cash as a matter of fact my brother in Christ he was in one called Backdraft he was white her in Tombstone thank you Lord for the 20 people who now know he asked my brother Christ it was Kurt Russell you know what's amazing when they interview him and they asked him man tell me about your life he said you know I thought baseball was that important anyway he said then I found out that I needed acting and then I found out that the most important thing to me was my family anyway he said if it wasn't for VHS tapes I wouldn't even have a job my brother and sister in Christ what he realizes is he found out what anyway finally means that is exactly that gospel my brother Christ the good Lord is talking to the Pharisees and Sadducees and he gives them a parable about a Vineyard about tenants and sending more tenants and then next thing you know you sending more people to get money and next thing you know they killed his son and he's saying what do you think's important anyway they get so lost in the parable they don't even realize who the owner of the kingdom is who the owner of the vineyard is who owns The Wine Press he doesn't they don't even know who owned the hour and at the end of the day he said the only thing that was important is me anyway now stop you're a first century Jew Christ is coming to the end of his life here on Earth he's been preaching for three years he is in the synagogue of Jerusalem the synagogue which would have been held by the high priest and instead of just talking to the people who have lined the walls to hear him speak he's literally tur and speaking to them and he gives them the parable every Jew there would know immediately where Isaiah sat and immediately they would recognize what Isaiah would have told them you didn't recognize who was most important you destroyed the temple you destroyed the city you destroyed the foundation and everything that's under it because you were too caught up in your world you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ they don't see the forest for the trees you know what's also amazing in that Temple he actually quotes Isaiah Isaiah is s in half for the privilege Jeremiah comes into the world and tells them the same thing that they are destroying the vineyard and they Stone him and now Christ is in the world and they're going to crucify him for telling the exact same thing and to help him understand he quotes Psalm 118 you and I would have known the Psalms backwards and forwards they wouldn't have numbered them but the first couple of words would have given us the clue that's how they did it you didn't know him by number you know him by name so therefore when he says that the in the the Cornerstone will be the structure of the church he's telling them it's from the last supper he's telling them it's the great Psalm called the Great Hal every Jew would have known it so if you didn't listen to Isaiah and you didn't listen to Jeremiah would you at least listen to me when I quote you Psalm 118 they ignore it my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are those that have come to recognize that there's only one thing important anyway Paul taught you and I that it doesn't matter how much Prestige you have doesn't matter how much money you have doesn't matter where you have many chariots and many horses and a lot of land and you're also the great Pharisee taught by gel himself all that mattered to Paul as he is now Paul and no longer saw is Christ he dies in a prison he is beheaded he has only one set of clothes he has no money no Fame no fortune and all he's got is 240 lashes on his back he's got three memories of being sank on a ship he's been stoned to a point they thought he was dead he was even Cain but Brothers Christ the only thing that mattered to Paul anyway was the preaching of the Messiah Paul Peter Peter no longer cared about fishing it was more important that he proclaimed the gospel it was more important he become the Rock in which we build our church anyway Mary maglin all seven demons it didn't matter to her whether Christ had died or not she'd rather be at the tomb the next morning I'd rather be near a dead savior than live people anyway because that's all that's important do you know my brother and sister in Christ that Martha and Mary and Lazarus actually leave their home and their fortunes and all their money to become a follower of Christ my brother and sister in Christ the one that stabbed Christ longus he didn't care about his profit sharing his health benefits I'm the Centurion in that area iort I report only to Pilot I leave that day and I make it clear truly that man was the son of God that's all that mattered to me anyway so now it's 2,000 years later Brothers and Sisters in Christ there's only one thing that should matter to you and I anyway did we we make heaven or not yes or no my brother sister in Christ do and I are caught up in the world in the past week I've anointed more people than I have in the last 6 months and let me tell you not one conversation on that deathbed did anybody ask me man what what about my house my car my clothes my Camp what about my hobbies what about my shop guns what about my fishing gear what about my boat father all they cared about man is this good father am I good with you not with me with him will you hear my confession will you anoint me do you have the bread for the journey home that's all that matters anyway why are you and I so consumed about our retirement plan as if somehow another it's still going to be there why are you and I so concerned about all the trappings of our world when all of our best players only had the clothes on their back Peter left his home and for all intense purposes his family Paul will die in a prison Peter will be crucified upside down longinus will be killed about a year and a half later when they behead him when they find out who he is Martha and Mary and Lazarus will all leave and unfortunately be subject to a terrible death so my brother and sister in Christ I'm begging you ask yourself the problem is not between you and your work anyway the problem is not between you and your boss or your co-workers anyway my brother Christ you think they go home worried about what you and I think the only thing that matters is your relationship to Christ everything begins and ends with him so why is it we are so consumed about what other people say about us think about about us or write about us it does not have anything to do with them your work your income you're finished where are you going to be your profit share and your car none of these things matter I'm telling you my brother and sister in Christ only things that matters are are you keeping the Commandments do you even know them my brother and sister in Christ if you don't know them then how do you know what's going to prevent you from making the kingdom ofen my brother and sister in Christ do you know the seven sacraments why will you not go to confession I still don't understand that nowhere in scripture did Christ ever say come confess your sins to me he never said it moreover he never did it he didn't baptize anybody either so I'd like to know where it says you can go directly to the big guy he feeds 5,000 people with a few loaves of bread and fish which is about 15,000 men women and children but yet he doesn't feed any one of the people he feeds only his 12 and tells them to go feed why so people could get used to being fed by them confessions were in existence before he got here I came to fulfill the law not to change it go to confession oh my God how hard is it what is going to be your argument when you stand before him well Lord I've been coming to you all this time I know do you not read my scripture do you not follow my teachings of my church for500 years 1,500 Years everybody did the same thing you either a Jew or you were catholic until Martin Luther gets in this game nothing changed we now got 40,000 faith and don't tell me that they're all telling you the truth I've already been half of them so I'm telling you go to confession get back in the church learn the Commandments at the end of the day only one thing matters did you or did you not make it did your family make it did your children make it did your spouse make it because if not you're in hell for all eternity stop getting worked up over what people think of you what people say of you what others write about you it's irrelevant anyway and I now leave you with this Mother Teresa was right and she all often is she wrote a point called anyway people are unreasonable illogical and self-centered forgive them anyway if you are honest people will cheat you be honest anyway if you are successful you'll win false friends and true enemies succeed anyway if you build something overnight they will destroy it build it anyway give it the best you have give till it hurts because at the end of the day it was never between you and them it was only between you and him anyway Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

Helping Hands Helping Hands the year is 1970 his name his name is Jeff Jeff is a California boy kind of California threw it through he lives in a little city called Concord his mom works for the hospital his dad is kind of a short order cook he is one of four and if you were to ask him Jeff tell me about your family he said well we're a little disordered a little disoriented he said my parents got divorced way early and he said man by the age of 10 I'd actually lived in 10 different households he said so man I was a little just disordered he said by the time I get to high school my dad is remarried so I have half brothers and half sisters if you will and he says but high school he said man high school was tumultuous he said it was just he said if you were to ask him tell me Jeff I tell you what in 10 words or less describe yourself Jeff would say I was um a loner I was a geek but not a computer geek I was just a geek I didn't even have the privilege of being a computer geek he would say that he said man I was I was so shy it was it was scary how shy I was to a point and he said man I just didn't want to be around people I didn't know how to converse he said I was the introvert's introvert he said so going through high school can you imagine and then he meets a guy by the name of Mr forworth the head of the drama the theater he said if there is one guy in my life that gave me a helping hand no strings attached he said it's forworth he said man he says why don't you come with me and be in be in the theater he said I started laugh in you want me the introverts introverts to be in a theater I don't like being around people I'm I'm afraid of my own shadow I I I just can't handle the pressure he said you know what's great Jeff about being on the in the stage you can be anything you want to be are you a good athlete he said oh absolutely not he said you can't be in the theater he said you want to be a great oror a great speaker he said man who wouldn't he said man you can't be in the theater he said man you want to be head of the student body you can be here you want to be a brainiac he said man you can be at here he convinces him to get into play called the Pacific he does well with it so much so when he finally graduates he goes to a university and I got to tell you he do he doesn't last long and he ends up having to go to the Great Lakes Academy however I will tell you this according to Tom magazine and Forbes Magazine Jeff is one of the top 10 college dropouts of all times as a result of it he gets in a little couple bit Pats and he gets a bit piece in a in a show called Bosom Buddies okay I'm going to die a miserable death I can just feel it coming as a result of it man next thing you know he gets another bit little part in a movie called The Money Pit he was in another show called Dragnet Turner and Hooch okay I didn't memorize a thousand of these then all of a sudden I'm going to tell you how good of an actor he is let me just help you he's so good of an actor he got you and I to shed tears over the losing of a soccer ball named Wilson thank you Lord for what has now fallen upon this congregation man he is the one that said man there's no crying in baseball man life is a Bo box of chocolates man he's in apolla 13 he's on the Green Mile I mean my brother Saving Private Ryan and you know him is Tom Hanks Jeff would have been his middle name all because somebody gives him a helping hand that is that gospel now listen the good Lord makes the statement in the parable where the king Walks Into The Wedding Banquet and says how can it be that you entered here without a wedding garment now listen what he was saying is how could you have entered here and not helped anyone and no works of Charity how is it you entered here without giving anybody a helping hand now let me explain how he gets there go back you are a first century Jew every time somebody mentions a Wedding Banquet they're talking about the wedding and the banquet of making it into heaven after the final judgment so remember now he has been in the temple in Jerusalem he just ran all the money changers out he's turned over the tables he's turned over the uh the the stools of the people selling doves and now he was about to ask them about John the Baptist because the Pharisees and Sadducees have gathered let's face it there's a big commotion right before he speaks and he's talking to them and they come to him and say remember there's no secondhand team player here these are all the best of the best this is the high-ranking Pharisee the high ranking sadducee the high ranking Zealot and now they want to know by what Authority did you run all this through turn over our tables run out our animals so who might you be to have such Authority so he asked him this question when John the Baptist was here baptizing did he do do so in the name of God or man so they started to think if we say God then they then he's going to say well he said I was the Messiah so therefore I must be if you say man people are going to get upset because they believe I'm a little more than just a prophet so they don't say anything and now my brother and sister in Christ he's got to come up with another Parable hence the parable about the wedding feast in the Kingdom think about it my brother and sister in Christ remember they know Isaiah they know it by heart they know it in their head so for him to give the story yet again of a wedding Feast is telling them man I'm talking about final judgment I invited you to come but y'all aren't coming and then when you don't come you'll never be able to make it now stop my brother and sister Christ is a first century Jew they know that he's now talking about final judgment and entering the temple in the kingdom of God for the big banquet as you enter my brother and sister Christ for you and I whenever you hear a parable look for the twist something that it just doesn't seem to fit you're having a wedding your family your daughter your son your spouse whatever it may be can you imagine sending out wedding invitations of course people are going to say they come and they can't come I can't I'm busy I got this you're going to send out another set to the same group of people and then those people are going to beat up the mailman to a point they'll probably kill him or the servant that brought the mail and then all of a sudden you're going to get so mad you're going to send troops over their house to kill them all there's the twist I mean that's that's a wedding just short of the Pearly Gates that's this point if you focus what I'm telling you as a devouted Jew then you know I'm talking about the wedding feast The Wedding Banquet of finally being able to enter my kingdom my brother and sister in Christ listen for a second the reason why he's explaining to the man when he sends out people and they don't come then the king comes in and says go out and get everybody in the streets the poor the homeless those that have no clothes and barely enough money to survive bring them in so when he comes walking through the heavenly banquet he sees somebody not wearing a wedding garment he is not talking about the cloth they're poor they barely have enough clothes to keep on them so why would he go up to someone who has nothing and say how did you get in here wearing that wedding garment what he's saying is how did you enter my kingdom when you did no charitable works at all how did you enter my kingdom with not offering a helping hand did I not tell you in Matthew's gospel which this is where this gospel comes from Matthew 7 not everybody who yells my name not everybody who yells my name will enter my kingdom but only those who do the will of my father works of Charity did St James not tell you and I faith without works is dead did St Paul in Corinthians say you could have the faith to move a mountain but if you don't have Works love charity then you're just a resounding gong what good does it do to tell a man who has no clothes keep warm a man that has no food make sure and get something to eat my brother and sister in Christ faith without works is dead because you have faith you will do good works because you do good works people will see you have faith there in lies the whole point of Helping Hands look go back in scripture I bet you if I had pictures can you imagine the size of this backdrop of somebody's hands in scripture you would know who they were just by their hands for example if I told you that his hands were immaculately manicured there were rings on every finger matter of fact he probably wouldn't have lifted an instrument his entire life probably never held a hammer never drove a spike never held a sickle never bailed anything and next to it was a little bowl and towel You' have said oh that's Pilot's hands if I would have showed you another set of hands and next to it would have been holding a spear that was Dripping with blood and that blood would have been dripping on his hands and His Hands would have been callous and marred probably with all kind of Nicks and cuts because he's a soldier you have said I bet that's long Gus's hands and you'd have been right if I had told you that his hands man they look like they have been weathered for decades it looks like he's got more rope burns on there than he does skin and in one hand he's got the keys in the other hand he's got a fish you would say man those are the hands of kayi Peter if I told you that this lady's hands are holding up the veil of Christ and in it is his image you would IMM would have said oh that's Veronica's hands my brother and sister in Christ throughout scripture you and I are identifying people just by the look of their hands if a man is holding a money bag of 30 pieces of silver with the salt that has been knocked over next to him because if you look at the painting of The Last Supper the one where all the apostles are on the backdrop if you look real closely somebody's knocked over the table salt why the good Lord says are you worth your salt that would have been Judas you would have known him just by his hands well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later would people recognize you and I your spouse your children yourself your family your friends would they recognize who you are just by a picture of your hands would it be something that you have in your hands and then they would have said oh if it's got a computer mouse I know who that is if it has a remote control your family would say oh I know whose hands those are if it's a phone would they know it's your hands if it's fingers texting on a phone would they know it's your hands my brother and sister in Christ would they know at your hands because there's a drink in your hand would they know it because there's a cigarette and the nicotine is stained would they know it because there's always bald up in a fist because we're always angry and woe to you who strikes another what waits for you you could never even dream of The Nightmare will only unfold for those who raise a hand to another my brother and sister in Christ would it be a syringe in the hand would it always be a finger that's pointing at others which finger would it be my brothers and sisters in Christ don't you understand when they took a picture of you and they had a Rosary in your your hand would your family say I know who that is I've seen that Rosary I've seen him pray it that's that's her that's him would it always be like Mother Teresa would do when she'd pray she said she'd always have to pray this way with the hands folded flat together and the thumbs crossed to remind her of the crucifix and remind her what it means to be totally compliant and totally dependent on our savior she would never pray this way she would only pray this way way because it's the height of humility would that's how you're in our hands be would there be anything religious in our hands at all would it be a rosary a cross a prayer card would it have anything in it at all would they even know that you're a religion would they even know that you're Catholic if we don't know they don't know how will he know my brother and sister in Christ by your hands and our gestures people will know whether we are followers of Jesus Christ I'm always amazed that when I go to funerals everybody always has a Rosary in their hand and I always pray Lord I hope that Rosary has been in their hand all along my brothers and sisters in Christ I am begging you in the way that the world is now spun and the way it will continue to spin if you and I don't ratchet it up and we don't begin to pray more and show show people with our hands that we're willing to be helping hands and it begins and ends with prayer if you and I don't show people that we are indeed Catholic then how are they to know by simply by our thoughts we have made our faith such a private thing that now we can't even go public with our faith the problem is it needs to be the other way our faith needs to be public and it needs to be seen in our hands and I leave you with this the greatest asset in the world is not a brain full of knowledge it's a Heart full of love charity and works it's an ear that is willing to listen and hands that are willing to help amen amen amen amen there we go name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen please<\p>

portrait as in a a self-portrait a painting of your own doing years 1990 his name is Phillip often time he goes by George but Phillip is really where it resonates with him he is a UK boy from the very beginning born and raised in the UK he would tell you that his parents were good people they didn't make it very long but they were good people you'll tell you his dad was a commercial pilot he'll tell you his mom worked in the circus she was actually a clown in the circus the head clown be that as it may and as a result of it he has three sisters and he said they traveled a lot commercial pilot you know the the circus and if you asked him Phillip tell me Philip tell me about your life he'd say well man growing up was tough he said man I had that thick accent and then we moved and we traveled and he said it man it was just tumultuous I mean I there was bullying there was there was there was fights and he said man it was just the accent you know if you ask him today Philip what was it like going to visit his mom in the circus he said you know he told the reporter I met my first girlfriend I had my first kiss he'd say at the circus and the he started laughing the report I asked him why are you laughing he said well I guess I guess i' ought to be happy that Mom my mom didn't work in a zoo and he said but it worked out he said they got a divorce and man you know it is what it is and he said she they asked him and said well when did you think you might want to act and Philip said well along the way because everywhere I went I was the new kid on the Block I always wondered what it was like for other people so I always wanted to walk in their shoes and when you want to walk in other people's shoes you kind of always want to be play their role he said then I hear my dad stood in for John Wayne and he said man that was all it took he said but let me tell you he said it's it was no better roses for me he said man I started out some of the shows that I did and he'll tell you he said man there was one he said I did that was uh uh if it hadn't been for Charlton hon I'd have never made Treasure Island he said man I was involved in another one and he said it was so bad he said we're just going to skip the name he said it just it just didn't work and then he said I thought well maybe if I could just just get a little bit out of it and then another one is was called in the in the ring into the sun gave him a little notoriety then he got into a show called Anastasia man people started to pick their head a little bit then he said man I got on another wrong road and then he said man it was going south he said I got into one called Little Women and then he said that didn't work then I got into a show called hostile he said man the whole show was hostile he said man it was almost like no matter what I did it was going south and then he said I get a show called um the 310 to you and he said man the world starts to change then he says I get another one called American Psycho say what you will but it was pretty good then he says I get into another one called The Machinist he said then my notoriety really started to grow man then he said I started getting no matter what I touched he said it just seemed to turn to Gold he said if we had to pick one movie that you did that if they wanted to paint a a picture of you a portrait of you he said what would it be oh Philip said man if I had to paint a picture of me and my acting ability he said I would only pick one show he said he said now look I don't like superheroes Mario Brothers is my type of superhero he said but it's got over 100 moving Parts just in the costume he said I'm claustrophobic you put this costume on you become real claustrophobic he said I am the first non-american to play Bruce Wayne I'm the first non-american to play Bruce Wayne big bat in the sky big bat in the sky brother and sister in Christ right he says one thing I tell you about getting up into this uniform you better go to the bathroom before because once you get it on you ain't getting off in time he said man it was everything I thought it was to play Batman he played in the uh The Dark Night The Dark Knight Rises and you know him as Christian Bale okay for the eight people who know who he is God bless you you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ they have interviewed him afterwards do you know he's never seen the movie Dark Knight he's never watched the movie that he was in they asked him was say anything you did in the movie that was not portrait esque of Batman that if they think of you they think of Batman they think of the costume is there one thing you did in the movie that was not very batman-esque he saidoh absolutely he says you know the signal goes up into the sky they're calling for Batman Morgan Freeman's in the r in the movie Michael Caine they're having a meeting because one uh Morgan Freeman's the head of the of his business and of course Michael Kane is his Butler per se and as a result they're talking to him he's supposed to be pretending to be asleep because they don't know what the waking because of the signs in the sky he's sound asleep through the whole thing they actually had to wake him up and do the skit over because he about to wake up man my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the portrait that is exactly the gospel whose image is on the coin they said Caesar well then give to Caesar what is Caesars but give to God what is God now stop let's make sure you understand you're a first century Jew you need to understand where this is taking place the good Lord has just run through the temple he has turned over the table of the money changers on a sidebar remember this when people people say the good Lord got angry in the temple to a point he never loses control that's the difference between being upset and being angry angry often times connotates a lack of control how do you know you and I know that Christ didn't lose control because when he's in the temple and he goes over to the table of the money changers he turns over the tables and everything and then when he gets to the table where the doves are he only turns over the stools cuz if he turns over the table he'll kill his own creation he has now done that in the temple he's given them two Parables to the Pharisees one about the vineyard that the king will build a great Vineyard he will lease it out and then the people that he leased it to won't pay it and then now he's got to bring judgment upon them they don't get it he talks about The Big Wedding Feast that nobody comes and as a result he has to throw a man out because his soul is not clean they still don't get it so they want to know by what Authority are you now throwing these things around running out our animals throwing over the coins telling people to leave and that this is a house of God and you're playing God how is it you could do this so this is what they do so you understand who the power to be are the herodians are people who follow Herod King Herod King Herod is a butcher and a murderer he is titled King of the Jews CU he wants you to believe that he's a Jew he he's not he's an Edomite but what he's learned is if I don't play well with Caesar then I'll never have control so what he is very much a Roman but he wants to be seen as a Jew this is why he's so mad when the wise men come and the wise men said where's the newborn king of the Jews when he's the king of the Jews he has killed his favorite wife favorite he has killed three of his sons he killed 50 Jewish leaders to take over their role to become the new king of the Jews and if this isn't sad enough the day before he dies he convenes a council with his centurions and says everybody on my Council must be killed on the same day that I die so that people will least weep at my funeral they fulfilled that that wish this is how diabolical he's all about Rome they're part of the group that's going to see the good Lord the other group are the Pharisees they are called the separated ones they are very popular politically they have a lot of clout they have a lot of money and as a result they are Jews but they don't want to cause problem with Rome because they just got to deal with them the only thing the herodians and the Pharisees have in common besides hating each other is they hate him more so now they're bringing him a coin the coin is a very particular coin it's about the size of a dime called the daer you would get one a day for every day that you worked that's the payment on it is a picture of tiberias Caesar Tiberius is the son of Augustus who followed Julius those are the only two Romans that they believed were divine so on the coin it has son of the Divine so this is why the good Lord is saying well whose image is it they said Caesar that's right cuz tiberious is the current Caesar well then give to Caesar what is Caesar but give to God what is God now my brother and sister in Christ remember they're trying to get the good Lord to make a statement if you tell us that you're not going to pay Rome's taxes they're can accuse you of sedition and then they will take care of business that way if you're saying that you have more allegiance to that image then they're going to say well if you go back in Exodus you talk the god talked about no graven images this is why the good Lord's answer is so Godlike if it's his image then give it to him but if it belongs to me then give it to God now remember you're a Jew so whenever you hear the word likeness that goes all the way back to Genesis please never forget this only Adam and to a certain extent eve were made in His image and likeness image that you are like God and that you have dominion over the animals and that you are like him in that you have no sin your image is that you are a king and you have no sin so you are like me when Noah comes off the ark what is God tell him you've been made in my image he never again says anything more about being like me because of original sin Adam and Eve didn't have original sin so they were like God in that way that's where the good Lord is going you're bringing sin to the table so you want to be like him then give it to him but give to me what is mine and sister in Christ go back in scripture if you had to paint an image or a portrait or if I put an image or a portrait up here and I said who is this man and I dropped this painting down and you see him carrying a cross with our savior clinging to him you'd say oh that's that's Simon of sirene if I had showed you an image of a woman sitting there in her hands and holding a veil with the image of Christ you'd say oh that's that's that's Veronica if I told you there's a woman reaching out to touch his tassel now remember Christ is a Jew the tassel is not at the bottom of his feet it's up in His Garment he's wearing a prayer Shaw so to get this high up through all the apostles but yet she touches it you and I would now know too that is also Veronica we believe that tradition holds that that was her that touched the veil that touched his tassle and had so much courage to stand in the road of the crucifixion if I told you Brothers and Sisters in Christ that he's standing there looking at Christ and says truly that man was the son of God and he's holding he turns and you notice he's holding a spear tip with blood on it you would say man that's the image and the portrait of longinus my brother and sister in Christ nothing's changed in the world in 2,000 years if I showed you an image of a lady called the Mona Lisa an image would immediately come to your mind if I told you Washington standing in a little boat Crossing the Delaware an image would come to your mind a portrait if I told you dogs playing poker yes a portrait would come in your mind well now here we sit 2,000 years later if somebody was to come paint a portrait of you over the yesterday just yesterday what would that painting look like would you be angry would you be mad judgmental condemning would you be play would they be showing you in prayer would they even show you holding a Rosary in your hand would religion be anywhere in that picture yesterday last week last month last year if the good Lord said I'm going to paint a painting of you using only your words that you used all last year the painting is nothing with you on the front and me and behind it every word we used what would be the caption he would write at the bottom sailor because we curse like one blasphemer because you used my name or you dropped the f bomb out of the mouth of Satan is where that one came from would he have gossip slander a man or woman after my own heart just your words what if it was just our actions and man they had a painting last week last month or last year of just our actions the things we did what would be at the bottom of that painting would it be Apostolic a disciple of Jesus Christ or would it say lukewarm where I will spit you out of my mouth a fence Walker we never pick one side or the other my brother and sister in Christ what he say it's all about the party nothing but elephants nothing but donkeys we only follow the lamb don't ever forget that because that's how our paint our portrait is going to be painted at the end of the day if the good Lord was going to paint us a portrait the ID that you and I were going to use to get into heaven it's our passport to Heaven what would it have on it would it have a backdrop with all our degrees irrelevant would it be a backdrop with all the things that we've accomplished in all of our war our our Awards inconsequential would it be all the things that we've done with our family and trips that's nice but when it came to painting you and I what would the good Lord have painted what will you and I have painted if there's only one image behind it that will dictate whether we enter the kingdom or not what will it be will it be a crucifix with a corpse on it we follow I crucified Christ St Paul's own words would it be the statue of the holy mother would it be a big Rosary what would it be that he allows us to get into heaven and I can tell you if that one image is not the most dominant image if it is not the portrait that God wants to see we are late we are too late the judgment will be final no arbitration no mediation no negotiations no nothing the one thing that you and I must have in our image and it must be the dominant part of the image so much so that you don't even recognize anything else in it not the degrees not the awards not the prestige not the people we know not the ceremonies we attended or the places we went the one thing Christ will say and everybody else would say in our family now that's a portrait of him or her will it have a rosary and nothing else will it have the ways of the Cross will it have the seven sacraments will it have a sign of the Eucharist will it have the last rights or confession or will it only have six sacraments because we confess our sins directly to God even though confession was in play before Christ came into the world Leviticus 5 and 6 my brother and sister in Christ I am begging you you do not know the hour or the day what portrait will we paint that the good Lord says oh no you can take that out irrelevant inconsequential immaterial that has no bearing been better you never took that picture what is it that you and I must have in that painting that's how you and I must live don't you see it's the only thing that matters you came in on this day we're going home on this day everything that takes place in between is only a test to see that you are followers of Jesus Christ and his church all I'm asking you is you you and I do not know what is to come the painting that you and I paint must have only one image behind it and it better be tied to his church because otherwise Brothers Christ we have nowhere to go what are you what's going to be our excuse man that's why the world wanted it I I just I just I just I can't I can't do that Lord I just I couldn't see that well I just didn't believe it was that important don't you understand the church is everything it's his church that's why he formed it my brother Christ I'm begging you to stop and think about what you're doing in every aspect to your life live in the moment you're in an arena at Florida parishes in a meet Louisiana participating in the sacrifice of the mass everything is irrelevant you're here my brother sister in Christ and I leave you with this our world has lost its way we have no Compass we have no moral compass comp us we're not following the teachings of the church and I'm telling you right now that if you and I don't learn to stand up on our own two feet and start following the teachings of the Lamb we will pay a price that our children and grandchildren will wish we never walk this path I am begging you to be careful on how you vote because it begins and ends with his children that goes with capital punishment and in euthanasia but woe to you who put somebody in that spot because you think they got a better plan or policy or economics or understanding or they just get along better I don't care and neither will he because all things tie directly to Christ you have no plan you have no economics you have no Supply you have nothing without me you don't even have life you don't even have Zoe I am begging you to make sure you understand the portrait that you and I paint is the way we live our lives and if the dominant Point painting in your background is not of the church there's nothing I'm going to be able to do nor you my brother's Christ be careful on the portrait that you paint amen amen man I've been yelling for 15 minutes amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

word as in keeping keeping your word it's the early 1900s and his name is he goes by Alex and you he would tell you that look I was born in the UK I got moved to Canada I ended up in Boston Massachusetts and he's very reclusive he's kind of an introverts introvert but if you ask his dad and his mom they would tell you that his intellect was just was so high it was it border lined uncommon or unheard of he said don't get me wrong the rest of my children were good but Alex was just almost steps Beyond us he said at the age of 12 he said here we are working on a on on a farm trying to help and this man comes to him and says Alex can you help us now he said he didn't talk to me he didn't talk to my wife he walked straight to Alex is 12 and he said I'm having problems with the cane I'm having problems with the wheat we can't get the husk off Alex came his word I'll get on it and we'll come up with something within weeks Alex comes up with a paddle system that's got Nails on it and as you put the wheat and the cane through it it actually beats it and tears it and it actually separates and then he figured out that if he sped up the RPMs it would even do more man that's Alex gives you his word that therein lies the fruit next thing you know a neighbor comes by and says well you know I I really don't know how to play the piano Alex can you help me and he said well you well yeah I I'll give you my word I I can do that doesn't know how to play the piano he learns by sound and ends up teaching them and next thing you know man there's the word matter of fact he doesn't get he's so enamored with that with Acoustics a family comes to him and says Alex can can you help us my daughter she cannot hear we have no way to communicate the sign language we use today came from Alex man it's almost as if man Alex is just a prodigy if you will and as a result man things start growing man a friend comes to him and says Alex I need your help he said the Navy is coming and they want me to build boats for the Navy and he said okay and he says what they want to do is make it faster and bigger and Alex said well you mean besides just putting a bigger motor on it right you're you're looking for something he said the problem is is that that friction on that boat on the bottom of the boat in the water is where the problems are he said well the Navy's going to come out in a couple of months can you help me he said look I I'll give you give you my word I'll help as best I can he ends up saying that what we need to do is take the motor off the back of the boat put it up above it and he said we need to lift the boat out of the water and almost put it on stilts what you and I call a hydrofoil today it could get up to 70 miles an hour my brothers and sisters in Christ the Navy comes out it looks at it and says this ain't going to work Alex said oh it's going to work it's going to work better than you think it's going to go up to almost 70 M an hour they run the test they prove it works and next thing you know the Navy says well it I just don't see it being practical Alex answered to them well the truth of the matter is we only need the Air Force to control the war so we don't need you anyway matter brother and sister in Christ he got so enamored with flight long before Kittyhawk ever gets in started he's decided that man that if this is just the start he finally goes home one afternoon he's up in age his friend comes to see him and says man I got an electrical problem I'm trying to run wires I'd like to run it so that we could light up the whole house instead of just run every off of candles and this that and the other this is the beginning of what you and I use for electrical wiring and currents as a matter of fact he tells the man you know if you really were wanted to we could really make this work and communicate through it ah here we go The Immortal words Dr Watson can you come in here my brother and sister in Christ you know him as Alexander granell every time he gives his word fruit came about of it that is exactly that gospel it's about the good Lord giv his word remember brother and sister in Christ blessed are the poor in spirit who have a childlike reverence for God for you will be in the kingdom of God blessed are those who mourn and I will show you merciful blessed are those who are Meek and you'll inherit the land blessed are you or those who seek and thirst righteousness and you will be satisfied blessed are you who are merciful for you will be shown Mercy blessed are those who are pure of heart for you will see my face blessed are those who are the peacemakers and I will call you children of God and blessed are those who are persecuted for you will you too will obtain the kingdom of heaven now stop he's saying I give you my word that if you live according to this you will be considered my Saints in heaven now stop you're first century Jew you and I have now going up the mountain of Mount garam and all of a sudden we're hearing this talk remember the last time God came to a mountain he gave it to Moses the Ten Commandments Moses comes down breaks the Commandments because of what's going on now he's telling everybody I want you to come up the mountain to meet God that's why he's up there and when he gets up there he does something very Jewish he sits down and every synagogue only the high priest would have taken a seat we went up a mountain versus coming down a mountain we went up to see God and now he takes a seat he set in the table for that you will know who he is now stop my brother and sister in Christ remember this the word in the Greek is called maros which is means blessings granted it doesn't seem like a blessing when he said blessed are the poor in spirit or the poor or those who mourn or Meek or thirst for righteousness but what he's saying is that is the outline that is the job description to being a saint in heaven if you want to make heaven then I'm going to ask you to carry your cross down on the earth so that when you get to heaven you will obtain these rewards you think it's ironic that the first beatitude and the last beatitude says you'll inherit the kingdom of God what he's saying to you and I is it all starts in heaven blessed be that you be part of the Kingdom we come down to earth our souls are infused we spend our time on here and on this day we go home and then we try to get back up the mountain and the last one says welcome to the kingdom of heaven for those that have been persecuted for my sake my brother and sister in Christ what he's trying to tell you is no matter what your trials and tribulations are I give you my word that I will walk alongside of you and you will never be alone I will walk behind you L you fall and I will catch you I give you my word that I'll be in front of you so you know the way but what you have to do is give me your word that you will follow me and the teachings of my church we are not Picadilly Cafeteria Catholics you either in or you're out you either follow the teachings or you do not my brothers Christ go back in scripture all of our best players Mary magin would have given you her word in her day before meeting Christ but once she met the word made flesh that is two totally different women seven demons later that have been expelled and now all of a sudden she's one of the most dominant Saints in scripture my brother sister Christ if you and I had met Peter we would have gotten the word of a fisherman before he met Christ but once he got the word made flesh well he became a fisher of men Saul would have given you his word word written in a letter saying I can persecute Christians and he brings us all the way from Damascus once he becomes Paul he believes that to follow Christ we must follow a crucified Christ hence why there's a corpse on the on the cross and not a plain cross because we follow in the words of St Paul my brother and sister in Christ the question for you and I 2,000 years later are we worth our word are we worth our salt when you give your word when I give mine do we mean it I will call you later as ins insignificant as it may sound will you call that person later you gave your word if it's insignificant then why did you offer it more importantly TI your name to it my brother and sister in Christ when you told somebody at work you're going to do this even though it's not your job description remember do not tie your job description to a decimal point Judas did it and 30 2,000 years later we know his name is worth about 30 pieces of silver you do it because you gave your word as a good person as a good Catholic as a good Catholic man or woman my brother sister in Christ your word is all you and I have that's all we'll ever have when you tell somebody you're going to pray for them for the love of God don't back up on that don't make it it's just a courtesy you said you were going to pray for him pray for him you promised and matter of fact the good Lord's waiting to hear that petition did you offer a thank you in response to something being granted did you go back and say Lord I gave you my word I would pray and now I've come to give you my word that I will offer thanks my brother and sister Christ will you give your word when you tell somebody I'm going to be there at this time not 805 or 810 or 8:15 you said 8:00 can you at least have the common courtesy to be there at the time that you you agreed my brother and sister in Christ it doesn't matter where you and I have come from it only matters where we go from this point forward our word is all we'll ever have the good Lord is not handing out memos with the Beatitudes on them he's not handing out the Commandments he's not handing out scripture he's talking to you and he's giving you his word so now here you and I sit and we're probably before the biggest fight our world has ever seen and if few days we're going to elect the president of the United States all I'm asking you is to keep your word as a Catholic don't talk to me about saying I am but I don't buy it not stop you're either in the church or you're not you either follow the teachings of her and him or you do not my brother and sister Christ it's between you and him no doubt about it but I find it very hard that you're going to be able to go to confession when you don't believe you're sorry and you voted for so who's brought abortion to our table where are my children the very first beatitude do you understand that the first beatitude without it the rest of them do not exist every beatitude is built on the one before it so the number one blessed or the poor in spirit who have a childlike reverence for God a fear of the Lord our relationship with Jesus Christ is not horizontal our relationship with Jesus Christ is vertical he is God and we are not he is not only human but Divine so our relationship has to be childlike my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with the words of Napoleon of all people tell me Napoleon was wrong please tell me he was wrong that the only time that we keep our word the only time we keep our word is when we don't give it keep your word amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit<\p>

final words final words the last words you and I utter from our mouth before we are called home it's the 1970s his name is Michael Michael lives in the big city the city of big shoulders Chicago he loves it he'll tell you that his mom and dad had a tough relationship but they did okay his dad worked for the Chicago some sometimes he was a he was a printer he has one sister he'll even go so far as to say High School grammar school pretty much uneventful it was for pretty good and then he said man I just knew that I needed to get to College he goes to the University of Missouri and gets a Bachelor of Arts degree Michael will tell you and tell me he would say the reason I wanted to be an actor was because of a play I did way back in the day and as a result of it he said it was so good who's Afraid of Virginia wolf he said I just felt like I needed to do it he said I'm starving to death he said I became when you figure out who the guy is he's a flight attendant on Eastern Airlines he'd becomes a bellhop he's a Dorman man he can't he can't rub two sticks together then he gets a break in a movie uh show called uh a soap opera called Days of Our Lives why why so many people nod at our head I have no idea I digress as a result of it he gets on that Mo little s uh series then he gets in another one called the Hatfield and The McCoys then Michael starts doing a little bit better and he makes it to Cheers he is actually the plumber on Cheers I can see your mind's moving good good as a result of it man he says man I I I hit a stretch and he said I got tough again and then all of a sudden he said thee World kind of broke my way he said man I was in a a movie called Shoot the kill and then he said I got another uh break in the action he said man it was called platoon and then he said man I got another break he said man it was almost like the good Lord was just handing things to me called The Big Chill then next thing you know I got in another one called the sniper he said man it was almost like man somebody was feeding me in an interview Michael gave not long ago he said you know I I just love what I do so the reporter said let me ask you a couple questions he said of all the things that you could do in the world what would it be he said I would love to either act or to be a reader I love to read he said if there was one person in the world you would like to be for a day he said Jack Nicholson just so I could see life through his eyes he said if there was a if there was a movie that's going to play that you did long after you're gone after your final words what would it be he said Major League where he played a catcher his name is Tom baringer no really it's it's Tom baringer okay well look it up when you see it okay because you're going to recognize who the guy is my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the final word that is exactly what he's driving home my brother and sister in Christ he's saying in the last final hour and the last final words that you have on this earth when you come to the kingdom of heaven which will be like a wedding Feast to get to the wedding Feast to get to heaven you're going to have to pass through your final hour and you're going to have words that you're going to say what will those words be for you do not know the hour nor the day my brother cry now stop you're a first century Jew this is why you and I do it this way Christ is a Jew born of a Jewish mother in the city of all Jews David he is born in a food trough a Manger manga to eat they call him the bread of life he is circumcised under Jewish law crucified under Jewish law and he's found in the temple he's a Jew and as a result of it you and I need to study him as a Jew so whenever you hear this Parable where he talks about there are 10 virgins and they're waiting for the bridegroom this is how weddings work in the Jewish World when you get engaged you are engaged for one year you are betrothed you are legally married the husband has one year to find you a home and as a result of it the wedding will last seven days as a result on the seventh day you will take your wife or your spouse your husband and then you will go to the home that you have worked for for a year trying to get ready the a those 10 virgins with their lighted oils are going to walk you to your house now that is how it works in the Jewish World now stop the good Lord is saying that's how it's going to be for the ultimate wedding Feast when you return home that you don't know the hour of the day think of about it brother and sister Christ we get bridesmaids from this Parable this is where it comes from and he's telling them that somewhere you are going to be ready and look there's not a Walmart or stop and go or somewhere or or some type of Pharmacy that you can go get the oils man they're only walking from here to another building what he's saying is you don't know the hour of the day and then there's going to be no arbitration there'll be no mediation it'll just be judgment now stop I need you to understand this when the angel appears to Mary and the angel says that you have found favor with God that you will bear a child she says how can it be for I do not know man she's already betrothed to Joseph she's already engaged she already knows she's going to get married they're all for they're going to walk to the house with the 10 bridesmaids if you will brother and sister in Christ for her to have said that means that she is not going to consummate that marriage as you and I would come to know because she says I do not know man yet she's already engaged to Joseph and they've already established a date my brother and sister in Christ This is why the holy spirit will come upon you and overshadow you the same Greek word for the glory Cloud that used to come down out in the mountains and over the Tabernacle my brother and sister in Christ it's important you understand that because often times we say that she had children yet she's telling the Angel that's not how it's going to be and that's why the angel calls her by her title hail full of grace and not by her name Mary he calls her by her title because it's a pass active verb which means all the way back from the beginning when you were born you were full of grace you had no sin you can't have relations with Joseph he has original sin and so will the children therefore you will no longer be full of grace that means I would have lied to you and therefore when it's time to be assumed into heaven Body and Soul so will it be because you have no s on your soul for you are full of grace that is the power of what he's trying to talk to you and I about the last words my brother and sister in Christ before you get to the wedding feast or Paramount look go back in scripture all of our best players have very profound statements take Christ as our example his last words on the cross father forgive them for they know not what they do he also made the statement Lord I commend my spirit to you in other words death doesn't come to me I allow it to come and I give you my spirit my brother and sister in Christ what if you were Peter do you know Peter preached for three hours upside down on the cross his last words were preaching the gospel and according to tradition small T you know what his last words to his wife who was martyred on the same day go with God boy from his lips to God's ears do you know if you're James the Greater that's John's brother they said he was so convincing in his belief of God before they beheaded him he was so compelling they said he was so he he just he said man they could have reached out and grabb people's hearts they said his talk at the end was so powerful that one of the guards took off his helmet laid his sword down knelt next to him and got beheaded as well from God from our lips to God's ears my brother and sister in Christ the good thief his last words Remember Me Lord just remember me have a thought of me just a passing remembrance this day you'll be with me in Paradise you know what's amazing my brothers and sisters in Christ is here you and I sit 2,000 years later what will be our last words what will be our final words well let's see my brother and sister time you and I spend on the computer versus reading how much time do you and I been playing on the phone how much time do you and I spend in conversation about things that we should never be discussing my brother and sister Christ how much time should you and I spend this is my point the more time you spend in the secular world the less chance you're going to have of saying the right thing when the time comes you either been living the life or you have or have not you either made it or you did not you're either in or you're out there's no in between if you're expecting your final words from your lips to God's ears to be so heart-wrenching and so great and so powerful the only way that's going to happen is if you've been living the life up until that point if you're caught up in the world and the work and the socialism and and all the things on television and the video and the phones then I can tell you your last words will mimic your lifestyle case in point I'm going to give you 10 names of people that passed that you and I may not know personally but we would have some understanding of them you know their name you understand kind of where they were in the world for example Michael Landon a very prayerful man and Little Joe on the Ponderosa the cart writes okay great Lord thank you we got one his last words to his family it's time for me to go I love you man only only a man that's been staying close to God would have even thought about his family and using the word love and now it's time for me to go My Brother and Sisters in Christ the other there was there were several others I'm going to give you their names and I'll explain to you why I think their words were so profound Michael Landon said that the next person up would have been someone like Winston Churchill who was all about the world and solving the world's problems his last words on Earth I'm bored it's time to go wow I could have thought of a thousand things I might wish I he would have said my brother and sister in Christ Leonardo da Vinci who paints the cinee chapel in all the great paintings and sculptures I have disappointed God and Mankind my paintings are just not that good wow my brothers and sisters in Christ the man that shot Abraham Lincoln John wilss Booth his last words useless quote OT quotes Elvis's last words as he was walking to the restroom he was told don't fall asleep and his answer was I won't that's it my brother and sister in Christ Steve Jobs yells out wow wow wow as he was looking up into the heavens my brothers and sisters in Christ Mozart made the statement Lord I can feel death at my doorstep and I can feel there's something Supernatural here Alfred Hitchcock it is time for me to go I don't know what waits for me but the Catholics say we should have hope my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later what will be your words on your death M your last words to Christ on your lips to his ear years will it be I'm sorry Lord forgive me welcoming me Lord to the table of all of your children I am wrong for all the things that I've done or will it be something secular because that's all we know my brother and sister in Christ your last words are just that they better be profound and if you don't live the life today you're not going to say it when the time comes and I Leave You In the words of the Blessed Mother according to tradition in St Mary of agrita when it was time for her to return home she said I will follow my son I will follow my son and I offer my spirit almost the exact same words her son says at the crucifixion I commend my spirit what will your last words be they are the most powerful amen in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit<\p>

talent talent the stadium is packed it is wall toall people I'm telling you there is so much noise you can't even hear yourself think they have been putting this on their calendar for months they knew it would someday come to their backyard they have lined the baseball field there is more people there than you can ever imagine there are cars there's horns there's music there's band there cow bells it is so loud it's almost agonizing it's the championship baseball game and they have come out in volume as a matter of fact it is so crowd it had been yelling since the first pitch and now we're in the ninth inning and man it's at a fever pitch man it's the bottom of the ninth there are two men on there's a man on First and there's a man on second and the League's best batter has come to the plate when he started to walk up from the on Deck Circle you could hear the booze cascading it's almost as if they had a life itself man you saw things being thrown from the stands people are screaming all kind of unce things as he begins to walk up to the stadium you can catcher Runs Out talks to the pitcher got to make sure this is important best player in the game has now come to the plate the coach is sitting in the dugout he's watching his man prepare to take his Cuts he looks down and sees a man sitting at the end he walks down he sees one of his players he puts his arm around him and he says if this man gets on if this man gets on and the bases become loaded you will go in for Johnson and you will bunt on the first pitch you understand yes sir fair enough takes his arm off walks back down the batter gets in the thing first pitch ball one man the crowd erupts man they are screaming it's a m what are you talking about man they're screaming at the Umpire the noise you can't even have a conversation side to side it's so feverish as R man here comes the next pitch man strike one man next thing you know man they're all excited you can feel the intensity start to grow man the coach looks down at the end and sees the man he's got his head down gets back up walks down puts his on around the young boy and he said what did I tell you he said if this man gets on I'm supposed to go in for Johnson tell the Umpire and on the first pitch bunt he said son you've got the most Talent out of all the guys to be in the spot just do what I tell you you'll do fine he walks back down next thing you know here comes the next pitch ball too man they're still screaming and yelling cowbells are going off horns are sounding band's going off you can't even signal to the coach because the noise is so loud next thing you know it's a full count and man people are about to just they're about to have an epip plexy as a result of it man ball four the bases are now loaded the young man walks by the coach the coach just leans over to him he said Son you got the talent do what you do best this is nothing for you young man walks up there the Umpire comes out takes his mask off flip opens his little pad and he said sir my name name is Smith I'm buting for Johnson on the first pitch man the Umpire doesn't know what what he's supposed to Signal the catcher trying to yell they're bunt on the first pitch man he's screaming as coach they can't hear him he gets in the batter's bot here comes the pitch that guy lays down the most perfect bunt you couldn't have drawn it any better and LSU wins their first championship series against Mississippi State with skip burtman true story it's all about the talent my brother and sister in Christ they asked coach burtman well how good is he he said I'm going to tell you how good of a player is if I watched him throw you'd say he's all right if you watched him run the bases okay maybe not where he needs to be if you watched him catch your field he's okay he said but I could put a quarter on the ground and tell him to bunt and I guarantee you he will hit that quarter two out of three times that is his talent and that is exactly that gospel the good Lord is now making a parable that I'm going to give each of you talents based on your ability and his generosity and to some he gave five to one he gave two and to another he gave one now stop your first century Jew make sure you understand what this is all about you and I have been living in the day if we're in the middle of this conversation and we see him pulled out either a gold or silver coin that's a talent 20 years worth of wages one coin 20 years so even if you got one you got 20 years of wages if you only made quote 50,000 a year you're now made a million that's how valuable it is so him to give you five are two man the generosity and the blessing and the responsibility that comes with it now stop just like with any Parable make sure you understand wherever the twist is is where you need to look something that doesn't seem logical why would this be here in the middle of this Parable it doesn't seem to fit here's a man that only had one talent that buried it his argument to the man that gave him the seed to the man that has the land to the man that owns the crop that I'm going give you work so you can take care of your family and what's his argument well you didn't throw the seeds out I did it and I had to go gather it you didn't plow the fields I had to do it but you didn't have to do it this is why the king is so upset he's saying so that's your answer so you just buried the talent so he takes the talent from him he gives it to the one that has all of them 10 if you will and then turns around and says be gone with you into the into the Wailing of nashing of teeth now stop as a Jew you and I know what that means that actually means he's throwing you into hell he's talking about the sin of omission now please listen there's two types of sin the sin of commission that's the ones we committed we acted on WE cursed we gossip we did this we did that we knew what we were doing we chose to do it the sin of commission the sin of omission is you simply chose not to do anything to faint Amnesia to look the other way not put your talents in Play here's the irony he didn't put his talent in play he didn't kill one person but yet he's on his way to predition in the road to hell because he didn't live up to the talent that I gave you I put you in the world on this day I'm bringing you home on this day in between it I've given you gifts and talents and challenges as long as you come to me your burden will be light when you decide to take it on your own then you're just that on your own he's saying this is how you will be judged I've given you my rules the Commandments there are only 10 do you know them besides Thou shalt not kill because that's not what did him in my brothers and sisters in Christ go back in scripture all of our better players have talents that you and I seem to overlook when we read about them Paul is absolutely got the gift of perseverance you can beat Paul five scourges that we know of when they tell you they're going to Scourge you that's 40 lashes and in case they miscounted they would stop at 39 five sets is what Paul gets throughout his life three of the four or five ships that he on sinks he has been beaten just like he was out of thessalonica he's been stoned he's lost all his money do you know he's the only Apostle being that he's the 13th if you will to keep his day job as a Tent Maker he had to rely totally on himself you that guy marched the March he's less Fame and Portion and no matter what you did to him he proclaims Christ to be the Messiah that's the gift of perseverance my boy Peter he is absolutely resilient his gift is his ability to take a hit and keep moving no matter what you say about Peter give him his due yeah that's true he got into a boat and the first time he said Lord It's Too Late to be fishing next thing you know they catch more fish than you know he's got a drop in in the boat and say depart from me Lord I am a sinful man and if that's not good enough man that's Peter he's got to step back out on the plank again the storm comes up he's getting mad at the good Lord because well Lord stop the storm and then he's got to rebuke the wind you would hope Peter might have learned from that the next thing you know he's got to walk on water next thing you know the good Lord calls him Satan the next thing you know he's in the Garden of Gethsemane he's yapping a man's ear off and the next thing you know he's denying Our Savior three times you know what I love about Peter there is nothing you can tell Peter towards the end of his life that he can't say me too no you don't understand Peter I've had problems with my family I was married I'm going be bringing my wife to martyrdom me too well you don't understand I really disappointed my friends huh I wrote the book on that me too you don't understand I got so excited I got a little anger I got into an argument yeah I know I took a man's ear man my brother and sister Christ he's got the gift and the talent of being resilient John the Baptist has the gift of being disciplined who in their right Minds would leave the school that your parents sent you to to walk out into the desert knowing full well that once you Proclaim this guy to be the Messiah it's over for you you're not even a re blowing in the wind you got to wear a camel skin you have to eat a certain dietary because you're outside of your commun you got to pray so many times a day you can have nothing of your own and everybody you meet has an opinion of you and it's usually less than man John John the Baptist has got discipline longus man think about it here's a guy with all the powers to be watching Caesar from up on the hill all his soldiers that he's always been in all these fights with all the people for him to turn around during the crucifixion and say truly that man was the son of God there goes his 401k there goes his health insurance man you got to hand it to longinus that man's courageous to walk away from everything and make that Proclamation but you know what's amazing for everyone that does this there's always one that does that my brother and sister in Christ Judas was an apostle one of the 12 your name will be in the book for all eternity regrettably it still is and in a bad way all you had to say was two words from being St Judas I'm sorry my brothers and sisters in Christ can you imagine what our world would be like today our country Cuba a communist country if we just follow the teachings of the Lord would not every country be a paradise and be open and Welling there's just 10 rules if we followed the 10 rules would we even need a police force would we even need any body to discipline would you need a court system if we just followed the 10 my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later the question for you and I is are we putting our talents in play my brothers in Christ remember this God's gift to you and I is our talent how we use that Talent is our gift back to him so as a result of it my brother in Christ so we don't commit the sin of omission are you putting your talents in play think of one two three things off the top of your head is what you do best and man you do it well matter of fact other people know you do it well man you're good with your hands so you make sure you keep it in play man you're good with your intellect or computers that you're always helping others because you know that's your gift maybe your gift is engineering maybe it's your ability to understand money or Finance maybe it's medicine or chemistry so that you can make the complicated less complicated my brother sister Christ there is no such thing as a self Sade man that's a ball face lie every time I hear someone say man Michael Jordan man all natural brother Christ all gifts are Supernatural nobody has natural gifts he's given to those and given to those more and to some he has given less the fact of the matter is you and I are accountable for it there in lies the point My Brother and Sisters in Christ I leave you with this the sin of omission is every bit as deadly as a sin of commission you just heard it you've got to put your gifts in play at the end of the day have you done more good with your gifts than bad did I curse more than I put my gifts in play did I gossip more than I put my gifts in play did I lie more than I put my gifts in play did I hear thank yous more than anything else for putting my gift in play and I leave you with the words of John Wooden the basketball coach at UCLA for so many years he says the talent you have has come from God be humble the fame you get came from man be gracious conceit comes from yourself be overly cautious and guarded Amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

neutral neutral it's the 1960s his name is Jonathan Jonathan lives in Yonkers New York his dad is um a professional golfer his mom is a she's a can do mom can do does do all day every day twice on Sunday man I got to tell you he he's got a good family a very Catholic Family he has two brothers uh they and one of them you may recognize a couple of the songs he wrote angel in the morning and Wild Thing You Make My Heart thinging yeah you know it's funny y'all know that part not angel in the morning I digress I digress my brother and sister in Christ and as a result of such man he's doing okay he goes to Archbishop High School does pretty well there goes to college gets his degree and he doesn't know what to do his degree was just kind of a General Degree so it doesn't have a direction per se and his parents told him do something do anything Jonathan but you got to move being neutral he's not going to cut it he decides man I want to be an actor nobody in the family is an actor what's the heck so he goes and tries it he gets on a couple little uh series one is gunm smoke um NYPD Blue and then as a result of it they he's decided to make the big leap of faith and he wants to go into movies he goes into a bridge too far a bridge excuse me a bridge with a view same point it crashes so bad he becomes desperate there's not enough money can't pay bills can't make ends meet so he just begins to wallow in self-pity and in his finally as his parents had got to him and said Jonathan enough is enough you got to move man you can you can pray the good Lord there's no doubt about it but at the end of the day you got to show him that you're you're working with him in conjunction with him as a result he starts getting in a couple of movies and I got to tell you it's pretty impressive he's in the movie Deliverance if you remember seeing that with Bert Reynolds back in the day he was in another movie called uh jp2 he actually played John Paul II he was in another one called Paul Bear Bryant he was another one called Glory Road okay I didn't memorize a dozen of these things I'm just throwing the ones out there that I know he was in another one called Enemy of the State which was actually a very good movie movie he was uh he played Howard coell in the movie Ali okay look look y'all he was in National Treasure and his daughter is Angelina Jolie John voy for the one person that know whose it is God bless you my brother and sister in Christ you know what it's about it's about never being neutral that is exactly the point our savior's driving home what you do to others you do to me if you do something great but if you don't do something the sin of omission man when I was hungry man you gave me something to eat when I was thirsty man you gave me drink man I had no clothes and you clothed me I was sick you cared for me man you even came and visited me my brother and sister in Christ by the same token man where were you when I was hungry I mean you couldn't have spared a few dollars you couldn't have give me a jacket or extra pair of shoes that you already have in your closet you couldn't at least cared for me and maybe come visited me my brother's Christ now stop you're first century Jew need to make sure you understand the setting the good Lord is now speaking to more than just his Apostles he's talking to the groups that have now started to gather and he's trying to remind them that you have a decalogue you have a ten commandments that tell you what you can and cannot do but the Beatitudes tell you what you must be able to do he said well this is how it will be my brother and sister in Christ remember the words of Mother Teresa her M her manter if you will was you did it to me so if you fed me you did it to me also but if you didn't feed me you did it to me also no decision is a decision my brother and sister Christ you just heard the Corporal Works of Mercy now granted don't get me wrong and make sure you understand Corporal Works of Mercy the sin of omission is in in and of itself the fact that you don't do it is sinful but make no mistake about it abortion is Mortal intrinsically evil in and of itself whether you do nothing at all you're never neutral brother Christ go back in scripture think for a minute all of our best players I bet you I could describe him and I know you would guess who it is my brother and sister Christ he was a Pharisee he had money and Prestige as a matter of fact he was considered to be the intellectual of the group and as a matter of fact he took care of his Gardens he took care of his family he was the one that kind of cited with Christ albeit not publicly because fear of reprisal but more privately but if I told you he gave up his tomb you'd say oh man that's Joseph of arthea because he moved and he didn't stay neutral my brother Christ if I told you that he traveled almost two weeks Journey just to get to Jerusalem with his two sons and his family to participate in the Passover meal and once blood got on him man he was ostracised there's no going to the temple you're not going to be able to celebrate you've wasted two weeks and all the money in the world but if I tell you he's the one that carries the cross for Christ you'd say man that was Simon a sirene because he never stayed neutral my brother and sister in Christ if I told you that man the only reason the only reason pilot is who he is it's cuz he's got the best Centurion on the Block look nobody wants to be in the armpit of the fight but if pilate doesn't have this guy I can tell you it would be a living nightmare for him he's the one that made sure everything happened he had the respect of all the soldiers he was the one that led Legions but yet at the end of the day he's the one that had to lead Christ through the city one mile carrying a cross 12T tall 8ot wide he was responsible for the crucifixion but yet he's the first one to make the proclamation truly that man was the son of God you would know him as longinus never neutral he will die two years later when pilate will send legance to him to beheaded and as a result of it he will stick to his guns my brother and sister in Christ think for a second everybody I just named everybody I just named we only know their first name but it doesn't the fact that their names in The Book of Life this is why this is important because you and I cannot remain neutral remember when the young lady was about to be stoned and they had all gathered around and then the Scribe says Lord tell me Messiah quote in quote what should we do she was caught in adultery should we Stone her or what should we do he knows all too well that the Jewish law is that she's supposed to be stoned but you know why he's saying it because there's a centurion within earshot who's now listening saying well if they decide to Stone and they don't get pilate's permission then I will step in and arrest all those involved so now he's trying to catch Christ between following the Jewish law and following give what is Caesar what is Caesars this is why the good Lord drops to his knees and begins to talk to you and to everybody that was there and as he begins to talk to you and to me he would look at you and I and start to make a symbol in the ground and that symbol would be the sin that you and I have committed and then he begins to write it and then he stands back up as some begin to decide what to do he said well tell me what is your law he says the law of De Deuteronomy which the stoner he gets back on his knees a second time and he begins to write the symbol of the sins of all those Holden rocks and eventually my brothers and sisters in Christ they all walk away and then he gets up and then he says are there not two or three gathered here to be Witnesses well then get up and sin no more my brother sister in Christ what he was doing and for a Jew when he writes your name or symble in the Earth according to Jeremiah that means you're not going to make it that means you're going to remain in the earth I.E you're going to go to hell he's saying unless your name is written in the book of life it's because they did not make a decision which way are you going to go you just remain neutral you walked away but the fact of the matter is if I hadn't been there you would have stoned her so here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and sister in Christ you and I can no longer be neutral you and I have to pick a side and plant our flag you and I have to make a decision that when we go out to pray and people are watching will you make that cross distinctly and clearly or will you do it shortsighted so that hopefully nobody sees or nobody gets offended you're either or you are not you either word is in or you are not you either made the Pearly Gates or you did not if you and I remain neutral on our feelings and our faith because we don't want to influence others that's the problem we got now when good men do nothing evil prevails my brother and sister in Christ it's Paramount that you understand the corporate Works of Mercy are necessity it is our job to feed those in hunger it is our job to give them thirst to clothe them and to visit them but it's also our job to profess our faith it would be very shortsighted of us to only speak one way and then act another my brothers Christ I leave you with the words of Ben Franklin he said there are two people in the world there are those who write about things that are good and then there are those that do something that we write about that is that good ask yourself where you sit you're never neutral to him in every conversation and every email and every act and every thought you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

cooperate cooperate it's the 1960s his name is Edwin and Edwin is a Bronx New York kind of guy he's also a Jew comes from Germany with his family his uh he's got well he's got one of three kids one of three children is he he is uh his dad is a butcher his mom is the quintessential mom can do does do and as a result he'll tell you High School grammar school pretty uneventful he said man he had his days where you know just didn't work right he sometimes he just he didn't cooperate well he didn't play well with others in the sandbox and as a result got a little troubl but gets a scholarship to Michigan State to play football so he goes doesn't cooperate there as a result he leaves he goes to HRA and then he decided man I just this just ain't for me out of nowhere he just decides I'm going to go be an actor so he goes to the playhouse in New York and he starts trying little bits and things and he gets a little bit part in the show uh The Gambler and then as a result man it kind of gets a little bit better and he gets another one in in a show called A Bridge Too Far then he gets on the show get smart side note I like to see all the actors that started with get smart because I'm going to tell you it's a lot as a result man he's starting to make a few dollars few Nickel in his pocket he thinks he thinks he's got gain as a result they tell him you know the problem with you Edmund is you don't play well with others and every movie you're in doesn't make money no money no film no admin and next thing you know he is starving to death he will tell you he's almost flat broke he gets he gets a bit part in a Western you please tell me y'all will get this one he gets a bit part in the western but he gets it with of all actors John Wayne and he gets the name for the show the movie if you will Allan bilian trar Mississippi okay the movie was named El Dorado okay man I really thought we' a knock out the park but what do I know I didn't play baseball there it goes see it fits as a result my brother and sister in Christ he says man next thing you know things get a little better and next thing you know he starts learning that if I don't cooperate and play a little bit better I'll never get another part so next thing you know he starts trying to reach out a little bit more and he starts getting in in things that were probably at first he was in U there was a kind of a horror flick with Stephen King called Misery you kidding me you know misery and you don't know El Dorado that's the problem with the world right there okay I'm going tell you that's the problem as a result man he gets he gets in that movie and the next thing you know man bits and pieces he starts getting into a movie called uh eraser and the next thing you know man he starts making friends with different people and then he gets the part of parts he gets to be sunny Corleone and The Godfather you know you know this is a miserable death My Brother and Sisters in Christ the height of irony he played sunny corle on writing Godfather you know him is James Khan here's the irony they interview him late in life he was in the rodeo for a while he got really involved in martial arts in karate and as a result they started asking me said man you know being with the Godfather that must he said that must have just been blessing after blessing after blessing he said there two great things that came from the movie and one bad thing he said well what are the two good things he said one every time I went into a restaurant I got the best seat because they thought I was part of the crime world he said they thought I was a wise guy and he said then he said if it's not bad enough I won Italian of the year in New York twice and I'm a Jew and they said well what's the bad news he said I was only paid 35,000 my brother and sister in Christ but at the end of the day it's all about cooperating that is exactly the gospel the good Lord comes all the way down from Nazareth of Galilee it's over a couple hundred miles to be baptized in the River Jordan have you seen the Jordan it isn't one that you'd R go just relish to jump in if you go back to the Old Testament when they were trying to get Nam and cured of leprosy and they told him just go in the River Jordan back and go dip in there seven times and come out he goes to every other River less that one he said water's water he doesn't even want to go in the Jordan nothing's changed my brother and sister in Christ you need to understand something the good Lord is cooperating with his father he doesn't need baptism but he needs you and I to be baptized and to cooperate and the only way to cooperate with his grace that you get from the sacrif is to act on it my brother now stop make sure you understand what's going on in the River Jordan John is baptizing them for the Forgiveness of sins did you notice that nobody went to Christ to get their sins confessed did you realize that how does Mark and Matthew in the gospels how do they know this is going on because they hear the confessions often times confession was public my brother brother and sister Christ nowhere in scripture did Christ ever baptize nor hear a confession so why do we assume that since we can't baptize ourselves that we can just go directly to God to be forgiven my brother sister in Christ now you need to understand something when they said the heavens tore open that is skismo in Greek that means to tear in other words my brother in Christ as to rip apart in other words it wasn't like to just the the clouds rolled away and all of a sudden the thing started to part it's almost like somebody tore a garment and all of a sudden you see frighted and torn ends and all of a sudden you see the Holy Spirit descend remember brother Christ he's letting everybody know it's a Triune God you see the Holy Spirit you see Jesus Christ being baptized and you hear God the Father say this is my son who I am well pleased now my brother and sister in Christ you saw two things if you and I were standing by the River Jordan you would have heard John say say wait a minute isn't it you supposed to be baptizing me and he said no for now this will how it be you and I and everybody on the shore would not known Christ to be who he is until after the baptism when he comes out of the water the heavens open up and the dove descends that's when you and I start piecing it together John gets it before how does John know he gets it from being already baptized in his womb and when the Blessed Mother walked in the house of Elizabeth and gave her greeting intercessory prayer all of a sudden John begins to dance that means he got baptized that's why he can recognize Christ and the rest of us can't because we haven't gotten There Yet now my brother and sister in Christ you need to understand this too you and I are standing there remember everything is a foretelling of what is to come another words the Old Testament foretells the new the front part of the new foretells what's coming in the back of the of the New Testament so everything's building on itself the first the second Comm first commandment sets the table and all build off of that one that's what's happening so when you hear the Schism mod that things got torn apart and you heard God the Father say this is my son who I'm well pleased you and I were at the baptism now we're at the crucifixion and all of a sudden may we start it's coming to that third hour and the ground is starting to crank and the earthquakes are happening the clouds are moving in and then all of a sudden we hear somebody come running from the temple man the the the temple drapes have been torn apart you and I would have said wow that's the same thing John the Baptist said when we were at the Jordan the heavens were torn apart that's what Mark just said and then you heard the proclamation said by longinus truly that man was the son of God almost the exact same Proclamation remember when John's baptizing he never said says it's the Messiah he never says it's the cistus the anointed one he said it's just somebody so great that's mightier than I I can't even touch his sandals slaves could at least touch the sandals of their owner and it would make you and I jump all the way back to Isaiah where we hear there will be a person in the desert making straight the paths of the Lord making straight the paths of the Lord John is saying he's the Lord he is that great that I can't even touch his sandals my brother and sister in Christ and remember this baptism is what brings you and I to the table of the kingdom of God how often do I hear people say and haven't studied and B other faiths that you can't get baptized to accept Jesus Christ your lord and savior John the Baptist is baptized in the womb in the Acts of the Apostles when anas goes to baptize Paul who's been blind Paul who's been blind for three days and now will be called Paul he tells him get up and go get baptized to remove your sins cooperate with God act on it so it was to remove the sins if you go into the Acts of the Apostles in the second chapter he you will hear the apostles tell them I will baptize you and your children it's the removal of the sin my brothers and sisters in Christ if you have children or grandchildren get them baptized well I'm they need to do me a favor if you're a business person you've lost Nothing by baptizing him now and then again when he accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior but if you wait and they don't make it to that day then that one's going to be on you and I that's a millstone around your neck do you understand what a millstone is my brother and sister Christ it's the size of a spare tire not the not the little water balloon they stick in your car to get you where you need to go I'm talking about a full-sized spare made of nothing but Stone when they would tie a millstone around people's neck and throw them in a river it usually would decapitate that's what happens when we don't baptize our children we put them on the road to bition and we haven't and got started now it's not the child's fault because there's always the baptism of intention the baptism of blood and being a martyr my brother and sister in Christ you and I have to cooperate look go back in scripture think of all the great players what if Mary maglin wakes up and says man it's Easter Sunday I watch you brutally brutally and diabolically beat my savior to death I am not getting up on Sunday I'm just not it's too cold I'm tired I'll catch it on television please you think that's cooperating with God's grace no way no how because you didn't act on it she gets up and goes all the way to the tomb with all the trepidation and worry and anxiety of the world that she's going to be standing out next to a rock she can't move she's going to run AC call soldiers that have had their way with her at the end of the day the first to see the Risen Christ because she cooperated because she acted what is Saul who becomes Paul decides you know what the heck with this man I ain't cooperating with this you you please understand he doesn't know he's going to be blind for three days he thinks he's blind period yet he still wants to be a Catholic still wants to be a Christian he cooperates with God's grace he acts on it what about the guy that gives up his tomb man you man tombs don't just come out of nowhere there's no funeral home there's no parlor there's no graveyard man if you're not buried in your own backyard in your own cave or gr you're just buried in an open field somewhere next to somebody else and here's the irony if you're a Christian you don't even get your name on it you just get a number or family symbol my brother and sister in Christ you and I need to learn to cooperate with God and the only way to cooperate with him is to act on it my brother in Christ think about it you're at work somebody brings you something that you it's not your job description it's not what you've been paid for it's just nowhere in the realm of responsibilities can you cooperate with it and do what is asked because as a Catholic man or woman you know that this is the only way they'll come to know that Christ exists you want Grace to build on your nature you want that jug of Grace if you will well the only way you're going to get it is to cooperate outside of salvific Grace faith hope and love that he showers on you and I incessantly every day almost like a shower head so that you and I can learn to have faith in him that we will do good works and because we do good works we'll have faith that we'll hope in him that we'll stand before him and he'll say welcome home my child job well done to the table of all of my Saints and then that you'll be sacrificial in your love of one another he gives us that every day because we couldn't even have an Essence we would not even exist we would not even have a being if it wasn't for salvific Grace but other graces are bestowed on us when we cooperate you say you don't want to help it work then the grace doesn't come your way there's no sin in it my brother and sister in Christ the fact of the matter is think about it you just simply remain neutral but you can't because you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him if the good Lord gives you something to do and your family calls you pick this up drop this off can you come home early can you stay late honey can you take care of this this that or the other if you do not cooperate with one another you don't receive the Grace and if you cooperate and argue the whole time and complain then where's the benefit it's almost like I will give you a gallon jug of Grace if you would do this without complaining and by the time you and I finish complaining there's barely enough residue at the bottom to cover it my brother and sister in Christ do you cooperate with God's grace in your daily life do you cooperate by starting your day with prayer do you stop and pray before and after every meals you know if you and I prayed one prayer in the morning just one and you prayed before each and every meal and then you prayed before you went to bed you'd pray five times more than you've been praying before can you imagine the grace that would be bestowed on you because you cooperate look when you pray and it doesn't get answered your way doesn't mean that he's not listening or he doesn't care or he doesn't you don't know if he's going to come or all of a sudden you and I begin to question his existence he's saying the answer May well be well no because if I give it to you then you won't know how to sacrifice you won't understand what it means to goap to love you'll be in the same boat Peter was do you love me yeah Lord no Peter do you love me yeah Peter do you do you love me well Lord you know everything oh but I do Peter and someday they'll take you where you don't want to go and all be it upside down for three hours and they'll even dress you that is the love that I'm talking about that is the sacrifice that is the cooperation that you and I need in him so when somebody ask you to do something and you need to go do it and it's going to take time it's going to take energy you're tired and exhausted that's when the grace is the greatest that's when you should say that prayer but man I'm tired I don't want to get up I'm frustrated I'm exhausted that's the time to win the fight that day when you decided not to pray that was the one that had won the game and that was the day you and I should have gotten the grace for the grace that is to come and for the challenges that would be before us my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this if you want to cooperate with God's grace you must act in that manner if you do not act then you're not in cooperation the Commandments are active they're not passive my brothers and sisters in Christ there was a great saying and I forget which fer said it but it went it went something like this and man and hang on one second I don't want to make sure I don't want to mess this up isn't it amazing I can memorize everything but the last line gosh you will never plow a field you will never plow a field by turning it over in your mind now aren't you glad I didn't memorize it because I had a bu Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

Public public as in going public a public announcement a public Proclamation the years 1950 1960 his name is Phillip Phillip is a UK boy he is an only only child his mom and dad they do okay they are uh Bakers by profession they make in meat not great but he does okay and if you were to ask him he would and asking man High School grammar school how was it for you he'll tell you man I am a social recluse I I just I I've got to I've got to stay by myself this is amazing considering the actor he is today he just he says it's people I just I get anxiety filled I I get worried I get overwhelmed I just need to be by myself and so he asked him he said well in the interview he said well so what you do to like for entertainment he said usually now I um I'll read I love to paint I do art sometimes I just get in my car on the west coast and I just drive and stop at all the different cities along the way and just take months off and just to go to the east coast and I stay in cities and visit with people till they recognize me and he said well man do people recognize you he said well probably more so today than before he saidwell what make you want to be an actor I mean actor public he said oh I know he said and then he said but you know you start meeting these different actors and I meet Richard Burton and he said that's when the penny fell he said man I want to be like him and he said it's just I I just figured I could maybe be an actor just in the studio and as a result he says I get a bitport in the play called um death comes to me yes it was riveting it's about like I feel right now death comes to me as a result of such he says then he gets another one give me a cigarette and as a result same kind of response then all of a sudden he gets in a bit part of a movie called a bridge too far and then he gets in another one called like a change of seasons he was in another one called Meet Joe Black he was in a movie called The Exorcist called the r could it be Lord that we may actually know this man as a result my brother and sister in Christ they asked one of the greatest directors Spielberg tell me something about Philip that nobody knows he said he'll rehearse his line 200 times literally so it seems almost second nature so when you hear him speak and he said four lines he's done rehearsed it 800 times he said but he's that good he believes fewer words the better of the actor and boy has he proven it as a matter of fact brother and sister in Christ you know him because he's in movies like well Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lecter ah my brother and sister Christ Anthony Hopkins my brother and Christ you know what's amazing is he said are you that much of a recluse and he said absolutely he said still to this day he said yes he said they asked him he said would you go to lunch with people he said well it depends on how many people he said what if it was you and just Hannibal lecor he said it depends on what we're having to eat my brother in Christ it's all about going public that is exactly that gospel the proclamation Behold the Lamb of God John the Baptist proclaims it Andrew and who we ultimately believe is John the writer of the Gospel actually start to begin to follow Christ public Proclamation now remember stop you need to make sure you understand these things because you are a first century Jew and you know scripture somewhat you recognize certain things first of all my brother of Christ John the Baptist had disciples not only does he have Andrew he also has John now remember there are four types of Jews there is a sadducee who believes in the first five books of the Bible there's a Pharisee who believes in the first five books in the Bible and some of the Traditions there are zealots who believe whatever they really want to believe at that particular time and then you have people like the Essen Jews that's John the Baptist they are devout and disciplined and strict what they wear what they eat the baptism for the removal of sin so John and Andrew are very strict they never got along with any of the other groups they never went back into the temple once the Sadducees took over so John the Baptist had disciples and he has more than two you and I know that how because when he was about to be beheaded remember there was two men he sent to Christ and said go ask him is he the one or is there another one coming after him he's not sending him because he doesn't know he was baptized in the womb remember when he dances in Elizabeth's womb so to speak that's because the Blessed Mother's intercession and her greeting when Brother s Christ he sends those two to go listen why because I'm about to be beheaded and now you going to have to go out in public and I want you to be able to say firsthand I saw the blind sea the lame walk and the dead rise because if your answer is well I know John and John told me this he said it's just hearsay John has his disciples my brother and sister in Christ when he said there goes the Lamb of God every Jew that would have heard that including you and I would have start all the way back to Exodus where Abraham brings Isaac up the mountain followed by two men carrying his own wood does that sound familiar or foretelling of what is to come when Christ is followed by two men carrying his own wood and right before he goes to take his son and sacrifice an angel stops him and then he asks his dad well what is going to be the sacrifice and he says quote the good Lord will provide the lamb not a lamb the lamb every one of us would have recognized what was said in Exodus and remember L y'all where does he find where does where does where did they find their the lamb up on the mountain they found a Ram with its head caught in a Thicket of thorns this is why the good Lord is wearing Thorns at the crucifixion he is the Lamb just like the lamb was provided that image remember that image so when John the Baptist yells out there goes the Lamb of God and when he gets crucified wearing a crown of thorns you can say oh oh my God exactly my brother and sister in Christ This is why at the mass this is why when I hold the chalice and I put the host this is when I say the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world blessed are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb that's where you and I get it from during the consecration everything in the mass is in scripture this isn't 10 guys 12 guys sitting around a table winging it my brothers Christ everything we do is scriptural in the mass now my brother Christ you need to make sure you understand Andrew goes and finds his brother if you and I were to go into the Eastern churches you wouldn't see Peter holding Keys all all over the place like in a Catholic Church you would see Andrew pasted everywhere why because he's the first to see the Messiah he's the one that went and got Simon and brought Peter into the fold moreover My Brother and Sisters in Christ you need to make sure you understand this too when we pray the Apostles Creed the first line is I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth that's from Peter my brother and sister in Christ it's because remember he said who do people say that I am Elijah John the Baptist and Peter says you're the son of the Living God and he said Flesh and Bones didn't tell you that my father in Heaven I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth so he gets it through divine intervention the second line goes to Andrew and in Jesus Christ his only son why because he's the one that found him every one of the Creed lines could be tied back to where they came from my brother and sister in Christ Simon if you will is Simeon in the Jewish and Aramaic it goes back to one of the 12 tribes they are brothers but it looks like they are totally different in personality Peter is very outgoing Andrew is very much the recluse is not as a matter of fact his name is Andreas in Greek he's far more Greek than pet than as Peter is Jewish this is why the the Greeks are always going to Andrew as a matter of fact my brother it's in Christ and it's not lost on anybody that when he sees Peter he says and you will be called Ki in Aramaic I'm speaking to you in the language that you would know massive Boulder you will be called that or foretelling of what is to come my brothers and sisters in Christ all that you just heard or public proclamations so go back in scripture all of our best players are those that were divinely inspired to speak publicly at the most appropriate and divine inspired time the Blessed Mother at the wedding to Cana they've been there one week for wine and celebration of a wedding it was so important that Christ be there we don't even know the name of the couple it's 2,000 years later now do you understand why you must be married in the church and in front of him and not on a beach and an anab Bellum home or down the street or just a great location yes Christ is omnipresent but he's physically present in the church and while he's in there the Blessed Mother goes to him and says there were out wine he's saying mother listen to me you make that Proclamation and you are no longer my you're my mom per se you are now a woman you will be the new Eve and I will be the new Adam what does this have to do with me is the height of respect in the Jewish Community even the demons Proclaim this to Christ what do you have to do with me it's a term of respect that you can control what I do or don't do so when he tells his mom he's telling his mom I'll do whatever you want but the minute I go public then you will now be the new Eve and I'm the new Adam and what's her last words in scripture do whatever he tells you my brothers and sisters in Christ think about the crucifixion think about if you're Veronica and you're standing in the middle of the road blocking by your actions you're making a public Proclamation but there must be something special about him so much so that you want to wipe his face on your Veil do you know what it must have meant for be someone like long guus to stand up and say truly that man was the son of God when everybody is listening man all of a sudden man he stands up I'm telling you my brother and sister Christ when you publicly Proclaim truly that man's the Son of God you know don't think it didn't echo in in Pilot's ears and Sub in Caesar's ears two years later he's beheaded for that public Proclamation my brother and sister in Christ we hear you and I sit 2,000 years later how public are you about your faith let's be honest how public are you in other words when somebody says let us pray will you immediately begin regardless of where you are and how outn humed you may be you begin in the name of the father and the Son and the Holy Spirit where you leading the prayer or not regardless to the looks you get the eyes that get rolled and the dis dismissive attitudes because you made the sign of the cross Ezekiel taught us 500 years before the coming of Christ that the sign of the cross would be the power that it is or will you Sher away from it and kind of hide it and couch it my brother and sister Christ as somebody comes to you and says are you are you Christian will you say absolutely I'm Catholic or will you just downplay it yeah I'm Christian man let's get around this thing we don't want to jam everybody up let me tell you my brother and sister in Christ if you don't acknowledge Christ in public he's not going to acknowledge you before his father it's either one or the other you made it or you didn't there if you're lukewarm he said I'd spit you out my brother and sister in Christ remember what they tell us about the fence Between Heaven and Hell if there were one it's owned by the Devil Himself my brother and sisterr if I walked into your house would they know you're Catholic would they see a crucifix up on the wall that has that corpse on it or just an empty Cross or would be such a flowery design you couldn't tell whether it's a cross or not my brother and sister in Christ would they know you're a Catholic by what you have on would they know you're a Catholic by the way you pray would they know you're a Catholic when they said cuz you lead us in prayer and you give them the Hail Mary and being able to defend her veil when they started to despise her and try to chop her down and say that she had many children that she was not ever a virgin can you defend her my brother and sister Christ or you just going to pass the buck and say I well the church didn't teat me oh stop I've been with you 10 years don't tell me you ain't hurt it may not have been listening but I can tell you well that's hard to do but I'm going to just saying my brother and sister in Christ how well are you willing to defend our Eucharist truly this is the son of the Lamb of God Behold the Lamb of God my brother and sister in Christ listen to me everything in the Old Testament must New Testament must be better anything having to do with Christ must be greater than so therefore the Old Testament must be less than if there is a Joseph in the Old Testament who saved his family by going to Egypt the Joseph in the New Testament saves the Holy Family by going to Egypt Elijah wore camel skin and ate different types of food and talked of a savior John the Baptist wore special clothing ate different types of food and baptized the Messiah if if they had blessed bread in the desert that fell from the altar of God then truly this must be my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink and if I am not in you and you are not in me you do not have eternal life are you willing to defend that my brothers and sisters in Christ are you willing to tell them what St Paul said in his letter to the Corinthians as well that if you eat of it unworthily you eat of your own demise are you willing to fight that fight my brothers and sisters in Christ when they ask you are you saved can you give them an answer that's simply proclaiming his name spelling it right or have a general direction of which where he may be doesn't save you that when somebody says are you saved as a Catholic your answer should be synced direct and spot on I was the crucifixion I am as I speak you today and I hope to be because I have free will I was I am and I hope to be because otherwise if it's simply just a proclamation as it they Proclaim in the Book of Romans that all you got to do is spell his name and say it and you are saved that's present tense there's always a past tense present tense and future tense to the word saved in Greek is soo and if you read in Mark's uh chapters around 11 or 13 if you must persevere to the end to be saved just ask Judas well my brother and sisters in Christ I leave you with this Arch Bishop shapo was right he said to solve the problems of the world today you need men and women of character who are willing to bring their faith into the public Arena if you believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah and the church has proclaimed him to be who he is and she is right then why aren't you acting on it we have kept our religion so private we don't even know how to go public go public with your faith now more than ever before amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

react react and how you react to things in that 10-second interval between when you hear it you read it you see it and that jaw begins to open up how do we react the years of 1950s 1960s his name is is Louie well some people call him lwis some people call him pork chop and he would tell you if you interviewed him he' tell you I am our family was poor poor the interview uh the reporter asked him was just how poor were you he said We spelled it with three O's he said that's how poor we were he said I am a poster child for not having anything he said man when I grew up he said only thing I had to play with was a stick and a bottle cap he said 'well you mean kind of like baseball he said no that was our baseball he said' wow he said so things were tough he said 'you know but it was my dad that set the table he saidon how are you going to react to it you're just going to lay down you're going to cow towel or you going to do what's right do what you know you can do give the best you have give till it hurts he said I've never forgotten that he said man I get out of grammar school high school and he says and man the only thing I can do better than most is play ball so Manny starts playing baseball he gets the title upand coming as a result man you know how that is when you get to the minor leagues and they they label you up and coming they got to get you to the grapefruit League that's the summer league for baseball Arizona Florida as a result man they decided to kind of FasTrack him a little bit to Humble him not that he needed it because he was already there but because you got the label so the Red Sox are in town they're playing the Braves at the time Milwaukee and they're playing that in the grapefruit league and of course the coach for the Braves knows the guys that going to be pitching for the Red Sox his name is Ike Ike is probably one of the better pictures of the day had a great breaking ball um had a pretty decent slider but what he did have Boy The Boy could throw some heat and man they had a little movement on it they said they used to say his fast ball was alive and well so of course Ike has a little bit of a temper so when they knows that today this upand coming he's going to bring his best even though it's a grapefruit League man the coach knows this he scratches the second baseman that was going to start puts this guy in and they used to they played at a park and it was called pain pay park now I don't know if that was the name of it or the nickname of it but it was about 400 feet down the alleys and about 450 dead center field that's a long way that's where fly balls go to die right it just goes and goes and goes well man here comes the young guy he's up in the pit and they and the coach can see it man I going to throw nothing bit heat and he's just going to give it to him and one thing about a fast ball got to be careful as fast as it comes in he goes out twice as fast but everybody will tell you hitting Ike's fast ball is like hitting an aspirin man he wears up he pitches it and when I tell you Louie Lewis pork chop he crushed it it it was going so far the center fielder didn't even he did he just looked he didn't even bother running pitcher didn't even bother going just he looked to see how far it landed they asked the center fielder after the game was there any park out there that could have held that ball he said yes sir he said which one he said Yellowstone they interview the guy out they interview the young man Louis after the game and man they start talking to him and he said man you know and he's very humble he never wore a baton glove just a stick in the plate he started playing Left Field played for 24 Seasons hit over 715 home runs before steroids my brother and sister in Christ man there was almost 20 Seasons that he had over 20 home runs it was almost like there was about eight seasons where he had like 40 he had like five seasons where he hit over 20 and you know him as Hank Aaron you know what's amazing brother Christ he passed just the other day which is part in parsel while I offer the story but you know why they call him pork chop they said when he would go out to eat eat the only places he would go were those that sold pork chops and they would ask him what is it with you and pork chops he said live in my world watch everybody else eat one and you can't he said I'm making up for lost time he said that man could suck down some pork chops my brother and sister Christ it's all on how you react that is exactly that gospel here the good Lord is walking along on the Sea of Galilee now remember the Sea of Galilee is only about 5 m wide maybe about 68 miles long and as a result of it man he's walking along and he tells Andrew and Peter I'm going to make you Fishers them in they drop their Nets and they start walking immediately he walks a little further and he runs across James and John he tells them he wants to make them Fishers of Men they leave their dad in the boat with the hired help immediately to follow Christ that is their reaction now stop you're first century Jew I would give a month's wages to see the argument that ensued when Peter goes home to tell Mama that he's no longer a fisherman but a fisher of men her name according to tradition is pereria pereria according to tradition Peter does not have any children my brother and sister in Christ can you imagine how was the catch oh honey you should have been there it was impressive so you got a lot well potentially yeah what are you saying do you have fish or do you not well no I'm going to be a fisher of men well let me tell you how this is going to work we ain't got nothing to eat we live off the Sea of Galilee we own some boats may I suggest you go back out my brother and sister in Christ they drop everything they're doing to follow him now stop you're first century Jew and this is what you know that not just earlier before we believe it's John and Andrew are standing next to John the Baptist when he says there goes the Lamb of God and they follow him so much so that Andrew leaves to go get Peter and said we found the Messiah that's why the second lad of the Creed is in Jesus Christ his only son why because Andrew is the one that gets Peter back into the freay now all of a sudden this is the good Lord has now come across them now my brothers in Christ he's met three of the four that he's just called the impact in the reaction is profound they've left their he comes to you tomorrow he comes to you now and you have to immediately get away and walk my brothers and sisters in Christ you know when he said Fishers of Men it may mean nothing to you and I but to a first century Jew you know the Prophet Jeremiah said the same thing when their world was being taken over by the Assyrians in Babylonians and people were taking over Jerusalem Jeremiah said there'd be somebody who would come and gather all all the Fishers of Men and he would gather them together so when he said I'm going to make you Fishers of Men their head would have picked up and said oh my God Jeremiah said that this is him John the Baptist just said it last week my brother and sister in Christ when Daniel told them that at the end of the day that everything will come out of Rome I.E in other words there will become a new kingdom that will last forever Peter James John and Andrew now get it my brother Christ their reaction is huge they did it at the moment 's notice go back in scripture think of all the great players in our lives that that reacted immediately to following Christ Bemus he's the blind man that's sitting out on the outskirts and he hears that the Messiah is coming Lord have mercy on me man man tell him to be quiet tell him to shut up son of David have mercy on me man will somebody quiet that guy son of David please have mercy on me what does Christ do come now do y'all the story about bardus is something miraculous he stands up no nobody's helping him he's going to where he hears the voice he takes the one thing he owns the cloak and he throws it away now I don't know about y'all I'm not sure had that type of Faith see he must have believed that he was going to be able to see because otherwise he's going to be crawling on the ground for a year trying to find out where he threw it he may never find it but yet he must have believed because when he walks up the good Lord says what do you wish he said I wish to see do you believe yes I do you knce the good Lord never touched him never put his hand on him never picked up some dirt put it on his eyes it was his faith and it started when he started yelling out son of David have me his reaction was immediate and directional my brothers and sisters in Christ think about what it must have been for uh annias you may not know annias annias is the one that the good Lord appears to and says look I've just blinded a guy by the name of Saul we're going to make him into Paul I need you to go cure him this is the conversation that ensues you want me to do what do do you that that's Saul that guy kills people for living he kills Christians for a living Lord no no no I need you to go cure him remember Paul doesn't know that he's going to be cured in three days he thinks he's blind this game is over so when annias comes that transform that transformation was immediate his reaction was totally to that of Christ my brother Christ when nias gets there he's already repentful which means he's already made a decision that whether go regardless of what goes on from this point forward I'm not going back to who I was regardless of whether I can see or not when Joseph Athea gave up his tomb he did it immediately he didn't wait to say well wait a minute let's find a place for him I don't want to give up my tomb because then where am I going to be buried he does it immediately his reaction was totally directed towards Christ my friends in Christ look at us today 2 years later what is our reaction to what things go on remember this Isaac Newton made a great argument in his third law of motion he said for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction so when something happens to you you've got so many minutes or seconds before there's an equal and opposite reaction that that 20 seconds 10 seconds okay for you two seconds and for me too what is our reaction to what came to our door well let's see my brothers and sisters Christ how do you and I react when we're driving through town and somebody Cuts us off do you pull around them and give them the look my brother and sister Christ from the minute that reaction takes place and that person behind you lays in your horn and you could swear it just turned green it's been a nanc do you purposely move slower what is your reaction my brother and sister in Christ the person that's had their blinker to turn left now on for six blocks and then turn turns right when they go to turn what is your reaction my brother and sister in Christ when somebody gives you the sign of peace or some sign thereof what is your reaction for that 10 seconds those five seconds those two seconds how do you any I react is it like that God this is why the good Lord says man if they say something give them your left cheek in other words and then if they give some give them your right cheek for me to hit you on your right cheek I need to backhand you my brother Christ what he's saying is when they give you something ugly on your left cheek and they want to give it till you get on your right cheek then you then you take it because you're eternally stronger your character is defined by who you are in those first few seconds your character is defined as who you are in those first few seconds and how you react when you're at work and they ask you to do something and it doesn't include increase in the the decimal point you're still going to do it because as a good Catholic man and woman that's what you do because they'll come to know that Christ exists because of your actions will you do something even though it's not your job description you got to stay longer my brother and sister in Christ how are you going to react if it's about your faith will you stand up for your faith and when they ask you why do you make the sign of the cross do you know enough to tell them well the prophet Ezekiel foretold that the sign of the cross would be the saving Mark that would eventually be put on our foreheads that we believe in a Triune God and that is the greatest prayer known to man as a matter of fact in the first hundred years after Christ it was so popular it would be it would be almost am mirical not to see a sign of the cross happen during the course of a day my brother and sister in Christ how will you react when they say man what about Mary I mean y'all worship statues are you just going to acknowledge it at what point do you at least try to defend it my brother and sister in Christ at what point will you and I our reaction to our faith is because we put time in to understand it remember at the end of the day if you don't acknowledge Christ in public he's not going to acknowledge you before his father so what point do you and I need to step out and say you know what I may not know enough about Mary you know maybe I need to study more about my faith maybe I need to understand why we do what we do at the mass maybe it's not enough anymore just to acknowledge the fact that I'm just going to do what I'm going to do I'm going to keep my religion private we kept our religion private we don't know how to go public look at the world we're in now and look what is to come my brother and sister in Christ your reaction has to be very Christlike how will anybody else know the people that you work with the people you travel with the people that are your friends your family how do they know that Christ exist if they don't see in you everybody talks about having faith but if you don't put it out in Works they'll come never know that you had the Faith remember brother and sister Christ Mother Teresa is walking out of the the Vatican it's hard to miss her right she's an icon at this time and as a result man these reporters see her and I'm telling you it's like a I mean a bevia quail I mean they just surround her and they said mother man can we have a few minutes of your time motheres one reporter says you know mother how old are you now mother responds I'm 75 he said well you you know you're almost near death mother doesn't doesn't change her disposition they said she just it's mother and he and he and she just listens and he said so why are you doing all this I mean you're going to die soon then your order is going to just dissipate so why bother and mother said you know I'm like a little drop of water in a very Palm in the hand of the palm of God I'm just a drop of water just a bead of water in the very palm of God that's all I've ever been and all I will ever be and she goes so may I ask you a question and he said yes he said would you would you be a little puddle of water in the palm of God would you be a little drop of water he said well yeah okay mother I will he said okay well that's two of us are you married he said well yes he said what you you think that would now be three of us he said 'y yeah probably so' he said do you have children he said 'yes three she goes well now there's six of us my brother and sister in Christ mother's reaction totally disarmed that that argument and totally put the record straight you and I have an obligation to do that about our faith you and I have an obligation to learn our faith we had an obligation to pray more now than ever before I don't care what you're hearing now there you and I need to pray more now than ever before and I leave you with this the prayer of Mother Teresa in the in the poem anyway people are unreasonable illogical and self-centered forgive them anyway if you are honest they will cheat you be honest anyway if you are happy they will be jealous you be happy anyway if you were successful you win false friends and true enemies you succeed anyway what you took a Lifetime Building they'll destroy it overnight build it anyway because it was never between you and them it was between you and him anyway that is what has to be your reaction hold fast to those couple of seconds be internally strong and then calmly and collectively and directionally towards Christ respond amen am the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

on guard on guard the years about the 1930s 1940s his name is John John is uh a Brooklyn New York boy through and through he's a New Yorker he has uh a younger brother about uh a little bit younger than he is and he has a mom who is the quintessential mom he's got a dad who is an insurance salesman he would have told you life started out oh okay but after a couple of events he said my life started unfolding like dominoes albeit downward in a spiral he said my life became da disordered when the reporter asked him well what happened he said well at the age of three my brother passes he said man my only brother and then he says at the age of nine I'm sitting inside with my mom we at the kitchen table and the mail has just arrived my dad has come home early he comes in he takes off his hat and takes off his jacket doesn't say a word literally walks through the house picks up every photo of him every frame everything that he wants puts it under his arm walks back to the kitchen table goes through the mail picks up his check puts on his jacket and his hat walks out the house never see him again he said man I am on my heels my mom has decided she's going to do what she does best she said um John you need to be on guard that life is going to do this to you and you need to be ready and what we're going to do is what we do best I'm going to get a job she goes work for the transit authority and you're going to go to school and you are going to finish as a result of it man he goes to high school and he says man high school was challenging he and his mom said no John it wasn't challenging he said what was challenging is you rather play with sticks than with books pool sticks pool cues he said she said you go to school and finish he becomes the class clown he becomes popular each and every year he wakes up one day decides man I just don't want to go to school he's decided that he's going to take some limberger cheese he's going to find one of them old radiator heaters 75 of them school's cancelled John is an instant success overnight he decided one day just to see how people react in particular the choir he waited till they were in Full Throttle had a snake threw it in air shut the door and locked it just to watch to see how they would respond on the day of graduation the students decided they want John to be the MC he is so good and has such truly a big heart that he has decided that man he's all in he gets a standing ovation the students loved him this the the teachers loved it too because this is John's last day in the school as a result of leaving his mom says now John on guard get work help me take care of the home and then things will happen for you just keep your head up he goes and starts working at a theater works at a carnival as an MC kind of like the Barker one that yells out what is coming as a result next thing you know he gets a bit part in a movie the lead cancels and everybody likes John so they put him in the pool movie he's uh Minnesota Fats could it be Lord could it be yes yes Lord it is true for the 10 people that got it get a lotto ticket today this is the day right here my brother and sister in Christ as a result next thing you know he gets in a movie called Larsen and then he gets another little bit part in h Navy blues and then another one through through the night and then all of a sudden things get tough and his mom told him keep your head up be on guard because you just you just never know John well man pretty soon man they're struggling this TV station is to put on their very first sitcom and the only one that everybody talks about is this guy with a massive heart that he just loves people and they said man we're going to put you in this role and we're going to put you in the role you you're going to work for the transit authority like your mom you you're going to drive a bus you your best friend will work in the sewer department Lord It's multiplying like loaves if this the greatest thing since sliced bread yeah my brother and sister in Christ and next thing you know every once in a while towards the end of the show him and his wife Alice would agree to disagree and then all of a sudden he say you know to the Moon Alice pow to the Moon you know it's amazing and I see we have young people he was Buford te Justice in Smoky in the Bandit okay just want to make sure I get as many as I can that's exactly right my brother and sister in Christ you know him as Jackie gleon you know what's amazing on his Tombstone I don't know if you remember at the end of his show he used to say in away we go that's what's on his Tombstone man he said in an interview late in life I cannot help but thank my mom for keeping me to stay on guard that is exactly that gospel my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord has walked into a synagogue the holiest of Hol per se unless you're in the temple in Jerusalem and all of a sudden a demon speaks through a person I know who you are you're the Holy One of God and the good Lord rebukes him and tells him to be quiet and then subsequently to come out and then he convulses and falls on the ground and rolls around now stop you're a first century Jew let's make sure you understand what you now know you know the first five books like the back of your hand you read Deuteronomy and you know you're looking for a Moses type person to bring you to the promised land to give you a new Mana to bring you out of slavery of sin and here this one guy is throwing demons out did you notice the only people knew that he was the Messiah outside of Mary Joseph has already passed the apostles know but they have doubts remember even when he assumed into heaven they doubted ascended excuse me my brother and sister in Christ did you realize that only the devil knew exactly who he is my brother Christ he called him out by name my Christ did you realize there in the synagogue the holiest of holy places did you realize my brother and sister in Christ indirectly that the good Lord on the Sabbath which is Friday afternoon and most of Saturday he was worshiping in the temple my brother Christ remember this he got baptized in the Jordan not for him to tell you and I we need to be baptized he's going to a synagogue on the Sabbath showing you and I that's where we need to be you notice he wasn't in a duck blind or deer or Ballfield he's at the synagogue my brother and sister in Christ now this is what you know as a first century Jew as a first century Jew when somebody they say speaks of authority they call it exosa that's where you and I get Exorcist from now remember this when the good when the demon begins to speak through that person so he must be totally possessed which is about half of 1% in the world today there are variations of that watch the news ah very good attachments my brother and sister in Christ what does he say what do you have to do with me think if you were at the wedding to Kaa you would have heard her go to her son and say they're out of wine and what's his comment to his mother what does that have to do with me it's the sign of respect to somebody who has authority over you he's telling his mother at the wedding to Canaan you pull me out now I'll do whatever you want but you're no longer quote my mom you now become woman that's why he says woman as in the new Eve and I'm the new Adam I'm going public you will not be my mother again until you hold me after they take me down off the cross the P last word she says do whatever he tells you the devil is saying he's got you you've got my respect because you are God what if you come to destroy us brother and sister in Christ go back to Genesis remember after hold the debacle in the Garden of Eden all of a sudden he said man the woman will strike at your head and you will strike at her heel but there's also a translation that says from the woman's seed you will strike at her at his heel and he will strike at your head he knows that the good Lord can destroy him he gets it my brother and sister in Christ that's why when the good Lord says be quiet because I want everybody else to figure it out for themselves you ever ask yourself my brother and sister in Christ 2,000 years later why do the satanic groups only want the host from the Catholic church maybe because their boss knows where the host and who the host is you never notice they don't run into a non-denominational church a Protestant Church the Episcopal Church my brother and sister in Christ because he knows the H Eucharist is what it is my brother and sister in Christ you need to think for a second of what's going on when he says you're the Holy One Of God every Jew in there it's a synagogue knows they're referring back to the Psalms like 116 to 119 where it says that Aaron is the Holy One of God and in the temple Aaron would have wore like a a headdress with the Holy One so they and this is the one that Moses claimed to be the new high priest so when he said I know who you are he's telling everybody even higher than Aaron my brother and in Christ you need to understand this about demons they have seven characteristics they are on the earth and they roam freely my brother and sister Christ they are even in religious places you ever been sitting in mass and out of nowhere a thr crosses your head and you're saying what was that who do you think's here to distract you my brother and sister in Christ not only can he roam the Earth not only can he be in religious places my brother and sister in Christ he's here for one reason and one reason only to torment you and me he hates you my brother and sister in Christ he roams free he has to obey God he fears God and he knows at the end of the day he will be judged and condemned by God my brother and sister in Christ he's here for one reason and one reason only now stop go back in scripture if you're a scripture type person go back to job the devil shows up the good Lord says what you think about my boy Joe what's the like you let me touch him I'll turn him no no where have you come from roaming the Earth and patrolling it you can do whatever you want but you can't touch him and one day one day by breakfast he's already lost all his sheep all his camels and all his cows my brother and sister in Christ by that day at noon he's lost seven sons and three daughters and the only thing out of that man's mouth as naked came on the world and naked will I return and the devil says you let me touch him and I'll turn him touch him job gets hit with everything possible still never turns roaming the Earth and patrolling it what did St Peter say he's a roaring lion looking for souls to seal you know what Padre Pio said of the demon he said there are two demons on the earth listen two demons on the earth for every person that has ever walked from Adam and Eve to now Poo's been dead for almost 20 years 30 years if they had that many demons when he was alive how many demons are in our world today my brother and sister Christ he said if you took all the demons in the world they would block the Sun and you don't think he's around my brothers and sisters in Christ think about the demon can come to you in a myriad of different ways in the Garden of Eden he came as Levon the Great Dragon he literally intimidates Adam and Eve into taking of the apple or what the Jews would say the Fig Tree Apple in Greek is Milan means evil that's why sometimes you see a snake eating an apple I digress he comes as the Great Dragon my brother in Christ do you never asked yourself why is it he said on your belly you shall crawl if he's already a snake well he's already on the ground but if you're the dragon and you fly over creation that is a far drop to go from above the skies to the very ground that's why he clipped his wings and that's why he said on your belly you shall call he will come as a dragon he will come as a snake my brothers and sisters in Christ according to Padre Pio he came one time to him to him as the Blessed Mother they asked him peo how did you know it was her he said at first didn't then I made the sign of the cross and she didn't respond and then she just vanished he said one time Lucifer came to him as looking like the good Lord himself he said spitting image he said I just stood there and then I just something said to me look at his hands look at his feet he had no wounds he said then that's how he knew he was Lucifer St fosta St anel St Augustine say that the evil one will come as a dog at times my brother and sister in Christ he can take any form he can put thoughts into your head remember three people can put a thought in your head he can you and I can and so can he I'm not asking you to walk in trepidation because he has to obey the good Lord all things have to come through God he fears the good Lord and rightfully so that's why you and I should have fear of the Lord we should remember he's a barking dog that he is tied to a chain and as a result if our ability to ignore him is what will win the day the question is are you and I on guard for that time when the dog barks it's not going to come from somebody that you rarely recognize the guy passing you the way that gives you the sign of peace or whatever the person that cut you off in traffic we all get exposed to that are you ready for the one that you don't expect it from the one that you know the one that your friends with that's part of the family my brother in Christ you got to be on guard so that's what I'm telling you that he can put a thought in your head he's not going to show up with a pitch mark and a pointed tail the best thing the evil one has done has made you and I believe he doesn't exist that's why we pray the exorcism prayer so in case you pick up attachments my brother and sister Christ the question for you and I is there's no question he's in our world just look at it have you watched the news and you are asking me who's running this show my brother in Christ the question for you and I is what are you and I doing about it are you on guard my brother and sister in Christ are you praying in the morning in other words brother of Christ you have anything blessed on you whether you're at work taking a shower going to do this or that is something blessed on you so that the evil one will know quote you've been touched by God have you been baptized oh my God how will the evil one know that you don't belong to him my brothers and sisters in Christ are you going to confession I can tell you this you ain't being here in the last couple weeks because there's only two of us there and we're getting tired of playing solitire so if it fits wear it but I got to tell you I'm not saying you're not holy the average holy person sins seven times a day don't go to confession for a month 200 sins don't go for 6 months that's 1,200 don't go for a year 2400 that's brother sister Christ don't go for a decade 24,000 sins what kind of relationship you got with anybody if you dismiss them that many times Hebrews 5 I'll choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon them John 20 go out and heal them and forgive them of their sins the good Lord never baptized anybody and never heard their confession why because he's only here for three years he's got to return home so he might as well get used to going to Peter and the boys my brother and sister in Christ go to confession you got to close that Gap is your house blessed well no father it's you know I tell you what only lock your front door from now on don't worry about it it's all good just lock the front door my brother of Christ you you use blessed salt do you cook with it do you put it in your car well brother Sisters in Christ what are you relying on your driving habits there is my point my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord has given us seven Great tools tools to get us from Redemption the crucifixion to Salvation the Pearly Gates never confuse them they are not the same Redemption is the crucifixion salvation is the Pearly Gates just because he died on the cross don't mean you and I are getting a free pass here I'm going to let you know the good news the good Lord said in the parable only one out of four is going to make it I don't remember hearing that no what you need to be telling me is you didn't read it my brother and sister in Christ he said there was a farmer that went got some seed he threw some seed on the on the path what good does it do that gets trampled to death I threw some seed and it fell over there into the into the the wire uh uh the Thorns I threw another group of seeds and it fell over there in the Rocks only one group fell on good soil one out of four 25% how many of us are staying home to watch the mass because it's convenient you've met the obligation and you receive no Grace my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you Padre poo is right when they asked him do you believe poo that there's many demons in the world he said more than you could imagine I see them all the time he said as an an exorcist and as having two friends that are Exorcist they tell me the exact same words out of Poo's mouth with all the courage I could muster I asked the priest who was The Exorcist I said you know poo said that we all have a guardian angel The Exorcist responded Yes sometimes more than one I said do we have a demon too he said yes he said Pride anger gluttony lust a sloth or Envy it's going to be one of the seven my brothers and sisters in Christ and not to play off the commercial I do not care what's in your wallet the only thing I care about is who's on guard for your soul amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

first things first first things first it's about the 1960s his name is William William lives in Duncan Oklahoma he is an Oklahoma boy he's a Midwest boy and he will tell you that his one brother they are inseparable you see one you're going to see the other they just always been that way his mom is the quintessential mom she can and does do his dad William will tell you is an actor and a producer so he said it's at some point they had to move from Duncan out to Irving California near uh desilo Studios as a result Man William is starting to get caught up in the fervor his dad is an actor his dad is a producer and man he starts wanting to go to the sets he wants to be on the scenes he wants to go with him to work and pretty soon man next thing you know other people are talking to him about getting a bit part here a bit part there and Dad finally comes to him brings him on the side and says first things first William you go nowhere without me and your mother this isn't Oklahoma this is California as a result to such you will not be on any show any play any commercial any bit part large part my part your part unless I'm there because you just don't know what they're going to ask to this day when William's on the set if they children there he wants their parents there because he wants them all together as a family he said it was the best thing that ever happened first things first he said so he gets a bit part and as a result of it man he's he becomes pretty popular as a result man is's a little popularity grows and he'll tell you you know the only reason I ever acted was because I wanted to be a producer but I did love to act he said I may not have been the greatest he said I was in in movie like The Many Lives of Doby Gil swinging a m okay as a result of it man he's trying to find another little bit part he gets in another one called like um uh it's called Midnight like midnight shift absolutely hysterical and then he gets in another one where he just starts it's called journey and then next thing you know he finds out that man he's not so bad and then they get him an American Graffiti oh okay could it be true Lord I'm only halfway through the Dozen names that I just memorized as a result of it man his world starts to grow and American Graffiti kind of put him on the on the map and then all of a sudden he's decided man I'd rather be on behind the camera in front of it man next thing you know he's he's doing movies like cocoon and then splash Paulo 13 Cinderella Man he even did Dark Tower me and my brother and sister in Christ his name is Opie now oh man I should have started with Opie this would have solved my problem my brother's Christ you know him as Ron Howard and his brother is in absolutely every one of his movies in every show that he ever produced my brother and sister in Christ and he'll tell families today first things first he said it's your family my brother to Christ that is exactly that gospel my brother and sister in Christ the first thing the good Lord does very early in the dawn is he goes to pray before anything else God left to pray to show you and I what has to be first things first just like he went into the river to get baptized in the Jordan to show you what you and I need to do that your wedding needs to be in front of me that's why I showed up at the wedding of Cana 2,000 years later you still don't even know the name of the couple that's how important that it is I'm there now let's pretend that you and I are first century Jews and we are with him now remember if we're one of the 12 or with the 12 we're going to know that the guy who wrote the Gospel of Mark is not an apostle he was a follower of Peter a little bit of Paul and what's amazing about Mark he's not going to give you any background because he's only talking to Jew H Gentiles so he's not going to talk about tradition he's not going to talk about the first five books of the law he's just going to tell you the facts it's kind of like drag net just the facts man that's him as a matter of fact they're going to find out when you get to Peter's house now look when you think of Peter's house don't you got to go back to where they were in their day if you ever been to C uh if you ever been near the Sea of Galilee you would find Peter's house and it would be about the size of 20 by 25 Maybe B Andrew's there Peter's there mother-in-law's there that means Mama's got to be nearby her name is Poria is Peter's name according uh his wife's name according to tradition and then all of a sudden comes Jesus James and and John that's a lot of people he is a Stones throw away from the synagogue where he made the statement my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink I bet you could throw a and hit that and throw a rock and hit the Sea of Galilee now remember brother in Christ you need to understand this too he is curing everything the blind see the lame walk the dead rise a demon is expelled and he'll even stop and take care of a fever your request no matter how small is important to him it's all equal to him the fact that you turn to him is that important now my brother and sister in Christ the whole town showed up there either ill or they have demons that's got to be a heck of a town to live in how many demons does he cure matter of fact brother in Christ he makes the statement that he makes sure that they didn't re they didn't speak about him why because he's trying to drive home the point the only person put it this way how many people you think back in the time of Christ actually knew who he was Mary Joseph John the Baptist in the womb that's why he danced Elizabeth okay well now we're still in single digits Satan knew because they knew on day one because on day one God created the light Lucifer is the angel light that's when he created the Angels they knew right then my brother Christ why didn't anybody your Nemesis knows whose you are that's why he's silencing them because that gap between the Finger of God the father and Adam and the creation of the Chapel that Free Will that's what he's leaving to you and I will you believe that I am who I am without the devil telling you who I am that's why he silences them my brother and sister in Christ he leaves there and goes throughout Galilee getting rid of all the demons if there were that many demons then oh my God how many are now in our little city Hammond Louisiana the nation DC ah My Brothers and Sisters in Christ how many are throughout the world do you know what Padre Pio said he said there are two demons in the world for every person that walked the Earth since the very beginning he said if you took all the demons in the world you would block the sun I tell you this because I need you to be aware of his existence his greatest quote gift is that he doesn't make his presence known and you and I dismiss it the reason we're here the reason Christ came was because of this this Angel's existence look around you my brother and sister in Christ therein lies the point go back in scripture this is why the good Lord says first things first you need to pray you didn't me to make sure I'm protecting you before you just walk into the world if you and I would go back in scripture Mary Magdalene on Easter Sunday she's the only one that gets up and goes to the tomb I got to pray first now give Mary the Mother of God her due she already knows her son's resurrected that's why she's not making the trip to the tomb she knows remember brother and sister Christ according to tradition she didn't even want to leave the tomb because she knew he was coming back according to the Saints the good Lord appeared to her first to let her know that time was short he said the reason he comes back early in other words if you count the days Brother s in Christ he's not gone for 24 hours three a set of three because he's he's crucified on Friday and then on Sunday morning he's risen it's because of the Blessed Mother's intercession the point being is that Mary Magdalene on this world knows that first things first I need to get before him to pray the blessed mother taught us that too my brother and sister Christ she'd rather be near a quote a dead savior than live people this is what the point is think about it my brother and sister in Christ think about all the great players can you think about people like Joseph Athea first things first we got to bury him put him in my tomb I know I won't have one I know I won't have time to build another one first things first we got to take care of the Messiah I'll take care of me later but I got to tell you for every one of those there's Saul you got to get blinded before you decide man you know what I need to pray what about Peter and the boys in the boat first they think they can solve the problem then all of a sudden the problem is so great do you know according to tradition and the saints that the storm was so great that when Peter makes the proclamation Lord do you care we're going to be a parish they actually sit down in the boat because it was almost like a funnel as Cloud out on the Sea of Galilee and there's nothing more they can do they just just sat down to hang on and then that's when the good Lord rebukes the wind my brother and sister in Christ my question to you and I is you know there's three types of categories which one do you and I fall in is it first things first we pray first or are we we pray when things go south or then we start to pray when the bodies are starting to be stacked that it's so late now we call him the great Lotto King my brother and sister in Christ which category are you and I in when you wake up in the morning first things first you turn on the television to see the good news really you turned on the television to get good news what's worse as you come home in the afternoon and think it got better and turn it back on again man did you pick up the newspaper thinking the front lines is better than the news I do understand you got to get a cup of coffee I'm skipping that part what I need you to understand is is the first things first do you go sit somewhere and go pray before before the day gets started I'm going to sit quietly and just talk I may want to read scripture I may have a book I read but there's a part in my house that no matter where I go I know my body knows when I get there the discipline is I will go to pray whether I have a kneer I sit in the chair I stand there's a statue there's a crucifix I know that I'm in there to pray I need to protection or do we wait until the problems begin in other words do you pray before you get in your car so you make sure that the tra the trip is safe to work do you pray before you get into work because you know the amount of Love That waits for you when you get there try to pray while you're at work good luck with that I tell you what try to pray without complaining while you're at work so my brother and sister in Christ will you pray in the morning before you leave before you back that car out you say Lord watch over me on my trip or you going to wait till an accident happens does somebody give you a bad sign get road rage is that when you're going to start to pray my brothers in Christ before you open that door at work are you going to walk in and do a quick prayer so you don't get overwhelmed before you leave when you leave work to get in your car you going to pray again first things first before you get home and spread the Venom are you going to be in that first category and I'm going to pray before I get in there so I just don't disrupt the whole family at the dinner table and take it out on my spouse my children my brother and sister in Christ are we just going to wait for things to start to happen and then start complaining to him because he's not getting involved and then after we try to do all we can do we're in that category well there's so many bodies stacked up we're taking a hostage well why not might as well buy a lotto ticket while you're at it my brother to Christ first things first this is why we're getting in so much trouble nobody wants to pray before we get started you know if we prayed once in the morning once at night and before each meal you prayed five times a day imagine if you did that every day do anything five times better and tell me how your day turns out my brothers Christ go to one more mass a week just one and tell me how much more of a priority he is now in your life my brother and sister in Christ I'm I'm telling you Satan runs this world and he hates you he hates you by your name because he knows it's been given by God and you've been made in His image and he will go to the ends of the Earth to make your life tumultuous so why wouldn't you like the gospel make it a priority to get up first and go pray I leave you with this the decision is up to you they asked one man tell me what is first things first Define it for me he said it's the difference between choosing what you want now versus what you want most how bad do you want the peace first things first Amen in the name of the father and the son holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

extra step take the extra step go the extra mile it's the 1970s his name is Allan Allan lives in the Virgin AES man if you were to ask Alan he'd tell you man my sister and I have the greatest relationship ever he said man truly we are just like soulmates he said and if you were to ask Allan today and you asked him tell me about your life he said it was absolutely phenomenal best life ever it's everything you could have hope for it was it was just a book of Dreams up until the age of two he said man the world came tumbling he said man at the age of two my mom and dad get divorced he says and man that's when things started I had to move from the Virgin Isles to New Jersey and then I find out when I get there my parents one of them neither one of them are coming I'm staying with my grandparents he said I'm up there for about 10 years and then man all of a sudden I get word we're moving to Florida he said man just when I said things maybe are getting a little better he said man I get there at the age of 12 my grandfather passes almost within the same month my dad passes he's caught up in a robbery a home robbery his house as a result he loses his dad he said' man I am on my heels people are telling me get your head up take another step one day at a time he said take another step he said man I want to go backwards he said then I meet a teacher that says look do me one favor just take an extra step and go into the drama club he said you know I do that because I can pretend to be other people they could have better lives I could be more popular I could never have these troubles he said man things are working out pretty well then I get a scholarship to Jewel yard and when I get there he said I just wasn't really good about going to class he says I was really not good at it I just didn't go and as a result man I fail after the first semester now I'm starving to death I got to make money he said man one minute I'm trying to get a little job on Broadway in front of the camera behind the camera carrying the camera doing this doing that your fault my he said I do anything and he said man then they started giving me these little bit Parts because I'm always hanging around I'm always helping he said they got me in a movie I think it was called um uh back to you and then there was another one called Kennedy and then there was another one I think it was called Hank and then all of a sudden my brother Christ he said then the world really took a turn for the worst he said my sister was murdered he said take a step forward he said man I want nothing to do with the world he said I'm out and then if that's not bad enough within the month my mother I have told goes on a scuba uh Adventure her and my half brother and half sister they all drown he said I just quit step forward please takeing one step at a time please he said man I'm not moving and he said then that friend comes the one that you needed to hear from you may not have liked it at the time but Man true friends and says you know what until you forgive the person for killing your sister you'll never get there he said I would have none of it but over time he did he eventually takes one step than two and pretty soon he goes back to the prison here's the guy speaks to him and man from that point on his world just gets measurably better my brother and sister in Christ he begins to take one step and then two step and now he's going the extra mile and you know what he's become quite popular he's still quite reserved he'll tell you that alcohol and drugs got the best of him for quite a while but not so much now he was in the movies like um the X-Men wrong crowd sorry okay I'll pitch that one to a younger one as a result he was in X-Men he was in Toy Story as Stinky Pete swinging a Miss got it okay my brother and sister in Christ he is Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons he was in the movie Down Periscope he was in the movie Expendables 3 I tell you what my brother and sister in Christ his popularity came into play when he used to often times sit at a bar in Boston opposite Norm in the mailman ah yes my brother and sister Christ you know Miss Dr Frasier Crane the psychiatrist right that would sit at the end that had his own show my brother and in Christ you know when they ask him today and they'll tell and he'll tell you if my friend doesn't tell me to take the extra step or go the extra mile he said I'll never make it that is exactly that gospel the good Lord is waiting and here's a leper that goes the extra step he goes to find Christ he's a leper remember he's got to wear the garments he got to be shaven he's got to make sure their garments are torn he's got to make sure everybody knows it he's got to yell unclean he's going to probably get stoned he's outside of his area but he's going to see the good Lord and then he kneels before him everybody who believed Christ to be the Messiah in scripture albeit less than 1% you can always tell those who truly believed him to be the Messiah they bowed knelt or laid prostrate same reason why you and I kneel during the consecration because he's now in front of us that's why we kneel to receive him so now the leper has come in front of it and says and proclaims if you will it it will happen he begs him he prays with Earnest my brothers and sisters in Christ now let's stop you're a first century Jew this is what you know as you're watching that incident play out everybody is starting to separate because the leper is a leper as a result of it the good Lord is listening to him this man has come up people are separating he's got on his knees and he is begging God to touch him now this what you and I know as a first century Jew we do know who Mark is we also know he's not an apostle we do know that he kind of speaks more to Gentiles because he doesn't speak about Jewish tradition and Mark is all about the facts immediately this happened immediately that happened he says it dozens of times he's just about the facts and this is what you and I know as lepers we know at the end of the day that he's got to be quarantined for seven days and that the high priest must tell him it's okay he's got to look for that white hair he's got to see if it turns yellow he's got to see if indeed if it is and what he must do now let's stop the good Lord touched him according to their rules the good Lord would have to be quaran too kind of like covid just saying as a result of it my brothers and sisters in Christ he should have been quarantined but here's the argument the leper is no longer a leper that was the argument they're having on the side well wait a minute he's a leper Christ needs to be quarantined but well he's not a leper he's cured so maybe he didn't have leprosy you see where they're going with it my brother and sister in Christ it gets real confusing for them because Christ is doing things they've never seen before and this is what they you know as a first century Jew you know the story of non non is go back man 600 years 7 UND years back in the time of Elijah non is the only employed leper everybody wants n on their team every King wants n on their team not because he's a leper because he's the greatest general of the world's brought to the to the Forefront he is so good that even as a leper they keep him as a matter of fact non goes to the king and says you need to cure me you and I both know that story and we also know that with the with the King said in response who am I God I can't cure you only God can cure you and now we're watching it play out non is the one that goes to Elijah and says I need to be cured and Elijah says go to the River Jordan and bathe seven times and when you come out on the seventh time you'll be cured non is so mad at Elijah he said one could you pick a dirtier River there's we got a thousand pick one he said I did and he walked away he went to all the other rivers and finally so when he took counil with said just go in the river seven times and on the seventh time they said it dropped like snowflakes in a fire he said was pristine that's where you and I know when we see the good Lord touching my brother Christ if you don't have leprosy as a first century Jew then you got to make an offering which means you got to bring two turtle doves Two Goats maybe two Lambs depending on where you are financially you will give one up to God as a sacrifice and one you will set free and if you have clothes that were you were wearing as a leper at the time if anything with red or some type of reddish green tint on it you got to burn it then they're going to go check your house and if there's anything on the walls or the roof or whatever they're probably going to Burn It To The Ground anyway but if it has any red or green tint which is what how leprosy usually showed up over time they would burn it now my brother and sister in Christ you also know that the good Lord told him to be quiet and as a result he's like every good person today man you just you got to let that gossip out you just can't keep it in now good manage you got cured you're running through the streets you're jumping up and down this is a miracle I mean even if you didn't say Filman 11 it was Christ 100 yards to the right everybody knows you're a leper your head's still shaved your clothes are still torn and all of a sudden man there's no scabs there's no nothing My Brother and Sisters in Christ do you know why the good Lord does it chastise him and you need to understand this why does he not chastise that man but every time he expels a demon he tells the demon to be quiet and he silences them why did he do it to the demon and not to this man because you and and I have free will and he's going to allow you to operate on your own free will any way you want you can either follow him or go away from him you were never neutral go and tell no one I told him sternly there were so many people coming he's now living out in the outskirts of town just to be able to maneuver the reason why the devil he told him to silence him because the devil only has free will one time in other words the minute of his creation on the day one God created the light the Angels that's the only day they got free will to either follow him in heaven or rule in hell if he allows the demon to speak he will just constantly preach against the good Lord and telling everybody so my brother in Christ that's why he is silenced and that's why the man has free will the fact of the matter is the steps he took brought more people to Christ go back in scripture all of our best players I tell you what all of our best players who are in The Book of Life all took that extra step I bet you I could describe them and you would know them before I got 10 words out she gets up on Easter Sunday the only one that goes to the tomb the first to see the Risen Christ you say oh father that's Mary Magdalene and I'd say that's right but you know why you know her because she took the extra step she went the extra mile when everybody else is asleep and everybody else thinks he's dead less the holy mother as a result of such that's why she doesn't go to the tomb because she already knows my brother and sister in Christ because Mary Magdalene takes those steps she's the first to see the Risen Christ Before Peter himself if I told you that here he is standing watching the crucifixion with his two sons he had been out in the field and he's there to do the Passover meal and man they just man they just they bring him into the army they conscript him right then right there and he carries our Lord's cross my brother Christ you say oh father that's Simon the sirene that's right he may have reluctantly tooken the steps but the movie portrayed him right because towards the very end he knew all too well that this guy was indeed the Messiah and the good Lord was telling him up on golgatha yes I know you brought me to my crucifixion but I only asked you to help carry my cross so long it's for me to carry but I thank you for taking that extra step my brother and sister in Christ if I told you he gave up his tomb you say that's Joseph of AR but he's the same one that took the steps to go see pilate to tell pilate why don't you give him to me he took the steps of the good Lord would have a place to rest his head my brother in Christ remember this as a Jew a couple things are important whenever they cleanse you of lepy they got to do it with water it's got to last for so much time and it may cost you your blood for example water you got to go in the River Jordan you got to cross over the Red Sea water's always involved there's always a certain amount of time might be 7 Days may be 40 days sometimes it may cost you your martyrdom like all the uh the Innocents that were martyred on the day when King Herod is looking for our savior to a Jew those three things are important to be cleansed but all three of those things are predicated on one thing that you and I take the extra step to go towards Christ so now here we sit 2,000 years later how will are you to go the extra mile to take the extra step well let's see when you're at work and you are over run you would almost beg to ask the question to have it answered is there anybody else that works here because it seems like I'm the only one that's getting these problems it's like my desk is the only one where they can find places to put paper it's the only phone that seems to ring man you know I'm not getting paid for this never tie yourself to the decimal point the only person that's ever done it in scripture is Judas and we know how things turned out for him you do these things because you're a follower of Jesus Christ you're a believer in His Holy Catholic church because you do take the next step do are you going to do it because regardless if it's your job description or not how else will people know that you're a follower Christ if you and I do not use our feet our mouths our eyes and our ears and our hands to show people that the Messiah does work and he does work through us and he does work through his church Church my brother Christ remember this it's not whether you're not you're a physician or a teacher or a student or an engineer you work construction you work in the industry you're a housewife you're this or you're that you are a Catholic doctor you are a Catholic lawyer you're a Catholic businessman or businesswoman you're a Catholic Student you're a Catholic teacher you're a Catholic work man and woman of the world your faith is what defines you brothers in Christ we came in on this day going home on this day make no mistake about it on the day of your death what you did for a living is irrelevant the only thing relevant were were you a follower of my son the teachings of his church tell me the Commandments and welcome to my table well let's see uh don't kill anyone there's an honor something about your parents oh yeah yeah yeah not to curse my brother and sister in Christ you want him to use the minimum with you when he judges you say I ain't got time for that be gone my brother and sister in Christ are you going to take that extra step when your family member calls you on your way home and if you get one more phone call you will take a hostage will you take that phone call listen to what they have to say and say man can you pick this up can you take care of that children can you make sure that since you ate the food that you at least cleaned the plate which you ate it on will you clean your room albeit semiannually just so that you can give something back to your family my brother and sister in Christ will you take that extra step when your family members call you and you start to ask am I the only child well I don't know Simon maybe you're the only one that will do anything my brother and sister I'm begging you at the end of the day remember this on the day you and I pass there is no more forgiveness on the day you and I pass catechism there are is no more forgiveness there is only judgment based on how you acted from here to here will you be the one that the good Lord says man well done I watched you when they dismissed you I watched you when they stiff armed you I watched you when they spoke behind your back and they cursed and wrote and texted and you stayed the course my child welcome to the table of all of my children job well done my brother and sister Christ I leave you with this take the extra step go the extra mile there's almost no traffic amen no no I've been for well over 10 minutes amen amen there we go name of the father and son and holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

never neutral you are never neutral do something do anything move make a decision pray First Years about 1970 his name is Allen he lives in Englewood New Jersey he's one of three kids his uh mom was a tribal agent his dad owned a bookstore and he would tell you look we did okay I mean we made in meets not great but not bad and he'll tell you that if you asked Allan today he said man I am disciplined to a fault he said man I am I'm rigorous he said it's this way he said it was that way in high school I was a captain of the football team I'm I think I'm going to play I'm going play college ball he got a scholarship to Colombia he said somewhere along the line between my graduation date and the day that I go he said man I'm just is there something there I I I want to do something in theater I want to be on a play and he said so I'm getting ready for spring practice he said I call my dad and I asked him man I think I may want to be in the play Oklahoma he said well son what are you telling me he said well I I want to be in a play in Oklahoma he said well I got that part son but you're either in or you're out you can't be neutral on this you're either going to go play college ball or you're going to get into the theater what are you going to do he said whatever it is you run it out now don't jump in and jump out he said well I got to head to the University of Oklahoma cuz that's where the play is he then so be it turns in his cleats and if you will goes there he actually does a remarkable job Allan does and then he's decided once again man I got to decide whether I'm GNA get in this game or not so he man off to California goes to Los Angeles he gets there he gets in shows like um um gunm smoke he gets Bonanza Barnaby Jones okay I could see there's an age limit on that one but that's okay I got that as a result of it man he's making his meat now he's starving to death and now he's got to make a decision man do I go from just TV series do I make the leap of faith into the movies he calls his dad again he said man son once again you can't be neutral you got to make decisions and you got to march with them you got to live with it pray about it but you are never neutral do something son he said' well I'mma jump into the movies then so be it he gets in a movie called coma exactly just like you're looking at me in a coma that's exactly how I looked as a result of it it tanks and man he starving to death yet again and he meets of all people Clint Eastwood and man next thing you know Clint Eastwood gets him in a movie called absolute power hits when he's a retired Jew Thief he' be in Clint Eastwood this guy Allen's chasing him as the chief of police just watch the movie it's worth it okay it's a good movie as a result then he gets in another one called A Beautiful Mind then he gets in another one called The Enemy at the Gate okay look y'all he I'm you're G to get you get we're going to get this one I don't care if we're gonna sit here all day you're getting this one because the fact of the matter is is you know him but you just don't know his name but you know him because he's always the 1B actor and without him the movie isn't anywhere near where it needs to be but he's always got the bless he's in the movie uh The Rock on Alcatraz he's the general that goes astray he's in National Treasure he's in The Firm he's in Apollo 13 do y'all even know who Ed Harris is you're killing me that's what it is when you look him up just remember I told you this story my brother and sister in Christ it's all about making a decision that is that gospel go go therefore and Make Disciples of all Nations do as I have commanded you he didn't say go home think about it Naval gaze get back to me write a couple emails and we'll see what happens go therefore and Make Disciples of all Nations Apostolic now stop you're a first century Jew let's make sure you understand where this is taken place they're on the Sea of Galilee they have gone up a mountain range which is right on the the Sea of Galilee anytime you're a Jew and you go up a mountain you expect to see God Moses did it the Transfiguration did it and now they're going to do it again hence where they're getting used to now every time they go up there's going to be an epiphany of sorts now remember this whenever you hear a Jew say they worshiped which means they actually laid on the ground prostrate they actually laid out this is where you and I get some of our mask this is why you and I kneel when we come in because if you're a Jew and you have now become a Catholic not a Christian a Catholic my brother and sister Christ you did one or three things every time you saw Christ you either knelt bowed or you laid on the ground before him that's where we get it from that's why you need genu F when you come in that's why you kneel doing the the mass because he's come Heaven and Earth have touched he's on a mountain you know what's amazing they still doubted but that's the point even though they still doubted they still worshiped hence like what you and I do no matter what whatever we may be doubting we're still coming so you must have some Faith or you wouldn't have bothered to come my brother Christ that's the point he's trying to make he's trying to say that even if they doubted they still showed up and as a result there is a Triune God the fact that we did go up a mountain the last time they went up a mountain a cloud Came Upon them at the Transfiguration and they heard God the Father speak the first time they heard him he's being baptized and the heavens opened up and a dove descended yet again and this time they hear him this is my son who I'm well pleased my brother and sister Christ he's telling him to go therefore and Make Disciples of all Nations as I have commanded you now stop he did not say as I've written in this book solar scripture the notes that I passed on to you or the pamphlet I'm going to give you before you leave he said just do what I just told you to do in other words it was verbal and therefore there's a tradition my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are people who acted people who never stayed neutral think about it you're Joseph aaea you're a Pharisee you're actually a dominant Pharisee my brother and sister in Christ if you ever watch the movie chosen it's worth to watch more importantly because Nicodemus and and Joseph of arthy are me are people of means they have money they have Prestige they have power but he acts can you imagine when they went home when Joseph of arthea goes home to tell Mom hey I went Spa a pilot today have you lost your mind this guy kills people what are you going to him for to give up our tune for the guy he crucified well job well done he's got to leave within weeks family and all why because he knows he's the Messiah same thing happened to Nicodemus he had to leave within the month because he could no longer make ends meet not only couldn't he make ends meat he's adversarial to Rome everybody who moves who acts in a contradition you're never neutral you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him you and I never sit still from our thoughts our actions from an email to a text message I'm telling you you are never neutral to him as a result of it all of our best players were moving you can say what you want about Peter and I've had my share of using him as the oops guy but at the end of the day he's crucified upside down and for three hours proclaims the gospel my brother Christ he's always moving towards Christ yeah he took a step back or two but it was always two or three steps forward what about what about if Mary maglin got up on Easter Sunday and said man get up are you kidding me the apostles aren't even moving why do I need to go in front of pilot soldiers who've had their way with me one time too many I got a boulder I can't move and it's been SE by Pilot himself why bother she'd rather be literally next to a dead savior she's moving and because she moves she's the first to see the Risen Christ well before Peter did who was the vicer himself my brother Christ what if Veronica decides I'm not going to take my veil off and wipe Christ's face I got to walk out into the road the path is no bigger than this the soldiers are going to Maul me as soon as I get out of there I'm probably going to be beaten why not how about if I just watch him go by and just just wish him well but because she moves and steps in front of him to this day we still have the veil in Rome of wiping his face well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later how neutral are you and I well I tell you what let's see if I if you and I added up the number of masses we went to last year versus the number of masses we went to this year put Co on the Shelf it's irrelevant how many how many masses did you attend last year versus this year more or less you're neutral if the numbers the same or less than you're going backwards it's just that simple how many confessions did you go to last year versus this year how many rosaries have you prayed last year for this year how many times have you gone by the Adoration Chapel last year versus this year that's the whole point it's in but it's in everything you and I do you and I think only in terms of religion but it's not just in terms of our faith it's in terms of how we act go therefore and Make Disciples of all Nations go so my brother and sister in Christ I'm asking you in a very indirect way ask yourself if I added up all the emails that you and I wrote throughout the course of the day how many were favorable and how many were not how many text messages you wrote that are favorable able versus how many that are not matter of fact my brother and sister Christ if we add it all up at the end of the day between our conversations our thoughts our emails and our text messages would we be one step closer to Christ or many steps further back if you and I don't go to confession and close the gap between us and him we leave a Chasm a mile wide for the evil one to work I'm not saying you're not holy listen to me the average holy person in Proverbs sin seven times a day don't go to ma don't go to confession for a month that's over 200 don't go for 6 months that's 1,200 don't go for years it's over 2400 sins don't go for a decade that's 24,000 I ask you what kind of relationship do you have with anyone when you dismiss them that much when that Gap gets this big I can tell you if you are Moody temperamental you curse more you're downtrodden or you feel like you complain incessantly it's because the Gap is too wide and you need to close it you got to go to confession he told us when he breathed on them at Pentecost go out and forgive them of their sins he didn't tell you and I to go directly to him he never said that matter of fact go back and read Leviticus where he tells you and I you must go to a priest Hebrews 5 I would choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one takes it upon themselves but yet we make it up as we go along my brother in Christ don't you see at the end of every day you and I have got to add up all the things we did and ask ourselves are we neutral or backing up if there's ever a time for you Den I to double down it's now during covid we owe you a big apology we the church owe you an apology and especially from the priesthood we should have never shut the doors because that means the communion was not out I'm telling you buckle down and double down now because we're not out of the woods because we're still killing his children and as a result of it we're going to be in the desert for a long time so whatever comes is irrelevant because you and I have doubled down on our prayers we've doubled down on our going to the rosary or going to adoration or going to mass or going to confession all I'm asking you is to do what you got to do you can Mother Teresa was right you could do things two ways you could do it right or do it again you're never neutral amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen thank you <\p>

instructions instructions as in as into just just follow the instructions the years about 1900 his name is Mr Woodward some call him Mr Francis Francis Woodward he is lives outside of Nashville Tennessee he is the president and founder of the Tennessee Pure Food Company it's massive the number of people I mean it's just amazing I mean he's got so many employees it's 1900s he's got a warehouse for distribution he's got a warehouse for marketing he's got a warehouse for packing he's got one for the offices I mean it's acres and Acres of food it's almost like it's um it's almost the Walmart of its day and as a result every week him and his superintendent would get in their little cart and they would drive around and go look at all the different buildings and then he get to one building he'd stop and this happened every week it was ritualistic people would even stop working to see if he would do it again this week he'd go to this massive Warehouse it's about the size of a city block he'd stand in the front and say okay open the doors and he said it would be mounds and mounds of all these like granules he said it looked like the Sahara Desert if you had painted it brown you would have thought it was the desert and he just stares at it and he says this was my biggest mistake he said man it has haunted me my entire life so the superintendent asked him he said what is it he said well this is what happened I meet this doctor his wife who's a pharmacist and as a result of it they came up with this cough syrup he said they got so good at it they could actually changed the taste of it to strawberry and then they got better and they got it to raspberry then they even made the leap of faith of lemon they've knocked it out the park so I go see them to see what this is all about I visit with them and they come up with this new product that's it I've had it for 20 years can't do a thing with it they told me I could change the taste I could change the colors can't get it work he said I tell you what Mr superintendent for $35 $35 you can have the barn you can have the warehouse you can have the patent you can have the ingredients I'll even give you the instructions even the granules everything is free $35 it's all yours he said well I need to think about it he said you know Mr Woodward I'm just saying just saying maybe there's something else in the instructions you didn't follow he said well he mentioned something maybe I to get somebody to promote it but I mean that's what we're here for he said well you maybe you need to do that he said well what is it he said well it's actually you take the Hooves of animals like of a Cow Horse and you grind them down you get these granules and if if you mix it right you could get it in different colors but then he didn't read the instructions about getting someone to promote it so of all people he gets people like Jack Benny and Lucille Ball and the quote was you can't be a kid until you have one or taste it okay you know I can't rephrase that it is what it is Bill Cosby came up with it later as a matter of fact my brother and sister in Christ and if y'all get this because of this this is a problem you can mix liquor with it and change the colors and drink it oh so now you know it's a jello shot well now I know my congregation well welcome to St Paul in the Hebrews catechism 101 man wow my brother and sister Christ it was Jello that they invented and at the end of the day all he had to do was follow instructions that is that gospel he's telling the the Apostle and remember this is the Passover this is the Passover It's the Last Supper the good Lord is purposely waiting because this is how the Passover Works your first century Jew he's made it abundantly clear follow the instructions you will go into town on the evening because it has to start in the evening you will see a man carrying water that may not mean nothing to you and I today but 2,000 years ago if a man is carrying water it's specific he's a religious which means he's an Essen Jew remember there's different types of Jews there's there's Sadducees who believe in the first five book there's Pharisees that believe in the first five books and some traditions there's the ESS in Jews who are the extreme strict John the Baptist you can only eat certain things it's an all male environment they believed in washing away sins I.E baptism that's why he's in the Jordan they would carry their own water he's telling them be very specific I want you to go into town I want you to see a man car what I want you to follow him when you get to the house you ask only the Master of the House where's the room where I'll prepare my Passover make sure you're ready now stop the Feast of unleavened bread so you understand how the Jews work Passover is one day the Feast of the unleavened bread is seven days so this is what they call the eight days this is kind of where you and I get the eight days for the Octave of Christmas Even after Christmas we're still celebrating that's where this comes in so they just call it the Feast of unleavened bread but the first day is the Passover this is how it works remember they've already had the golden calf incident so you dads James excuse me John and Peter they must go to the temple get a one-year-old and blemish lamb they're going to skew him in the form of a crucifix which means they're going to run a pole down through it it's it's either his head or its throat he's going to come out as behind and at the end of the day they're going to skew the arms on the arms and then as a result of it there'll be over 300,000 Lambs on a spit if you are marry every year for 32 years you're seeing 300,000 Lambs in a day you know all too well what waits for the Lamb of God you have to eat it in the city so if you and I live there there people are everywhere I mean you got to eat it within the city limits if you will so as a result every room every corner every every anywhere it's it's tailgating at LSU shots in LSU now I see where we're going with this I get you now my brother Christ and what's happening is now they got to go back and then they got to consume the lamb now my brother Christ remember now they're having the Last Supper so as a result of it you notice that you don't hear them partaking of the Lamb because he's the lamb and he's going to now raise the Chalice my brother and sister in Christ not only not only do you have to participate in the me meal you actually have to have the sacrifice this is what's causing the problems today this is why the Jews are still supposed to be going all the way to Jerusalem this is what the problem is their Temple has been destroyed they still need to go to Jerusalem every year get their lamb and let the high priest blood it kill it cut its throat bleed it put it on a spit so that you can take it in the former crucifix and give it back to you but since they only have one wall they can't go back there that's why synagogues became more popular a lot of times they bring their lambs to the synagogues but it's not what they were been taught to do you got to go all the way back to Jerusalem this is why they call it the Wailing Wall because there's no Temple there something that you're going to cry about because you can't go there and offer your sacrifice you can have the meal you just don't have the sacrifice you need both you got to follow the instructions my brother and sister Christ go back in Scripture all of our best players know how to follow inscriptions no matter how bad it may look no matter how insane it may look to other people you're going to do what the good Lord's asked you to do I tell you what you're Noah build an ark for all of my animals it'll be so many cubits long which would means from the elbow to like the tip of your finger it'll be so long so wide and so tall and I want you to gather all the animals imagine doing that and they meet Louisiana I'm sure nobody would say a thing to you there would be no gossip or slander nobody would text back they wouldn't even notice that you're building it he builds it and he saves eight people he tells Moses do whatever you do command water out of the rock don't you dare hit it he hits it twice he doesn't go to the promised land follow the instructions My Brother and Sisters in Christ what about Jonah I told you Jonah that I want you to go to Nineveh oh oh oh I can see it in your faces you think this is makeb believe I mean it's just a story it's just a parable my brother and sister in Christ think for a minute every time the good Lord uses a proper name that's a person that's why they have the name if I were to ask you what's the name of the couple in the Garden of Eden too many too many of us would say oh it's Adam and Eve well no my brother and sister in Christ Adam means Grand when the good Lord goes into the garden looking for him he calls them man and woman they don't get their names till after they're kicked out of the garden because in the garden you're in the garden of paradise there's no reason to differentiate reason for names but now that you're outside the garden we're all on our own we're all accountable for our actions that's why you and I are named just follow the instructions my brother and sister in Christ for everyone that followed it there's one that simply refused to it Judas doesn't want to follow the instructions of being an apostle pilate doesn't want to follow the instructions and let Christ go we still talk them about him today and we talk about them in such a way that their name is not in the book of life so here you and I sit 2,000 years later remember Christ do you and I follow the instructions of the church well let's see my brother and sister in Christ the catechism tells us that you and I ought to go to confession at least once a year but the truth of the matter is you and I both know that we shouldn't be any more than 30 days out if the average holy person in Proverbs sin seven times a day I ain't saying you're not holy you may drink a lot may go to LS tailgates but come on now the average holy person in Proverbs s seven times a day 7 times 30 is over 200 don't go for a year that's 2400 don't go for 10 years it's 24,000 sins tell me what type of relationship you have with Christ when all we do is get further apart my brothers Christ are you still deciding that you can go directly to God when he never said it now one time did he ever say go directly to me he never said just do whatever you think you need to do he gave Specific Instructions in Leviticus 4 in Hebrews 5 I would choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves but why follow the instructions look I liked when I was a Protestant I liked going to confession to myself I'm a good guy it's never my fault and to be honest with you it's usually your fault women I'm just saying Easy Does It Easy Does It we're in church my brother sister in Christ what about getting anointed will you call me in enough time to anoint your your loved ones or you going to wait till it's too late you know why we anoint because this is the journey home this is what it takes to get you back so I can give you the bread for the journey I can give you viaticum I can anoint you in your head and your hands to remove your sins so that when you stand before him you're as clean as you possibly can can be but yet how many people call the priest usually it's after the fact or we forgot just follow the instructions how hard can it be my brothers Christ are you having funeral masses for your for your loved ones funeral masses how many times do I hear people say oh we're just going to pray for them well that's great but this is the problem when you and I die on this day the good Lord is the Eternal now the Eternal now he is past tense present tense and future tense he has no time and if we have a mass 3 days later or 4 days later whenever we have it he uses that mass on your judgment day because he knew you were going to have it imagine if you don't have the mass that's why the church ask you to have one my brother and sister in Christ are you going to adoration are you coming to receive the communion and if you're outside the church and you have mortal sin will you listen to St Paul and he says that if you eat of it worthily you eat of your own demise or you have decided n i I don't want to follow that instruction just follow the rules how hard can it be my brother in Christ listen to me in your Pew right now in front of you there's a little sheet of paper do you see it okay for the six people who are still paying attention you got it do me a favor look at it this is how important it is my brother and sister in Christ I have been a little bit of everything and I'm about up to here with once saved always saved it's a lie and it's always been intended that it's a way of life and it's a journey it is not a one-time Proclamation do not buy into the lie just follow the instructions you will be bulletproof Redemption and salvation do not mean the same thing they're not spelled the same way they're not defined the same way they are not synonyms of one another they are two distinct words Redemption is the crucifixion salvation is the Pearly Gates how do you and I get from the crucifixion to the Pearly Gates it's not simply saying I've accepted Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior that's present tense he's the Eternal now so what about the future can I still just sleep around can I still break the Commandments can I be a power Drinker drugs can I be so angry that I become violent and I'm abusive he gave you the Commandments because they're commands he didn't say look here's the 10 suggestions work at it and as long as you get the even ones well if get three out of 10 you're a good baseball player my brother in Christ it's a real simple World Imagine you and I get on the interstate right here at am meet you and I get baptized that interstate is what Christ built to get us from Redemption to Salvation just follow the instructions follow the seven signs you get on at baptism you go a few feet and there's going to be a big toll bridge that's confirmation where you confirm what your parents said that you believe in holy mother church and then after you get confirmed if you stay on the road a little bit and you want to get married well then get in the car pool Lane maybe you want to get in the bike lane that's where I'm at maybe you want to get in the emergency Lane because you need to be anointed then just pull off well you want to go see a priest well you know there's call boxes confessionals you just reach out and call one and man if you when you go down and it's all built on the Eucharist and then all of a sudden when you get time to return to the ply Gates you'll call me and I will anoint you just follow the seven signs follow the instructions and I leave you with the words of Martin Luther King when they said Mr King could you give us instructions on what you we should do when we finally find Christ he said you want instructions on what to do when you finally find Christ and the group said absolutely he said well here they are when you see him you better run at it and if you can't run you better walk fast and if you can't walk fast you better walk if you can't walk you better crawl at the end of the day you better get in front of him and plead for his mercy and his kindness and his forgiveness that's my instructions amen the name of the father and the son holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

finish as in finish what you started I tell you what in layman's terms I don't care if you got to fake it till you make it finish it my brother and sister in Christ the years probably about 1867 1868 the Civil War has just ended it's just ended and we have the unmitigated go to allow this guy in our country I mean really I mean I mean he's he's a diabolical he's a dictator he is he is merciless I mean and I'm thinking and and it's not we give him a house if that's not bad Stanton Island we give him a house his name is Colonel Lopez so finally they get him in the country the war is just getting over the Civil War the city or country I should say as a result man they get him settled in and he wants to start meeting people he wants to return back to Mexico but he needs the money because he wants his regime and we help him as a result of it next thing you know man he starts talking with different people and they suggest he meets a guy by the name of Tom Tom Adams Tom y'all he's brilliant they should rename the patent office the Tom Tom Adams office during the Civil War this gu invent things Tom is a finisher you can start it but the guy you want finish it is Tom as a result he brings in he shows Tom all these drawings and these measurements and these and these calculations and he's showing this to Tom now I got to admit if you only met Colonel Lopez from a distance or oneone well dressed he's articulate seems to stay in pretty decent shape you'd say man it's a pretty impressive figure but man he's showing Tom and he's saiding Tom now look I need you to take this we believe in Mexico that we could take the sap from a sapadilla tree if we heat it up in subc capacity that we could get it and use it but the cost of rubber in our world is like $5 a pound if you could do it for something less than that say like a nickel we could be successful Tom says well let let me think about he said man if you're going to heat it up you better use a lot of sulfur he said that's just at first glance he takes the drawings takes the calculations he starts working on it one week goes by two weeks a month goes by Lopez has lost it he goes back to him and says man you got to finish he said wait a minute Whoa stop you just gave me the sheet I've gone through it the numbers it's not working like you think now I do think there's other things we could use for it but we're not getting it to where you want it next thing you know Lopez returns home he dies kind of not a good death which may be more appropo than we think what bothered me about letting Lopez in the country to begin with much less giving him a house and now we're going to help Finance his dictatorship I mean did we not forget that he killed Jim Buie daav Crockett and destroyed the Alamo oh so you do know him in santaana but here's the height of irony our boy Tom finishes what he started he does you can get stuff out of that tree he said it works he gets with a guy by the name of William and they come back and they get back in front of the patent office and they say look this is what we know we can do we can take the sap of that tree heat it up with sulfur and we can change the colors it could be red it could be blue it could be white it could be green and people will like it and you have no idea what I'm talking about but that's okay as a result of it he gets with his buddy William Wrigley yes Lord Mana has fallen in am me my brother and S Christ he calls up with the name chicklets and man the start of wriggley's gum begins all because Tom finishes what he started not not according to Colonel Lopez but who cares at the end of the day that is that gospel my brother in Christ the good Lord is talking about finishing what we get started all things come through him the farmer knows not how he plants the sea he plows the ground he Waters it he nurtures it he raises it and then at the end of the day he comes in with a sickle and then he has a harvest but yet he knows not how now stop you're a first century Jew let's make sure you understand where this is going he's been walking he the good Lord's been walking with his uh Apostles for about a year year and a half they're new to this he just gave them the parable that there are four types of people in the world still true today the good Lord says a farmer goes get seed and he throws the seed out some land on Rocky path some land on the Rocks some land on the thorns and only 25% land on good soil 25% of the Catholics today believe the Eucharist is true wow my brother and sister Christ so he's just explained it to him so now he's talking to him in Parables why does he talk to them in Parables because they got to be able to repeat the story this is why he sits only with them to explain a parable because I'm leaving in three years you got to need to know to go if you want to know about me you need to go to my 12 you need to go to my church you need to go to my vicer peter that's why I don't baptize anybody my brother and in Christ that's why he never heard a confession because he wants you to get used to going to them that's why he's only explained it to them and I got to tell you if I had been with them and they had said the kingdom of God is like what I know I would have jumped out of my seat thinking well it's got to be a cedar tree you've been beating me to death with it for the last three readings and then when he turns around and tells you no it's going to be a mustard seed my first thought's going to be man that's just a tumble weed I mean wait a minute you what are we doing now my brother said Christ whenever you hear a parable look for the twist that it doesn't seem to go together it's not quite right and that's what he's telling them he said I could cover more ground with a tumble Leed I'm just trying to get you to think I can't explain the kingdom of God to you is so great that you can't even fathom it but I'm going to be able to reach all people not everybody's going to be able to get up the mountain it's going to be so big that everybody can find room under such now my brother and sister in Christ he's saying but at the end of the day I can't force you to finish the race you may start it and I'll do everything in my power to help you all you got to do is finish it I've already won it you better finish it so now here we start 2,000 years ago look at all of our great players every one of our great players are finishers think about it zakus you may not know him he's a short man relatively a tax collector the good Lord is coming into the village he climbs a sycamore tree to the Jews that was called a fruitless fig tree they called it a fake tree as a result he climbs up the tree to oversee it so he can see the good Lord he knows that if he doesn't get up there he'll never see him he'll never get close to him much less have dinner with him so what does he do he finishes what he starts he gets up and the good Lord ask him to come down and tonight I spend with you I can imagine the people in that City the gossip could not have started any faster of all people a tax collector you might as well throw a prostitute in there with him they did my brother Christ he is a finisher think about Joseph of arthea he doesn't have to give up his tomb he really doesn't it's his he's a Pharisee as a result of such he knows that if he doesn't go do what he's got to do and finish the good Lord's burial where does that put him in the world so he gives up his tomb do you know within two months he's already left the country and lives elsewhere they catch him up with him about two years later and he's martyred but he's a finisher my brother Christ Simon a sirene here you are with your two children you travel all the way to Jerusalem with your two children and your wife and there's two things you can't do when you get to Jerusalem you can't show up without a lamb and you better not have any blood on you well man he's over for too because he gets pulled into this this this um crucifixion it's three thieves and as a result of it he gets pulled in and then the good Lord bleeds on him from all the blood from the scourging he can't he's got to leave the city man his whole family's got to leave my brother sister Christ you know what's amazing about him is in the passion they painted him right he made the statement along the way don't let him win finish let's finish this in other words don't die here on the path let me help you carry your cross so you can finish do you think it's the height of irony that the good Lord would send somebody to help his son and that he's not going to send somebody to help you and I the problem is is you and I don't want help that's the problem it's Pride my brother and sister in Christ all of our best players are finishers say what you want about Peter we can beat that guy we can mign him you cut off a man's ear you denied Our Savior three times I mean he called you Satan but at the end of the day he's crucified upside down my brother Christ you know who's a great finisher po Foria Peter's wife she was marted according to tradition just hours before him his last words to her go with God if she doesn't do what she does he can never be the Vicor of Christ she's a finisher well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later are we a starter or a finisher well let's see my brother and sister in Christ when somebody comes to work and they give you something to do is the first thing you do man it's not my job to CHR I'm not getting paid to do it I got other things I want to do that's your job but as a Catholic how will they come to know that the faith is true if you and I don't act out on it if they don't watch us finish what they started my brother sister Christ you and I need to be finishers anybody can start the race the problem is will you and I finish it man when somebody calls you on the way home to run the errand to pick this up man you run it all the way out because that's what we do regardless of your profession you are a Catholic physician you're a Catholic engineer you're a Catholic teacher you're a Catholic Student you're a Catholic mom you're a Catholic dad that's what's delineates you from everybody else is that you're willing to finish what we started my brother and sister in Christ when somebody an in-law an outlaw calls you to finish will you finish what you started what about that project you still got in the garage is it still there what about that gift that's in your house that's now going on two weeks old what about that card that you were supposed to send last week last month last year and then we just circumvented it with an email or text message when you tell somebody you're going to call you call you you tell somebody you're going to help them you finish that's what we do remember what the good Lord said I've already won the race but it's your job to finish it my brother and sister Christ what about your prayers how many times do I hear people say Lord father let me just tell you father I got to tell you this I prayed my rosary last night I I fell asleep right after first decade don't worry my guardian angel finished it let me help you he don't need to finish it he's already in heaven you finish your prayers you started it you finish it my brother Christ what about going to confession are you going to finish what you started have you bought into the argument that you could go directly to God he never said it never implied it never wrote about it and it's not in scripture Leviticus 4:5 that you before Christ came confession was in existence Hebrews 5 I would choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one no no one has the authority to step in between my brother and sister Christ his word's not mine my brother and sister Christ what about bringing your kids to confirmation are you going to let them confirm or you going to let them make the decision mother of Christ how can you let them make their own decision you got to tell them this is what you need to do we're going to finish what we started you're going to confirm what I said for you in baptism that you believe in the church you believe in the holy mother Church you believe in the Blessed Mother's ever virgin you believe in the Apostles Creed we are going to finish what you started just get happy amen amen because let me tell you a couple years going to go down the road and a couple years later and pretty soon they're going to want to get married then they want to be a God parent guess what whoops can't do it now can't be a God parent cuz you're going to stand up and make sure this this child becomes Catholic when you didn't even finish what you started you can't even be a witness My Brother and Sisters in Christ when you get sick and somebody's on your death bread will you reach out to me so that I can give you bread for the journey home we're the only faith that does it it's a great prayer it's a Sacrament you're on your deathbed let me hear your confession absolve you of your sins if you can't speak allow me to give you the Eucharist for bread the journey home or at least give me the blessing so that when you stand before him your sins have been remitted why do you wait so late to call me or you don't call me at all which is worse my brother and sister in Christ were are you not finish what we started my brother Christ okay you're upset you're mad you want to have a pity party great you finished now get back in race and finish what we started you came in on this day you're going home on this day non-negotiable you will be judged on everything we do between these two days I'm telling you the last thing you don't want to hear from him is who are you and depart from me St Paul told you I'm here to judge Mercy has already taken place my brother Christ I'm begging you you start a prayer you finish it you want to have a pity party and you're mad at the world you go out and kick your neighbor's dog do whatever you think you need to do you get back in this race and you finish it because at the end of the day only thing that matters is did you show up you either made it or you didn't and I leave you with the words of Gandhi young boy goes to Gandhi Mr Gandhi I'm not sure he said it Mr Gandhi but PR with me Mr Gandhi I what type of people are there in the world he said there's two types of people those that finish the work and make it happen and then those that steal the credit young boy turned to him he said well why would I want to be in the first category he said because there's no competition finish amen amen name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit amen <\p>

worry as in just we're compulsive we're worry warts it's just it dominates our day it's absolutely it's it's miraculous it's it's it's a miracle it's a million to one shot and it happens and it works World War II is all well on its way Germany is blazing a path through France I mean it's like knife through butter they couldn't stop them for All the King's Men Germany has everything it's got men it's got the Manpower it's got the bullets it's got the machines it's got the planes it's got the trucks it's got tanks they are just bulldozing through France and if it hadn't been for Great Britain I'm not sure what there'd be left man they had B bulldozed so much they actually got almost all the men cornered down in a little city called dunker little little sea port as a result of it man people are I mean worry there's over 300,000 men and the only thing between them and great Great Britain and the Germans are those men and the channel as a result of it man the the the British High command's got to come up with a plan how do I get 300,000 men half French half British off there back into England so that we can build our resources back up and defend against Germany man the high commands are not moving it's too slow man they got too many opinions nobody's pulling their trigger they don't know what's going on there's an admiral adal Charles light troller Admiral Charles light troller that's his name don't worry about guessing just hear me out as a result of it he's got an idea but he doesn't want to pitch it to the Brass because well his well he's got a past and it lives in infamy and the problem with this past is is that he said if he ever had to make a decision like this again he would not because it almost destroyed his life and if he failed again he probably would take his life so he's talking to the and then he's not bringing the plan and it was I forgot the name of it it's like operation save or and as a result man they were trying to come up with ideas to get the 300,000 they got to do it in the dark of night they got to do when it can barely be seen but they got to do it now as a result of it he comes up and he finally pitches it he says look this is what we need to do we need to use tugboats and the reason we need to use tugboats is because the prop is so massive it can move so much water but it doesn't quietly we don't have to turn on Steam Engines we don't have to turn on our diesel engines we don't have to send ships in that can be seen a mile away you put a tugboat and then you attach it to the tugboat we can bring them in and just pick them up like on a big ferris wheel and keep moving we got to get them in so man they line up one Tugboat after the next after the next and I'm telling you there are ships tied behind that tuck and that's exactly what they did huge hit huge hit saves hundreds of thousands of guys finally they talk to the Admiral afterwards and they said why is it his friend says why were you so afraid why were you so worried that you would put forth something and it wouldn't work he said man you don't know my past he said you don't understand what I've been through man if this thing fails I don't know if I can take it anymore he said why do it bother you so much what others think he said man I affected a lot of people he said you don't understand he said the last time I commanded the ship it's still writing about it today he said well what ship could it be he said the Titan Panic huh thank you Lord nobody got it last night I digress my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the worry that is that gospel do you not care that we're about to perish my brother and sister Christ now stop make sure you understand the setting here the Sea of Galilee is five miles wide maybe 8 to 10 miles long and here it is today you cannot pole fish there you can only net fish because that's how it was in the time of Christ so the only people that would have been out there would have been truly fishermen as a result of it Peter and the boys are in the boat they're about halfway out then all of a sudden remember it's still in the afternoon it's plenty of daylight now this is what tradition small T this is what they teach us these small te is what the Saints learn or have seen over their lifetimes it may be tied directly or indirectly to scripture we don't know but I mean you don't become a saint by making stories up either my brother and sister in Christ as a result of it they said it got ink Black by the late afternoon they said that it was almost as if it was a funnel cloud he said the waves were so great that the ship and what little Rudder they had was out of the water he said the water pouring over was so great that we were already half full and we ain't got started yet how the water didn't wake him up they didn't understand but it's Peter that goes to him they've gotten to the point where they actually sat down grabb the sides and are praying for a miracle it's all with but to shout they're not even worried about the mass they're not worried about the rudder who cares there's a funnel cloud it's ink black the waves are already coming across our boat and then the good Lord stands up and says man be quiet be still the winds stop and then he calms the waves and then they said it was almost like it was pristine day again it was pristine clear not a cloud in the sky My Brother and Sisters in Christ now you need to understand something St Augustine is right he said the wind blowing is like Temptation and worry the water is how you and I react to it he said when it plants that seed of worry man once the first drop gets in he said man we can't stop it it's just a flood it's going to sink them my brother and sister in Christ I need you to go back in scripture all of our best players are people that knew how to handle worry I'm not saying they didn't worry what I'm saying to you is they knew how to handle it who better you're 14 years of age you're the mother of the Messiah you're about to bring the Messiah into the world you've been living in a Convent if you will for lack of a better term since the age of four you've been in the temple as a result of it you don't see your parents again and next thing you know this Angel Gabriel shows up stop this isn't the Little Valentine Angel Good get you need to get that thought out it's Angel Gabriel who's called quote the strength of God so he's going to have to be a little a little big a little oh how did you miss that one that's how big this guy's got to be and coming to make the proclamation as a result of it she's worried she starts to be concerned about what it means that the holy spirit will overshadow that she's going to bring a child into the world that they call the Messiah she doesn't even know man she's only been engaged yet for yet not even quite a Year my brother and sister in Christ what what's her answer would his will be done on day eight day eight when she brings the savior of the world into the world she goes to get him circumcised and the high priest gives her the good news oh and a sword will pierce your heart he'll be the rise and fall of many happy bapti baptism my brother and sister in Christ by the age of two the wise men come to their house not a cave or Grotto comes to their house and one of them brings myrr a burial ointment happy birthday she never shows one concern other than his will be done no matter how much she pondered in her heart got worried or frightened she still marched she didn't let it get the best of her my brother and sister in Christ think if you're someone like the Blessed Mother or better yet you're Peter think about it the first time he meets the good Lord he's been fishing all night long the SE of Galilee net fishing he's coming in almost at 3:00 in the morning he comes in the good Lord waits to him to gets in gets in his boat and says let's go out again can you imagine Peter's attitude oh well sure Mr Carpenter why don't we just get in my boat we'll go fish again we'll build a boat out there on the water he hadn't caught anything all night long they catch so many fish he drops to the bottom of the boat he being Peter and says depart from me Lord I'm a sinful man the good Lord's right there in the boat he's within arms distance the next time Peter's in the boat a storm comes up the good Lord's only in the bow he's only a few more feet away remember y'all the boat's the boat's no bigger than this that's a lot of boys in a very small boat that's now half filled with water as a result of it he's now the good Lord's with him and saves him the next time Peter's in in the boat the good Lord's about almost a hundred yards off the bow Lord if it is you tell me to come come Manny begins to walk give him his due there's 11 other guys in that boat and nobody's going out there on that water surely they could have said well I'll go with you too Peter I don't want you to go by yourself truth be mattered if it was up to me I think we should have convinced Judas to be the first one to walk in the water but that's just me as a result of it my brother and sister Christ he gets out there the wind starts to blow Temptation worry and our reaction to it is the level of the water he begins to sink exact same thing that's happened in the boat St Augustine is right the good Lord goes to help him nobody else gets out of the boat I'm coming Peter hang on I know you're there we'll get to you nobody moves my brother in Christ each time he teaching Peter yeah you're next to me you're doing okay I'm in the boat you're okay when I'm out on the water not so great the last time he sees the good Lord Peter's leaving Rome he's been preaching for 33 years as a result of it he's sneaking out in the dead of night and he's sneaking out the back ofone why because they want to crucify him and here's the story according to the Saints is that he gets along a path and then all of a sudden he sees the good Lord again this time it's the Lord with the wounds and he says quovadis Peter kadus where are you going where am I going well they want to crucify me and remember Peter I said do you love me you said L Lord you know everything you know that I love you and I said well someday they're going to take you where you don't want to go and then the good Lord starts to walk back and he says where are you going Lord he said well if you're going to leave Peter then I need to go back and do the crucifixion yet again Peter is full with wor worry he has anxiety but yet he gets up and says no lord it's my turn to go as a matter of fact he still has the courage so much so give his wife her due her name was pereria hours before Peter is crucified she is martyred his last words to her go with God that is somebody that still gets over the worry and the anxiety and the trepidation and still carries on my brother and sister in Christ here we sit 2,000 years later how much of your day is spent in worry how much of your day is consumed in yesterday how much of your day is consumed in tomorrow well let's see how much time do you spend worrying about your work the job the contracts the cash flow is he going to pay is he not going to pay are we going to be able to get it is the school going to be able to open are we going to be able to stay the course where is this country going where's the money going to come from how are we going to be able to do it we don't have the workers what are you worried about your relationship maybe it's your spouse your children maybe it's your parents maybe it's deciding where you should go to college or whether or not how school will be will I make sure and get the grades that I want do I want to stay here is this the right person for me how much of your day be honest is caught up in worry and anxiety so much so you couldn't stay in the day if your name was day were you caught up in yesterday the day of regrets that's the would have could have should have demon you know if I if I wouldn't have done that Lord if I had couldn't have done that if I have stayed away from that I wouldn't be so caught up in regrets or Worse maybe I'm caught up in tomorrow that's the day where man just worry consumes us Brothers and Sisters in Christ it's a great story CS Lewis writes a book called screw tape letters it's about a conversation between Lucifer and his son it's just a novel as a result of it Lucifer turns to his son and says son tell me how do you plan on getting the people down there the people of am he said I got it Dad easy seven deadly sins I'mma get this group with pride I'm going to get that group in the Middle with anger I'm going get that group in the back with gluttony I'm going to get the group over here in the back with lust I'm going to get the group over here in the Middle with aest I'm going to get this group over here on the side in sloth and I'm going to get this last group in Envy he said son you're an idiot he said listen to me what if the group with pride you needed to get with Aver and what if the group with Envy you needed to get with gluttony I tell you what son you can get them all you just got to get them to worry and once you get them to worry you got them all don't you understand the evil one hates you the mere mention of your name causes him to spit we've been made in His image and likeness so anything you and I do is going to be contrary to what he wants us to do this is why I beg of you to control the real estate that you own it's the most expensive real estate in the world you and I give it up freely my brother and sister in Christ think about what I'm telling you the only person that can put a thought into your head is him you and I or him when you start to get worri and consumed it's a lack of trust that's what the good Lord said to his Apostles do you have faith in me he meant not intellectually he said do you trust me do you trust me more than you fear Him my brother and sister in Christ do you trust me enough to stop worrying as if somehow enough I don't know what's going on that somehow another hair on your head can't be touched don't you know I'm with you to the end of time he is begging you to stop giving up that real estate do you remember my brothers of Christ when we started the mass whose house did you come in he is The Great I Am he is either the greatest liar That Ever Walked the Earth or he's exactly who we say is when you come to MK talk to him tell him your biggest worry your biggest hurt you're concerned talk to him playing with him but when you come to the altar it's imperative that you leave it with him and do not take it back to your Pew or Worse walk out those doors with the same wor you walked in here with he is God and we are not thank God moreover don't be hypocritical my brother and sister in Christ at some point you got to cut it loose at the end of the day either you trust him or you do not it's either his will be done or not there is no room for worry I leave you with this worry is in Mark Twain isms it's like a rocking chair it gives you something to do but you go absolutely nowhere no worries amen name of the father son holy spirit amen <\p>

First Step First Step the year is about well let's just it's the early 1900s my brother and sister in Christ um lady Gilchrist is the head of Scotland she is like the Queen of Scotland if you will and she's kind of the first lady of Scotland so everybody waits to hear her opinion what she thinks where she's going what's her day plan she is getting ready for the day which means she's got entertained guest she's got visitors there'll be meals there will be reporters there'll be talks as a result lady gilchris who's kind of if you will the the the Prototype Queen if you will she's getting ready for the day and so is the maid downstairs she's getting ready for the the the invitees the dinners the reporters where they're going to put them what room they're going to come how long they're going to stay she's getting ready for the day and she hears this loud like a thud like a bang and then all of a sudden man she's kind of startled and starts thinking about it and kind of wondered how is quote the queen doing she begins to walk up the steps and as she's walked up the steps there's a man literally running down the steps a massive guy a brood of a fellow almost knocks her clean off the staircase as a result man he barrels down past her kicks open the doors it's kind of at Sunset people are Milling about he just plows through them running off into the sunset man the the maid finally gets her wits about her she gets up she goes looking for the queen if you will finds lady gilchrest dead right there in the middle of the room man as a matter of fact of it man she can't believe it she calls Scotland Yard you can imagine right if you will the first lady is all of a sudden being killed from the Beat cop to the lead investigator to the man himself everybody's come out for Scotland Lord this is just that important man I tell you what they're going out every way possible they got people canvas in neighborhood they got sketch arst out there they got their best detectives in the room they are gonna find their man as a matter of fact they're doing sketches On The Run they're interviewing people as they go and they're making the sketches they send their best detective up to the room he finds one thing missing a very expensive brooch that's the only thing they could find they start piecing things together they think they've got a composite drawing of the man they're going door to door to door they get to a gentleman's place by the name of Oscar Slater he's a German immigrant man they pull open the door and they look at the sketch they look at him that's our boy man he you Speedy didn't even begin to explain how quick this trial took place man next thing you know they go in and they're ravaging his apartment they get looking for anything and everything they find a brooch they find a one-way ticket to New York man he's down he's already back at Scotland Yard they've convicted him they go to trial my brother Christ life in prison man it was no Hills no there was nothing to to obstruct this thing as a result of it man he's complaining to everybody I didn't do it he told the judge that he told his public defender he's been saying it for 19 years now in prison I wasn't the one it was a rush to judgment as a result of such man he's he's pleading his case to the inmates and one of them says you know what the problem was he said it was your first step your very first step should have not to get that public defender and he said well how did I know that he said heck you could asked anyone of us he represented us all he said your first step should have been to call somebody that you knew you could trust that's the problem we can't find anybody he said well what are you saying he said well what I'm saying is is you made the wrong First Step he said well what should I do he said look there's a doctor in town kind of a gumshoe he said but I got to tell you he's got to be the most honest man in Scotland people have actually gone to him for medical surgeries and whatever but also to help him solve some issues he said I'd write him a letter he'd write writes him a letter no response he writes him a letter again he no response he writes him three letters and finally the doctor responds and he tells him man basically how can I help you he said look I need help I'm in prison for a crime I didn't commit they said I killed lady Gilchrist that's not true as a result he says well I'll do the best I can he starts going back and interviewing all the witnesses of the composite artist you know every one of them to the person said they thought it was him but not real sure as a result of it they go to goes and finds out that the brooch that they stole that he allegedly Stole was actually sold by Lady Gil Crest to this porn shop he actually bought it before the murders ever took place and then they find out that one-way ticket to New York oh by the way that's where his family lives and it's the only chance he had to get back because he was running out of money my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing is that this doctor does all of these things and as a result of it he gets this man freed and then next thing you know he becomes so popular that they start writing books about different theories that he came up like uh the hounds of Baskerville okay this is not a okay y'all not a detective crowd I get that now I see that and then all of a sudden he's another one called the Greek interpreter he had a a nemesis called moriori he had a friend called Dr Watson okay for the six people that read Sherlock Holmes great God bless you my brother and sister in Christ y'all are a tough crowd but it's all about that first step that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ the synagogue official yaras has decided that he is a devout Jew you're the head of the synagogue his first step is to go find Christ here's a lady that's been hemorrhaging for over 12 years she's gone to every doctor she is dead broke she can't even Worship in a temple because she bleeds externally her first step now is I got to get to the Christ no brother Christ let's stop you need to understand this this is where you and I sit as the first century Jew Christ has only been preaching for about a year he's elected his 12 Apostles he speaks in an awful lot of Parables John the Baptist is still alive this is when this is starting to take place now the Miracles are happening and they're happening a whole bunch this is the greatest two for one sale in the gospel as a matter of fact now stop understand where jerus sits if you are a synagogue official you have means and if you have enough means you have your own synagogue could be in your backyard could be in your kitchen could be your own building that's where yaras is is for him to stop what he's doing and go find the Christ and then when you get to him you fall prostrate on the ground my brother Christ what you just said about everything you've been doing in that synagogue was wrong my brother and sister in Christ and while he's doing that and he's saying I'll come with you to go take care of your daughter his daughter is 12 years old don't lose sight of that because this lady's been hemorrhaging for 12 years and did you listen closely what does he call her he calls the lady that's been Hing 12 years my daughter he's trying to tell everybody yeah jaras you have a physical daughter but these are all of my children and just like I'm going to cure you I'm going to cure her my brother and sister in Christ when she said she touched the tassel of his cloak remember this the tassels are not in the Hem of His Garment he's wearing a prayer Shaw which means they're up high so for her to get where he needed to be she needed to be to touch him brother and sister Christ she had to work at it he's okay his machine goes off I want to make sure he was okay you good my brother and sister Christ so for her to get to that close that's what it meant as a result of it this is where it's gone he's now getting back to jaras and all of a sudden the synagogue officials are saying don't bother him your daughter's already dead and then the good Lord gets to their house and this is why the good Lord's upset there are people wailing and and crying uh just they're just wailing you know why he's upset because they're professional mourners yeah that's right you pay they cry that's how it works so if you're going to die and you don't want you have nobody at your funeral and you need somebody you pay them they cry that's why it's upset that's why he says they're asleep and this is why he calls them into the room so that they could see that indeed those she had passed but to the good Lord he is asleep remember the good Lord's words I'm the god of the living not of the Dead to them yeah they're dead but to him he's asleep just so you know that first step that that lady took do you know according to tradition we believe her to be Veronica because she took that first step to touch that tassel she's the first one to step out in the way of the crucifixion and make sure to wipe his face so to this day we still have that Veil my brothers Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are those that know how to take the first step look say what you want about Peter and I've had my share of it but the fact of the matter is when it was time for him to step out of that boat don't tell me that he just stepped out without thinking man that's 50 yards that's a whole lot of water out there you're telling me he didn't at least make one sign or one gesture before he walked out of that boat Peter come my brother and sister in Christ let me tell you that First Step was a D give him credit he does walk on water even though the good Lord does have to save him but what happens when he takes his eyes off the good Lord and he turns his head because of the wind he gets he begins to sink you notice that not 11 not one of those 11 guys jumped into saving oh that's a friendship there I'm going tell you I bet they got an ear full when they when he got back in the boat I can promise you oh yeah let me tell you about how you guys are going to live now my brother and sister in Christ imagine your St Paul you've been blinded for three days and your first decision when you finally can see is I want to go preach in a synagogue as Paul your first step my brother and sister in Christ what if you're Joseph of arthea your first step is to give up your tomb knowing full well that your 401k is now a 21k you're no longer a Pharisee everybody that makes that first step towards Christ is the one that ends up being successful so here you and I sit 2,000 years later let's see is our first step to call on Christ my brother and sister Christ you're at work and there's a decision to be made on whether you should do something or not whether you should take the job or not should you travel or not is your first decision to put your hands together or is your first decision to try to put your hands around it is your first decision make the sign of the cross and begin to pray that you make the right decision my brother and sister in Christ what if it has to do with the relationship are you willing to break down in prayer and make the sign on of cross and pray that this is the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with is this the the right person to be with you my brothers Christ are you willing to make the first step that you're going to learn how to pray is one my brother Christ what about if it's just a run an errand the one you don't want to run you're running behind somebody's asked you do it you don't have enough time will you make the sign of the cross that the people that you meet along the way maybe that's why the good Lord wanted you to go that way my brother and sister CHR don't you understand listen to me when the good Lord gives you a challenge it's like having a glass of water and it's completely full and he's saying I'm going to give you all of this Grace if you just run the errand if you just make the phone call if you just do the little extra work if you s communicate better with your spouse with your children with your dad and mom if you do that and you don't complain I will reward you tfold but for every time you and I complain there's a valve and he [ __ ] it and all of a sudden begins to drain every time we complain it's a little less it's a little less and a little less pretty soon you run the errand and all we've done is complain we had the conversation all we did was complain we had that meeting and all we did was complain my brother in Christ now there's no almost little to no Grace left that's because our first step was it your will be done is our first step your will be done and if is your will be done as our first step then it must begin with the sign of the cross there is no greater prayer than the sign of the cross because it's done publicly and the good Lord told you and I if you acknowledge me publicly I will acknowledge you before my father if you do not acknowledge me publicly then I'm not going to acknowledge you before my father my brother and sister in Christ in any and everything that you and I do that first step has to bring Christ into the equation I don't care how trivial or how big it is if you don't do it on the little things you're not going to do it on the big things he's not the great Lotto King where you try to put your hands around it because you can solve it and you got means and then when it doesn't work well we might as well pray for it what the heck my brother and sister in Christ give him his due not a hair on your head gets touched till he ordains it I will not leave you orphans I will be with you to the very end of time the problem is you and I are stiff arming and tell him no I got this and he said well where were you when I created the world by mere thought where were you when I created the oceans and the sky and the birds of the there and the fish of the sea where were you when I created you and gave you a name in your mother's womb my brother and sister in Christ your first step has to be towards him and I leave you with the words of Mark Twain he said your first step to any in any place you want to go your first step to any place you want to go must be the decision that it's got to be better than where you're at now and that must begin with prayer and it must begin with the sign of the cross first steps amen amen please stand <\p>

respect respect it's the early 1900s and Leonard Spencer Leonard Spencer he's a war correspondent he's a war correspondent for Britain now let me tell you what that's important because they're going to war over the colonies in South Africa they're British colonies man look they don't have CNN they don't they don't have TV and they don't have this type of radio and this that and internet they have War correspondence that's how you and I know now let's make sure you understand what a correspondent does his job is to correspond I mean you're not going to carry a gun you're not going to defend you're not going to take prisoners you're surely not going to help anybody you're not going to worry about the food you're not going to take care of uh maybe the wounded man you're just a war correspondent so you don't make a lot of friends he gets on a u a train with about 25 troops and they're about to head to South Africa down to the lower regions and of course there's 25 troops and once they find out he's a war correspondent that's just great man they get on the train next thing you know he says man you can you you you you hear the bombs going off you see smoke in the distance he said but the one thing Leonard said you felt was anxiety he said it was almost like for every quarter mile it just got greater and greater and greater he said all of a sudden he says a big turn in the railroad tracks and he sees a boulder in the middle of the tracks he turns and he yells to the people people in the cabin in the train man it's an ambush they just look at him like you're a war correspondent all of a sudden man bombs are going off the cabins in the trains and the cars are filling up full of smoke bullets are behind people are screaming he grabs the lieutenant and tells him get to the back of the train nobody on nobody off grabs another sergeant puts him up in the windows put your men in the windows and return fire if you do not we will never make it out of here alive he grabs another sergeant and says put give me cover fire I'mma pull five men I'm going to get out in front of the boulder we're going to push it off if you do not do what I ask you to do we will never survive it's an ambush we got to move he starts moving the rock they start pushing people are dropping people are screaming people are dying he finally gets the boulder off he goes from the train tells it to bring it on through man they start building up steam they get everybody on the train except him they kept going Leonard Spencer gets captured the general that captures him captures him in about a hand full of other men and says uh we going to take you to Petoria y'all are now PS Leonard wants to play the old war correspondent card oh no can't take me I'm just a war correspondent he said based on what I saw you're anything but if it hadn't been for you I'd have got the whole train you're going to pror here's the motto of pror prison you get to leave one time and one time only in a box as a result there that night the first night there he gets thrown into a prison cell he got two cell mates if you will and he tells them well what is you doing he said well I'm a war correspondent no respect none they didn't give it to him on the train this group ain't giving it to him he said look let me tell you how this is going to work if we don't try to escape tonight before they do the count we're going to be here and won't leave until we leave in a box he said look it's 300 miles to the next city when you get out of here between the two turrets where you came we came in he said there's a blind spot we need to get there tonight we need to go over the first set of bobir and then we're going to go into the second and then we're going to run until we get tired and then when you finish being tired you're going to run some more and when you're tired of that you can even run some more because if you don't make it I'm telling you we're going to die here as a result man they make a break for it around midnight man they head for the wire they go over the first set under the second set they take off the other two Go a different way but he keeps running 300 miles he said he gets to a small mining town sees a little light on he's got to do something he's starving his food is ragged he's exasperated he's exhausted he goes to the house he knocks on the door they open up thank God they're British man they look at him for the first time since he's been over here he's got the respect of the people because he escaped from the one prison that destroyed their family pror man they invited him they get to meet him to this day that gentleman Leonard Spencer is known as the British citizen of all times every time they put up a picture of him this is the guy that everybody holds I guess everybody has to look up to he is uh his nickname was called Pug as a matter of fact when we named the um the bomb that landed in Hiroshima or hirosima as fat boy it was named after him as a matter of fact my brother and sister in Christ every time there's a picture it's usually a picture of him Eisenhower and Stalin okay there's a there's a picture okay okay for all the historians okay that are not here today this is a miserable death um he was he had quotes like um a kite Rises highest against the win and success is failure over and over and over but with great enthusiasm he said you can't stop and bark at every dog when you want to get to your destination okay y'all all right look he was the Prime Minister of Britain during World War II has anybody heard a Church Hill okay great okay well that's him all right so talk about disrespect here's the Rodney danger field of the mass today I'm going to tell you right now my brother sister in Christ it's all about respect that is that gospel the good Lord has gone back to his hometown what good comes of Nazareth my brother and sister in Christ and here he is preaching and he's trying to cure people but they don't accept it so Little Miracles are done and then somebody's got the unmitigated G isn't he the son of Mary wait a minute he's a carpenter he's got four brothers James jodas Judas and Simon wait a minute AR his sisters here too now stop stop let's just remember where this is taking place he's in the synagogue of his hometown he's going in there to preach now you need to listen to the words when they say you're a Craftsman or a laborer you and I use the word today called tecton or tectron depending on how you look at it my brother and sister in Christ that means you may be a carpenter you may be a stone Mason but at the end of the day you're not a rabbi you're not a scribe you're just a laborer so they're doing it in a very off-handed way but did you listen closely my brother and sister Christ they took offense at him scandalon is where the word comes from in Latin that's where we get the word scandal from and now all of a sudden he's preaching but here's the problem today many face will make you believe that he had many brothers and sisters listen to the words did you listen carefully that is the son of Mary not a son of Mary did you realize that James and Joseph the first two that they mentioned are brothers but they're related to one another but they're not related to the back two did you notice that the back two gentlemen are not even related to themselves the Greek word is called a Delphos it could mean Cousin It could mean Blood Brother it could mean kin if you and I were to go back to the Old Testament and read in Chronicles we'd realize that there are two gentleman there one of them is called ASF and they call each other brothers and they're not even related if we go back to the big book of Kings you'll hear a guy by the name of hyam and Solomon not only are they not Brothers they're not of the same Nation if you and I go back to the book of Kings you're going to hear people like Abraham talking to lot as his brother and lot as his nephew my brother and sister in Christ you need to understand this too at the moment of the crucifixion when the good Lord turns to his mother and says woman behold your son son behold your mother if he has other children or siblings and he gave his mom to somebody else he's done two things that are irreparable damage listen to me if you're a woman and you live with anybody but your husband and your children you will be subjected to 40 Lashes so my brothers Christ for Christ to give his mother to John if he had other siblings he not only broke the fourth Commandment and Dishonored his mother he subjected her to 40 Lashes there is no way that they have other children he is the child of Mary my brother and sister in Christ they don't understand what he is they have no respect for him so much so that he doesn't it's not that he can't do great Miracles it's they don't want him to do it remember the good Lord is showering you as we sit here right now he is showering you with salvific Grace faith hope and love you keep the faith in him hope that you'll see him one day and sacrificial love that you're willing to do whatever it takes it showers you like a shower in the afternoon everybody's going to get it the extent that you and I want to be receptive to it that's where the problem is you can walk away from it you can dismiss it or choose in your free will to ignore it that's where they are in the world simply because they've come to know him as a common laborer and that he's he's got many brothers not to mention he's now got sisters my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are people that earn the respect of others man imagine your Simon a sirene here you are just trying to live a decent life and this is the world that he's in you and I have to go to Jerusalem at least three times a year one is for Passover which is one day and then there's a feast called of unleavened bread you and I usually stay for the whole week I don't care if it takes you one month or two months to get there you're going to have to walk it you don't know whether you should bring your animal or buy it over there you bring your animal you better make sure it stays un blemished because if it gets blemished then you can't use it as a sacrifice if you wait till you get there then you're going to have to pay an exorbitant price this is why the good Lord gets upset in the temple they're being mischievous with the way they do the money the way they take care of the animals once you get there this is how it works you got to skew it in the in the in the form of a crucifix you got to bring it all the way to the temple you hand it over the rail he takes it he breaks it He blesses it bleeds it gives it back to you you have to eat the animal the entire animal you can't eat Spam can't get chicken one can't have a burger everybody's got to eat it fully dressed here's the kicker you got to eat it within the city limits of Jerusalem okay they didn't call it City Limits just work with me here you got to eat it it's it's a million to two million people in the city of a meat there's not a crevice you can go to have your animal there's not a building that's not going to be used there's not a rooftop people are not going to be sitting on here is here's this man comes all this way with his two sons and his wife he now gets constricted you're joining the Army if he gets one drop of blood on him that whole trip not he cannot Worship in public he cannot go to the temple he cannot go buy an animal he can't even much less walk up to the front here he is now got to carry the cross of what they believe is a common Thief but at the end of the day tell me he did not earn the respect of our savior because his name is now in The Book of Life and every time somebody says Simon a sirene 2,000 years later we all know exactly who he is that is earning the respect of our savior what about Joseph of Vero you spent your whole life being a Pharisee and at the very last moment man you gave up your tomb my brother sister Christ what if you're like Peter you spent your entire life being on the Sea of Galilee you convince your wife that you need to follow Christ and let me tell you she's got to be part of this or he never makes it they're both martyred on the exact same day within hours apart his last words to his wife which we believe her name was pereria go with God tell me they did not earn the respect of our savior especially when they crucified him upside down my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how respectful are we of others how respectful are we of others and love of neighbor the neighbor that you can't stand that you hope doesn't looks the other way the one that you don't have nothing to do with the one you want to talk to the one you don't care whether something comes or goes how respectful are you of the fact of Love of neighbor it's a commandment it's not a suggestion it's not a sticky note it's not a guideline he's saying that you must love others as I loved you my brother in Christ do we respect them even though we may not agree with their decision children will you respect the decision of your parents you got a roof over your head and you're the greatest country in the world still you've been educated you've had food food on your plate and clothes on your back when they ask you to do something do you just roll your eyes do you dismiss them because we're we're edicated now Lord you don't understand father man we've been to college we understand the game my brother's Christ it says honor your mother and father and here's the back half of the Commandment oh by the way honor your mother and father and you'll live a long life in the land that I've given you dishonor them and your life's going to be tumultuous do you know the Commandments were actually written so much they were on both sides of the tablets do you know as Catholics that there are actually two different there are two sets of Commandments one that Moses broke and the other they had to go redo again by the Finger of God himself to put in the Tabernacle they are non-negotiable so why is it we can't respect our parents that we can't meet them where they are my brother and sister Christ they've given up their life for you and I my brother sister Christ is simply we must respect the position they hold do you respect the position of holy mother church or oh let me guess we're negotiating terms I can go confession directly to God never did he ever say that never did he ever hear a confession according to scripture never did he baptize anybody according to scripture but yet I can get married by somebody else I can get baptized by somebody else but when it comes to confession I can do that all by my lonesome Philippians 2 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take take it upon themselves excuse me Hebrews 5 my brother and sister in Christ do you respect the teachings of the church which the following you're either in or you're out do you respect the teachers of the church to say you know what I may not know but I got to tell you I got to give them the benefit of the doubt my brother and S Christ do you respect the laws of our country yes or no because at the end of the day at the end of the day it all begins on respect you want respect from others then you and I have to earn it the apostles gave up their lives so that you and I would have a church in which to build we at least could respect them enough to know the Apostles Creed my brother and sister Christ even though the person in Authority you may not agree with you do have to respect their position and what I'm asking you to do this day is before you open your mouth when that thought hits your head and that words leave can I ask you just to pause one second and give them the respect that they deserve whether you agree with it or not when you listen to people you only listen for one or two ways you either listen to respond or you listen to understand you need to listen to understand and not to be ready with a response at the end of the day you and I have a respect that we have to give to Mother Church in her teachings that you and I must go to mass we must go to confession at least once a month that you should be anointed before you return home that you and I must keep holy the Lord's day that when you get married it's got to be in front of him that's why he went to the wedding of Cana so I can show you how it's supposed to be done 20 th years later I didn't want to go in the River Jordan have you seen it but I did it because that's where I want you to do so that you can be a follower of mine you're not going to get out of this world without carrying a cross it wasn't intentioned that way he did it because we are a follower of Jesus Christ a crucified Christ pick up your cross and follow me he didn't ask you to complain about it to [ __ ] about it to moan about it he said pick it up and follow it like St Paul and give it to me and I'll help you carry it as if it's nothing and I'll give you a peace in your world all I'm asking you is to respect my church my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this if you would like if you would like to be happy I let me go back one respect has to be earned that's the simple of it if you want to get your respect earned then you're going to have to start being honest you're going to have to start learning to trust others as you want them to trust you because at the end of the day when push comes to shove the only way people will be loyal to you or to the teachings of the church is because you've earned their respect give the church the benefit of the doubt and follow her rules you've lost nothing it's humbling but she's true amen amen name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

make time make time make it happen you're fault my fault nobody's fault you got to make it happen you got to make time it's the 1960s his name is John well his middle name is John he is born in Ireland or maybe Northern Ireland he has one of four children he'll tell you he had three sisters he'll tell you it was tumultuous with three sisters he'll tell you that his dad was a caretaker to them it means he took care of the schools the upkeep the maintenance this that and the other and he did it for several schools hardworking man he'll tell you that his mom was the cook and she was so good she was the cook at several restaurants as a result John said there was nowhere he could go in the city that people didn't know him but simply because of his mom and his dad so he's in high school and he says you know looking back on it I do two things well okay I only do one well the other one I thought I could box and then they kept breaking my nose so then I knew I didn't do that well so my girlfriend convinced me to do a play so I did it because I wanted to spend time with her but he said you know so he gets out he goes to Queen's College in Ireland he said he's there for a whole semester and a half he said he just wasn't working he said I only do one thing well I drive a forklift I do it well and I'm going to go work for Guinness beer his mom and dad told told him and sat him down he saidon listen to me he said if you want to do something you better make time for it you can't just keep winging it and hope it's going to happen that it's just going to fall into your lap and somehow or another the window's going to open and there you have it you want to do something you make time to for it to happen he said he took it to heart his girlfriend convinced him that you'll never make it you know driving a forklift so he does a play at night called The Abbey or that's the play excuse me and in result who all is there of all people uh daero is there and actually when he sees it man he says man this guy John's Got Talent so he puts him in a movie called The Bounty lo and behold Clint Eastwood always catches Winds of it and then he gets him in a movie called The Deadpool swing in a Miss okay as a result of it he's decided man I I just I've got to get involved maybe maybe maybe movies is the answer so he gets in another one called The Phantom Menace oh this is going to be extremely ugly but we will run it out as a result he'll tell you he said man I love Harley man after my own heart but I got to tell you there's two types of riders those that have fallen and those that are going to those are the two types of riders he rides he falls man he's literally they got him in ICU he's on a machine they don't think he's going to make it when he gets out his dad comes to him and yet again son enough already ready make it happen what do you want to do he said I want to be an actor he said well son either in or out but you no longer can wait just for the doors to open up and somebody to call you man next thing you know he gets on a little series do y'all remember the 18 thank you thank you Lord I love patronization I'll take it it's all good as a result he gets involved in that movie then he gets involved uh in another one called Schindler's List oh wow no kidding really he's in the movie Taken one two and three okay my brother Christ his name is Liam neelon okay man is it hot up here look my brother and s in Christ it's all about making time that is that gospel the good Lord has now got them all together and he said look you need to make time for me I'mma pring you in a boat and we're going to go off to the other side and you need to sit quietly you don't even have enough time to eat now remember stop let me make sure you understand where they're at he's been preaching for about a year John the Baptist has just died he's been speaking in Parables the good Lord just went to Nazareth and this is where they brought up the issue well his brothers and sisters are here and we get all confused because they list these four guys' names and let me make sure you understand only the first two are related and only to themselves they're not related even to the other two much less to him now all of a sudden he's about to feed by the end of the day he's going to feed 10,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish this is the setting that's coming but he's saying if you don't make time to come to me look I'm not asking you to be a king and issue decrees I'm not asking you to be a prophet and to dictate to people what is to come I'm not even asking you to be the high priest and make and make offerings I'm asking you to be a good shepherd and the only way you can be a good shepherd is if you make time for me all things begin and end with me I tell you what I'll put it in your terms don't put your hands around it put your hands together go back in scripture listen to me go back in scripture all of the best players are people who took time for Christ you know what's amazing go back to non in the Old Testament he is the greatest general of our day the fact that that he's a leper and they're still let him live with them is because he's such a great General they can't get rid of him he's got to go all the way to Elisha he's got to travel to another country he's got to get the king in another country to allow him to travel and when he says go wash in the in the River Jordan seven times non simply just refuses But ultimately at the end of the day he goes in the Jordan and washes seven times and he's clean as snow my brother and sister in Christ he made time and because he made time he was cured of leprosy you know what's amazing everybody tied to the crucifixion everybody has tied to the crucifixion you know we only know their first name we have no idea where they came from we have no idea what their back name is but you know what their names in The Book of Life Mary Magdalene gets up on Easter Sunday and makes time and because she does she's the first to see the Risen Christ Before Peter himself you know what's amazing is that Peter had later in life actually went back to our Savior and said Lord why did you go to her I mean am I not your Vicor am I not your first pope am I not your chosen one you changed my name you gave me the k they said according to the Saints he just made the gesture real simply you know Peter I looked for you and didn't see you my brothers and sisters in Christ but because he makes time and Andrew goes all the way back to his brother and says we found the Messiah that's what gets Peter in the game he makes time because Andrew comes to get him and now all of a sudden he becomes the vicer of Christ Mary magdalene's the first to see the Risen Christ because she does what no one else wants to do is go all the way to the tomb because they think he's all dead bless her you know what's amazing Veronica takes the time to stand in the middle of the crucifixion here's a woman that has no rights and has no say in anything is actually going to block the crucifixion and get his face we now know where today what's amazing about Joseph of arthea he takes time out of his day to go all the way back to pilate nobody wants to go talk to pilate you never know what you're going to get he's so eclectic and as a result he goes to him and says I'm going to give up my tomb because he does that and he makes time his name's in The Book of Life longinus stabs him would we even know who longinus was if he doesn't turn and says truly that man was the son of God two years later he's beheaded by the same men that helped him crucify Christ but because he makes time for Christ he is now Saint longus well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and sister Christ how much time do you and I take to spend with our savior what do what let's see my brother and sister Christ how much time do you take to respond to Texas your emails if you spend more time myself included on emails text messages on the phone then you do in prayer that's disordered I don't know what else to say you actually think that that's actually going to make your day better I'm telling you we ought to throw the phone in the ocean and never look back my brother and sister in Christ if we been spend more time doing that communicating amongst ourselves than when all things come through him that is indeed disordered my brothers Christ do you spend more time reading the paper than you do scripture do you spend more time watching the news oh that's a great thing to do it's going to get better as the day goes on we watch it again so we get twice as mad later in the afternoon my brother and sister in Christ do you spend more time more time watching shows in TV than we do in iteration can you not just look hey hold on a second you can't count Sundays that's the obligation that we must have to keep holy because there's only one place he's physically present in the Tabernacle so keeping holy his day means you got to be in front of something that's holy and being that he's the only thing holy means you can't be at a deer stand duck blind or ball how much time have we spent at travel ball kickball my ball your ball everybody's going pro come on now half of half of 1% play pro ball but will'll foro Mass the other day father or excuse me Father father I said yes I was in Disney World I said great I'm sorry to hear that as a result of it I man I had in-laws I had people well man the whole day was going I couldn't find the church hang on a second you found cella's Castle yep should have found the church that's all I can tell you my brother and sister Christ you got to take that extra step you got to make time for him this is what he's saying the lady in the in the scripture that she'll go to the king over and over and over again till he gets what she wants the man that knocks on the door and says I'm not leaving until you bring me bread for my Travelers have come my brother in Christ you got to make time for him do you make time to commit the sin well then surely you should make time to confess it oh that's right we can confess our sins directly to the big guy he never said that he never implied it as a matter of fact if you and I go back to Old Testament scripture Leviticus 45 and 6 you'll Lear to know that confessions were in play and the good Lord said I came to fulfill the law not to change it so therefore I don't care if you pre shop go to confession throw up and be done with it my brother and sister Christ if you get farther away from Christ every day you and I don't go to confession if you find yourself being moody temperamental condescending judged cursed and gossip I can tell you you're too far away the average holy person I'm not saying you're not holy sin seven times a day multiply that times 30 it's 200 go for a year it's 2400 don't go for a decade 24,000 what kind of relationship do you have with anybody after you dismiss them so many times my brother and sister Christ go to confession throw up be done with it do what you got to do make time for him because if you don't make time for him then how is it that you expect him to respond to your prayers when he never sees you it seems to me that if somebody didn't come see you until they needed you pretty soon you would just distance yourself well the truth of the matter is is we distance ourselves from him by not making time for him and I leave you with this my brother in Christ it's a great quote and I don't remember who said it he said sometimes you got to learn to sit still sometimes you got to learn to sit still so God can direct you in the right way my brother in Christ you got to make time for him there's just no excuse amen am the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

intercede intercede to intercede on somebody's behalf it's absolutely it's it's beautiful absolutely stunning if God would have created an island as if he didn't create the World by thought this would have been an island named just for him the water y'all it's that turquoise esque right you could be out 30 40 50 yards 100 yard s you can see 50 ft to the bottom absolutely beautiful the sand is white there's palm trees everybody who could ever want an island they would want the island of Tobago that's just where they are in the world everybody loves it it's a beautiful day the sun is out it's not too hot it's not too Breezy it's not it's absolutely pristine except for one guy that would be Captain Paul his job and he'll tell you look he would say look at the age of 10 salt water was in my veins by the age of 22 I had my own ship and now I travel from Britain to Tobago I drop things off I pick things up I go back to Britain I sell the goods that's how it works unfortunately not today he gets all the way to Tobago starts selling Goods buying goods to go back to Britain and he's got one of his staff his crew who's decided he wants his money now he said man I can't pay you now it's never been that way we got to sell the goods back in Britain then you get your money well man it turns into a mutiny as a matter of fact Captain Paul has decided man he's not going to make it he goes down below deck and he's decided man maybe it's just better to get my stuff and leave then he starts thinking wait a minute if I leave now and I don't fight this out I'll never make it goes back up meets with a couple members of the crew one in particular no doubt about it big brewhaha starts he kills it here are the rules on Tobago your fault my fault nobody's fault you kill somebody Tall Tree short rope Case Closed man he knows he's in trouble he's decided he's got to leave can't go back to Britain there's this new country it's got these colonies he finally gets a ship to get him back over there and of all people he meets his best friend first guy off the boat they talk they visit they start with sitting on the side he says look I don't care anything about your past but there is three things you're going to remember Captain Paul first of all that ain't your name anymore number two I don't want to ever hear you speak of Tobago again because you'll get hung on this side of the world and today you're joining the Navy and he said well why would I do that he said because I can hide you in the Navy and you know something about boats well you know the world starts to spin Britain United States don't don't play well together you know you know this the drill right the Revolutionary War as a result of it he's in the Navy and he's moving up the food chain he keeps going back to his friend look if you're going to make me a captain he said the least you can do is give me a fast ship cuz I plan on being In Harm's Way it's a great quote he had he had another great quote he said I don't want to go to war I don't want Bloodshed but if I'm in I plan on being an active participant guess that didn't ring a bell either okay great at the end of the day he goes back to this guy and says look if you don't intercede and help me I'll never get my own ship he said nepotism has run a mock his greatest quote at the end of the day my brother and sister in Christ I have not yet begun to fight okay my brother of Christ okay hang on a second okay it's John Paul Jones okay you'll never hear that name here again okay okay it's like black Bart that is forever bidden now in our church you know it's the he of our for all them history Buffs that are now out there all six of you um is the guy that interceded was Ben Franklin my brothers Christ that is that gospel think about what's happened the blessed mother has heard Elizabeth is pregnant with child she travels was all the way to the hills of Judah that's no small Journey on a pack mule my brother Christ she's pregnant too when she gets there it's at Mary's greeting that the baby in Elizabeth's womb John the Baptist begins to LEAP I.E he was now baptized in the womb he recognizes the Messiah in Mary's womb that's why he's baptized in the womb at Mary's greeting then Elizabeth says how can it be that the Ark of the Covenant come to me the height of irony there were four people in that room Mary Elizabeth five John the Baptist the good Lord and Zachariah the high priest it takes Zachariah the high priest three months to realize that she's carrying the Messiah he should have been the first to recognize it when John the Baptist leaped in the womb and Elizabeth said how could it be the Ark of the Covenant comes to me now stop stop you're a Jew you and I know old scripture Old Testament Hebrew scripture like the back of our hands go back a thousand years King David hears that the Tabernacle that's the big box Mana from Heaven the staff of Aaron and the Ten Commandments is at the hills of Judah the exact same spot where she goes he travels all the way to Hills of Judah he gets there and he begins to dance in front of the Tabernacle and then says how can it be that the Ark of the Covenant come to me a foretelling of what is to come my brother in Christ listen the Mana from Heaven the staff of Aaron and the Ten Commandments we lose the Tabernacle by the year 500 because there's a new Tabernacle and it has to be that way the Tabernacle is not the box with the Ten Commandments it's the word made flesh in her womb it's not the staff of Aron it's the high priest in her W it's not the Mana from Heaven it's the bread of life in her womb she's the new Tabernacle in the old days they would wrap the Tabernacle in blue so that everybody would know when they'd see it in the desert what was what that's why today we wrap her in blue my brother and sister in Christ as a devout Jew our our church you would have now known that the Tabernacle is now her my brother C that's why John sees her up in the temple because he's now seeing that the Ark of the Covenant my brother Christ that's why our church is female because she's female the only reason priest are male the only reason he picks 12 guys I.E the 12 tribes is because we're male it's just a calling has nothing to do with Holiness you don't think I sit out here before mass or go sit up up there and pray and watch you pray and say look Lord look at her or look at him man look how intensity they pray with you don't think I S and say my Lord my God that is truly one holy woman or man it's just a calling my brother and sister in Christ at the crucifixion think woman behold your son son behold your mother John is now being in betr to her so that the church can continue to reproduce it's male and female it's a marriage John Peter James John Nathaniel and don't you go anywhere Father Mark you too will be betr to her my brother and sister in Christ our church is female that's why you and I say holy mother Church you know if you ever read Psalm 13 like 132 it says the Ark of the Covenant will be at the right hand of God what does John see in the heavens the Ark of the Covenant at the right hand of God my brother and sister Christ everything centers around her being the new Tabernacle that's why we're so protective of it and because she intercedes John the Baptist is baptized in the womb now go back in scripture all of our best players understood that intercessory prayer was powerful nobody ever said The only person I can pray for you is the one sitting in front of you I am the god of the living not of the Dead my brother Christ go back to job job has seven sons and three daughters in one morning he loses all seven sons and three daughters he loses all his camels all the sheep and all his cattle and and the only words out of that man mouth was naked came I in the world and naked will I return there are three guys there with him every one of them over the next several months years or whatever beray him about not cursing God no naked came out out the world naked I return here's the irony when he gets blessed he be in job and begins to multiply and flourish his three friends begin to pray to God and do you know what God said to them quote Oh no you don't don't pray to me you better get job to pray on your behalf in necessary prayer Moses prays for Miriam because Miriam becomes obstinate and believes she's the one that everyone should be speaking to she becomes a leper St Paul writes to Timothy make sure you all pray for me Timothy you make sure you I pray for you you pray for me in the Book of Matthew he talks about praying for one another in the Book of Revelation Angels go before God with incense and their bowls of petitions nowhere did Christ say only the living can pray for me I am the god of the living so why if you had to pick one person to pray to pray with you two or three are gathered in my name then why would he choose her my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how often do you tell somebody you will pray for them and you do it For the Love of Christ don't tell them you're going to pray for them and then couch it put it on the Shelf when you say you're going to pray then they got to be able to bank it my brother in Christ When you pray are the first prayers for you and then you pitch a couple others for others and the in back with ourselves I tell you what there's nothing more powerful than an intercessory prayer you know why because we ain't pitching on our behalf we didn't give him our grow free list I tell you what today and in then this week don't pray for you you pray for everybody else you pray for your family you pray for your friends you pray for your spouse for putting up with you children you need to pray for your parents for putting a roof on your head and clothes on your back and I want you to pray for the one person that absolutely drives you into the ground the one person you could be having the best day of your life they mention one name you you could be on Tobago sitting out there with a big old glass of holy water whatever man you sitting under that that umbrella somebody and it's just the best day in the world they ain't ain't nobody on the beach they come out mention one name you could wrap that umbrella around their neck throw them out there you can care less whether they make it or not that is who I'm talking about praying for how do you expect it to get better if you don't ask somebody to intercede on your behalf how do you expect their relationship to get better naturally if it was going to be naturally you and I would have already done it it would have already happened it's got to be Supernatural because the evil one is keeping the work to keep you apart so therefore today in this week don't so much pray for yourself pray for others for the one person that gets you that heartache the one that hurt you so long ago at some point you're going to realize that you are tired of being tired about that one person in that one name and that one incident it is not a life sentence it's just a lesson learned move on cut it Loose you've wasted enough days enough lunches and dinners Christmas and Easter youve wasted enough of your time on that one person it's already moved on so why not you my brother in Christ pray for them to give you the peace to just cut it loose and let it go and I leave you with this the greatest intercessory prayer is the love of neighbor for the one person you can't stand on your knees amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

react reaction how do you react it's absolutely a beautiful day I'm telling you the Sun is up the wind is blowing it's in kind of like September October best time in the world to live in south Louisiana we have two seasons humid less humid it's surely less humanid I got to tell you I'm on the water I'm working with my family I got the Pond's about a million gallons man the breeze is coming off of it the sun is hitting it may get a little tan out of this I did tell you I'm at a sewer plant why the reaction you weren't there I'm just telling you what I was doing my brother and sister in Christ man we're working at the plant it's about a million gallons about the size of our church it's about 20t deep it's about 100t long and we're out working minut it we got to actually shut it down we actually got to transfer some of the waste the sewage and we need to move it I'm the youngest in the family my father says look walk out on that ibeam it's about 8 10 inches I want you to take the pump put it in there move it around until we drain everything over sure what's the problem we got that he gets all the employees together make sure everybody's in their spot he tells my brother this is the rule the cord falls into the water you pull the plug something happens to the pump pull the plug if something should break you pull that plug if something should happen at another part of the plant I don't care what happens you pull that plug man I walk out I drop the pump down into to the middle of it for the first so many minutes life is good breez is coming off the water I get you but it's still a breeze it's a little moist but it's okay as a result of it I'm moving the pump then all of a sudden man I didn't move at the right way it becomes detached it is an oil Derek shooting about just above the light standards about 20 30 feet in the air I'm on top of it it is full of sewage my brother and sister in Christ stand on an oil Derek while sewage it's raining sewage it is filling up my boots my pants my pockets my shirt my hair they ain't a part of me and I got to tell you I can't even see 5 ft outside of it it is is raining sewage it is chocolate dark brown it is hey hey it didn't happen to you it is septic you can smell it A Million Miles Away man I am and it and let me tell you that pump is still running I'm trying I I don't know what to do I'm looking for my brother he is bald over he is laughing so hard he's 10 ft from the cord it ain't getting pulled there is nothing I can do I can't see to get off the beam I can't run do I put the pump down do I I don't know what to do I mean it's just raining sewage and it's I mean I mean there ain't a part of my body that ain't got it I don't care if it's a tomato seed I don't care if it's a watermelon seed I don't care if it's a hygiene product I got it my brother in Christ my hair is already farmed straight out it is already stiff work with me here I see my brother still bald over laughing this is when I make the Fatal mistake I decide I need to say something hey welcome to my world whenever you tell somebody it tastes like oh but I do [Applause] know my brothers and sisters man I realize the biggest mistake I made was that reaction man they finally some it gets to my brother he finally disconnects and he's still laughing he's just pulling the plug he just can't get to it it was like the WWE between me and him rolling on the ground after I could finally get to him finally my father walks over separates us and I got to tell you my pockets are full my boots are full I got everything that you decide you want to get down your toilet I got it it's like a sponge my father walks over pull things out of my pocket wipes my face and he said well you ain't going to get any dirtier than that let's get back to work as he's walking off and I'm thinking surely he's going to let me go change I started to go somewhere he said Son where you going I'm think well can I can I put on another shirt he said well look at it this way son you ain't going to get any dirtier that's true but you got a tan that's going to last all winter that was his reaction my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you that was my day to this day I still have nightmares about it but it's all about how we react that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord is in um he is right outside of the Sea of Galilee and as a result result of it he's in a synagogue that's literally if you ever been there it's about this size and I got to tell you Peter's house is a stone Thro I bet you it's not 20 yards away his house maybe this big It's Made of Stone the floor is dirt it ain't much my brother in Christ imagine the good Lord standing up in front of us my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you are not in me you don't have eternal life now you can imagine the murmuring the complaining so much so the good Lord says does this shock you because your reaction is it's audible it's visible my brother in Christ now stop you're a first century Jew this is what you and I know according to Leviticus 17 if you eat the blood of an animal for all intense purposes you're going to return to shio to Hades to gehenna going to hell so as a result of it when he says my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink he's not saying your flesh he's not saying the Flesh of an animal he's saying his flesh actually he's saying his glorified flesh after the resurrection but they don't understand it hence why they begin to murmur then he says why are you murmuring you know what's amazing as a Jew you know what you and I remember in Exodus when Charlton hon led us out into the desert why is it so many of y'all remember that show I digress my brother's Christ when he gets out there and they need food they begin to murmur before he brings them the Mana that's why the good Lord uses the word why are you murmuring that's what you did in the desert before they brought you Mana the problem is is you don't see me as Divine you only see me as human brother and sister in Christ when he said it if he meant it to be a relic a theory conjecture it's an understanding is is is very Clinton esque H good you do remember what is is me I thought is men is I'm The God Who is who was who is to come it's the exact same word in Greek aen so if he meant it theoretically then you mean you didn't come you're not here you're not going to be there later my brother and sister in Christ he has to qualify to them because you know what he says not I'm sorry let come on back in let me rephrase let me start again okay it's conjecture he asked him what if you saw the son of man ascending into heaven would you now know seated at the right hand of God that I'm Divine and I'm not human my friends in Christ in my prior life I tell you I've been many things and as part of being a non- denomination I was the denomination of the non- denomination I followed a guy by the name of zwingley Martin Luther that's his real name before he changed it to Luther he believed that the Eucharist was partly the Eucharist body and blood soul and Divinity but he also believed that it was Bread and Wine zwingle on the other end his name was or or believed that it's just a relic and that's where most of them stand today this is where they're going with it in the gospel you heard a statement that the spirit is life the flesh is of no avail he takes that sentence the flesh is of no avail he takes the one word is and says that's the same word so he takes the text out of context and then uses it as a pretext for his argument in other words I just use that one word that the flesh is no avail but here's what zwingle is not telling you that he didn't read the first 64 sentences to make sure he took it in context he didn't read the previous chapters of John and then look at it with typology relative to the Old Testament and Mana I took one word text out of context and then I used it as a pretext for my argument and that's where he says here's the that if we were reading it in his language the word the flesh is ho ho o s s a RX the flesh he's talking about Ur and's flesh he's not talking about his flesh that's why the first five sentences before that are my flesh and my blood my flesh and my blood my flesh and my blood my brother Christ he says it five times so much so that three chapters later two chapters later around John 8 he says the problem with the Pharisees is that you only see me in humanistic terms you only see me based on what you feel is it based on appearances that's why you think the Eucharist is just Bread and Wine because of the appearance but wait the day I resurrect you're going to understand that I'm now Divine listen this is why I say to you by Body of Christ and not body of Jesus because Christ is his glorified body my brother and sister Christ if I were to ask you when he was on the crucifix when they stabbed him and he bled from his side was he alive or was he dead what would you say it's a 50/50 shot pick one he's got to be dead but because if he wasn't then they would have broke his legs my brother and sister in Christ for a dead man to bleed means you are Divine and that I'm going to feed you from my side for all eternity this is why the good Lord on Easter Sunday and for the next 50 days can walk through walls and walk through locked doors and yet they can touch his hands and feet he can eat fish but yet he can be at two places at one time he can travel as if time has no Essence and it doesn't this is why how father how can I kiss the altar because if you laid Christ out with his feet at the door and his head here and his hands at the side his wound would be at the altar this is a for telling of what is to come this is why I'm going to feed you this is why I say body of Christ my brother sister in Christ his reaction was flawed so here you and I sit think about it all of our best players when push comes to shove they are true to their reaction to Christ imagine you are Veronica you have absolutely no say in the world as a woman you have absolutely no matter of fact it's arguable whether a slave or you had more had more standing as a result of it she has only one Veil she decides to get in the middle of the crucifixion we're going to stop the whole parade we're going to stop the 50 guards of moving further we're going to stop the town prior for proclaiming this what it was and she's going to take the imprint of Christ on on her veil all she cared about was what's going to happen between her and him the reaction of everybody else was irrelevant my brother and sister in Christ do you know at the end of the day we still have that Veil my brother Christ what if you're Mary Magdalene she doesn't care what the guards think I mean Easter Sunday everybody is sleeping where's Peter where's John where's Nathaniel bth Thomas she's decided that I'd rather be near quote a dead savior than live people so she goes to the tomb with every guard there at one point or another had their way with it she can't move the rock it's been sealed by Wax by Pilot himself my brother Christ she'd rather be there than be with the people and because she does that because she reacts in such a way she's the first to see the Risen Christ what if you're Paul man the man's blind for three days to go from Saul to Paul what would be your and I's reaction if we had been blinded nobody told him it'd be for three days he thinks it's all over with but the shout how would you and I react knowing that everybody we killed thrown in jail or persecuted was tied directly to Jesus Christ and the only thing they got in common is me Paul or Saul and now I'm blind for three days my brother Christ what if you're the good thief you spent your entire life butchering people murder rape Pillager plunder or all of the above you control the desert with an IR in hand you made your dad look like a Boy Scout and that ain't no small undertaking and then all of a sudden 32 years later you're on a crucifix it takes you some 3 hours to carry the cross to where it needs to be Christ will be on the cross for about 3 hours so will you be dismissed everybody is cursing you everybody's spitting on you they say the good Lord received over 1,000 wounds they said that the crown of thorns alone had over 100 Pricks to the Head 20 were legitimate holes three kill the good Lord whether we touch him or not they spit on him they beat him they punched him not to mention the holes in his hands and his feet and the spear in his side and now you're on that crucifix and you don't really care what anybody else says even your friend gesto Remember Me this day boy the courage that must have taken he's so sorry he can't even say it just have a thought of me just have a glimpse of me just have a remembrance of me this day you'll be with me in Paradise his only reaction was how Christ will respond to me well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother said Christ how do you and I respond to day-to-day things I mean as simple as driving your car down the street I mean you're driving out a car you got work you got a you got an agenda you got time and the person in front of you thinks it's Sunday afternoon man they've had that blinker on turn right six blocks let me ask you when you pull around you give them the look let me ask you when they turn left after they've been pointing to go right all this time do you give them the look when somebody cut you off man do you make sure you verbally give them what far maybe you gave him a sign of peace or a version thereof let me ask you this when you finally get home when you go excuse me you go to work and they ask you to do something you really don't want to do with your reaction which could be your reaction if it ain't going to pay you more it's not your job description will you show them that you are a Catholic and first and foremost before you're a doctor a lawyer engine Chief or an engineer or whatever it may be you're first and foremost a Catholic and the only way they're going to know that Christ is in you when you are in him is that you're going to do it without a poor reaction you do it to show people that you are sacrificial when you go to work and have a bad day will you make sure before you come home and spread all that Venom that you take time to decompress Mama by the time you get finished with work and the kids and the wayes of the world that you don't bring it to the dinner table or the spouses don't share it among themselves my brother CHS how are you going to react if the answer to your prayer to the good Lord is no are we going to get upset because I gave you a date stamp I gave you time I gave you instructions come on man you got to come through through what's going to be your reaction my brother and sister Christ I'm telling you how you and I react sets the table more than you know and I leave you with the words of Mother Teresa my brother and sister in Christ the poem anyway is so appropriate people are unreasonable illogical self-centered forgive them anyway if you are honest people will cheat you you be honest anyway if you are happy people are going to be jealous you be happy anyway if you are successful you win false friends and true enemies you succeed anyway you give it the best you have you give till it hurts because at the end of the day it was never between you and them it was between you and me anyway I don't know who said the quote how you react to a situation how you react to a situation can literally change the situation itself how you react to the situation can literally change the situation itself be on guard on how you react amen I've been yelling for 30 minutes come on now amen there you go name the father and the son and holy spirit amen <\p>

blamed as in blaming someone or Worse sometimes we blame ourselves way too much it's the year about I don't know I guess it's about the year 1957 maybe a little bit earlier his name is Paul Paul lives in Cleveland Ohio Paul is without question the most popular guy in Cleveland I mean it it doesn't matter where he goes people know him people like Paul he is just that pop he's got all the bells and whistles he is intelligent he's driven somewhat softspoken but the man has got a motor and man they love him he is Cleveland's uh like lead public uh official uh actually he's the head of the police as a result of it like Public Safety as a result man he had everything going his way till that proverbial day man man did he have the bells and whistles Rebecca started to think back she said she know she remember hearing something that he was always in that old blue sedan she said she was traveling the back roads of Cleveland and there's that old sedan look like he'd been in a wreck look like he'd been beat up in Maul like it was just man had been trashed she said you know that's got to be Paul she gets out she starts looking at it next thing you know she says man son he's got it this this is his car she hadn't heard from him hadn't seen him don't know what ever came of him man she Something Told her to look in the trunk sure enough there was Paul he was in a box he was an urn you see Paul passed and she said man he had it all going for him then she started thinking about the day that he came to Cleveland and she said man he he shows up in like this uh White Perma press shirt slacks are creased he's got a sweatshirt on soft spoken and he is going to be the head lead public official right for safety he starts talking about there's two issues in Cleveland there's crime and there's traffic we lead the nation in both we have so much crime it's going off this it's going off the graph he said we have so many traffic fatalities that we lead the nation almost two to one almost a thousand fatalities per year he said you know we got to stop blaming other people he said as far as crime is you got to let me come to your neighborhoods and he said stop blaming the police the police got to stop blaming the people next thing you know you start blaming City Hall and of course we blame the mayor then you're going to blame me and guess what we're going to be in the same spot we were a year from now he started walking through the neighborhoods started putting together different groups even got the Boy Scouts involved as a result man they're cleaning up the city businesses are putting money in man city is sending more people to watch the the people start to like it it starts to grow man crime drops to almost less than 40% how could you not like Paul I mean oh my gosh this hadn't been done in Forever then he goes and he starts a traffic court fatalities go from over a thousand to less than almost a 100 man brother Christ it's amazing what Paul could do but man it just it seems like Paul had it he said man if you stop blaming one another or blaming others for your own faults he said it looks like you'd get it but then Paul tried to run a couple of businesses and that well that went South had a couple marriages that went South just alongside the businesses and then he became a power drinker and that's where things really went South and she said you know I haven't seen him in Forever heck I didn't even know that he was he died and now I found him in an urn in the back of an abandoned car she goes you know what the problem was she goes Paul blamed himself sometimes Paul wouldn't even take his foot off his own throat my brother and sister in Christ he says you know I would have loved to met Paul in his prior life when he was younger back in the days of Chicago he was the head of the treasury apartment had about 15 of them oh y'all are killing me he chase this one guy for years they formed the treasury Department just to go after this one guy just to get him for tax evasion to alcatra y'all even know who Al Capone is okay okay the guy's name for the four people who know that this is Elliot Nest The Untouchables outside side of blackbart and John Paul Jones this guy's on their heels I can promise you my brother in Christ that's the whole point it's all about how we place the blame that's the gospel the good Lord is saying you can blame whoever you wish you can blame your neighbor you can blame the religious you can blame people that are not of your faith you can even blame the food that you eat from the plate the fork the knife but at the end of the day sin comes from within it begins and isend right there now stop make sure you understand what's going on you are a first century Jew this is what you know about this setting first and foremost sin comes in the game of the equation on day eight seven days of creation theoretically speaking day eight is the Garden of Eden my brother and sister in Christ if you are a Pharisee you believe in the first five books plus traditions this makes this argument the high of ir they are very popular they have great way they are the largest group if you are a sadducee you only believe in the first five books if you are an Essen Jew John the Baptist John the Apostle for a little while probably Andrew as well you are very strict it's an all male environment you believe baptism comes by being washed and of course there are the zealots people who are just off the chart you don't know whether you where they stand one minute to the next but wherever they are you know where they're at my brother and sister Christ he's talking to the Pharisees here's the argument you're getting caught up in human tradition and you're doing so at the expense of the rules and this is where Christ stands up and makes the argument man how hypocritical of you Pharisees how is it that you can make such a statement well we see your Apostles there eating and you never washed your hands now understand this is how it works the Pharisees implemented some rules for the temple that before you enter the temple you got to wash your hands kind of part and parcel while you and I dip our hands in the holy water you're entering the temple a vow of the baptism all over again as a result of it they started bringing that home and then when you got home you had to wash your hands that's why at the wedding of canaa they had to wash their hands and feet before they entered it's a tradition in the church that was brought to the house and he says you know what you're kind of like what Isaiah said you talk to me one way and you give me Li lip service another let me explain there's a thing called in their day called Corban this is you must take care of your parents womb to tomb as a result of it their property their money their valuables their clothing everything they own you need to use that to get them where they need to be he says but according to some of the rules that you fair es came up with and Isaiah spoke of you would take their money their trappings the world their property what they owned all their jewelry whatever it may be and then you're going to give it to the church or you're going to give it to to someone else or maybe the Pharisees and then you're not even taking care of your parents he says you broke the fourth Commandment so don't talk to me about washing hands it's irrelevant what what's relevant is is what's in your heart my brother and sister in Christ CHR as another Faith people say us all the time that y'all use these human precepts these human Traditions may I remind you every part of the mass every part of the mass is scriptural 14 pieces Alone Come From The Book of Revelation nobody made this up not 12 guys sitting around a table just winging it it's all scriptural I tell you what rhetorically speaking rhetorically speaking don't raise your hand if you are God and today you are welcome to your home Master tell me will you tell me how you wish to be worshiped or will you leave it up to me master well if you leave it up to me Mark the last time I did that you were at a ball field kickball travel ball my ball your ball you were going pro you were going pro quote and quote my brother and sister in Christ God did give us a way to be worshiped that's why he came through the Jewish right or it Christian means you just believe Christ to be the Messiah the manner in which you worshiped him was either Jew or Catholic Catholic means according to the whole don't get caught up in it it became so popular it became Universal but if you gathered in one place like you and I do we break bread we sing the Psalms and we read the apostles we are no longer Jew but Catholic that's why the good Lord says this is a new covenant that will be given up for you there'll be a new way because I can't leave it up to you my brother and sisters in Christ there in lies why people start passing the blame like the FES go back in scripture all of our best players got caught up in the blame game do you honestly think pilate really believed that if he just pulled out a bowl and towel that he's not to blame he must have he did it fact of the matter is 2,000 years later how many times do we use the analogy man he's going to pull out a bowl in tow wash his hands my brothers Christ go back to the Garden of Eden in the Garden of Eden man and woman roam in Garden of Eden the name Adam means ground they don't he doesn't keep his name she doesn't get the name Eve till after they get kicked out in in the garden they man and woman that's why you and I have names because we're accountable for our action don't blame nobody else because it's coming back home my brother and sister in Christ whenever you hear a story in scripture and a proper name is used Noah Jonah the poor man Lazarus those are not parabolic so in the Garden of Eden first pass into the buck man where are you uh hiding why are you hiding the woman you gave me first pass in the buck I blame her what do she oh no not me it's the devil my brothers Christ we've been blaming one another for our own faults since the beginning of time what about Herod man he's willing to Lop a man's head off because he's got to keep a promise to a young girl who danced in such a way what about Herod the Great he he'd rather kill thousands of kids under the age of two so that the newborn king doesn't come my brother and sister in Christ go back and look at job all three of those men wanted him to curse and blame God and when he sticks to his guns and says Naked came I in the world and naked will I return and at the end of the day they start to pray to God and God turns to them and says oh no you don't you get job to pray on your behalf first intercessory prayer my brother and sister in Christ we live in a world where we're constantly blaming others for for our own faults and then there's another group man that and I'm guilty of it too man I blame myself so much I can't take my foot off my own throat my brother and sister in Christ here we sit 2,000 years later let me ask you do are we going to quit blaming our parents for everything father they're just they're way too strict I mean you you just don't know I know I just dropped in the world just like this I have no idea man father you you don't understand man they're too strict they don't understand he said and they're just not very bright you know what Mark Twain said he said when I was 14 he said my parents were so stupid I couldn't stand to be around them at 14 he said what's amazing to me is by the age of 21 I couldn't get over how smart they had gotten in seven years my brother in Christ how often do you and I blame our co-workers our boss our business how often do you and I blame them and man it's we have nothing to do with it as if somehow Another We're detached how many of us blame our teachers man I'd have done better but man they can't teach they have nowhere they're going they never said that that wasn't supposed to be on the test how often do you and I blame the church well man when I was growing up they told us not to read the Bible so what youve been doing the last 20 years I've been here 10 have you brought it to church yet at what point Brothers and Sisters in Christ are we going to stop blaming others for our own faults at what point are you and I are going to be accountable for our own actions and for those of us who stand on our throat and refuse to forgive our own selves my brother and sister in Christ how do you pray to our father you ask the good Lord for forgiveness as those that you forgive but you won't even forgive yourself my brother Christ he never intended it your and our's job is to love you with our whole heart mind and soul that's our job to get to heaven everything else is irrelevant everything else is irrelevant so I beg of you to stop passing the blame to others or worse my brother and sister in Christ you and I won't get off our own throats we keep reliving the past over and over and over like it's a life sentence it's just a lesson learned move on we only got so much time he created all things good were you not made in His image and likeness well then how is it that you and I now are the consumate judge of our own soul stop blaming others suck it up take the hit it and move on and get off your own throat because that's not what he asked my brothers in Christ I leave you with this if you're going to blame others for your failures then you need to give them the credit for your successes Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

do as in do more do more than expected do more than is asked you got to do even more the year is about 1927 his name is Theodore Theodore gel he is an upand cominging writer he loves it I mean it's a passion man it's beyond a passion I mean I think it's it's in the very marrow of his bones as a result he decides that he's going to get a scholarship to Dartmouth and as a result man he's there for just I mean he's not even there a semester man the paper finds out about him he starts writing for the paper by the end of the year he writes for the uh the school paper in Dartmouth called Jack O Lantern I have no idea why it's that way it is as a result of it man he starts writing for him and now he's the editor and chief man he's get he finish his freshman year they love him as a result man he goes man he's in school and unfortunately things happen mistakes happen they invent Jen gets carried away he gets tore up and it he just did in the dorm Dean finds out about it it's 1927 man things don't bode well for him they did everything they could to keep him from getting kicked out the school but he's no longer on the paper well the papers I mean they're not blind to it either they need Theodore so they change his name and he writes under a pen name called called zis zis some pronounced it zoy some pronounced it zoos as a result man he starts writing for him he gets so good that standard oil causing NBC causing uh Jack Benny called him to help write some of his scripts man he starts writing and pretty soon the world's his oyster he's decided that yeah he'd like to do a little more he'll write but he only wants to write about nuclear war Armageddon uh the end times a teacher approaches him and says look Theodore you you got to do more nobody wants to hear about that more importantly if you're going to do it you you need to understand people read at the sixth grade level you you need to bring it down to where it's it's interesting so he rewrites another article on a nuclear war between the ukes and the zukes big hint big hint maybe not My Brother and Sisters in Christ you see the Yules like their bread buttered on top and the zukes and the zukes like theirs buttered on the bottom as a result they go to war the last scene is two generals staring at one another and then it says at the very last sentence the end of the war Maybe she says 'you know you got a good talent for that but here's the question she saysi need help with literacy you got to do more Theodore you got the gift he says you need to help me help stop illiteracy she gave him 300 words that are the most popular in the English language we always used to say Dick and Jane back in the day then all of a sudden man he gets involved he writes a story about this Thing One and Thing Two about a fish that complains as a matter of fact he's got this cat walking around with a big hat that's red and white yes Lord that was my last clue thank you God you know and d and so finally his dad says well you know son I wish You' have been a doctor hence why Dr Seuss came about my brother in Christ it's all about doing a little bit more that is that gospel the people in the countryside actually go and get the man who's a deaf from mute and they bring him to Christ and then they beg him to lay hands on him they're doing more now stop you're first century Jew let's make sure you understand what's going on they believe that laying hands that God can only react within hand's reach he can't just think it and it's done I.E I created the world by thought they believe he had to put hands on them I get that that's why they're saying will you lay hands on my brother and sister in Christ understand this too they live in a world where the good Lord decides that he's going to do it but he takes them away from the crowd why because he doesn't want the Fanfare this is just about the man now remember to stop my brother in Christ go back to Genesis at the very creation the Day of Creation Day six if you will when he creates man and woman he spits into the ground then he takes the ground and he forms man he doesn't pour man into the ground and then spit into it he spits into the ground he has all life he is life I'm giving life to the ground Adam Adama means ground so whenever somebody spit as he did on his fingers to put it on the Man's Tongue every Jew there would have taken a step back and said wait a minute the only person that's ever done that was God in the garden and then he touches his ears y'all we are all Thomases if we can't touch it kick it feel it we don't believe it think for a second go back on remember there was Three Blind Men one of them came to Christ and he put he spit into the ground he took the mud put it on his eyes and told him to go wash he's got to walk all the way to the pool of Salam which is like on the other side of am me as a result a blind man is leading people to see but that he needed something he could touch the next blind man he put his hands on his eyes and this one when he took him away he said whatat do you say he said I see I see people but they look like trees and then he said okay his faith is starting to waver he puts his hands back the third guy he said Lord I believe in you he never had to touch you he's doing it because of their lack of faith you believed I had to touch him but so that I can prove to you that that is indeed maybe not the case I will do it so that you will have faith now my brother in Christ please understand this there are three Miracles that took place that day he could hear his tongue is open how does he know the language how does he know what to describe how can he speak plainly that's the third Miracle it's the miracle behind the miracle the one that everybody walks away saying wait a minute who taught him that he's been is that way his whole life this is why they're so amazed they've already seen the Blind seea and the lame walk he's already seen the dead rise but for him to do this for them man it was like man that he must be the Messiah nobody nobody has done this now my brother and Christ think about it the miracle behind the miracle is common if you and I were at lazarus's place when Martha and Mary came out and said Lord if you had been here my brother wouldn't have died Martha Mary I'm the way I'm the truth I'm the life well we know that Lord and someday he'll be with you all eternity and you can see the good lord it's almost as if man you've been with me for 3 years you should know better so when he goes and calls Lazarus out of the Tomb remember he calls him by name because if he just says come out then every tomb opens and everybody comes out it's the second coming it's the resurrection it's the Judgment my brother and sister in Christ when he calls him by name how does he walk out because you know the problem when you get buried as a Jew your hands and feet are found my brothers and sisters in Christ there's no way he could have made it that's the miracle behind the miracle that's what this is going my brother Christ think go back in scripture all of our best players take that extra step they do more than it's expected this isn't about being a minimalist my brother in Christ think for a second what if Saul who became Paul after the first boat sinks he's out there for a day why would you get on any more boats why would you even bother I mean I had Fame and Fortune and wine women song I had money I had Prestige I'm not going all the way out there to talk to a bunch of pagans what if he decided not to do more what if Veronica who takes her only Veil disrupts the crucifixion and in a woman's statue in those days man you took your life in your own hands all you cared about is you wanted to take one more step what if she doesn't do that my brother in Christ what if Mary magalin says man I am not getting up I am not going all the way to that tomb he's dead there's soldiers there God and don't I know and then while I'm there it's already been sealed you know what's amazing every one of those have their name in The Book of Life Veronica's name's there Mary magdalene's there Saul's there What if Paul what if what if what if Peter went home and said honey I met the Messiah he wants me to be Fishers of Men I'll just Pat him on the shoulder push him along we'll be good do we even have a church what if any of the Apostles backed up my brother and sisters in Christ that's why their names in a book of life because they understand to do more here you and I sit 2,000 years later how many talents has the good Lord giv you and I be honest if you had to sit down and write a list on a paper of all of your talents how much of them do we put into play every day or is the good Lord going to come back and say I gave you that Talent give it back not only does he take it back but he says man I'm it's going to be the nashing and grinding of teeth my brother and sister in Christ you got to be able to do more the rich man that goes and sees the good Lord Lord what do I got to do to attain eternal life you ever remember the story the good Lord says honor your mother and father do not kill do not commit adultery do not bear false witness do not cover your neighbor's Goods or spouse I did that check got it check check check got them all and then the good Lord that was the back half of The Commandments now the good Lord jumps to the front will you love God with your own heart mind and soul and your neighbor as yourself give away your money and come and then he walks away my brother and say Christ you got to be able to do more it's not enough to be a mentalist Lord father I finally memorized the Ten Commandments good well now you know which ones we broke that way you get it right when you come to see me don't get the numbers all backwards my brother and sister in Christ let me ask you are you going to mass more now than you were last year more importantly if there was ever days to go to church in the world to give thanks to thank him for allow giving us one more day to stand upright to make up for all the days that we just flatl out and laid on his leg my brother and sister in Christ have you going to receive more sacraments this year than last year have you gone to confession more this year than last year you are never neutral to him what part of this don't we get you're either walking that way towards him or you're walking away from him I don't care if it's an email a text message or a thought or an action or just a a mannerism whatever you do either dictates you take a step forward or back you can't be neutral to him him so it begs the question why is it that we only do minimal things I mean that's all I'm going to do that's my job description how many of us have been helping others In This Storm instead of just circling wagons and taking care of our own my brother and sister Christ when the good Lord says love of neighbor he didn't say love of neighbor when it works for you when it's between eight and five and not on my days of vacation and not when I'm relaxing where's the sacrifice than that it's your ability to take that one extra step to do that one more thing man are you willing to help your family go that one extra mile that's the sacrifice he's talking about if you and I had a jar and this was the jar and it was full and the good Lord hands it to you and says this is what I want you to do just for today I want you to go and help them I want you to break a sweat I want you to work I want you to put it all in I need you out there I'm not coming back right now I need I need you to go help your neighbor and is exhausted and tired and you're just exasperated I need you to go I'll give you all of this grace for you and your family and not a hair in your head will be touched but every time you complain and every time you look Crossways and every time you dis me or your neighbor you dismiss me I'm going to turn that valve and I'm going to pull that Grace out and you started out with a 55 gallon drum and we walk home with a thimble but because he's saying you're going to have to do more and this is the time to do it you and I need to do more today than we've ever done before it's not enough to be a mentalist our souls are at stake this has all been one big test that's all it'll ever be you came on in this day you're going home on this day just because you can spell his name does not give you the right to knock on his door and say I'm here welcome me home Matthew 7 not everybody who yells my name will enter my kingdom but only those who do the will of my father I leave you with the words of Abraham Lincoln I may walk slow but I will never walk backwards you got to do more amen that's what I'm talking about my brother and sister in Christ I'd like to read something to you you may not know this but I'm a big fan of Dr Seuss there was a reverend McCrae that read this he's the one that pinned it he's the author and I got to tell you he nailed it I digress I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I Am I do not like them on a boat I do not like them with a goat goat I do not like them in the train or in the dark or in the rain I do not like them here or there I do not like them anywhere I tell you what else I do not like calling good things wrong and bad things right they tried to destroy our structure barging in with this cancer culture with angry Expressions they were the cner they came to us with their agenda you know what else makes me see red attacking Dr Seuss Mr Potato Head Speedy Gonzalez or pepy Lew The Bernstein Bears to name a few you can't say this or you can't say that well I've made enough and I've made my list cancer culture has crossed the line and I believe it is well past time it's time for the body of Christ Eucharist to make a stand join in unity over the land on Christ and on solid Ro Rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand all other ground is sinking sand this cancer culture I disagree we can't say words like he or she the Bible has settled this issue for me if this makes you mad then grab a tissue male and female God created them and who are we to challenge him he came to Earth as a baby and a Manger for this kind of love we were all strangers Jesus came to same the loss when he died upon that old r at Cross he laid in the Tomb for a three whole days defeated foes were death that were held in the grave he arose with all dominion and power and might the stone rolled away he was nothing more than light we can fight the two The Church Must Stand Up been silent too long and I've had enough that wor the church at one time and abandoned her post losing her Freedom thing we love most this is the time we must all take it back we must all stand together and get on the right track I started this poem with green eggs and ham but it's really about The Great I Am amen amen there we go <\p>

opinions opinions everybody has input years about 1980 and his name is Stephen Stephen is a Long View Texas boy got to tell you he's got a good family his mom used to teach special ed you know Stephen said man while she was teaching she still went back and got two master's degrees you could tell man there was a fondness not just for her for his dad too man he was an insurance salesman they decided one day that man it's not so much Texas the work is now in California Steven does two things exceptionally well and the irony is they're on two different ends of the spectrum yeah he's a great athlete football is dominant he also sings in the choir it's just something you don't see especially for a big lineman like that he gets there he gets a college scholarship University of California regrettably he gets hurt his teacher comes up to him and suggests that you know Stephen what you you can go to the choir that that's true that's true you could I don't know what kind of career you may have you may you may want to consider you might want to be an actor because I think you got the presence I think you got the what what it needs I think you got the motor you got the desire you got the focus so he listened to it for a little bit Stephen is a a very faith-filled man so he decides to take it to prayer whose opinion matters more that of the good Lord he decides to go USC and while he's there he gets in a couple uh little little small movies like um Fast Times at at ridgem high he gets in another one called platoon and as a result of it people start to notice man he's still trying to finish up and he gets a little bit part in a series called uh witness protection then he's in another one called Criminal Minds the shield and man next thing you know it starts to grow his teacher comes back to him and says you know you know Stephen you'd really be good at you need to be what they call a 1A actor that's a you know like a Liam neelen type and he said no I want to be 1B I'd like to be a great supporting actor and he said no no you need to be a 1A he said look I appreciate your opinion but I will take it to prayer as a result of it man he decides that you know what there's nothing wrong in the world with being the second best heart doctor football player baseball player engineer I like being a great supporting actor as a matter of fact my brothers Christ he's that good as a matter of fact he rarely if ever takes a lead role he would be in movies like um phenomena he was in movies like Good morning Vietnam he was in the movie Taken three and a one and a two and a three and we missed all three of them there we go we're back up bat in a thousand okay my brother and sister in Christ it he's a black guy and he's got an eye that kind of droops a little bit Forest whiter look him up okay that's where we're at my brother and sister in Christ but you know what's amazing they interviewed him not long ago and he made a great statement he said everything revolves around Christ no other opinion matters my brother and sister in Christ that is that gospel so who do people say that I am well who do you say that I am opinions vary remember brother Christ only God the father's opinion speaks and Carries weight now stop let's make sure you understand this setting they are walking to a city called cesaria Philippi Phillip is U the city is named after King Phillip Philip is the son of King Herod the Great the one that went to try to kill Christ and all the children his brother is the other King Herod who who lopped off the head of John the Baptist he wants his own City hence Philippi he knows that if he builds a city but he doesn't put Caesar's name in it cesaria then he ain't going to have a city long he may not have his head long so as a result of it they develop a place called cesaria Philippi now this is why you go there for the most part it is where the Temple of pan pan this is where he resides he is um his half of his body is looks like that of of an animal like a goat he plays the flute all the time does that sound familiar think of Disney Peter Pan be careful of Disney they not always play on top of the table Yeah my brother and sister in Christ they would go there and he walked one day to bring them and they sat in a like this in an area that's it's open it's actually a little Valley and about the height of the rafters of our church up on the mountain is the Temple of pan and there's a picture of him he is the god that's the intermediate G he is the god of beastiality as a matter of fact he's uh the god of goats that's why he's got such formation on his legs and here's how it works he would come down and visit with you and I or we would go up the hill the opening there's a cave would be about the size of this opening you and I'd walk in and there'd be a vast pool that it is so deep we actually believe it went to the Never Never world there you go and then you would bring your animal you throw it in there if it sunk your your response would be would you would get a response if your animal did not sink there might be held to pay as a result of it this is why he's brought them there so who do people say that I am now he's asking him who do you say that I am then he's going to finally now what you don't hear in Mark's gospel is what you would have heard in Matthews he would have Peter would have been a little more protracted we for you're the son of the Living God and then the good Lord would have said man Flesh and Bones anday that my father in Heaven that's the only opinion that matters that's why the start of the Creed begins with I believe in God the Father Almighty right because Peter heard God the Father speak my brother and sister in Christ what he's trying to tell Peter is man you're the vicer and Upon This Rock I will build my church notwithstanding Peter says what he says and then the good Lord tries to explain to him in three days I'm going to go and after the crucifixion you got got to wait three days Peter is so indignant and so upset that he's he actually rebukes the good Lord and the good Lord turns the table get behind me Satan now imagine you're Peter tell me how you would take it if I did this to you get behind me Satan and then you walk off or you saying that I'm a follower of Lucifer but what if he says give behind me Satan in other words he's saying Peter are you going to get behind me or are you going to follow Satan and be my adversary the ireno ironies when you translate Satan and Lucifer's name back to its original form it means adversary he's saying are you going to be my adversary and join up with him in front of or are you going to get back in line and stand behind me and the reason I don't want you say anything till after three days because your faith will grow immensely during those three days according to tradition Peter cries so much during the three days from the crucifixion to the resurrection they said that if you and I had met him before and after we would have noticed that there' been creases in his cheeks so bad from the tears alone that never left him his entire life but that's what makes Peter so resilient that's what makes Peter The Rock kayi Bolder massive but brother and sister in Christ what he's trying to tell him is you need to make sure you understand this you need to make sure you understand that I am who I am and that you need to get in line and pick up your cross and follow me I am not promising you happiness was I ever happy for the three years I was here I came here for the removal of sin and to open the gates of paradise and to give you everlasting life and the bread of life for generations to come now stop go back in scripture all of our best people always seem to state facts and not opinions here's for example John the Baptist is walking with John and Andrew and what's the first thing he does there goes the Lamb of God not an opinion he's stating a fact longus at the crucifixion truly that man was the son of God he's stating a fact but for every one of those there's always somebody giving their opinion my boy pilate what a piece of work you actually felt that pulling out a bowl and towel and washing your hands it just cleanses you of all wrongdoing he is so worried about the opinions of the Jews that he's actually going to allow a guy to be brutally butchered just so he doesn't have to deal with push back you know here's the height of irony the same people that he riged to that he gave up to that he basically said man whatever are the same people that caused him consternation over water rights and he took his own life judas's opinion of himself was so horrendous that he refused to take his foot off his own throat he actually felt that there is no way the good Lord could forgive me for turning him over you know judas's greatest sin isn't the 30 pieces of silver it's not even agreeing to go do what he did the greatest sin Judas commits is that he felt he wasn't worthy oh my God you're two words away two words not actions words from having eternal life and being one of the 12 I'm sorry my brother and sister in Christ here we sit 2,000 years later we are so caught up in other people's opinions not just of oursel but of the world that we can't even see straight As a matter of fact it I got to tell you the contamination goes further and further down the road sometimes we we offer our opinions as And We complain well that's just my opinion but we give our opinion according to a survey almost every 8 minutes We complain every eight minutes personally I think it's outdated I think it's closer to four that's just me my brother and sister Christ how many times do we offer our opinion as advice somebody comes up to us and says man can I just need to talk to you for a minute and the first thing we do is we listen not to understand we listen to respond and before they finish their problem you say well you think that's bad you ought to hear mine or Worse we start answering their questions and trample over their own words and all they wanted you to do was just to listen to understand but yet we were too quick to give our opinion my brother and sister in Christ do we give our opinion so much that it's it's it's almost as if we have the right to life liberty and the pursuit to give our opinions you know Lincoln was right it's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt how many times have you and I given our opinion In the Heat of a battle an argument that all of a sudden we walk away and we just think if I had just shut up for another 10 seconds I would be past this I wouldn't have to go back and have the conversation again I wouldn't have to go back and apologize it wouldn't wear me out and I lose one night's sleep my brother in Christ that's what I'm telling you think think before you speak before that thought hits your head and that jaw opens up and we got our opinion out there remember this people words do hurt and they are Everlasting because people will remember them what I'm asking you to do is pause before you offer somebody advice pause before you complain pause before you judge someone we sit in confessions each week and I'm going to tell you it's more than just the two days you think there are crosses behind doors that your jaw would drop to the ground I'm telling you if we stood up today and I said begin and we went through everybody stood up and said all problems by the time it got to you and to me we'd say thank God I don't live in that world that's what's behind every door we offer our opinions too quick my brother and sister in Christ you know Mark Twain has a lot of great saying and one none greater than this he made the statement that um it's not what you don't know it's not what you don't know that causes trouble it's what you do know that you find out later is not true causes trouble and my brother and sister in Christ if you forget everything else you got to take your foot off your own throat you got to stop being hard on you your opinion of you you've been made in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ and nobody has the right to judge you nobody has the right to curse you to get on Facebook and complain about you what other people think of you don't you ever forget this what other people think of you is none of your business his opinion is only Amen in the name of the father and the son the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

waste as in wasted effort wasted money waste of time it's about the 1950s or so his name is marcelus he lives he lives in Louisville Kentucky if you were to ask marcelus about his mom Odessa he would tell you she is a worker be she can do she does do she does a lot of C interest a lot of sewing from drapes to p the shirts she's pretty pretty much uh like a household name in Louisville his dad is a sign maker and together they do okay but if you were to ask Odessa about her son marcelus she would tell you man even when I was carrying him in my womb he said man he was twisting and turning every time I would speak get excited say something man it was almost like it was a constant little fight he said she said it got one B so bad sometimes she just didn't want to say anything she just preferred to sit quiet so that he would stay quiet and then she said the day comes for him to be born she's in the hospital she has the birth she has marcelus they come in they bring her this child and they said man here's your son she says that that's not mine and the nurse says oh but it is and she says oh but it's not take it from me you got the wrong child she said no no this is the right one pretty soon an argument ensues and Odessa is I mean she's out the box she starts to scream and yell and pretty soon this child down the hall begins to yell and scream and then they realize maybe they we do have the wrong one of course sure enough she brings in and there comes marcelis as a result of it he gets a little older and he's always on the wrong path and she told me marcelus you got to watch what you say because it's going to jettison you down the path and you won't return so Manny gets caught up in the wrong group pickpocketing shoplifting little petty crimes but pretty soon now it's starting to escalate so man next thing you know they get caught they're they're meeting with the chief of police and next thing you know he's talking to them and he pulls marcelus on the side he said son you're going to be a waste of human metabolism you're going to have nothing to show for it he said man is this what you want for your life you're not even near you're not even near a path that's worthwhile and he tells the chief of police you know if you want in this area he said I'd whoop you he said Son you can't even whoop you he said but I tell you what I'll give you a shot at the title every Friday you meet with me in the gym sure enough man he starts teaching marcelus how to box do you know marcelus is the youngest man ever to win the Golden Gloves he was like 17 do you know that his record was like I don't know 110 and five my brother and sister in Christ he had great little sayings if you can't see it you can't hit it okay so there's no boxing officios here okay I got that he said float like a butterfly sting like a bee I should have pitched that one first remember Christ you know him was Muhammad Ali now I'm not saying he was always on the right path but I got to tell you it was that path that was put to him by somebody who was trying to get him off the wrong path that is that gospel here the good Lord is walking all the way back to Galilee and he's telling them that people will turn me over I will be quote handed over very John the Baptist esque and he says and they will kill me and on the third day I arise and as he's talking to them they're too busy debating who's greater now stop your first century Jew this is what you know going into this conversation and on the road first of all just a day before they tried to get rid of a demon they being the apostles the problem is they couldn't expel the demon now which demon was it I don't know was it pride or anger or gluttony or lust or a or sloth or Envy they couldn't expel it and the good Lord tells them you need to fast with your prayers your prayers are no longer strong enough to remove the demon I know as Catholics nobody wants to hear the concept of fasting I mean my Lord my God father 40 days is more than enough the point being is is their prayers are not strong enough and that's the prayer of an apostle where do you and I sit relative to that my brother in Christ he's walking along with him he's trying to explain to him now he's done it twice that he'll die and on the third day raise again now what they're arguing is the point that Peter James and John got to go up on the Transfiguration Peter had his name changed Peter's been given Keys James and John are called the sons of thunder that's where the argument is going where do they sit in the world and the good Lord is getting a little upset with them because he's saying you're not listening to me you know what's confusing to them you see they know scripture too and the Prophet Daniel said said that when the good Lord comes again he will come on a cloud so they don't understand why is it that he's got to die and then he uses the word just like it was with John the Baptist being handed over now it hit home because he got beheaded and you know why they're not asking questions because they just realized what the question needs to be well if they killed the Baptist and they're going to kill you where do I sit that's why they're not talking to him and now they're getting all confused so he goes and gets a child and he puts a child in the middle and now he puts his arm around him and says this how you need to be yeah you know the Commandments you do don't you never mind there's only 10 may I suggest to you sidebar may I suggest you learn them now CU everybody in heaven learned them before they got there not after they got got there my point being is is he's saying okay you got the commandments so you say he said I need to make sure you understand that your life on Earth is going to be the Beatitudes and what's the first beatitude blessed are the poor in spirit who have a childlike reverence for God so I'm going to remind you while you're still here and you don't waste your time I'm going to bring that child and put him in the middle a fear of the Lord the child has a fear a dis appointing his parents he has a fear that they will get upset with him that's how you need to be with me so therefore your relationship with me is not this way I have a personal relationship with you I am a Divine being as well our relationship is this way I am God and you are not thank God my brother and sister in Christ now they're starting to get it and that he's saying you got to stop wasting time on frivolous arguments who is greater because that means you're not acting like a child which means you will not understand the Beatitudes which means you will not show up at the Pearly Gates Judas but I digress my brother Christ go back in scripture all of our best players understand the path that they're on and everyone that doesn't gets confused case in point my boy pilot think about who he is first of all you've been selected to run the area he considers it the armpit of the world the only reason he is successful is because he has the best best Centurion in the game in longinus that's why he's able to get things done this is the type of man that decided that he'd rather patronize the Jewish argument the Pharisees and allow them to butcher Christ and here's the real height of irony the same people that he gave into so that they could crucify Christ five years later he's arguing with them again over water rights he takes his own life sidebar everybody who judged Christ King Herod the Great looking for him to kill kills 2,000 us he took his own life his son Herod Agrippa that pilate kicked it over to to get judged as well before he kicked it back to pilate he takes his own life pilate takes his own life Judas takes his own life everybody who passed judgment on Christ took their own life what a waste of time but for every one of those there's somebody like Saul to Paul who realized man on his Road toas says man I'm going the wrong way and after 3 days of being blinded becomes the great and quintessential Paul no money no Fame no fortune but yet there's nowhere in the world he can go that they do not know him my brother and sister in Christ what if you're Joseph of arthea man you're a Pharisee and somewhere along the way you realize man the Pharisees are on the wrong path man it's there's he has the Messiah so much so do you know the courage it took for him to go see Pilate pilate is a butcher you go see pilate and you catch him he wakes up on the wrong side of the bed of nails let me tell you you won't get out of the meeting without being butchered here he is walking as a Pharisee to say you know what I'm going to give up my tomb man talk about on a different path about three years later according to tradition he loses his life proclaiming Christ as the Messiah Veronica steps in the middle of a path she blocks the path of the crucifixion so she could wipe his face tell me she's not on the right path man Simon of sirene we don't even know who this guy is next thing you know he's got the blood of Christ on him you know what I bet he never gets rid of his clothes but yet we don't know their last name we know just Simon We Know Veronica we know Joseph but yet their names are in the book of life because that means they were on the right path well now here you and I sit some 2,000 years later well let's see my brother to Christ rhetorically speaking are we on the right path that well let's see do you spend more time on your cell phone than you do in prayer you spend more time texting than you do texting a prayer my brother says Christ that's disordered I can almost promise you there is nowhere in that conversation you're having with somebody that I would believe get you to the Eternal Gates that salvation is waiting but yet on the other hand if you and I just spend a little bit more time Inay prayer let me ask you do you spend more time watching television than you do reading scripture I mean please watch the news it makes you feel so much better I mean come home at night and say man it got better during the day let me watch it so I can get a good night's sleep my brother Christ when you're in your car you might that might be the only 10 minutes you got a piece why wouldn't you not turn the radio off and your cell phone stop texting and say prayers because it might be the only time you can even get a Rosary in my brother and sister Christ you came in on this day you're going home on this day all you got all I got is time and it's limited our soul has a date stamp and on this day we will go home no negotiations no arbitration no mediation this day you're coming home to me and that's it and upon your death you will stand before me and you will be judged you had all the Time in the World to prepare your soul I brought you home when it was your best shot to make it and so how did I you and I use your our time did we spend less time on the phone than before did we stop watching television as much do we stop getting off our our our uh our cell phones and our little computers long enough to do something that was more devout and towards eternal life what path are you on my brother and sister in Christ do you understand we only have so much time and I leave you with this all we have is time to determine whether or not we will receive Eternal salvation all we have is time to determine whether or not we will receive Eternal salvation do not waste that time for your soul is at stake and that of your children and your spouse and your family it's your time spend it as you choose Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

attitude your attitude Theodore Roosevelt he nailed it he said it best he said if you believe you can if you believe you can you got half the battle one now imagine today you are the owner of a National Football League franchise you got the first pick in the draft you need somebody with Talent you need somebody that's a great leader you need somebody with a great attitude chances are you may need to look for a quarterback may I suggest Tom Brady just a suggestion okay I tell you what you are a National Basketball Association owner and you it's your first pick who would you pick in the draft back in the day somebody that was man the best player in the game or the best at the time maybe he's a great leader but at the end of the day it was his attitude I'm going tell you man it's you had to be your Michael Jordan but you know what the best kept secret if you're a Major League Baseball owner was you needed somebody that was Head and Shoulders Above the Rest but he seemed to be one of the guys needed somebody that had a great attitude a great attitude and a great leader can I tell you bar nun Derek Jeter but today you're the owner of the Cleveland Indians it's the 1940s and if I came to you and said tell me about your talent your leadership tell me about the attitude You' give one you'd give me one word oh You' give me two words we stink you get the first pick of the draft you calm the countryside looking for players man you go from baseball fields to softball fields you probably went to a soccer field and they do find one his name is Pete gray the boy is a base ball player I got to tell you shess Joe was probably one other that was just made to play baseball just like Derek Jeter Pete gray is the guy they go to watching he's batting 333 which is exceptional man that guy can run like the wind he can take a single stretch in a double double into triple if you give me enough room man it's inside the park if he's on first he's getting a second he's on second he's getting a third the man could flat run and can I tell you he could hit with power he could hit behind the runner he could hit run he could hit for singles he could hit for distance he could drive in runs and you want to talk about a gun for an arm I'm telling you that man had a cannon you could hit a hit a ball deep to right field he would catch it on the Fly throw it on a line which means there's no bevel in the throw all the way to third brace on the Fly that doesn't happen very often man they're so enamored with him you sign him Pete gray his first series is with the New York Yankees they had they're so excited about Pete gray who's almost the legend man they had Pete gray day he doesn't disappoint home runs doubles triples he's actually stole several bases threw a guy out from right field man everybody came to watch Pete gray pray then all of a sudden after the game is over they started interviewing the coach tell me one thing that we don't know about Pete he said he's got the best attitude Bar None he said it doesn't matter what's going on in the day Pete is going to show up and he's going to be in a good mood not happy gol lucky he loves what he does he loves being in the world he loves he's man after God's Own Heart man the reporter starts listening to it and says man okay that's great for the sports page it's great for the headlines but I'm going go talk to Pete himself Pete sitting in front of his locker the reporters start to come cameras people starting to record people starting to write he said Pete I got one question for you said yes sir he said I just want to know one thing would you be better than you are today would you be better than you are today if you had two arms see Pete's only got one arm and here's what's amazing if that isn't enough he was left-handed and that's the arm he lost he had to convert to be right-handed my brother and sister Christ it's all about attitude that is that gospel the disciples the excuse me the Pharisees have an attitude because he seems to be changing the rules he doesn't like the fact that they allow divorce and as a result of it you got to understand the Sadducees believe one way the Pharisees believe another way the essens believe one way the zealots believe a world under themselves and now all of a sudden they got this attitude because he's changing the rules now stop you're a first century Jew let's go back to what's going on here My Brother and Sisters in Christ you got to understand that there are the decrees of divorce among the Pharisees they have two different leaders one's name is Shmi shemai is very excitable a little more out of the box he's very very Paul esque actually he taught Paul prior to G he believes that you could divorce a woman if there's impropriety out outside of the marriage in other words adultery but if you go to halel who actually taught G as well who taught Paul if you ask halel he says if the woman burns the food you can divorce her hey hey hey I'm just telling you what they said easy does it my brother and sister in Christ so now all of a sudden they're caught and this is why they're blaming Moses and he says well back in Genesis man and woman were created together in the image and likeness of Christ and they came for from one another as a matter of fact the Jewish name is Asha for woman it's Ash I believe for man you can see the overlap right between the names the same way with woman and man there's an overlap because they come from one so now all of a sudden he's saying well you know Moses did this because you were Hardness of Heart what he's saying is is that you were bullheaded you were stubborn you were wrong remember Brother and Sisters in Christ remember this Moses is in the old Peter's in the new but when he told Peter whatever you bind on Earth I'll bind in heaven he didn't say I'll bind it in heaven you fix it on Earth he did just the opposite so Moses he basically told Moses the same thing you allow it I'm going to live with it that's why they're quoting Deuteronomy that you can leave if you need to now stop I know most Catholics believe that enement means Catholic divorce okay how many y believe in Easter Bunny because I got to tell you if you're going to buy that one you're going to buy that it's a Catholic answer to divorce because according to the Jews once you get married any problems after the marriage lead to divorce in the Catholic Church the analment the minute you say I do only goes prior to and backwards it has nothing to do what happened after the fact two totally different scenarios whatever you bind on Earth Peter I will bind in heaven it does have to be at times a very applicable answer so my brother and sister in Christ the pointed hand is about attitude and if you and I were to go back in scripture there would be there I tell you what there are three types of people in the world in that day same as today there are people that make things happen there are people that watch things happen and then there are those who wonder what happened the fact of the matter is take my boy pilot who as he's washing his hands you know he hates Jerusalem he thinks it's the armpit of the world and the only thing he reason he gets things done is he's got the probably the best Centurion in longus but at the end of the day he's not a big fan of Judaism well it's kind of hard to get away from that so now all of a sudden while he's washing his hands he's just wondering what's happening with this guy because he asked him what is truth well it's him he's so lost he's just wondering what's happened then you got people that watch things happen it's the crucifixion I'm may be a Jew but I had nothing to do with it I mean I ain't washing my hands but I'm just telling you and then we got brother and sister Christ we got people that make things happen my brothers and sisters in Christ that would be without a doubt Simon of sirene he was all three first of all he works his way to Jerusalem which I got to tell you that's no small Journey for him and he's got children and a wife he gets there all he wants to do is buy a lamb crucify it in form of a cross and have it with his children now you have to eat within the city limits if you will right so people are everywhere you can't eat outside of town if you get something on you or you touch a dead body or you've been exposed to a leper you are quarantined for S to 14 days preco just okay God good you got you're with me as a result of such all of a sudden he's wondering what's happening so he's attracted to the crowd then he's watching what happens and then he gets conscripted in the Army which could be anyway from a day to a week maybe up to a month which means man he may not see his children for at least seven days matter of fact now he's got blood on him so there it's a good another seven days you came all the way to Jerusalem you brought your family now you may not see him up to a month if that's the problem not to mentioned you got this murderer blood on you and then all of a sudden he begins to make things happen now look if you went back and watch the movie The Passion they got him they nailed him he doesn't want anything to do with it cuz this is wrong I mean what's two more pieces to these guys I mean you butcher people like there's no tomorrow as a matter of fact you get so handy at crucifying people you you use them as tiki torches to light the way at night that's right so if he gets caught C up and he gets up there and they're tired and they got two extra pieces of wood well just take care of him too we'll we'll kill four instead of three and then if you notice in the passion he starts to his eyes pick up and he realizes that the good Lord's falling and he says man don't let it stop here finish this thing don't give them their due and then when he gets up to golgatha you notice that he doesn't want to leave Christ because the minute he leaves they're going to put him on the cross and he feels that if he stays a little bit longer that maybe he'll buy him some time and the Galore looks at him as is to say I didn't that's not what I called you for Simon I just asked you to call you from here to here and you answered the call with free will you made it happen and now your name's in The Book of Life my brothers and sisters in Christ well now here we sit 2,000 years later the question is what about our attitude well let's see my brother and sister in Christ what is your attitude so towards somebody who wears a mask or doesn't wear a mask what is it of you my brother and sister in Christ what if a person chooses to be vaccinated or a person chooses not to let's make sure you understand the teachings of holy mother Church you have the right to an informed conscience it is your job and my job to decide what we do we live in a country where you got free choice to kill a child and now you're telling me I don't have the the choice on whether I should take a vaccine my brother and sister in Christ you have the right and what is your attitude towards them is it Christlike is it love of neighbor my brother and sister in Christ that's the point our attitude affects everything we do if our attitude is not predicated towards walking towards Christ then we are walking backwards you can't have both sides everything is dictated by your attitude you get up in the morning did you start with prayer or you bypassed it the traffic that cuts you off before you get to work what's your attitude when you walk in the door what's your attitude after spending so much day at work having fun you came home and man you spewed the Venom and now you've run everybody else's day what's your attitude when you take a test and it doesn't come back like you want what's the attitude of your employer if he pushes you into a corner what's the attitude of your co-workers if man they don't agree with what you do my brother and sister in Christ everything is predicated on your attitude that's what sets the table God travels to New York true story he has spent his entire life flying in and out of airports well before Uber came into equation this guy decided to take his own cab his own car he fixed it up he put in the back two thermoses of of coffee he put the New York Times the the sports page and he would cherry-pick people and says man I'll take it so when they come back through town they'd have his card he would go pick him up this is how limousine stver started the guy gets in the back of the C and he's just amazed wait they they got coffee they got the sports page I wow the guy gets in tells him his name he said here's my card sell number whenever you come in you call me I'll come pick you up man they're driving through town he gets caught behind that proverbial garbage truck true story he says somebody cut somebody off man that garbage truck guy throws it in park gets out and I'm telling you he is lit in that window of that car going upside this guy and back down the other the guy in the back seat says I'm a frozen what this guy's doing he is he's lost it he is truly quintessentially lost it he said the cab driver just moves around and goes about his business the guy in the back seat what was that he said just because someone throws garbage at your feet nobody told you to pick it up it's all about your attitude my brothers to Christ that's what sets the table your attitude of how you wake up in the morning look how many times you wake up on the wrong side of the bed of nails and man and you just spread the Venom you said well I'm not a morning person well let me help you you're probably not an evening person either oh man father you understand I had had my cup of coffee oh it's could to be more than a cup you know well father I need something a little stronger oh but you do my brother and sister in Christ your attitude sets the T aable for everything that you and I do our work our conversations our meals our texts our our Communications with others you know Lou Holtz made a great statement he said you know he said ability he says your ability dictates what you can do and he says and then you'll get a little bit better he said and your motivation will determine what you do he said but your attitude will determine how well you do it my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this it sets the table for everything you do for when you get up in the morning nobody nobody has the right to change your attitude nobody has the right to be in your mind to dictate that you should now become Moody and temperamental nobody has the right to dictate you that you should now be angry and begin cursing and losing control nobody has the right to your soul it's yours and if you don't claim it you're going to lose it to him and that's the point so your attitude must begin and end with Christ my brother and sister Christ I'm begging you start your day with just a prayer or mentioning his name before you get started so that nobody dictates the attitude that you bring to the table amen amen name of the Father and Son holy spirit amen thank you thank you <\p>

minimum minimum as in just doing just the minimum now the year is about 1850 his name is Reverend indig um yeah pedig Indigo pedig that's his name he's a reverend out of Florida and he is if you asked Reverend how's the day he'd say well it's good I like what I do I like where I'm at uh things are going well we have a nice little church we do our things life is good till the proverbial day the bishop comes the bishop says man Reverend tell me how is life here he said man I got to tell you I enjoy it it's good he said man I got nice little church people have been good we're we're we're holding our own man we're doing okay he said good he said man I I you know the effort you put in here in Florida is he said you're a maximum guy he said you're either all in or all out he said I so love that and I would love having you in Arizona man the Reverend says uh Bishop um how big a church do they have there well they don't they they don't what they don't have a church Reverend well how big's their congregation well Reverend if they don't have a church means they don't have a congregation he said well what about money he said money is No Object we have none he says Bishop he said man I you know I don't know he said look I need you because you're all in and and we got to put a church there if I don't have you then who do I send man he packs up and he goes he's walking into the town and headlines in the newspaper Reverend is no baseball player he's kind of a daisy doesn't drink doesn't talk to women kind of a recluse he reads this and thinks oh God I'm going to be a minimal now he said I'm not going to be able to do anything I can't do I mean what am I going to do I mean I ain't got no church iin got no congregation where do I go he says you know what I'm going do what I always do I'm all in he said he goes to the General Store tries to get some money little came there he said he goes down to the post office okay there's nothing there I don't mean that in a bad way don't worry I'll get an email about it anyway so as a result of it man he's going from store to store and then finally he's there's the saloon he said I cannot I I can't do that I just can't go in there and then he's look around he's got no money he's been he's like 0 for eight he said man if I don't go in then I I've got nothing I've got nothing to lose I mean look at the headlines for the for the love of God he goes in there he said as soon as he move opens the little the little flapping doors right he walks in he said the Music Stops they don't e they even stop pouring the drinks the one that was about to drink put his bag down the girls that were dancing have now stopped he said he looks around the room and he says man I'm all in I might as well finish this fight he looks around he said there's two guys that are playing poker in the back and they must have been playing for a while he said one looks like Lucifer himself he said the other one had to be his brother he said but based on the number of dollars on that table I got to go I can't just stop I can't I got to finish what I started he walks over and he says excuse me my name is re he goes stop Reverend I know know who you are I appreciate what you're trying to do he said man you got an uphill battle here he reaches over that stack he pulls out10 $100 bills and gives it to him he reaches in the other guy stack who looks at him like have you lost your mind and once you figure out who the guy is then you're going to know why he feels like he lost his mind and he dos out another $10 $100 bills $2,000 in a world to them which is the lotto he says' I don't know what to say he saidwell just keep me and your friend in your prayers welcome welcome to our little town of Tombstone I'm Wyatt her and this is Doc Holiday man it's all about the effort my brother and sister in Christ that is that gospel the rich man runs all the way to the good Lord he runs to the good Lord and what does he do he drops to his knees my brothers Christ in scripture if you believe beli Christ to be the Messiah less than half of 1% either knelt bowed or lay prostrate on the ground so for him to run and then kneel must means he acknowledges him as God now now stop he says what does it mean to have eternal life okay did you hear what the good Lord said accept me as your lord and savior spell my name right and you're in no he doesn't say that he never say Proclaim me to be the Messiah and that's all you got to do accept me as your lord and savior what does he say he turns to him and he gives him the Ten Commandments you know there's there's 10 right okay good never mind I was going to ask you about them anyway the point being my brother in Christ you notice he starts with four and goes backwards you honor your mother and father you're not murder adultery steal bear false witness coverage your neighbor's goods and spouse and of course the rich man man is yeah absolutely yep check check did that one check did that one and the good Lord says now let's go back to the very beginning you love me with your whole heart your whole mind and your whole soul then give up your money my brother Christ he can't you notice that we don't know his name there is no book of death that means his name is not in the Book of Life he's like the rich man that kept stepping over Lazarus the one that kept getting the dogs to lick his wounds they died on the same day we don't know his name either and he he didn't kill anybody neither did he my brother and sister in Christ what the good Lord is telling him is there are not suggestions they're not guidelines ask yourself do the people in heaven know the Ten Commandments and if you believe they do and you should ask yourself did they learn them before they got there or did the good Lord just give it to them after the fact you had to know him to get there to begin with my brother in Christ and you need to understand one other thing when he runs to the good Lord and He kneels before him and asking what does it mean to have a eternal life and he says for you are good and the good Lord says no one listen to what the good Lord is saying he never said the good Lord never said I'm not good he said no one no one person is good but God alone and then he starts giving him the Commandments obviously the good Lord said why do I tell you this because if you're Mormon or if you study Islam this this is what you're going to quote when they say that that Jesus is not God when the young man says and he says why do you call me good in other words I'm less than but that's not what he's saying he's saying call no one no one human otherwise why would he say here are the Commandments then he adds to the thing that you need to get rid of the Rich and then he says follow me my brother and sister Christ he is the Messiah that's the whole point he's saying you can't be a mentalist to get into my kingdom my brother Christ go back in scripture remember the parable where the good Lord gives he gives one guy uh five daer and then he gives another one like like two and then he gives the other one one he says go do what you got to do and then I'll come back and then the one that had five it doubled it and the good Lord says okay well now you'll have 10 to the one that had two he did good he gave him four and then the one that had it and buried it a minimalist he said man give it to me and he throws in hell he said I gave you all of these gifts and all you did was buried in the ground my brother and sister in Christ that's the point about being a mentalist one day Peter's walking with the good Lord tradition small te him and the good Lord are talking Peter never got along with Judas it was an ongoing feud to the point that Judas walking into Camp caused Peter to change his temperament he's he's been arguing with Judas all day and the good Lord is reminding Peter to forgive him this time Peter and the good Lord are walking he's just got into an argument with Judas he being Peter he's remarking to the good Lord so how many times again he says 7 time 70 infinite go back to lamech in the Old Testament he's saying it's infinite number Peter's counting 7 time 70 that's what you said because there's been a dozen since this morning okay so he's he's turned into a minimalist but Brothers Christ think for a second how many of you and I have turned into being a minimalist in everything we do okay I tell you what take work at work are you a minimalist I'm only going to do what I'm asked to do in other words this is what I get paid to do and this is what you're going to get stop whenever you put a decimal point on your talent the game is over all we know about Judas is he sold him for 30 pieces of silver my brothers Christ do never tie your name to a decimal point you do what you do because the good lord gave you the gifts Simon well man they always call on me Simon just answer the phone well you know I got family and friends and but you know you would think we don't have any siblings Lord because the only one phone that Rings is mine well that's because you're the only one going to get the grace Simon his name is now in The Book of Life I'm asking you to carry it because you can stop being a minimalist my brother and sister in Christ when you come home do you I tell you what let's do everything minimally I want you to drive halfway home I want you to fix your car halfway when you get home and somebody ask you to fix something fix it partially tell me how that sells I tell you what do your job halfway study for a test halfway do anything in your life and minimally and then tell me how you think you're going to get through it do your work do anything I tell you what pray half of Hell Mary pray half of our father or pray it with little to no intention don't you understand you and I come to mass once a week for an hour an hour we spend all week put knots in our rope we think one hour is going to take them all out my brother in Christ if you going to the same amount of mass as you went to last year as you're going to this year you've become a minimalist your soul is at stake the day the good Lord comes that's why that book was WR when a sword comes out of his mouth it it be like a two-edged sword he's come to Jud do you understand the very Nan second you and I die the nanc long before we can get over there to mcnees to get fixed up long before your clothes are God's Storehouse being sold to the next group of people before your golf clubs and car been given to all your nephews and nieces and they'll never take care of them you've already been judged on the day of your death there is no more Mercy Mercy took place from the day you came in and the day you go home the responsorial psalm your days are numbered my brother and sister in Christ why would you now be a minimalist well I went to mass every Sunday check I didn't go to any more adoration than I did the year before check for the big test for all eternity your whole life it day everything just passing on this life it's 70 80 90 years better and then we're done and for all eternity we based it on the minimum my brother s Christ I'm begging you please put more into this game make sure that you do pray in the mornings and evenings you know if you just prayed in the morning in the evening and once before every meal you prayed five times more than you did any other time imagine if you did that every day imagine if you just came to adoration for five minutes once a week my brother and sister Christ there in lies the point you can't be a minimalist when your Soul's at stake your children are relying on you your family is relying on you how is it that you and I going to go through life putting our best efforts to start our business to put our name out there to do our profession to learn our job we put out all the effort in the world but when it comes to Faith we just like we're walking backwards whatever it takes to check the block my brother and sister in Christ we came in on this day and I'm telling you this day is coming and we don't know the hour or the day but on that day judgment will take place and we better not have been a minimalist you want minimal results put out minimal effort you want great results it takes great effort I heard a great quote from a man and I wish I could remember his name he said I will give credit where credit it is do but I'll be bleep if I'm going to applaud fish for swimming amen the name of the father and the son and holy spirit amen <\p>

we as an the consumate team player not I or me his name is John John used to live in Austria with his father his father's decided it's time to move to Chicago the big city right the city of big shoulders as a result John says man it's a new world so I'm going to try different things I mean what better time to start I'm I'm very young I might as well get started he takes up boxing it lasts four maybe five rounds that's how longest boxing career lasted he said man I'm going to do something else as a young teenager he said man I'm I'm just going to start selling newspapers he starts out in a corner can I tell you it's his personality it just it just glows it just radiates he just never met a stranger so man he starts selling on one corner the newspaper notices that he's I mean he's they're refurbishing him with papers so they they said well man we'll give you half the block then they gave him the whole block then they started talking to him and said man maybe you ought to come help us I mean he's a teenager and he said man maybe you come help us sell newspapers on other blocks it gets so popular that man they actually want to bring him into the office my brother and sister in Christ then this car salesman meets him and says man you know John that's what I need I need your motor I need your your energy I need that smile I need that just glow why don't you come sell cars he said man I can't even drive yet he said that's irrelevant walk here sell the cars walk home he does he walks in the car lot and he starts selling car y'all they're moving them off the lot like they've never done it before and this goes on for weeks and then months and then John realizes and he talks to his friend and says look you know what we can do what we can do is why don't we go get two used cars fix them up he said because think of the people that can't get to work like you and I that have to walk what what if it's raining what if they got to the doctor's office what if it's too far what if they got an appointment they need to go to the grocery we'll buy two used cars we'll payt them yellow thank you Lord thank you it's a good day already thank you but oh there's a curve coming be careful as a result of it man next thing you know man he's he's he's moving he's he's driving cars he doesn't even have a license then all of a sudden the idea hits him what what about people that come from out of state like at the bus station the airport he said man we need to set up at the airport and he said and we're going to change our colors to Black and Gold oh please Lord tell me this can't be true right and then he says we're going to quote put you in the driver's seat OJ Simpson was the was the pitch person that's before prison okay it's his name is John Herz okay we were almost there y'all thank you you you built my hopes up really well thank you for that my brother in Christ it's all because he's the consumate we that is that gospel my brother and sister Christ James and John go to him and say we want you to give us whatever we ask can you imagine someone come to you I want you to give me whatever I have asked of you well sure take the whole Farm take the ranch take the cars take the house the good Lord kind of okay I'll play along tell me what is it that you wish we want to be on your right and on your left and Jesus is saying man be careful what you ask for now stop you going to even understand where they're going my brother Christ they're about to go into Jerusalem they're about to go to the Last Supper the crucifixion is about to unfold and all of a sudden James and John think he's going to Jerusalem because he wants to be put up on a throne and we want to be on the right and left of your throne now look they got good reason to want to go to Christ because remember they're at the Transfiguration they've seen Christ remember Peter James and John so they have some clout but this is why Peter is getting indignant at them because well that's just really peachy you guys you didn't include me in the argument you didn't ask that I'd be up there with y'all and the good Lord is telling them all you need to understand something the cup of which I drink martyrdom you will drink drink and the way I get baptized in blood so will you now brother Christ can you imagine you're John you go to the Last Supper the crucifixion is taking place you're running up the hill of golgatha with M Martha excuse me with Mary and Mary Magdalene and all of a sudden you see the crucifix get pulled up now they do drop him twice in the crucifixion so they got to pick him back up they don't tell you that part but then all of a sudden you see two people on his right and left get pulled up next to him that's what John realizes thank God for unanswered prayers because my brother and I would have been on his right and left and this is why he said it's not for me to give it's already been given my brother and sister in Christ what he's trying to tell James and John is you're not being a team player but someday you will be a team player James they're going to come and take your head off and you know what you're going to be all by yourself when it happens and John just because you think you're going to get out of the woods cuz you're younger well according to tradition they're going to try to oil you in oil and when that doesn't work they're going to leave you on the island of Patmos all by yourself for about some 20 some OD years my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are we players it's all about the team there's no me or there's no I you can't be a follower of Christ and be anything other than that but you know but there's people like King Herod King Herod this is the one that was looking to kill all the children right he's the one that they actually called King of the Jews that was his title he wasn't even Jewish he's an Edomite so when the wise men show up and he realizes it takes a year year and a half for them to get here he doesn't know where they're going because remember the star disappears while they're in Jerusalem so nobody knows where it's at they don't pick the star up until the wise men are outside the city that way Herod doesn't know exactly where to go tell me the good Lord doesn't protect my brother and sister in Christ Herod gets together and let me tell you how diabolical this guy is every disease known to man back in their day herod's got them all he's got so many diseases that worms have actually started to take or growing inside of him my brother Christ he can't even walk he can barely stand much less get on a horse he is so diabolical he kills his favorite wife yes so much for being number one and then then he kills his two he kills two of his sons do you know the day that he was he he said on the day that I pass he called his lead Centurion and said I want you to kill all of my counsel so that when I die somebody else will be crying my brother in Christ do you know they do exactly that he actually dies while eating an apple go figure my brothers Christ that's the consumate me it's all about me but for every one of those there's a John the Baptist you know when they went to see John in the desert everybody wants him to turn himself onto himself in other words it's all about you John John you're a prophet I am I'm not wait a minute you're Elijah I am not you you're the cistus I am not he's us actually using the word I am to get their attention that I am not my brother and sister in Christ here's a guy that wears camel skinny Locust and wild honey he knows his head is on The Chopping Block it's just a matter of time he's so concerned about being a reed blowing in the wind he has no care about what happens to his own life that's the consumate we player my brother and chrisen Christ there is no greater we player than St Joseph here's a guy that dedicates his whole life to be the protector and provider of the Blessed Mother so much so that when she's pregnant he's willing to be a team player and say look I will leave you not divorce you so that you can tell everybody I just walked away which would be true and there therefore I will be seen as just a deadbeat I will be seen as nothing more than an SOB because why because I didn't take care of you but then they would take the cast of The Shadow off of you that is a we player my brother and sister Christ when James excuse me when Peter and um and John are running to the tomb do you know do you know that John got there so much in advance that instead of going into the tomb when the Christ was looking for the the body of Christ he actually pauses and literally has to wait just so Peter can come and enter first that's the respect that he had for the position as the Vicar of Christ of Peter my brothers Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how good are you and I being a team player to be a we instead of a me or an i well let's see my brother and sister in Christ man that phone rings and you're about to sit down and watch your favorite show dancing with stars I say that with great courage cuz my mother is not sitting here in the front Pew and as a result of it you and I both know you're going to get on that phone and one hour later you're still going to be in the same spot you were before the same one that you were on yesterday the same one you were on the month before but you sat there and listened because they have nowhere else to go with it they're not looking for advice they're not looking for you to solve the problem they don't want you to jump in and cut them off and say well you think that's bad you ought to hear my world you just sat and you listened that's a we my brother and sister Christ how many times do you get that phone call when you're coming home can you stop pick this up man things are going hectic we can't get what we need done can you just pick it up do you do it or do we complain incessantly the whole way through when you get to work and the stuff wasn't done like you expected you just jump in and do it man it's no use pointing the finger just got to get it done we got to make it happen or we going to sit here and start pointing fingers or worse when the credit comes out we want to make sure we get the credit my brother and sister in Christ how many times do I see him interview an athlete and I hear nothing but the word I or me as if somehow or another the talents they have are innate there is no such thing as a self-made man there is no such thing as it's all natural brother sister Christ there is no such thing as all natural it's all Supernatural all gifts come from God but yet we don't give him acknowledge how many people that would take for a minute to me look I just let me just thank God for the opportunity let me thank the Blessed Mother for interceding on my behalf let me thank you prayers and my family have offered that I even have the opportunity to be here my brother and sister Christ when is the we come together man throughout the times man have we forgotten that you and I need to pray as a community that's why we have to come together not only to worship him we need to pray as a community why because one of us is always going to drop the ball and as a result of it somebody needs to pick up our slack that's why we have those statutes so that when you go home you're continuing to pray for the church so that we can continue to move forward you got statues we have 14 statues of the Blessed Mother how many have you taken home in the last four years we pray for the souls in purgatory of our own family we pray for you and I as we gather as a family we pray for our children we pray for our lost children my brother and sister in Christ if you haven't taken a statue home can I ask you why that might be because somebody else has been praying on your behalf 14 rosaries T night for 4 years and then you want to understand why we're growing it's all Supernatural it's the grace of God and the same goes for you and your life at home you and I need to pray as a family when the family falls John Paul nailed it when the family falls so goes the world look at where we sit my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this I am begging you to learn to come together to learn to pray as one one to make sure that you make the obligation and stop making it just an obligation you want to go to church we need to go to church we have to go to church because we need the grace to survive in a world that has lost its way my brother Christ you don't think it's going to fracture even more oh my God look at us I we can't even get the church on the same page there in lies the point you and I need to come together and learn to pray as one because I'm telling you what Ben Franklin said is true on the night of the Declaration of Independence he stood up in front of all the representatives and said if you and I do not learn we will learn quickly if we do not if you do not sign this declaration I assure you that we will either hang separately or we will hang together literally but we're going to hang but we might as well do it as one Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please please stand <\p>

perseverance perseverance finish finish what you started you don't have to win the race but you do have to finish it the year is like 1860 our country is about to embark on a great civil war Lincoln is done all he can do I mean let's be honest everybody's choosing up sides there's no one neutral here as a result of it there's no one neutral well let's put it up this way except for in a small courtroom in Atlanta Georgia about the size of our church it holds about maybe 150 200 people but today they've lined the walls for the fight man they can't wait to see this argument man the judge comes in he can't get over the crowd he hits his gavel brings the chur oh EXC the church to order he brings the court to order and he says okay counselor please introduce the two young men with you and begin your opening statement he said your honor this gentleman to my left is Phineas Miller Phineas is the moneyman the gentleman young gentleman to my right is the inventor we are here your honor because the people of Atlanta have stolen our product they are using our product and they are not paying for the product and we're going to prove it in the course of the next day or so fair enough turns the attorney on the other side the defendants attorney who represents the state and the city and the people he said your honor please we're God-fearing people I mean if if there was a product we would have surely acknowledged it and if we were to ever to use such and such we would have pray paid for it it's just that simple man the fight goes on for almost two days the noise outside become so unbearable even the judge stops the court and says look whatever's going on out there just turn it off stop it do what you got to do as a result that's exactly what happens as a result he comes back in he says look enough is enough he turns to the jury tell me what you feel there is no product you're we don't believe one ever existed we surely couldn't have ever used it and therefore we we believe no money should be paid phineas's friend the inventor is so beside himself he literally storms out the courtroom he's $50,000 in debt it's the start of the Civil War it's insurmountable he'll never make it as a result of it man he just can't believe what he's heard where does he go what does he do how does he ever make ends me he begins to walk and all of a sudden man the the guards come we're going to throw you in jail he said throw me in jail he said yes you owe $50,000 and he said well how am I going to pay it back in jail and they said that's your problem not mine they begin to walk him and then all of a sudden he hears that noise again it starts getting louder and louder he can't believe it he runs over he kicks open the Barnes door and there it is the Cotton Jin running smooth as silk his invention his product his name is Eli Whitney he he still goes to jail 50,000 in debt they finally let him out just because just out of pure Mercy 30 days later he gets a letter from President Lincoln asking literally begging him to make interchangeable musket parts for the muskets because it used to be if it broke you'd have to just go just go turn in and get another one he makes his fortune an interchangeable musket Parts all because he knows how to persevere that is that gospel now not once not twice three times bardus yells out son of David have mercy on me man they tell him to be quiet they tell him to shut up man son of David please have pity on me man can somebody please man son of David please I'm begging you man have mercy on me so they tell him to come you know what's amazing he's a blind man who Springs up takes the one garment that he owns and throws it away my brother and sister in Christ if he's not if he doesn't believe he's going to get cured he'll never find that garment he's got to walk towards the voice that he hears and you know what's amazing when he gets close enough to Christ you know Christ never touched him never put his hands on him and then the good Lord asked the question what do you want me to do for you come on y'all he's a blind man is entire life everybody knows who he is he's in Judea he's in Judah let let me explain how important that cross road is my brother and sister in Christ if you and I are in Jackson Mississippi and we had to get to Hammond we all had to go down 051 because if you cross over and go on the other side you'd be in Samaria which means it would be trouble you may not make it then you'd have to cross over and that crossover is Judea it's Judah this is where that blind man is everybody knows he's blind and the good Lord still ask him and then he tells him without touching him what do you want from me I'd like to see Master man your faith is safe you now stop you are a first century Jew this is what you and I know we know that whenever you hear the term bmus Bart means son of son of tus that's why we know that in the gospel of Mark he is talking to a group of people who are not very Jewish because he's got to explain that barus is the son of tus Jo Jesus they would call Jesus bar Joseph son of Joseph this this is why they called Simon Peter bar Jonah not the whale his dad's name was Jonah he's saying you're the son of Jonah my brother and sister in Christ so he's telling everybody that that's act you live in a me how many times have you told somebody oh man' you're the son of so and so and the daughter so and so well that's what they're doing the fact that he's doing it tells you they're not very Jewish my brother and sister in Christ here in lies the point all of a sudden he's now telling him that this guy has been here now remember remember this when he says when he gets up and goes to Christ Christ touches people three different ways in other words he didn't touch this blind man one blind man he actually got on the ground he spits into the ground he takes the dirt from the ground stands puts it on his eyes and tells him to go to the pool of Salam and wash which means go and see and then the other one he takes his hands he puts it on his eyes he pulls his hands back and says tell me what what you see the blind man begins to talk and then he gets confused people look like trees I'm not real sure his faith was starting to wne the good Lord put his hands back and then pulls them back again says tell me what you see and he says you're the Messiah this guy had so much Faith he didn't have to put his hands on it the reason the good Lord spit into the ground because in Genesis that's how he formed Adam so that every Jew in that area would now come to understand that he's actually redoing Genesis so they would come to know that he is God my brother and sister in Christ when the when the man got up and called him Master that's not the word that he used in their language he used the word raboni he actually used the word my raboni which means he already believed he would get cured my God you know what you know why the good Lord said call no man Rabbi because it means great one but for him to yell out oh great one my great one he already believed that's why he sprang up that's why he threw the coat down that's why the good Lord did didn't have to touch you because he already knew but you know what's amazing he still made the man ask him so no matter what you may think how small your petition is or whether you think you should ask the good Lord because well father he already knows that's irrelevant he wants you to ask he tells you to petition him in all things in St Paul of the Corinthians no matter how small or how great and repetitively continue to ask until the door is either opened or it's closed the answer is either yes or it is no you and I get caught up in the argument well wait man I'm just not going to ask him he already knows don't you as a parent know what your children are about to ask where in lies the point my brother and sister in Christ think about it and then he tells him he goes on the way every Jew sitting in that conversation whenever you hear the word the way it goes all the way back to Exodus because the way out of Egypt was through the Red Sea what led him to the promised land was the way the way to get from being a prisoner or being a slave to the land of milk and honey is called the way so for him to say he followed him on the way is now he recognizes him as Christ my brother Christ this man is the epitome of perseverance look go back in scripture Our best players are those that can take a hit and keep moving they can be hit multiple times and they keep moving they may start the race one way but they will finish it maybe in a different way but they will finish Paul let's imagine you're Saul you have Fame you have Fortune you have money you have Prestige you go from Saul to Paul overnight you lost all your money would you and I have stayed the course when you when the first time you went on a boat and it sank would you have continued to Proclaim Christ to be the savior of the world what after it sank a second time or a third time let me ask you would you still followed Christ after your first 40 Lashes that's how they would l you 39 lashes Paul gets this five sets of 40 my brother in Christ will you and I cut our losses Paul perseveres that's the point so does Peter you don't think Peter after all Peter goes through you don't think somebody down the W down the road didn't say Peter 30 years ago you denied that your savior ever you denied him three times and you're supposed to be the vicer he called you Satan would you have left then you cut a man's ear off would you have walked away from Christ then when you tried to walk on water but he does and albe he does almost drown but he does walk back to the boat Christ never carries him my brother and sister in Christ Peter and Paul are the height of perseverance man they are absolutely resilient so now here you and I sit 2,000 years later how persevering are you and I do we cut our losses right after the start well let's see you're looking for that right relationship are you willing to sit on your hands and pray instead of jump out of the box and probably date someone you probably shouldn't have will you persevere in prayer well father is not coming fast enough he's not listening well how's it working for you so far how many shipwrecks have you been in on the ones that you and I have chosen what about work will you persevere at being assignment that at work nobody else has your cell number but everybody has it when there's a problem what about at home you are you the only child that the phone rings yet you have other siblings when there's something that goes wrong with Mom and Dad or the grandparents or this or that and the other will you persevere even though there's plenty of other assemblies dancing the phone well Simon are you are you willing to take the hit he given you the grace because he gave you the ability to carry the cross will you persevere in your faith my brother in Christ will you go to one more mass will you go to confession once a year oh I know that's right I forgot that's right we can go once a year semiannually if we really get jammed up but because all I have is venial sins not anymore you got that my brother and sister in Christ venial sins lead to Mortal sins you need to go to confession the average holy person not saying you're not holy the average holy person sin seven times a day Proverbs don't go to confession for a month that's 200 don't go for 6 months it's about 1,200 don't go for a year it's 2,400 C don't go for a decade it's 24,000 My Brother and Sisters in Christ how is it that you and I got to persevere in our faith and when somebody asks you are you saved as a Catholic and correctly you need to tell them I was because of the crucifixion I am as you and I are talking about it right now so if lightning should happen to strike me and I fall dead the last words off my lips to his ears is him I would tell you my chances are better than are better than normal and then I hope to be because you and I can walk away from him whenever we want Judas is living proof I claimed to be the savior of the world I called him the Messiah I held a man's money and the last words he says to Judas you're the son of predition Satan entered him and have been better you never been born well if you would have made it to Heaven it would have been okay to be born there in lies the problem I I was I am and I hope to be my brothers Christ you and I need to persevere in our work we need to persevere in our faith in the teachings of our church you and I need to persevere with our relationships with our children with our parents with our neighbors Mur is Christ listen to me the world is losing its anchor it is losing its Runner it has nowhere to go we are going down a hill faster than you could ever imagine and I'm telling you if you and I do not hang on to our faith we will have nothing left to give it's all we ever had don't you see it's more important that you and I receive the Eucharist today than ever before it's important that you and I go to confession more than ever before it's important that you and I at least try adoration more than ever before have you ever tried to fast because if you have't Now's the Time to start you need to offer a sacrifice with your prayers if your prayers are not being heard I can promise you is because the sacrifice isn't great enough your intention isn't well founded you must put something else in the game that's what makes the mass so powerful because the sacrifice has just taking place my brother in Christ I am begging you may the devil pull it out of your dead hands I don't care where you start but you got to finish God is one the race you and I must finish it's imperative your Soul's at stake and that of your children and of your family if if ever time not let go of the Rope it's now I Leave You In the words of Calvin coolage about the 30th president he's the president during the Depression they asked him what's the most important gift you believe anybody could have he said well I can only speak for this gener generation he said this is the greatest Generation because they have the gift of perseverance he said if you have the gift of perseverance you will win the race education will not the world is full of educated derelicts Talent will not there's plenty of unsuccessful Talent throughout the world genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb the slogan push on will always and has always always what's would run the race persevere and finish my brothers and sisters in Christ stay close to your church pray with me so that we can stay together as a community I'm begging you hold on to it and persevere finish what we started our souls are at stake and that of our children amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

First Step the first step out the box first step in the morning First Response the first email the first phone conversation your very first step it's about the year 1970 maybe 1980 his name is Michael Michael is a New Jersey Boy very very Catholic Family as a matter of fact uh he has There is five siblings and Michael will tell you that high school was uh it was tough he said man I was too short he said when I go to Academy High School he said I'm too short so Sports is out for the most part women are out and he said man it's it was tumultuous and he said so I decided that I'd do something just to to kind of help I don't know pass the time he gets in a play called St Francis because of Catholic High School and then he gets another one called billion dooll Saint well when he's doing this his sister says look you're not going to make a living doing that so why don't you come with me and we're going to go to like like uh uh start up our own hair salon we're going to go start a college and we're going to go to college to learn how to do hair he said he walked into that room that college there was 40 women he said Thank You Lord you have brought Heaven to Earth he said this is great man Michael's got that personality that man he knew everybody in the class everybody knew him by the time he was left man he was he was the guy and man next thing you know man people are coming coming to him and he's doing hair he got so good at makeup that they asked him to go do makeup for the plays of which he was still performing and then next thing you know they started saying well look let's just give give him a bit part so they gave him a bit part and next thing you know man he gets another bit part in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Big hint big hint obviously not big enough as a result of it man he starts picking up little bits and pieces he illegal scholar he may not be a priest and in this case he is not he knows the letter of the law he knows Deuteronomy by heart so the priest would go to him to understand he would do a lot of the writings and as a result of it you couldn't write for legal opinions unless you were scribed so as a result he was teaching him that yes the shama is important now imagine every day at when you get up the first prayer you pray is the Our Father every day you stop at noon you pray the Our Father every afternoon you pray the our father if you and I lived at St Ben's they will pray seven times a day as all priests do and when that Bell tolds no matter what you're doing cutting grass working on the car teaching a class wherever you may be you have to immediately stop what you're doing literally stop what you're doing and say the prayer imagine if you did that every day and you did it every day for 10 years 15 years 20 years can you imagine how your life would be different that everything revolves around Christ that's what he's telling the scri is that you do come to understand it and you understand that it takes your whole understanding now brother Christ go back in scripture all of our best players know how to make the first step is their best step you Peter's best first step I can promise you it's the day he went home in toor Feria which is what we believe his his wife's name to be is today I've been called to be fisher of men if she doesn't buy into the argument we don't have the great Vicor Christus Kaa excuse me as his Vicor we don't have him because she has to agree that this is what has to happen that's his first step now look his next greatest step was trying to step out on water say what you want but there's 11 other guys in that boat and not one of them attempted to go I'll go with you Peter well let me help you or worse when he's drowning nobody goes out to help him I bet you if there's a painting of the Apostles when he's drowning I bet they all got those little alligator arms here grab it grab it right here I'm right here right nobody's helping the boy he's out there give him his doe he did walk on water matter of fact they didn't carry him back to the boat so he had to walk back his first step is powerful you know what's amazing in about the year 33 no excuse me 66 Peter's leaving Rome through the back way and he's leaving because they found out where he's at and they want to murder him they want to crucify him so the families agreed that if some something happens to Peter so goes the church so they're moving him and as he's leaving to go out the way who all does he meet he meets Christ Christ is standing on a boulder and the footprints of those Boulders are actually can be seen in a church and he's asking Peter Dominic quadas where are you going Peter Peter said man where am I going man I got to leave man they're after me and the church WIll Peter and Christ begins to walk back towards Rome and Peter says Dominic guus where are you going he said well if you're not going to stay I got to go back and be crucified again Peter's first biggest step after that is turning back towards Rome so that he could be crucified upside down and for three hours proclaims the gospel upside down all of our best players make sure that their first step is their best one think about Paul man you're you're Saul you got wine women song you got power you got clout you're the Pharisee man nobody has a debate even the scribes didn't like debating Paul and all of a sudden after three days of being blinded the first thing he does is go back into town and Proclaim Christ to be the Messiah you want to talk about a first great step my brother and sister in Christ what if you're long guus you know the one that stabbed Christ and all of a sudden man you've been caring him for three hours from 9:00 till noon y'all been walking to the crucifixion and all of a sudden man you've been watching him you haven't seen the blind sea you didn't see the dead rise you didn't see the lame walk but what you have seen him is Embrace a cross what you did see is him never complain one time what you did hear is him proclaimed to his father truly father forgive them for they do not know and for him to turn around and say truly that man was the son of God that is a great first step he resigns as Centurion within weeks within about a year or two they'll actually find him the same ones that helped crucify Christ and they'll actually cut his head off to this day we know him as Saint longus my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how great is your first step well it's safe when you wake up in the morning how is your first step man is first thing you do is you turn on the news are you kidding me what's worse as you come home and turn it on thinking it gotten better since through through the day look I get okay outside of your first cup of coffee let's get past that are you going to make your first step towards Christ where you'll actually sit quietly before the day gets started I don't care if it's one prayer I don't care if the prayer is just his name will you start out just saying his name my brother and sister in Christ you're getting too quick into the day the world's going to spin like a Vortex whether you're in it or not before you get in your car when you say a quick prayer saying Lord just get me there safely make sure nobody Cuts me off and I get all sideways ways man are you going to pray before you walk in the office you know how much love is waiting for you when you get there why don't you wait for a second and just pause and pray and before you leave to come home will you say another prayer so you don't throw up all over the dinner table because you're mad at the day my brother Craig don't you understand your first response to an email a text message something that's written on Facebook oh there's a great place to get in an argument have you lost your minds my brother Christ every thing begins and ends with that first step it sets the tempo for the whole day you got a choice to wake up in a good mood or a bad it's your decision man don't tell me that you wake up be father I just you know I'm just an angry person that's how God made me no no no no that's on you well father I'm not a morning person well let me help you ain't an evening person either heck you ain't even a night person the problem is is you and I got to make a decision is our first step our best one or not you only get to make it one time time stop pause and pray and I'll leave you the words with Muhammad of Muhammad Ali in the height of his career he said if you want to be the greatest it all begins in the very beginning with the very first step make your first step your best one you only get to do it once Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

price as in a price to pay everything comes at a cost and I'm going tell you this one guy Charles he knew from the get-go that he would have to pay a price and you know what's amazing he is a GU guy born in smalltown USA smalltown Pennsylvania it's about the 1970s he is one of 15 good Catholic Family it's true they are as a result of it man he'll tell you he's the only one in his family to get out of high school he gets out of high school and decided look the only way I'm ever going to make it in the world is I'm going to have to pay the price I'm going to have to take that next step up I've got to get into the armed services he ends up going to the Air Force I got to tell you does pretty good one of the few Pilots ever to get a purple heart I think he received the Medal of Honor as a result of it man he did pretty good he gets out of the army and realizes that man there's nowhere from to go there's no money so he's decided out of nowhere he tells his dad I'm going to be an actor his dad's a coal miner he said son I think that's just great you're on your own he said I know Pop there's a price to pay but I'm willing to pay it he said man his son had a backbone that was some type of Ridgid he said man he goes to New York City he works at a bingo parlor when you figure out this guy think bingo parlor okay as a result of it he meets his best friend Jack they decide to live together Jack is the poster boy for a slob as a result Charles is a Nee freak when you figure this guy out you'll never think this is him because it's not the guy who plays The Odd Couple you see Jack is and he goes to Neil Simon with the story of The Odd Couple and it makes it but I got to tell you Charles is still out there as a result he's got no place to live he's trying to do the best he can so he gets a a port in the movie um I think it was shotgun yeah I see that and then he's in the movie the Apache then he's in the dirty dozen Magnificent Seven Death Wish one two three or four yeah my brother Christ you know him is Charles Bronson and I'm going tell you he said he would pay the price again that is that gospel you got to be willing to pay the price he brings his Apostles now this is how it works in the days of the Jews he this lady comes up she is a widow hence the responsorial psalm hence the Old Testament reading of Elijah the good Lord watches over widows and orphans just like the blind Sea and the lame walk and the dead rise as a result of it he's watching and this is how it works just so you know she's all in she knows she gives her last last two cents she's not going home and there's more money back there for her to eat this afternoon she has nothing she's paying the price now this is how it works in the Jewish days there are 13 chest and this I tell you how big the court would be all the way from driving drugs to here would be just one big open area and there would be 13 chest and there would be like a big horn that you would throw your money in and it would trickle down into the chest the first the first chest has to do with your old tithe you forgot to you forgot to donate to the church last week so you double up okay I do want make sure you got that I'm G to say we oh we going y y'all going to get a heavy dose yes sisters and brothers absolutely you put then there's the new tithe then there's the one for the wood for the for the for the altar so if you brought to the altar a bull may I suggest you help buy more wood so they can offer the bull if you can't afford an animal you got another chest to put in whether it's a turtle dove a goat then you got another one that's for the incense so they can cough all during the whole sacrifice so he's watching to see where she puts it and then the last one is like for the for the upkeep of the church is what it amounts to he's watching her and he's pointing out because there's no way they would have known what she was trying to do that that she was trying to put it in to buy her last sacrifice now my brother and sister in Christ that is the whole point go back in scripture I I tell you what I tell you how good you are and you are at it my brother in Christ I'm going to tell you what they did the price they paid and I bet you know their names she was so consumed about touching Christ during the crucifixion she gave up her only Veil knowing full well she was going to disrupt the whole crucifixion and her life would be put in Peril because women had no standing well well said you know her name means true icon do you know how they would spell her name in their langu language ni I ke it has absolutely nothing to do with shoes just so you know my brother and sister in Christ I tell you he was a follower of Christ but the pressure got so great he kind of cow but he said you know what if I don't care what else happens in my life I'mma give up my tomb Joseph of arthea that's right if I tell you my brother and sister in Christ that pilate would not have a snowballs chance in wherever if it hadn't if he hadn't had the best Centurion on watch during the crucifixion of Christ for this guy to stand up in front of everybody and get rid of his 401k because once he Proclaim truly that man's the Son of God it's all over for him and a year later he'll be beheaded by the same men that helped crucify Christ with him do you know who he is and you know what his name means spear tip he's the one that speared Christ my brother Christ everybody's got to pay a price it's the price of being a follower of Jesus Christ we follow a crucified Christ that's why he's on the cross when you go to other places and it's just the wood and people ask you why do y'all still have Christ on the cross because St Paul says we follow a crucified Christ 30 years after Christ has already been crucified brilli of Christ if he's not up there two pieces of wood mean nothing that's the point my brother and sister in Christ he told you and I pick up your cross and follow me there's a price to pay to being a good Catholic there's a price to pay to being a good Christian my brother and sister Christ stop we're 2,000 years later are you willing to pay the price to be a Catholic in today's world are you willing before you eat in public in front of everybody make that sign of the cross knowing all too well somebody's going to look around that restaurant and see you do it there'll be one elbow there'll be a nod there'll be a look and you'll be almost dismissed are you willing to take that on and take that pay that price when you go to eat with your friends and they say man let's say a quick prayer and you're the only one that makes the sign of the cross and then they ask you why are you blessing yourselves will you pay the price to tell them I'm not I'm asking the good lord to bless me and for the food that he's about to give me if they say let us pray will you jump in and say I'll begin the prayer and you make the sign of the cross knowing full well that you're going to have to defend it will you pay the price then my brother sister Christ you're either in the church or you're out don't tell me you're Catholic and then say why father I got a problem with that whole confession thing no oh oh yeah you're right you do have a problem with it and it is your problem you see because Hebrew 5 told us I would choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves I mean I have to go to confession too oh you think I went in the mirror oh you sorry yeah I'm sorry okay come on down my brother and sister in Christ I mean I got to go too and what's worse he and I have to tell the guy we're a priest so in case he doesn't know us that way he brings out the appropri Hammer because we know better my brother and sister in Christ what about going to mass more you went to the same amount of masses this year as you went last year you're going backwards you're never neutral to him you went the same amount of confessions last year as you did this year my brother and sister in Christ the average holy I ain't saying you're not holy the average holy person sin seven times a day don't go to confession for a month that's over 200 don't go for six months that's over 1200 don't go go for a years 2400 say what don't go for a decade 24,000 what kind of relationship you have with all those dismisses confession was in existence in Leviticus before Christ came you would have to bring a priest based on your sin a cow a bull a goat a lamb I came to fulfill the law not to change it my brother and sister Christ will you allow me to anoint your parents before they pass because they need bread for the journey home oh no father don't worry about that well yeah you don't have to worry about it you ain't going but what about me what about him now my brother and sister Christ and let me let me just tell you this I understand that the president met with our Pope and I understand that conversation and if indeed the conversation ended with him saying you can receive then shame on them both if it wasn't said then we need to correct it but regardless of whether it was said or not said does not change the fact you need to pray for their souls because they're now both in Jeopardy it has nothing to do with you or me or what we know is true that if you're going to abort children or support somebody that does you are not to receive the Eucharist if you do not like the way that I preach may I suggest there's 64 other churches in my dicese because at the end of the day I got to pay a price and I'm not willing to pay for that one I've got my own sins bankrolled I don't need yours too my brother and sister in Christ if the conversation took place as it did shame on them pray for their souls because that is Mortal doesn't change the fact that you and I got a job to do and we know what is Right amen I didn't hear you amen yeah that's what I'm talking about my brothers and sisters in Christ there's a price to pay to live in this world you need to plant your flag dig a mo around it put a light on it and Proclaim it and may the devil pull it out of your dead hands that you are Catholic there is no backing up from it you either acknowledge Him or you will not who there is not a fence Between Heaven and Hell and if there was a fence it'd be on by the Devil Himself so when somebody asks you are you Catholic or are you Christian absolutely I'm Catholic for 1600 years you were either a Jew or you a Catholic the word Catholic means according to the whole it became so popular became Universal do not back up do not cow towel do not give in because at the end of the day mother church is true I am the flesh I am the word made flesh I am and you and I get to receive him every Mass you stick to your guns and may the devil pull it out of your dead hands when you're through and I leave you with the words of Vince Lombardi the only time success comes before work is in the dictionary pay the price Amen in the name of the father and son and holy spirit amen 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on guard to be on guard to be awake your head up being vigilant be on guard his name is Jean Jean would tell you his life Wow tumultuous he said man I grew up in San Bernardino California and he said man it's it's a it's a good world he said my mom is the Quin essential mom my dad he works for newspaper he does you know little editing here and there and he said but by the age of 10 man they they get divorced and he said man my life is upside down I'm in high school I'm trying to graduate he said I get caught up in petty theft petty crime stole a little bit here stole a little bit there stole a little bit everywhere then I get caught and then I go to jail and then man my life he said man they they finally get me out and then he said you know I'm just going to go to the Marines four and a half years he said his Sergeant wore him out he was a radio operator he said man if I can ever get out of here I'm going back to California I'm going find something to do he goes back to California he's dead broke he meets up with one of his closest friends they decide that Thursday or Friday it doesn't matter okay you don't know the movie it doesn't matter it's okay look and then all of a sudden he gets apart as a preacher in the movie Poseidon Adventure oh no this is going to be ugly my brother and sister in Christ he goes from that he's in a movie called Runaway Jury it's excellent okay maybe not then he's in a movie called The Firm he's in a movie called hooers okay y'all it's Jean Hackman okay okay oh but please look him up okay so you know what I'm talking about man they they interviewed him afterwards and he said you know the one thing that always led me to succeed after the Howard Johnson incident after the incident in the hotel he said I was always on guard every opportunity to St make a good step forward that's what I did a chance to do better than I did before I took it it was a chance to get out in front of people that's what I did he said my head was up he said I never allowed myself to get beat down again that is that gospel the good Lord is telling his Apostles and he's trying to make it clear to him there will come a day when I will come back again and it will be as tough as you can imagine he said man the sun will fall from the skies and the moon will go dark the Stars will fall and man everybody will be running and he says you know y'all can predict Seasons because you look at the flowers you look at the plants you look at the world and say man it's going to be getting colder it's going to be getting warmer he said the problem is you don't even know your own soul my brother and sister in Christ now stop you're a first century Jew stop you're a Jew you and I are in the garden of Mount OT which is right across if you will it would be like a 100 yards in front of of the city of Jerusalem where you can see the temple he's talking to them about the temple now look as a Jew this is what you and I know if you and I would have been privileged to walk inside the temple we would have saw on the wall like this would have been the big curtain right here the curtain there had been on the front door only the high priest comes in these areas and then only the high priest goes behind the curtain to incense hence he wears the centure so that they can pull him out if you and I could come into the church we would have saw along the walls all kind of like rivers and streams and beautiful plants and fruit and pictures of animals the Garden of Eden then you would all would have seen all the different buildings that have been built in the future they actually believe the temple was the universe that's what they're confused about this is why he's talking to them and said look when the temple gets destroyed I'm going to rise raise it up in three days just so you know Christ is talking them in the year 3032 the temple gets destroyed in the year 70 just so you know how bad it was this is why they thought the end of the world was coming they killed over 1 million Jews in 3 days they crucified over 500 Jews a day they destroyed the temple and the only food that was left were your dead children oh yes that's why he's saying don't get confused about the temple there will come another time and that time when I come my brother and sister Christ I will call every everybody from the tomb listen to what I'm telling you I tell you what Catholic trivia when the good Lord goes to see Lazarus at his tomb does he say come out or Lazarus come out thank you well done $10,000 to each of you feel free to collect it from whoever you wish because if he says come out then every tomb opens up he's got to call you by name names are important in the Garden of Eden they're called man and woman they don't get their names Adam Adam I ground until after they get kicked out of the garden that's when Eve gets her name that's why you and I have names so when you hear the name Jonah Noah don't think it's makeb believe those are proper names oh oh I see you think Jonah's make believe oh that's right it's that whole whale thing well L I mean come on father he built a whale and he stuck a guy in it he died in the whale read the parable able my brother and sister in Christ it's a funeral durge he's singing why would Christ use the name Jonah in explaining to the Jews that you're looking for a sign and you got already got the sign of Jonah and just like he descended to the dead so will I why would he use a make belief story to talk about his three days where he descends to the dead my brother and sister Christ be on guard look go back in scripture all of our best players are either on guard or fell off guard or fell asleep go back to Garden Eden when man and woman are in the Garden of Eden what does he tell them to till the ground and keep it actually he said Shamir till the ground and guard it why Lucifer's coming in the form of Levon a big uh a big dragon my brother and sister Christ stop I can already see where your minds are going the snake issue is a result of the sin in the Garden of Eden it's leevon that shows up the big dragon he literally intimidates Eve into making the mistake and why does he go after Eve and not Adam cuz Adam's right there it's not like the boy's out fishing he's not down the street why did Adam get mute listen to me Mama because if he gets you he gets your whole family mama don't pray nobody prays mama don't go to mass nobody goes to mass mama doesn't say let's make the sign of the cross nobody makes sign the CR if Daddy ever gets in the game now we're formidable but here's the problem this is why the good Lord said on your belly you shall crawl do you ever ask yourself why he said that I mean the snakes already on the ground so what's the penalty well it is a big penalty if you had wings and you flew over creation as the as the great angel of Light and when he Clips your wings now you're on your belly you shall crawl my brother and sister in Christ now fast forward to the Garden of Gethsemane three times he goes to his Apostles and they're sleeping he tells them to get up be on go guard cuz who's coming this time through the possession of Judas Lucifer my brother and sister in Christ throughout scripture people need to be on guard think about it Joseph of arthea is on guard the one that gives up his tomb he's already thinking ahead that if I don't give this place a place to stay then where will they bury the Messiah he's on guard he's got his head up he's paying attention what if you're Peter say what you want about him but he's on guard because ultim at the end of the day he's crucified upside down and what about his wife poor Fe area nobody gives a her do you know she's martyred just hours before him you know his last words to his wife would go with God she has to be on guard as a matter of fact she's got to be on guard on that proverbial day when he comes home and says honey home I'm home I would give my right arm to hear this conversation honey what did you catch uh well not what you think I'm going to be a fisher of men well that's just great but we ain't got nothing to eat so how about you go back out and catch some fish men and get it done my brother and sister Christ that's what I'm talking about being on guard now here we sit 2,000 years later how on guard are you are you on guard with your eyes so that you don't make sure you watch the right things don't get caught up the greatest sin of our day is pornography it's dominant a close second is slander you ever ask yourself why St Joseph statue always has him looking down because he made the statement that lust enters Through The Eyes my brother are you going to guard your eyes or you going to guard your lips when people come to say something man you know we got 40,000 words in the English language but yet when it comes to cursing we can't find another word 40,000 words and you got to say GD MF that's out of the mouth of Lucifer himself you can't guard your lips could you guard your ears so when people come up to you and they say man you know what I heard you know what they said look it's true as if somehow another that justifies you tearing somebody down the sin of detraction is Mortal bearing false witness against your neighbor means you're not a true witness to Jesus Christ which means you do not love neighbor and therefore you trash him even though you say it's true which is totally irrelevant has nothing to do with nothing nobody said be the town crier so please guard your lips make sure you guard your ears when you hear these things about other people and how about we just pray for them my brother and sister in Christ will you guard your faith and protect it and learn it the more you learn about Christ the more you will love him the more you love him the more you'll learn about it and the more you learn about him the more you'll love him and it's a big cycle and then pretty soon man your whole day is is my my my cup is nothing but you Lord you are everything just like the responsorial psalm my brother and sister in Christ you need to guard your thoughts thoughts lead to words words lead to actions actions for him habits the most expensive real estate in the world is right here you know three people have access to it totally and completely you and I do he does and so does he and when you get that thought in your head in the middle of a mass it tells your mind to go wonder when you get that thought in your head and start thinking about things you need to do this afternoon do you ask yourself where it came from do you ask yourself when the thought into your head man where does that come from did it bring me peace bring me anxiety bring me worry depression despair does it lift me up and tell me where I need to go my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you you need to guard your thoughts because at the end of the day this is where the fight begins and I leave you with the words of pogo of all people I have met the enemy it's me amen I've 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think think stop stop and just think before you speak my brother and sister in Christ the years is about well it's about 1776 and I got to tell you Alex is a thinker his ability to just think outside the box he's constant he's contemplative by nature and Alex is kind of like he just sees things days weeks months before other people he was getting and part of the Continental Congress Alex decides to tell him look there there are four things we got to have he said our country our colonies we need more land than just these on the coast he said we need to go west we need to have a capital and the capital needs to be DC he said we can't have any debt he said debt will strangle a country okay good I don't have to explain that one and he said he said not only can we not have any debt he said it's Paramount we have a treasury so that no matter where you go in our colonies our country that you can go to a system a bank that somehow another can get your money back and forth and so you don't have to come all the way to DC these four things are Paramount as a result man he's thinking about it but you know and guess what I got to tell you eventually Alex will become the first US treasure we've ever had but here's the problem it's it's the Revolutionary War and it's off like a shot so now he's part of the colonist they've devised a plan to attack and take over DC hold it until Washington can get there to secure it because if we don't have a capital we don't have much as a result of it they get into a battle Captain Knox takes Alex and his men and they start attacking all of a sudden the command ERS tells everybody to fall back well Alex doesn't get the memo he's stuck well now he's Behind Enemy Lines because the Red Coats have overrun so now he doesn't know what to do Alex is a thinker he is got it as a result of it man next thing you know he's trying to decide man do we make a run fart do we just hold fast do we just fight it out he said all of a sudden he hears a horse coming up he said man you can feel the anxiety starting to rise in his gu they're in this like this Foxhole he said man he said he told everybody stop think he said if it's a red coat we'd be hearing more than one horse let's just see what's going to be said all of a sudden this man comes up he says we got to go we got to go now this is the only break we got we got enough light from the moon it's dark the soldiers are still probably back at camp we need to run we need to get to bluffington bluffington road now man there's my boy alex he's sitting there saying you know what only the colonists know it as bluffington Road no way a red coat would know he gathers his men they take him and he gets him out and man he makes it home free he lives to fight another day you know Alex and you know him as Alexander Hamilton here's what you don't know he spends his whole life thinking about the country it needs to expand we need to get rid of the debt we got to have a capital he said man I need a banking system and he becomes Alexander Hamilton the head of the treasury and then one day one day he loses his thoughts emotions get the best of him he gets into an argument with a guy his name was Aaron Burr and he gets in a duel and Aaron burrow kills him over words emotions the height of irony it was the same guy who saved him in the Foxhole my brother and sister Christ that's what happens when you lose control and you stop thinking that is a gospel my brother and sister Christ the good Lord is fr a pilate and he's answering the question with a question he's trying to get pilate to think so are you the king of the Jews Christ has to respond is it you says this or is it the group that you're with well I'm not a Jew am I well then how did you know to say that you're the king of the Jews he's trying to get pilot to think man it's not pilot think for yourself and don't let them think for you well then you must have a kingdom well if you say that I have a kingdom but it's not of this world now stop pilate okay you're a first century Jew this is what you need to know when you go visit pilot the only reason you're in front of pilot it's a life or death matter see he can bring death he can bring death into the world you could be jaywalking and if he decides it's over pilate is the type of guy if let's just say you drop something and he's in a bad mood pilate would cut your hands off and hang it around your neck for dropping something this is what you're dealing with he wants he he he's all about Rome so now all of a sudden Christ is coming to him and this this mob is starting to grow so the good Lord is saying look even though you're a pagan you believe that there is a God so if my kingdom is not of this world think pilate think then I must be divine esque this is why he asked him yet a third time so you are a king well those are the words that you used think for yourself my brother and sister Christ he's trying to get pilate to think on his own pilate can determine whether someone lives or dies as a result of it we know the crucifixion my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture this is how powerful it is when people don't begin to think on their own remember the story where the young man uh there's a lady caught in prostitute tion you ever notice they never get the guy okay I just thought I'd run that by you real quick I noticed none of the guys are laughing I digress on that issue okay a scribe comes out who's very Jewish and he says you know according to Deuteronomy and you are a Jew right Messiah then this woman needs to be stoned we believe the woman to be marry magalin as a result of it he saying it out loud because within earshot is a centurion who's going to report to pilate to say well let's see where he goes with this because if he says Stoner pilate's going to stick his finger there through the Centurion and bring him off so what does the good Lord say man the good Lord is a thinker right he's thought he's the essence of thought my brother and sister Christ he kneels down he begins to look at each and every one of you like he would have looked at me and then he would have started to write with his finger into the dirt and he would have looked at you and he wouldn't have wrote your sin into the ground because that would be calling you out that would be imprudent it would be a sin he would write the symbol of the sin so nobody could recognize it except you and me and our sin so he's writing them in the earth and then he stands and everybody begins to leave he does this twice you know what every Jew just realized that the Prophet Jeremiah said that if your name's written in the earth you're going to end up in hell that's why is riding their sins in the earth my brothers and sisters in Christ he's telling them you need to stop and think what you're doing before you do it because there may be a price to pay and if you're willing to pay the price so be it but think before you speak my brother and sister in Christ when they ask Peter Peter wait a minute you ever notice Peter's denial every time they the lady asking by the charcoal fire wait a minute aren't aren't you aren't you friends to the Messiah oh no wait a minute aren't you part of the 12 no next time it gets even bigger each denial gets bigger first it's just about me then it's about the 12 then he starts talking about that whole understanding that whole genealogy he's denying even being tied to him through um through your families my brother and sister in Christ he got caught up in emotions this is why the good Lord goes to him and says Peter do you love me well man you know I love you Lord Peter do you well yeah Lord Peter do you love me Lord you know everything you know that I do well then you better remember that because someday you can be crucified upside down and for three hours you're going to proclaim the gospel he's telling Peter from this day forward you better think before you speak because whatever you say I'm going to bind on Earth and I will bind it in heaven he doesn't say I'm going bind it in heaven and then I'll get to you on Earth you tie it down here Peter and I will secure it up north my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how good are you and I are thinking my brother Christ think before you act think twice before you speak My Brother and Sisters in Christ before you judge somebody stop think the measure which you judge others is well that's how you and I are going to be judged man cry before you curse stop think there are 40,000 words in English language you can't find anything but GD and MF that's out of the mouth of Lucifer himself my brothers Christ before you gossip don't just don't you shouldn't even have to have a thought you need to let it go it doesn't matter if it's true it doesn't matter way you think it's true no one said you're the town crier nobody said for you to spread it the mortal sin is now on you in me and every time you pass it the sin comes back to us so if they pass it the 10 people congratulations you picked up 10 sins all moralistic you can't even receive bearing false witness the eighth commandment is not being a true witness to Jesus Christ it's not love of neighbor it's love of self and as a result because it's true I have the right to detract from somebody's honor there is no greater sin in the world today than that stop don't my brother sister Christ when somebody asks you about your faith stop and think before you decide when somebody comes for you for advice stop think did they even ask you for it my brother and sister in Christ when somebody comes up to complain stop stop and pray for them before you finish every conversation will you stop and think and say man let me pray for you before you start your meal can you stop and think and say let me lead you in prayer and begin in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen my brother Christ I'm telling you we get emotion tied we get so filled with it somebody says something and we're out the box I mean we get an email a text message man we're sending one back we're making sure we tell the next person comes in the door we we talk to our family about it we talk to friends about it man next thing you know we are out the box we can't even stop ourselves let me remind you my brother and sister in Christ people may forgive you and I but it'll be a while before they forget remember the words you chose tomorrow you may have to eat them and I'll leave you in the words of Winnie the Pooh you know I give you Alex alander Hamilton and you don't have no idea who this guys is I give you Winnie the Poo thank thank think amen amen please stand <\p>

in person to show up not to mail it in be there in person years about 1812 man our country wh our colonies are about to Embark in a great War it's inevitable Britain is going to send the Armada look their plan is real simple we're going to send our Spanish Armada the greatest Fleet in all the world not just in size but its ability and Capac capacities Uncharted they're going to go into Chesapeake Bay we're going to take over the local town there in Chesapeake we're going to mass our troops right there we're going to March all the way to DC we're going to destroy the capsule we're going to burn it to the ground and then they will know that they are only indeed colonist and they are not of their own country that is the plan we're going to do it in person my brothers and sister in Christ sure enough the Armada shows up they take over the ches bay they get out in the port and man they are there in Mass just outside of chesap Bay now there's a little a little town called Bladensburg most of us have never heard of it like now as a result of it man they get there and I got to tell you it went down in history as the greatest disgrace ever for America you think a number of people died at gburg Pro writer share Bladensburg was even worse ver they said man they had Farmers out there they had women men children because it was everybody was called because if we don't stop the Red Coats then man where does it stop it won't as a result of it man I got to tell you it was a blood bath it is so bad that not only when the Red Coats finish they said there are so many bodies on the ground that you could actually cross from one end of the battlefield to the other never touch a blade of grass as a result of it they head to DC they burned DC to the ground including quote the White House matter of fact they burn it all the way to the ground and we rebuilt it we only had white paint there you go that's where we get it but Burns Christ meanwhile while they're burning the capital to the ground they need a doctor they go to Bladensburg and they find Dr Bennis they ask Dr Bennis man look uh could you get some doctors together nurses somebody he said look stop until I see it with my own eyes until I'm till I'm there in person how do I know what to do as a result man he goes and he says it's cornage everywhere he said he did more amputations more surgeries he buried more people he even did the funerals farm he said for two weeks solid I never stopped he said that's how bad it was and as far as the the rumor that you couldn't walk across the field and and and and touch a blade of grass he said that wasn't a rumor he said that was true he said he finishes up by the time he finishes up he's heading back to his little town which is just outside of Bladensburg this is where the Red Coats came back to stay after burning DC he's walking through town and since they've been there for a while man they've been drinking pillaging plundering man he walks in his town and he's got buildings on fire he's got people been raped and pillaged he's walking through town they are drunk as you can imagine Two Soldiers approaching and decide that they want to do what they want to do you know you could picked a fight with a lot of guys Bennis wouldn't have been the one as a result of it can I tell you he beat them two guys like rented mules he beat him so bad he brought him to jail he left him in jail next thing you know he goes back to his work well they escape the jail go all the way ches Bay they get the Admiral who's in charge of the whole Armada they put out a warrant they go get Bennis they capture him bring him all the way back to chesap Bay put him in the bottom of a boat and latch him to the bottom of the hall man the colonists are enraged I mean it they didn't start this fight first of all they didn't you weren't even invited next thing you know V only was doing what any other man would have done as a result of it they need an attorney so they start combing the sign they said look let's be honest there's only one guy that we can get that he has the respect of the crown but the admiration of the people he is a colonist his name is ke he's that good they get him they bring him out to the to ches Bay he meets with the Admiral he says Admiral I understand you have a you have a Dr benis here he said I am here in person to tell you you need to cut this one loose you don't need the headache you don't know what's coming just cut it Loose let's walk away he said I'm not cutting him loose and I'm not letting him go he said well look Adam let me tell this is going to play out 2third of your men 2/3 were put together by this doctor that you now have in the bottom and he can hear the conversation he said the other third he ended up burying not to mention all the colonists that he helped so if indeed y'all quote when the war end quote you're going to need him here so I would suggest you let him go he said you know what okay he said I tell you what we'll let him go but I can't let you leave the ship right now because we're about to start bombing he said so I'm going to ask you to stay here not much he can say about it he acquiesces he said but when it's over me and benis leave he said' that's correct buiness is down below the deck he says man key I can't thank you enough for coming to get me he said man if anybody had came in person man I would have known it would have been you he said what's going on out there he said man the bombs are flying he said there much so much smoke and he said you ought to see the the red glare oh man yes Lord half half Lord have now understood he said man When the Smoke cleared I could still see the flag we truly are the land of the free and the home of the brave man you know him it's Francis Scott Key but if he doesn't show up in person then he never we never have what you and I now know as a star spangle Banner my brother and sister Christ that is exactly the gospel the good Lord shows up in person Incarnation that's important to you and I now stop he goes into the River Jordan and before I digress let me just tell you you couldn't pick a more polluted river if you went out of your way to find one he goes into the river to get baptized he's trying to tell you and I I got baptized you got to show up in person and be baptized I showed up Incarnation you got to show up in your person now stop this is what you need to know the guy that wrote this gospel his name is Luke Luke never saw Christ Christ had already come and gone never met him did not have a divine revelation like St Paul who was Saul who was thrown to the ground we don't he doesn't have that he is a physician by trade do you know his gospel is over 18,000 words okay it may not seem like a lot it should but you know the average length of a letter in their day somewhere between 50 to 75 maybe 100 words 18,000 words he's the only one that talks about the prodical son he's the only one that talks about um helping the S uh like the Good Samaritan he's the only one that talks about John the Baptist's birth you know what's amazing we actually think he has a great relationship with the Blessed Mother because Luke is the only one that spends time talking about her because in the gospel he actually says that Mary pondered these things in her heart well how would he know that she pondered in her heart if he doesn't sit at her side just to understand my brother and sister in Christ almost the whole Rosary comes from the Gospel of Luke My Brother and Sisters in Christ you need to understand too that Luke is telling you about John the Baptist now let's make sure you understand something there are several rivers nearby that you could have gotten baptized in this is why he chose the Jordan when they cross into the promised land where do they cross at the exact same spot that he is getting baptized who is the guy that led him into the promised land you know remember when Moses takes a million roughly a million Israelites away from the Egyptians remember okay remember when Charlton hon does it okay good you understand right when he finally gets out there he's there for 40 years only two people two of the original 1 million people reached the promised land there were others but that's different Generations that tells you how many people quote get saved end quote two made it yosua and Caleb yosua in Greek his name is Jesus so where they cross over is where he's getting baptized if you were to look on a map it's the lowest place in all the world so Christ goes from the highest of the high to the lowest of the low when non goes to see Elijah he says to him you need to get baptized in the River Jordan seven times non is a leper he is a general the only reason they're putting up with this leper is he's that good of a general as a result of it he goes to every river but that one finally one of his cohorts his lieutenants if you will non can you just walk in the river seven times and let's do this and go home look if it ain't working it ain't working but man we've gone to every river now the seventh time he comes out it falls like snowflakes off of him my brother and sister Christ the good Lord showed up incarnation in other words he came in person look my brother to Christ he shows up at the wedding of canaa for seven days you know why he shows up at the wedding of canaa because he's telling you and I when you want to get married you need to be physically in front of me in person so therefore don't mail it in I don't want to hear about you going to the beach I don't want to hear about you did it at your friend's house well you know that beautiful annabellum home well you don't understand the setting Lord yes the good Lord is everywhere but he is more he is physically present and in person here in the Tabernacle that's why you and I have to show so when the good Lord goes to anoint people he goes to their house to anoint them how would you feel if you called up on the phone said father I need you to come come quick you need to anoint my dad my mom my in-laws man you got to come father and I said well here just put him on the phone okay that's mailing it in my brother in Christ that's why the good Lord made sure he went to the wedding to Canaan my Christ that's why he walked into the Jordan that's why he made sure he went to the house to anoint this is why he makes sure in Hebrews 5 I would choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves look we are all Thomases if you don't show up you would never have seen it now look stop for a minute you and I are the River Jordan the good Lord walks out there we're not really sure who he is we do notice a lot of people talking pointing staring talking about it then all of a sudden the heavens open up in their language skismo Schism he actually tore the heavens open and then a dove descends you hear God the Father speak this is my son who I am well pleased the dove hovers over me and then John the Baptist baptizes Him Father Son and Holy Spirit make sure you understand if you were still standing after you heard saw this the Heaven's terport or you even heard God the Father speak my brothers Christ the reason the dove he comes in a physical appearance is so you and I could recognize it in other words if the Holy Spirit comes but we don't see it for he is the wind as you heard in the responsorial psalm then you and I wouldn't understand there's a Triune God he's doing it so that you and I can identify remember they are distinct but they are not separate I.E the Triune God I say God the Father you say oh yeah I got it I say the son you say yeah that's Christ if I say a dove or tongues of fire you say oh I get it they are distinct but they are not separate my brother in Christ everywhere Christ went he went for a reason he shows up in the synagogue on their Saturday afternoon from Saturday excuse me Friday afternoon to Saturday that means you and I got to show up in person look go back in scripture all of our best players show up in person look Mary magdal what if she wanted to mail it in it's it's man it's Sunday morning I ain't getting up Mary hasn't moved even though she already knows her son's resurrected I can't find the apostles so why do I want to get up I mean really a boulder soldiers please because she doesn't mail it in and she shows up in person she's the first to see the Risen Christ and I got to tell you Peter's argument later in life Lord why did you show yourself to magdaline and not to me you know what his words were you know when I was up there I looked for you you weren't there in person but she was my brother and sister in Christ you ever ask yourself about John the Baptist when he's in prison about to be beheaded he takes two of his best players he says go see Christ and when you see him ask him are you the one or is there somebody coming afterwards he's not sending them for him y'all he was baptized in the womb remember he dances in the womb when Mary intercedes by her greeting first intercession prayer I digress he's baptized in the womb so much for only being baptized when you can stand on your own two feet and Proclaim when you're 18 or 19 you've accepted Christ as your lord and savior what a joke I had another word but I'm glad I stopped before I got to that word my brother and sister in Christ imagine when the good Lord says did you not see the blind see the lame walk the dead rise my brother Christ the reason the Baptist is sending them he wants them to be firsthand Witnesses so when they go out and Proclaim they can say no I was there in person I saw it I touched them I brought the blind person I brought the [ __ ] he's trying to prepare them for what is to come my brother and sister in Christ what if what if what if Paul decides I'm going to mail it in I'm not going to help Titus I'm not going back to cre I'm not going to ephes skip corth I'm just I just don't have time for it anymore my brother Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later the problem is we've gotten used to mailing it in that's the problem my brother and sister in Christ in the middle of the of the whatever you want to call this pandemic whatever you want to call it if there's ever time you and I need to be in church bending a knee it's right now and man we run in in fear but yet father I me father I mean I father father I I can't I can't get there I I but where were you this weekend well we had a ball game got it whole weekend whole weekend man man father I couldn't find a church we had the ball field man we had games and we had this and we had that and wait a minute did you find first base well yeah well then you should have found a church my brother and sister in Christ you're panicking because at the end of the day you don't realize that he is God and we are not and if there's ever a place where you would be most Sav may I rest assure you and tell you that would it not be here would not receiving him not be worth some validation would you say that if there were lepers between you and him on the way to the journey to go Sim that you would actually stop and turn around and say well there was too many lepers in the way as if the guy on the other side couldn't take care of that prevent it or cure you but yet we live in a world where we don't even go back to mass my brother Christ you got to stop just watching it on television you say oh I you know I watched it on television well kudos for you but at the end of the day did you receive the communion if I'm not in you and you are not in me you do not have eternal life what is what my brother's Christ he's not not going to come down in person instead you stick your fingers in my hands and your hands in my side so that you may believe my brother and sister in Christ think about the sisting chapel God the father and that massive painting he's reaching out with his finger and there's there's Adam on the other side reaching out there's a gap about this much between the fingers might as well be a mile it's free will my brother and sister Christ you and I got to stop mailing it in you need to start coming back to mass are you going to go to adoration even if it's just for a few minutes when is it going to come back and be part of your life if Christ was here physically standing in front of you would you not make sure you came by every day oh father but you don't understand I mean when I go by the church I make sure to make the sign of the cross well he thanks you for that but why don't you stop in and visit with him it's the difference between writing a letter and showing up my brother's Christ you got to show up in person he did it what's going to be our excuse man if you man I Lord I was just too busy my brother's Christ on the day you and I die on the day we die that nanc no mercy only judgment remains but yet when I talk to families everybody's in a better spot everybody is in a better spot what a Croc no way no how the gates to heaven are small gates to hell are large my brother and sister Christ I'm begging you stop mailing it in get to church do some time in front of them in adoration bring that water down have peace in your life and I will leave you in the words of Martin Luther King if you can fly fly if you can't then run if you can't run then walk if you can't walk then crawl but for the love of God show up in person amen amen name of the father son holy spirit amen [Applause] <\p>

intercession as in to intercede on somebody's behalf to stand up for someone it is well before the Revolutionary War and I can tell you it's it's stunning if there is a postcard that God could have created it's the island of Tobago y'all if they would have said the garden of paradise is the garden of Tobago I would have to agree the water is turquoise esque this the beaches are our Sands are white as you can imagine the foliage is green there's palm trees it's absolutely stunning it is a postcard of postcards anybody that goes to Tobago the hard part is leaving except for well Captain Paul this one day in Tobago it's let's just be honest it's horrific he it's a shipwreck here's how it works Captain Paul runs what they call pressure cookers those are ships that go from Britain to Tobago they drop off Goods they pick up a lot of goods and they go from Tobago back to Britain they don't get their money until they get back to Britain my brother in Christ when I tell you they called them pressure cookers you got all these men on the ship you bring all these Goods you get to Tobago you You're basically trading Goods so that you can go back and sell for a greater margin when you get back to Britain the problem is man things get a little heated things get out of control this is Captain Paul now you got to remember now from the age of 10 saltwater ran in this guy's veins by the age of 22 he already had his own ship he's now about 25 and man he's leading it into Tobago he gets the goods he gets them off he gets his Goods back on sure enough one of the guys has decided I want my money now Captain Paul he said it doesn't work that way you and I both know I can't pay you but he says well I'm not going back and I said well I can't help you because I don't have the money for that that was the deal he said well I want my money they literally throw Captain Paul off the ship he's got a decision as soon as he gets out of the water he's up on the bank he doesn't even know what he needs to do the guy literally intimidated him almost off his ship he said I can either go back and fight for what's mine or I'll just live with the the horror of doing what I've done as a result he goes back on the ship he tells him this is how it's going to be you can stay here I'm not mailing your money back I'm not sending with the next ship you can either follow me back or you can just live here and do without the guy begins to attack him Captain Paul runs a sword through him and kills him here's the law on the island of Tobago your fault my fault nobody's fault we're going to find a tall tree and a short rad that's how we solving this problem from jayw walking to whatever they have no crime there nobody's around to tell about it my brother Christ so what happens man he's on the lamp he decides to become a store away he gets on on another ship that is now Bound for the the colonies he lands in all places Virginia now he's he's a stow away so he can't be out in public so he's trying to decide when to get off the ship and there's this older guy who likes to come out he just loves to watch the ships come in he loves to see the different flags likes to watch the different cargo he likes to see people barter back and forth everybody knows this guy he's he's an icon I mean he's he's got the intellectual capacity he speaks different languages I mean he's an inventor he does it all he sees Captain Paul sneaking off he finally just kind of meanders over his way and next thing you know Paul just stuck he said man look you I just need your help I man I he said stop stop I'm gonna help you he said I'm in the colonies for a reason too he said tell me your story so he gives him the whole story he said look don't you ever tell that story to anybody and from now your name is John Paul don't you ever go back to your other name and he said ' this how it's going to work I'm going to help you I'm going to intercede for you and someday I'm going to ask you to come back and help me or help our country sure enough man it couldn't have been a year or two he goes to him and says I need your help you know who he is because the fact of the matter is he had great quotes like one time they asked him when the war is about to break the war the Revolutionary War they asked him so do you want peace he said look let's make sure my name is Captain John Paul and here's my feeling if you want peace I do too I don't want Bloodshed no Bloodshed I'm good with peace but if you want war I'm going to be an active participant he said I'mma tell you you better give me a ship that's fast because I plan on going In Harm's Way okay so there are no history majors here okay I got it he said I I have yet to begun to fight John Paul okay for the six people that passed history here God bless you my brother and sister in Christ here's the irony the guy that interceded for him what is n other than Benjamin Franklin my brother and sister in Christ that is exactly that gospel the good Lord is at a wedding it's going to last for seven days my brother in Christ The Blessed Mother comes to him and makes sure you understand they are out of wine now stop you going to understand how this works you and I lived 2,000 years ago you and I get an invitation in the mail okay they don't have the mail anyway you get an invitation to come as a result you and I travel all the way to Canaan you and I may not have sandals 90% of the people in their day do not only the very wealthy have sandals as a result of it there's a right or it there's a tradition that when you come to somebody's house they give you a bowl and they have a vase out front and they actually put it in and you wash your hands and your feet otherwise you got to go out of the way of the river wash hands and feet track it all the way back into their house this is how they used to do it in the temple so they brought the temple right to the home so when you and I get there just so you understand this too Christ probably didn't have sandals either why do you and I believe this to be true because at the crucifixion if he would have had sandals that would have been the first thing they would have gone for Not His Garment come on his garments are already got enough blood and everything else on it they would have gone for sandals I digress my brother Christ so when he gets there you and I would have washed our feet they're there for seven days it's so important Christ be there we don't even know the name of the couple that got married it's been 2,000 years later this is why we get married in the church so that we can be physically in front of him and not on a beach not in annabellum home and not at somebody's backyard yes God is everywhere but he's only physically present in the Tabernacle hence why he shows up at the wedding of canaa wherever Christ shows up the Jordan to get baptized the wedding to Canaan to get married he goes to people's H to anoint him to sick he goes to the synagogue and breaks bread he shows up you and I have to show up my brother in Christ you can't mail it in before I lose track my brother and sister in Christ they're there for seven days this is how it works 360 59 days 358 days you want to get married to a young lady you got one year to get your game together you got one year to go get a job build a house y'all are engaged the wedding has already been set as a result the last seven days is this wedding you go to the wedding after it has been proclaimed that you're married then you go to a house and it's usually being lit up by people carrying lamps you remember the story about some of them didn't have their lamps ready some of them were out of oil that's where he's going with it you got to be prepared for however long the journey is from that house to where they're going my brother in Christ think about what's happened his mother comes to him and says they are out of L he says woman there's only one other person been called woman that's Eve in the Garden of Eden remember her name is W woman she doesn't get the name Eve till after they're kicked out of the garden that's why you and I have names but brother and sister in Christ if we all still live in the garden there would be no sin there'd be no reason for names now we have names because we're accountable for our actions my brother and sis in Christ as a result of it he calls her a woman do you know what she says when he says my hour is not yet come he's saying at the crucifixion I will be the seventh jar for you will stab me even after I'm dead and I will bleed that's why there's six candles next to that Tabernacle because he's the seventh candle he's the light of the world he's the seventh jar my brother and sister in Christ you know what her last words in scripture it's the wedding of Canaan it's his first miracle do whatever he tells you we never hear her speak again so when people say that we we adore her we just just venerate her as the mother of God my brother and sister in Christ go one step further those six ceremonial jars are the foot washing and handwashing jars Christ is making sure that you can't accuse me of hiding six jars somewhere else he tells them to fill it all the way up to the brim so nobody could say that you added a little bit on the top and then that's what you gave me my brother in Christ that's the miracle behind the miracle that's what I talk about wisdom and knowledge you're starting to learn the truth that the the Lord is going to put other Miracles That You Don't See till you actually grow in maturity my brother and sister in Christ when she tells him that he saying I'mma do this miracle for you but you do understand that the very second this happens I'm no longer your son and I'm no longer quote mom and son you're now woman and now I'm the new Adam you're the new EVE it's the marriage foretold by Isaiah my brother and sister in Christ that's how P ask you say wait a minute you're God I tell what you're God all of a sudden you come back in the world what's going to be your first miracle well maybe if you want to tell people you're a Healer may I tell you what cure a leper if you do a leper then everybody would say man what powers maybe it would be the one on the on the boats when you rebuke the wind to let everybody know that nature is under your control better yet maybe your first miracle will be the blind sea I what get a dead person to rise man now all of a sudden that's a great miracle why does he choose this one to be his dominant Miracle he does it because he's telling you that this is where salvation will come it will come from my side as the seventh jar it will be the mass and that will be the Miracle of Miracles that I will feed you long after I'm gone and for all eternity for my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink that's why he chooses that as his first miracle my brothers and sisters in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are people who intercede he intercedes because the Blessed Mother intercedes My Brothers Christ if I were to ask you don't raise your hands you don't have to answer it's rhetorical if I were to ask you outside of the wedding of canaa when was the first intercessory prayer not the Old Testament in the new when was the first intercessory prayer go back and think Mary goes all the way from from Nazareth to the town of Judah she goes there because Elizabeth is pregnant when she walks into Elizabeth's house at Mary's greeting the baby leaps in her womb another words John the Baptist gets baptized when Mary walks in and greets them Elizabeth gets baptized and recognizes her as the mother of God when she intercedes for them when she greets them that's the first intercessory prayer all of our best players are always speaking up for other people go back my brother Christ think about uh go back in the old T Joe here's job that's had an absolutely horrific day he's lost all his camel all his sheep all his cattle and I'm not talking a few head here and there it's hundreds of animals he hadn't even sat down and had breakfast yet then the bad news comes seven sons and three daughters all gone the only thing out of job's mouth is naked came I in the world and naked will I return you know what's amazing two of his F oh excuse me three of his friends elf has I think Bill dab it doesn't matter who the other guy is has decided that man you need to curse God they rail on job to get him to turn because look how I mean how can a loving God allow this to happen where's your God now well all of a sudden the world does turn and job gets blessed even more so as a result when those three guys go to pray to God do you know what he says to him oh no don't you pray to me you get job to intercede I will hear his prayers my brother and sister in Christ it happens through all of scripture people are always stepping up my brother in Christ did Mary not step up for Elizabeth and John the Baptist does St Paul not step up and go from a from Saul to Paul to intercede for people Gentiles you and I if we don't have Paul I'm not sure where we stand in the church well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and sister in Christ how good are you and I at interceding for other people oh oh oh I see it I see it in your face no father you don't understand I have been praying for my sister I've been praying for my child I've been praying for my grandchildren my boy can't get out the woods if you if you pulled him by hand every time I pray for him something else happens we're in alcohol We Got Drugs we're we're about to go to prison uh we're pregnant we got this problem we can't pay our bills we we we're spending money like a like a bu drunken Banes why do I I'm going tell you what stop no pray for nobody nobody gets nothing now we're good because now we're going to find out where bottom really is and you thought your child or your grandchild or your spouse or your family your friend is Fallen you stopped praying for him now you and I are going to find out now where bottom is your prayers have kept them from falling all the way what you don't understand is that if you stop praying nobody is praying behind you you are it so when you get mad and you said father if I pray one more prayer I'm going to spit spit now get back in the game because we're getting killed out here oh no father I no no father no I'm I'm no I'm not I'm I'm g go home I'm G have a few drinks I'mma kick my neighbor's dog I'm I'm gonna pout drink kick your neighbor's dog any order you want and go pout get back in the game because the day you decide to stop praying nobody's praying my brother and sister in Christ think about it you and I are of a generation where sometimes prayers start to fall off the back of the truck it's the first thing we jettison but the truth of the matter is we need to maintain that it should be the last thing we jettison instead of trying to put our hands around things we need to start putting our hands together my brothers Christ you need to start praying for your children and your grandchildren and for your spouse I tell you what this week okay that's way too much today today you cannot not pray for yourself at all you can only pray for others and let me tell you something don't say father I I I just can't pray I just I just can't pray for Francis you think he's going to get better without him my brother and sister in Christ you honestly believe that the person that you hate the most the one that could drive you to drink by the mention of their name they could Rob your peace as you were sitting out on the beach enjoying the beautiful sunset nobody's out there you got that big old glass of holy water you're just enjoying the day somebody comes out and mentions that one name you want to pick up your umbrella wrap it around their neck drag them into the Gulf plant it in the bottom and walk away smiling when somebody has that much control over you may I suggest if you ever want them to change to pray for them because that's the only way they're getting out of it when you learn to pray for them they no longer have an attachment pretty soon you start feeling sorry for him my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you you got to pray for other people and I leave you with the words of Mark Twain he said and and I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact quote he said kindness intercessory for somebody prayer kindness is something that the deaf can hear and the blind can see amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

right thing right way right thing right way to be prudent my brothers and sisters in Christ his name is Harlen and Harland is a poster child for imprudent it ain't never the right thing and rarely the right way if it is the right thing he surely didn't do it the right way he is out of the box he is uncontrollable he is irritable as a matter of fact if you were to take a picture of him and put it look it up in the dictionary it would had cursing like a sailor I don't think the sailors had the vocabulary of Harlot as a matter of fact they they talked to him one day and he said you know I was a boring loser quote and quote his words not mine he said man my life was just tumultuous he said man my my dad dies when I'm five he says I get kicked out of school because got too many fights he said next thing you know he said man I decide to get married I come home one day and seen her since he said my life is out of the box and the problem is is he's just a he's just he's just a walking accident looking for a place to happen remember Christ he decides man I'm going to go to the Army so he goes to the Army he stays there he makes it barely he comes back out he's decided man I'm I'm gon to I'm I'm going to go be a blacksmith he goes be a blacksmith he decides he wants to work for the fire department he works in the fire department then gets in a fight gets kicked out of the fire department decides he wants to go sell insurance gets into a fight with the insurance people next thing you know he's kicked out of there he decides Harlen wants to go to law school don't explain how he gets there he gets there gets into a fight in law school gets kicked out of that everywhere he goes it just seems like Trouble Follows him right thing right way not in his vocabulary he next thing you know he's decided he's going to sell tires he works on a ferry boat he finally is 58 years old he sits down with the one person that he find could trust and he said Harlen you know your problem he said when that thought hits that head that jaw opens up and man you you just can't get out the way he said if you could learn to do things the right thing the right way could you be prudent he said man your life would be better he said man you're 58 years old he decides you know what all I know how to do is be a short order cook he said I'm going go cook here's the deal at the age of 60 according to the United States you got to retire he works a year and a half he gets one social security check he's decided that I'm just going to do my own little business so he gets it in a hotel the hotel burns down and burns his business he is beside himself he gets into a fight with one of the guys that's renting the building next thing you know they're thinking about sending them to jail finally har said you know what I'm I'm just going to sell him a recipe that's all I got he finally has decided I'm going to do the right thing the right way he actually had somebody else help help him sell it just so he doesn't fly off the handle you know what's amazing is that you and I still visit it today he's done that well with it he said that his his his original recipe was the original oh please Lord please not another day I went through last night it was a shipwreck it was finger looking good yes my brother and Christ Harland Sanders right the colonel you know what's funny is every time they put him up there in that little white suit and he's all look so happy now you know the rest of the story my brother and sister in Christ it's the right thing the right way that is the whole point of that gospel this is why Luke is writing it it's going to be done accurately and only with firsthand Witnesses now stop stop and listen your first century Jew Luke is uh my brother C is not an apostle he is not a firsthand witness he is writing it to a guy named Theophilus yes his name means friend of God but most people had names that would translate something along the lines of something religious or holy or endearing to God but when you say most Excellency then I got to tell you you're probably replying to one or two people in the Kingdom he's writing it because already Mark has written a gospel Matthew's in the way of writing his so a lot of it he wants to make sure and verify so he's telling him I'm going to write the story for for you so that you'll know that it's accurate and in order very credential right thing right way now he says I'm going use Witnesses but only firsthand Witnesses it can't be Paul who he's a follower of because Paul's not necessarily A firsthand witness so here's the problem he says I'mma use Witnesses which we believe are Mark and Matthew my brother Christ their Greek word for their for their firsthand witness is autopi autoi is actually how that translated roughly you know where you and I get it from oh you use you know it all too well if there is an accident a homicide or murder somebody passes they call the coroner in the coroner go in and he brings it back to somebody to examine and they do a what firsthand witness that's where we get the word from my brother in Christ that's how far Luke is going he is going to interview everybody to make sure they are a firsthand witness before he even writes their story that's the extent that he's willing to go to now remember he's telling you a story of Christ going back home his first homy in his own Hometown the sinagogue is no bigger than this church and as a result of it he's going to speak now there's two ways to do it he can either be the first reader which is the law the first five books or he could be the second reader the prophets because he's reading from Isaiah you and I know he's reading from the second reading he reads it they give him the scroll of Isaiah right 66 chapters the most dominant player in the day he reads from it in basically telling them that what you just heard that I'm the Messiah that the Holy Spirit has come upon me that this has been fulfilled he gives a homy 10 words what you just heard has just been fulfilled and then he sits down now my brother in Christ I dig maybe the hom Soul form I don't know but at the end of the day it's all about just being exactly what it is right thing right way look go back in all of the script all of our best players are those that are credential that think before they speak they do it the right thing the right way but for every one of those there's always there's always a guy like pilate pilate is in the armpit of the world he doesn't want to stay there y'all he's trying to get out his wife Claudia is begging him not to judge Christ because if he does then then their life is going to get even worse this is a story according to tradition this is how imprudent talk about doing the wrong thing the wrong way that's pilate pilate tells his wife that he's heard about this guy named the cistus Claudius says look I know more than you think I'm telling you you need to leave that man alone and let him go what she doesn't tell pilate is that one day she gets a caravan soldiers in the front soldiers in the back about 10 Caravans and slaves walk along the side this is how they travel she travels almost a three days journey to go find out where Christ is it's it's a little no nothing town she gets into town every look everybody knows who's Claudia Claudia gets out goes looking for Christ he's down by the river she goes down by the river to see she brings with her her slave and two of her ladies with her when they get down there she keeps the three behind her she walks up to Christ and says I've come to tell you and when Christ sees her he stands he knows exactly who she is yes he's God but relative to the human Essence and she says I've come to tell you you need to stay away from Jerusalem he's getting close now right his time to go home it's coming close the crucifixion and she says you need to stay away people think the reason you're hiding is because you you don't have the power anymore the good Lord puts his hands up and he says well what do you say Claudia Claudia says I think you're a holy man I think you're more than a prophet and I think you might as well you might be God he said I see have you come here to figure this out and she was honest and she said I think so right thing right way he says bring your slave over the slave comes over he has no tongue it's been already cut out that way he can't gossip about what happens in the Kingdom that's why they do it as she didn't do it she didn't want it done but it was done prior to her existence I leave I digress he brings it over there now here's what the slave got to decide right thing right way do I gleck and bow towards Claudia or do I do it towards him if I do it to if I do it towards him and I don't do it to her they're going to bury me right where I kneel because I've disrespected her the slave's got about two seconds to make his mind up and you know what he does he turns towards Christ he actually puts his faith into the ground takes the good Lord's foot and puts it on the back of his head right thing right way he didn't even believe that he could even look up even to the bottom of his Souls of his feet as a result of it the good Lord picks him up he opens his mouth and he takes his two fingers and he places it in his mouth and then he says I want it and then the tug begins to expand Claudia calls the ladies over she's she's not in shock she believes what she just saw she is so enamored that he is now now the cistus then she says Lord here's 40 pieces 30 pieces of silver the price of a slave and here's the slave and he said oh no you keep the money better yet give it to him but you let him go free and then I he asked him to go back and Proclaim in his home country that he indeed is the Messiah so when Claudia goes back and now she knows that he's the Messiah this is why she goes to pilate and says you do not need to be judging him in the movie she looks at him when he's about to give judgment she walks away from the window why because he turns to Christ and says what is truth it's standing right in front of him right thing right way man you just how imprudent how rude how wrong my brother and sister in Christ for every one of those like pilate there's a claudiia somebody that thinks before they speak say what you want about Peter man Lord tell me if it is you tell me to come come Peter man you say he was imprudent walking on the water well then what happened to the other 11 guys in that boat and let's be honest he did walk on the water out there and he did walk all the way back the good Lord didn't carry him say what you want about Peter that often times he misspoke but I guarantee you 33 years later when he's crucified upside down and for three hours upside down proclaims the gospel that is right thing right way we have 12 statues out there in that Garden of all guys that gave their life to Christ guys that were speared guys that had their heads taken off one guy was skinned alive one guy was saw in half another was just beat to death with a club all because they knew at the end of the day it was the right thing the right way well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and S Christ how quick are you and I to run off the reservation how quick are you are to lose our Prudence man it's a beautiful day we're driving down the road somebody cuts us off and man we just lose it if we don't give them the whatever we don't flashing with our brights we don't pull up alongside of them we don't have comments in a run running documentary everywhere we go what happens when you get home and somebody asks you the wrong question how quick are you to fly off the handle my brother Christ when you get to work and all that waits for you when you get to work are you imprudent when somebody ask you a question my brother's Christ when you go home and all of a sudden man one of your parents calls you and ask you yet again how to work the remote I speak of that one honestly and she's not here to defend herself so how what courage I must have my brother's Christ you and I have a tendency sometimes to be imprudent when we speak because our actions get the best of us I'm telling you you got to stop you got to pause a minute you got to do the right thing the right way just because you did the right thing you still got to do it the right way if you got to correct somebody maybe you ought to pull them off on the side and speak to them and get that volume back down my brother and sister in Christ it's both and you can't do the right thing the wrong way or the wrong thing the right way it's got to be done the right thing the right way it must be credential I tell you the story one day there's a king he can't decide who should take my place he said I've got three of great Colonels but all of them sometimes I don't know if they could if they're going to do the right thing or not so he sets up a test he says I'm going to send each one of them to go visit this other king I have a friend of mine who's blind and I'm going to stick him out front and I'm going to tell the three Colonels to make sure that when you go there you see a guy out front he is blind ask him where where to find The King and I want to see how they handle the situation first Colonel gets there said excuse me sir have you seen anybody come by here resembling the king he said I'm blind I know that have you seen anybody hear anything what no I haven't next guy comes he said sir I'm over here he's waving he said sir as he turns because he hears the noise of I would imagine you're probably waving to me like I can't see you I can't I'm blind uh how can I help you I'm here I'm supposed to be talking to the king uh where is and he talked to him he said sir I I can't help you with that finally the third guy comes up he said excuse me sir I understand you are blind by chance were you aware of anything going on rela to the king I'm I think I'm supposed to be here to meet someone he said and you will be the one and you will be the new king because you speak prudently the right thing the right way my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with the words Abraham Lincoln you know he said it's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt but I also tell you this and I don't remember who said it be careful of the words you choose for tomorrow we may have to eat them amen amen name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

rejection rejection sarily rejected what you had to say what you had to do what you did how you acted sarily rejected no good deed goes undone man the year is about 1950 or so and he's about he's he's about yall he has um he has a very round face he is very he is very English he has has the little uh the little neckers on he's got the little white shirt he's got the tie uh it's collared all the way up he's got the white socks from the shoes all the way up to his knees so there's about like this much of a gap his shoes are polished and he's extremely intellectual and that I mean in England he would have been the bee's needs but you're in America you're summarily rejected I mean you don't dress right you don't talk right you're not good in athletics and you're very intellectual and plus you look like a little cherub like a little Weeble you could stand him up no matter how you rolled it as a result of it man he's you know he just wants to fit in so his dad decides look Al what we're going to do is I need you to go talk to the sheriff bring him this note talk to him and I need you to come back his dad is worried that he's just not going to harden up fast enough quick enough in in the United States so he gives a note he writes on the Note give this to the sheriff so when the sheriff gets the note he says look I need to I need to kind of toughen my son up I don't know how to go about it so could maybe you show him the the the jail the cells the the prison yard whatever so he shows him and he puts him in isolation and he shuts the the door 10 minutes this little boy's world is upside down you want to talk about the poster child for rejection he don't know what to do 10 minutes later he's man he is crying he's wailing and let me tell you if you took all the phobias of the world for example claustrophobic you know the fear of Clos in areas um if you had um like high anxiety right in in other words the um the fear of heights mean you had that you had herh which is the fear of being robbed now that because he was in prison he has agobia which is the fear of crowds he's got xenophobia which is the fear of being near strangers he's got them all as a result of it he's not not only rejected what he thought by his dad he's rejected by anybody and everybody so man he's got to work so man he you know works at a TV station out works over here he's he he he does this he he runs errands so he finally decides man the only way I'll make it is I'm going to sell all my phobias to writers and I got to tell you it takes off the guy who is sarily rejected is finally accepted in his own way and now he is eclectic you know and I got to tell you so so they took all some of his movies like U one was called Rebecca one was called the rearview window swing in a Miss okay gotcha all right then he was in another one to Catch a Thief di M for Murder uh oh okay you know it's not like I got a whole bunch of these in my pocket okay psycho the birds okay it's Alfred Hitchcock my brother and sister in Christ okay I remember watching a show with my father and I don't I don't know which one it was and in every show he's in the show somewhere you got to look for him right he's he's he's like one time he's in a wheelchair and then as you see the wheelchair go in the back about a few seconds later he gets up and walks out the chair I remember telling my dad that guy got up and walked and I remember my dad looking at me thinking oh my God 10 years of of of high grammar you know college C Catholic educ a and my boy think the guy walked I remember he looked at me like honey he's lost cut him loose right sarily rejected that is the gospel my brother and sister in Christ he is doing his first homy in his hometown of Nazareth and what are the words he hears wait a minute wait a minute you just pulled Isaiah you said you were God aren't you the son of Joseph and you can't be a prophet in your own Hometown now remember this I want you please remember this you have to study Christ as a Jew his mom is a Jew his stepfather if you will is a Jew their parents are Jews they go to the synagogue he's circumcised as a Jew he's crucified as a Jew he's caught in the synagogue at the age of 12 he's a Jew so this is what's going on he is back at his hometown of Nazareth the synagogue is not much bigger than our little church here as a result of it he gives his first homy it's five words about 10 words he they give him the scroll of Isaiah he doesn't ask for it he reads that this is the day of which the good Lord has made it known that he is now come in so many words and then he sits down he hasn't that's all he said why would you be so upset that you want to throw him headlong off the edge of a cliff it couldn't be because you're the son of Joseph and it can't be because you're not a prophet in your hometown you know the word physician cure yourself you know who the author of this is Luke The Physician so in other words he's saying oh I've heard it all too well you know you hear it today the car mechanic always drives a car that doesn't run well the guy that fix his houses his house do seem to struggle well that's where Luke's going with it I know all too well remember Luke is not an apostle and he is not a firsthand witness but he is going directly to firsthand Witnesses which would probably been Mark or Matthew probably Mark more than Matthew I digress the point being is he's saying Christ is now given his first homy what makes him so mad it's when Christ says you know right after you told me a prophet is you're not a prophet in your hometown cure yourself physician he said in so many words you know we sent a prophet into the world Elisha and in all of Israel y'all think he's great and he was relative of all of Israel he wouldn't allow for almost three three and a half years for anything to happen until you learn to bend your knee he went to one person he went to the Widow of zarth to be fed out of all Israel they couldn't even find one holy person then he says then Elisha comes and the only one he cures his name in the Syria so therefore if you did not see it in them you'll never see it in me now they're mad because you're saying that that there's no good people in this synagogue this is why they want to throw him headlong off the edge of a cliff and when he when he uh when he leaves them without them being noticed being noticed him being noticed they understand this remember when the good Lord is on the cross he's dead he is dead and they stab him and he believes that's his Divine Essence this is why on Easter Sunday night when the apostles are in a lock room he can walk through the door but they can still touch you he can walk through a locked door and he can still eat the food my brother and sister in Christ that's the Divine Essence this is why I say the body of Christ his Divine name and not body of Jesus his given name so the reason he can pass between them is he's doing it because he's telling you I am God they still didn't get it so that you know the rest of the story he was summarily rejected in his own Hometown my brother Christ all of our best players in scripture are summarily rejected not just by the people by their own faith and by their own church and here's a prime example um Joseph of arthea has a tomb as a result of it he gives up his tomb now remember that's no small undertaking here's the problem Joseph of arthea has clout has money and means because you normally don't have your own tomb as a result of giving up his tomb to Christ everybody knows where he sits now he's very Jewish as a result of it within about 30 to 60 days after burying Christ he has to leave there is no more gardens there is no more money and fame and fortune according to tradition he goes to England and this is where he starts actually an Abbey he'll eventually pass there to this day on Christmas Day where he actually put his staff down to start the Abbey they say there's a bush there that that flowers and buds all in one day and then actually collapses on on the at the end of Christmas day all in 24 hours now there's a partner of is called Nicodemus Nicodemus is a Sanhedrin Nicodemus is a Pharisee Nicodemus was very prestigious within about 40 days he has been thrown out of Jerusalem We Believe ultimately he will be martyred sarily rejected Paul goes from Saul to Paul and we behead him every one of the apostles were devout Jews and a devout follower of Christ and every one of them was sarily rejected yeah you know Peter was crucified upside down that's true but do you know about the rest of the boys for example what about Andrew the one that's crucified on the cross he's on on the a the reason you know why they use the X it's because dogs have to eat too you see it's lower to the ground do you know Andrew was curing people on the cross for the three days he was up there sarily rejected curing people on the cross and they still decide to crucify my brother in Christ if you went to see James the Lesser he's the one that would pray so much they said his knees were like camel skinned you would ask him to pray he'd drop in the middle of the road and pray when he would not deny our savior they brought him up to the Pinnacle in Jerusalem in the temple you can see it today when he wouldn't deny it they pushed him off he falls over 200 feet and when he hits the ground he's not dead they beat him to death with a club all he did was pray John everybody thinks John didn't get mared for the most part that's true but we also know that they did try to boil him in oil and then he's regulated to the island the Patmos he lives some 50 years past all the other Apostles man that's a martyrdom of being alone that's like death by a thousand pin Pricks my brother and sister in Christ James is beheaded in the year 44 the first one out the b out the shop you know you and I make fun of Thomas you know because he he he he he didn't believe right but nobody talks about Thomas being speared to death no one talks about the fact that of all the apostles Thomas is the one that everybody wanted to travel with he just had that happy go-lucky disposition nobody talks about Simon who was saw in half we believe him to be a man of color he was a leper he was rejected by his own family he's rejected by the community because he's a leper my brother Christ he saw it in half because he goes into a temple and he gets rid of all the demons and when the king comes back who worshiped demons saw him in half and then when he got to thus whose name was also Judas can you imagine trying to pitch gospel under the name of Judas hence why you're called thus you know he's a gu's guy he's speared to death as a matter of fact we actually believe that that was um the that was Joseph's brother's son my brother Christ you know Maas was beheaded do we also know that Phillip who was married was crucified upside down as well that Bartholomew who we also believe was married do you know he was skinned alive Matthew was beheaded because he had the choice and he had a Roman citizenship everybody who followed Christ was summarily rejected we now hear you and I sit 2,000 years later let me ask you how many times have you gone somewhere and been summarily rejected your opinion not even was not heard it was scoffed or laughed that you've gone to work and you've been totally dismissed I don't need you don't need you don't like your answer don't care if your opinion can't get work don't get the job how many times you gone somewhere in school and somehow or another you're sarily rejected by our peers how many times you going where my brother Christ and as soon as you did this you were you were Persona NADA man they said let us pray you broke out in the sign of the cross and man everybody gave you the look remember what they tell you in John and Luke's gospel they hated me they're going to hate you they rejected me they're going to reject you my brother and sister Christ remember what Matthew says they may reject you but you better persevere to the very end if you wish to be saved please never forget this when somebody ask ask you are you saved I was crucifixion I I am right now you and I are talking about him in his church if we are to pass away May the last words off our lips to his ears be in his church and I hope to be because you and I have free will and there's no way to walk away from that you have to persevere to the end the Commandments are not sticky notes they are not guidelines they're not suggestions they are commands he wrote them on Stone twice so that you and I would know exactly what they mean so therefore do not sell me the garbage that once saved always saved because now then what's the problem I mean father I haven't killed anybody well that's one out of 10 you ain't even a good ball player my brother and sister in Christ that's why there are Ten Commandments you know the rich man stepping over Lazarus and didn't help him didn't feed him didn't care for him love a neighbor he got to hell too he didn't kill anybody my brother and sister in Christ when you were summarily rejected but because of who you are because you are a follower of holy mother Church there are 40,000 faiths in the world today and I'm telling you you got to stop apologizing for being Catholic it's got to stop you got to make that distinction clearly so that everybody knows where you stand in the world we have taken our faith so private we don't know how to go public the fact of the matter is when people say let us pray you better break out that Father Son and Holy Spirit if they say let us pray do you have the gumption and the nerve and the courage to break out the hell Mary do you understand the Creed and You' be able to recite it so they know where you sit enough is enough is enough remember what Mark Twain said if there was a fence Between Heaven and Hell be owned by the devil itself I leave you with this what other people think of you is none of your business Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

count it on to count on somebody to finish what you started to go the extra mile do the extra step to be counted on years about 1970 his name is Michael Michael is a big city boy Michael is a Chicago boy he likes the city of big shoulders and he'll tell you he'll tell you that he had a pretty good family yeah his mom and dad had their struggles but they did good he had a sister and his dad was always pretty hard on him and he'd always say Michael your word is your bond you tell somebody you're going to do something son you better do it they got to be able to got to be able to count on you he said because man let me tell you you could have 10 Wall Street attorneys write a contract but at the end of the day son it's between you and that other person at the end of the day can they count on you he said you know I go through high school he said as a good athlete kind of do pretty well you know and he said College he said man I didn't know what I want to do and he says I'm thinking about college I want to go to Missouri he said you know I tell my dad I think I'm going to college he said well tell you son this how it works you giv me your word so I can count on it he said I tell you how it works son you go to college you finish you don't owe me nothing you don't make it you come back you got to pay the debt fair enough he gets a bachelor's arts degree man when he gets through he said man I couldn't rub two pencils together he said I'm starving to death he said now when you figure out this guy man Lord do I pray they figure this one out he said you're going to say he was Ador D yeah and let me tell you you any hour of the day or night he needed work he was there opening doors shaking hands helping people bringing their groceries up he was the quintessential dormant and then when he he was starting to get even needed more work he became a flight attendant on Eastern Airlines I got to tell you I pray you figure this guy out because he would not fit in any of those categories as a result of it man he's trying to make ends me and then he gets a he gets a chance to act in a play in Chicago called um who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf People start to see it they start to recognize his talent so then he gets a bit part in Days of Our Lives you know it's true what they say about Los Angeles right the big city Hollywood it's like a rocket ship you don't know when it's going to take off you don't know when it's going to blow up as a result man he says I do Days of Our Lives and then he says absolutely nothing he said I am dead broke he said 'I about to cash in my chips and all of a sudden he Saidi get a break uh in a movie called Shoot the kill no wow it's it's okay I I it's the last two masses have been a blood letting it's okay I got it okay as a result of it he says I do the movie and then the next one I get is in platoon wow okay he does platoon then he does another movie called sniper he does The Big Chill okay he all dies at the end it really doesn't matter y'all last guy get the lights y'all have been a great crowd thank y'all for coming he does The Big Chill okay so finally Michael decides man they interview him you know and he's he's out of acting now he does little bit Parts he said you know I like they interview he said what do you like to do Michael he said I love to do two things he said I really do enjoy acting he said but I love to read he's he's prolific he just reads and reads he said I love history so I love to study it and they said if you had two wishes what would they be he said one I would like um I'm trying to think of the guy now uh he said I'd like to be Jack Nicholson for a day he said I just want to see the world through Jack's eyes and then he said what's your other gift he said if I want people to know that they could always count on me he said I believe that was so important to me he said the best movie that explains me the best movie that explains me is when I played in the movie major league is the catcher for the Cleveland Indians does anybody anybody know Tom baringer okay that person and this person that person over there y'all three are tax exempt the rest of you pay your tax I can't help you okay wow well when you look him up on Google okay that's the gospel Just For What It's Worth okay my brothers Christ it's about what you can be counted on when the good Lord is in the boat he's in Peter's boat he's on the Sea of Galilee and Peter says Lord if you want me to throw out the Nets you command me and you can count that it'll happen okay now stop you need to understand where this is going let's go back the guy that's writing this is a guy named Luke he is not an apostle he is not a firsthand witness but he's a physician by trade he's big into details and he's making sure probably from the gospel of Mark that everybody that writes in part of this they know he knows that they have been there as a firsthand witness why is that important because my brother and sister in Christ think about where they're at they're on the Sea of Galilee they're in Peter's boat this is why they call the church Peter's bark B- a r QE as a matter of fact in the older churches like St elen the reason that our church ceiling is built like it is like the inverted part of a hull of a ship because it's always Peter's boat that he's getting into and did you notice that even though Peter was reluctant to throw out the Nets the good Lord knew he could count on him because he walked away from everything my brother and sister in Christ and make no mistake about it Peter was being a little indignant and that's why he dropped in the boat and said depart from me Lord I'm a sinful man you notice the good Lord didn't say no please get back up it's okay come on Peter you're good you screwed up you got to repent for it but Peter can be counted on to do it that's why he leaves everything remember Peter's married his wife's name we believe is pereria and if she doesn't buy into the argument that he's going to be a fisher of men they go nowhere so give her her doe as well we do believe she was martyred in the same day or the same week as pet we also believe the last words he spoke to his wife was go with God that is somebody you can count on my brother and sister Christ now hearing you and and go back in scripture all of our best players are people that know how to be counted on now you know what's amazing I'm going to give you some names of people that were devout towards Rome I'm telling you you could count on these people to do what they needed to do and once they meet Christ Christ can count on them to do what he asked him to do regardless of Rome go back Saul he is a Pharisee a man of means he is butchering Christians left and right he has got everything that anybody could want the day he is blinded and now he sees you can count on Paul to travel all the way to corneth and proclaim the gospels you can count on Paul to give his first homy and be stoned you can count on Paul that even after he scourged 200 times with a whip that at the end of the day he's still going to proclaim the gospel but you know what he's not the only one man there's a whole list of them think about it longinus you can say what you want about pilot but if he doesn't have longinus in his stable nothing gets done over there that guy is the quintessential Soldier and Centurion I'll tell you how tradition holds him they say that longinus was such a good captain and leader that whenever they would go on incursions whenever they'd have to go out to fight everybody wants to be in his Foxhole so much so that when he said right everybody goes right he says jump everybody says ha this is why pilate likes him because he's the guy that makes it happen he has the respect of his troops here's the irony of irony my brother in Christ when he makes the proclamation truly that man was the son of God notwithstanding did he just now Reign all over Rome and pilot within two weeks he goes for being committed and counted on by Rome to being totally committed to Christ he leaves he flees the country a year later the same gentleman that helped him put Christ on the cross catch up with him and according to tradition they didn't recognize him he came to a city looking for him because they were told by pilate to bring his head back and when they get there find him he actually is feeding them and they still don't recognize him and then he decides to tell him man I'm the one you're looking for and they had so much respect for him they decided to just say look would just say we never found you he said oh no he said I'm a follower of Jesus Christ and if you came here to take my head then so be it but I'm not going back and I'm not going to give you you do my brother in Christ they behead him right then but yet the good Lord could count on him you know the guy that gave up his tomb Joseph of arthea my brother and sister in Christ you know what that meant in Rome when you're a Pharisee and you're part of the Sadducees man you you can't get out of town fast enough Rome could count on you and then you give up your tomb guess what my brother and sisters in Christ within weeks he's got to leave so with Nicodemus he was a Pharisee man he's helping them take Christ down here's a guy that can quote scripture is now is taking down the one guy that they believe quote probably was the anti- God as a result they behead him within weeks my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how well can I and the good Lord count on you well let's see when you go to work can those the people at work Count On You Simon to do whatever it takes regardless of your pay regardless of the hour no matter how many times I call you on my phone in other words as if you're the only one that has a cell number that everybody knows well Simon that's why they've been giving it to you that's why the good Lord allows it so that you could receive the grace so now therefore can they count on you to run the extra mile to do the little bit extra to handle what comes down the pike even though it's just not part of your day my brother sister Christ can the good Lord count on you when your friend calls you and you see the name show up on the phone and you you know you ain't getting off that phone anytime soon and you're going to miss Dancing with Stars it's just going to happen man you're going to take that phone call and you're going to sit and you well know you're can to end up in the same spot 45 minutes later you start it but you give them the ear because you can be counted on it Christ would ask you to do it can he count on you to do it so my question is my brother Christ can the good Lord count on you to make sure that when you're with your family to put your cell phones on the side and not pick it up when you hear it ding can he count on you to have a conversation with him and that everything doesn't sit around the television or the computer can the good Lord count on you to just get off of Facebook for a little bit can he count of you to stop watching the news my brother and sister Christ can the good Lord count on you and I to go to one more mass a year than we did last year can he count on you to go to confession at least once a month when you get angry mad temperamental you curse I can tell you why it is because you've grown so far away from him man the devil could drive a truck through it that's why you need to go to confession so he closed the Gap can he count on you to go to confession can he count on you when somebody says let us pray man you break out the sign of the cross so that everybody knows you Cath man can he count on you to break out the hell Mary when you're the one you know ain't no nobody else praying that one can he count on you when you tell somebody man I'm going to pray for you that's exactly what you're going to do don't miss that one don't tell somebody you're going to pray for them and then back up and forget the whole thing can the good Lord count on you to be respectful to your parents to do what you they've asked you to do and do so in the manner it is a commandment it is the fourth one my brother and sister in Christ can the good Lord count on you to be a better Catholic this year than you were last year you were never neutral to him so you're either walking this way towards him or away from him email text message conversation driving your car busy with people any and everything you do you're never neutral so my brother and sister in Christ what I want for you is is that the good Lord can count on you to be the good Catholic man and woman that you are that you'll go to that one more mass that you'll actually try it eration you'll go to the sacraments you'll actually work at work because that's what you do because it is who you are your word is your bond what I want from you is just this that when somebody asked the good Lord what do you think of the people that came to mass today at St elen what do you think of the people that listened and watched he says I know you can count on them because I do and if he hears from them says well I can't count on them I pray his response is then you do not know how to count amen amen oh no amen there we go the name of the father and the son the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

level as in um level ground as in lower the water level My Brother and Sisters in Christ it's 1865 now remember the Civil War is 61 theoretically to 64 but here's what well here's what history doesn't tell us it doesn't tell us that sometimes messages don't travel fast back in the day I mean there's no Facebook uh there's no gossip there's no am meet somewhere in between good you're listen my brother and sister in Christ his name is John John pton he's in the war he is in the battle or The Siege of Vicksburg he is a confederate general and as a result John will tell you he said man the war quite may have ended in aromatics but it's alive and well in our end of the world he said man I got to tell you it's a fight of fights he said not only did I get caught up in that fight but now I'm caught up in a fight in a little city called Columbia in U in Georgia just outside of Atlanta he said man this is the statistic for people in the Civil War oneir of you will die oneir of you will lose an arm and eventually die from it or be suffer a wound onethird of you will make it but it would be with a debilitating injury that's the results of the Civil War less than half of 1% make it out free he said man I'm caught up in this battle and he said man I get a cut with a sword he said it almost Cuts me in half he said man it's all over with mou he said they bring John to what the the Aid Station if you want to call it that they now have come up with morphine and they tell John look here's the good news we got morphine here's the bad news we got morphine John's trying to keep his wits about him he said what he said look it's going to dull the pain he says you got to take it you'll never make it the problem is when you finally get well you're going to be addicted and the addiction is every bit as great as the pain he said somewhere in between between you getting finished and getting well somewhere on that level ground is where you need to find yourself you need to jump right then fair enough he gets hooked on it no doubt about it he said he wouldn't have made it he said man I did try to jump off a level ground but man it didn't quite work as well I had to regroup and he said finally he said so when I get out the wars over so a lot of people after a while he became he started understanding how herbs work and how um different type of nature could come back to a you so they used to call him Dr John now he's not a doctor then he wanted to be a pharmacist but it wasn't until later so he decided that if he takes the fresh nuts and he takes uh some syrup and he takes some green things and he mixes them up along with this morphine man it sells well as a matter of fact he says it got be pretty popular so he gets with a pharmacist and then they decide to start selling it the problem is is that everybody but he really liked it to to the point they said man he said man people would run through a brick wall he said they'd work twice as long as they used to he said but the problem was is that it was unev pretty soon uneven he said pretty soon man they're addicted he said man I got I got to find a level ground like it was for me he said so I started pulling some of the extract out of this Leaf called the cocaine oh man that's a huge hint my brother Christ matter of fact he finishes getting the serp where he wants it he called it Pimon wine and then he gives the his bookkeeper and says look come up with a name for it so in script you still see it today he writes the name of the product and that product is still being sold today matter of fact mother Christ he sold it for $2500 and you and I call it cocacola man did anybody have any idea who this guy was that's what I thought my brother and sister in Christ man I was on fire here and I just didn't know it my brother and sister in Christ it's about finding level ground that is that gospel remember where we at now this is the good Lord comes and he stops on level ground to give the Beatitudes and the wo now remember stop you need to understand where we are we are in Luke's gospel Luke is not an apostle he's a physician by trade go figure he believes an expert firsthand Witnesses he is not a firstand witness he did not see the blind see the lame walk the dead rise per se he does not see the the crucifixion the resurrection and the Ascension into heaven he relies very heavily on Mark the gospel writer as a result of it he's saying that they're near the Sea of Galilee they're actually on the hill called the Beatitudes the hill would roughly be maybe 250 ft 300t High not very high but it slopes right down into the sea of G you come off the seea of Galilee and you're walking up the Beatitudes here's the difference between the other gospel the other gospel doesn't speak to woes so imagine Christ comes down the mountain whenever somebody comes down a mountain the Jewish people believe it's God that's why he's always going up a mountain and comes back down and now he's stopping why like he did for Moses when he gave him the ten commandments so people can make the correlation so he stops on level ground and then be Ables to says the blessings remember blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God now imagine you go all the way to scene blessed the poor in spirit blessed are those who mourn blessed are those who are Meek blessed are those who thirst for righteousness blessed are those who are merciful blessed are the peacekeepers blessed are the pure heart and then all of a sudden he tells you when your G when your blessing's coming imagine you travel weeks and months to see and he said blessed are the meek blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are those that that seek righteousness you'll get it someday you'd say man I traveled a thousand miles to hear that my blessing is in heaven he's saying that's exactly right he's saying because when you come in the world on this day you're not going home on this day that day is nonnegotiable I've already determined it everything between this day is on you and if you don't bring me into your world your world will be a sign wave it will not level and that's what he's trying to tell them that's why he tells them remember all the people that are coming to are not the people that have means why would you go if your if your belly is full why would you go if your house is fine and your form is fine and your Vineyards are good why would you go this is why he's saying the people that are coming are the ones that are pour in spirit now remember this every beatitude Builds on the one after it in front of it blessed are the poor in spirit that's that's that's our language and their language is blessed are those who have a childlike reverence for God who fear the lord in other words that when I commit a sin I'm so worried about offending you not that you fear Him in trepidation but you you're disappointed in yourselves and it starts in in heaven blessed are the poor in spirit for you'll see the kingdom of heaven and then blessed are the pure of heart and the peacemakers for you you'll see the face of God and you'll Return To Heaven my brother Christ it's the journey from Heaven to Earth and back up he said on Earth it's going to be this way because the devil runs the world so if you don't find level ground then you won't make it case in point go back in history all of our best players know how to find level ground imagine of all people you're saw one minute you're the king of the world three days later you're blind you don't know it's ending in three days you just been blind so long and as a result of it the water levels do you know at the end of his life he absolutely only thing he owns is what the clothes are on his back that's when the water levels when they find God can you imagine your peter for 33 years Christ leaves in 33 you don't die until 66 for 33 years everywhere you go you're Petros your kayi man people talk to you man you're curing people do you know Peter's curing so many people they would actually take his garments and lay it on people that he can't get to and they would be cured Acts of the Apostles so now 33 years later you're in Rome and Caesar finds out you're there he come to kill you I killed your boss I'm going to kill you as a result of it he leaves in the middle of the night there's a little there's a little church in Rome my God I pray someday you get to go in the middle of the aisle are two sets of footprints in this Boulder that is the boulder that we believe Christ stood on and those are his Footprints when he said to Peter dominatus Peter where are you going where am I going man they're about to kill me I got to leave what's going to happen to the church they said Christ steps off the Boulder and begins to walk to Rome and Peter's following him saying don't me inquire God us Messiah where where are you going he said well if you don't go back to be crucified then I have to go back the water levels because now he realized that he is truly the Vicor of Christ and someday Peter they'll take you where you don't want to go albe it upside down and for three hours you'll proclaim the gospel and your wife pereria will die within the same day if not the day before my brother and sister in Christ all of our best players for Mary magdalin who had seven demons she doesn't become the first to see the Risen Christ until she finds level ground and level ground is Christ my brother's Christ look at the world that you and I now live in this is insane if I had told you 10 years ago that within a couple years we're just going to I tell you what we're going to we're going to kneel during the national anthem you'd said no way I said you know what and we're going to make abortions part of health care if I would have told you that all of a sudden we're going to kill more children in this world than all the wars ever combined if I would to told you that someday we're going to make gambling legal as if somehow another that helps the poor if I tell you someday that we're going to educate only a s few and the rest of them they just fall in the trenches my brother and sister Christ if I told you that we were going to have elections and that the Catholic President of United States would tell you that you have free choice oh but we do and so will he have accountability for that statement my brother and sister Christ what I'm telling you is you and I will not find level ground in this world until it begins and ends with him I'm asking you in the mornings when you wake up when the rest of the world's going crazy stop and find a place in your house where you can sit still and quiet and pray I don't care if it's a statue I don't care if it's a rosary I don't care what you got I want you to go to a spot sit still for a couple of minutes what are you turning the television on for you want good news oh that's a great place to start I tell you what go to work come home and think it got better turn it on again every night and every morning you ought to be on level ground because your day is going to be a sine wave so if you skip that and run into the world you're already on the sine wave it may be going down before it goes up but I guarantee you it will not level until you're in front of him so if you're going to the same amount of masses you went to last year than this year the same amount of confessions and iterations I'm telling you y'all are backing up you're never neutral to him listen to me y'all the world is not going to get better until you and I find our knes it is not going to get better till we stop killing his children so you and I can do whatever in the Sam Hill we think we want but if we don't fix that we're never going to get out of the desert hence Jeremiah what I'm trying to tell you is you got to start taking care of your soul and it begins and ends with you and it begins and ends with you starting out on level ground you start out in the morning okay I was going to say before your cup of coffee that would been a mistake after you have your cup of coffee sit still just five minutes before and when you come home at night before you go back to bed and take those is with you sit still for 5 minutes turn the television off go into another room and talk to him my brother and sister in Christ Billy Graham was right I don't care your money I don't care your color I don't care your education I don't care where you came from it doesn't matter any of those things because all ground will level at the foot of the cross amen amen in the name of father and the son and the holy spirit amen okay my brothers in Christ I got to tell you that was a pretty weak amen amen there we go father son Holy Spirit I <\p>

repay as then to give back to repay it's the 1950s his name is Jonathan and Jonathan is a New York boy there's no doubt about it and let me tell you Catholic to the core to this day Jonathan is a devout Catholic he'll tell you that his mom was the quintessential mom can do does do twice on Sundays she can do it all he'll tell you his dad kind of made in Meet doing a number of different things but God a per se and then he'll tell you he had two brothers he said there are night and day they came up with two songs Wild Thing see y'all didn't know why I put that out there now you know see and then the other angel in the morning two different personalities he'll tell you that man he finished he went to Catholic University graduated he said you know you make your mistakes but he never forgot what his dad told him he said whatever you do son no matter how good you are or not he says you got to give something back you got to you got to repay you got to repay you got to put something in even if they don't give it back to you he said I never forgot that Jonathan says to this day I still do the same thing he said you know I got married unfortunately it didn't work out we had a child and he said but man I'm trying to make ends meet so I'm working odd and in jobs I get a little bit part in gunm Smoke he said then I get a bit part in NYPD Blue and he says man then the world starts opening up up and my dad notices it and tells him you better give something back you better repay he said man I get a bit part in the movie Deliverance with Bert Reynolds and then he said man I started getting in movies and they just seem to come one after another right he said man I was in Varsity Blues he said I played John Paul the great he said I even played Paul Bear Bryant in the movie wood law I was in the movie Anaconda I was in the movie Enemy with the state okay we're about number 10 movies y'all didn't memorized a dozen of these things okay I tell you what he was in the movie National Treasure okay his daughter is Angelina Jolie are you kidding me after I I'll tell you what next time I'm just giving you that one right my brother and sister in Christ it's all about giving back it's all about repaying that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord is telling him so many words do unto others as they would have them do unto you how are you going to repay people if you lend them money they just don't give it back you give them a tunic and they can't seem to find it they're going to hit you on your right cheek now remember stop you need to understand this you're Jews you're a first century Jew for me to hit you on your right cheek I have to backhand you this isn't talking about being physical it's talking about being verbally abusive and he says when you do that that and you expect nothing in return and you give them the other Chief that's where I need to get you now stop remember this is this is St Luke he is a physician by trade he is not a firsthand witness he is not an apostle he as a physician though the details he's excellent at he's relying on somebody to tell him the exact story and the one he's relying on is St Mark that's where he's going with this the good Lord has just come down and given the Beatitudes blessed the poor in spirit blessed are those who mourn those who Meek those for thirst for righteousness right and he's speaking from Level ground and then he talks to him about these woses if you don't pay attention now he's talking to them about something they have never heard in their life you got to love your enemy that's revolutionary to them I mean because he's telling you yeah you can love people that love you I mean don't Tax Collectors do the same now my brother Christ listen to me and this is where the most misquoted scripture comes in the world today is from this P passage right here you've been hearing it for the last two years who am I to judge tell me you've heard that incessantly do not judge yes the be judged you even heard Francis say who am I to judge my brother in Christ may I ask you when you read scripture can you read the whole paragraph do not proof text that's what they're doing they're pulling that one adage out there do not judge L you be judged who am I to judge I need you to read the whole paragraph because if you read the whole paragraph my brother in Christ you would hear him say don't judge anybody by their actions because then you'll condemn them and if you condemn them then you can't forgive them for their actions he's not talking about judging them on their character he's saying I it's the act that causes the sin listen listen to what I'm telling you my brother and sister in Christ the issue isn't whether or not you're gay the issue isn't whether or not you're a power Drinker it's not an issue that you're addicted to drugs or maybe it's addiction to pornography my brother in Christ the issue is the act that's where the gamees won or lost he's saying man when you come to judge you're Discerning the ACT not the person and he's saying be careful if you judge them based on their character because you'll never be able to forgive them for the act my brother and sister Christ it is the most misquoted scripture we have and the reason is because we don't study Christ if you don't study him you won't love him if you don't love him you won't come to know him but if you love him you'll come to study him and if you study him you'll come to know him and then you'll love him and then you'll study him and pretty soon man the relationship just blossoms my brother and sister in Christ he's trying to tell them it's the act that gets in the way and the act of how you're going to repay them when you get hurt when you go my brother and sister in Christ when you go to to your office and as an employer you have to do a review or you judging on their character or their actions there in lies the point go back in scripture all of our best players all of them are those that repay in such a way that you would think now who in good Lord's name would do that that's the point let me give you an example my brother and sister in Christ St Paul is traveling the world memb he's blind for 3 days and as the good Lord cures him he repays the good Lord by traveling the world for the next three decades as a Tent Maker making dang next to nothing he's the only one of the 12 actually he's number 13 if you want to count it that way he's not one of the 12 he's the only one that has a day job but what he does to people is he gives them everlasting life what if you're Veronica you know the in the in the Jewish days as a woman you have no say in nothing matter of fact when they count the number of people at a gathering 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish they only count the men that's why I tell you there's 10 to 12,000 people there my brother Christ for Veronica to disrupt the crucifixion do you understand what she did oh my God she's lucky they just didn't Maul her right there in the middle of the street the fact of the matter is the good Lord repays her courage he repays her Courage by putting his face implantation into the cloth that is what the good Lord is willing to do he's willing to pack it down and overflow it and put it in your lap cuz I will repay you tenfold for the the beating that you just took for the backhanded compliment you just received my brother and sister in Christ can you imagine you're Peter and because his wife agrees and her name is pereria because she agrees with him to go out and proclaim the gospel what you and I don't realize is is that she got repaid by also becoming one of the greatest Martyrs of our day because she's martyred within the same day or week as Peter is so I tell you these things because this is what the good Lord is asking you and I is not to repay as the world does to repay as he does well here we sit 2,000 years later well let's see how do you and I repay people let's think about it man you're driving down the road somebody cuts you off gives you the sign of Peace do you speed back up make sure you honk and get there attention to give them the blessing the blessing my brother in Christ my brother and sister in Christ man you you you're in Walmart and you are 30 people deep and there's one person checking out maybe you could use that time to say a prayer say a rosary my brother and sister Christ how do you repay people man when they send you that text message or email they get you so incensed that if you could drive over there right now and strangle them you'd do it my brother said Christ how do you repay people when you get that Emil email or you found out somebody gossiped about you ask yourself is your name safe on your lips well then why is it your neighbor's name is not as safe on our lips that's the point Christ is saying will you turn the other cheek when somebody goes up one side and down the other will you turn the other cheek when somebody says man you know what I think or when you hear somebody gossip and say you know what I heard you know what they say I'm just saying are you willing to stand up and say you know what I tell what let's pray for him my brother and sister Christ if you and I don't learn to show Christ in our actions how will anybody in this world come to know that he exists I mean are we only Catholic inside the doors we've done such a great job of keeping our religion private we don't know how to go public my brother Sisters in Christ are you willing to stick to your guns when they say make the sign of the cross that you make it clearly and distinctly so that the good Lord will repay you for the hits that you about to take do you have the courage when they say let us pray that you break out the Hil Mary regardless of what anybody else thinks because the good Lord and his mother will pay you tfold for what you did in public if you do not acknowledge me for my father in public I will not acknowledge you my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you it's the way we have to think that you got to learn is that it's a discipline that you may not expect payment back from your brothers or your sisters or your family that you'll never get paid back for all the phone calls you've been getting to solve their problems you may never get back all the time you spent on the phone going in the circle oh over and over and over again well Simon that's why you get the grace because you've been asked to carry the cross and the more you complain about it the less Grace you get it so what I'm asking you to do is to be more Christlike I'm telling you my brothers Christ if you and I don't change how we walk then we surely can't expect anybody else to follow and I leave you in the words and I can only remember I can't even remember his name he said if you truly want to be a good Catholic you can only show it when you go out to help somebody who never plans to repay you my brother in Christ I'm telling you expect nothing but for his reward in heaven that is our payment amen am now I've been yelling for 20 minutes amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

disciple or just a believer disciple or are we just simple Believers well let's see the years's about 1920 1930 he is the chancellor if you will sometimes referred to as the colonel he's the chancellor of England and as a result of it man his Prestige is known throughout the country I mean for all intense purposes the chancellor could be the king I mean he is as popular as the Prime Minister he could do the things that a king does everybody knows him he's been in the public Arena he's been in the in the work world and he's gotten quite popular and today of all days he's going to announce and throw a big party for his new wedding that's right he is going to announce to the world that he is getting married he's unfortunately hasn't told his wife yet Easy Does It my brother and sister in Christ it is absolutely happens to be the most coldest day ever in the UK's history I'm telling you it's so cold that the very marrow of your bones would almost freeze if you stood outside 15 minutes they actually say if you made it 20 you're You're Something Superior they said that day it was so cold You' literally walk backwards through life he said simply because it was that the wind would just cut through it's like a knife he said you would literally take the coat and wrap it Inward and Duck and pull your head down and walk backwards that is the day he's decided to go public unfortunately he hasn't told his soon to be X as a result of it man word gets travels it travels fast and by the time he gets to his ex can I tell you she has decided I will pull off the perfect murder my own as a result of it she gets in her car she drives up to this embankment she gets it up she puts it in neutral leaves the keys in it takes her jacket leaves it on the front seat she gets out and when I tell you with everything she could do every ounce of her being she pushed she shoved she backed into it she finally got it man and the car goes off the embankment goes down into what they call a bar pit so it's kind of dark man there it goes down into the bottom she gets back home she gets on the phone and she calls and tells the chancellor I'm coming over to your U announcement party and I'm going to let everybody know just wa what a good guy you are man he is frantic so much so man he jumps in his car he says man just stay where you are I'm coming he drives all the way over to the house man he can't find me car is missing looks like somebody just left and then it hits him she's back at the party man he jumps back in the car he drives all the way back he's gone for almost an hour he gets there and man everything's normal everybody's doing their thing waiting for the big announcement and then he says maybe I just maybe it's a misunderstanding so as was result man that party goes off he makes his announcement next morning man the popo show up at his door my version of police my brother and sister in Christ as a result man they knock on the door he comes down the CH said Mr Chancellor uh we need to talk to you he said I understand he said um I need to talk to you about your ex-wife he said what about her he said well we found her car went off an embankment into a bar pit was searching for a body and he said and then it hits him oh no he said wait a minute stop she probably drove it off he saidwell Chancellor that can't be right because it was in neutral said oh well she probably pushed it off he said in this weather her coat was on the front seat sounds like somebody pushed her off far he said wait a minut wa wa where you going with that he said well I'm just asking Chancellor were you here all night then it hits him he wasn't for an hour he's G missing said' man we need to take you down to the popo station as a result man they get him down to the station next thing they start interviewing you know what they're going to convict him even though they don't have a body that's where they are in the world she has gone off to another country she is living low if you will matter of fact cuz she's so popular man her name is circulating right cuz they're looking for her they can't they got to have a body for the trial but let me tell you they're going to convict him no matter what they start having a trial and lo and behold she surfaces up in in some Subway somebody recognizes her picture picks her out of a crowd next thing you know she's been extradited back man the people can't believe she almost pulled off the perfect murder man she's in prison right she's in prison for some 15 or 20 years I forget what this the the timeline was the the the judge um her attorney comes to her and says what were you thinking all you had to do was lay low what are you doing going on the subway he said well you know you just you know I I you know what I really don't care I I I you know what I just don't care I I I just didn't want to I just did what I thought I had to do he said what are you going to do now for 11 he goes I mean so I mean are you just going to be one of those you know driveby Believers you know one minute you're going to be a charismatic or something he he said no she said no I'm going to be a disciple I'm going to follow Christ and the only thing I know to do and do well is write murder mysteries and you know me as Agatha Christie my brother and sister in Christ that has got nothing to do with that gospel I couldn't fit it in for all the kings of men I don't care how I worked it my brother and sister in Christ exactly what Christ says he is talking to his Apostles if you want to be my disciples then it'll be on what you do and very little to what you have to say my brother in Christ now stop you need to understand where they're at this is Luke's gospel Luke is a physician Luke is not an apostle he's a follower of Paul as a result he relies on other firsthand Witnesses like that would be the gospel of Mark so all the people that you hear in the story are firsthand Witnesses he's talking to the apostles and he's trying to tell them you got a real simple world you either do as I do and from the fruits of it people will see or you will just simply mimic the words and people will see you for who you are my brother and sister in Christ he's just started his ministry he's not a year into it his Apostles are very new this is why he's telling them it's not enough for you to repeat my words it's not enough for you just to kind of casually follow me or sometimes believe in me and then have your doubts he said it's all going to be predicated on how you act my brother Christ look go back in scripture all of our best players are people that know how to follow Christ very like a disciple I tell you what I'll prove to you if I told you in the Old Testament if I told you that um even though his friends told him that you need to curse God even though his wife told him that you need to go against God he loses seven sons three daughters all his camels all his sheep and all his cattle in one day the only thing out of his world mouth was naked came ey into the world and naked will I return Joe for the 10 people to know who he is God bless you my friends in Christ man so job is the guy but you know what's amazing it's not just job that follows this it's everybody if I told you that he was a follower of Christ albe it a little bit off in a distance but at the end of the day he was there to take Christ off the tomb he was there to put it in his friend's tomb soon as he gets caught they not only kick him out as a sadducee as a Pharisee they almost beat him to death and he has to leave Jerusalem within like three weeks after the crucifixion would you know it was Nicodemus my brother Christ if I told you he gave up his tomb then you would say oh man that's Joseph aea if I told you that he said truly that man's a Son of God and now his 401k is a 201k and that he'll be he'll be butchered by the same men that helped crucify Christ that he's the one that led him and his name is Long gu us my brother and sister in Christ there in lies the point here you and I sit are we disciples or we just simple Believers my brother and sister in Christ go back and think about all the great players think about where you and I sit 2,000 years later tell me what you think where you sit in the world let me ask you my brother and in Christ when you send that email if all we did all day long would read your emails would we know that you are Apostolic you're disciple of Christ or do we just mimic the words based on what you said if they read your emails or your Facebook would they know that you're a disciple of Christ or you just mimic the words but yet you wrote that email my brother and sister in Christ would they know if the good Lord just will followed you all day and all he listened to were your words would he know that you're a disciple or you're just a simple believer my brother and sister in Christ how would I know that you and I are truly Disciples of Christ or that we're truly are just simple Believers it's got to be in our thoughts in our words and our actions what is what is uh what does the Saints tell preach the gospel everywhere you go and only use words when you have to my brother and sister in Christ that's the world we live in people are watching to see how we act the fruit will come from it what's in your heart will come out of your mouth listen to me thoughts lead to words words lead to actions actions form habits thoughts lead to words words lead to actions actions form habits if you want people to be followers of Christ then they're going to have to follow you for a day would they be a better Catholic at the end of the day if they follow you and I in everything we did if would they just if they just drove in the car with us would they know wow that is a good Catholic or would they say truly this guy had to be in the Navy good you caught on my brother and sister in Christ if they watched in just how you responded to your family would they say now that is a dedicated M family man or would they say my Lord my God thank God I don't go home to that my brother sister in Christ the way you communicate with one another would they know that you're truly Catholic and a follower of Jesus Christ in so much that you're a disciple not just a simple believer would you give them the right cheek after they struck you on your left would you give up your tunic and never ask for it back would you loan the money and not care where they made it my brother and sister in Christ I tell you what let's do this let's take a quiz oh joy I can see it in your faces I wish I could have memorized it but I can't because I just for some reason so 10 questions six out of 10 does not pass this isn't the Louisiana academic Society you got to get seven out of 10 that's that's marginal eight out of 10 at least you're on the right path nine out of 10 you got a little game with you 10 out of 10 you cheated here we and don't don't answer out loud okay my brother and sister Christ first question are you a disciple or just a simple believer when you pass in front of the church do you make the sign of the cross well I'm going tell you I'm going to stand outside today and I'm going to watch and see do you go to the cemetery on All Saints and souls day and pray for your loved ones do you go to confession at least once a month not once a year we got that one wrong I can just tell you once a month do you know the Commandments in order that he wrote them don't you dare check that block okay I'm G tell you right now do you know the Commandments in order do you know half the Beatitudes my brothers Christ do you go do you go to adoration 15 minutes a month you know you can get an Indulgence for going to adoration 15 minutes a month my brother and sister in Christ if I drove by your front yard would I know you're Catholic if I sat in your car would I know you Catholic did you know that Ash Wednesday is not a holy day but yet it's probably the most attended one we have and the 10th question I can't even read my own writing I have no idea what it is doesn't matter y'all probably struggling already I'll give you that one okay my brother and sister in Christ at the end of the day you're either in or you're out you're either a disciple of Jesus Christ or you're just a simple believer when they have a conversation and I'm going to tell you this it's not a part-time thing it's not a sometime thing it's a an all time thing when you come up and you walk away from the conversation will somebody go yeah it's one of those Believers or will they turn around and say truly that was a disciple of Jesus Christ yes or no amen amen amen there we go name of the father and the son holy spirit amen <\p>

worry worry as in you and I worriors you know my brother in Christ he was the greatest detective barut I got to tell you it's not even a close second now if I were to ask the people depending on where I was who do you think was the greatest of all most people some might say well that was there was that Pinkerton guy back in the west and be honest with you just so you know he gets his start in the business being The Bodyguard to Abraham Lincoln that's how he gets started some people would say it was Pinker and some people say no no man it's well past that it's it's uh it's Elliot net man that the guy that uh caught uh Al Capone and some people would say no no man it's a it's that guy from England no man it's not it's not his name is Henry lur 1,000 cases never lost one he is England's go-to Gody and I got to tell you he's nothing short of impressive they go through what they call U an incident which is in a fair sense of the word it's a mass murderer the MMO of the mass murderer is I'mma go after the elderly the Elder Statesman I'm going to attack him I'm going to rob him and then I'm going to beat him and kill him he's got up to about 20 people and man can I tell you everybody's on guard everybody's watching nobody's going out at night once it gets dark we're staying indoors the police think they have their man they bring it to the commissioner and the commissioner they tell us commissioner we think we found the mass murderer we think we found the guy he said I tell you what I need you to get Henry involved I need Henry to come and tell me it's the guy he said well we don't need Henry I said he said no you're going to get Henry involved because I need another set of odds the people want to know Henry's involved and at the end of the day I want to make sure we got the right man can I tell you Henry says I need to see all the witness statements I need to go back to every crime scene I need to walk through every identification and every piece of evidence he goes back to every crime scene you know what he finds more evidence he finds a piece of Tweed that ties him he thinks back to the person he finds a thumb print been smudged but he finds a print he finds if you will a scarf that's tied to the Tweed that was tied to another another murder he finds a knife blade pretty soon he PS all the pieces together and he goes back to the commissioner and he says we got the wrong guy he said talk to me he said that's not him he said I hear you Henry but I got a whole police force telling me it's him he said I'm telling you you're going to convict the wrong guy he lays out all the evidence he even gets to the point where he sits down with the commissioner and tells him this is the murder he said Henry I would have never guessed he saidou know Henry I'm a little worried about you now because in about a week I'm going to put you on the stand and you're going to have to stand up and you're going to have to point him out he said I'm worried you won't go through with it he said I'm going to do it right thing right way that's why you put me here he said I hear you Henry I'm worried you won't go through with it man the case comes I mean when I tell you the courtroom is packed they're here for that one statement Henry Lor is going to tell you who the murderer is the prosecuting attorney stands up and says Henry let's make this short and sweet who's the murderer he stands up and he says that young man right there case is over case is done he's convicted Henry walks out the courtroom is walking for 25 years they never hear from him again the commissioner catches with him we walks out he said Henry I got to tell you kudos to you I know how hard it was man he kind of just bow bows his head and keeps walking the police come up and said man why did you tell him that he said because he just convicted his son my brother and sister in Christ they were worried for no reason that is that gospel the good Lord is telling his Apostles I can't tell you now because I'm going to overwhelm you you're going to get so consumed with worry you're not even going to be able to function stop you need to understand this this is right after the Resurrection he's got about a few more days till Pentecost and he's telling them you need to sit still you need to go and pray for nine days this is where we get the nine day Novena from on the 10th day Pentecost the holy spirit will come listen to me he will come again he came to you on Easter Sunday night he came on Easter Sunday night to teach you about the ways of the world the sacraments and what's the first Sacrament he tells them confession go out and heal them and forgive them of their sins he never said take it upon yourselves and only go to me then all of a sudden on Pentecost comes he's going to give you the the Heavenly story The Nine choirs of angels heaven hell and Purgatory Abraham's bosom I can't tell you now because you can't take it and you won't be able to understand it because worry will consume you my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture Our best players are people that were constantly worried but here's the irony is that they still finished the race that no matter how worried they got they still did what was asked who better than Peter can you imagine you're on the ca of Galilee you're net fishing you have to net fish even today you can't P fish in Galilee he's net fishing at night you know why he's doing it at night he owes he needs money he's got debts he's been fishing all hours of the night you know where he's at he's at the [ __ ] Crow that's from 3:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the morning morning this is why he know he tells Peter when the cop crows now we know what time Peter denied her savior because that's when he would have crowed therefore Peter would have denied him three times he's been out there for hours fishing and here a guy comes walks into his boat and says man let's go out again you know what he's thinking well this is great send me a carpenter man that's great we'll go out and build a boat man he goes out and catches so many fish he still went fished that he almost drops in the bottom of the boat and says depart from me Lord I'm a sinful man the next time the good Lord is just not next to him in the boat he's in the bow the other one's in the stern even though the storm is Raging he's still trying to do what he can and when he can't do no more Lord do you care we're about to perish even though he's worried that they're about to drop he still starts keeps moving good Lord gets up and rebukes the wind the next time the good Lord is 50 yards out further you see the good Lord's growing from it he said Peter you got to get used to me not being there so when you get worried you still do the same things you did when we went night fishing you still do the same things I did when we were in the boat and the storm came you still do the same things when I told you Peter come and Peter's got to walk 50 yards out on the water and give him his doe he does walk on the water as a matter of fact my R Christ he walked for a long enough way before the wind even blew and then he began to sink and the irony is is the good Lord does not carry him back to the boat he walks to the boat what it must have been like to be Peter but then 33 years later you're crucified upside down and the good Lord is nowhere to be found so to speak my brother Christ I'm trying to tell you that all of our best players like can you imagine you're Joseph of arthea you spent your whole life building what you want to get done so that when you get buried you got your own tomb and then just weeks before you decide what you want to do somebody you give your tomb to somebody else you don't think his family's worried well what do we get do where are you going to get buried he'll be martyred within the year by the same people that he was paid allegiance to of the Jewish faith my brother and sister in Christ you you don't you don't think people like Mary Magdalene didn't have doubts do you know she went to our Savior three separate times on her own valtion trying to get the demons off of her if she doesn't do it the third time she doesn't make it you don't think she's worried or consumed she's got all seven demons my brothers sister in Christ what I'm telling you is you got to keep moving you can't be consumed with worry we've been here now my brother and sister in Christ I've been with you almost 12 years how much of your day is spent in worry how much what day did you wake up in yesterday that's the day of the regret that's the would have could have should have demon man if i' had done that last week last year 10 years ago if I hadn't done that last week last year 10 years ago or maybe you waking up tomorrow the doctor's been visit the job the contract we're going to make enough money how we going to do with our kids where are we going where's this world going give us this day our daily bread this is why you and I say it don't you understand my brother Christ the devil's got to get up in your head most expensive real estate in the world and we give it to him freely he roams free and we do nothing to stop him we call on no one we do nothing we just let him worry us to death how long are you going to walk backwards through life hitting everything in your path because you were in yesterday or maybe tomorrow my brother in Christ don't you understand he hates you to the very marrow of your bones the mere mention of your name causes him to spit you don't think he's going to work to get to you to your children he wants you to worry because you get so consumed about it you can't do anything else how much of your prayers every day are so chewed up with worry how much of your conversations are chewed up with worry how much of your thought is chewed up with worry my brother sister in Christ don't you say it's a tool he's a liar to cheat it's all he's got all he's got is a thought and he's going to put it in your head and H that you back up from it look CS Lewis nailed it he had a make believe conversation between Lucifer and his son and Lucifer says son listen to me you want to get those people in a me and he said no dad I know how to get them people they meet we get in that group Pride we going to get this group with anger we're going to get them with gluttony we're going to get that group with lust and Aver and sloth and that group in the very back they being Envy he said Son listen to me what if Pride doesn't work and it's Envy over here what if it's not anger maybe it's sloth over here he said you want to get these people take their peace my brothers and sisters in Christ every Mass every hour of every day we only pray for one human emotion you and I pray it today and we pray it so quickly you don't even remember we pray Deliver Us Lord from every evil grant us peace in our day in your mercy keep us free from sin protect us from all anxiety as we wait in the joyful hope and the coming of Our Savior Jesus Christ my brother and sister in Christ you walk out those doors with the same worry you came in here with oh my God have you forgotten whose house this is have you forgotten that he is God and we are not thank God but more worse you and I took it back oh my God you received him you agreed to the deal that he would take your worries and give you him so you would have peace then you walk back to your Pew 30 ft 60 ft later you took it back to your car my brother's Christ I'm begging you when that thought what gets in your head you got to call on the good Lord you got to call on his Blessed Mother you got to allow St Joseph to intercede on your behalf stop trying to fight the devil on L playing field it's not level he's pure intellect he's going to win the fight you got to go to confession how else are you going to get you slate clean when I asked the Exorcist I said tell me is the is is Lucifer a shotgun orst he said oh my God no Mark he's a sniper he just Waits then he waits and then he waits for that kill shot that one person you never suspected to shoot one across your bow then he's got you you start worrying anxiety you can't even function the day you can't even sleep you're getting up all hours you can't even get things done you can't have a cup of conversation you can't have a cup of coffee you can't walk down street get out a decent meal you're still worried about Monday oh my God is Monday not bad enough alone you're going to give it more than 24 hours my brother Sisters in Christ you got to cut it Loose you got to let it go you got to get to the Lord involved in your thoughts you will not win this fight alone you will have anxiety and it will pour out on the ground it will destroy your life your family's life your children and the people around you my brother and sister in Christ you even remember what you were worrying about last year at this time my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you worry is the work of the devil and someday soon I pray you cut it loose and let it go and may he pull it from your dead hands no worries amen amen okay I've been yelling for well over 7even minutes amen amen name of the Father the Son the holy spirit amen please <\p>

finish finish as in finish what you started anybody can start it very few people can finish it it's the 1970s his his name is William William is a uh he's a good old boy and he will tell you I'm from Goose Creek Texas I'm a Texas boy through and through I have great parents my mom is the quintessential mom can do does do all day every day twice on Sunday he'll tell you his dad was the consumate dad a project manager he said I couldn't be blessed with greater parents he said you know grammar school uneventful high school he said man I got to tell you there's two things I'm good at William will tell you football and getting in trouble he says man I get a scholar college scholarship to go play at uh I think it's University of pit as a result of such he says man in college I'm even better at football and I am twice as good at getting in trouble he said man College he said my biggest regret I am one class short of a degree one class his mom always told him son finish what you start it the end of the day anybody can start college anybody can start something you need to finish it you're one class away he said man you know I wasn't listening he said I went and started my own band it's called the rubber band band yeah now you understand why it crashed as a result of it he said man he's can't he he can't rub two sticks together man he's doing taxi cab work he's he's working here he's working there he said man I'm I'm not making it he said man then he said man for some reason I go work for a TV station next thing you know I got a bit part in Bonanza and then I get a bit part in um Gunsmoke and then he says I get a a bit part in a movie called thunder and lightning exactly right as a result he said man I'm back on my heels again man there's no money he said I and all I can hear in my head is my mom finish what you started he said man it's drugs it's alcohol he said man he said I'm I'm in a death spiral he said to a point that I can't get out and he said man I I've got to get to a rehab he goes to a rehab he gets out and then all of a sudden man he starts getting some other little pieces in parts and finally a producer comes to him and says William let me just tell you he said you you're not good you're just not a good actor and he says wait a minute I'm a good bad guy he said yeah because you don't have to act it just comes natural so guess what he gets nothing but bad parts so in the movie uh Lethal Weapon he was in the movie uh The Firm he was in the movie Point Break okay swing oh this is not good he was in uh the movie The Gingerbread Man man okay no kidding really okay look he played Buddy Holly he's blonde hair blue eyes and he's got lot of white teeth man I was praying that would win the day I got to tell you you know him Gary Bucy my brother and sister in Christ please tell me you know who Gary Bucy is okay good I was about to go rip that one up too my brother's Christ his mom told him later in life he said son did you learn anything he said I've never forgotten your words he said I went to that drug rehab and I was thinking about walking out and I remember what you said Son you got to finish what you started he also finished and got his degree he's been sober now for almost 20 years my brother and sister in Christ that is exactly the gospel the apostles have come to him 5,000 people have come 5,000 men that's only count them men and now they're complaining because five loaves of bread and two fish is all we have and they're saying dismiss them and he said no you finish what we started they come here to be fed spiritually we did that and now they need to be fed physically do what you do best now stop you need to understand all the little nuances that are going on you are a first century Jew and you well know they only count the men so if there's 5,000 men there must be about 10,000 men women and children five loaves of bread and two fish my brother and sister in Christ the five to a Jew more often than not May reflect the Torah the first five books the fact that there would be two would be something that you and I would catch on from the Old Testament to the new maybe human and divine but here's the point my brother to Christ did you listen carefully I repeated it and hopfully that you'd catch it how many people did Christ feed of the 10,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish would ended up with 12 wicker baskets full which represent the 12 tribes and the twel apostles he only feeds 12 and he does it intentionally because he says now I'm going to be leaving in three years now you go feed them because they're going to come for you because they're going to be looking for me how many baptisms does Christ do when he's there none how many confessions does Christ here none he's telling his Apostles I only got three years with you so you better get your game on because that's where they're going with this you better finish what we started I've won the race you need to finish it my brother Christ go back in scripture Our best players the ones that really finished the race are the ones that started with next to nothing man look you and I throw Peter under the bus and I'm guilty of it too but let's be honest Peter gives us a lot of ammunition but the fact of the matter is give the boy his due man how many of you would have left your job in the middle of the day to become a follower of Christ how many of you would have gone home and said honey honey I'm I'm home how was the catch ah I'm a fisher of men great you better have some fish in that basket because if not we ain't got nothing to eat my brother and sister in Christ he walks away from everything you got to make an argument to tradition his wife's name is pereria that he walks away from even his family but the fact of the matter is they have to agree that he has to do what he's got to do if without her he doesn't make it we believe she was also martyred within the same day or week that he was but yet here he starts out the same guy questioning whether or not they should be fishing the same one that says Lord do you care we're about the parish the same one that walks on water lord if it is you tell me to come come nobody else got out of that boat say what you want about Peter he's a finisher allbe it upside down and for three hours proclaim the gospel our best players are the ones that finish what was started say what you want about Mary M and Her Seven demons but the fact of the matter is nobody else got up on Easter Sunday morning notwithstanding she already knew I'm talking about the 12 she didn't have to go in front of the soldiers and put up with whatever she doesn't have to go stand next to a rock hoping against hope that maybe somehow another that this dead savior will come alive but because she perseveres because she finishes man she's the first to see the Risen Christ man give Veronica her dukee she didn't have to disrupt the whole crucifixion just to get his face on a on a veil but give her do oh my gosh she has no vote in the world how do you know they weren't going to make her part of the crucifixion how do they know they weren't going to have their way with her she finishes what she started and because she does 2,000 years later the church has that Veil my brother Christ What if Paul said man enough of this I've been scourged I've been beaten every three of the four ships I'm on sink I'm out of here what if everybody said man I've gone for what if Christ said I'm done I've carried this cross far enough do you know the crown of thorns alone according to St Bridget has 100 wounds to the Head 20 are legitimate holes three are mortal whether we touch him or not what if Simon and sirene said man I ain't carrying that you can put me in the Army y'all can beat me like a renom mule I ain't carrying it he gets his blood on me I can't even go to the Passover man I got two kids here but guess what because he finishes what was started and did you notice did you watch the movie The Passion I think they nailed him first he doesn't want to carry it about halfway through he realizes look I don't care what this guy did but this is unconscionable and he tells him man we got to finish don't don't don't stop here we got we got to finish and then when he gets up to where the crucifixion is to golgatha my brother in Christ do you notice that he doesn't want to leave because it finally Dawns on him that if I leave they're going to crucify you then Christ looks at him to say I didn't ask you to be crucified I just asked you to help me carry my cross to finish what we started well here we sit 2,000 years later M Christ are we a starter or finisher man how is it at work when that phone rings how is it that there the only cell phone number they got is yours or what about your family we got many brothers and Si and siblings but your phone is the only one that Rings well I guess Simon it's because you can handle it because you finished what was started my brother in Christ when they call you at work to do the extra work but there's no decimal point got enlarg you got to take what you take your job description surely didn't include this but you're going to do it anyway you do it because you're a good Catholic because you're a good Catholic man and woman because that's what you do to be a disciple of Jesus Christ my brother and sister Christ we're too quick not to finish what we started how many things around our house have been done or undone or still to be done okay look ladies you can't look at your husband when I make that pitch okay it's okay I I have to take that out of the next homy I can promise you my brother s Christ that's the point man will you finish what you started the job that you said you were going to do is your word not your bond my brother in Christ I know it's tired I know the world's out of control but it doesn't change the fact what you and I have to do the good Lord has already won the race you and I have to finish it look it's Free Will from the minute you came in until the minute you go home you have free will he loves you so much so much he refuses to go against your word you want want me in your world I'm in it you say get out I'm out my brother in Christ you and I have the free will to finish what was started you need to run it all the way out from baptism to the anointing and the last rights you do everything you can first step forward is the most important you need to realize that you represent Christ here on this Earth so that when you walk away people go now that was a savior that was a disciple of Jesus Christ that was a Simon that's when you hear our saor in heaven say Well done my child man I have waited for you and welcome to the table of all of my Saints you finished what was started at the end of the day he didn't ask you to carry the cross he asked you to finish what he started my brothers and sisters in Christ I'm telling you we're in a world where everybody stops short that ain't my job it's not my description I'm not doing it I'm not getting paid anymore I've got too many things on my plate we become narcissistic and that's why we're in trouble how will people know that church is true if you and I do not prame the gospel when we leave here preach the gospel in everything you do and only use words when you have to you got to finish what we started and as much as I hate to admit it Billy Sunday is absolutely spot-on he was a baseball coach with the Oakland AE back in the day he was truly novel and unique eclectic to a point he said what good does it do to stop on third you might as well never came up to bat the score never changed you got to fix finish what we started amen no I've been yelling for 20 minutes amen am there you go the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen pleas <\p>

price price as in there's a price to pay nothing's free my brother and sister in Christ if I told you that him and his family they grew up in Venice Venice Italy and when I tell you in their day they are the most dominant Travelers of the world they have their own Fleet of ships and I tell you they are the oh man they are the cargo people of the world right in their world if you will in Italy man they got they got uh vegetation they got Fabrics they've got tools uh they got materials man if you they they they're the Walmart of your day they got it all they can ship it anywhere and I got to tell you their best player as great as their dad is their best player is the youngest one man it's it's his ability to understand money currency exchanges contracts the law a read of people people he just got the gift and his dad he tells his dad look we're good no doubt about it he said but we we got to get better because there's going to be people out there that are going to be better and quicker than we are he said Son look at us man he said look how far we've grown he said father I'm telling you you here I love this quote we can't be neutral good quote even if I say so myself I digress as a result of it he says well son what do you want to do he said I need to travel the world I need to go see what other people do he said son that's going to come with a price that you can't travel free it's going to take money it's going to take time it's going to take effort and he said let's be honest not everybody's going to welcome you he said but it's worth the price for our children for your great grandchildren so off he goes he goes in different countries but there's one country that's light years they seem to be doing more things than anybody else China nothing's changed in 2,000 years as a result of it man he goes there he when he gets there he is he he said it's jaw-dropping he said they got bridges over rivers that expand and is so great he said man they actually raised the bridges so that ships can take the goods further Inland instead of everybody having to come and be limited by what you can carry back he said and then if they can't get to a city they built canals he said man he can't get over he said they got a they have a police department they have a fire department and the best they have a sewer department a man after my own heart as a result of it this is y'all this is the year 1800 he is saying that man they are turning on a dime he's not only there but it's his personality it's the way he gets along it's the way he knows it's the thing he does he becomes so enamored he stays there almost 20 years as a result of it my brother and sister in Christ he finally comes back home man his dad thought he hadd been dead I mean let's be honest you're going that long he said son he said I basically just wrote you off as man it's just it's just what happened the world he said father I got to tell you what I saw was life altering he said do you know he said do you know they got this substance that's that's black and some of it is hard some of it is like a liquid it could burn for days oil he said man they got this fruit that falls from the tree it's the size of a person's head coconut he said they got this animal that's kind of in the water in the land I've seen it eat a whole animal I bet you if it got a hold of a person it would gobble him up alligator oh thank you he said man they're they they're just light years he said but son look at the price you paid but he said but look what I learn father he said when they when we put out a fire we got to go get water we got to throw dust on it they got a fabric they throw the fabric on it doesn't burn albe it ASB bestus I get you he said but man I got to tell you it's just that great my brother and sister Christ he was the greatest traveler of the day oh man please Christopher Columbus really mellin F The Straits of mellin write the passage from if you will from South America over to Pacific Ocean this guy is the greatest traveler in world today and the only time we remember his name is when you're at a pool party and you only know his first name Marco I needed y'all yesterday okay we died a miserable death yesterday man the price you pay my brother in Christ that is the price you pay for that success that is that gospel and the good Lord is warning his Apostles man the birds of the air have Nest foxes have their Burrows and I have no place to lay my head so if you follow me then the price you will pay is sacrifice there is no greater love in the world than sacrifice I so Lov the world I sent my son for the sacrifice of many now stop this is how it starts they're in Galilee they have excuse me they got to get to Jerusalem so let's just Christ comes to you we live in Galilee he says tomorrow we will head to Jerusalem because that's where we have to go to worship it is um about 5,000 miles on foot the average person travels four to five miles per hour on foot a little over 120 days about four months what a price to pay my brother in Christ that's what he's telling us Apostles and that's where we have to go now imagine doing that two or three times a year which is what they would have to do so they go through a city a um not a city uh they go through a county called Samaria this is why they everybody gets so indignant because they were overrun by the Assyrians and therefore they they intermingled so now the Jews do not like them because they haven't been true to their Heritage they have their own worship even though they had the first five books they have their version of it they have their own priesthood they worship on the mount gism which is a totally different Mountain this is why they don't like Christ because he's going to Jerusalem hence he's a Jew my brother and sister in Christ This is why J James and John get so indignant this is why James and John says man call down fire look James and John didn't just do this arbitrarily it's their Heritage Elijah called down fire Elisha sent an animal after people that were giving him a lot of grief so it is their nature and their Heritage to act and what Christ is saying is you you can't do that anymore you've got to turn the other cheek more importantly if you're going to follow me I don't want to hear that you got to go bury your father I don't count to here that you got to go tell your folks he said you got to stop what you're doing that might have been okay in Elijah's time but it's not now because I'm only here for three years and this is it you either on in with me or you are out you are never neutral to me my brother and sister in Christ throughout scripture I need you to than for for a minute throughout scripture Our best players are people that paid a price to be a follower of Christ if you thinking man it's all about the money can you imagine your longinus man do you understand pilot can't do anything without longinus longinus is the Centurion Centurion you want to go to battle you want longinus you want somebody in your Foxhole it's longinus you want to take over another city it's longinus for him to truly stay in front of everybody man that was the son of God my brother and sister in Christ the price he pays within weeks within a month he's got to pack up and leave a year later a year later they catch up with him pilate sends people to go kill him do you know what's ironic according to tradition they actually catch up with him but don't recognize him and then when he's eating with them because they were in a small town they're saying they're looking for this guy and he said yes I know it's me and they said well look since you were so to us we'll just tell everybody we didn't find you he said oh no you don't you came here to kill me and so it will be because I'm not backing up from what I believe they beheading there's a price to pay for being a follower of Jesus Christ you think Nicodemus you think arthea gave up his tomb just randomly and there was no price to pay man you gave up your tomb to the one person they say is not God man he was ostracized within within a month or two he's on the lamp as a matter of fact we believed he was ultimately Marty Nicodemus had actually had to leave and go to another country my brothers in Christ you don't think there's a price to pay to being a follower of Christ nothing's changed in 2,000 years every apostle was martyred and to a certain extent so was John who was boiled in oil and when that didn't kill him they regulate him to the island of Patmos well now here you sit 2,000 years later is it not reasonable logical that you and I should pay a price to be a follower of Jesus Christ well let's say hey are you willing to do the little things to make that sign of the cross clearly and distinctly in a restaurant where everybody knows you're Catholic before everybody starts to eat which is already well into the grace period you all of a sudden say can we stop and let's say a prayer knowing full well you're going to get to look like I mean really and then all of a sudden you break out the sign of the cross because people are going to say oh so you're blessing yourself you're not blessing yourself you're asking God to bless you bless us oh lord for these I give which you're about to receive through your Bounty through Christ Our Lord my brother said Christ don't you get it you're not blessing yourself you're asking him to bless you you're letting everybody know I'm a follower of Christ if you can't do that then how are you going to stand up against the onslaught of the decision of Row versus Wade if you can't stand up when they say are you a Christian you say absolutely I'm Catholic for 2,000 for 1500 years you're either Jew or you're catholic christian it's just a follower of Christ how you worshiped him was Catholic it means according to the whole that if you gather in one place you listen to the readings you break bread and you sing the Psalms you were no longer Jew but Catholic Acts of the Apostles it became so popular it became Universal my brother and sister in Christ if you and I can't do those little things if we can't pay the price now how are we going to pay it later my brother s in Christ are you will to pay the price to go to confession come to a little earlier so you can have have it done or come here Tuesday or Wednesdays my brothers Christ are you willing to pay the price to make sure that you family prays together as a whole even though everybody's running around and man time is of the essence are you willing to pay the price to get up a little earlier because I mean God forbid we stayed up much later than we thought you willing to pray together as a family before you get husband and wives will you make sure and B and KNE literally bend a knee so that you could pray for you and your family for the protection that they need before your head hits the pillow my brother and sister in Christ if we can't pay it on the little things we'll never pay it on the big decisions my brother in Christ will you pay the price of staying at work late because nobody else will do it but yet you're the Simon will you stay at work late paying the price because you know what needs to be done regardless of the decimal point never tie your name to money because the day you do you'll be the next name mentioned right after Judas and his 30 pieces of silver my brother Christ are you willing to pay the price to make sure you come to ask a little earlier so you can decompress and listen to the chant mother Christ will you make sure that maybe during the week you go to mass or what maybe oh God forbid five minutes in iteration a week you're on your phone at least an hour a day my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you you got to learn to pay the price there's a price for everything you're not getting out of this world free the only way you can say you love God is to study him and the price you got to give up his time the more you study the more you love him the more you love him the more you'll study the closer you get to Christ and the closer the gap gets the better you will feel the better you will understand the more Grace will build on your nature I promise you if you do not pay the price here you will severely pay in the life to come and for all eternity and I leave you with this there is a price to pay for Success there is a price to pay for object mediocrity make no mistake about it you will pay a price one or the other it might as well be the better amen you know who said that me God bless you please stand <\p>

Helping Hands Helping Hands the year is 1920 it's the height if you will of the depression his name is Reuben Ruben is living in Brooklyn he is in the Bronx Big City New York City it's a new world for him he's from Poland he's only been there me only maybe a few months he's got to work so he makes he goes to his uncle who owns the senator Frozen product company Senator Frozen Product Company he goes there to work with his uncle because he makes uh he makes ice he makes uh Frozen ice kind of an ice cream of sorts they're coming up with an understanding of how to do ice cream sandwiches they're they come up with what they believe is a chocolate they're working on vanilla and there's a little bit of a maybe a strawberry frozen ice but they big product is lemon ice it's the heighted of the depression things are getting tough but while Reuben is there he meets The Lover's life Rose and man they just seem to hit it off so they both go to the uncle and say look if we're going to make this leap into this this business this ice cream business this Frozen ice business man allow us to we to fix it let let us fix something because we're not going to make it the way we're going he said look it's the depression man the prices are going off the chart prices are going off the okay just make sure you got that as a result of it he he said look what we need to do the uncle said is put more air into the if this product you call Ice Cream to a point of almost 75% which is what it is today he says no we need to go the other way because people want a better product for their money because money's tight so therefore man why don't we cut it below 25% he said man we're not going to make it he said I'm telling you we we we'll kind of we'll kind of Market it to just a certain group he said we'll start out in the universities he said my wife and I will make the trips har Strawn wagon is how they delivered it he said no I'm not interested they start their own business she gets dressed up to the nines I mean she is elegant I'm talking about the long dress Etc the heat of the day Etc she gets in the hor and Bug they start delivering it then the Greyhound buses come around and they start delivering it they go to universities and I got to tell you they decided to make their little emblem the country of Denmark okay here let me the country of Denmark I didn't know if you heard that okay obviously did and then as a result it got so good and so popular that people the competitors called it Frozen sin swing and a miss wow tell me you've heard of hogendas my brother and sister in Christ okay okay no ice cream for nobody today okay ma'am my brother and sister in Christ don't worry that one will never be pitched again I can promise you man you know what's funny is they interview him they let her sell their company to Pillsbury for some $70 million you know what's amazing is that when they interviewed him towards the end of his life and they asked Ruben fill in the blank if it hadn't been for blank I wouldn't be here today he said oh man Rose after he passed they went to Rose and said fill in the blank if it hadn't been for blank she said I wouldn't be here today she said Ruben he said we were like Helping Hands my brother and sister in Christ that is exactly the gospel the good Lord is saying there is no such thing as a self-made man this is why I'm going to send you out two by two he says can you imagine you're about to go out the good Lord has 70 to 72 disciples and I'll explain why there's people think there's a discrepancy he's about to send out 72 as a result of it can you imagine imine he finally ordains these 72 to go out into the world and right when they go to go pick up their stuff he said oh no no no no no no no I'm sorry uh no money bag no money belt no money money is No Object we have none then you been down you start to put on your sandals he said oh no no no no you don't you don't wear sandals oh what what are you doing with that walking stick no no no no no walking stick and oh by the way don't Network along the way to kind of make ends meet so when you come back you got something that you can live off of first house you go to the when that accepts you that's where you stay my brother in Christ he's telling everybody I'm the helping hand you got to learn to expect it from me more importantly you better learn to take it from your brother more importantly you need to understand there is no self-made man there is no such thing as someone that just says man I I I just got I got the gift of athleticism I got the gift of intellect I've got the ability to be coordinated I've got the ability to reason to logic to know business still no medicine engineering all gifts come from God now stop you need to understand this you're a first century Jew these are the things that you know first of all if Luke doesn't write this story nobody knows about it if it hadn't been for him we would not know the 72 disciples is very old testament driven so it's not ironic that Christ pulls 72 to send out before he Le listen to me this is how it works if you and I were to go back to Moses we would learn that when Moses was in the desert he can't handle 1 million people complaining incessantly he needs help he needs 702 so what happens is is he calls the good Lord and asked him to ordain 70 people to help him he ordained 70 in the group then there are two people outside that also receive the gift hence the term 72 my brother and sister in Christ make sure you understand this every Jew walk in the earth listen to me they all know where he's going nobody's standing back going what 72 12 3 do what they know they get it they all know that there was God then Moses comes then Moses goes to Aaron and [ __ ] and edad and then from those three he goes to the 12 tribes and from the 12 tribes they pull 72 people 1 3 12 and 72 f F forward a th000 years 2,000 years Christ comes Peter James and John the 12 apostles inclusive of the three but still another the 12 and then now he's picking 72 everybody knows he's starting a new church this is exactly where they're going nobody's fooled nobody says man what that's what that's that's a miracle everybody knows where he's going more importantly my brother and sister in Christ he makes a very powerful statement how well did you listen when the apostles said something to him he said yeah I saw Satan fall from the sky like lightning the only way you could see Satan fall from the sky is on day one when God created the light God created the Angels the Angels only have free will one time and one time only which means they got to immediately decide will I worship Him in heaven or will I rule in hell and as a result of it for him to make that statement he saying remember this very subtly I'm telling you I was in the beginning this is why John makes the proclamation the word was in the beginning the Word was God the word is God he was with God this is why you and I pray Lord Jesus Lord again every in the beginning of the mass my brother in Christ he set in the table please remember this as well as a first century Jew we do not believe Christ wore sandals during the crucifixion even though everybody paints it that way why because of that statement 95 % of the people are poor only 5% of the population roughly wear sandals you had to be a person of means Christ wouldn't wear sandals if his followers were not did he not say that if I'm going to get on my knees and I'm going to wash your feet so will you do it to others so if Christ is not going to wear sandals neither will they he's not going to wear them in hopes that they follow suit and then more importantly if you're at the crucifixion the one thing you're going to argue over are the sandals not the bloody cloak or the the Garment that he's wearing my brother and sister in Christ it's important you understand it's all about a helping hand and the good Lord is saying you better learn to love your neighbor look all of our best players have people that offer Helping Hands Where would Peter be if it hadn't been for his brother Andrew Andrew is the one that goes to him and says we found the Messiah that's why he's got the second line of the Creed my brother and sister in Christ if it hadn't been for him would Peter have ever gotten it where would Peter be if it hadn't been for his wife according to tradition poor area if she doesn't aged for him to go out and proclaim the gospels how does he ever get past go my brother in Christ where would James be without John or John without James where would Paul be if it hadn't been for Luke or if it hadn't been for or Silas or where would Peter be if it hadn't been for the the writer mark my brother and sister Christ everybody that goes out has a helping hand there are no such things as self-made men and women he's saying you got to learn to help one another my brothers Christ here you and I some 2,000 years later what part of this don't you and I understand my brother and sister in Christ it's important that you understand that you and I are only going to get to Heaven by helping others the fact the matter is we're only going to get to heaven because somebody helped you and I on somebody's coattails you and I have made it so when we start to think that we're self-made I'm telling you that's the beginning of the Fall so ask yourself one question you feel in the best blank if it hadn't been for blank I wouldn't be here today if it hadn't been for blank I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for blank I may not even be alive today my brother and sister in Christ you've got to be make sure that your name is somewhere in one of those three blanks because if you're not then you're going to get to heaven and you know no one which would be impossible therefore you're at the wrong gate so on Judgment Day if you show up up and you don't recognize anybody on the other side of the proverbial gate you're at the wrong gate and there's not a dang thing we can do about it my brother and sister in Christ for all eternity our life is nothing but a glimps maybe maybe a hundred years at best all eternity my brother and sister in Christ It's All About Love of neighbor it's about giving a helping hand you know the one Commandment that we break incessantly it's the commandment thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor you know the problem is we think it only applies to you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God can I tell you that is the oldest lie in the book and as a result of it you and I buy in that's the only argument it's called the sin of detraction when you email text message gossip or slander you go out of your way to bad mouth somebody else it's called the sin of detraction you steal their honor and lower them in the eyes of others because well because you're self-righteous because you've been proclaimed the new God I mean we judge as we drive by the street at 50 mil an hour my brother and sister in Christ we belittle and and uh judge people just like the drop of a Hut the problem is once you break the Commandment you can't receive communion my brothers in Christ don't you see you and I have to learn to help one another it's got to be a helping hand you know you can fill in those blanks with maybe different people maybe it's the same person well the fact of matter is our name needs to be in those blanks look take the and it's not a parable the rich man who steps over the poor man Lazarus and as a result of it he's eating the scraps off the table the dogs are licking his wounds they die on the same day the rich man had no names in that blank more importantly he thought he was self-made moreover my brother and sister in Christ nobody would have stuck his name in the blank if he would have helped that man Lazarus instead of just stepping over him Lazarus could have said if it hadn't been for this man I would not be here today my brother and sister Christ he didn't kill anybody either so when work calls can I tell you take the phone call look I understand you might be the only number that that that everybody has that in all the people at work your just the only one that Rings may be your family you're the only one phone number that Rings is if you don't have siblings because the grace is for you and that's what you need so when you do that you receive the grace and nobody else does this is why he tells them you bless the house if they don't want it it comes back to you when somebody curses you belittles you judge you you pray for them and the blessing is not accepted it comes back to you twofold this is why I want to make sure you understand you've got to offer a helping hand you got to reach out to somebody you got to make sure that they're okay nobody said you had to stop your whole world but at the end of the day you don't make heaven without helping somebody else it's love of God and love of neighbor my brother's Christ don't you get it at the end of the day the only way to thank God God for your eyesight is to help a person in total darkness by reaching with a helping hand amen amen amen am name of the father and the son the holy spirit amen <\p>

two coins two coins the year is about 1960 and I got to tell you Harry's about had all he can stand he's um he's a carpenter by trade well no not really he's on his business card it says he's a carpenter but here's his problem he's sitting up on a roof and he's kind of hidden behind the backs side of the roof he's sitting down and he's got a book by his side a magazine seene and he's just he's laying back on the roof and he's looking up and said how did I get here I mean how did I even get to this point in my life all of a sudden he hears the door slam outside so he crawls up the eve of the of the roof and he looks over and he sees his friend coming out he's got his little robe on his pajamas he's got his slippers and he's going to get the newspaper and he watches him go to get it and he sees him get he reads the newspaper and he just slides back down the eve he said man how did I get to this spot in my life he said 'I told my friend Sergio I told him I would build him a studio he said oh my God I got I got multitude of problems one I've never built a studio before two I've never built anything before three I don't even have tools to build something I don't know how to build ever before and he said I got a how-to book he said that's what I'm reading and he said man I ain't got two coins to rub together I ain't got got two nickels all I got is Free Will and time he says you know what I'm just going to do it he starts to build it and can I tell you he knocked it out the park now granted it may have taken longer than expected but it was so good that his friend Sergio calls his best friend James James Khan Jame he builds an apartment for James Khan James Khan calls dfus and dfus says man I need an office then IUS calls Fran for copel and says man we got to keep this guy Harry working because give him a bit part so he can keep building construction work so that's how it was he got a bit part in the Virginia gets a bit part in the FBI he's in uh Kung Fu I knew that wouldn't sell but anyway he's in um let me see what else was oh he was in American Graffiti swinging a Miss okay so anyway he keeps going and finally fors coin says look we we got to do more than that he's always happy he's always helping out he he has no life of his own he says he's all in so let's just get him some let's just get him a job so they get him in a job and he starts doing bit Parts in movies but then it grows legs he's in forc 10 of Navarone wow this is going to get ugly okay um then he gets another one uh regarding Henry The Fugitive Indiana Jones okay oh my gosh yes don't worry won't use him again either Harrison Ford my brother and sister in Christ and he'll tell you I didn't have two coins all he had was Free Will and time that's the gospel my brother and sister in Christ it's all about Free Will and time now look stop you need to understand who these people are your first century Jew Martha and Mary are tied to Lazarus who is the wealthiest man of his day and a devout Catholic as a matter of fact he will actually walk away from everything to become a follower of Christ after the resurrection I digress Martha is the ones whose house they're at she's the one preparing the meal Hospitality to a Jew is everything not to show Hospitality you're almost it's almost being ostracized her sister Mary if you will which we believe ultimately is Mary Magdalene it's at the feet of Christ very Jewish to sit at someone's feet and listen you ascribe to them like a a um gel right you're a teacher you're a professor you're a man of Faith well what's happening is she's so consumed now look listen make sure you understand the difference between Martha and Mary what Mary did was the better choice it's not what Martha did was wrong it just wasn't as good listen to what he says Martha you're worried and anxious about about things of the world that's why you're staying so busy there's nothing wrong look cuz otherwise listen to what otherwise St James is wrong faith without works is Deb what he's telling Mary and Martha is Mary chose right now to be contemplative and listen you could have done the same thing and chose time and free will but you chose to get caught up in the world you can still work in the world and be prayerful but you got anxious and decided to work because you want to get rid of your anxiety time and Free Will my brother Christ throughout scripture everybody gets two coins you and I only get two coins time and Free Will and on the day of our death we will hand those two coins back and we will account for our time and for our free will our best players got it Paul living proof of what he me understood I walked away from everything I have nothing all I get for it is I get scourged I get almost got beat to death and if that wasn't bad you stoned me thinking I was dead is the only reason you walked away he's saying Lord here's my time I spent worshiping and proclaiming your gospel and I did it with my own free will my brother and sister in Christ look at the apostles look at Martha and Mary man they got to give up your free time it's all on you listen to what I'm telling tell you 2,000 years later you and I are responsible we're only going to get two coins that's all we ever were promised I'm going give you he loves you and me so much that he refuses to touch your free will you want to love me love me you want to chastise me chastise me you want to butcher my church or my friends or my priesthood then that's on you because at the end of the day I'm going to ask you for both coins back I'm going to ask you what you did with your time and what you did with your free will my brother and sister in Christ ask yourself how much time do you spend now on your cell phones I'm guilty of it too how much time do you spend on your cell phones versus praying how much time you and I spend texting versus praying Time free will how much time do you do you and I give 15 minutes a month a month to adoration compared to the amount of time you spent watching television Facebook internet gossiping My Brother and Sisters in Christ how many times did you spend going to confession once a month at least you and I sin on the average seven times a day that's if we're holy imagine not going to confession for 30 days that's 200 don't go for a year it's 2400 don't go for a decade 24,000 sins nowhere in scripture did Christ ever say that I for it's only between you and me he never said it never wrote it never implied it Matthew 5 I came to fulfill the law not to change it Leviticus 4:5 and 6 confession was already in place and do you know what you had to bring an animal to confession yeah you had to bring a goat or a lamb turtle dove if you didn't have many sins if you had a lot of sins you bring a bull walk through town with that yeah you nothing to see here keep walking more importantly give it to your family y'all go ahead I catch up with you right my brother and sister in Christ what I'm trying to tell you is that little bit of time that you spent you did it of your own free will and you did it during the time frame you come here on this day you and I are going home on this day on your soul my soul too is a date stamp that says this is the day you come into the world and this is the day you come to me non-negotiable and how you spend your days in between is Free Will I will never touch it I will try to enhance it with Faith and Hope and charity I will send you guardian angels and I will send people AC cross your paths and the greatest of these is Charity according to St Paul you could have faith to move mountains but if you do not have good works and love of neighbor you're a resounding gong my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you you got to make time for him in this world that we live right now it's worse than it's ever been have you ever thought that you would see some of the things going on in our world did you ever think that you didn't know who to trust no matter what happens did you ever think you'd see a sitting president a Catholic cting President issu an executive order that's saying that man we got to work around this abortion issue you ever imagine having to speaker of the house fly all the way to Rome just so that she can show everybody she too can receive did you ever think in your lifetime that you would see a Pon allow such to take place Place time and Free Will that's on them and on their conscience all I care about is you I need you to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth will help you God I need you to know that the teaching the truth are right no matter what other people say there are not 40,000 truths there's only one Church started by the Messiah Jesus Christ and it's the one you and I worship in and if you are bored and tired and you don't like what you're being fed then go where you need to go because at the end of the day the Eucharist is the source and some of our life my flesh is through food my blood is through drink and if I'm not in you and you're not in me you do not have eternal life the gates to heaven are small and the gates to hell are large I am tired of hearing people say we're in a better they're in a better spot everywhere I go they're in a better spot every funeral I attend they in a better spot are you kidding me then why would Christ make the proclamation misspoken misguided misunderstood he said there are four types of seed in the world I will throw it on Rocky ground and it will be trampled I will throw it and it will end up in the thorns and it may take root but it'll be choked to death I will throw it and it will get caught up in the weeds and the rocks and it will be scorched by the sun one out of four will land on good soil you got to be that part time and and Free Will and I leave you with this you didn't deal the cards how you play them is your free will and may his face never leave you amen amen amen am the name of the father and the son holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

perseverance perseverance my brother and sister Christ it's it's man it's probably the late 1800s probably right around 1900 his name is John robling John robling truly this is his name he's at a meeting and can I tell you at the meeting they are going up one side him and down the other I mean it's if you and I had been there I think we'd have just said John why don't you just cut your losses and call it good I mean you you should have heard them I mean John there is no way you're going to build a bridge over this vast River there just you can't build it that way John John you are The Village Idiot next guy stands up and say John we never built a bridge that way we got to build it the way we know how you go on one side of the river you put some pilings down you build a foundation you make sure it's secure you go on the other side of the river you do the exact same thing and then you build a structure over the middle and he says and that's how we secure it he said gentlemen what you do not understand is we do not have the space to build this massive structure on one end and one on the other end and then build this massive thing in the middle it will take up all the land that we have he says I'm telling you the way to do it is the way I propose they said John we're not going to do it that way you're wrong it's just not the way to do it man I got to tell you John's gift is perseverance he said I tell you what price out what you're doing look at what you got left remaining and then tell me that what I'm doing is wrong if we build cables across it and then we suspend cables down to support it and then put the structure inside the cables we can tie it off on either side and it'll still do what we need without taking up the land and half the money like a suspension bridge a rope bridge if you will as a result of it John gets started this is a 20-some year project about halfway through an accident happens John dies and I got to tell you you what's amazing the only person that had a greater gift of perseverance than him was his son named Washington robling man can I tell you he gets hurt in the same accident that kills his dad the only thing he has operational on him his finger for 13 years grammar school high school that you and I go through 13 years he draws out where the suspensions need to go they literally bring him out there to point where the things need to be suspended and tied up from 13 years they built the first suspension bridge in the United States it's still today being used from New York to Long Island from New York to Long Island okay please tell me you've heard of the Brooklyn Bridge my brother and sister in Christ really okay hang on Can Talk Amongst yourself a minute I'll be back just talk among yourself look it ain't going to take but a second so I don't make this mistake again okay I won't use that story ever again I promise you next to black Bart wow my brother and sister in Christ it's about perseverance that is that gospel the good Lord's tell him the story he will knock on your door till you come in and open it until you give him what he wants regardless of the hour of the day because you just got to do it to get rid of the person now stop let's make sure you understand you're a first century Jew these are the things that you know first of all Jesus went off to pray if Christ goes off to pray then you and I need to go off to pray more so than him secondly and equally important did you notice who they said if I said John the Baptist what's the first thing that comes to your mind well is that Locust and wild honey thing and then oh wait wait wait wait a minute he he wore camel skin oh yeah he kind of had a little bit of a temper nobody ever said how well John the Baptist prayed but the fact that the apostle brought it up must mean it was pretty obvious that he did it quite often he's an Essen Jew which means they don't believe in shaving which is why you always see John the Baptist with a beard or maybe if you will St Joseph at times as well my brother and sister Christ what I'm trying to tell you is is prayer was Don was dominant in John's life this is what they realize and as a result of it that's all they have to go by now my brother and sister in Christ they there's two types of our fathers there's one in Matthew's gospel and there's one here in Luke Lukes the truth of the matter is is they are a little different when I go to speak to other faiths or in particular people who are paganistic the first thing they say is man y'all got two different versions of the Our Father therefore it can't be divinely inspired stop a minute absolutely it's divinely inspired make no mistake about it just because one's a shorter virgin than the other does it make the one less fulfilling you have the Apostles Creed you have now the the Nan Creed my brother Christ if you and I lived with the Jews some people would pray the shamama which is I believe in one God and he is a one true God and I'll love him with my whole heart mind and soul some of them would pray the 18 petitions before the shama it doesn't make the shama less than if you don't my brother and sister in Christ how well were you listening when he was talking do you know why and just so you understand if you and I lived in the Jewish world chances are you and I may not have a lot of money a lot of means and this is what it means at night you would bring in all your cattle and sheep maybe one or two you might only have two headed cattle maybe only a couple handful of sheep you would actually bring them into your house because you don't have a grotto you got nowhere to store them so you bring them into your house and you and your family live in a loft you know why you don't want to go down at night why is it that y'all could get that part but you couldn't get the Brooklyn Bridge where where is your mind okay can I tell you as somebody who is in that business in my prior life he ain't coming down because he ain't walking through it to get you a loaf of bread and he ain't got to go back and go clean himself off before he goes back up that's why he's not coming down my brother and sister Christ he doesn't want to deal with with just the problems my brother and sister in Christ do you understand that in other words he's going to knock on the door till he comes down that's how you got to persevere were you listening close unfortunately sometimes we read this part of the Gospel we just think oh okay what father would give his son a snake if he asked for fish or man an egg and give him a scorpion or man turn these stones to bread my brothers Christ listen carefully to what he's saying what father I thought he said call no man father I digress on that issue 130 times in scripture the words father are used my brother and sister in Christ he's saying what father would give his son a scorpion if he asked for egg at your birth to be baptized in Christ and not follow the evil one later in life what what parent what father would give his son a snake if he asked for a fish the fish is the symbol of cistus the snake is the symbol of the evil one what father would lead his son astray towards the evil one more importantly what father would give him stones that were turned to bread that would maybe last you this life but not the bread of everlasting life he's walking them through the whole life look all of our best players are those that persevere look go back in scripture think about all our best players man how many times have you and I beat up Peter incessantly just because man he just doesn't get it he just says the wrong words at the wrong time I mean he just seems to open his mouth the thought hits his head and out comes a jaw and man he's all in it all over again but give the man is due 33 years later he is crucified upside down and according to tradition for three hours he proclaims the gospel and don't forget about his wife pereria who probably gave up her life either that day or earlier in the week so that he could become a follower Jesus Christ yeah Peter made his mistakes yeah he denied Our Savior three times that's true he cut off malus's ear that's true too as a matter of fact he's the one that said Lord you care we're about to Parish here in the boat when the winds got too high he's the one that thought he could walk on water but he does my brother and sister in Christ Peter is absolutely the poster child for perseverance what about Paul I mean if anybody had the right to walk away surely it's Paul I mean one minute you're saw with wine women Fame and Fortune three days later you're blinded next thing you know you're fighting the same people that you thought you should be crucified matter brother in Christ do you know he's the only Apostle he's the 13th Apostle if you want to call it that he's the only one that kept his day job as a Tent Maker can you imagine being thrown in jail writing a letter to the Colossians if that ain't bad enough they want to persecute you and ultimately they will chop his head off for being a follower of Jesus Christ oh that's right that's right you're a Roman citizen so here's your options Paul um you could be tied to an animal in a sack you could be brought to the Coliseum you could be crucified or you could be drowned in the water or you could be beheaded my brother and sister in Christ you know when they beheaded you they rarely got it right on the first cut not that it matters my brother and sister in Christ what I'm trying to tell you all of our best players persevered and all those that don't don't take pilate pilate could have easily said look he's Jewish that's y'all's gu but I'm not killing him he's done nothing to prove sedition to me my brother and sister Christ the height of irony everybody who judged Christ took their own life Herod Herod Antipas his son pilate and Judas my brother and sister in Christ I'm talking you today that you and I need to persevere I don't care what's going on in your world you got to finish where you started you got to begin and end with prayer if you do not do this you will not finish this race listen to me you do not have to win it but you dang sure better finish it you better get up and finish what you started you begin with prayer and you end with prayer you got something big coming up in your life when you stay after it and you finish it if it doesn't work out well that's between him and them you did your job you prayed and you got up and you did what you have to do my brother Christ you're quitting too quick you're saying man the heck with it and I'm done I don't care if you got a test coming up you plow through it I don't care if you got a job interview you got to come through you go through it you got something to do with your work you endure it and make sure you finish it I don't care if it has something to do with school a relationship your work or the world the problem is you're not finishing what we started I'm telling you my my friends in Christ you hang on to it like it's death May the devil pull it out of your dead hands when you're through because the only thing that matters is did you finish what you started the game has already been won I just want to know he wants to know will you continue to pray when everybody else has cut their losses when everybody else is getting mad look and I get it you want to have a penny party great have at it you want to being a drunken stuper go do it finish it up you're through now get back in the race and finish what you started my brother's Christ you want to go home and kick your neighbor's dog more or less go kick it now you finished get back in the game because at the end of the day it's all about you and your relationship to Christ the day you stop praying is the day the devil wins the fight father you don't understand I'm tired of praying I'm tired of doing this I'm tired of doing that look at my results I never get answers the day you stop was the day that the prayer was going to win the day now is the time for you and I to double down now is the time for you and I to finish what we started you're tired of praying if you pray one more time you can spit spit now finish that prayer and you double down on it and may they pull it out of your dead hands because at the end of the day you finish what we started my brother Christ look at the world that we are in right now I'm telling you if you do not buckle down and you and I do not learn to bend the knee this world will consume you and I and we will fracture and fall the only thing you and I have is prayer it's all we ever had so you knock on that door till somebody comes to answer and if they don't answer it well then they can live all night with the noise you must insist in your prayers I'm begging you finish what they started nobody else has anything to say about it it's between you and him and I leave you with the words of Ben Franklin perseverance perseverance is the amount of work you do is the amount of work you do after you're tired from doing the work you just finished persevere amen oh come on I've been screaming for a lot longer than that amen name of the father son holy spirit amen and I thank my mom for her Applause in the back I thank you for that <\p>

renters renters passing through no ownership my brother in Christ I think John was I think it's the 1940s he is John is a New York boy right he's a queen's New York boy and if you were to talk with John he would tell you man I I say I got to tell you I had great parents my mom uh dad was an attorney my mom was the quintessential mom can does does do and I had two brothers both of them went to med school High School grammar school pretty much uneventful he said when I get out I decide I'm going to go to Wake Forest and he says my brothers decide they want to go to med school he said but the war breaks out and then he said man it's it's just it's chaos he said everybody in the day the war we all left he said after the war he said I come back my brother is struggling his health is he's not quite can finish med school so as a result John decides look I'll go to school in Ireland where you're staying I'll go to Dublin because you got to remember John is very Catholic and so is his family so at the time was Dublin as a result man he goes to school there helps his brother but things are tight between going to school trying to make money help his brother pay the tuition he's got to get a like a secondary job so he does he works in a play called Ulisses and then he says man this is this is pretty good well he gets his brother through med school he comes back to the United States and says man I'mma go get a master's of all things in speech and I got to tell you if you saw him you'd say he got a master's in speech because of the roles that he plays and here's the irony remember brother in Christ he gets in uh he gets bit parts right gunm smoke uh which I think half the world must have gone through gunm smoke and um he goes through gunm smoke he gets a bit part he gets another one call A Man from Uncle he gets in uh another one Dr Kildare and then all of a sudden man the world starts spinning his way and man he starts to think man I I got this and then all of a sudden trouble hits he tries out for the Skipper on Gilligan's Island that's right that's and he doesn't get it and then he tries out for Dr Smith I don't know if you remember the show Lost in Space he doesn't get that either next thing you know he's on his heels Clint Eastwood gives him a throws him a bone and gets him in Kelly's Heroes okay anyway for the three people that just got it okay I digress as a result of it man he does that and then next thing you know it's bits and pieces along the way he gets mad about you with Helen Hunt and then the next thing you know the big break for him comes when he's he goes back to a sitcom in Queens New York he plays a guy whose vocabulary can't be any greater than maybe four-letter words his wife quote is an airhead his son-in-law is a meathead pleas oh thank you Lord Carol o Conor oh he the night okay God bless y'all okay cuz it was a mercy killing the night before okay I'm going tell you my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing is that his family always told him Carol or John if you will be careful you're just a rener so no matter how good you think you got it there'll be a day that will come when you do not he never forgot that and neither should you or I that's that gospel the good Lord goes to the rich man and says you fool tonight I come for you you're planning on bigger barns you will not even see the sunset much less it rise my brother and sister in Christ I need you to stop for a minute I need you to think let's go back you're a first century Jew so as a result of it you're going to see life a little differently remember Christ is a Jew his mother is Jewish his stepfather you will is Jewish their parents are Jewish he's circumcised as a Jew he's crucified as a Jew he's Jewish he SS the Catholic faith at the Last Supper when he says there's a new covenant no longer a lamb but the new Lamb of God so my brother and sister in Christ I tell you these things because you need to make sure you understand where they are pride is the table setter for all seven deadly sins Pride anger gluttony lust Aver sloth and envy he's warning the man that your pride because you think you earn the money therefore the greed that is taken over vanity of vanity will lead to other deadly sins and what was he getting caught up in he's going to rest he's going to become slothful he's going to start drinking and be married so now he's going to be an alcoholic and a drunk my brother and sister in Christ one deadly sin leads to the other how do you get from venial to Mortal it's one of the seven deadly sins my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing he spent very little time with a person that wanted to negotiate the settlement of his inheritance nothing's changed in 2,000 years my brothers and sisters in Christ listen to what I'm telling you he goes to Christ to argue the book of Deuteronomy the book of Deuteronomy is called the book of laws rules you think Catholics have rules don't be a Jew there are over 600 rules in their world not counting the Big 10 my brother and sister in Christ he's saying look don't come to me about that issue the book of Deuteronomy already spells it out if you're married outside our your faith or your nationality you married to some maritan there's one set of rules if your wife is still living there's one if it's just your children there's another and matter of fact if neither one of them are around you got to give it to your brothers that's between you and them it's totally irrelevant as it should be for you and I because you're a renter what differen is it make it wasn't theirs it won't be yours and at the end of the day it won't be to the people that you leave it to my brothers in Christ go back in scripture Our best players learned that they are nothing more than renters but they learned it early in life they didn't wait so long for it to come along think about it man you're Peter you're married you got boats you're living on Sea of Galilee you've got a business you got to move you immediately walk away from your nets he knows right then man I'm convicted I'm a renter because if I leave who do I leave it to even if I had children which we don't believe he did then who do I give it to matter of fact who gave it to me my brother and sister Christ Peter realizes it what about James and John can you imagine what it was like in their life their father is so upset that James and John have left to follow Christ man they've got boats they've got Nets where are you going and then when they realize that he's following the Messiah do you know according to tradition their dad had a long time before he got nice back to Christ he just simply refused to acknowledge the fact that he lost two sons I wonder how he feels now there's exactly the point my brother and sister Christ Joseph of arthea Nicodemus longinus every one of them realized they were renters longinus walks away from the Legion in his money and his retirement Joseph of arthea gives up his house in his tomb Nicodemus leaves the religious if you will leaves the Jewish Pharisee life then next thing you know becomes an object poper my brother and sister Christ you know there's a story true story in the year 425 there was a guy who came into the world world he took over the entire Roman Empire entire Roman Empire which is from Spain to Jerusalem from the danu to the Nile from Asia to Northern Africa in his words quote I own it and I own everything in it I own the people I own the things I own the world and for all intense purposes he did for a while as a matter of fact his mere name would cause trepidation and fear it would cause people to Le their Villages it would have people caused to pack up and leave people would actually run in sheer fright of just seeing this guy and because he was so mean and so powerful he often times told everybody again and again and again I own the world and I own the people with it he meets a beautiful young bride her name was adido he gets married and his honeymoon night he is such in a drunken stuper that he gets so drunk he PA he hits his nose in his head and he dies him a nose bed the end of a till of the hunt that's right my brother and sister in Christ so here you and I sit 2,000 years later do you and I actually think we own the car the house the clothes on our back my brother and sister in Christ we are nothing more than renters somebody owned the house and the property before we got it and somebody else is going to own it afterwards oh the clothes that you have my mother's not here for the shoes that you may have my brother and sister in Christ on the day that you and I pass within days all our clothes are going to be at God's Storehouse you're only you're not even going to own the set of clothes that goes on your back and the shoes on your feet if they even put them on there my brother and sister in Christ that beautiful set of guns that you have that you're showing off to everybody else please your nephew's got that yeah he leaves things out in the rain a lot but what's a little rust on your nice shotgun oh yeah the golf clubs you know the one that you manicure because you actually think you're a professional golfer don't worry he'll wrap it around a tree somewhere he'll lose your irons break a couple Woods please really what difference in Make My Brother and Sisters in Christ everything that you and I own is just a passing through we own it only for a little bit of time this is what the good Lord is saying it's vanity of vanities man we got to get the next cell phone brother and sister in Christ it's the cell phone causing half the problems that we got but yet we got to have the next version my brother in Christ we got to have the next computer we got to have the next car up we got to have the camp we got to have the next boat at what point does the accumulation come to a point where that's the vanity is the accumulation itself my brother and sister in Christ don't you see on the day you and I die we will stand naked and alone in front of him and there will be no one else there will be no arbitration there will be no mediation there will there will be no discussion there will be only judgment the nanus second you and I passed we are immediately while everybody else is discussing what they're going to take of ours who's going to say what who's going to read what whatever and at the end of the day when push comes to shove you've already been judged you know every time I go to talk to someone on their deathbed I never have a discussion about the camp I never discussed the car matter of fact I have yet to have anybody even ask me about their 401K how's the stock market doing my brother and sister Christ they don't even know where the money's at nor do they care they don't even care what's in their closet how many of us have clothes we've never opened gifts we've never even used my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this true story a man goes to see a rabbi in Jerusalem he's been looking high and low for this guy he finally finds him man he bangs on the door Rabbi I need need to speak with you the rabbi yells from inside come in the man comes in he opens the door and he's about to say something to Rabbi and he looks around he he sees a whole bunch of books one cot and a little bitty bench and he said is this your furniture he said yeah where's yours he said well I don't live here I'm just passing through and he said me too be careful my brother in Christ we're all renters amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

master or servant master or servant the years is about 1930 most of you know John but not like that way he'll tell you that he's a New York boy but he'll also tell you his parents would have told you especially his mom he has got a heart the size of the world you don't necessarily see it when he's growing up and he says and and she'll tell you she said even if you were to ask my son he'll tell you his life tumultuous by the age of three he lost his brother his only brother by the age of nine he'll tell you he said I remember that day he said I'm sitting at the the kitchen table with my mom my dad comes in takes off his coat lays it over the chair puts his hat down walks through the house picks up every photo album every picture picks up his watch comes back picks up his hat his coat picks up his uh check walks out he says never see him again he said it's just me and my mom she starts working for the transit authority and she says man John you got to go to school you got to learn something he'll tell you he loved School his mom said you should you never went he said you know John you know the problem with you John is you love sticks stick ball baseball hockey pool cues anything he goes mom I I enjoyed high school she goes you enjoyed not going to school John she goes you know what you did and you know people don't know my own son she told one time in a in a in a um later on in an autobiography he wrote that he took limberger cheese in 75 radiators through the school they closed it for days then he said man he got so excited he wanted to see how the choir reacted when they threw a snake in the middle of them he got set home for a week and then all of a sudden man he says man the best day of his life he says man I was graduating they made me the MC of graduation he said the kids loved it and his mom reminded him and so did the teachers because you're leaving that year and not coming back his mom eventually passes away when he's young he's about 20 years old he has 39 cents in his pocket he said man he's got to do something it's his personality it's it's as big of the room man he is a servants servant he loves people he gets a big job in a uh in a movie called Larsen and and then whatever it takes to form a marriage and then he gets in another one called the requium of a heavyweight okay this is not good he's in another one called in Baton Rouge they filmed the movie The Toy swinging a mess okay he actually gets another one called The Hustler where he plays Minnesota Fats oh I tell you what he was Buford te Justice okay okay better yet no wait a minute wait let me finish before I crash and burn let me finish he is known his best friend did a sitcom his best friend worked in the sewer I thank him for that and he used to tell his wife you know Alice are those jokes funny on the moon because that's where you're going Alice to the Moon Alice to the Moon okay Jackie gleon okay my brother and sister in Christ work with me my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing is that they said his heart was so big that he could never stay mad at people long because it was just a giving heart he was a servant's servant as a matter of fact do you know what it says on his Tombstone I don't know if you a remember the sitcom or the show and away we go my brother and sister in Christ master or servant that is that gospel this is what the good Lord is telling them when he's coming what will it be for you when I come back will you be the Great Master because you think everything came through you cuz money fame fortune or you will be the servant servant will you serve me or be the master of your own domain my brother say Christ now stop you need to understand where this is going this they're very Jewish Christ is a Jew his mother is a Jew his stepfather if you will is a Jew they're Jewish people so as a result of it he's talking to the apostles that's why there are very few very few Believers half of 1% of the people this one I'm telling you half of 1% of the people believe Christ to be the Messiah if I were to ask you what is the one person outside of her and him that every time they saw Christ they recognized him this is how few people beli Christ was the Messiah who is the one person every time they met him they said you're the Messiah anybody Satan every time he met he said you truly you are the Son of God what do you have to do with me why have you come my brother and sister in Christ that's how few people that he's speaking to and he's trying to warn them my brother in Christ that you don't know the hour or the day because you remember this the Jews believe Christ is coming on Passover which means he's reminding the apostles remember when I came for you in last supper I got dressed up I guarded my loins I put you at the table and I washed your feet I serve so shall you he's reminding them of that meeting and he's trying to tell them that's why I'm telling you you need to guard your loins and serve other people and then he makes one more step he said man it's going to be like a thief in the night you don't know when I'm coming you don't know your hour of the day now remember this there are four watches for the Roman world 6 to 9 9 to 12 12: 3 3: 6 in the Jewish World there are only three watches he's saying I'm going come in the second or third watch towards the end of your life whatever age that may be and when I come you better be ready now stop I know y'all if I were to speak to you about purgatory you would dismiss me quickly if I was in another faith and I go speak to other churches I get it all the time please father they hand me a the Bible King James version and says find the word Purgatory in the book I said oh here let me help you it's right next to the word Trinity oh that's right that word's not there either oh that's right you're looking for an English word in a book written in Greek how much time will we spend on this you just heard him describe Purgatory how well were you listening he said there are four groups of people and when I come on my Judgment Day final judgment second coming after everybody's going to be ruled and judged on we're all dead he's saying you're going to land in four different categories you'll either be saved and brought to Heaven because you were on guard and you were serving the people like I expected or you're going to fall in hell and you're going to be considered Unfaithful because you beat people you ruled over them you dominated them and as a matter of fact when I came you totally ignored me you're in hell he said your punishment make sure you understand this in their language do you know what the punishment what was I'm going to cut you in half that's what he's saying I've come come to judge you and this is your final judgment I'm going to cut you in half it's for all eternity then he says to the other ones you should have known better but you weren't prepared so you will you will be beaten severely but it's only temporal and then there are those who were ignorant and really didn't know what to do he said you'll only be beaten lightly where else is there there's Heaven there's hell that's right my brother and sister in Christ he's explaining purgatory he's telling you that if you do not learn to serve me in this world then you will come to find out Who the Master is on Judgment Day how many times do I hear people say throughout scripture people are always saying well I'm actually kind I I control my own life no my brother Christ listen to me every time in scripture when somebody of means comes to our Savior like the rich man y'all remember the parable the rich man goes to see Christ and he says Lord what do I got to do to get to heaven he says well keep the Commandments and the young man goes oh got that so the good Lord says oh so you you follow the Commandments and he said what absolutely the good Lord purposely starts with number four you honor your mother and father so you'll have a long life in the land that I've given you absolutely you murder anybody oh not me commit adultery not my thing stole anything no I don't need to I got too much money if you bare false wi to get your neighbor no I don't really have any neighbors do you cover your neighbor's Goods your spouse no I got plenty of money okay so you kept the Commandments absolutely so what does good Lord do now let's go back and do numbers 1 2 and three you love me with your whole heart your whole mind and your whole soul you will not use my name in vain or have strange Gods before me my brother and Christ the rich man is not following him because he believes that he is the master and the good Lord says man you can't even keep my Commandments my brothers and sisters in Christ throughout scripture people always are falling into the category you're either a master or you serve it's one of two ways my brother's Christ look think of the world that you and I live in what let me ask you if we took a Time clock and I said for the amount of time you and I spend on the cell phone versus how much we pray which one is our Master if I told you we took amount of time that we read the newspaper or watch television versus read scripture which when is our Master if I told you that man we need to learn to be sacrificial and we need to learn to fast how many of us legitimately skip a meal which is our master food or sacrifice my brother and sister in Christ when somebody comes up and we start speaking about other people do you make sure that you purposely step away from that conversation because you are a servant of God you are love of neighbor so therefore that you're not going to partake into it and say look I'll just pray for him or do you get in involved in the convers well you think you know that's bad let me tell you this part well you think that's it you ought to know what I know well I know the truth nobody told you and I to be the town crier let's be honest my brother and sister in Christ we live in a world that's being dominated by things that are bringing you and I into the wrong path you and I spend more time texting than we do praying you and I spend more time talking about others than talking about God my brother in Christ how many times do you and I get up in prideful things in other words that we're so prideful we just we're not going to say we're sorry I'm not going to admit I'm wrong I'm just not going to do it I'm going to win this argument oh and you will until the day you find out that you're not going to be judged on it you so angry that you get mad at God you so mad at your folks that it's always their fault my brother and sister Christ a friend of mine came to me and he said you know it's always my parents' fault and I said I tell you what from this day forward your parents a't got nothing to do with it no more blaming them after today today it's on me and you and we go forward the sun didn't set father I got to tell you you know what my who Whoa We already discussed this that one's on you you want to pull me into it that's great too but it's not on them you and I have free will and that is the problem sometimes I wish you and I didn't have free will the next time you look at that big painting of God the Father reaching out to touch Adam do you notice that God the father is reaching and stretching to try and get his finger across and Adam is leaning back somewhat La a decle with his finger allbe it bit that gap between those two fingers is his free will you got to decide whether you're going to be a master or you're going to be a servant that you're going to spend more time in prayer and going to confession my brother and sister in Christ if you and I go to confession for the same sins over and over and over again does that tell you that you and I are not replacing it with a virtue that we're spending not spending enough time in prayer in Mass reading scripture going adoration how many of us go to adoration we just don't have the time you don't have the time not to go my brother and sister in Christ don't you see that's the whole fight you and I are going to get two coins at our birth that's all we'll ever get time and Free Will those are our two coins and on the day you and I die the nanc the nanc you and I pass when everybody's arguing about who gets what what they're going to wear how we're going to sing who's going to say what the nanc you're before God and he says I want an accountability of every second of every minute of every hour of every day and every day of every year and every year that you were alive and I want to know every decision that you made my brother and sister Christ you will either be a master or you will be a servant of Jesus Christ and I leave you in these words you cannot walk with God in all hands with the evil one if there is a fence Between Heaven and Hell it's owned by the Devil Himself you either in or you are out there is no negotiations no arbitration no mediation the judgment will will be final you and I will land in one of three spots and there will be no barking at it how many times have you and I gone to a funeral ask yourselves how many times have you gone to a funeral be honest where you walked in and the Reverend and our priest stood up and said I'm not sure that guy made it everybody's in a better spot then Christ is a liar and you know that's not true you cannot walk with Christ and oh hands with the devil you either in or you're out you're either the master of the world or you're a servant of Jesus Christ amen in the name of the father and the son holy spirit amen <\p>

chameleon chameleon in other words whose side are you on the proverbial walk in the fence the years 1774 1775 our country our colonies are about to embark on a great War a revolutionary war one for our freedom and as a result man everybody's trying to decide what to do but I got to tell you there is one guy there is no doubt whose side he's on there's no doubt that he's really not a chameleon I mean he's picked his side I mean truly we had no worries no doubts no concerns where this guy sat I mean look his dad or excuse me his grandfather is the governor of Connecticut Connecticut is one of the colonies as a result man there's no doubt whose side he's going to be on his dad is an affluent businessman and therefore makes his money through the colonies and moreover he's a pharmacist by trade he's one of the few pharmacists in the colonies as a result he does exceptionally well he's also binds books he also owns three ships he does a lot of international trade there's no doubt that whose side he's on well then man word of the war is about to break out in particular the Battle of New York the Battle of Saratoga I'd hate to say that this battle will win or determine the war as if one person can make up a team but I got to tell you whoever wins this one surely has the upper hand so as a result of it man everybody's trying to decide who are they going to make the lead guy they no doubt about it he would even tell you look it's going to be me I'm the right one for the job not in an arrogant way but just in a confident way well they don't give him the job they give it to a guy by the name of gates and as a result the problem with Gates is um Gates is a granny give him a question give him a problem and go do something for a month and you come back and you might get an answer his decision is maybe and that's final the problem is it doesn't make for a good General so as a result this guy goes to him and sees him and says look you got to start making decisions granny because if you don't we got people dying out here he gets house arrest he's thrown in jail man next thing you know the colonies are losing the battle in New York I mean it's going south well man by the time they get him under house arrest he can't take it he decided man he breaks out from the jail the house arrest if you will jumps a horse grabs a saber no doubt about it runs headlong into the British lines man you talk about people ju there they couldn't believe what they just saw everybody started attacking we win the Battle of New York because of this guy I'm telling you they called him America's Hannibal that's how powerful he became as a result of it man when the time came for the you know for Washington to say man this is thanks to this person we won this battle who do they give the award to Granny Gates this guy about loses it he gets so mad he actually sells one of the forts that he doesn't own to the British he says if you make me a Navy officer or briger general I'll be part of your Navy and I need 20,000 pounds to go with it you know what's amazing when they talked to Ben Franklin he said you know Judas only betrayed one person Benedict Arnold betrayed 3 million my brother and sister in Christ that's a chameleon and that more or less is the gospel my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the good Lord saying there's going to be divisive there's going to be divisions it'll be three against two two against three oh how I wor I wish the world was on fire but it is not so therefore I have come to put it a blaze now stop you need to understand these things let's understand who's speaking here first first of all this is Luke Luke is a physician by trade Luke is very Jewish so he's speaking to people of Jewish descent he has never met Christ he is a follower of Paul but he's very what's the word I'm looking for he's very he's he's very do he's very doctor-ish he's very analytical he's very he's very protracted he's he's he's trying to home in on just a specific point when he says three against two and two against three he's saying it's going to be everywhere he's saying this is how it will will be and just so you know from the Jewish perspective when the good Lord said the World by fire every Jew knew that when the good Lord would come back the second time he would not destroy the world by flood like he did the first time he would destroy those that weren't listening by fire so for him to say that the Jews believe that when he came back that's what is coming and that is what Luke is telling them when he comes for his second coming this is why he's coming he's actually going to separate the sheep from the goats you can he's all loving but he's all just my brother and sister Christ he's warning people do not be a chameleon now look go back in scripture we got some players out there that were chameleons from the very get-go there is no greater chameleon than Herod the Great Herod convinced everybody that he was a Jew even though he was an Edomite he wasn't even Jewish he convinced him by building the Temple so that they could put the Arc of the Covenant in he wanted to be called Herod the Great great why because he wanted them to see him as the new king as Christ coming back this is why he gets so upset when the wise men say man where is the newborn king that means he knows that the new King has come that will expose him as an Edomite so Herod is a chameleon he pretends to be Jewish but at the end of the day it's only to stay in control My Brother and Sisters in Christ if Judas would be a CH million I walked with Christ I proclaimed him to be the savior of the world I even held a man's money he even ate with me every day and when push comes to show not only am I not one of the 12 I'm the one that betrays him and remember this judas's biggest mistake is not turning our savior over it's not saying I'm sorry he did not believe that Christ's love for him could overcome him betraying him his biggest mistake was not remitting his sin my brother in Christ that is a chameleon you can't go around saying he's the Messiah and hold his money and Proclaim him to be the savior of the world and then the last thing Christ says about him it'd be better you never been born pilate is a chameleon pilate wants the Jewish people to stay under control why because he doesn't want to deal with it because if he keeps the Jews under control then his pontificate if you will runs without blemish well guess what he aligns himself with the Jewish Pharisees and Sadducees to condemn Christ so if you truly are a Jewish man and this man is the king of the Jews then why wouldn't you make sure you got to the bottom of it but yet you washed your hands of it man you're a chameleon my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later man nothing's changed you're either in or you're out you either believe or you don't you're either Catholic or you are not my brother and S sister in Christ nowhere in the scripture does it say that you can pick and choose which sacraments you decide to follow I mean my brother and sister in Christ if I were to walk through today and ask you do you confess your sins to a priest or do you go to the big gu directly the big gu never said that big never wrote that as a matter of fact in Hebrews 5 he said I would choose priests among men for the Forgiveness of sins but nobody should take it upon themselves but yet we decide that we can go to ourselves my brother and sister in Christ it's patently wrong Leviticus 45 and6 he tells you that this priesthood that this sacrifice was already in play long before I got here Matthew 5 I came to fulfill the law not to change it if confession was in play before then I can't change it now my brother and sister in Christ as a Catholic uh participant as a Catholic believer you must go and be confirmed oh that's right we're still trying to decide whether it's the right thing really you need to decide whether the church is true you need to decide whether not she's ever virgin you need to decide whether communion is the body blood soul and Divinity well so I suggest that you get on your hearts and go figure it out because when you don't stand up and confirm what your parents said for you at baptism means you're a chameleon because you haven't spent the time to figure it out and as a result of it you're waiting for I don't know an epiphany to come how is it that you didn't take time to study and before you blame the church or you blame me for not explaining scripture to you may I remind you that if you went to mass once a week once a week for three years you'd have read the whole Bible I've been here 12 years four times over we ain't got an excuse my brother and sister in Christ you got to stand up and confirm what you believe and stop walking the fence you got to stand up and believe and say I believe in all the sacraments that the Eucharist is the body blood soul and Divinity and I don't care how laad isical a priest is when he raises it I don't care that he doesn't seem to be nonchalant or he doesn't pray with passion at the end of the day the Eucharist is the source and smon of our life along with the gospel you can't separate those two my brother and sister in Christ you got to be willing to go to adoration are you a Catholic or are you not I tell you what let's see when they when you walk out of church and you're at work and everybody's around the dinner table or the lunch table or you're talking with some friends you're having a few beers and so well you won't be and then skip that part okay you're sitting back and you're at work and then somebody says man let us pray why don't you start you breaking out that sign of the cross or you giving them one of these you going to break out the Hail Mary kudos to you for the courage are you going to defend the fact that she's ever virgin oh that's right that's right she's got many brothers and sisters it's really not a make or break deal have you lost your minds it's not to make or break deal my brother in Christ if you couldn't touch the Tabernacle which was a box in the Old Testament that had the Ten Commandments the met from Heaven and the staff of Aaron if you couldn't touch a box you touch the Box you die O A Touch o a dead that Joseph could have relations with her may I suggest that you go back and study scripture in their language because everybody can read it in English the problem is nobody spoke it so when the angel appeared to Mary and said hail n see there's the problem no man y'all are good Catholics he never said hey Mary he called her by her title hail full of grace and he's speaking to her in past tense in other words the jaar was full of water from the very minute of your Inception you were full of grace from the minute that you and I stand here you are full of grace the minute you pass you are full of grace that means death will not enter you because death only enters through sin so when the angel spoke to Mary and every Jew knows this and so should every Catholic the very beginning of Luke's gospel it says when Mary was betr to Joseph for one year he's got to get his game on to make sure that the wedding is prepared there's a house for them to go and then they consummate the marriage for her to make the proclamation that I do not know man to the angel means he had to already agree with it because if he doesn't agree with it she can't speak to it because she doesn't have a vote on only the men do hence why they only count the men in scripture this is why they're so upset in the genealogy when four prostitutes show up he still trying to prove the fact that I can make straight the Crooked ways of man the point I'm trying to tell you is that every Jew knows that she could not have other children how do you and I know it because as a Jew at the crucifixion when go when Christ is on the cross and he says woman behold your son son behold your mother if he had other brothers and sisters sisters and he gave his mom to John who's the brother of James who are who belonged to another woman he broke the law subjected her to 40 lashes and he broke the fourth Commandment so when you tell me it's not worth defending because it makes no difference it makes all the difference because that's why he called her a woman in other words in the Garden of Eden her name is woman what death came through a woman life must come through a woman it has to be without sin Adam and Eve were born without sin so th the new the new Eve and the new Adam my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to defend your faith and you can't keep relying on the fact that I just don't know well when is the last time you took the Bible did you even bring one to church that's my point my brother and sister in Christ I don't care if you leave it in your truck in your car you need to bring it in when you come in here you need to write in it you need so so when I explain these things man you got it now you understand it you know where they're going you got it you understand it man I get it I've learned I'm one step further up the road don't you understand when the time comes for you and I to be judged that's it there's no arbitration or mediation or understanding or some consultation you and I at the very Nan second we die it's it done no more argument life eternal Hell or Heaven and yes there is a Purgatory stop looking for an English word in a book written in Greek I'm telling you this because you cannot be a chameleon you cannot say you are Catholic and you are part in and part out contrary to what the president of the United States says you can't be both and you're either in or you're out my brother and sister in Christ and let me remind you regardless of what the Speaker of the House says or doesn't say what the President says or doesn't say and to a certain extent whatever the pontiff says to a certain point is irrelevant why because at the end of the day you know the truth and you know exactly what it means to be a Catholic and that there are seven sacraments and that there are Ten Commandments and you either all in or you all out my brother and sister in Christ you make sure you understand this you better learn to plant your flag now because of the road that you and I are on you need to understand that a marriage is between a man and woman in the story that's how he created it that was the Garden of Eden that's the wedding to Canan that's why he went to prove to you that's how it's supposed to go down there are no exceptions that's it in the Garden of Eden you either a man or a woman those are your choices and they've already been made for you my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with the words of Abraham Lincoln who told you when they asked him Mr Lincoln do you think God is on our side or their side he said all I care about is that I'm on God's side he said why because he doesn't change his mind he's not a chameleon plant your flag my brother and sister Christ the time has come amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

saved saved as in once saved always saved untrue untrue you know if you ever met Brendan he would tell you that he was uh maybe an accident looking for a place to happen it seems that if he had two paths he'd always pick the wrong one if you asked Brendan man what did what just what what happened he said man it began early he said look it was it's in the 1950s he said it was me and my mom and dad my dad is a carpenter my mom's a nurse and he said they they're struggling they're they're not on the same page he said they're not even the same book they're not even the same Library he said as a result of it my mom takes me so we leave Ireland and go to England he says do you know what it's like being an Irish person in England he said man it's just tumultuous he said man all through grammar school and high school he said man I just I couldn't make the right decisions it was just a free-for-all and as a result of it his stepdad says man I got to give him some hope some Direction so he says look I'm going to take you to see a movie he takes him to see James Bond he said man it was lifechanging he said man I just the guy seemed to have it all together go figure right and as a result of it he said man I just I figured that's what I wanted to do now his grandfather knew he said the last thing I wanted for him was to be quote an actor in quote I'm just trying to give him hope but man he said it was it became directional he said so much so that he decided after high school man he's going to go work for a station he's going to you know moveing company he's going to work for a production company he'd move this carry this tote this and then he said man and next thing you know I'm I'm getting little bitty bits and pieces and he he said I got a uh a little bit part in a movie called A Long Good Friday and then he got in another movie that had a little bit to do with the Devil himself and to be honest with you he said man I'm just struggling and he said the Saving Grace Brendan will tell you later in life are two things the first thing that was meant a lot to him was Finding meeting his wife who was of all people a Bond James Bond girl and she gets him a bit part in a movie called seraphim Falls and if you haven't read it watched it y'all it is pretty profound with Liam Nan as a result of it he's in sarap from Falls and then he gets in another one um let's called The Thomas Crown Affair and then all of a sudden man he getss in another one called heat and then man he gets in another one and it's um doesn't matter I can't remember the name anyway who cares okay he's he gets in a movie that it be it struggles let's just be honest it doesn't make it oh I know what it is Mama Mia are you kidding me you watch Mama Mia and you didn't watch sh okay now I know the crowd got okay I got you now okay it was pain painful to watch that movie as I can tell you and then all of a sudden man the world starts to change and it changes when he does The Thomas Crown Affair because it puts him in the Limelight then he gets a little bit part in Mrs Doubtfire and then he becomes James Bond and then he becomes James Bond golden eye do y'all know who Pierce BR and is and Brothers and Sisters in Christ great for the six people who now know what planet I'm on God bless you but you know what's amazing is the interview that he did not long ago he said what was your Saving Grace he said well one married my wife but the second thing was the Catholic church he said that's what turned the table he said because now I understood the faith my brother and sister in Christ that's exactly the point that is the gospel the good Lord is talking to very Jewish people Pharisees and Sadducees and they're asking the question remines this is his words not mine how many people will be saved quote very few because they will not be strong enough to make it through the narrow gate my brother Christ now you need to stop your first century Jew you need to understand where they sit in the world as I told you earlier most Jews believe only the Jews were saved you and I know at the end of day you and I were on the out so therefore we wouldn't make it they even believe some of Noah people would be saved they believe some of the people during the time of um um when uh Abraham takes them in and Moses excuse me Moses leads him into the desert they now they're starting to realize that's not necessarily true and matter of fact my brothers Christ he makes a point to use the word narrow and then he makes another point to say that very few in other words faith without works is dead because you have faith you will do good works and because you do good works you will have faith it is God's grace God's grace faith hope and love that leads you to where you need to go but you have free will now my brother in Christ now let's stop hold on a second you need to make sure you understand this throughout scripture in mankind the argument about who is saved and who is not I'll give you a point how many of you today have heard from others and they'll quote you Romans 10 somewhere up in there sometimes they'll quote you Titus sometimes they'll quote you Ephesians or Acts but mostly Romans 10 they will come and say that if you Proclaim Jesus Christ and your lord and savior from your mouth and you believe he rose from the dead you are saved okay so me and this one lady right here are the only two why we got two do I got three okay got three we got four look this ain't an auction listen to me brother Christ at the end of the day the problem is you need to understand the language in which they speak past tense present tense and future tense what I quoted you is present tense the Greek word is soo s o zo and every time he talked about being saved in the future he said you must persevere to the end which is like around Mark 13 Matthew 10 every other time Ephesians acts Romans Titus all of them are either past tense or present tense I'll give you a proof of example Judas walked with him proclaimed to be the savior of the world even held a man's money and at the end of the day the good Lord says three things about Judas the son of predition Satan entered you and it been better you never been born well if you're going to make it to heaven cuz we're all saved then why would Christ say it' been better you never been born cuz ultimately you're going to make it to Heaven if I I tell you what you took a test this week and you walked in and I told you man been better you never took that test you think you passed my brother and sister in Christ how I tell you what I need to know how many funerals have you ever been to in your entire life where the Reverend and our priest stood up and said I don't think Junior made it he didn't make it he just didn't I've yet to go in one with somebody said that my brother and sister in Christ unfortunately my nature sometimes is is when I go to a hospital sometimes I don't I'm not matching the door in the room to the right number I justop door walk right in sometimes it doesn't lead to good consequences I go to a funeral to say my prayers for a friend of mine who passed I went I I just went left I don't know I just went left I walk in I'm in my dress everybody's watching and man I hear the Reverend and he is expounding this guy did this and he did that and he did this and and man and I'm thinking my God I'm in the wrong room there is no way that's my buddy but I can't get up and leave now because the first thing they going to say is yeah look at that Catholic the guy in the dress yeah look at that piece of work he didn't even stay to pray well the fact of the matter is it was my friend and I knew I said man there is no way I've been knowing him my whole life and you think Pierce Bren had a bad upbringing you should have think oh my gosh and I remember saying man we need to pray for this guy my brothers and sisters in Christ throughout scripture people are always fallen victim to once saved always saved why would he tell you in Revelations which is the last book by the way that you will stand before me and I will judge you everything you did with your body both good and evil well why would you be judging us if they were all going to make it anyway more importantly why did you name us because in the Garden of Eden we weren't named it was man and woman they didn't get their names till after they were kicked out and now we're accountable for our actions my brothers and sisters in Christ there is a difference between Redemption and salvation Redemption is the crucifixion salvation is the Pearly Gates just because that man died on the cross for us doesn't mean you and I get a free pass my brothers and sisters in Christ ask yourself this one question if he is going to come back to judge us and I'll use the words of St fosa when she asked him why do you have Purgatory his response my Mercy does doesn't want it but Justice demands it I can't be all loving and caring and not discipline you Isaiah the Hebrews the good Lord my brothers and sisters in Christ this is why you and I have what we have this is why the church is set up the way that it is do you know my brothers and sister in Christ and just in case you get confused I want to make sure you don't the good Lord was a farmer he said I go I throw seed out and he says I have four types of seed I throw some on the path but it gets trampled by people I throws some in the Rocks but unfortunately the heat it just it just parches it it doesn't make it some of the seed falls into Thorns well that gets choked off only one out of four falls on good ground one out of four my brother Christ only 20% of the Catholics believe the Eucharist is true if I were to ask you and please don't respond I don't want to be depressed do you know all the Commandments by heart in order of the order that he wrote them for he wrote them in order for a reason that the first three deal with our relationship with him there's only one commandment that's contingent it's the fourth one do you even know the fourth one honor your mother and father and you'll live a long life in the land that I've given you dishonor them and your life will be tumultuous that's the whole commandment do you know it's murder adultery steal bear false witness covet your neighbor goods and spouse or the back five back six my brother and sister in Christ remember what John said in the gospel if you say you love Jesus Christ and you know his Commandments then well done if you say you love him and you do not know his Commandments you are a liar his word's not mine you think you learn the Commandments after you get in no way no how my brother and sister in Christ once saved always saved is a lie why else would he come do you know the number of people that was saved in the time of Noah eight of the million people that followed Moses into the desert how many people of those million people made it to the promised land but yet we all walk around as if we're the only ones being saved and everybody else is an outcast in the way the world spins today can I I beg you to make sure that you go to mass and stop mailing it in well I saw you on television well kudos and thank you for that did you bother going Christ shows up Incarnation he shows up everywhere in person I go get baptized in person he goes to a wedding in person he anoints a sick in person he shows up at the Last Supper in person he gets crucified in person means you and I got to show up in person you can't mail it in my brother in Christ you need to understand this yes God is omnipresent he's in the woods he's in the fields he's here and there but he's only physically present in that Tabernacle this is why you and I have to show up and we must be in front of him to receive him so that he is in I and you and in us and we are in him my brother Christ I'm telling you it's more important today in the world that we live we are arguing about things that we should have walked away from years ago we can't even solve the issue of abortion but yet I thought our court responded to that we're still in killing people like there's no tomorrow we got Wars about to embark on Wars we've got people that have got their fingers on bombs that should never have it we got our church that is giving off even less light each and every day I'm telling you this because you know the truth and you know in your heart of hearts that you and I need to worship Him and we need to receive him you need to go to confession and throw up and be done with it and walk away you and I need to make sure you go to adoration if you spend more time on your phone than you do coming to visit visit Christ at the church or at adoration can I tell you that's disordered you spend more time on your phone than you do talking to him reading scripture going to adoration coming to mass receiving the sacraments I tell you what add up your minutes at T&T does my brother and sister in Christ if you spend more time than that I'm telling you you're not going to be saved I'm not judging you I'm just telling you where I'm just Discerning the ACT I'm trying to tell you that once SA always saved is untruthful and it is a lie it is directly proportional to you and my friends in Christ I will leave you with Mother Teresa's quote which I still believe today is one of the greatest prayers we ever had the thing was called or the point was called anyway people are unreasonable illogical and self-center you need to forgive them anyway if you are honest people will cheat you you be honest anyway if you are successful you'll win false friends and true enemies succeed anyway if you are happy they will be jealous you be happy anyway if you build a lifetime building something they destroyed overnight you build it anyway it was never ever between you and them it was between you and him anyway amen amen amen amen there you go name of the father and the son the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

embarrassed embarrassed you know what I like about Patrick is that even at the age of 15 he was devoted to his faith 15 Patrick is that devoted to his faith okay yeah it's the 1970s and he's in Mount Vernon Washington if you will and he's one of five uh members of his family but it's a very Catholic Family and he'll tell you he said man I got to tell you he said said growing up in high school I did two things well I played basketball and I studied the faith man he's 15 he said man I think I'm going to play in the NBA and then he says man I get injured I got a scholarship to junior college now I can't even do that he said man I am starving to death and it's all about my family I get out of high school I'm trying to go to college he said but I need a job so he does a little acting he does a little modeling but he still he still studies scripture to a point that matter of fact most people in Hollywood want little to do with him because man that's all they need is a zealot so Patrick does what he does best man so he does a little bit job here a little there and he gets a job in a is a bit part in a movie uh called my part of Idaho obviously a very small part of Idaho okay is it doesn't do anything and then he gets to another one called like the Ride With the Devil well pretty soon man things are going south and then somebody just kind of says look we got to do something so they give him a part in a movie called diggstown and then they get him another one W her where he actually plays his youngest brother and the next thing you know man he gets in another movie and things are going great and then man they go back down again and he says man it's it's it's it's humbling one minute he said it's like a spaceship one minute it takes off the next minute it just blows up he said man it's embarrassing he said man you're out there and and you think you got game and then all of a sudden he says I'm on Murder She Wrote I just trying to make ends me and then next thing you know he said somebody gives me a break and he gets in a movie with Patrick swayy called The Thin Red Line and the next thing you know he says man it's almost as if it was divine he said man they give me a a series where I play with this billionaire who's now going out to help people called Person of Interest no no really that's a big clue if you if you think about it obviously you're not thinking about it or you already know what I'm talking about but that's okay as a matter of fact my brother in Christ he actually played Jesus Christ in the movie The Passion Jim cisel my brother and sister in Christ just for the six people that are now nodding their head you know what's amazing is that when you talk to him he said he almost doesn't get the job and he said it's amazing to him because he's 33 his initials are JC until he gets that phone call from Mel Gibson one day he comes to the Seminary and he gives a talk now all we know him as as the man that played the Christ and when I tell you the Seminary was packed and if you've ever listened to Jim cisel speak my brother and sister in Christ buckle up that boy is out there and he is running hard and fast it is black and white to him it is what it is and he gets up and tells the story that he's trying in between those years where he's younger trying to make ends meet he gets on a bus with a gun in his pocket he gets on the bus and he's decided that in the third stop he knows exactly where to get off where to go and he's going to take his life it's already been planned he laments to God albeit a little bit out loud he says Lord if you want to stop me it's on you he said next stop guy gets on priest wearing his collar come sit down right next to him he said if he's not wearing the collar I'm not here to give you the story so then he stands and tells all the seminarians that are there will you be embarrassed to wear your collar on the days that you don't have to work much less wear a dress he said will you be embarrassed when people walk in and all of a sudden the conversation changes or you walk through an airport and they want nothing to do with you oh how true he said we're going to find out whether or not you're humble enough to take the hit my brothers and sisters in Christ that is that gospel the good Lord is saying you exalt yourself and I will humble you and you will be embarrassed if you humble yourself I will exalt you now my brother Christ you need to stop you need to understand where this conversation is taking place you are a first century Jew so they are at a SE House of a Pharisee a Pharisee is somebody of great means and great sway they are most popular most of the people follow their lead so he's in a house of a Pharisee and he's watching people come and go so he tells them a parable but it's different than most Parables he's not talking about the Samaritan he's not talking about the guy in the ditch he's not talking about the rich man he says you're at a dinner party you are at a dinner party he's talking to you and I he's talking to the people that are there he said where are you going to sit because you got to remember Christ everybody that's a Jewish understands what it means to have honor they also know what it means to be humbled and as a result of it he's trying to qualify to him that man you got to pick the lowest seat and let me move you up maybe I choose not to because it's the wrong house in front of the wrong people but then again maybe it's the right people in the right house he said man you got to remain humble all things come through me my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are people that were great players and had to get humbled think about Saul man you talking about a guy that had means he had wine women Fortune he's the guy that everybody wants to come to debate he could get a letter from the Pharisees saying you can kill anybody you want and allbe it Christians my brother Christ he goes from Saul to Paul you talk about a pariah you talk about a leper man he can't even walk into a synagogue you know the first time he goes to preach they Stone him they don't Stone you to punish you they Stone you to execute you the fact that he thought he was dead is the only reason he survived three of the four ships that he on were sinking well brother in Christ if you and I knew Paul and he got on the ship we're going to get off I'm telling you this guy has TR the the proverbial Black Cat and no matter what happens to him he's still one of the greatest or tours of our day look at Peter Every Time Peter turns around everybody makes fun of him man first of all he denies Our Savior three times you don't think somewhere later in life everywhere Peter goes to speak for 30 three years somebody's not in the congregation to yell out aren't you a piece of work man didn't you deny Our Savior man who are you you loed off a man's ear named malchus who are you that thought you could walk on water you know what makes Peter so great is that by the time he becomes the vicer of Christ he is so humble that he's just in that position do you know they said he wept so hard after denying Our Savior that they said he had creases in his ch cheek that never healed my brother and sister in Christ do you know how humble it must to be to hear people say that you didn't even take care of your family or you abandoned them you don't think that he heard it that you gave away your business and you didn't even get paid for it as his boats languished on the Sea of Galilee my brother and sister in Christ what what if you're La what if you're Lazarus the one that's the great friend of Christ the one that has all the money and the means when the good Lord resurrects do you know within about days he walks away from everything and eventually becomes a bishop with no money My Brother and Sisters in Christ The Gospel today is about being embarrassed my brother and sister in Christ are you embarrassed to make the sign of the cross in public are you embarrassed to defend her honor because you don't know enough to know well wa minut I don't know how to defend it then you need to study it my brother in Christ are you embarrassed when people say are you Christian you say absolutely I'm Catholic are you embarrassed my brother and sister in Christ to say man I do go to confession Hebrews 5 I would choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves my brother in Christ are you embarrassed enough that you worried about your job and your reputation yet Our Savior was a carpenter who didn't even have sandals for most of his life are you embarrassed because you only have certain types of clothes yet he only had one set they took that off of him at the crucifixion do you know at the cruci CR fiction if she does not give up her veil he would actually been crucified with no clothes on how embarrassing could that have been my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later at what point will you stop apologizing for being Catholic at what point will you not stop and plant your flag and say enough is enough that it doesn't care what kind of car you have or what kind of 401k you have doesn't care about the clothes you have or the house you live in or the camp you have or do not at the end of the day you and I will stand before him naked and alone and judgment will come tell me how much will that mean to you now my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with the words of John Wooden the great basketball coach he said Talent comes from God you need to be humble Fame comes from man so at least be appreciative he said conceit comes from with then you better be humbled because if not I'm going to embarrass you my brother and sister in Christ if you and I do not Proclaim him to be the savior of the world and acknowledge Him as Jesus Christ our Lord and savior he will not acknowledge us before his father if you are embarrassed to pray the hell Mary then how do you think she must feel are you embarrassed to say that you're a Catholic how must he feel if you're embarrassed to say that you're a follower Jesus Christ and you will not partake of the conversation you will not partake of the drink you will not get involved in this party and I will not date unless we play it by the rules and be morally represent responsible then I can tell you then you and I are going to be embarrassed you need to plant your flag and humbly say all things come from him amen amen the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen <\p>

If I Were the Devil If I Were the Devil and the Prince of Darkness what kind of deception would I use to take over the entire world if I were the Prince of Darkness the devil what societ which should I go after first what tactics should I use if I were the prince of If I Was the Devil if I were the Prince of Darkness I would I would cover the world in darkness I would take a third of the real estate four fth of the population but I would not be happy as the devil until I got the ripest apple on the tree three thee and your family how would I go about it if I were the devil the Prince of Darkness first I need the United States I would do it by subverting the churches I would begin with a whisper like I did in the garden as that Great Serpent I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve do as you please if I were the devil and the Prince of Darkness I would go after our children I would teach them that the Bible is a myth that man created God not God man I would tell you what is good ah no I would tell you what is bad is good and what good is well Square then I would go after the elderly I would teach them to pray after me I would teach them to pray Our Father Our Father who art in Washington then I would really get organized as the devil I would go after our teachers I would teach them and lure them to lwd literature so that everything else is dull and irrelevant I would make TVs worse than movies and then movies worse than TVs and I would make it such a vicious cycle and I tell you what I would do I would go to all the media and I would speak to them and tell them that if we just Mesmerize them with your media your ratings will rise and then I'll just sit back and ban the flames If I Were the Devil if I didn't get you then I would do it through narcotics and if I didn't get you with narcotics I would go to the rich and to the known to the women women and men of excellence and tag them with alcohol and anybody else I get you tied up to pills that you would become tranquilized you have to be on something pretty soon I would have every family fighting every family I would have every Church fighting I would have every country fighting every country and then all of a sudden it would be all consuming yes my brothers If I Were the Devil and I was the Prince of Darkness I would go to schools and teach that you need to refine that intellect yeah you do you need to let discipline Run free let the emotions run and they will dictate what happens oh yeah I guarantee you within a decade the prisons will be overflowing judges will promote pornography you know what I bet you by the end of the decade we'll have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every door oh the best one I will take God out of the courthouse the schoolhouse ah the CRA the house of Congress If I Were the Devil and the Prince of Darkness I would make sure churches do not teach Faith they teach psychology I would make science a deity un itself I bet you I could get pastors to go after children and if I can't get them that way I lure him with the church's money I bet you if I were the devil and the Prince of Darkness I will change the symbols of the world I will make the egg the symbol of Easter I will make the bottle the symbol of Christmas I tell you what I'll do I'll take from those who have and give to those who want and I will kill ambition I tell you what I bet I can do I love this tongue and cheek I bet you I could get countries and whole states to get people to buy into gambling is a way to get rich like a b h maybe so I tell what I'll do and while I'm doing that I'll tell everybody you're an extremist if you're a patri or that maybe you worship God and you have a faith or maybe you have a moral compass that's what I'll do as a matter of fact I will tell you that marriage is oldfashioned do what the TV does sling if you will I bet you I could get you to undress in public on television and lure you into bed with the diseases we can't cure you know what I would do if I were the devil and the Prince of Darkness I would just keep on doing what he's doing Paul Harvey 1965 my brothers and sisters in Christ I don't know if the devil listened to that broadcast or not but he sure did nail it and I can tell you we're in trouble and let me just be honest with you our country's leadership is diabolical our church no longer emits light she has become opaque not because of her the powers to be are a vast Wasteland we make a mockery of God money is far more powerful let's be honest we put in God we Trust on the money what unmitigated G my brothers and sisters in Christ I'm going to speak to you candidly and honestly my friends in Christ we are in trouble and have been for quite a while it will not get better on its own because it's football season and it's a new day my brother and sister in Christ here's what you don't know fact March of this year executive order 140 six 7 write it down our president has decided that we need to be a digital currency high treason as a matter of fact December 13th will be the start read it for yourself I've come to talk to you because we are in trouble and you need to pick your head up my friends in Christ I tell you this now look I am not a conspiracy theorist I do not have the time I'm not a big proponent of drinking Kool-Aid I don't even like Kool-Aid my brothers and sisters in Christ I am too tired to be an extremist logic and reason are my pedestals faith is my motor and Hope hope is my my fuel I want you to take time to read this book called The Warning by a name by a lady by the name of Watkins there's a copy of the of the cover as you leave if you don't have time read the first 80 Pages if you do not have the time that's on you my brothers in Christ you know my my love of books and I surely wouldn't be speaking to you if I did not think it was worth your time and effort ask yourself one question if you are God and we lose some four to five million people in the United States alone every year Die four to five million if scripture says one out of four one out of four not my bat and average that's the one he spoke of when I throw seed some of it lands on a path gets trampled to death some lands on Thorns gets choked to death some land on the rocks it doesn't have nowhere to grab root only one lands on good soil one out of four if one out of four of five million make it at what point is God do you not stick your finger in the middle of this and say this has to stop we passed Row versus weight and we're still arguing whether it's legal oh my God that's how far we have fallen and we will continue to fall because when good men do nothing evil prevails I'm asking you to read this book I have researched the book I have went back to four people that I take counsel with st fala Padre Pio St Paul the 6 who wrote humanite St Pas I 9th who wrote The Immaculate Conception all four of of them are quoted in this book as having what they call a warning a many judgment for some 10 to 15 minutes they believe that everybody in the world at one time will receive what they call a mini judgment which means god you will see yourself as God sees you think about it it's logical how do you impact the boy in the Amazon how do you impact New York City maybe you don't what about the West Coast what about Russia what about Taiwan and Japan what about a meet Louisiana how do you impact everybody equally so that you can never tell God you never told me I got nothing what do you mean you're judging me in the Book of Revelations with everything I did with my body both good and evil my brother and sister in Christ it's logical that he's going to have to stick his finger in this there are actually two priests in that book one I know personally father Rick Wendell I thought his argument was spot on actually somebody who had the 15minute Revelation I've been knowing Rick for quite a while there's also another guy in there by the name of Father Steven Shure you need to read his in particular the one that is from South America father Juan knows personally he said he is the St Paul I want you to read the book I need you to understand that look if what I say is wrong and I'm all wet at least you're well read but if I'm right then you and I know what's coming then you need to be prepared Peter was right you've been forewarned look this isn't fear and trepidation do what you do best go to mass receive the sacraments go to confession For the Love of Christ start going to adoration I don't care if it's for five minutes a week if you're on your cell phone more than you're talking to Christ and I'm telling you talking to him with nobody else in the room with a Bible in your hand and a Rosary in your hand and you're talking to him if you spend more time on the on the cell phone than you do talking to him then can I tell you our judgment is going to be brutal it will do one of three things you will see yourself as God sees you which will means you'll be either going to heaven hell or Purgatory oh that's right you don't believe in purgatory okay so for those that don't you only got two shots now go back and read Philippians 2 stop looking for an English word in a book written in Greek my brother in Christ he's warning you that only a loving caring God would do he loves you and I so much he says if I don't warn my children what is to come then who else is to blame I'm telling you take the time to read the book how hard is it my brother look at the world you're telling me you wake up every morning and life is good you think it's going to get better just because is everything Paul Harvey said 50 years ago is not 100% true do as you please my brother and sister in Christ read the book pick your head up do what you do best stay close to the church and her teachings and when his judgment comes and if it does come then so be it you and I will be better served for it we'll be one step closer and man we'll be thanking God in heaven that we were part of his church I leave you with this I could leave you with the words Paul Harvey good day or I can again leave you with the words of St Peter second Peter brothers and sisters I have forewarned you be on guard be in that knee get that head up and if the Judgment comes then so be it because our job is to get to heaven anyway amen amen amen man thank you thank you <\p>

Choice as in a choice to make there's always consequences for Choice be that as it may his name is uh actually he's the first his name is Benjamin he goes by sometimes actually it's kind of a little bit of a of a slang term for him but this is like in the 1930s and he is a New York boy Benjamin is and I'll tell you this not only is he a New York boy he is a very Jewish New York boy and as a result of it he is very devouted to his country to his faith to their Traditions but he will tell you if you and I were to ask him and we were to ask him man what was life in grammar school what was life in high school he said you know it was man it was kind of uneventful I kind of did my thing you know he said but I I got out he said I never forgot what my dad told me he said remember life is choices there's consequences for your decision there's consequences for your actions but you are free to make your own choice and he said well I feel that I need to go help in the War World War II broke out and you know man he's very devout very Jewish he said man they're killing Jews man I need to go help and he does when he comes back he's trying to decide on whether to go to college he wants to go to Syracuse but he wants to make some money he's older now and his dad said Son once again life is choices nobody could ever take that education from you make the right decision make the right choice but jurs to make he goes to school he finishes and he'll tell you that his high school sweetheart who ultimately he saw again in college man she was she was the girl for him he said man personality disposition he said he was so attracted to her he said man it it was it was it was my soulmate he said man so we decid to get married and he said man I'm doing anything he said I'm starving a doubt he said I'm doing odd andin jobs for the newspaper I'm doing something for the TV I'm doing this I'm doing that and then I come home one day and tell her that I'd like to go to Los Angeles and maybe find work at a TV station do some work maybe maybe get a bit part in the movies so he does that and he goes there and he gets in a couple little things one movie was called Highway to Hell I'm so glad you hadn't watched that okay I digress and as a result of it man he says man it's you know it's okay and then he gets in a couple other little movies and and they're okay one is called hairspray wow really four people actually nod their head this is amazing and then he gets in a couple others but then his wife comes to him and tells him you know you really you really need to get more in in TV than movies and she said honey it's not like I can just jump from one to the next and he said but I'll try it now remember this is the 1960s he doesn't become popular popular into the year 2000 I mean I mean he's in Zoolander one and two but he makes his he makes his debut as George castan's dad he makes his debut is George castan's Seinfeld brother and sister in Christ for the six people who still watch that show and then all of a sudden man and then he's in he's in he's in another little sitcom and I got to tell you his popularity grows and grows and pretty soon and I do you know do you know who Stiller is okay okay well that's who it is okay good all right my brother in Christ you know what's amazing is they do an interview with him right before he passed and he said of all the decisions you made in your life which one is the best one you've ever made he you know he said you know your st's pretty popular you know he's got all kind of shows and this that and the other and he said no best decision ever B none marry my wife he said man it's it was wow where would I be without her she's a devout Catholic he's a devout Jew he said man I got to tell you so he does an interview and the man asked him so when did you know that your wife was the one only he could have responded this way he said man I'm I I'm just coming back from college I don't have a nickle to my name I picked the most expensive restaurant in Brooklyn he said 'I can't rub two nickel together he said I beg I borrowed I stole he said I came up with all I could do to make sure she could get anything into want a menu now I can't eat but I'm going to make sure she gets fed he said man we go to the restaurant and he said I've been waiting for this this is the girl this is the moment this is what I live for he said she looks at the menu and then she closes it and she saysi have a cup of coffee and he said so that's when you knew you made the right choice he said' no when I got up she stole the silverware and put it in her purse and left my brother and sister in Christ it's all about choices that is that gospel my brother and sis in Christ give me my share of your estate so I may be on our way now stop you need to understand something this is very Jewish Christ is a Jew his mother's a Jew his stepfather's a Jew he circumcises a Jew he's crucified as a Jew he's Jewish you need to study scripture Through The Eyes of a Jew we are the descendants of the Jews my brother and sister in Christ this is what you need to understand whenever you hear a parable there are no names given there are just the rich man the poor man the servant my son the Sheep so here's the irony in the in a in a Psalm there's always a Twist and in the Jewish word there's a nsha and the ne Shaw is the one line that tells you what it's all about so every time you read a parable there's always a Twist and then there's the neem Shaw which is what the whole point of it was so the twist is would you leave 99 sheep they're in a desert my brother and sister in Christ you're going to leave them in the desert by themselves you're not putting them in a fold you're not coring them you're walking away from 99 sheep to go find one that's the twist you wouldn't do it the ne Shaw is is that people are going to rejoice when you bring the lamb back in other words as it is in heaven my running Christ the lady that lost 10 uh one coin out of 10 she lost a daer which is a day's wage you honestly believe she's going to call her neighbors and say I've lost that one coin and then when she finds it she's going to call them and tell them come over to celebrate you're going to lose more money you're going to have a drunken Steward coming into your house so why would she do it she's doing it he's doing it to tell you that I'mma go out of my way even if you make a bad choice to stop you from making it to prevent you from going any one step further but letting you know that you can always return home Judas my brother and sister in Christ listen what I'm telling you this is what's going on in scripture 2,000 years ago all of our best players are making bad decisions but their ability to return home is great even if you made a bad choice your ability to rebound is great Mary Magdalene has all seven demons but she rebounds so great she's the first to see the Risen Christ Saul is going to butcher people and after three days of being blinded becomes the greatest Christian Catholic oror there is in the dayto day what about Joseph of arthea once you give up your tomb for somebody else in particular one they call the Messiah you're not going to be able to stay in your home it was more important to him to make the right choice my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later more important today than you know the choices that you and I make ought to be spot on and on the teachings of the church you and I no longer listen to me you don't no longer live in a world that you think you're going to run free you're going to have to learn to plant your flag and say this is where it stops my brother and sister in Christ you have a choice and there are consequences for making the wrong one you need to understand that now you need to stay closer to the church than you ever have how many times do I hear people come up and say from the little inocula things father I just I'm I'm just angry I just that's just how God made me no he didn't no he didn't he made all things good you make yourself angry and you spew that Venom in everybody you come out with you curse like cuz you can't find you you mean only words out of your mouth are GD and MF there's 40,000 words in English language and you can't find two to replace it you want to talk about words that came out of the mouth of Lucifer those two are it don't tell me it's not mortal bearing false witness my brother and sister in Christ when you decide to get on that internet and you say well let me tell you what I think of so and so you get on that text message and you say well let me tell you I know the truth it's got nothing to do with the truth no one told you and I to be the town crier at the end of the day you and I are to be love God and love neighbor be a true witness to Jesus Christ that means you cannot bear false witness by getting out and printing it or getting out and writing it and just proclaiming it's true and that's the truth and that's just how it is as if somebody made you and I judge and jury my brother and sister in Christ listen to me listen to what I'm about to tell you you need to make sure you do your homework it's not up to me to Proclaim what the president is or is not doing that executive order that was signed in March to go to a digital currency you can dismiss it you can just say ain't got nothing to do with me you may even be foolish enough to think that digital currency is your answer do as you please go back and read that document you don't think he brought in 87,000 agents Tiger Stadium he brought it in for digital currency my friend friends break out the number of parishes for the 87,000 agents that's 20 per Parish per county in the United States why do you think they have the right to issue their own warrants why do you think they're gunned and manned and have badges you think that digital currency read the law that's coming into play 7 months from the Inception of the executive order October they will issue the new digital currency it will be in play by December by the start of the year you will l total control of your world they're going to issue a new type of credit system called a social credit system in the law itself the executive order there are seven responses favorable if you decide to buy electric car you stay green and there are and if you go across these things then you're going to lose credits I'm speaking from what I've read you need to do the same you and I are going to have to start making choices and they're going to be sooner than you think my brother's Christ little decisions turn into big decisions you got to learn to stop cussing you got to learn to stop gossiping you got to learn to start praying with one another and let me tell you while I'm on my Soap Box let me just keep going while I'm at it I'm already getting the phone call what difference it make now my brother and sister in Christ I'm already out the box what difference does it make for you to go to Disneyland have you lost your mind did they not just put out something of satanic worship to children and you think it's okay to still go oh I get it your mutual fund is tied up into it but what control do you have of that is it you're not your money for now it's sinful that people should support that while our church and our children flail satanic worship my brother and sister in Christ did you see who the president picked to be the head of his monkey pox vaccine PR the Satan worshipper y'all think I'm making this up oh you think we live in a world where oh man don't worry about a father it's football season and life's going to be good we got this don't you worry about it I'm telling you what's coming I'm telling you if you do not pick your head up and you and I do not learn to start praying that we don't learn to go back to confession and you don't go to adoration and spend some time and you don't go to the sacraments so that you can receive the grace you're not going to have your head up long enough to understand that you can't make the decision ask yourself this question why in the Sam Hill would the Saints warn you and I Pio fosta Pas and Paul two of our best popes say that there's going to be a warning so that God can warn you of what is to come if there wasn't a choice for you to make once it comes why would you illuminate my head if it wasn't to tell me what is about to come there would be no reason I am begging you to pick your head up I am begging you to make the right choice I am begging you to learn to bend your knee and you need and I need to come together and pray as one if you need to go to confession you find me I don't care what you got to do you call you air mail it you send a pigeon you air write it I don't care you come find me or Howard or miles or wand so that we can hear your confession the closer you stay to Christ the better your decisions will be the better choice you will make listen to what I'm telling you the world is out of control do you not see that oh my god did he not tell us what's good is going to be bad and what bad is no good my brother and sister in Christ do what you do best stay close to Christ ask yourselves one question why now why us why now why us I just buried seven people in about 20 days not one of them got a warning not one got shot across the bow why would you and I be chosen Why Us why now cuz time is short and of the essence my brother in Christ I am not not a doomsdayer I'm not a souser I do not drink Kool-Aid all I know it's logical that if the good Lord does not stick his finger in what we're doing we will not see the forest for the trees do you know do you know in Germany right now the Bishops voted over two-thirds they didn't get the one vote over twoth thirds of the of the Bishops in Germany voted for same-sex marriage and they're going vote publicly on Monday I bet you they get everybody but about five Bishops and I can tell you the ones and you're telling me that we live in a good world do what you and I do best stay close to the church hang in there my brother and sister Christ I'm telling you the teachings of the church are true make the right choices and the only way you can make it to stay close to him you keep your head up you finish what we started ask yourself why now why us why you why me because he's called us amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

Famous Last Words Famous Last Words the years about 1900 Henry uh lives in Michigan he actually lives um in Michigan City kind of little small City he is one of four children they live on a farm in Michigan he'll tell you that his mom and dad were immigrants I think they are from Ireland and Belgium and and he will tell you that the form on a good day was a break even on its best day maybe marginal he said man he loved the farm his dad notices something though he said there's something about Henry that's different he said somewhere about the age of 10 or 12 he noticed that that Henry is Light Years better than everybody else he said he's got that that that Mena IQ he said it just it just resonates he said it it it's a off the charts he said people are coming to him for everything fix their watches their timers their equipment there's this and that he said he he's he's a mere teenager he said man he just knew there was something special about Henry he said but by the age of 20 well there's a paradigm shift there's a tragedy his his his mom dies and he goes to his dad Henry does and tells his dad you know it's time for me to go and he's saying go this why we had the farm this this why you you're here with your brothers and sisters he said the only reason I was here is because of you and Mom but now that Mom's going I want to be an engineer he said I I I really like to go I want to go to college I want to go to Detroit I want to work for the Edison Company he said I tell you what famous last words you can go you make it you owe me nothing you don't make it you come back and pay me the debt to getting you to school and getting you to the Edison Company a deal is made he goes to Addis company let me tell you he's lights out he's so good at what he does man Westing the house is knocking his door he know sooner gets westing house knocking on his door than the Cadillac brothers are talking to him he got this he got this bike and he and he put a motor between it yeah that's right the motor bike then he decided that if I can do it with two well we can do it with four he called it a quadricycle that that Horseless Carriage yeah you probably guessed by now that's probably Henry Ford he said man things grew so fast for Henry he was building one car a day then two cars a day three cars a day he was up to over a th cars a month and he told him you can have any color you want long as it's black he said man we are growing Leaps and Bounds I've got more employees than I know what to do with he said then tragedy strikes yet again a paradigm shift he said man somebody somebody just started a rumor like a me and man it grew legs and had a heartbeat before they could get started he said that you'd be driving down the road and all four wheels at one time would just shoot off the road leave you stranded right where you were days on on in he said people believed it he said my sales started to tank and quickly he said if that wasn't bad enough he said I had another one he said they told us that they car just spontaneously exploded killed everybody in the car family miles away he said I was back down to two cars a month he said we were starving to death I couldn't keep my employees fed he said I didn't know what to do I lamented he says to a secretary man if we could just get one person one to stand up on my behalf on our behalf and say truly he does good she said Mr Henry you need to pray for it he said well I'm going to pray for it but any week the board of directors need to meet we need to solve this I I got to let people go we got to this is a doover we're going to we're going to go under he prays for one solid week next thing you know he comes back in his secretary says uh Mr Mr Henry Mr Ford could you could you read this he said I don't have time to it he said you got the letter you got somebody this couple this man and woman stood up for you you got the letter somebody else stood up for you he said oh that's great one couple stood up for me I'm sure it'll change the world famous last words Dear Sir I'd like to tell you you make a Dandy of a V8 for sustained speed and durability you have them all beat as a matter of fact when I steal one I try to steal yours sign Bonnie and Clyde true story my brother and sister in Christ if I were to tell you this quote would you know whose famous last words it is not so much what your country can do for you but what you could do for your country say oh Father I got that's JFK if I told you that um there was a president one time that stood up when somebody asked him what are you going to do with all the awal soldiers are we going to hang them for tyranny for being traitors he said I always found that men 6 feet above ground do more than men 6 feet below Abraham Lincoln if I told you there was a general one time that said you know you don't win a war by dying for your country you win a war by D for the other SOB dying for his ah some of you would know General Pat if I told you my brothers and sisters in Christ there was a young boy in New Or Orleans grew up saying someday someday I will get in the Super Bowl and I will throw a touchdown pass for the New Orleans Saints would you know it was Walter pton no it's the other Payton Payton Manning you know what's ironic he was playing for the Colts when he threw the touchdown pass for the Saints but I digress on that issue my brother and sister in Christ if I told you in scripture her famous last words were do whatever he tells you then you know it was the most holy and blessed mother if I were to tell you his famous words in scripture truly that man was the son of God would you know it was long guus would you know it was the angel Gabriel who said hail full of grace not highly favored poor translation well let me ask you my brother and sister in Christ do you know these famous maybe not so famous last words and they are the last words on the document they are the last words on the document hopefully now they will become famous with a firm Reliance on Divine Providence with a firm Reliance on Divine Providence we mutually pledge Our lives our fortunes our sacred h honor with firm Reliance on Divine Providence God Jesus Christ with firm Reliance on Divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other Our lives our fortunes our sacred honor Declaration of Independence my brothers and sisters in Christ Did You Know My Brother and Sisters in Christ that our founding fathers at the Declaration of Independence started declaring their independence with God and ended with God we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men all men are created equal endowed by their creator with certain inable rights that among these life liberty in the pursuit of happiness and then they conclude with firm Reliance on Divine Providence we mutually pledged each other Our lives our fortunes our sacred honor it begins and ends with the Messiah do you find it ironic that they built our country and declared their independence with God and in God and ended with him and today and today our people in Washington our president our speaker our vice president the powers to be are taking God from the courtroom the classroom the conference room the house of Congress and soon our own homes and you're wondering why we're not on the road to bition the road to hell do you think it's ironic that they started a country based on God and now we're destroying a country based on evil I digress my brother and sister in Christ many of you and I would agree that we started our country on July 4th 1776 our country was born on July 4th 1776 however it was conceived on June 11th 1776 oh it was my brother and sister Christ 56 men 56 great men men of Courage men of resolution men of means notwithstanding the men and women and children that stood behind them so they could attend 56 men great men have come to the Pennsylvania State House Philadelphia Pennsylvania Independence Hall to declare their independence they are a men of means and education there are at least 20 attorneys in jurist there are numerous land owners not to mention several Merchants doctors as well as surveyors they have come my brothers and sisters in Christ because they have come to declare their independence there is no more listening to tyranny from overseas there is no more listening to the Red Coats as a matter of fact the stream of Freedom has been damned and we have come to light the fuse the stream has become small and murky and muddy but I have come we have come to undam it to light the fuse we are man of means and of Direction and of Education we are willing to give up our fortunes for our freedom oh my brothers and sisters in Christ you know there was a guy there by the name of Mr Hart boy did he nail it he told the people there make sure you understand that we are forming a partnership we are forming a partnership for the living for the dead and for The Unborn oh that's right did you listen to the start of the Declaration of Independence we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men all men are created equal created in the womb that's where creation begins that's why they didn't say born because you and I know that evil takes over once we are born they knew it back then that abortion was wrong he said we have formed a partnership 17 days later 17 days later Jefferson produces the Declaration of Independence can I tell you how King George responded the third he responded that all rebels in America all rebels in America are traitors they are of high treason and should be hung all rebels in America are traitors and therefore dictated by treason and should be hung it seems like just two weeks ago I watched our president called many of us traitors or terrorists you know if you don't study history you're doomed to repeat it I digress even further my brother and sister in Christ these are a people of means they are willing to give up their fortunes for our freedom so my brothers and sisters SS in Christ may I introduce you to several of these great 56 men Carter braxon Carter Braxton a man of means in Virginia matter of fact he's got so much money he has decided to mortgage all of his lands all of his crops all of his houses everything he has to build ships for the Army for their Navy and also to supply Goods for the colony my brothers and sisters in Christ he loses everything his reward for signing the Declaration of Independence Carter Braxton you will die in rags and so it happens my brother and sister in Christ if I were to tell you that there was a Thomas Lynch and Thomas Lynch has decided that man his health is not good his wife's health is not good that they must run from the red coats and as a result of running from the red coats him and his wife are both caught they are actually on a ship and the ship was sunk their reward for signing the Declaration of Independence drowning Thomas McKennan man that guy spent his entire life on the lamb he was running from Hill to there just to stay away from the Red Coats but get to Philadelphia to cast his vote and suggested that nobody get paid for he was not getting paid to do his duty he lost his hand his land his farm his cows his cattle he lost everything his reward for signing the Declaration of Independence destitution and Rags my brothers and sisters in Christ the same holds true for Mr climber and Mr wall Mr Walton Mr Haywood Mr R uh rutage Mr Middleton Mr Lewis my brothers and sisters in Christ they lost everything Francis Lewis his reward if you will was that his wife was thrown in prison and she will die there so for signing the Declaration she is thrown in prison and he will die shortly thereafter as she dies in prison he dies of a broken heart there's also another Thomas he had decides that he's going to come up with $2 million to give to the French Fleet to defend the country as a result of giving $2 million to them and mortgaging everything owns not only do they lose because of the British warships he dies in rags and riches as a matter of fact my brothers in Christ his tomb is unmarked and unknown thank you for signing the Declaration of Independence Francis Lewis his his signature cost him his wife life she died in prison his di he died shortly there after Richard Braxton he dies in prisoned after 51 after they beat him to death for signing the Declaration of Independence Tom Horn spent so many days in the woods that he spent over one year living in caves his reward for signing the Declaration of Independence you will never see your 13 children again and you will be run from your wife's bedside when she is sick you will die alone and in a cave for signing the decoration of independence and what about that John Hancock signature so that everybody can see yet very few know that he actually wrote it so that the king would see the wealthiest landowner in all of the colonies he lives in Boston Washington comes to him and says everything you own is in Boston we must burn it to get the red Coates out quote Burn It To The Ground I will give everything I own so that our people can live free my brothers and sisters in Christ these are not malcontents these are not terrorists these are not Rebel rousers Mal contents my brother and sister in Christ these are patriots these are people that are true to our Savior Jesus Christ in Divine Providence so here we sit 2,000 years later let me ask you do you feel that if we took the Declaration of Independence and we took all of our leg lators our president in his cabinet and we went back in time how many of them would have signed and declared their independence for in We Believe with firm Reliance in Divine Providence we mutually pledge Our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor how many do you think would have signed that declaration I think not if I were to bring that Declaration of Independence today and ask them to sign it today with a firm Reliance in Divine Providence we mutually pledged each other our lives and our fortune and our sacred honor how many of them would sign it today I think not will my brothers in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later the time has come for you and I to declare our firm Reliance on a Divine Providence you and I must stop kicking the C it has gotten to a point where you and I can only worship at times and inet everything else has pulled us away if I were to bring you back to July 4th 1776 would you sign it or not would you say I rely on God alone and I will give up my life and my fortune and my honor for you would you sign it today well guess what one way or another you're going to make that decision in our day in the time has come for you and I to do such we need to stop praying just once a week because that's all we got time for we got to stop saying well I just can't get to the sacraments father I just I got travel ball kickball I got work I got job you don't have enough time not to be in that knee you do not have enough time left not to go to confession you do not have have enough time not to go to adoration time is of the idence look at the world that we are in how much time do you think we have my brothers and sisters in Christ and for all those other faith that listen it's time for you and I to pray as a community it's time for you and I to gather together and pray not once a week every day all day and twice on Sunday that has got to be the measure of our resolve in firm Reliance in Divine Providence we are going to uphold our end of the vineyard starting October 1st we are going to begin with Monday through Saturday from 6:00 a. to 6: p.m as Catholics we worship Our Savior Jesus Christ and we believe the Eucharist to be his body blood soul and Divinity my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink and if you're not in me and I'm not in you you do not do not have eternal life we are going to do adoration from 600 to 6 Monday through Saturday don't tell me you don't got the time I'm looking for one hour a week you got a family of five members you don't have to go but once a month tell me you can't find time to give one hour a week if you spend more than one hour on your phone that's disordered before you leave church today I am begging you I am begging you to take that paper find out what day call the number of the guy or the person that's going to be watching and sign up for an hour if you can't make it then you call back and tell them I can't make it get someone in my spot but for the love of God and for our country I only want you to pray for two things two things only everything else must be secondary you pray for our country and you pray for our church because if we don't do it we will not win this game we are on the road to predition and we're well on our way to hell and I'm telling you if you don't suck it up and get in the game we ain't going to win it we're going to this is I'm telling you the day is coming where we need to protect our Vineyard so that others will protect theirs and pretty soon you know what we got 13 colonies who have declared their independence my brothers and sisters in Christ starting October 1st Monday through Saturday 6:00 a.m. to 6 P p.m. we're going to stand in front of that host We Adore You Christ and we praise you because by your Holy Name you have redeemed the world my brother and sisters in Christ and I will leave you with this Ben Franklin on the verge of tears stood up in front of 56 great men as they were starting to Wayne as if possible maybe they shouldn't sign and he was abundantly clear my brothers who have come I leave you with this we will either hang together or you will surely hang separately to my brothers and sisters in Christ I assure you if we do not hang together we will hang separately with a firm Reliance on Divine Providence I promise you my life my means my fortune and my sacred honor we will adore him starting October 1st and for then thereafter amen amen amen thank you <\p>

sacrifice sacrifice if you were to ask the friends of Allan to describe him 10 words or less they would describe him as not good a thief a robber impetuous kind of a fraud insolent Troublesome those are his friends if if you were to ask the people of Great Britain what they thought of Allen they would tell you man he's a rogue he's he's a rebel man he's if you were to ask the people of Great Britain what position would you like Allan to hold they would say let's start six feet under now you know where he says the problem is he's a oneman riot that's the problem Great Britain is undergoing these massive riots and when I'm telling you no hes bar there are houses being burned businesses being burned people are getting hurt cornage in the street they are looking for Allan he tried to unionize the world and as a result man everybody is looking for him he is man they're checking every uh Farmhouse to uh house to ouse they're they're going from riverbeds to Hy Stacks man there is a man hunt for Allan he goes to his uh girlfriend's house and says look you are right it's time for us to go to America she said well why now well it's just a good time time she says it's a good time because everybody in their brother is looking for you she said you know Alan if you don't learn to sacrifice to do the right thing the right way then all we're going to be doing is running into the same problem over there it's just going to be delayed he gave his word right right thing right way they flee to Chicago he goes to Chicago and while he's there the one thing Allan does do well he makes beer barrels exceptionally well you can imagine back in the day man he makes so many barrels it pretty soon it becomes a full-time job he actually got a warehouse in Chicago he is working 24/7 he's finally got a life he likes he's got a good reputation people know he's honest go figure this is Allan next thing you know when you work 247 let's be honest you see things you know things pretty soon he starts noting this behavior and that behavior and next thing you know is kind of man something's not right the sherff department comes to him and man there's a um there's a there's kind of like a ring going around like a counterfeit ring he starts helping the sheriff they deputize him next thing you know he becomes so popular in the sheriff circles he becomes the sheriff then next thing you know they make him the head of the Chicago Police Department man what what sacrifices he must have made to go from where he was to where he is man he gets so good he decides he wants to start his own private detective agency and he used to come up with a slogan we never sleep he had a big eyeball outside of his business business he had he had a big eyeball outside his business this is where we get the term private eye just so you know than thank you God okay as a result of it man people start coming to him man he is solving crimes things are going well he is so good because he's willing to sacrifice what it is to do the right thing the right way thanks to his wife as a result of such who all reaches out to him of all people the president soon to be of the United States of America he contacts Allan and tells him look I got to go from the southern states on this train all the way through Baltimore into DC there is no way I'm going to make it through the southern states the war is about to Embark yeah you must have guessed by now it was none other than president soon to be Abraham Lincoln and as a result of it Allen becomes his go-to guy Allan is the one that gets him to DC albeit on the slide Allen is the one that he counted on Allan is one that was willing to make the sacrifice for whatever it took and you do know him you know him as Alan Pinkerton in the Pinkerton but here's what you don't know about it at the end of the day that proverbial night in Forge theater where the where the president was shot by John wils Booth during the play our American cousin right as John wilb yells out death to tyrants as he kills the Mr Lincoln you ever ask yourself why wasn't Allan on guard that night you know they interviewed him and he said he said you know I would have been willing to make any sacrifice that was necessary to be there for the president that man had the biggest heart the greatest mind and was totally dedicated and sacrificial to re bringing our country back together he said well man that's a great statement he said but if you don't mind me asking you where were you he said I was handling a fraud case in Louisiana imagine that my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the sacrifice that is that gospel it is more importantly to recognize that the rich man was not willing to sacrifice there in lies the problem now stop you are a first century Jew you and I now know some 2,000 years later that we must study Christ as a Jew his mother is Jewish his stepfather you will is Jewish their parents are Jewish he circumcised as a Jew he is crucified as a Jew as king of the Jews we even find him in a synagogue at the age of 12 he is coming through the Jewish right so therefore you and I must understand it in the text that is written first and foremost we do not believe this to be a parable why because a proper name was used Lazarus you need to understand that whenever you see a proper name chances are it's not parabolic Noah Jonah brother in Christ if they say the rich man the poor man the man on the side of the road then I would tell you that that in essence is a parable this is not hence the name if I were to ask you what is the name of the couple in the Garden of Eden most of you would probably shout out Adam and Eve but the problem is Adam Adama means ground Eve does not get her name till after they're kicked out of the garden Adam resumes his name in the garden they are man and woman hence why names are important hence why this cannot be so much parabolic you need to understand too that if you wore purple clothing in their day it's because you had the means it took so many times to get the diee just right on the Garment and to get it right where you wanted it on the Garment and to make sure it was evenly spread you had to have way means for you to dine sumptuously each day meant even more money if you lived in a gated community and he did he's at the gate then you really had means my brother and sister in Christ you need to remember this in in the story that he didn't kill anybody either he just didn't love of neighbor he got gluttonous which is one of the seven deadly sins he got prideful he had aest love of money so when you when I ask you do you know the Commandments I hope and pray someday that you're able to recite them because you're not going to make Heaven until you know him you're not going to learn it after you get there John said it in his gospel if you say you love Jesus Christ if you say you love Jesus Christ you will know his Commandments 1 to 10 in the order there written if you're not if you do not know Jesus Christ or you say you know him but you do not know the Commandments John's words not mine you are a liar My Brother and Sisters in Christ I'm telling you this so that you realize that when you go to confession you tell me well I haven't killed anybody good start but it's one out of 10 you're not even a good baseball player my brother in Christ if you realize why they mentioned the dogs in the scripture to a Jewish people dogs carry a lot of significance unfortunately in not a good way you see the dogs have to eat too and they begin by licking the wounds of the dead person so as soon as you do pass they have something to eat he's well on his way if you notice my brother in Christ Peter's brother Andrew who's died on a crucifix in the shape of an ex hence why I wear this garment in his name the shape of the a do you know the reason they build the X because it's closer to the ground so when they crucify you they don't have to worry about taking you off because well there's dogs there my brother and sister Christ there in lies the point you need to understand my brother and sister in Christ that is a Jew you know for you knew without question that before the Gates of Heaven were open you knew there was Abraham's bosom oh man I hope you're going to love this Purgatory stop looking for an English word in a book written in Greek Philippians 2 every name has been in heaven on Earth and under the Earth the Earth you've been a knee in heaven before you're Before the Throne of God you've been in a knee on Earth because you want to be Before the Throne of God you not been in a knee in hell if you had been you wouldn't be there to begin with where are you bending that knee below the Earth according to Padre Pio that's where Purgatory is padrio says hell is in the center of the earth why do I tell you that because this man has already re received his judgment and there's a Chasm that he will never cross he's in hell you ever ask yourself how does he recognize Abra that's a thousand years before he ever got there how does he know Abraham you know what's a shame the rich man will never be able to say well I didn't see I didn't see that guy standing by the gate I didn't see him when I stepped over much less when the dogs licked his wounds well then how would you know his name why would you tell Father Abraham to tell Lazarus treating him as a slave to dip his finger and come and look who he's talking to Father Abraham this is the greatest negotiator on the side of mankind ever he's Father Abraham he's all in he's the one that negotiated terms for Sodom and gomorra Lord if I find 50 40 30 20 10 lord of the finance he's telling this man no well you if you send some S no well if you send somebody to my my brothers and my f no well you know if somebody rise from the dead no it's over for him the day is done my brother and sister in Christ because he wasn't willing to sacrifice you know who's the greatest player in our game say what you will but there is no doubt that Peter kayi the massive Boulder best player we got bar nun why cuz Christ picked him we didn't pick him say what you want about him and I do too but does it change the fact from the very beginning the good Lord knew kayi was going to be Upon This Rock I will build my church my brother and sister in Christ he gives us a great example of what it means to be sacrificial you remember the story the good Lord is resurrected he is now waiting on the Sea of Galilee and he's now a charcoal fire Peter sees him 50 yards away excuse me 100 yards away a football field away Peter begins to swim to him nobody else gets out of the boat just like he did when he tried to walk on water nobody got out of the boat nobody tried to help him on a side note can you imagine being there Lord if it is you tell me to come come would you have gotten out of the boat it meant it for everybody why did Peter have to be the only one knowing my nature I probably would have convinced Judas this was his time to shine but that's just my nature my brother and sister Christ he swims 100 yards to be next to a charcoal fire nowhere in scripture is the word charcoal used other than here and when he denied Our Savior three times and as a result of it he goes to him Peter Peter do you love me well well yes yes Lord you know that I do Peter do you love me well well yeah Lord Peter do you love me well man you know everything you know that I love you well someday Peter they're going to take you where you do not wish to go and they will clothe you in a certain Manner and albeit upside down for three hours you will Proclaim my gospel now you will know what it means to love me God the father said it best I so Lov the world I sent my son for the sacrifice of many when you say you love someone you're telling them that you're willing to sacrifice for them if you're not willing to sacrifice for them then please do not tell them that you love them my brother and sister in Christ that's what it means Agape to love all in are you in Peter or are you not my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how sacrificial are you and I well let's see I tell you what we'll start with the little things when you're visiting with somebody and that phone rings and a text messages come across you don't even bother moving it you just sit there and continue your conversation Forbe it for you to be rude and inconsiderate and answer the text while you're talking or Worse pick up the phone while you're talking to them are you loving and sacrificial enough not to respond but because the person in front of you is the most important person in the world as it would be if the shoe was on the other foot my brother and sister in Christ are you willing when you get home to make sure that you put the TV to the side and you put your cell phone to the side so that you could spend time with your family to be sacrificial for you love them my brother and sister in Christ are you willing when that alarm goes off in the morning could you set it just 10 minutes earlier and therefore get up a little bit earlier to start your day by praying and get giving love to Christ saying Christ I love you so much that I'm willing to give up my first 10 or 15 minutes in the day my brother in Christ are you so quick to hit the snooze button which I got to tell you I'm about to convince that the snooze button was invented by the Devil Himself I say that with a kind heart my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to come home an hour early so that you can spend time with your family and that you will turn off the television and nobody is to respond to no textes no phones at the table we're going to sit and visit and if it means we will sit and stare at one another then so be it or we're going to start our prayer our our meal with the sign of the cross will you do it in public clearly and distinctly so that everybody knows that you're giving thanks to God and you are not blessing yourself you are asking God to bless you and the food my brother and sister in Christ let's ramp it up a little bit are you willing to own up to the mistakes that you made that you cannot have that one more drink because it's killing you and it's destroying your family that you can't get on the computer because the pornography is so great you can't kill it if you had to oh Father I I can I can deal with it well if you had been we'd already solved the problem it's obviously that we can't so are you willing to put down Facebook for an hour a day can you walk away from it my brother and sister in Christ how sacrificial are you how much do you love do you love God so much that you're willing to go to confession once a month once a month and mother and sister in Christ when you go to confession and you're waiting in line can I ask you why do you get so mad you didn't have to hear the confession I see your faces man that guy's been up there 20 minutes oh my God what's he doing up there it must be therapy well I tell you what come sit in my shoes and then you'll see what I'm talking about here you are committing a sin to come confess your sin that's the height of irony my brother and sister in Christ you know sometimes why I sit with my back to you because I don't want you to drop a bomb in my lap and therefore I'm facing you and then everybody sees this or worse my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you go to confession find the priest that you can speak to and throw up I'm asking you to stop couching it Hebrews 5 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves go back to St John's gospel around chapter 20 the ministry of reconciliation has been given to them go out and heal them and forgive them of their sins St Paul to the Corinthians the ministry of reconciliation has been given to us if I were to ask you was confession in play before December 25th 2 one of minute one of hour one was confession in play before Christ came in or did the church just make it up Leviticus 4:5 and6 you had to bring your priest an animal you had to bring him either a goat a turtle dove or a bull depending on the size of the animal the size of the sin can you imagine walking through town with a bull nothing to see here look the other way better yet give it to your family look go ahead and take it in I'll catch you up with you in a minute and you had to announce it publicly I want to make sure you understand this that nowhere did Christ ever hear a confession in scripture and nor did he baptize anybody do not talk to me about his forgiveness of Peter what's Peter's confession that he loves him what was Mary Magdalene the lady being Stone what was her confession he said go in peace and sin no more my brother in Christ will you able to go to one more math just one more MTH think about it one more mass is greater according to St alons Lory than all the prayers of the Blessed Mother all her petitions all her works all her intercessions along with Joseph the prophets and the apostles unass and yet we don't have time for him my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to make that sacrifice because I'm going to tell you now if you're not willing to sacrifice for your own soul if you're not willing to sacrifice for the soul of your family if you're not willing to make that extra sacrifice to come to mass then you will not sacrifice for your country nor your church you're more interested in your own person personal freedoms then you are my brother and sister Christ in the freedoms of the holy mother Church in the world you've become narcissistic instead of worrying about the greater good this is why you and I pray in a community remember my brothers Christ what I'm telling you remember in the words of the Declaration of Independence my brothers Christ the famous last words how many times must you and I go over this enough for us to remember with the with Divine think of the word with total Reliance with total Reliance on Divine Providence with total Reliance on Divine Providence we solemnly pledge to one another Our lives our fortunes and our honors and then they signed it you could not have signed that declaration if you weren't all in you wouldn't have been able to sign that declaration now much less then my brother in Christ if you and I do not learn to sacrifice for one another and start praying for our country and our church Church we're going to lose this battle it is not going to be up to us anymore we have lost that ability when good men do nothing evil prevails look at us now we are falling I'm begging you to come back to church to go to mass receive the sacraments but more importantly today I'm asking you to man up or woman up and start coming to adoration and praying for our church and our country if You' never been to adoration it's that building just outside to the left I'm asking you to go sit for 1 hour a week you got three members of your family go every third week if you have four members you might have to get away with once a once a month if you're telling me you don't have time for one hour a week you've spent more time on your cell phone than you do with Jesus Christ you are disordered and you're on the road to redition my brother and sister in Christ when you go to adoration I tell you what let's be novel you're Catholics bring a Bible tell you what bring something scriptural bring a rosary I don't care if you stare at him and he stares at you you're there for the hour because you're telling the good Lord I have come for my country and I've come for my church take it as you will my brother Christ listen to me if you and I do not sacrifice for what we want what we want will be the sacrifice if you do not sacrifice for your church the church will become the sacrifice if you do not sacrifice for your country the country will become the sacrifice if you do not sacrifice for your family and our community then that is what's going to be put on the burner brother is Christ it's time to man up and stop cow to to everything that comes down the bike I don't care what certain people say all I care about is your soul and where you go and if you're not willing to be that need then nothing I can do to help you you've got to get the Adoration you got to get to the sacraments you got to get back in church that is all we have if we do not F find our needs I promise you if we do not find our knees and bend that head then the devil has this game one and there's it's all over with you learn to sacrifice and may he pull it out of your dead hands when you're through amen amen amen am there you go father son holy spirit amen <\p>

trust trust as in where do you place your trust year is 1861 1861 the war the war is inevitable Mr Lincoln is doing all he can do everybody is choosing up sides well okay not not everybody there is a gentleman by the name of a reverend his name is Reverend Mark watkinson Mark watkinson he oh by the way he uh Mark is a reverend he is a uh Baptist Minister he's a pastor in a little suburb if you will or a little village in Pennsylvania as a result of it he has not chosen sides he's only wants to be on the side of God that's where he puts his trust so one day all of a sudden the war has taken upon itself man next thing you know you've got Fort Suter fired upon Bull Run has been overrun by the southern Soldiers the war is in Full Throttle he pins a letter he does Mark he writes it to Salmon Chase and Salon chase is on the board or if you will he is one of the uh Council if you will with the President Lincoln he says Dear Sir he said how do would you like us to be remembered he said every civilization that did not trust God has failed every civilization that has not trusted God has failed so therefore in a year from now 10 years from now a generation from now if people were to dig up our Pottery our houses our coins what would they think of us as a result I I am imploring you to consider putting God on our currency as a result he thinks about it two years it's almost 1863 186 before Mr Salomon chase the head of the treasury notices a guy by the name of Mr Pollock who's the head of the mint he tells Mr poock we need to come up with some words something that would resonate and let people know that we still believe in God we still trust in him and they come up with the immutable Words In God We Trust four very powerful words man as a result of it man they decided Mr Lincoln agrees to put it on the penny alone as a result man things started to grow it becomes popular matter of fact they're considering putting it on all the currency in 1907 the people get so upset they're so narcissistic they people are saying people are too self-centered they're too self-driven they're too self- motivated 1907 we want to put the original words back on the coin and take off in God we trust we want to remove the for four and put back the three there's such a large outcry in 1907 that as a result of it it takes us till 1955 to put the words in God we trust on every coin and every dollar and every currency that we have oh that's right the words they wanted to replace for that narcissistic group in 1907 mind your business my brother and sister in Christ in whom do you trust that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ if you trust God and you have faith in him you could tell a cypress tree you could tell a malberry tree to uproot itself walk into the ocean plant itself on the bottom and it would grow let me make sure you understand if you trust in God and had a little bit of faith of a mustard seed you could tell a mberry tree or a sycamore tree in their day to uproot itself so you could talk to it it would listen it would actually uproot itself walk itself into the ocean go all the way to the bottom put its roots back in the ground allbe it saltwater and begin to flourish do you trust me this much well my brother Christ now stop you're a first century Jew please remember this Christ is a Jew his mother is Jewish his stepfather is Jewish he is circumcised as a Drew he is found in a temple he is crucified for being King of the Jews now he is the Messiah he could have come in the world any way he wanted he came in as a Jew and when he says the words do this in sacrifice to me started the Catholic church just so you know my brother and sister in Christ the word Catholic means according to the whole it becomes so popular it becomes Universal you do these four things Gather in one place listen to the apostles sing the Psalms and break bread you're no longer considered Jewish you're considered Catholic so my brother and sister in Christ so you understand the Jewish setting Luke is a follower of Paul Luke is a physician by trade he is speaking to Jews and to Gentiles so he has to temper the language a little bit remember Luke is not an apostle but he also is the only one that has uh he has a sequel if you will he wrote the Gospel and then he did the Acts of the Apostles he's using Parables why does he use Parables because that's how you and I remember things like Paul Harvey okay good you do understand he uses a parable but remember this every Parable has a Twist something that doesn't seem logical it's not reasonable I mean that you could communicate with a tree until it to get up and uproot itself and plant itself in the ocean but then there's what they call an sha that is somewhere in the very end of the parable where the truth comes out where he talks about if you just had a little bit of Faith you could move mountains and plant trees in the ocean but the fact of the matter is you do your duty and you think I owe you for something you can do nothing without me you can't even have a thought you can't have an essence you can't have an understanding you don't even exist myself included if he has chosen not to my brother and sister in Christ he's telling them you better learn to trust me completely and wholeheartedly now my brother Christ let's go back in scripture let's be honest all 12 of the boys the apostles I affectionately refer to them as the boys all 12 of the boys all ended up in a tough spot when they were in the boat and the and Peter yells out Lord if it is you tell me to come come there's 12 guys in that boat why doesn't Peter the only one get out why don't the others say I'll go with you better yet my brother in Christ if I had been in the boat I know my nature I would have been convincing Judas this is a good time you need to go this is it the fact of the matter is Peter does walk on water and yeah he does get distracted because he's all of a sudden realizing he's walking on water but the good Lord didn't carry him about to the boat either my brother and sister Christ that's one out of 12 that's like 8% that trusted him my brother and sister Christ when he's in the Garden of Gethsemane he says man can you stay awake just for just for one hour he's 0 for three every time he goes back that's 0% my brother and sister Christ at the crucifixion only one guy shows up at the crucifixion out of 12 again that's only about eight or %. my brother and sister Christ when he resurrects from the tomb how many of the Apostles show up none oh yeah after they found out only two came that's only 16% you know what's amazing until they stop trusting just on their abilities and they start trusting more on God then all of a sudden they're batting a thousand if you will my brother and sister Christ every one of the Apostles gave up his life years after Christ is come and gone say what you want about him Peter is crucified upside down he according to tradition he proclaimed the gospel for three hours according to tradition his wife Poria either died that same day or earlier in the week his last words to her according to tradition go with God my brother and sister in Christ Thaddius whose also name went under Judas was spared to doubt if you go to Mathias excuse me yeah Mias my brother and sister in Christ he is beheaded the one that took the place of Judas if you were to go to Philip who he believed was also married he was crucified on the cross because he stepped on a demon a snake and killed it and the King worshiped snakes so he is crucified Matthew is beheaded he's the most intellectual of the group as a matter of fact Christ he at least had the choice and he chose to be beheaded you know what's amazing Simon saw it in half Phillip the one that everybody loved and everybody got along with he was speared to death in India we yet nobody remembers that they just call him the doubter there was no doubt about him now James the Greater the one that came first the one the first to lose his life he is beheaded say what you want about John but we actually believe they tried to boil him in oil and Patmos and when that didn't kill him they just regulated him there my brother Christ if you're if you're James the Lesser do you know they actually brought him up to a pinnacle 200 feet in the air told him to deny Our Savior and when he wouldn't they pushed him off and when that didn't kill him they beat him to death if you are Andrew Peter's brother you are the consumate introvert they put you on a crucifix of an ex and they crucified you because you took care of the governor's wife he got Furious and prideful decided to crucify you like your savior and he is up there for three days as a matter of fact he's converting more people and doing more miracles on the cross the governor wants to take him down and he remarks to the governor you put me up here and here I will stay you know why they use the cross because dogs have to eat too it's lower to the ground my brother and sister Christ Bartholomew is skinned alive everybody shows up once they decide to put their trust in God so now here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and sister in Christ how trustworthy are you and I let's see r two of our family and friends if you were somebody and they came to you and said look will you make sure and make this phone call for me you're going to make it you're not going to come up with excuse oh I texted him oh I'll catch him in the morning if you told somebody you're going to go by and pick them up you're going to make sure and do it that way they have no worries on their plate if they came to you and said man I need to tell you this can you keep a secret can you or do you walk off about 20 ft later and say man you're not going to believe what I her if somebody came to you and said man I got to tell you this I I I just can't believe it's true you say well let's just pray for him regardless of what it is if they came to you at work and said man can you stay a little bit later they got enough trust in you knowing that you'll do it because that's what you do the decimal point has nothing on you the day you and I decide that the decimal point dictates our life then you and I are doomed on the road to predition because 3 3,000 years later 2,000 years later we tied Judas to 30 pieces of silver never tie yourself to the decimal point my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit I'm asking you man can the good Lord trust you to follow the teachings of his church do you know the Ten Commandments in order of the reason that's why he wrote them in order because you can't get to Heaven till you know them John says if you know the commandments so be it but if you say you love God and you do not know the Commandments you are a liar my brother and sister in Christ you you be trusted to go to confession and put it on the table and stop buying into the argument that therefore you do not have to go to anyone there's only one mediator between God and man and that's Jesus Christ St Paul to Timothy what Timothy's not telling you is is the two lines before it said pray for one another pray for me I will pray for you pray for your Alderman pray for intercessory pray for Kings my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit the question for you and I is can you and I be trusted to follow our faith when everything else is going south can you be trusted that even on a weekend when everything is going every which way you're out of town doing this that and the other you will find a church because that's what you do and if it means telling your family I'll catch you when I get out well you don't understand we got family got friends we got a barbecue wa father you don't understand we got travel ball my kid is going pro true story I'm sitting with a friend of mine we're talking about it and he's telling me how good of an athlete his son is and I remember thinking in high school I said didn't you sit next next to me on the bench and he said well yeah I said you and I were the guy that backed up the right fielder he said yes I said I've seen your wife so tell me how is it you're going pro again my brother said Christ that's the problem everything else takes priority at the end of the day will God trust you enough to tell you that if you do not trust me in the little things you do not trust me at things at work how can he and I trust you to make the decision when the time comes you got to be willing to say now brother and sister Christ that you are Catholic you got to be willing to make that sign clearly and distinctly when nobody else will do it you got to be willing to say the hell Mary when nobody else wants to hear it you got to be willing to tell everybody in the group I don't want to hear the gossip can you stop dropping the f bomb it's out of the mouth of Lucifer my brother Christ at what point do you not stand up and say that I'm a follower of Christ Mark Twain was right if there's a fence Between Heaven and Hell it's owned by the Devil Himself he told you that if you do not acknowledge me in public I will not acknowledge you before my father and if we can't do it on the little things then we're not going to do it on the big things we live in a world where this is vastly going down the road when people come into your house would you my brother in Christ be able to stand up and say with your life and your family in Peril I am a believer in Jesus Christ if the good Lord came to get you in your house and said you must go now go now not let me let me talk to my family I got to get in touch with my family I got to make sure I got a job I got a 401k would you be able to walk away when Christ went to Peter Peter dropped his Nets and his boat immediately and walked away my brother and sister in Christ if he doesn't do that we do not have a vicer of Christ if you cannot make the decision now what's going to happen when somebody comes to you and says are you in or are you out are you a follower of Jesus Christ or you are not are you a member of the Holy Roman Catholic church or are you not you're not going to be able to head your back my brother and sister Christ I'm telling you you better make the decisions now because the bigger ones are coming and they're coming sooner than you think and you're going to have to walk away trusting in God and His Providence my brother in Christ I'm telling you listen to me I do not follow an elephant nor do I follow a donkey I only trust in the lamb that has got to be the measure of your resolve amen amen amen amen name of the Father and Son holy spirit amen <\p>

attitude attitude the year is 1860 and his name is Edwin it's the it's the start of the war Lincoln he's done all he can do everybody's choosing upsides but not so much for Edwin Edwin has the greatest attitude in the world he is so humble he's the poster child for humility here's the irony he's probably the most popular guy per se outside of maybe Lincoln in the planet he is the greatest actor of his day as a matter of fact he's so popular in in this country he's equally popular in Great Britain 100 consecutive nights Edwin does MCB Beth packed House people want to talk to him people want to visit with him people want his autograph if they could take a picture of him they would as a result but you know what's amazing with Edwin he never really got to him he just loved being around people he just loved life whether he had money trappings almost irrelevant he come to the United States and people knew of him man they just always wanted to visit with him man if they want to sit and talk with him have a cup of coffee with him as the world progresses right he founds himself one day on what they call a platform to catch a train and is the boarding platform you've seen it in some of the movies right that train comes in and because the couplings are a little too big it kind of jerks when it comes to a stop and then when it begins to take off it does the same thing until that U till the Synergy picks up and catches its momentum the problem is is that the platform starts to shake coming and going here he is sitting in the back of the platform minding his own business of course everybody notices man they're looking over shoulder they're pointing they don't know what to do that's Edwin out of nowhere man there hears a scream I'm talking blood curdling scream that of a mother screaming her boy has fallen between the Train the the cars man nobody regrettably nobody moves L Edwin man Edwin pushes his ways through the crowd he looks he sees the young boy literally wraps his leg around the rail reaches down pulls him with one hand while trying to hold up himself with the other pulls the boy to safety I'm telling you if Edwin's not there that boy dies he's literally going to be split in half he gives it to his mom she can better barely utter the words thank you that's Edwin right thing right way didn't want anything for it just so glad the child is good goes about his life he's got a brother but his brother is a little bit off the reservation he too tries the ACT he actually plays in julus Caesar he plays Brutus go figure as a result of it man life gets a little convoluted his brother runs off the reservation but you know what's amazing about Edward he really never kept the animosity you know he died penniless and broke because of what his brother did did but the only thing he cared about they said at his funeral he only had one one set of clothing left and he kept this letter on him since the day of that proverbial incident you know the one that you and I just talked about he got a letter from General Grant from his Secretary General bedau thanking him for saving the life listen thanking him for saving the life of a young boy whose father had been killed by Edwin's brother saving the life of a young boy whose father had been killed by Edwin's brother you see Edwin's last name is Booth his brother is John wils the young boy saved Robert Todd Lincoln it was Mary Lincoln that led out the screen my brother and sister in Christ but it was his attitude that always won the day that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ imagine 10 lepers come to see our savior they yell from a distance and as a result only one returns to give thanks and did you listen to the attitude of the one that's cured first of all he's already halfway up the road remember there are day walk literally a day of walking all the way to get to Jerusalem which is where they need to go he's already in route he decides to come all the way back to see our Lord he proclaims it publicly he he falls at his feet he thanks the good Lord and He acknowledges him as king and did you notice what the good Lord told him your faith has saved you said nothing about the others my brother and sister in Christ it's all about attitude now stop you remember now you are a first century Jew you and I have come to study Christ as a Jew for his mother is Jewish his stepfather is Jewish he is the king of the Jews crucified as such he's also circumcised a Jew if you study Christ in English you're going to miss what he has to say digress this is how it works in their world you and I are LEP and as a result of us it is a disease they consider highly contagious this is how it works if you and I are deemed to be lepers then we have to uh make our hair unruly if you have any hair as a result of having lepers you are to tear all of your clothes so people can see from a distance that you are a leper when you go leave your compound which you must stay in the outside the city if you should decide to leave it which is on you you have to put your hand above your lips like this and yell out unclean now this is two results are going to happen you yell out unclean you're a leper you're outside your compound what you meant to say is throw the Rocks this way because you're going to get stoned but then again you're going to die anyway so they're hanging out in a place called Samaria now remember this is between the Sea of gall in Jerusalem and as a result of it there are very few Jewish people there he's walking through so they're on the outside of the city now remember this nobody told them film at 11 be here Messiah on demand they've been hanging out there for several days because they heard rumor that he was coming and did you notice when they saw him they don't yell out unclean Jesus Master have pity on us Jesus Master save us heal us my friends in Christ what they're doing is they're desperate their faith is so great do you notice he doesn't touch them he says Go and show yourself now this how it works you got to go all the way to Jerusalem you get there's four corners in the woman's Court which is about the size of a city block Each corner of the block is h a portal one of them is for the wood for the uh the well for the altar one of them is for the priest and one of them is for the lepers and one of them is for the things that they need for their service you go to that leper you got to stay there for seven days up to 14 days that sound familiar Co all the way back there that's right you go there now remember Christ This Is How They determine if you're lepers they're not real sure if you have it they just know you don't have it so you could have infantigo and they're not really sure what they're looking for is to see if the wound turned white and the hairs in the wounds changed colors if it did then you're okay if you are clean you got to shave yourself bald eyebrows included you got to get rid of all your clothes and they're going to give you a one garment you got to be totally clean this is the guy who decided to come all the way back lose a day lose another day going back so when they become clean he still got seven more days or 14 more days what I'm telling you is it was so important him to come back he didn't care about giving up the extra time that is the attitude that we need my brother in Christ go back in scripture Our best players are the ones whose attitude is almost one of resilience that no matter what you do to them all they care about is his will be done his will be done my brothers Christ let me ask you you're standing next to Veronica the crucifixion has come over 100 soldiers that's how many people surrounded Christ in the cruci fiction they Circle you with soldiers they believe it was about 75 that just circle you there's one person that's the town crier he holds the placard up the INRI telling everybody the crime you committed you actually and there's 10 soldiers around Christ himself there's a leader on each end and there's one like longinus leading the parade you're going to walk out there with Veronica that's who it is actually we call her Nike in another language she's the one that goes out and gives up the veil and stops the entire crucifixion her attitude was whatever is great for the good Lord is what I want all I care about would you and I have gone out there with her would you and I would have said look I'll go with you and make sure you don't get beat to a pul will I go out there and make sure that we wipe his face and maybe his hands too maybe if we have some water I can bring that too my brother and sister in Christ if you and I had met Saul and now he became Paul man his attitude how manyan I mean let's be Hest how many of you and I would have continue proclaiming the gospel if your first homy they tried to Stone you to death what if you got on three boats and they all sank would you continue to get on a boat to Trout the first time you swam to an island you got bit by a Viper would you continue to go and see people would you stand in prison and write letters to your favorite son my brother and sister in Christ what kind of attitude do you think you had to have where you followed the legions and Men followed you because you saved them more times than you can count you saved their bacon more than they could ever imagine and to watch your leader longinus turn and say truly that man was a Son of God my brother and sister in Christ that's the attitude and that's the resolve you and I have to have so here we sit 2,000 years later if somebody was to qualify if I were to ask your spouse in 10 words or less okay let's not use your spouse a distant friend and I asked him to say describe in 10 words or less that person's attitude would they say oh the glass is always half empty or they say the glass is half full would they say oh man it depends on when you catch them you know when in the morning they're not morning people let me help you they ain't afternoon people either well they say well they always look like they wake up on the wrong side of the bed of nails they're always angry and then they justify Lord by saying you know Lord that's just how I am no no he didn't make you that way you made you that way would they say oh man he or she curses like a sailor 40,000 words in English language and you can only find MF and GD you actually believe it's acceptable to ask the good Lord to damn something my brother and sister Christ MF comes from the mouth of the Devil Himself my brother and sister in Christ what is your attitude when somebody keeps calling you and your family keeps calling you they got other brothers and sisters and dang they can't find one other cell number father it's always my phone that Rings it's my parents it's my children it's their children it's my grandchildren hey Simon that's why they called you because you can solve it because you have the right attitude because you're all in and because you're all in you get all of the grace that goes with it the more you and I complain because I got that phone call I got that email I got to go help I got to do this man stop complaining about it and thank God somebody thinks enough for you to call you the attitude needs to be I'm all in lord your will be done Lord I came in on this day I'm going home on this day I better make all I can in between because on this day the day I die is the day that Mercy stops and only judgment remains and then we're going to be measured remember brother in Christ there will be no negotiations there's no arbitration there's no mediation you and I need to settle up on the very nanc so when somebody calls you Simon and at work you're the only phone number well guess what Simon then solve the problem whether you get paid for it or not that's not a reflection on you the reflection on you is the attitude you bring to the table do you think Paul did it for money you think Veronica got in the way for money you think longinus walks away from his 401k they don't have that then but work with me which is now a 201k my brother and sister Christ what's going to be your attitude don't you understand my brother Christ everything everything is attitude no matter what comes to your table you don't think the good Lord knew you think he just looked out there and said man that's a million in one shot I can't believe they're handling this do you honest you listen to me do you honestly believe the good Lord looks down upon the earth oh oh my me that's a million to one shot go get time Thomas Peter look at this everything that comes to you everything that comes to you has been ordained Psalm 127 if you build your house without me you build it in vain you build your heart your your uh your work without me you build it in vain you build your education without me you build it in vain you invest monies without me you build it in vain I own everything this is why when Peter goes to the good Lord and says Lord Lord Lord we left everything for you can you imagine how the good Lord would turn and respond everything Peter I'm everything you are nothing you don't have a house that's my house you don't have boats in the galley those are my boats you don't have workers those are my children you have nothing you don't have an essence you don't have existence you have no being you have no intellect I have everything I am everything so don't tell me you left everything I am everything and that's got to be the measure of our resolve that's what has to be your and I's attitude my brother in Christ don't you see every day begins and ends on how you started if you want to be miserable can I tell you would they describe you would they describe you is man father you put this person next to Mother Teresa they had sucked the life out of her well man no wonder nobody wants to hang out with you my brother and sister Christ that's what I'm telling you you can be as Lincoln was absolutely spoton you can be as happy as you want to be attitude is everything my brother and sister in Christ when they ask Lou Holtz how good is attitude he said look your ability tells you what you could do if you are um talented then you'll get to choose what you'd like to do but how great you do it is predicated on your attitude my brother and sister Christ I'm telling you stop walking around like you got the weight of the world on your shoulders allow him to carry allow somebody to be a Simon for you you to be a Simon for somebody else when you pray to the good Lord let me ask you what's your attitude when you don't get it answered well man I brother I've been praying but he's not listening I've been praying forever for my children they he's not listening you ever thought for a minute that the reason he doesn't answer your prayer is because once he does he doesn't hear from you again until we need something else you ever thought for a second it's the only chance he get get to visit with you is when you come to ask so therefore he'd like to see you more often than not my brother and sister in Christ what's your attitude of the church you're going to allow somebody to stand in your way from the pope on down well I can't that's a pedophile issue father that's malfant they got transexual they got they got this gay issue father they got Francis I'm not sure where he's at I'm not going to church till they get it straight so are you telling me that if you happen to met Judas along the way you're going to dismiss Christ if you had met Saul before you met Paul you're not going to talk to our Savior my brother and sister in Christ at the end of the day it's your soul and that's all I care about I do not care what he says others say or do not say I do not care what the hierarchy does or not I don't even care what Brandon says good you're listening all I care about is what you think and where you sit and that you know the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God my brother and sister in Christ what is your attitude about going to confession and let me tell you something if a priest ever dismissed you was ugly to you condescending to you and ran you off shame on him and I am sorry and so will he be but it doesn't change the fact that a bad doctor still gives good medicine you let nobody get in the way between you and our Savior Jesus Christ in that Eucharist and going to confession my brother Christ you wake up in the morning you get ready for the day cuz nothing comes to you that he hasn't ordained attitude sets the table and I leave you with this I leave you with the words of all people Johnny Depp Captain Jack Sparrow you yes you know Captain Jack Sparrow please tell me you do the problem isn't the problem the problem is your attitude about the problem amen amen name of the father son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

perseverance perseverance the years 1900 she lives at the very bottom of the Ozark Mountains she lives in a 10x10 which is no bigger than this and you would call it u a 10 by10 Shack Shanty lean to it's deplorable man she her husband is passed her kids have gone and she is inside her house she's sitting in what little broken chair that there is she looks up into the roof to see man man when it rains it just pours albe it inside our little Shack the the floor is made of wood it's nothing more than a mud puddle there's no pains in the windows the door is coming off the hinges she stands up and looks in the heavens and said Lord help me and she thinks she understands to persevere to finish what we started next thing you knows she begins to hear these Rumblings outside and man she doesn't know what it is man she goes over to the door which barely hanging onto a hen she opens it she walks out on her porch which I got to tell you it's no bigger than this it's missing every other plank she sees three men come up on Horseback and she says one of them looks like Lucifer himself he said man we've been traveling all night long we could sure use some food and night this place to stay really she looks up in Heavens so this is how you help me okay I'll give you what I got they get off the man grabs a Saddleback the one that looks like Lucifer they walk in and he sits at a table that's missing a leg he sits in two of two of the chairs he gives to his friends he's kind of standing the chairs are wobbly he looks at the woman crack her last three eggs into a skillet he looks up and sees the roof and says H man I know what comes when the rain comes nothing on the Windows he said ma'am how can I help you she begins to cry my husband is dead my children are gone I owe $800 on this the banker comes today he said I see reaches over he grabs his saddle bag pulls about three $100 bills one for each egg he said ma'am you owe how much $800 and he comes today reaches over grabs 8 $1100 bills ma'am I hate bankers get a receipt she said okay she can't believe it $800 $300 FS oh oh my God he said ma'am I thank you for what you did for me and my men I'll never forget this he gets on his horses and the three of them literally right around the bin I bet you he's not around the bin and here comes the banker she sees him she hears him man he's got that you know proverbial black Carriage he's got four black horses Black Top Hat black jacket he is cursing her from the minute he sees her I want my money I want it now he is upside her one side down the other she's trying to explain to him I got the money but he can't get a word in it man he is literally vomiting on top of her finally she saids sir if you just wait a second I've got the money she thrs at $8,100 bills he can't believe it he takes the re receipt he throws it out her spits in her face takes his money and he goes around the term the height of irony he's robed by three men on Horseback one was Lucifer himself true story and that guy's name was Jesse James my brother s you do know who Jesse James is right my brother in Christ okay I can see the age deal trust me that guy existed my brother s Christ that that is that gospel it's about persevering it's about finishing what you started now remember Christ is a Jew you and I are descendants of the Jews his mother is Jewish his stepfather is Jewish he's Jewish so if you and I don't study scripture correctly Through The Eyes of a Jew we're going to miss it now remember this you heard him say this is a parable and how do you and I know say he doesn't say the word Parable how do you and I know as the descendants of the Jews there's no proper name being used you know the wealthy man uh the man in the ditch uh the Samaritan whenever you hear a name names are important remember this in the Garden of Eden their names are not Adam and Eve Adam means ground their names in the garden are man and woman he doesn't resume his name till after he kicks out he doesn't give the name to Eve until after they kicked out the Gard so when you hear the name Noah Jonah they're not being parabolic oh that's right that's right those are makeb belief stories I forgot that's right that's right see you think Jonah oh yeah that's the guy in the whale father you know come on really did you read the story because if you had then you know he's singing a funeral durge because he dies in the whale and that's why he tells the Jewish people if you're looking for a sign the only sign you're going to get is like that of Jonah just like Jonah descended to the dead for three days so will I why would I give you a story it's make believe this is about my my resurrection Noah you can say what you want father he put all the animals on the ark did you read it closely all means dominant a majority of of that region my brother in Christ did he not use Noah as an example just like Noah people were getting married in the time of Noah so will it be an I return my brother Christ this is the point you need to study Christ as a Jew now go back in scripture all of our best players all of our best players are people that know how to persevere case in point Mary magdal has all seven demons Pride anger gluttony lust Aver sloth and envy excuse me she's the only one in scripture to have such a plight she has the trifecta of demons the fact that you understand the term trifactor does bother me but I digress my brother and sister in Christ here she is on Easter Sunday morning she'd rather be near quote a dead savior than live people you know why because she has the gift of perseverance she's got to get up in front of soldiers that have already had their way with her she's got to get to a tomb to a boulder so big that she can't move it's been sealed by Pilot himself but yet she'd rather get up and be next to that than lie people that is the gift of perseverance the first to see the Risen Christ Before Peter himself the Vicor my brother in Christ that is the amount of resolve you and I have to have you know according to tradition according to tradition do you know Peter said Lord why did you show up to her I mean I am your vicer you did change my name I'm the only Apostle to have a name change you quoted me over 180 times in scripture John's only quoted 30 my brother and sister Christ my name's always at the top of the list Judas is always at the bottom I'm the only one that's been given Keys matter of fact I'm the lead in the Apostles Creed I'm the one that broke all ties I'm the one that said circumcision is not necessarily valid I'm the one that started healing I gave the first H why would you show up to her if I'm your Vicor you know what he said I looked for you and did not see you that is got to be the measure of your resolve my brothers and sisters in Christ what it must have been to be Peter every time you open your mouth you seem to stick your foot in it but it doesn't change the fact that he's the vicer of Christ and remember this yeah that's true he tried to walk on water right Lord if it is you tell me to come one out of 12 got out of that boat there's 11 other guys in that boat my brother and sister in Christ nobody else got out of that boat Lord if it is you tell me to come come Peter Peter begins and he does walk in water now I have to admit if I was living in the day and I was in the boat I would have probably convinced Judas this is a good time for you to get out there and do something that's just my nature but my brother and sister Christ did you notice that when Peter was drowning not one person tried to help you stick out their hand even if it's a crocodile arm here take it grab my hand quick hurry up my brother and sister in Christ that is the measure of Peter's perseverance and give his wife her due her name is pereria because if she doesn't agree that he's got to be the Vicar of Christ then Upon This Rock we have no no church and according to tradition just so you know 33 years later Peter is crucified upside down and for three hours upside down try to stand on your head for five minutes he proclaims the gospel do you know that we actually believe that she was killed either the same day of the same week and what does he tell his his wife pereria go with God my brother and sister in Christ our best players are the ones that finished what they started all of them are our greatest Sinners but they all have the gift of persever so now here you and I sit 2,000 years later how good are you at persevering well I tell you what let's see my brother and sister in Christ man will you persevere with your prayers even when you know you're praying for your children and they can't seem to get out of the woods forest for the trees father I've been praying for my daughter I've been praying for my son but look at him oh my God I mean we can't get a job we're in drugs we get alcohol I don't know who they're dating they're dating the wrong people oh my god look D Him Father I mean I can't help him I tell you what stop praying I said cut it all off nobody prays for nobody now watch your son and daughter fall your prayers kept them from falling all the way down and the day you give up the ghost is the day they buy in you only think they're in the bottom you suspended them because your prayers have have power they have intention because you're persevering you're like the gospel you're going to knock on that door till somebody answers or if you're not you're going to stand in front of that King till he gives up the ghost that has got to be the measure of your resolve how many times have you prayed for something and you said man he's not listening to me man you get all upset I pray for work I'm praying for a job I'm praying for my relationship for my children for my parents I'm praying for the test that's coming up I'm praying for this and for that and then you get so frustrated you say you know what I'm just tired of praying he's not listening okay you want to have a pity party good go ahead you through yet get back in the game cuz at the end of the day perseverance is what wins this fight man father if I pray one more prayer I'm going spit spit now get back in the game what is the measure of your resolve my brother and sister Christ when that phone call rings and it's your friend and you know when you get on that phone you're going to be one hour your whole life will go down to twos you'll be back at Point a no matter what happens but you get on the phone because that's what you do Simon you answer the phone you finish the race you persevere because they can't make it without you That's Why They Call On You Simon that's why your family you're the only one that has the cell phone number that everybody knows at work you got a th000 employees but you're the only one that rings every time there's a problem in the family you're the one that gets called there's a problem at work there's down the street this has got to be the measure of your resolve that you will take the call Simon because that's what you do because that's the gift you got you got to get up and you got to finish this thing that's why you get the grace and they do not you've got to persevere my brother and sister in Christ when you you put your head at night before you go to pray do you actually literally bend that knee thanking God for the roof on your head the clothes on the back and for a family that still loves you or do you say father I was so tired I got in bed I started praying the rosary and I fell asleep but don't worry and I'm thinking okay what am I worrying about again and they said because you know don't worry about my angel finish my prayers I'm thinking your angels in heaven what do you care you finish your prayers you finished the started Rosary you finished the rosary you started the prayer you finished the prayer well or let me ask you when you go to pray will you persevere in prayer when nobody else makes the sign of the cross oh so that's where we are in the world they come to you and everybody in that room is another faith and you're the only Catholic will you break out the sign of the cross clearly and distinctly or were you give him one of these which by the way is I don't know if that's a lay down a bunt or still second but that's a whole another issue for a day my brother and sister in Christ what is the measure of your resolve stop apologizing for being Catholic at the end of the day Ezekiel said the mark of the cross on your forehead will save you if you don't acknowledge Christ and people how will he acknowledge you before his father you must persevere in your prayer life you must persevere in helping one another love of God and love of church my brother and sister in Christ I don't care what you think and you're tired and exhausted and you exasperated you get up and you finish that race the good Lord may have won the race but you dang sure better finish it let me tell you make sure you understand this the devil hates you because you've been made in His image the very mention of your name causes him to spit he will do whatever he can to distract you he will throw things in your way to pull you away from him he will get people to call you to text you they'll get that one proverbial message and man I got to tell you you'll take a hostage I'll prove it to you you're sitting on the the beach it's 5:00 somewhere good you understand where I'm at you're under that umbrella there is nobody out there you got you a really big glass of holy water somebody comes up and mentions one name you could take that umbrella wrap it around their neck throw them in the gulf and sleep all night long that is the measure of the evil one do not than for one second that he sits on one side of the path the good Lord sits on the other you and I walk down the middle and all of a sudden they just look at one another well let's see if we get him oh man we almost got him we'll get him next time the measure of his resolve is to drag you into hell and your family's with you and if you honestly believe that because you haven't killed somebody you got a ticket to Paradise or that you can Proclaim him to be your savior you've totally missed what he said my brothers and sisters in Christ there's a difference between Redemption is the crucifixion and salvation is the Pearly gate just cuz he died on the cross you and I don't get a free pass he told you in scripture one out of four is going to finish one out of four my brother and sister in Christ you hang in there you persevere you pray and may the devil pull it out of your dead hands when you're through you're welcome to your kingdom so when the good Lord sees you he says welcome home my child I have watched you man am I so proud of you welcome to the table of all of my children or will he say depart from me for I don't know you you persevere and you finish and I'll leave you with this even the snails made it to the ark finish what you start amen amen oh no no I've been yelling for 20 minutes amen amen amen there you go the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen <\p>

trust trust as in who do you trust the year 1776 and our country our colonies are about to embark on a great War as a result of such man everybody's trying to choose up sides it's not question of if it's a question of when and it's not a question is it going to be Lexington or not it's just going to be when so the colist have gotten together and decided they need an an emergency response so the way they would do it would be to send out Messengers if you will once the war starts in Lexington they would announce to certain Riders and then they would proceed outward some to the north some to the South some to the East and the West each responsible for their respective cities and when the war starts in Lexington it is quite simple you Proclaim that the war has begun you are to claim that the Red Coats have attacked Lexington and a call to arm the war has begun the red coats are in Lexington this is a call to arms as a result of it they start to get their teams together and then they realize they're one short they have a guy going to the north and to the uh East they even have one going to the west but they have no one going to the South so they do their little this that and the other talking to different people and they said man we got this guy he's 23 years old he said he's the guy he's the best Rider we got he can ride like there's no tomorrow he's familiar with the territory the bottom problem is is he's 23 and man when the war starts will he stay the course will he finish what he started can we trust him to finish man as a result of it that goes back and forth and they talk about this guy and that guy finally they said look unless you got a name and a body he's our boy let me tell you thank God we got it cuz let me tell you when it fires that first shot at Le inton that man's out like a shot he goes from Lexington to Worchester and he does it in about two days matter of fact his horse dies when he comes in he gets him another horse he goes all the way to Connecticut to New York and back he does it like in like five days he goes 300 and something miles and everywhere he goes the war has begun a call to Arms the fight is in Lexington man my brother and sister in Christ I got to tell you if we did not trust this guy we wouldn't be in an country to have now because nobody would have been warned you see you know the story right listen my friends and you shall hear the famous ride of Israel Bessel oh that's right you see you trusted the history books his name is Israel Bissell Paul River makes a whole 20 miles before he's captured my brother and sister in Christ it's all about trust that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ a Pharisee and a tax collector have entered the temple and they have decided to go pray simultaneously this is how it works in their world as he walks in as a Pharisee he obviously has clout he has standing so he gets to be a little closer to the altar as a result the tax collector comes in but you heard what the uh the excuse me the Pharisees says right he says look Lord I Thank you for hearing my prayers and as a result I am not an extortionist I'm not a cheat and surely I'm not a tax collector Lord and then of course the tax collector there is just beating his breast now stop you need to understand this you are a first century Jew Christ is a Jew his family is Jew he is circumcised as a Jew he's crucified as a Jew this is how you must look for him as a result now this is how you understand a Pharisee is somebody who's highly respected they have clout they have means they are called in their terms the separated ones they do not get along with the Sadducees the Sadducees are like it's like Republicans and Democrats actually it's not even close but I digress on that issue that was a bad example the fact of the matter is the only thing they have in common is they both hate Christ a Pharisee is someone who believes in the first five books and then they also believe in Traditions how you wash your hand hands you can only walk a mile on Sunday how you make sure you clean your forks and knives before and after a meal a sadducee is someone who only believes in the first five books and does not believe in the Life Hereafter they are not even priests they are sad you see get get okay I worked really hard to get that in there I'm just going to tell you right now I really did my brother and sister in Christ here's the problem the tax collector is Jewish but he's a Roman citizen so the Jews hate him because he works for Rome Rome hates him because he's Jewish and sometimes they call what they call a scage which means he charge a little more for his own benefit this was not the case with Matthew even though Peter thought so the fact of the matter is this is the problem did you listen to the Pharisee he prayed to himself there in lies the problem he trusted in him he matter of fact my brother and sister in Christ if you listen to what the the other gentleman did the tax collector he beat his breast and bowed his head my brother in Christ there in lies the point the tax collector's trust is in God the Pharisees entrusted into himself go back in scripture Our best players our best players are the ones that trusted God even at the extent of their own Peril remember brother Christ say what you want about Paul when he is saw do you know how you know how notorious this guy was he had so much cloud out that he could actually go to a synagogue get a letter getting approval to kill who he wished so much so that when he came into town not only did he get the best seats in restaurants oh but he did but he had all the clout that he needed he could gather up whoever he wanted Christian or otherwise and he can have a Marty so guess what when he gets blinded for three days the good Lord approaches if you will through Apparition through a vision through an understanding through dream and tells one of the disciples to go and cure for Saul go to Second Street and lay hands on him you know what his response is to God do you know who this guy is why don't we just leave him blind we got a better chance of survival he said no trust me he's going to be the greatest oror of our day and the Gentiles will come to believe in him and furthermore believe in me so he's got to go cure him and I got to believe that when he goes to cure him he probably runs in you're cured and I'm out because you don't know what he's going to do but that's where the good Lord's at he said man you got to learn to trust him you got to learn to trust me my brother and sister in Christ say what you want about Peter but let's be honest my brother and sister Christ at the end of the day his trust in Christ was so great that he decided that he could walk on water and he must have because the good Lord didn't carry him back to the boat he must have trusted the good Lord because he said Lord I left everything for you I've got a wife I got a family I've got boats I've got Nets I got people that depend on me he's crucified upside down and for three days proclaims the gospel stand on your head for five minutes and tell me how you feel my brother and sisters in Christ our best players of people that trusted at their own Peril do you know what it must have been for the lady to go up and touch the good Lord's tassel when the apostles are all around him and the tassel is not in the bottom of your garment the tassel is up appear when the lady who's hemorrhaging is trying to get to Christ to touch him she's got to work through the crowd knowing full well that even though they told to get away they probably pushed and shoved her she works her way in just to touch a tassel for she knows that she trusts him you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ the same woman that touched the tassel is the same one that we come to believe now known as Veronica the one that took the veil and wiped his face if she doesn't trust enough to touch that tassel she won't have the courage to wipe his face and give us the veil that we still have 2,000 years later my brother and sister in Christ you know how much trust you had to have in God to give up your tomb and you were a Pharisee arthea and Nicodemus do you know how much trust you had to have in God because let's be honest as soon as the Pharisees and Sadducees and Sanhedrin know that you gave up your temple to God you don't have a 401k you ain't got a 2011 K you ain't got got a k you're on the lamb my brother and sister in Christ the same held true for long guess how much trust did you have in your well-being to stand up in front of everybody and say truly that man was the son of God my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how much trust do you have in him well I tell you what let's see my brother and sister in Christ can the good Lord trust you enough that when somebody comes to you and says let us pray pray that you will stand up and you will make the sign of the cross clearly and distinctly and make no apologies for being Catholic I've already been everything else my brother and sister in Christ for 1600 years and to the time of Martin Luther that's his real name for 1600 years you're either Jew or you were Catholic Catholic means according to the whole that if you Worship in one place you sing the songs you listen to the readings and you break bread The Acts of the Apostles you will no longer considered Jewish my brother and sister Christ will you stand up like the prophet Ezekiel said that the sign of the towel on your forehead will save you will you stand up can he trust you to do that can he trust you to break out the hell Mary oh that's right that's right you don't want to offend anybody but you have no problems offending her somehow another people think we adore her when we only venerate her my brother and sister in Christ if they said man tell me are you Christian would he trust you enough to say absolutely I'm Catholic my brother and sister in Christ if the good Lord can't trust you and I in the little things then how is he going to trust us in the big things in the world to come my brother sister in Christ do you understand that do you trust the sacraments to lead you from Redemption to Salvation do you trust the sacraments to get you in his church from Redemption to Salvation oh I see that's right one saved always saved well here's the rest of the skinny the Greek word for saved is soo so Zoo there's a past tense there's a present tense and there's a future tense and every time the good Lord said you must persevere to the end in Matthew and Mark's gospels my brother Christ he says You must finish what you started see because you can honestly say that Judas believed him to be the savior of the world held the dang man's money actually proclaimed him to be the Messiah and the last thing Christ says to Judas is you're the son of predition Satan entity better you never been born my brother in Christ so so much for one saved always saved you mean to tell me one saved always saved but you could kill adultery steal bear false witness cover your neighbor goods and spous oh that's right the Commandments are sticky notes I forgot that part my brother and sister Christ do you not understand do you trust the church enough not the powers to be the church herself her do you trust her to take you from Redemption to Salvation Redemption is the crucifixion salvation is the Pearly Gates how you and I get from Redemption to Salvation follow the seven signs that's why he showed up that's why he came Incarnation that's why he went into the River Jordan to get baptized to show you and I what it was like what needs to be done have you seen the River Jordan could you pick a more polluted river doesn't change the fact it's nothing more than a big ditch but the fact is he showed up and he did it in person he showed up in the wedding of Canaan my brother and sister in Christ are you trusting enough to go to follow the interstate you get on the interstate at baptism you drive a little bit further and guess what there's a towbridge where you confirm grab the word you confirm what your parents said of you that you believe in the teachings of the church you believe in Jesus Christ is the Messiah and you believe the Blessed Mother is ever virgin and guess what you drive down this interstate You may wish to get married we'll get in the carpool lane you may want to get in the bike lane that's where I'm at because we're all by ourselves and you can tell by the way we drive I digress you can pull over in the emergency Lane and man you can be anointed you got call boxes along the way you can talk to any priest and go to confession Hebrews 5 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves my brother and sister in Christ it's all predicated and built on the Eucharist and if you stay on that bridge and you get to the you'll get to a point where I'll come to anoint you I give you bread for the journey home I put oils in your hand to anoint you and we hear your confession and make you ready to stand before our savior do you trust the Savior enough my brother in Christ the question between you and I today is who do you trust please tell me that you don't trust what's going on in DC please tell me that you don't trust what's going on to the powers to be even in holy mother Church please tell me that you're not trusting the news well then where is your trust at then it has to be in him then it has to be in the sacraments do you trust him enough to believe in him that you will go to confession you'll go to adoration you receive the Eucharist you will attend maass do you trust him enough my brother and sister in Christ to Proclaim him publicly because he said if you do not acknowledge me in public I will not acknowledge you before my father here's the point if he can't do it in the little things we're not going to do it in the big things things my brother s Christ I'm telling you you got to learn to trust him you either all in or you're all out you can't be partial on this I can't pick and choose what I like I don't like this part you're either in or you're out you're either Catholic or you're not you're either part of the church or you are not you're either a follower his or you are not my brother and sister in Christ before Pentecost the batting average of the Apostles was about 8% that's right before Pentecost the batting average of the Apostles was about 8% only one out of the 12 only one out of the 12 said you're the son of the Living God Flesh and Bones and tell that my father in Heaven my brother and sister Christ only three of the 12 went with him if you will to the Garden even though all of them went three of them stayed next to him my brother and sister in Christ once Pentecost happens every one of them is martyred for Christ even they to boil John in oil before they put him on the island of Patmos so here you sit 2,000 years later who do you trust it's got to be an all day everyday thing it's not a sometime part-time thing do you start your day with prayer do you end it with prayer do you started at the meal do you ended it with the meal do you make sure that you Proclaim it when you go visit with people can the good Lord trust you enough that when it comes time to talk to others about your faith and about a belief in Jesus Christ that you will do it that you will defend the fact that she's ever virgin and stop passing the buck do you offend the fact that you have to go to confession you can't go directly to the big guy go back to Leviticus 5 and six my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you if we do not be trusted on the little things we will not be trusted on the large things and I leave you with the words of Mark Twain if you are honest you will be trusted and if you're trusted just be honest cuz then you'll never have to remember what to say amen amen name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please 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letters letters from God imagine a letter from God to you to me let's see my child you may not know me but I know everything about you I know when you sit I know when you rise I am familiar with all of your ways my child I even know the hairs on your head for they are numbered you have been made in my image you are my life you are my movement you are my being you're my Offspring I knew you before you were ever conceived I even planned your creation you are not a mistake your days have been numbered in my book I determin the exact time of your birth where you would live and to tell you my child you are wonderfully made I knitted you in your mother's womb I brought you there I was there yes I have been misrepresented by many some say I'm am angry some say that I am distant but I am pure love my child I've come to Lavish that love on you you are my child I am your father I can offer you more than your father could have ever offered you for I am I am the perfect father every good gift comes from my hand I am a provider that meets all of your needs your future has my stamp my child your thoughts and my thoughts of you are greater than the sands on the seashore I've never stopped doing good for you you are my treasure possession do you understand my child I'll establish in you my whole heart and my whole soul I have great things for you and I want to fill your heart with me I will give you every desire for I gave them to you to begin with I can do more for you than you could ever imagine I'm your greatest encourager you think you have troubles when you are brokenhearted I am standing right alongside of you I'm Like a Shepherd I've even carried you that way you're close to my heart one day I'll wipe every tear and I will console every heart I'm your father I love you as I loved my son Jesus I come to you today my child to tell you that his death was an expression of my love for you I gave up everything I gave up everything for you if you receive my son you will receive the Eucharist you receive me I've always been your father and will always be my question for you my child will you stay my child here on Earth will you remember my child I am waiting for you love always Dad almighty God my brothers of Christ did you know everything in that letter is scriptural everything is scriptural truly that's a letter from God you know but I wonder I wonder what Claire thought yeah when she got the letter from from Amy I mean she got a letter from Beyond I wonder what she thought when she got that letter from Amy you know what's amazing Claire and Amy were the best of friends I mean they grew up together they hung out together they went to work together they had to share the same cubicle but I wonder what they you know what's amazing they could get along on anything they could talk about any topic this that and the other they laugh have a good time well okay okay not everything Amy refused to speak to religion she'd become ugly condescending matter of fact she gets so angry at Claire she couldn't take it so I wonder what Amy thought when Clare became a nun I wonder what Amy thought when CLA became a nun Amy got married and then there was that tragic accident and then there wasn't long after that that CLA sister Claire gets a letter yeah after the fact a letter from Beyond to Claire from her quote friend in quote Amy Claire says one day she is in the convent and she's trying to go to sleep she gets word from her mother Amy has passed a tragic car wreck she said she can't sleep man she's man she turned her world she wasn't ready for it Amy's young they're the same age and she kept wondering I wonder what her judgment was like oh did she get a good one did she pass did did it go well I mean was she prepared she said I was so nervous I got up from my Convent went down the hall went all the way to the chapel and began to pray started praying the angelist the rosary came back it was midnight I'm staring at the clock I got anxiety I can't sleep and then I begin to doze off and I can swear I know it sounded like a dream or it felt like one but I'm telling you it was real it was tangible you can feel it I remember hearing a a bang by my door like somebody threw a book or something and I remember thinking she said that's just like it was when our boss would come into our cubicle Claire said that he would come in and he would throw this group of letters on our desk and said those are the troubled ones y'all take care of it it sounded just like that man I can't remember if I was dreaming or not I just remember going to the the door and I look and I'm standing out in my little Convent Down The Long Hall and I look down and there's there's this letter she says I begin to pick it up and I shake so much I don't even know what to do I recognize the print I see the S's and the t's and how Amy would make them and then all of a sudden man I just started backing up I mean I got nothing in my room but a chair and a little desk and a little bread to sleep and I remember just plopping on the side of my bed and then I began to read Claire exclamation point do not pray for me I am damned I don't tell you this out of friendship I don't love you anymore truth of the matter is I wish you were in hell with me all eternity don't be surprised that we think this way here we are petrified evil when we do something good to write this letter I do it with not good intentions we acknowledge no good to no one I wish I had never been born I wish I could have annihilated my SP I am being torn tormented my existence is like a piece of clothing reduced to ashes the entire blame is on me with deep reust unspeakable disgust I write these words to you that I absolutely hate prayer Mass Holy Water Church I detest each and everyone who goes to mass everyone and everything everything is a torment every recollection of my life is like a Burning Flame a bad movie we do not eat we do not sleep we do not even walk with our own legs we chained in Terror what our life was like we howl we Nash our teeth we scream are you listening Claire or you have already given up we drink water hatred like water we hate one another more than anything else we hate God you know the people in heaven look upon Him consistently lovingly caringly we know this this infuriates us the soul that hates him hates him eternally it can never be rescinded we don't want it to be that's why we're here we never want it to end and so it doesn't I write this letter cuz I am compelled I cannot lie to you as I would like to do it goes against my will do you know Claire I have to choke the insults to curse you out as I even write this letter yes he did show Mercy to me I guess he could have taken me home sooner but then I would have had greater chastisements the more you do the more you owe he allowed me to die in that proverbial car wreck I guess it was beneficial I would be deeper in hell if not the case we are not obliged to draw near to him he remains in this distant place it limits our torment to be in hell you know what's amazing every step towards him is like stepping towards a fire just like you would explain on Earth for the record I think receiving the Eucharist at the age of seven is detestable we prefer 12 that gives us a few more years to put mortal sin on your soul before you're reing please that little white God you know prayer to her we are not permitted to say her name she draws so many Souls away from the devil if it wouldn't be for her H I'm furious that I have to even write this letter to you Claire prayer is the easiest thing in the world to do God has linked salvation Salvation the Pearly Gates to a simple thing as Prayer by praying God gives you little bit by little bit you could be drowned up to your chest one prayer will get you where you need to be we no longer receive Grace here nor do we care to you remember all the ups and downs in your lives well guess that it's stops on the day of your death with death that inconsistent yes and no the rising and falling it all stops your state is unfixable it is permanent it is unalterable listen Claire you decided throughout your life how to act mechanically so will many of your friends in the last trimers of your will you will act like you did your entire life so you lived your life so will you die you think you have time to change you won't because you act on bad habits and poor discipline it is second nature that's how it was for me that's how it will be for you you know I never believed in the action of the devil but boy do I know the power that he wields few people are physically possessed most of them are spiritual he cannot possess your free will you know I do hate the devil just so you know I hate you too fact of the matter is we hate each other I do like him him and his helpers you know the ones that fell from the very beginning they cause all the loss of the world there are a myriad of demons there are so many they wander through the world like a swarm of bees and you have no sense of it you don't see it you do not feel it you do not comprehend it you do not look for it Temptation comes from them not me our torments increase every time someone falls into hell every time somebody we want to be tempted Falls we scream in agony even more I used to no longer believe in the Blessed Sacrament oh how I believe now I remember once I told you Claire that priest he's so black and white please I must confess to you quote God takes everything more seriously than the priest I must confess God takes everything more seriously than the priest I remember running to church that good for nothing priest praying that oh my ungodly Rosary all that other foolishness my donation to the church fire insurance I went to confession and communion because I had it to it's a formality it's just a relic a theory conjecture you remember that old deection of hell you go to the cemeteries and you look around the church in books you see souls in red and yellow fire with these longtail assistants Claire listen to me hell may be poorly drawn but it's not exaggerated I used to scoff at the fires of hell I used to joke when I lit a match under your nose smell like this Claire you blew it out but let me tell you it never goes out here you need to understand the good Lord minute literally depart from me you were cursed into Everlasting foul fire yeah I know what you're thinking Claire well how can it affect you you don't have a body well then how is it on Earth that a soul still suffers when one's fingers in the fire the soul that doesn't burn but the pain you endure the reason you feel it is because you have a soul it's not the body it's the soul don't try to comprehend it your friends will see it soon enough you know what our greatest torment is is that we'll never see God and just so you know CLA we don't suffer equally you're more malicious you're more frivolous you're more determined to sin the deeper you go the heavier the loss the greater you wait oh and for you Catholics you will suffer even more because you've been given the Graces you've been given the sacraments you had ways to get around it to get through it you know more you will suffer more the more malice the more suffering the more you deserve you know on my last Sunday Claire my husband and I went for a ride it was a clear morning all of a sudden man we came around the corner and these lights blinded us he swerved off the road the last thing I screamed was Jesus not as a prayer just as a screen and then everything went black Claire earlier that morning I heard it tangibly I heard someone say do you want to go to one more mass before the day started no I react as I reacted all along habits and discipline nothing changes on the day of our death as a result I clearly said no more masses my brother and sister in Christ I remember it was like I was in a theater pitch black the curtains opened up a light shined on my face and I watched my entire life pass before me including the proverbial no more masses and then I heard the invisible judge speak my soul felt like a sferis shadow into hell Letters From Beyond My Brothers and Sisters in Christ every one of those comments is a quote from one of our Saints Augustine Andel St John christom St Thomas aquinus truly a letter from hell we live in a world that we no longer afforded the option of what is coming you know what holds for you and I we have taken Christ out of the conference room the classroom the Board Room room we've taken him out of our homes and the house of Congress he's been mitigated so much I was I wonder how much he's even in our church with that being said scripture is clear one out of four will fall on good soil 25% our world will not get better simply because because we cannot find our needs the only thing that matters is your soul and the soul of your children and your families my friends in Christ I leave you with this the day of our Reckoning will come upon us sooner than we'd like to believe with that being said ask yourself whenever that day comes what would be better for you and I to receive a letter or to write one amen amen amen <\p>

questions questions my name is Colton I am four years old say what you will but I have seen Heaven I have sat in his lap so you ask me these questions how big is heaven you ask Heaven is a city and it keeps getting bigger and bigger what does heaven look like it is a beautiful place with lots of colors what type of animals do you see I see many types of animals the same here on Earth as I saw in heaven they are the same ones I even played with them and no I did not know how they got here are there many houses there it seems everybody had a place to go is everyone brothers and sisters I knew my grandfather he knew me I knew who my sister was even though I never met her I could distinguish my relationship from others Colton will we know people in heaven he said well I knew my sister and I knew my grandfather I called him Pop I even introduced myself to him like I told you I did not know them before I didn't even know I had a sister you know a lot elah and Moses they knew people on Earth too and people recognized them can you tell me Colton what Mary looks like oh I surely can she is the mother of Jesus she has dark hair she has brown eyes and she's taller than my mom she wears a dark blue Sash and there's a light above her Heaven her head that is radiant she seemed to be in her late 20s early 30s like everyone else in heaven Colton are their lights above everybody's head yeah they look like Halos to you and I do you really get wings in heaven yes I guess some choose to walk others choose to fly or they determined certain sizes he said it would seem so from the top of your back to the to the bottom of your feet he said Colton if you don't mind does the Devil exist oh he does he's real I got to see him twice he said you know he's got a lot of demons next to him he said and I actually had to seen two different ways he had he was a seven-headed dragon and that had many crowns like about 10 he is about half the size of Michael he has absolutely no light within him Colton can you explain what God looks like he said sure he's not a person place or thing it's kind of hard to measure that I do know this Gabriel looked like God the father as a matter of fact the colors of Gabriel seem to emanate from God the father as well he said is Jesus a big person he said he's big but he's not as big as Michael Michael's about twice his size Gabriel is about a little bit more than Christ somewhere in between but they're nowhere near as powerful as God is or as Jesus Is God here on Earth and he said well absolutely he said he sent the Holy Spirit seeing him too he said did you know that there are three people Father Son and Holy Spirit and he said even though you can't see him he's always with you my name is Colton and heaven is for real man my brother and sister in Christ questions nothing's changed in 2,000 years here's the questions that I get father are names important in the Bible absolutely what are the names of the couple in the Garden of Eden you are good Catholics the names in the Garden of Eden are man and woman Adam means ground Adama he doesn't resume his name till after he's kicked out the garden Eve does not get her name till after she's removed from the garden that's why names are important Jonah Noah me you names are important that's why we're accountable for our actions if you and I had stayed in the garden there would be no reason for names because there would have been no sin my brother and sister in Christ the question was asked well when he went to the tomb of Lazarus why does he say Lazarus come out and not just come out because if the good Lord goes to lazarus's tomb and yells come out then everybody in their tomb comes out because it's the second coming he called him by name because he only wants one person coming out of the Tomb father is there anywhere in the scripture you can tell me where I don't have to go to you to confession that I could go directly to the big guy nope Hebrews 5 I would choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is taken upon themselves was it in existence before the church got started absolutely Leviticus 5:6 you still had to go to a priest you just heard it in scripture I came to fulfill the law not to change it father can you tell me where there is Purgatory in scripture because I can't find the word anywhere it's an English word the book was written in Greek stop looking moreover if you would Philippians 2 every knee must been in heaven on Earth and under the Earth you've been in KNE in heaven because you're Before the Throne of God you've been a knee on Earth because you want to be Before the Throne of God nobody's been in a knee in hell if you had been you wouldn't be there to begin with if you go to books like Matthew 5 and Luke 12 the Jailer will take you and he will throw you into jail and and will not let you out of the prison until you have paid the whole amount you must settle with your opponent you know what opponent means in their language the devil Heaven can't be a prison I wouldn't you describe it that way can't be can't be held because you'll never get out what per what prison is he speaking to yes my brother's Christ Heaven's Hospital father I have a question does how many people have had the Stigmata since the time of Christ we believe about 300 St Francis was the first after Christ we actually have two priests today that have the wounds of Christ are they in their hands of their wrist most of them are in their hands and for the sake of argument because I know the argument is going to be well if they put it in his hands or in his palms that couldn't have supported him in the crucifixion they usually tie you to the crucifix usually around your waist and around your arms so that when you begin to violently pulsate because you're suffocating but when he talks to Thomas he does tell Thomas stick your fingers in my hands he doesn't say Wrist he's pretty clear about that with that being said father who closed the door on Noah God did you know why God closed the door and Noah didn't on the ark because when people come to knock on it to opening it and he recognizes his family and friends he doesn't want to be in a position to tell them no the good Lord doesn't want him in a position to be telling him no the good Lords shut the ark how many how many people did Christ God saved during the the saving eight eight people got saved so much for the Rapture the Rapture is counter scriptural by the way my brother and sister in Christ the question was asked on the seven days of creation when were the Angels created day one God created light Lucifer is the angel of Light do angels have free will angels have free will one time and one time only once they make a decision that they either worship God or rule in hell they can never go back Lucifer will always lie Michael will always tell you the truth is there any correlation about the days yes day one goes with day four two goes with five three goes with six God created the light in day four he created the sun and the moon and the stars he created time on day two he created the heavens and the Earth in day day five he created the Earth from the from the waters space day three the birds of the air and fish of the sea and then on day six creation time space creation everything Christ does everything God does is ordered father then why are there two days of different terms of creation why are there two different stories there isn't the sixth day is just a microcosm of how things played out on that day there are not two different stories of creation only one father is there a difference between humans and animals I don't know who wrote that one but I digress yes on the days of creation God said everything was good and then when he got to the creation of man he said it was very good that's right if Christ is a Jew then why are we here in the church okay spoken like a true Jew okay my brother and sister in Christ Christ is a Jew his mother is Jewish he's the Messiah y'all he came through the Jewish right didn't come as a Methodist didn't come as a Baptist didn't come as a Pentecostal and before you tell me he didn't come as a Catholic I would tell you make sure you finished the story there are seven covenants between God and man seven is the most complete number in the world seven days of creation seven years to build the temple his first one was in Adam then Noah then Abraham then Moses then King David then Christ himself and then Heaven every time you break a covenant he's got to bring somebody else into the game so when Adam breaks the Covenant he brings Noah when Noah breaks the Covenant he's got to bring in Abraham Abraham so on all the way down my brother in Christ when he gets to the Last Supper he says do this in sacrifice of me if I were to ask you listen to me do this in sacrifice of me those are his words memory is English it's not a recollection he wouldn't be telling you to do it if it was just a recollection do this and sacrifice to me no more Lambs that's the Jewish right we are now going to worship this way with bread for I am the bread of life I am born in the city of bread I born in a manger mang to eat this is why you need to understand this he start the Catholic faith at the Last Supper it goes public on Pentecost My Brother and Sisters in Christ you need to understand Catholic does not mean universal it means according to the whole that's right you've been taught wrong it became so popular became Universal but if you did these four things you were no longer a Jew but you were catholic if you gather in one place you listen to the readings you sing the Psalms here we go and you break bread you were no longer considered Jewish but you were catholic for 1600 years you're either Jew or you're Catholic one man comes in the game Martin Luther that's his real name before he changed it 40,000 truths in the world no way no how my brother in Christ the question was asked did Judas make it to Heaven I wouldn't think so the last three things Christ said to Judas you're the son of predition Satan entered you and would have been better you never been born did Judas partake of the Last Supper he was at the meal but we do not believe he partake of the body and blood soul and Divinity why because in the Jewish right between the second and third cup you will dip your Ard derve and hand it to somebody then they he left then the cup of blessing which is what we referred to in the Last Supper in St Paul the Corinthians is the cup of blessing not the blood we drink is the bread we break not the body of Christ he leaves before he partakes my brother and sister in Christ if everything in the mass is scriptural every thing in the mass of scriptural 14 things come from The Book of Revelations itself did Adam and Eve have a belly button I don't know I wasn't there I'm not sure the point would be but there in lies the point my brother and sister in Christ when you make the sign of the cross you are not blessing yourself you're asking the good lord to bless you why did they replace Judas and not replace James when he died Judas is replaced because he gave up his office one of the 12 James gave up his office by being beheaded in support of it that's why there will be no more than the 12 there were 12 tribes there are 12 Apostles why is the priesthood male because the church is female because it has to be able to reproduce it has to do with calling has nothing to do with Holiness and even less to do with location you can be as holy as you want to be Mother Teresa was right in so many different ways my brother and sister in Christ This Is Why on the crucifix he gives his mother to John that's right he gives his mother to John why because I'm leaving so John you're betr and Peter James John Nathaniel barthal with Thomas you too Father Mark don't go anywhere My Brother and Sisters in Christ the question had to do about the Pope's infallibility in 2,000 years only two in two proclamations have been made that were infallible Mary was born without original sin and she assumed into heaven Body and Soul everybody makes it out that every time a pope speak he speaks infallibly 2,000 years which is about one every Thousand Years there's only been two proclamations per se that have consequence those are that angel Gabriel told you hail full of grace he was speaking to her past tense which means from the minute of her Inception she was born without without sin he also meant at present tense that you can't have relations with Joseph why because Joseph has original sin which means if they have a child she's going to have original sin which means she would be no longer Full of Grace my brother's Christ she had to be assumed in heaven Body and Soul because death only enters you through sin and if she didn't die therefore she couldn't have taken on sin if I may digress one step further if you are a Jew do you know the Jews believe that he did not have brothers and sisters because according to the Jewish people you women can only live with your husband or your children your husband or your children you live with anybody else 40 lashes you're subjected to my brother and sister in Christ so for the good Lord to give his mother to John who is the brother of James and not related to him in that capacity he would have broken the law by giving her to John when he had other siblings not to mention he would have broke the fourth Commandment my brother and sister in Christ is missing Mass mortal absolutely do you need to know the Commandments to make Heaven yes you do St John says if you love me you will know my Commandments if you say you love me and you do not know my Commandments you're a liar my brother and sister in Christ those are the questions that I just wanted you to hear well now I got a question for you when the good Lord comes will you love him with your whole heart mind and soul oh no no no no listen what I'm telling you will you love him with your whole heart mind and soul you wake up in the morning you pray you pray before you eat and after you eat you pray before you get in your car and before you get to work you pray for you take that phone call email you pray on your way home you pray with your family before and after you pray before you go to bed you make sure that you go to the sacrament of confession you try to get to adoration you try to make Mass more than one obligation a week when you say you love him with your whole heart mind and soul it's kind of hard to do that when you're cursing it's kind of hard to do that when you're dropping the f bomb it's kind of hard to do that when you're doing travel ball kickball my ball your ball and you're not making Mass you break Commandments 2 through 10 you already broke number one so be careful when you say you love with your whole heart mind and soul my brothers and sisters in Christ missing mass is IM mortal sin bearing false witness against your neighbor the eighth commandment when you get on the internet email and text message is a mortal sin you start supporting candidates who for abortion you have committed mortal sin say what you want write what you want call who you wish doesn't change the catechism of the Catholic church this is a moral issue do you honestly believe that the good Lord is going to bless our endeavors when we kill his children well father you don't understand he's got a good Economic Policy Christ is supply and demand he is everything what are we going to say when he says where are my children well you don't I get you Lord hang on a second we got a good plan here the only plan you have is the one I've given you where are my children well you don't understand that no I do understand the problem is Father Mark you don't understand when you cast that boat for someone who's willing to kill his children then the sin is going come on me and you make no mistake about it go back and read the catechism around section 20 to 22 22200 we have a moral obligation to protect our children and enforce the Commandments My Brother and Sisters in Christ if we don't stand for this we will fall for anything My Brother and Sisters in Christ I'm not big into conspiracy theories I'm way too tired to get caught up in that but I do find it awfully coincidental ironic million to one shot that come this Tuesday there's also going to be a Blood Moon I'm just saying read what you want into it but I'll tell you one thing you better be a to answer the question do you love him with your whole heart mind and soul and will you keep my Commandments that's the Covenant we have with him if you are not willing to stand up and do that then please do me the favor and stop telling people you're Catholic because you're making it way too hard on the rest of us who are trying to do just that stick to your guns make the sign of the cross and apologize to no one for being part of the one true church amen amen the name of the father and the son holy spirit amen <\p>

interview interview with an exorcist interview with an exorcist in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of his holy mother tell me your name I am Lucifer I am the bright star I am the angel of Light the oblos I'm the slander I'm also known as The Deceiver the tempter the father of Lies I am the enemy I am the evil one make no mistake about it I am Satan I am beable I'm Lucifer when were you created he said I was created on day one that's why the good Lord said let there be light I'm the angel of Light describe yourself Lucifer he said well I am a spiritual being I was not created in equal evil I chose it I am condemned for all eternity I have no body I am not inclined to sins of the flesh like lust and gluttony but you are and I use it on you and is noticed in art that you were depicted as being very grotesque and animalistic is this true Lucifer responds absolutely we are more deformed than others we are an animalistic depending on how great you sin and how far you fall into the fire the more animalistic you become the greater you fall the greater the disfigurement are all of you the same no we all sin differently we all were determined by different intensity our root sin is pride and all other sins come from that we have our own psychology some of us are talkative some of us are mocking some of us are proud others are hateful some demons are more hateful than others is there a hierarchy in hell yes there is you had nine choirs of angels in heaven and when they fell they fell hierarchically the higher up the hierarchy the more evil and more subtle you are the more disfigured you become can Superior demons have more influence on lesser demons absolutely we can actually prevent a lesser demon from leaving an exorcism do you experience time like we do no we only react we always say before or after that's just so you know relative to you where we stand do you operate in this world very much so I am the prince of this world I control more than you think as a matter of fact I can levitate things I can move certain things but I can only do it if he allows it our powers are limited we cannot create Only God Can what do you do with your time we spend our time watching you oh but we do we can predict what you do with almost certainty what do you think about all the time he says we're very intellectual we hate you we hate God even more what language do you speak we do not we communicate interly by thought where are the demons he said we are everywhere we're like swarms of bees you can't see us we operate in a space because you see something move or levitate or see a possessed person that's kind of you know where we're located but we are everywhere we are not God that means we are everywhere in that we cover all space but we can get there in the blink of an eye do you know the future no we do not we do not know your free choice however we're far superior to you we can predict what you will do we observe you we follow you we watch you closely can you perform a good act no I cannot I have no compassion I hate everyone I hate God even more do you experience pleasure he said I do just like you do when you get revenge on your enemy it's a pleasure but it's filled with hate why did you fall I fell because I now had to worship a God that became human imagine I was created on day one you were created on day six and now I got to bend my knee before you and if that's not bad enough I now have to bend a knee before that woman I refuse to call her by name according to the Exorcist when he demanded that she pray he pray the our uh the Hail Mary it took him 45 minutes because he refused to say the word Hail Mary he said tell me will you exist forever in a certain sense I do it which sin is more powerful he said pride and lust can you cause a mental illness yes but only if God allows it can can you cause nightmares yes I can but that holy water goes longer than you think it's truly a detriment can you read our thoughts no I told you I'm not a shotgun artist I'm a sniper I wait and I wait and then I wait for the kill shot that way I can get you your spouse and your children oh I'm good at what I do can you influence Society can you influence Society oh it's our greatest power man I love tempting you to sin we certainly do work together as demons we actually strategize we concentrate our efforts on you and the entire Society we actually have divisive strategies you know very well you know very well listen to this that there are certain individ individuals who have the ability to influence Society because of their wealth Fame and Fortune we use the media we use the media because of that it's our most powerful tar tool we target all the elites that's right you heard it we influence the media he influences who you vote for who influences your country we target the elites we are never neutral if they're never neutral then you and I can't be he says we analyze every situation we focus our energies on political officials and candidates who are wittingly or unwittingly in favor of our goals yes we are well aware of prayer and what it can do a simple prayer the damage it causes to our plans to the media to our Elite yes we do fear it especially when you pray to her can we be tempted beyond our strength no the problem is is you don't call out in prayer do you have a plan when you're tempting us yes I want to tempt you at your weakest point when you least expect it when you think you are pride and powerful and that things are going well that's when I get you I know the probabilities of success again I'm not a shotgun artist I'm a sniper according to the Exorcist tell me is there a demon for every person in the world oh he said it's more than that according to padrio there are two demons in the world for every person that walked the Earth there's enough demons in the world to block the Sun and yes to answer your question because I have to not because I want to there are demons assigned to each and every individual what Temptations do you use he said the same ones we get you with all the time Pride anger gluttony lust aage sloth and envy why should I change you don't you fall for the same sins over and over and over again I went after man and woman the exact same way I went after Christ lust of the eyes I see the tree I want it lust of the flesh it will taste good it'll make me wise like God then when the Messiah comes in the world I tempted him the same way throw yourself down if you want it lust of the eyes you covered it I you will have it turn them stones to fle to to bread lust of the flesh you will taste good I will give you all of these kingdoms I go after you the exact same way does holy water bother you yes greatly it disturbs me are there any other objects that disturb you yes as a matter of fact fact a crucifix even though it hasn't been blessed tells me ultimately what my destiny is that's why you need him in your homes and in your rooms and at work I do not like the relics of the Saints because they tell me about all the ones that got away you know they do anoint those that bothers me too even though it's not blessed it bothers me but a blessed it item I know I know what's been blessed bless salt and bless water cause me great harm The Exorcist one day ran out of water he goes and quotes get lemonade He blesses the lemonade goes into the exorcism he uses the the the lemonade then he says what did you think of it it's stung because it's blessed but it's not water water's pure it's clean it brings about the baptismal right it's stung but nothing like holy water if you had to say what protects people from being attacked he said simple prayers he especially when you pray to that woman that St Michael's prayer he comes all the time he says you know that old man Padre Pio he's a problem too and for John Paul don't care for him either he said the fact of the matter is what's more important confession or exorcism he said confession is worth a 100 exorcisms you went to confession I can't get to you because you went there freely and on your own are you legalistic he said I am he said I have to follow rules if I want to possess a person I have to get permission then I have to get permission where I'm located in the body and if that's not bad enough he dictates how long I will stay he gives me a date stamp who are the demon of drugs and marijuana he said the name we go by is bakas are the Gregorian masses effective in getting our our people out of purgatory he said they're most effective because they're 30 masses in a row for the same individual very powerful glad you don't use them too much how do you gain entry into a person's life he said are you asking me who opened the door he said exactly Lucifer how do you get into a person's life taret cards chants hexes vexes triggers transes vows demonic blessings Ouija boards books movies wrong people people wrong place wrong time when you appear how do you appear to people he said I can adopt many forms all are allowed by God I can come as a dog I can come as a human he said I showed up to Padre Pio as her he caught me though he made the sign of the cross and I couldn't respond he said I even showed up to Padre Pio as Jesus Christ he said how did he know it wasn't you he said I didn't have the wounds he said how else will you come he said I will come as a moving Shadow I will come as a monster I will come as a dark colored person a man but oh I will come why do you hate Latin because it's the language of your church my brother and sister in Christ he hates you and the Very image of you mid Maiden Our Savior causes him to spit Your Name causes him to turn because you've been named by our savior he watches you and he's nothing more than a barking dog the problem is is that you stop and entertain him causing the sin to enter the equation he can do nothing to you but put that thought into your head remember the most expensive real estate in the world right here he can put a thought into your head you and I can and so can he you've never been seated at mass and a thought enters your your head and you're saying I wasn't even on that page I wasn't even going there who do you thought put it there ask yourself When the Thought enters your head where did it come from does it cause me anxiety and worry trepidation does it bring you peace my brothers and sisters in Christ he's after your soul go to mass go to confession receive the sacraments there's nothing he can do if there's ever a time to find your knees in our country and our world it's right now and I leave you with this the last question to Lucifer before the excus closed the uh the exorcism tell me Lucifer before I depart in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of his most holy and blessed mother what is your greatest gift that you do not believe I exist see you soon amen now if that doesn't get you where you need to be sit down for a minute you good I can't do anything else to move you now you want to know why the cell phones went off because that was what the homy was going to be about he works as he works friend of mine goes into an exorcism he's an exorcist worst job in the world he goes into an exorcism he wakes up he's running late traffic he's in Rome he's got to get across town he's you know this that and the other he's got a it's a major exorcism it's bebible he get there his phone's going off he can't get into contact he's running late he's trying to call him this that and the other he finally gets the exorcism start in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of his holy mother let us begin Lucifer Lucifer's first words how'd you like those phone tricks true story another true story priest brings in another priest into an exorcism he says when Lucifer comes out he is going to go upside you one side down the other he is going to go after you he's going to call out every sin you ever thought did might have thought could have thought he's after you do not respond do not show him anything do not give him any ground he begins the exorcism in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of his holy mother Lucifer I'd like you to meet so and so he goes up him one side and down the other he called out every sin he thought he did could have did forgot to go out everything he immediately shuts down the exorcism walks his priest friend outside hears his confession walks him back in Begins the exorcism yet again and says Lucifer who is this guy I don't know him he knows you by your sins one confession is greater than 100 exorcisms go to confession amen amen please stand <\p>

the boys the boys the year is 33 33 I have lived in Jerusalem my entire life I am a carpenter by trade I am a worksmith I help with anything from Building Homes if you will to shepherding to taking care of the roads I even work for Rome I do a little bit of everything I am a gentile now living in Jerusalem so I do not live within the city limits Jerusalem has 50,000 or so people but it's the Passover or so they say it's that meal they have it's about 250 300,000 maybe half a million people you see I live on the outskirts I Live Well I live near a mountain range oh that's right you call it uh Calvary we call it golgatha it's called the mountain of the skull you see I've learned now that that skull that we refer to is Adam skull that's why you see on the station over there the 12 station you see my brother and sister in Christ uh the skull at the very bottom that's Adam's skull we actually believe the crucifix was placed right on top of Adam's skull hence why he is the new Adam see I learned that as a gentile you see I am Catholic Oh yes you're either Jew or you're Catholic you see Catholic means according to the whole w o l a that if I worship in one place like I do with you I listen to the Psalms I listen to scripture and I break bread I'm no longer considered a Jew I have worked my entire life there I live in a 10 by1 house it's not much I'll be honest with you it's made of stone I did it myself my roof is made a thatched I only have a little bit of a bed I have a little desk for me to sit at a chair that's about it I do have a window no pains in it but you know what's amazing I love to sit up on the night on top of the T truth and I just stare at the heavens but I remember this one night in particular I mean it was so pristine and clear you would swear somebody painted the Stars they just it just they seemed to pulse it seemed to radiate it was so peaceful I'm thinking man this is truly a unique Passover I come down from where I'm at who's outside waiting for me John the Apostle let me tell you about John everybody likes John if you don't like John it's on you I bet you if you have as asked half the people in Jerusalem who's your favorite friend John would have been their God everybody loves John he invites me to the meal I said John I'm not I'm not Jewish and he said but just come so I go we walk down the road and the roads in in Rome Jerusalem are about 6t wide about the size of a railroad tie it's where we get it from as a result I go down the road and you can tell all my friends have pulled their animals some of them have them inside their little house that's why they sleep in a loft and the Animals downstairs we can't afford it we're on the Poor Side of Town they got their candles burning at the End of the Street about 100 yards away from my house is a twostory Almost White Al Bast house with steps on the outside we walk up the steps we go in and there's a table in the shape of a you it's why churches are shaped this way and as a result I remember thinking so this is a Passover meal and I remember thinking man how unique is this man John says I want you to meet the boys man we're not even in the room and then here comes in Nathaniel some of people call him Bartholomew he's the one in Scripture that the good Lord said there's no duplicity in him what you see is what you get he's an elder Statesman the good Lord even told him I saw you under a fig tree we believe the Fig Tree is the tree in the center of the Garden of Eden hence why they wore fig leaves you and I use an apple because the Greek word for evil an apple are almost the same thing Balon my brother in Christ I digress he comes in he has been married before his wife has passed he's now a follower of Christ of all the apostles everybody would they want wisdom they want somebody that's been in the game they want somebody that seems to be an even temperament that's Nathaniel then comes in Thaddius thus is every bit of a foot taller than I am he is a gu's guy when you shake thus his hand guess what you shaking the hand of God that's been out there he is a fisherman he is a shepherd He does everything well he does everything well little does he know he'll be speared to death his closest friend oh yeah it's Simon Simon is the one that'll come in shortly thereafter he is a black man actually and is actually he was a leer in his prior life his family disowned him he lost everything actually a man of means the good Lord cured him and you can tell he's got like little blotches but I got to tell you you want to talk about a motor you want to talk about somebody who's all in that's Simon yeah they sought him in half him and thus actually went into a temple ran out the demons when they come out the person that Worship in that Temple worshiped demons he decided okay spear this one and saw this one in half I'm thinking wow man what I've learned in all these years no sooner than they leave then guess who walks in my brothers CHR oh I forgot to tell you a Nathaniel they skinned him alive they tried to beat him to death and when that didn't kill him they just decided to skin him that's why you see him holding his skin sometimes in a statue Here Comes Andrew Andrew is the consumate introvert he's a total opposite of his brother man he is he's so glad to meet people he shakes my hand he's very welcoming unlike the others who are very much at arms length Andrew is an introvert and come to find out he's the one that told Peter we've met the Messiah he actually introduced his brother to the Messiah do you know he'll be crucified later he'll be crucified on a cross it's in the shape of an ex you know why Rome likes those crosses oh by the way they have about three dozen types of crosses that they use but whenever they want to feed the dogs oh that's right you see the dogs have to eat too they like the crucifix and the X which is why I wear this vestment because it's closer to the ground do you know he's on the cross for three days Andrew is Miracle after Miracle after Miracle when they tried to take him off the cross he refused he said you put me up here here I will stay and then I meet James the Lesser I got to tell you this guy's knees look like camel skin and I even asked John when he was walking in I said man you can't miss it what happened he says he says Mark listen to him when he bends to pray when you say hey will you pray for me he drops in the middle of the street he said I've seen him stop traffic I've seen him stop chariots i' he's been in the marketplace I've seen him drop in in right there he said he is the consumate prayer Warrior he's the one just so you know James the Lesser he's lesser only because he comes later in time they brought him up to the Pinnacle in one of the turrets in Jerusalem it's about 250 ft above the air this is where the devil brought the good Lord and said I'll give you all of this same Temple area they pushed him off when he wouldn't deny Our Savior you know the fall didn't kill him they beat him to death now I know you probably know James right John's brother but I got to tell tell you when you meet James he's like John just in a different way he is a little more standoffish in other words he wasn't like John embracing come visit man you got to meet him he Embraces John but I got to tell you he shakes hands but it's very at arms length who are you why are you at our meal and I got to tell you he'll be the first to be beheaded in the year 44 he's a Roman citizen so he'll have the option to choose how he goes you know what I like about James what you see is what you get that's why he's one of the big three that's why he's at the Transfiguration that's why he's in the Garden of Gethsemane my brother and sister in Christ he's even at the wedding of canaa after him you know who we meet of all the best Apostles the greatest personality you never guess Thomas yeah he misses the memo doesn't make the meeting like you and I would have agreed that Christ came too he actually has to stick his finger in his sides and his sides in his hands you know what's amazing the weekend before Easter Sunday 10 of the Apostles cuz let's be honest Judas isn't there and neither is now if you will Thomas they're locked they're in a locked room they didn't believe either my brother and sister in Christ he had to breathe on them for them to even understand he was present he has got the greatest disposition if they when they go out two by two everybody wants to be with him that's how everybody loves him and just so you know he'll be speared to death in India oh and by the way when they went to see Lazarus in the Tomb the other Apostles didn't want to go back with him why because they were afraid Christ was going to be speared to death Thomas was the one said I'll go back and die with you huh nobody remembers that line may I remind you be careful what you say we'll hold it over your head till your dead my brother and sister in Christ man after I met him then I met Phillip Phillip is the consumate uh Nathaniel's friend Phillip is married philp also ran a demon out of a temple a snake that's what they worship the king didn't like it because he worship snakes he actually pulls him out crucifies him albeit upside down upside down my brother and sister in Christ Matthew the consumate intellect he knows all the languages he knows money he knows denominations he knows people he knows Rome Roman hates him because he's a Jew Jew hates him because he's he takes care of Roman money you know what's amazing even the apostles struggled with him until they figured out how valuable and how interesting he actually was he was the consumate intellect he will be beheaded as well he had the choice he's a Roman citizen oh and let us not forget Mias who took Paul's Place oh excuse me judas's Place Paul is not one of the 12 he's an apostle in that he delivers the good news the fact of the matter is push comes to shove he's beheaded as well do you know this my brother and sister Christ every Apostle had to be a firsthand witness you had to see the blind SE the lame walk the dead rise you had to be aware of the crucifixion you had to been there at the resurrection you had to be there the Ascension the reason Mias is chosen because he's a firsthand witness and if you want to know why the apostles are important because if you can't get back to the apostles you can't get back to Christ that's the problem you see if you and I lived in the time of John like I did if I want to know what Christ did I go to John or James or Nathaniel or I go to maias or I go to Paul I go to Simon brother and sister Christ that's who I go to here we sit 2,000 years later if you can't get to the 12 you can't get back to Christ there are 40,000 Fai in the world 39,999 cannot get back to the 12 if you can't get back to the boys you can't get back to Christ that's why we're one holy Apostolic Church my brothers and sisters in Christ you know what's amazing about the 12 and including John himself they will try to boil John in oil and when that doesn't kill him they put him on the the island of Patmos and just so you know about 15 years after Christ died so about in the year 4045 before the Blessed Mother assum is as assumes into heaven she gathers the apostles and they pray the Creed she asked each Apostle to come up with one line one immutable truth 12 lines 12 Apostles this is why you and I pray the Creed cuz we are one holy Apostolic Church my brother and sister in Christ she wants it so when they go out into the world that they will proclaim the gospel remember this it's Peter lonus Cletus Clement evus Alexander Tells over highness all the way to Francis I can tie myself to Bishop Munch Bishop Munch can tie himself to John Paul the great and John Paul the great cane himself all the way back to Peter my brother and sister in Christ when people ask you tell me what you Catholics believe I am begging you just give them the Creed it's everything my brothers and sisters in Christ I will read the Creed to you or pray it with you and then I will give you the name of the person who said it for example my brother and sister in Christ when the good Lord is with the apostles who do you say that I am did you know that they're actually in a valley near cesaria of Philippi and up on the wall are all the gods that's right all there's like eight of them all up on the walls all up in the mountain you can still see it today so who do you say that I am Elijah John the Baptist Jeremiah my brother and sister in Christ it's Peter that says you're the son of the Living God and what does Christ say Flesh and Bones didn't tell you that my father in Heaven is it no coincidence that Peter has the first line that Andrew who invented who who introduced him to his his uh to the Messiah his brother to Messiah has the second line all 12 lines delineated by the guy who said it I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth St Peter and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord St Andrew who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary James the Greater suffering under pontious pilate was crucified died and was buried John's the only one at the crucifixion he descended into hell and he rose from the dead on the third day my boy Thomas he ought to know he missed the meeting he ascended into heaven and a seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty James the Lesser from which he shall come to judge the living in the Dead St philli I believe in the Holy Spirit Bartholomew the Holy Catholic Church the communion of saints St Matthew the Forgiveness of sins St Simon resurrection of the body St thus and life Everlasting St maias my brothers and sisters in Christ I'm begging you to learn the Creed My Brothers Christ my humble apologies I only left out one Apostle Peter yep my ears will be burning for the rest of the afternoon I promise you this is what I want you to know about Peter Peter is married his wife's name is pereria we do not believe they have children we do believe he adopted later on you got to remember this Peter's name is always listed first Judas is always listed last Peter's the one that does the Miracles Peter's the one that breaks all ties Peter is the one that decides whether circumcision is valid or not Peter's the one that rails Paul in if needs to but at the end of the day he's the one that becomes the Vicor of Christ my brother and sister Christ he is crucified upside down his wife pereria we'd believe either died that day or that week with him right everybody's part of it I got to tell you my brother and sister in Christ if you and I would have met Peter in the year 66 versus the year 33 what you and I would have seen was two totally different men you think Jame John Paul was a great Pope and he was I can tell you he would have PED in comparison to the vicer himself amen amen <\p>

thank you thank you doubt doubt it's a million to one shot I mean pure coincidence no way no how it's just one of those things leads to doubt circumspect we're not sure we begin to take a step back my brother insis in Christ it's uncanny it's a million in one shot it's unheard of the coincidences pure coincidences between President Lincoln and President Kennedy I mean Lincoln is comes president in 1861 and then Kennedy becomes president in 1961 is it amazing that both presidents have vice presidents named Johnson is it it's a coincidence right that I mean both presidents were shot from behind with their wives with them it's amazing it is think about it Lincoln the guy that shoots Lincoln shoots him in a theater runs to a warehouse the one that shoots Kennedy shoots him in a warehouse runs to a theater Manan it it's got to be a miror one shot because Lincoln is actually the The Carriage he drove was a Kennedy Carriage link uh Kennedy was in a Lincoln Continental yeah and you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ both men were shot from behind both assassins were assassinated and they were both assassin ated on Good Friday see doubts already creeped in it's a million one shot you honestly believe that the good Lord looked down oh oh my me it's it's a m Peter get Thomas you're not going to believe watch watch it look it's 100 years what look what happens My Brother and Sisters in Christ that is exactly what that gospel is about I do not know him wait a minute you're three months older Mary comes to your house with Elizabeth and Zachariah the high priest you dance in the womb he's your cousin and you're telling me you've never seen him before that's exactly what he's telling you he's saying the last time I saw you was in the womb and the only reason I danced is because the Blessed Mother entered with a greeting first intercessory prayer as soon as that's over he goes to school we say the Wilderness but there's a school out there called the athenes they are um celibate men who are dedicated to the temple they do not belong to the Pharisees or Sadducees they are very strict they are unshaven they have certain eating habits when they're outside of their compound Locust and wild honey they often times wear a beard that's why you see sometimes St Joseph with a beard so they're very strict order he's saying I didn't know him until he walks up and then I see my brother sister Christ look listen what I'm telling you John the Baptist recognizes him by sight when he sees him he feels it it's the essence it's the understanding and just so you know you're a first century Jew you need to understand these things as soon as you know this when you hear the words that the heavens were opened it's not like the clouds parted and it's a beautiful day it's skismo Schism in their life somebody tore it open then a dove descends then the God the father says this is my son who I am well pleased that's how everybody comes to know but John the Baptist knows before him he's telling you the reason I know him is because I was baptized in the womb now I've come to recognize him now I know him by sight no doubt about it that guy is the Messiah my brother's Christ now stop as a first century Jew here's the problem everybody's looking for a messiah but the problem is who are you looking for to some it would be a warrior somebody that can bring the country back together cuz it's fractured some people are looking for a political guy who has the the ways and the means some people are looking for Pure money that he's just got the ability to s s simply just purchase it and make it happen and then there's another group my brother and sister in Christ that have no idea who they're looking for the fact of the matter is you know what they're looking for they're looking for Moses Deuteronomy says it Moses says it in the book he says you got to look for somebody like me I'm going to take you out of slavery what does Christ want to do pull you out of the slavery of sin I'm going to bring you into the desert and bring you Mana which is blessed bread from heaven and then Christ says I'm the bread of life oh stop stop my brother and sister Christ if they had blessed bread from Mana that fell from the altar of God if they had it blessed ours cannot be less than it can't be a relic or Theory or conjecture it has to be greater then the New Testament always is greater as a matter of fact Moses is going to say I'm going to bring you to a new Promised Land the good Lord is going to tell you I'm bringing trying to get you to heaven and by the way Moses is saying there's going to be a new Temple Christ is saying in three days they'll destroy the temple and I'll raise it up they're looking for the wrong guy they're not looking for somebody who's going to be poor born in Bethlehem with no sandals and no roof over his head they're looking for the wrong one but it doesn't change the fact that it is true my brothers Christ look go back in scripture Our best players are the ones plagued with doubt why does Mary Magdalene get up on Easter Sunday she'd rather be in near a dead savior no listen she thinks he's dead her words even confirm that she's dead when she gets there and the rock is moved she sees Christ thinks he's a gardener and says Where have you laid him I.E where did you take the body to go bury him yet again and when he says Mary she says Roni do you know she grabs him so hard in Greek she literally tackles him do you remember the words that he said he said do not touch me for I have yet to ascend to my father so listen to what I'm telling you when he tells the good thief on the cross this day you'll be with me in Paradise no doubt about it he's not in heaven or that day because the good Lord hasn't gotten there yet he just told Mary Magdalene 3 days later I have yet to get to my father so I want to erase the doubt of Abraham's bosom where is Moses Elijah John the Baptist Jeremiah St uh St Joseph where are they before the gates are open Abraham's bosom the Garden of Eden the Garden of paradise that's why he says this day you'll be with me in Paradise our best players are play with doubt but it didn't keep Mary Magdalene from doing what she needed to do that's the point just because you have the doubt doesn't mean you stop doing what you're doing my brother said Christ longus if you had to start a city and you're a Roman provincial you're Caesar you're pilate um you're Herod that's uh King herod's son my brother and sister in Christ if you knew that the first guy you want is longinus everybody respect Ed longinus he's the one in the battle that led everybody to safety he's the one that made sure his troops got fed and they did what they needed to do he was the one that made sure they got the supplies if you're going to be in a foxhole longinus is the one you want next to you so when he makes the statement truly that man's a Son of God can I tell you there must have been doubt before cuz why else would you make the statement he learns it through the crucifixion that's the only time he's confronted with him for him to make that statement is erasing the doubt do you know about 6 months to a year later he's beheaded by the same guys that he protected why because pilate said man I want his head on a pike guess what his head goes on a pike my brothers in Christ I tell you these things because doubt is creeping into your heads and I need you to stop it before it grows too far you start to question whether the church is true think my brother listen to this I I don't care who the manager is I don't care who the management or the pontiff is per se I don't really care per se what the President says or doesn't say the only thing I care about is what you do and what you say it's your soul I'm worried about you know the truth don't get caught up in all this rhetoric you know the truth no doubt about it the church is true do not get caught up in the management what they say or don't say the only thing that matters is is that you know the truth TR because it's going to be your soul what what's going to be our card on Judgment Day you think you're going to stand up before the good Lord and say well not my fault Francis go talk to him go talk to Biden somebody needs to might as well be you you go talk to him my brother sister Christ that's your judgment is your judgment so what's your whole card that's my problem is you allow doubt to get in and you start the question because of the pedophile issue the homosexual issue uh males so therefore because it's it's in it's in the church therefore it's all contaminated you know better than that my brother Christ you can't allow doubt to come in go back and think let me let me put to you this way my brother Christ if you and I lived in the time of Christ and we hear he's crucified we don't make it to the crucifixion but you have friends that want to be converted you have questions about the faith who do you go to you're going to look for the 12 Peter James John Nathaniel what if it's the year 66 and you find out that they're all dead less John what are you going to do now you're going to go find John do you know there are about 10 pontiffs from Peter before John departs who do you think those 10 guys went to to break ties who do you think those 10 guys went to to make sure this was done right my brothers in Christ I can tie myself back back to Bishop Munch Bishop Munch can literally tie himself to John Paul II and from John Paul II I can tie myself all the way back to Peter here's my point you can't have 40,000 truths in the world today that's insane my brother in Christ every time you and I would worship with Christ in his day no matter what city we're in Jerusalem to cesaria Philippi to seia Galilee we all worship the exact same way my brother and sister Christ the good lord gave us a rule book to follow and the rule book is the holy mother church and the teachings of the mass I'm telling you there is no doubt about it I've already been everything else I mean at some point I even made it up because it's just easier I mean I like once saved always saved I mean what the same hell is that I mean I just I can sleep around do what I want cheat on people taxes backstab and all I got to Proclaim is to be the savior of the world I mean are they the Ten Commandments or the 10 sticky notes did you did wrri him with your finger didn't you big guy I mean you did it twice so my point to you is why do you allow doubt to creep into your heads why do you worry about going to confession father I just go directly to big guy the big guy never said it he never did it didn't baptize anybody either for that matter Hebrews 5 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is taken upon themselves so why is it that you feel that you can still go directly to him what's your whole card when you see him I just felt I could did you read my book did you study the scriptures did you not read Hebrews 5 my brother Christ go to confession throw up and put it walk away every Sacrament has an outward sign Thomas so that you know it took place water hit your head so you know your sins are forgiven you wear white so that your soul can be seen as I see it when you come to communion you chew the host when you get anointed after Mass I put oil in your hands you go to confession you hear your sins are forgiven my brothers Christ everything in the church is true just because you don't like the rule doesn't mean it's not applicable my brother in Christ how many times do I hear people say well father I'm it's contraception I got to tell you we we want children but we really want them on our terms and we're not we financially we're not ready is he the god of supply and demand or is he not is he omnipresent or is he not are you going to take children when you're supposed to because when he wants it and he wills it did you you not sing the psalm today your will be done my brother and sister in Christ there in lies the point you make a little exception here in about a year from now it's going to be this wide the question for you and I is you got to get the doubt out of your head how many times do I hear you proclaimed to me father I'm praying for my daughter my son they can't get out of the woods oh my God forest for the trees man it's drugs it's alcohol it's this it's that it's the in-laws man I pray for him but look nothing's happening I tell you what no prayers cut them off that's it no prayers everybody go home now watch how far everybody falls your prayers kept them from falling all the rest of the way into prison not getting out committing a crime possibly maybe even suicide my brother in Christ I'm telling you when the devil plants the seed of Doubt what he does is he festers it and grows and pretty soon it starts leaping and you make exceptions to the faith I'm telling you stick to your guns I promise you listen to me I promise you your prayers are being heard the answer may be no it may be not right now if our job is to get to heaven and he's the God and he's the one that controls Heaven shouldn't he be in a better spot to determine what works for us so maybe the answer isn't no isn't right now or maybe the answer is yes you ever thought for a second that the reason he keeps telling you know is cuz that's the only time you ever come back to him you ever thought the reason he doesn't answer your PR prayers right away it's cuz he'll never hear from you again if he does you ever thought for a second he just loves being around you so much that if he keeps telling you no for at least a little while he'll see you more times than not because once he gives you what you need he won't see you till you need you him again my brother in Christ I'm telling you stay close to the church more now than ever before if there's ever a time to double down on going to the sacraments to receive in the Eucharist remember his words to you my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink and if I'm not in you and you are not in me you do not have eternal life I don't care how you count this by you don't go to mass your chances of making it are negligible say what you will but the Eucharist is the source and summon of Our Lives keep holy the Lord's day there's only one thing holy and it's in that Tabernacle that's why you got to get married in front of him and not on the beach and not in somebody's home because you got to be in front of him that's why you and I have to receive him because it's all we got I'm telling you do not allow the devil to get in your head my brother and sister Christ I leave you with this may the devil pull it out of your dead hands when you're through doubt or not you finish what we started a poor prayer prayed is prayed nonetheless that one prayer that you want to stop praying because you're tired and frustrated that's the one that's going to win the day my brother and sister in Christ doubt kills more things than failure ever will amen amen amen amen there you go father son Holy Spirit now that I work myself up into a frazil please stand once again I'd like to thank my mom and my family for clapping God bless y'all please come you know what's great about having your mom with you she's 91 is that matter how bad your homy you think you did it's always the best one ever okay I just thought I'd share that with you <\p>

than saved saved my friends in Christ it's the early 1930s and I got to tell you there a lot of things about Alex but none greater than his intellect and I got to tell but his family's that way yeah he's born in Scotland that's true he moves to Canada that's true ends up in Boston massachusett equally true him and his family small family but I got to tell you if there's a pick of litter it's Alex he's kind of like u in a way he's just got that menah IQ people come to him he's 12 man he's 12 years of age and people are coming to him to solve problems that's all Alex really cared about he loved kind of saving the day if you will quote and quote he said he just likes helping so theoretically not honestly a guy comes to him and says I have a farm I've got massive amounts of wheat I have no labors but I've got to get it shooked I got to get it clean I got to get it to Market he gets with Alex he's 12 and they come up with kind of another version of the cotton gin which had paddles had nails and its ability to shuck the corn the wheat as well get it to Market much faster much quicker works great he's 12 y'all man he know C he could have been 14 years of age when a neighbor comes to his dad and says look my daughter my daughter would love to learn how to play the piano and he says why don't you get with Alex and Alex said man I don't I don't know play the piano he says well you help him Alex well he did learn because he could learn by just through his ear so he teaches through that for the young lady to to learn how to play the piano it gets even better there's someone down the street there a deaf person man she comes to her dad says man we can't communicate with the neighbors we can't communicate at work he said man get with Alex he's 14 Alex comes up with sign language my brother sister Christ the guy's brilliant man then about it could have been maybe 15 years later he gets a visit from a friend that's now working for the Navy and he said look I've got a problem the Navy wants us to build boats and they wanted to be able to get up over 50 miles an hour and Alex said you're not going to make it 50 m hour on the water you got to get the boat out of the water the friction of the water against the hall you won't make it the way we're going the motor would be way too big and he said so what do you suggest he said well we're going to take the motor off the back we're going to put it in the middle of the boat we're going to lift the boat up out of the water and put like a pontoon so we can cut down the volume of what that's in the water yeah you and I probably that's right we called it a hydrofoil today well man he called it the hd4 the Navy comes out they are all in and they said why did you call hd4 he said well the first three sank true story he said that's why it's hd4 next thing you know and he saves his best invention for La his friends an electrician about to to go broke he says man I just I can't do it I'm not good at wiring houses I'm not good at doing this that and the other he said man you got to think bigger than that Alex told him you got to be able to he said man you got to be able to to do more than just run electricity turn on a light he said what are you saying you got to be able to talk to people so he said man he runs the wires he puts him on wi into the house and he says man Watson come here who am I okay there are no taxes for this side of the congregation right here I'm going to tell you that's right Alexander granell my brothers Christ it's the battle the point of saving people about being saved that's that gospel remember this if you forget everything else if they ask you Catholics are you saved I was the crucifixion I am as I sit here and talk to you today for the last words off of my lips to his ears is him and then I hope to be I was I am I hope to be because you and I have free will that's what you need to remember my brother and sister in Christ once saved always saved unfortunately and regrettably it's a popular myth it's a lie my brother and sister Christ remember this when you and I speak we speak in past tense present tense and future tense so when you read scripture you need to make sure you read it in the right way the good Lord did not speak in English he spoke to his Apostles in Aram he spoke to some people in Latin if you're major major city and to others he spoke of Greek here's the issue the Greek word for saved is soza if he was speaking past tense he would have used like um like somewhere around like Matthew 10 he would have also used Romans 10 he would used acts 4 in other words I Proclaim Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Savior and if you say it on your lips you believe it in your heart it is true that is present tense my brother and sister in Christ if he said you talked about no other name will be saved other than the one who died for us Jesus Christ he was speaking past tense every time the good Lord spoke in future tense of being saved which is like like Mark 16 somewhere up in there Matthew 10 my brother and sister in Christ listen what I'm telling you every time he said you must persevere to the very end listen to what I'm telling you you must finish what you get started The Ten Commandments are Commandments they are not sticky notes they're not guidelines or suggestions my brother and sister in Christ This is why he's telling think for a second Judas carried his money proclaimed him to be the savior of the world actually walked with him and pointed him out as the anointed one and the last three things Our Savior says to him been better you never been born your son of predition and Satan entered him what chances do you think he made Heaven if his last comment to him was it been better you you never been born that would be like you taking a test and walking in and the teacher telling you you know been better you never took that test you think you passed he's two words away two from being St Judas I'm sorry my brother and sister in Christ what makes the good thief make it to Paradise the Garden of Eden the Garden of paradise this day you'll be with me in Paradise Can't Be Heaven because the good Lord doesn't Ascend into Heaven till day 50 which is Pentecost my brother Christ why do I tell you this because once saved always saved can't be true because that means you can you can do what you want to do you know what you can sleep around you can cheat you can you can do wrong by people and you honestly think you can break the 10 suggestions and still go to heaven my brother and sister in Christ regrettably last night my mom was here so that whole comment about sleeping around did not go well last night can I tell you it chewed up our whole NCIS show why was we were visiting my brother and sister in Christ what I'm telling you is is you can't break the Commandments and don't think there's a price to pay that if you want to be saved you got to finish what they got started why does he tell the good thief this day you're with me in Paradise what doesn't he tell the other thief because he doesn't make it my brother and sister in Christ you got to finish what they started that's the whole point I was I am and I hope to be my brother and sister in Christ which you you need to understand is at the end of the day you and I are accountable for actions St Paul says it to the Corinthians you will stand before me and I will judge you everything you did with your body both good and evil the catechism of the Catholic Church on the day of our death the nanu second that you and I pass there is no more Mercy only judgment remains this is why I warned you my brothers Christ it's how you live from the day you come into the world to the day you go home it's nothing more than one big test you and I have to follow the seven son look the good Lord said man it is so easy I'm going to give you a road map all you got to do is follow the seven signs from Redemption to Salvation they are not the same thing they're not spelled the same way they do not mean the same thing Redemption is the crucifixion salvation is the Pearly Gates how do you and I get from the crucifixion to the Pearly Gates just follow the seven signs you get on the interstate and I got to tell you what a beautiful Interstate he built for you and I it's so easy you get on the on-ramp that's baptism you go a few steps further and there's a confirmation uh like a towbridge you confirm what your parents said is true that you believe she is ever virgin you believe the Eucharist is true you believe in the teachings of mother church and guess what as soon as you go through the tow Bridge say you get sick well man pull over an emergency Lane and allow me to to visit with you man say you want to get married well get in the carpo lane maybe you want to get in my Lane the bike lane think before you do that then there's call boxes along the way you can stop and talk to a priest and go to confession whenever you want the whole thing is built on top of massive pillars called the Eucharist and guess what you get on at baptism and right before you get to the Pearly Gates I'm going to anoint you my brother and sister Christ all you got to do is follow the seven signs this is why your one saved always saved is a lie do you do you know the average tenure of a Protestant in a church the average tenure they stay in a church about a year and a half to two years maximum why would that be because one saved always saved therefore I don't need to go to service because I'm already saved I don't need to pay you 10% to always for you to tell me yet again I'm saved my brother s Christ this is why you and I have the sacraments to make sure we stay on the road this is why we have confession to make sure you get back on the road this why we have communion to let you know that you're built on the right foundation this is why he said if I'm not in you and you're not in me you do not have eternal life he didn't say it with a caveat all you got to do is spell my name all you got to do is say my words all you got to do is acknowledge I'm the savior of the world if I am not in you and you are not in me you do not have eternal life the only way that happens is the Eucharist the foundation or the bridge that he built between Redemption and salvation my brother and S Christ I'm telling you the best way to make sure you make it is humility humility will win the day it will drive you to your knees as Lincoln once said for I have nowhere else to go and I tell you what I I tell you what let's do this let's take a test yes I think we should being that I don't have to take it and you do that's the best part about this so there are 10 questions you have to get eight out of 10 right this isn't okay this is Louisiana 5 out of 10 is usually passing I know that 6 out of 10 you're an honor student seven you skip College go right to your job that's correct so my brother and sister in Christ here we go now remember when I ask you the question rhetorically you have to say 80% of the time that is true for it to be true and you have to get eight out of 10 right let us begin are we humble enough not to complain when someone else is recognized for our efforts okay you're going to take that one I know you are I just you okay I get you are you humble my brother and sister in Christ or do you argue every time because you must win every argument yes or no don't give yourself credit for that come on now do you have to have the last word every time I mean it may be a scream it may be a curse it may be a look it may be a gesture it may be a grunt there you go see what I'm talking about are you humble enough to turn the other cheek how often do you complain do you complain more than you say thank you man I don't know including myself I don't know who lands in that category when we give money do you do so without letting other people know do you not blow your own horn do you give excuses for anything and everything when things get messed up are you humble enough to just stop offering excuses and just take the hit do you say when somebody congratulates you do you say thank you or thank God are you humble enough to say you're sorry instead of giving that left-handed compliment I'm sorry you feel that way that's a sin in and of itself are you humbl enough not to offer your opinion even when it's asked for and last but not least are you humble enough to say you're sorry even when it's not your fault my brother and sister in Christ I don't know where you ended up but I know this Lincoln made a great statement one time the war had come to an end and his Council had gathered around him and when they started out I don't know if you know this but they told Lincoln that he looked like an ape and they thought he was The Village Idiot those are their words not mine at the end of his tenure before this is like a week before Ford's theator they sent around and every one of them around the thing said something so positive they said you know Mr Lincoln if it hadn't been for you it hadn't been for you we hadn't won the war next one came up it hadn't been for you Mr Lincoln man we' have never got rid of slavery you know if it hadn't been for you Mr Lincoln our country would have been torn in two you know Mr Lincoln it hadn't been for you man we would not we we would not have a national currency anymore we'd have two separate currencies you know Mr Lincoln if it hadn't been for you and he said stop why do you say that and they started to say something he said no you need to listen he said none of that is true he said the only reason we were successful is because our Lord God in heaven more importantly I was driven to my knees for I had nowhere else to go go my brother and sister in Christ this is important for me that you understand that that it's about humility and on a lighter note I'll leave you with this I understand my brother priest father Mitch and it's a regrettable story and it's it's a terrible rumor started by somebody who actually saw it happen the whole K whip thing first of all the the can was only half fa my brother and sister in Christ true story father Mitch and I have decided that we've had enough of one day so I go to Mitch and say we need to skip class I've had okay stop get past all that okay just I'm 40 something years old the average age is 25 I'm sitting in a philosophy class come on now at some point good I love y'all but we got to go okay so I catch father Mitch before the Bell Rings for the for the class and I said man Mitch let's go get a beer he says man man I said Mitch this isn't the time for that I said it's a beer Mitch okay so we have this elaborate scheme sneak out the back go around the building get through the fence go over another fence oh yes because no you know you don't want to get caught like y'all don't know I mean really I mean I know most of you already okay so man we're sneaking lo and behold there's a little place across little Pub so we're just going to go get a beer there is no traffic none until the minute we break out between the bushes it's one of the nuns we're walking across the street and I just I'm thinking what it's a million to one shot and Mitch he's he's pretending like he don't even know me he's he's he's saying should we run should we go let's go back I said Mitch we're already busted at least have the Beer Brother let's just finish but it looks like I'm talking to myself because Mitch keeps walking so we get our beers we got true story next day announcements come out about noon speak comes on such and such you got to remember M so and so you're serving so and so this and seminarian beard I need you to see the DEA students and that was it and I look at Mitch ain't nobody said seminarian Mitch you need to go see the DEA students like he's invisible man I go to the den dude it's true story he walks in he says uh he said man I need to talk to you I said okay look stop what what you want to know he said man you skip class and I said father I did and I have to tell you I needed a beer I can't stand philosophy we spent a whole hour talking about the word be b i n g the fact that you paid a man to teach this is beyond me but I can't take it anymore it's the end of semester I'm tired I have a headache I needed a beer and he says well the problem is sister caught you and I said I know and I said wait a minute I'm sorry you said what now he said she caught you and I'm thinking I'm going to go down and Mitch is laughing I get up and I said look he said I take he said s be do me a favor just don't get caught as I'm walking out and he whispers to me and tell Mitch too okay true story please stands so he's not as innocent as you think my brothers and sisters in Christ <\p>

thank you thank you thank you salt salt as in salt of the earth are you worth your salt the year is 2004 everybody that is going to the Seminary by and large about a 100 young men or about 95% of them are the age of 20 to 23 there are about 10 of us who are over 40 they refer to our part of the hall as the geriatric Wing we thank you everybody is kind of worth their salt because they've been to a junior Seminary they've learned different things they understand theology better they understand liturgy better uh they may understand the workings of well of the church the catechism quote in a day end quote but for those of us who are change of life guys you kind of got to prove your salt so my first class that I'm involved in is philosophy ouch first class I show up with my legal pad I don't have a laptop I came from a business I had administrators I had secretaries I had Finance I had this that and the other I didn't need quote a laptop I did everything on legal pad I show up to my first class in philosophy there's 20 young men in there all the ages 20 to 22 and they got laptops the teacher walked in says my name is Dr Jacobs and today we're going to learn about Bean Yeah Boy Bean b e i n g and I remember thinking oh my God we're GNA burn a day talking about who I said what's worse is we're going to pay a guy to talk about this all day well he says this is how it works when test time comes I will give you 50 words of which I will P pick 25 they will be definitions and then you'll have a couple essays by the time the final comes can I tell you I am at the line of not passing I'm there you pass final you pass you don't pass you go home he says I'm going to give you 100 words I will pick 50 so that means you got to memorize 100 as you know one of the greatest blessings is the ability to memorize so I memorize all 100 he said and then we'll have a couple essay he gives us the 50 definitions of the test I'm sitting right in front of him right got the class around you and then he has these essays I know you know he knows I'm not getting anything on the essays I read the essay I'm not even sure what language that is I'm looking at it I'm saying I'll take the other 50 words I memorized and just stick it in there hoping one of those will pop up in the essay as a result of it I go through the test man I fill it out man I'm telling you my brother and sister Christ I'm in trouble I go back and start counting the points that's two that's four six I ain't getting nothing for that I wouldn't give me anything for that answer I'm there I am two points short I know of passing this class I'm not taking it again it was painful enough the first time I ain't going through this skin I'm not going to be the first seminarian to fail day one of semester one as a result of it I add up the points I'm in trouble I'm looking around these guys man they're oh my gosh I mean it's just non-stop except the guy next to me who's my age I look at him and he looks at me like don't look over here brother there ain't nothing happening okay he looks at me like if we going to cheat this is going to be the time to do it right here you know that little angel that's on your shoulder that says okay you're in the Seminary do right okay and then the devil's in my ear yeah you're going home this afternoon you better cheat okay so I'm trying to get this Angel off my shoulder right so finally I I can't take it I said uh Dr Jacob uh are you going to have a bonus question he looks at me this is a master's program you don't get bonus questions said oh okay and I said so he says really you want a bonus question said yeah think it would help you know so he said let me I'm going to think about it so I put my pen down so he just looks at me and I'm thinking look either you're going to help me or I'm going to cheat I'm we're getting out of this class okay well man he finally says okay seminarian beard by this time now people have stopped what do you want I said how about five quotes you put the quote up we guess the person now think where I'm at like I'm thinking about um you know do not you know um do not shoot till you see the whites their eyes or I have not yet begun to fight right I I'm I need two two points I know it so he puts up these five quotes and I look at him and I'm thinking I look at my buddy and he said I don't know nothing I said I said so uh are you going to have a word jumble over here on the other side he says he said are you kidding me a word jumble I said yeah you know well you kind of got to match the words with the statement you know he just he's he he can't believe what he's hearing and he says I'm going give you so he puts out Socrates Plato St Augustine it didn't really matter right I know August is not the philosopher per se so as a result of such he puts these quotes one of them it's pure Augustine you it's I prayed it was pure Augustine so I write the name Augustine and then I put Socrates and all the other ones now you know where I'm going yeah you're right see you're catching on you are worth your salt there you go and just so you know the young guy behind me keep going I need the help keep pushing keep pushing keep pushing we need more than five I'm thinking really right so he he takes it I hand in my paper I'm sitting right there he gets right he grades him in class and I watch him and I'm counting two four six8 10 he gets to the essay he looks at it and he looks at me and I'm kind of you know he gets to the end and then he y' it's Priceless he gets to the the bonus section he looks at it he gets it he looks at it he looks at me and I went he said yeah I said yes I passed yes my brother and sister in Christ that is worth your salt my brother and Christ that's exactly the gospel is the good Lord saying are you worth your salt or should I throw you out and you get trampled underfoot now let me tell you why that's important to the Jewish people to the Roman people to the apostles in their day you men work for Rome and the way you were paid is in salt this is where we get the Latin term salary salario so if you were going to battle you would be paid in salt because paying you in money is irrelevant because there's not a stop and go along the way so you could use your salt to preserve your food which is obviously important or you can use it to purchase a slave this is where we get the term are you worth your salt because you're giving up a food preservative so from the ma from a a male standpoint in Roman society they get it to the apostles there was a guy by the name of Elisha who used blessed salt to decontaminate a well that well today still runs clean 2,000 and something years later so he's telling his Apostles are you worth it or are you not now next time you look at a Last Supper painting you know the one where all the apostles are getting a photo op so they all get on one side to eat right if you look closely at the elbow of Judas he's knocked over the table salt that's where he's going with it so my brother s Christ all of our best players in scripture are those that are worth their salt but they didn't start out that way so for case in point Saul to Paul look nobody wants to help Saul as a matter of fact when he's blind anaas doesn't even want to go cure it the good Lord has to appear well I won't say appear but in that many words he's actually got to tell annias you go to Second Street and you need to cure a guy named Saul you know what anas's argument is to God I don't think you want to do that that guy kills Christians I cure him he sees he kills anas we leave him blind he said go do what he's got to do because he'll be a great oror for me the Gentile church he goes from Saul to Paul you want to talk about somebody worth their salt that's that's Paul I mean let's be honest we stoned him so bad on his one of his first homes they thought they left him for dead number of the ships that he gets on they all sink and let me tell you he was in the drink one time for 24 hours and then when he finally gets to the island of Cypress grab this he goes to get near fire and a Viper bites him that's the measure of the resolve he's worth his salt my brother and sister in Christ you and I can say what we want about uh Mary Magdalene but she has all seven demons nobody in scripture has that she's worth her salt my brother Christ you and I never speak about Peter's wife her name's pereria by the way man she's got gay well because if she doesn't agree with what Peter's got to do he'll never become the vicer of Christ man she's got to be able to take care of herself now she's got to be her own Fisher person if you will she's got to take care of the house he's got a couple of boats it's all on her because he's got to start traveling you know she's mared in the same day we believe or at least very minimally the same week my brother Christ that is what it means to be worth your salt it doesn't matter where you came from it's where you go from this day forward so now here you and I sit 2,000 years later are you and I worth our salt well let's see or when you tell somebody I will be there you're going to be there because you gave your word you were going to be there you don't care what happens in the world you don't care who calls you the email or text message you said you were going to be there you're showing up are you going to be there when you tell them hey look I'm going to call you later and that will happen your word is your bond my brother Christ I'm begging you do not get caught up in the world where you get caught up in the contractual things for example I I wouldn't I would like to help you at work but according to my job description that's not me or as a matter of fact worse I'm sorry I don't get paid to do that now we've tied our name to a decimal point the last guy that did that is Judas you know how things ended up for him it would have been better you never been born quote end quote to Judas my brother in Christ when you give your word that's your bond we can have 10 Wall Street attorneys write a contract but it's only as good as the signature on it it's only as good as your word if you what if somebody comes to you and says look I got something to tell you don't tell nobody else this is between you and I is that where it stays no matter what happens what's gets said who comes to you or what gets proclaimed it's not leaving your lips cuz you gave your word CU you're worth your salt that this will go down my brother and sister in Christ when you tell somebody you're going to go by to see them you make a point to go see them even though if it inconveniences you that no matter what else is going on in the world when somebody stands in front of you are they the most important person in the world the one in front of you are they the most important person of the world or are they not mother uh Teresa was right the one in front of you is the most important person in the world and so when they asked her mother you going to change the world she said yes one person at a time she gave her word she was worth her salt my brother Christ she has no money and all she brought to the the table was sacrifice God so loved the world I sent my son for the sacrifice of many when you tell somebody you love them you've told them you will sacrifice for them this is why the good Lord is hammering on Peter Peter do you love me well yeah yes Lord Peter do you love me well well yeah I love you Peter listen to me do you love me Lord oh my God you're in front of the Apostles you know I love you well someday they're going to take you where you don't want to go upside down and for 3 hours you'll proclaim the gospel that is a man worth his salt when you go into a conversation and you walk away will people say now that goes a disciple of Jesus Christ man when you sit down to pray regardless if they call on you you make the sign of the cross everybody in that table knows that you're a good Catholic you're a good Christian that that is a disciple of Jesus Christ you are either worth your salt or are you not that's all that's going to matter please tell me that Napoleon bonapart was right in this issue is the only time that you give your word is when you're not going to keep it my brother and sister in Christ are you or are you not worth your salt amen amen amen the name of the father and the son the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

last penny very last penny careful careful when you open your mouth you're going to be responsible for what comes from it careful careful what in leaves your mouth for you will be responsible for it it's 1970 and it's an absolute beautiful day in Louisiana I mean it's September October I mean it's it's the humidity is next to nothing I know it happens twice a year I get that it is absolutely a beautiful day the sky is beautifully blue with a little bit of whisper clouds here and there it's got a slight breeze and I am working for my family we are we build sewer plants my brother easy does it we build sewer plants for people for communities up and down the east and west coast and we're just getting started and I am working at a plant that has about I don't know let's just say over amount of couple of days whatever a million gallons of sewage and I'm telling you it's about it's about the size of our church and as a matter of fact I'm about this high up off the water as I am to you you and my father's out there we only have a few people working with us and we're doing some tests and we got to get the sewage from the tank that we're in to the big sandbox so that we can work on our equipment he puts one man next to the brush rotor which is like a big airator which a big Paddle Wheel keeps the sewage moving gives it air he said no matter what happens any mistake happens you kill that switch somebody Falls in you kill it cuz otherwise man they're going to fall in the ditch and there's only one way to go toward the Paddle Wheel he tells the other guy anything happens you make sure and pulled our equipment out so make sure and tie it off he tells my brother you make sure that if anything happens while your brother's up on that platform you pull the plug don't let that pump run everybody got their job he said son you're the youngest I want you to walk out on that I beam you've seen them he said I want you to go out there I want you to pick that pump up I want you to start moving it and as it pumps out of there within the hour we'll get it all cleaned out fair enough did I tell you it was a beautiful day I'm telling you the wind's blowing it's got that breeze and you can you can actually feel a little bit of the water from the paddle wheel well kind of water stuff and man I am moving and pump and life is good and then for some reason out of nowhere the top of the pump comes off it is an oil DK of sewage it's 40 ft in the air it's about yay wide and I'm telling you I'm on top of it it is raining stuff I it is filling up my boots it has filled up my pants my pockets it is now in my shirt it is coming out my collar it is going everywhere it is raining so hard in this little 10-ft area I can't even see out to yell and man all I can hear is and my ears are vibrating cuz there's so much sewage packed in my ear that you cannot hear it is I'm telling you they got things on me I've never even seen before we got tomato seeds watermelon seeds got cou seeds I got hygiene product wait minut what you getting all upset with it was me man I'm telling you I don't know what to do and I see the mo the rotor gets killed I see this and I look at my brother he's so busy laughing he is boiled over he ain't pulling the plug I decided I began to yell I opened my mouth so when somebody tells you it tastes like I know you may not but I do and I can tell you man as soon as my mouth open to curse him from the very beginning of creation man I realized the biggest mistake in in my life could you have just shut up man I I just start running it's the WWF all over again my dad's got to pull me and my brother apart the pump is still running cuz my brother is still laughing my dad finally gets everything settled down my brother in Christ I've got more Pharmaceuticals on me than I've ever seen in my life I there's hygiene products I couldn't Define there's seeds I've never seen my hair is already dried it looks like a little planet my dad looks at me and I decide to walk off he said where are you going son I said well he said you're not going to get any dirtier just and I'm thinking wow and then he says the good news and I'm thinking what possible good could be of this he said you got a tan that will last all summer Dang if he wasn't right my brother and sister in Christ careful careful what lead leaves your mouth because you're going to pay until the last penny that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ can I tell you now we got to remember this where Christ is in the world okay no he's not at a super plant which would be very appropo he's saying you remember the Big Ten Commandments well now I'm telling you they're a little tougher you heard it said that you shall not commit adultery but I tell you it begins with love L you heard it said that you should not bear a false oath I'm telling you it's better that you don't even curse your Yes means yes your no means no any other adjective is a sin hence cursing is a sin he's saying you've heard it said that you need to keep the Commandments and I'm telling you it's better you don't even get angry and lose control he said cuz at some point you're going to pay for it so it's better that you say absolutely nothing now stop stop you're a first century Jew these are the things that you need to understand when he said I'm going to throw you I'm going to turn you over to your opponent in their language means antidot he says I'm going to turn you over to the devil and then I'm going to try to get you to settle up with your brother so it's better you settle up with him before the devil shows up with you in front of me to accuse you of all the wrongdoings which he's going to do he said and then I'm going to throw you into prison and I'm not going to let you out which the only place that could be is Purgatory because hell if it's a prison you'll never get out more importantly it can't be heaven cuz why would you describe it that way the Jews believed in Abraham's bosom where do you go before the good Lord opens the gates Moses Elijah John the Baptist Jeremiah there's Purgatory oh yes they do believe in it and it is scriptural begin with Philippians 2 and then all of a sudden there's hell itself now to a Jew gehenna is what they call gome it's a it's an area just south of Jerusalem this is how it works in their day if you worship pagans and as pagan gods like we do a lot today and you offer up your children for sacrifice you would go down to this place and it would be always smoldering it would look like a big like a lava pit of sorts like a volcanic ash that was still bubbling they would offer their children up there and so they believed it was two fold gehenna could either be the Gates of Hell or the purging depending on what your sin was of purgatory so they see it as both end that's why he's referencing it because they got a visual of it the same way you got a visual of what a sewer plant was like more or less my brother and sister in Christ there in lies the point careful careful what you say because you'll pay the last penny you will not enter my kingdom till you perfectly clean so when people say I've accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and I'm saved present tense that I can still break the Commandments I can still cheat and do what I want to do caught up with pornography drink too much alcohol drugs this addiction treat people wrongly dishonor my parents and not go to mass it's all a lie for every one of those Commandments you break I'm telling you the holy spirit will be watching I told you that back in um at the very first reading right I I told you again at St Paul and I'm telling you now careful what leaves your mouth because I'm going to hold you accountable for it look our best players our best players for example in the Garden of Eden their names are man and woman Adam Adam means ground and they don't get their names per say till after they're kicked out of the garden therefore Adam resumes his name and Eve picks up her name she is woman in the garden if God is giving everybody a mulligan and that one saved always saved then why didn't Adam and Eve get to stay in the garden why'd you kick them out I mean Moses was in the desert for 40 years oh my God 1 million people you think we complain look in their world 1 million people and you know of the 1 million people that got caught up in the desert how many eventually make the promised land two they stay in the desert 40 years for everybody who worshiped the golden calf has to die off if they didn't get a mulligan if Moses doesn't go to the promised land because he hits hits the The Rock if you will twice if Adam and Eve get them all again then why do you and I get one we don't there in lies the point so what I'm asking you to do is to be guarded about what you say and what you do so for example you're driving down the street and it's a beautiful day I mean the birds are chirping you got the right song and the music and the guy in front of you has now been turning for six blocks I mean that blinker has just been going and he's driving like it's a beautiful Sunday afternoon the problem is it's Monday do you drive around him and give him the look that's on you my brother and sister in Christ do you drive them around and kind of give them a gesture that's on you and I does somebody drive around and give you the gesture and then you in turn tell them they're number one my brother and sister in Christ how do you respond when you get that email from that person that you never expected it from what about you get that text message or you get that that call or you get that letter how do you respond to that just because somebody throws garbage at your feet nobody told you to pick it up I don't understand why would you want to sin with the same person that you don't care for to begin with and if you really don't believe what other people think of you and if you really don't believe what other people think of you then why do you care what they think of you why would you even commit a sin to the person that you say it does not matter the truth of the matter is what other people think of you and I as none of our business there's only one person that cares Mother Teresa was right people are unreasonable illogical and self-centered so why are now we taking counsel with them when you go to work and they start asking to do things that are not in your job description are not worth your money then why are you complaining about it you're a good Catholic that's what we do you're not defined by who you are my brother and sister in Christ I mean I'm as a professional you're defined by whether or not you're truly Catholic TR to the Catholic faith I'm a good Catholic businessman I'm a good Catholic teacher I'm a good Catholic this I'm a good Catholic like that at the end of the day the nanc listen to what I'm telling you the nanc you die all that goes away Nothing Else Matters there's only one thing on the plate now judgment Mercy takes place from the day you came into the world until the day you went home the only thing left is Judgment you're not judged by your 401k which is probably a 201k you're not judged by your resume you're not judged about your job the number of people you had the camp your golf clubs your game whatever you're only judge by your actions therefore why not take counsel with it now my brother in Christ when you get that phone call coming home to pick something up man you just offer up the sacrifice you get in the line at Walmart and there are 500 people and two checkout people why are you shocked you know that's how it's going to be anyway you knew that walking into the door my brother Christ why do you get sideways when the same people call and you keep thinking how could that person possibly be made King does it matter you already know that been made King why does it get you upset when the President says something and you know he has not the capacity you think he's going to get better without praying for him my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you the only thing that matters is how you and I respond be careful of what you say for tomorrow you may have to eat it my brother Christ be careful of how you think and you act can I tell you just to pause pump the brakes for just a second so therefore you don't say something that you're going to spend the next two or 3 days regretting that You' even said anything now we spent three days over a 22nd issue the fact of the matter is you may have some regrets oh I wish I would have said this or I wish I'd have done that well don't worry the devil will give you another chance to do it my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with the words of all people Captain Jack Sparrow yeah what um golly Captain Jack Sparrow he said you know the problem isn't the you know I practice that I just want let you know that the problem isn't the problem the problem is your attitude and reaction to the problem amen amen amen name of the father and the son holy spirit amen please stand and for the record the tan was fantastic for the next year they know that <\p>

internally strong internally strong scripture calls It Meek you and I think it means weak it means just the opposite it means internally strong and I got to tell you you know what I like about Joseph it Joseph's ability to persevere to take a hit and to keep walking is second to none I mean okay granted he's from London England it's probably probably the 40s and 50s 1940s 1950s now he's a London England boy and they live in the suburbs familyes very Catholic there's three children he is the middle child and in those days I mean you dressed you dressed theart so man he's got the U the little knickers on with the high socks the shoes got the little tie work with me that's what he's wearing okay and so his dad asked him to do a favor and I got to tell you his relationship with his dad is everything so when he says will you run an aand for me he can't get there fast enough I mean if his feet touch the ground that's a miracle in and of itself so his Dad gives him a note and says look I need you to go to the superintendent uh the Chief Inspector chief of police if you will I need you to give it to him and wait for his response so he goes He Man he can't he is so thrilled he's going from his father to the superintendent to Chief Inspector and he's given him a note waiting for a response I mean he could have given a any of his children well man he gives it to him the the superintendent the chief reads it takes it says okay he says follow me well Joseph doesn't know and Joseph's nickname just for the sake of argument is spotless lamb spotless lamb that is where he is in the world his dad is afraid that if he makes one mistake he'll run off the reservation so they go and he follows the chief of police he opens a door that's massive like a dungeon door he looks and man I got to tell you Joseph looks down that Hall and there's nothing but cells all the way down he says follow me he walks him to the all the way to the end he gets the last cell he walks him in says get in he gets in he closes the door behind him doesn't say a word locks it walks out shuts the dungeon door he said man Joseph just stood there his whole world is crumbling he's there for 10 minutes y'all that's a lifetime as a result that big dungeon door opens he hasn't moved a spot he's still two feet inside the door he is just standing there shaking quivering he comes in he opens the door and he says this is what happens when you break the law remember that man he bolts out of there he gets home and his dad says you needed to understand this because someday you got to be internally strong enough to take hits well I got to tell you you know how it is one thing in life sometimes can man it changed his landscape and sure enough it did he had every phobia known to man right so you can imagine claustrophobic right you fear of closed in places had vertigo he had a thing called I think it's heropom which is uh the fear of like many people he had xenophobia which is like uh being around strangers he had the fear of being robbed he had the fear of being around people that that he just scared to death of like agoraphobia y'all he would literally run from Street post to Street Post from light to light and he wouldd always look behind him even up in his age he gets a job working at um a telegraph office in a newspaper and then all of a sudden he starts writing these stories Hollywood catches it sends it to him and says man we want you to come do your stories so he flies all the way out there thinking man this is my 15 minutes of fame and they said man you like my stories and they said no we like your phobias and he said well what do you what do you what are you saying he said well we're like e phobia so we want you to write stories about eup phobus so he does and he starts writing them you know what the movies become popular man it was dial in for murder Spellbound North by Northwest psycho the birds man my brother is Christ Alfred Hitchcock trust me it's it's Alfred Hitchcock my brother and sister in Christ he says when one thing later in life I don't know if you ever watched his movies but there's always some scene he does something he's in every movie one scene he'll be sitting in a wheelchair in the background and all of a sudden you see this guy get up and walk that's him you'll see him do things that are out of the ordinary and when they talk to him he says you know what want it for me is that I realize that I got to do what I think is I got to be true to me with all of my phobias this is who I am right wrong or different internally strong that's my brother Christ is exactly that gospel the good Lord is asking you and I are you internally strong enough that when everybody says something and it's evil that you will continue to do good even when you're confronted with evil my brother in Christ he's saying you will never overcome evil with evil you will only overcome it with good therefore you need to be internally strong with that being said now you need to stop and understand you are a first century Jew listen you are a first century Jew an eye for an eye comes from around the Book of Leviticus and exodus in their day this is how it worked out somebody blinded your uh your slave you would go blind their whole family somebody broke your slaves arm you break everybody's arm somebody does something to your family you take out an entire family Moses implements the rule an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth because it was too excessive on people acting like they wanted I IE rules now my brother and sister in Christ an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth the rule is this if somebody if your bull gets out and he Gores somebody in another family they have the choice maybe you knocked out an eye maybe you broke an arm you can either do that to them or their slave or you can get 30 pieces of silver sound familiar it should see Christ they offered 30 pieces of a silver for a broken slave that's why Judas only pays 30 pieces of silver because Christ is quote broken end quote my brother and sister in Christ that's the rule back in their day and all Moses is trying to do is saying he can't be excessive it's got to be the rule you got to be internally strong enough to handle it now stop listen if there's one person in scripture who's far more internally strong than most everybody else it's him 29 years he walks with Our Savior the apostles only spent three years with him so for him to come in the game for 29 years that's he dies when Christ is 29 for him to come in game at the age of 33 and depart in his early 60s remember this about Joseph when he has betr the Mary I tell you what put yourselves in Joseph's shoes your wife comes home and she's pregnant and your answer is she's too holy I know it can't be of another man I'm going to leave and be seen as a deadbeat dad so that she will not be scourged or stoned to death as per Deuteronomy how many of us would have played that card think about it she comes home pregnant he doesn't even have a conversation he's packing his toys and he's leaving because he knows it's got to be about him and not her and he knows that it's got to have something to do with above cuz she's way too holy I will be seen as a dead be B that that is internally strong you know what's amazing his whole life is that way my brother in Christ he's so internally strong that when he would build a table for you and I he would build it go to you and I who asked for the table and then ask you how much do you want to pay for it some would try to cheat him some would pay him what it was worth some would say I'm not paying you at all do you know he would never argue with it internally strong I'm going to do what I have to do because it's the right thing good over evil what it must have been like when he finds out from an angel that Herod is coming to take Mary and his wife flee to Egypt how many of you and I would pack up our toys flee to another country and not complain one time man what are you talking about what do you mean we're leaving I got work here I got a house here not one word gets married and a child and flees to Egypt My Brother and Sisters in Christ when they lose Christ in the temple for 3 Days let's be honest you and I lose our car keys we're taking a hostage with within minutes you can't find your cell phone you're going to have somebody call your phone to make sure you can find your phone my brother and sister in Christ they lost the Messiah for three days he never says one thing to Mary like really you lost the Messiah my brother and sister Christ not one comment he didn't even make a comment when he found him in the temple that is internally strong now here you and I sit 2,000 years later how internally strong are you and I my brother Christ when they talk about hitting you on the right cheek that means I have to backhand you in other words it's a verbal assault so therefore he's saying when they backhand you then you got to give them the other cheek he's not saying be a doormat make sure you understand that he's saying do the right thing the right way if it's the right thing the wrong way it's a sin if it's the wrong thing the right way the end doesn't justify the means it's still a sin right thing right way you can be upset but you cannot lose control he said when somebody bad mouths you give them your other cheek you know what's amazing did you listen closely he said when somebody ask you for your tunic give them the second one that's not what he said his actual translation is when they ask for your undergarments yeah good luck with all that didn't give them everything don't even argue over that issue my brother and sister Christ how good are you and I at turning the other cheap how good are you and I in making sure that good overcomes evil how good are you and I are keeping score I tell you what let's take a test I know you like taking tests so do I and you know why I like them because we never do well with them so let's do there are going to be seven questions this is Louisiana so if you spell your name right you pass I digress you have to get all you have to get five of the seven right the answer is always yes you can't be sometimes yes sometimes no could be sometimes however here we go when you get into an argument are you internally strong enough not to raise your voice when things start to go south yes or no when you're in an argument are you internally strong enough not to shrink your letters to four-letter words moreover GD or MF My Brother and Sisters in Christ when you get into an argument are you internally strong enough not to make it personal swinging a mess okay my brother and sister in Christ do you have to have the last word because you are keeping score and you just got to have the last word are you internally strong enough just to walk away my brother and sister in Christ do you have to win every argument are you internally strong enough to walk away before the sin gets too deep my brother and sister in Christ are you internally strong enough that if something happens at work you don't come spew the Venom at home or Worse something happens at home and you go back and spew it at work so now everybody knows what goes on at your house cuz nobody ever goes back and said we made up nobody ever goes back and said we made restitution nobody ever went back and said man I was wrong my brother and sister in Christ and last but not least are you internally strong enough to say you're sorry if you weren't wrong to begin with my brother and sister in Christ don't you understand this is the whole game St Paul's warning you and I you will stand before him and he will judge you everything you did with your body both good and evil my brother and sister in Christ every word out of your mouth every text message every email every correspondence every communication ask yourself one question just one am I walking towards him or away from him in everything you do you are never neutral the response you made because they made you mad my brother said Christ because somebody threw garbage your feet nobody told you to pick it up they commit a mortal sin you feel like you need to add to your list my brother said Christ don't you get it when you get into an argument or you get somebody makes you sideways or somebody steals something that belongs to you or your idea or concept nobody gives you the credit when you've deserved it how you respond is just the point are you internally strong enough to understand that it all boils down between you and him and nobody else did Mother Teresa not tell you and I people are unreasonable illogical and self-centered forgive them anyway did she not tell you when you were honest people are going to cheat you be honest anyway did she not tell you that if you are happy people will literally be jealous be happy anyway did she not tell you that if you happen to be successful you wi false friends and true enemies succeed anyway did they not tell you my brother and sister in Christ that you got to give the best you have you got to give till it hurts because it was never between you and them it's between you and him anyway the bottom line is are you internally strong enough to walk away my brother and sister Christ do you not understand he's trying to tell you that people are going to come your way you're not going to overcome evil with evil it's only to be done with good my brother Christ I'm begging you remember you are never neutral you've got to internally strong enough to know that their best response sometimes is none it speaks volumes internally strong amen amen amen amen name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

Catholic Catholic you know I guess it's about the 1970s and Neil would tell you he's a Massachusetts guy he is one I think of about six children and he would tell you that his life for the most part was pretty good uh his family owned a kind of a hotel motel and they would do well with it not great but he said when was asked in an interview what was what was school like for you he said man in grammar school they called me the headster the headster he said my head was so big it it was out of proportion and he said man I was just I was Maul it was ridicule he said I get to high school the body kind of portions out a little bit and then he says I become probably one of the better athletes he becomes Mr High School blonde hair blue eyes nothing's changed and as a result of it man he starts to get good at what he does Syracuse University comes gets a scholarship he goes there he does finish and he says something happens to him along the way right he says man I just he kept thinking about this time back in grammar school and grade school where I played the uh Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of odds so I decide this is what I want to do but his family warns him his dad warns him goes you got to remember something he said man Hollywood doesn't bode well for Catholics he decides notwithstanding so he goes he gets in a movie called Sasquatch huge hit let's that's right okay and if things can't get better he gets in another one called Angels in the Outfield and then when he gets involved in that one he he starts getting involved in things like uh Justified he gets in Desperate Housewives I think he's in Yellowstone you know it bothers me that you know that he's in Yellowstone but I digress on that issue he was um he was in Walking Tall with the rock okay this is going to be a miserable death I can see it I can feel it right my brother and sister in Christ okay his name is Neil McDonald no no his name is Neil McDonald okay hang on one second just so we don't ever make that mistake ever again there that'll go in my black Bart file which means don't ever pitch this guy ever again you know it's and when you see a picture of them I got to tell you you going to recogniz him he plays in Desperate Housewives and because he won't do a love scene they fire him and he said in an interview why didn't you do the love scene he said it's just acting he said first I'm not an actor I'm a Catholic actor I'm not just a husband I'm a Catholic husband I'm not just a man I'm a Catholic man and it's against my teachings it's against my faith it's against my wife and it's against my vow and it's against my children hence he was fired my brother and sister in Christ that is exactly the point about being Catholic that is exactly the gospel God so loved the world that He Sent His only begotten son the crucifix the sign of the cross a triun God the Catholic Church my brother in Christ okay to stop you're a Jew you lived 2,000 years ago you have better understanding that Christ is probably going to be the Messiah you're starting to learn about Father Son and Holy Spirit then all of a sudden you hear this gospel remember this when the good Lord said I so Lov the world I sent my only begotten son the original translation mogens means begotten okay let me explain where this is going my brother in Christ if I were to tell you the Nan Creed begotten means there's no Beginning No End that he wasn't created that he's not less than he's not just the son of God you see this is what you got to understand Muslims as well as Mormons believe that he's just a prophet which means he's been created this is why I tell you what I'll prove it to you in the Nan Creed there's a part of the Creed it's about five lines because of one guy by the name of aryan aryan said that Christ was just a man that heresy is Alive and Well in the Islam and as well as in Mormons but you and I had to correct it in the Creed God from God yes Lord yes I would have bet my monthly check which ain't much that we would not got that far with it I promise you that's why the word begotten became about so when the Creed goes from 12 lines to 100 it's because we have to keep fighting the heresies but if once you know the first 12 lines are true written by the 12 apostles each line delineated by the guy who said it it's in your Pew that's why I want you to know the Creed so when he says begotten he's trying to tell you he's there from the very beginning my brother in Christ and then he tells you something that's very unique that he came for many that means not everybody's going to make it that means one saved always saved is a lie think about it if all you got to do is say Jesus Christ is Lord and continue to sleep around kill murder cheat then then why are we here why did St Paul say there'll come a day when he'll judge us both our good and evil and whatever we did with our body we will be held accountable why would he say that my brother in Christ then why did only two people out of a million make it to the promised land why did Noah only save eight this is what you and I need to understand our faith is true look the sign of the cross the sign of a Triune God being Catholic is the issue my brother in Christ look go back in scripture Our best players the ones that really had their game they were always directed towards Christ their Compass always pointed towards him everything they did testified towards him look go back I tell you what the wedding to Canaan you and I are there we find out they're out of wine instead of going to Mary they go to you they go to me what are we going to do I can tell you what we're going to do well a minute tell me how much you got come show me how many other jars you got how long would it take to get new ones you and I are trying to solve the World by putting our hands around it that's not what Mary does her first Direction they're out of wine it's your problem what is his her last words in scripture last words in scripture it's the wedding to Cana he Ain even going public yet do whatever he tells you my brother and sister in Christ she's totally directed towards her faith yes the Catholic faith my brother and sister in Christ let's go one step further if you are I tell you what what Lazarus you're in the Tomb he goes to the tomb he owes back the stone and then he yells out Lazarus come out because if he just says come out then every tomb opens because it's the second coming that's why you and I are named because we're accountable for our actions that's why he knows your name in your mother's womb that's why he knows the hairs on your head that's why we were named in the Garden of Eden they're not named they're man and woman why because no sin was committed once they sinned didn't they pick up the names Adam means man mankind Eve doesn't get a name till after they're kicked out there in lies the point when La when he says Lazarus come out what if Lazarus said well no I got free will I'm dead I'm not dying again give him give him his due it's a good valid point my brother Christ everything directed himself towards Christ that's why he's coming out my brother in Christ Martha and Mary y'all know the story the good Lord is talking Mary's At His Feet Martha's busy in the kitchen trying to fix things people are coming going in and out dinner food Etc she gets mad at her sister because her sister's not helping and the good Lord said Mary has chosen the greater portion it's not that Martha was doing what wrong just that Mary was choosing wisely that while I'm there and I'm in front of you make your petitions known to me come directly to me first be true to your faith to my church the Catholic Church you need to come to me first and not second you know what's amazing you know when he goes to the tomb of Lazarus who's the first one that comes to meet him it's not Mary it's Martha she's the one that comes out Lord if you've been here but I am but the least she comes out first my brother Christ this is why I need you to understand this is why you and I here it's all about the Catholic Church listen to what I'm telling you for 1600 years you're either Jew I tell you what or Catholic if I were to ask you what does the word Catholic mean thank you 99% of the people are going to yell out it means Universal and this is why the Protestants run with it it became so popular in the first 1600 years it would have been hard for you not to hear the word it became Universal it means according to the whole w h o l e that if you gather in one place you listen to the readings you sing the Psalms and you break bread you are no longer a Jew because the Jews Gather in one place they sing the Psalms they read Hebrew scripture and they sacrifice a lamb you and I sacrifice the lamb for 1600 years are you telling me up until that point the good Lord sat on his hand allowed you and I to just flail knowing that we need actually 40,000 faiths in the world to get it right my brother Christ the Catholic are true don't get caught up in the management follow him and his teachings of his church everything we do is scriptural let me ask you how good are you at testifying that you are indeed Catholic well let's see when somebody comes to you and says man are you Christian do you say yes or do you say absolutely I'm Catholic because Christian doesn't mean a whole lot if you don't worship him in a certain way I can say I worship God and I believe him to be the Messiah is I'm out in the duck stand deer stand Duck Blind Co whatever my ball your ball travel ball kickball my brother and sister in Christ yeah God is everywhere but he's only physically present here there in lies the point in other words when they ask you are you Christian absolutely I'm Catholic when it comes time to make to pray and they say let us pray will you break out the sign of the cross you're not blessing yourself you're asking God to bless you Daniel told you that it would be the sign that would save you what if they asked you to lead in prayer oh here we go you going to break out that Hail Mary knowing you're going to be the only one in that group that praise it and then they're going to say that you worship her and you and I both know we only venerate her as the mother of Our Savior Jesus Christ as holy mother church as the new Tabernacle if I drove by your house and I ran by your front yard would I know you're Catholic I mean I don't I know you don't want to offend anybody we have no problems offending us we have no problems offending Our Savior if you don't acknowledge me before my father I will not acknowledge you before him if you do not acknowledge me before others I will not acknowledge you before my father so what I'm wondering is brother in Christ why have we made our faith so private we don't know how to go public why is it every time I pick up a paper and which is getting less and less by the way that man we have no problem having somebody throw out the first pitch in a Dodger's uniform trash in holy mother church and we got Christian ball players on that team give to Caesar what it Caesars you got paid so well you done forgot your faith my brother and sister in Christ when are you and I going to stand up if I went into your house would I know you're Catholic would there be a would there be a cross crucifix in your house or just a a cross no corpse we follow a crucified Christ if I got in your car would I know you're Catholic if I watched you drive okay don't answer that one they probably would know you're Catholic my brother sister in Christ when somebody says what do you do for a living you said I'm a physician I'm a doctor I'm an engineer I'm an attorney I am a teacher I am a housewife I'm a house husband do you say I'm a Catholic I'm I'm a Catholic doctor I'm a Catholic teacher I'm a Catholic Student or is that just a byproduct my brother Christ I got to get you to understand that everything begins and ends with our faith that sign of the cross is immensely powerful you got to start shaving it and stop doing these little short in and outs as if somehow or another you don't want to offend anybody our church is true I need you to focus on what is true the sign of the cross the Eucharist and the sacraments there's a difference between salvation and Red Redemption and salvation Redemption is the crucifixion salvation is a burly the gates just because he died on the cross you and I do not get a free pass Adam and Eve didn't get one Moses didn't get one Adam didn't get one Noah didn't get one King David didn't get one then why didn't the Sam Hill do you and I think we get a mulligan at the end of the day it all begins and ends with one thing it begins to ends with him and his church and his teachings and the sign of the cross I am begging you to plant your flag nobody is doing that nobody is saying I'm sorry that's just wrong I'm just sorry I believe I do believe in God the Father the Son Holy Spirit I am not blessing myself I'm asking him to bless me in a Triune God my brother and sister in Christ I'm promise you I sent my son into the world for the Salvation of many at the end of the day the sign of the cross is the most powerful prayer in the world be clear and distinct make it known that you are a follower of Jesus Christ in his church and I promise you you will hear the Heaven's Quake when your day comes and you hear the immortal words welcome to the table my children I watched you when everybody looked at you and you made that sign of the cross and you walked it out there I watched you when everybody looked at you and said man he ain't going to break out to Hell Mary and there you did it in honor of my mother man I watched you take the ridicule and you walked away with your head up God bless you and welcome to my kingdom that's what you need to hear and that's why we're here everything else is irrelevant make it clearly make it distinctly in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen amen amen there you go father son Holy Spirit please stand and I know you've forgotten by now but his name is Neil mcdonal just so you know okay <\p>

the mass the mass m a SS the mass if you are God will you tell me how you wish to be worshiped or will you leave it up to me if you are God will you tell me how you wish to be worshiped or will you leave it up to me so say you God you see God if you don't tell me how you wish to be worshiped I'm going to make it up myself the last time you left it up to me you went up a mountain with Charlton hon my bad Moses 40 days later I have a golden calf hence where we get the term stiff neck people and as a result of it we spent 40 years in the desert so you must have given me a rule book how you wish to be worshiped because if you don't then I'm going to have another golden half I will have travel ball kickball my ball your ball every kid is going pro every kid is going pro my brother in Christ we got all kind of gods man we got the deer stand we got the Duck Blind we just got it's time to family I got to go on vacation my brother and sister in Christ it's the mass you need to understand that he gave us a rule book and that's exactly what you seeing play out today do you honestly believe believe that if you went to a service a synagogue in his hometown of caber and you went into the synagogue there do you think I'm going ask you do you think they worship the same way in Capernaum as they did in japa on the coast Bethany and Jerusalem or did they worship differently depending on where they are and depending on the personality of the synagogue Rabbi they all worship the exact same way you didn't walk into Capernaum and somebody's ramping up the music you didn't go in Jappa and they're selling lattes you didn't go in the other one and they got the light show candle show work with me my brother and sister Christ we come to worship Him and adore him not to be entertained by him so here we go this is why we do what we do this is the mass where does the word come from M ETA meaes ETA Misa esque go and proclaim the gospel go forth and proclaim the good news that word Misa m i SSA is where we get the word we now know as mass it's a Latin term at the end of mass you hear me the mass has ended thank you that's exactly right go forth and proclaim the gospel your mission is just getting started you got fed intellectually and spiritually now go forth and do the same proclaim the gospel go therefore and baptize in the nations in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit everything in the mass is scriptural everything is very Jewish remember this if you do not have an altar you do not have a sacrifice if you do not have a sacrifice you do not have the Eucharist again if you do not have an altar you cannot have a sacrifice because the sacrifice has to take place on the altar if you do not have a sacrifice then you do not have the Eucharist so if you walk into a building and there is no altar then there can't be a sacrifice which means the Eucharist cannot be altered if there is no priest in the line of melchisedek all the way back to kop sephus Peter then you do not have an altar which means you don't have a sacrifice which means you don't have the Eucharist my brother and sister in Christ everything in the mass is for a reason and point my brother and sister in Christ as I dropped the candle if you can see it there's some marble here on the altar all altars should have some type of stone or marble because Christ is the thank you he's the Cornerstone back in the day before it became legal to Worship in the time of Constantine God bless his mother St Helena we could not could not worship freely we would have to go into the catacombs we would find a tomb of a saint which would be a stone enclosure we would put two candles and then you and I would pray over that tomb and our sacrifice would be made there's the altar the sacrifice therefore there came the Eucharist so therefore almost every altar has to have some aspect of stone the reason you need to know this is because he's the Cornerstone it's part of our tradition it's part of scripture my brother in Christ if you were able to walk up here you would see five crucifixes in the altar each for the Five Wounds that he suffered you would seen relics of bones of the Holy people that came before us the Saints that's why if you and I live back in the day we would have been praying over a tomb that's why we have communion of saints a participation of the Saints they are at every Mass I told you that earlier everybody's from Heaven is here he's the god of the living not of the Dead everybody is part of the mass hence why we have relics in our altar my brother in Christ listen what I'm telling you if you don't have an altar you don't have sacrifice if you don't have a sacrifice you don't have the Eucharist do this in in sacrifice of me that's his real words he's saying you need to do this why would he tell you to do it if he just wanted you to have a thought why would he tell you to do it if he just wanted you to have an understanding why would he tell you to do it if he just wants you to be just something just to think about to mul over to kind of have a an understanding he's telling you you need to do this sacrifice and when you do it it's no longer the a lamb it's the lamb that's where he's going see in the Passover meal we actually believ the lamb was present skewed in the form of a crucifix because that's what they're used to doing that's why he told John and Peter go there and prepare a Passover They Don't Know About The Bread they haven't been exposed to it that's that's why after they probably partook of the Lamb he said now you need to do this and not so much this in sacrifice of me my brother and sister in Christ everything in the mass is scriptural nobody's making anything up it's not 12 guys sitting around the table thinking oh throw this in I tell you what in St elen they me make sure they use incense those people cough at anything okay you with me okay there and lines the point my brothers Christ when mass starts Moses would come out of his a tent in the desert music would start and everybody would stand we enter the back everybody stands and music starts why because the glory Cloud came down in the desert which means god is about to come y'all stand and sing because he's about to come the church is made in the shape of a crucifix his feet at the door his head is at the Tabernacle his wound is at the altar this is why I kiss the altar because that's where his wound is why is that important to you and I because when he's on the cross and he dies we know he's dead because they would have broken his shins if otherwise to make him suffocate so he would die quicker the fact that they don't do it means they stab him and he still bleeds which means he's Divine which is why there's two candles he's human and divine which means I'm going to continue to feed people 2,000 years later in St Elina even though that I'm quote here with you today because you're eating my glorified body you're not eating the cannibalistic mindset of the rabbis you're eating my glorified body if I came to you in my in my physical flesh and I start hacking off limbs in pieces would you partake no I got to give it to you under the opes of bread so that you will consume it and matter of fact in his words trogo you need to tear it gnaw on it and swallow it that sound like a relic to you I need you to take this and eat chew on it gnaw on it and swallow it because I just want you to have a recollection listen to what I'm telling you everything in the New Testament has to be better than the old if Joseph saved his family flee into Egypt Joseph saved the Holy Family flee into Egypt if Elijah wears camel skin and talks of the Messiah John the Baptist wears camel skin and baptized the Messiah if they got blessed bread from heaven and they they believe they did it fell from the altar of God then we must have something better than hence why it cannot be a relic or theory of Conure why because we have an altar which means we have the sacrifice which we use the same words so that we can have the Eucharist My Brother and Sisters in Christ we kiss the altar because we kiss the wound of Christ which is where Life Begins for you and I if you ever notice I can put my hands on the altar but a deacon is not supposed to because his hands are not consecrated my brother and sister Christ We Kiss The Altar and then guess what we begin with the Gloria which is what the Angels told the Shepherds that he's about to come which is why you and I sing the Gloria because he's about to come then we listen to what it was like before Christ got here and then we sing the Psalms the Psalms are the bridge that connects the old to the new I mean how do you and I know what what readings go with what readings I mean there's Old Testament New Testament I mean did you just throw it up in the air and hope they just fall together the psalm that sang in that time frame would have been the exact same song and the the theory and as a matter of fact the understanding would have connected the two that's why you and I sing the PSAL because we're Jewish because his mom's Jewish his stepfather's Jewish he's Jewish he's even found in a synagogue my brother and sister in Christ and then guess what we hear the great I am speak himself 2,000 years later word for word we hear the Messiah speak and then guess what we're now going to go back to the Last Supper we're actually going to represent so when he was before the Tabernacle you and I would know he's before God so we ring them bells that let you know we are before God and then all of a sudden my brother Christ I speak in third person and then I jump the first person you even notied that I rais him just like he was raised on the crucifix that's how John understood when he walked out there and saw that crucifix rise up he said oh my God oh my God there must be a God because he raised it and said this is my body body and now that is his body too John got it my brother and sister in Christ I walk and we do it again for the cup and then guess what my brother Christ we go to the Garden of Gethsemane and how do you and I know he's there because every Jews got to go there so you and I have to go there he warns his Apostles of being worried and next thing you know he tells them it's anxiety be careful the devil's on the prow and guess what Deliver Us Lord from every evil graciously grant us peace and in our day in your mercy keep us free from sin protect us from all exactly right the devil gets you and I through worry and he's warning his Apostles of what's coming and now he's warning you and then guess what we go to the Garden we actually go to golgatha you see me break the host cuz blood and water flew from his side and his body I actually break it put it in the Chalice so now the all of them have become one we only put water in his chalice because blood and water only flew from his side not from our sides hence they doesn't go and other chales you see me brother and sister in Christ raise a fractured host so you know we're at golgatha yet again he's not being Rec crucified he's being recommunity conoy in their language hence why St Paul said is the coup of blessing not the blood the the blood of Christ is not the bread we break not the body of Christ he saying that's what you're doing you're rep participating otherwise think about it you came to feed 12 guys and you left what do you mean oh they got blessed bread we just got a relic you're kidding me you came for 12 guyss well that's just a fine how do I thought you came you so loved the world that you sent your son for the sacrifice of many that's why on the road to emus he's proven to you and I that even outside of the 12 I'm going to take the bread I'm going to break it bless it and then I'm going to disappear in the bread for I am the bread of life I am the new lamb that's why John the Baptist says there goes the Lamb of God that's why I was born in the city of Bethlehem the city of bread that's why I was born in a manger manga to eat to prove to you that I am the bread of life that I am in the bread and if you see this and you have an altar and you have sacrifice then you will have the Eucharist if you go somewhere and that is not what's taking place may I suggest you get up and leave you're wasting your time and everybody else's my brother and sister in Christ when you bring those gifts up to the altar do you realize that is 2,000 years old man you're doing the same thing you did back in the time of Christ Christ even had to do it can you imagine he goes with his mom from the Sea of Galilee and Joseph he's got to walk two to three months just to get there at least two months that I know of you go all the way to Jerusalem you find a lamb you're the lamb finding a lamb you're going to go and you're going to go to the woman's court on that proverbial Passover day there going to be a million people one city block you Joseph and Mary Joseph's going to turn to Jesus and say come Mary will stay in the woman's court because she's prohibited from going any further you're going to walk into the past the doors and the arch walk up some steps you're going to get to a rail that's why we have a rail he's actually going to give the lamb to the high priest who's going to skew him in the form of a crucifix three 400 500,000 Lambs he's going to bleed him right about here he's going to take the blood and pour it out on the church he's going to take the blood and pour it out in the church and then he's going to give the lamb back to him they've been seeing this for 32 years you don't think the Blessed Mother Knows What waits for her son you don't think Joseph has caught on after 29 years what waits for his adopted son if you will so when you bring the gifts up you're doing the exact same thing they did thousands of years ago I take it I break it I bless it the reason the rail is there is to delineate quote Holy Ground you remember when Moses had to take off his sandals that's exactly the point you're on Holy Ground it has nothing to do with me being a PR and you not that's a lie it's got everything to do with giving him his reverence and his due that this indeed is Holy Ground my brother and sister in Christ when you see Six Candles up there six to a Jew is incomplete he's the seventh candle he seventh is the most complete number in the world to a Jew he is the light of the world six is the six jars at the wedding to Cana remember at the wedding of canaa six jars 30 gallons each 180 gallons of wine 180 gallons of wine yeah you're right it's Catholic don't make mistake about it my brother and sister in Christ he's saying to his mother my hour is not yet come when I will bleed from my side then I will be the seventh jar his La her last words do whatever he tells you six is incomplete seven is complete that's why you see Six Candles for he is the seven the reason you see two candles over there is because my brother Christ it's the old and the new the reason you see seven steps up to the the uh Tabernacle is because there's the seven sacraments the reason you see PX up there is because that means CHR Body of Christ hence why I say body of Christ and not body of Jesus Christ uh is his Divine name Jesus is his given name we're eating his glorified body my brother in Christ everything in the mass is scriptural that's why there's Angels around his altar you know the reason we have a Cove is because they used to cover the Tabernacle back in the day they used to call it like a balino and everything we do in the mass of scriptural this this um I can't you think what it is now I ran myself right off the reservation behind curtain number one the Tabernacle is a microcosm of the Jewish temple if you were to take that and blow it up and make it a 100 times larger it would actually be a temple you would have a curtain on the front door if I move the curtain you'd see a door and then if you open that door you'll see you notice when I go later there's a curtain behind the curtain that's the second curtain that's where Christ reside that's where the holy of holies was kept so the Tabernacle is a microcosm of the Jewish temple my brother and sister in Christ what I got to get you to understand is the mass is everything and the Eucharist is the source and sumon of our life if you are not in him and and we are not excuse me if we are not in him and he is not in us we do not have eternal life my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you are not in me you do not have eternal life what does that say if you go somewhere and you can't receive the Eucharist it says volumes listen to what I'm telling you I don't care where you go to service but if you're not in the Catholic church as a Catholic you're not receiving the Eucharist so your chances for eternal life become extremely mitigated when I'm trying to get you to understand is you can't just kind pick and choose which Commandments you can't pick and choose whether you're in you're either in or you're out you're either Catholic or you're not you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him especially with the mass and the Eucharist it is everything he's telling you that if I'm not in you and you are not in me you will not not have eternal life there's no asteris there's no supposition there's no discretion there's no discussing uh discussions there's nothing do you understand he said I'll be with you to the end of time he is do you know there's a mass every hour of every day in every country of every language listen every hour of every day in every country of every language Mana fill every day it's got to fall every hour of every day in the world today my brother and sister in Christ etes go forth and proclaim the gospels go forth and proclaim the good news the mass is everything amen amen name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen okay I'm going to tell you just okay just be seated a minute why cuz I can catch my breath that's why we're doing that if you learned anything then God bless you because we should have been telling you this since grammar school and since high school we're losing our grandchildren and we're losing our children because we're not teaching you the faith but I got to tell you my brothers and sisters in Christ I'm going to owe for a lot of sins in my life I know it I can feel feel it it's tangible and he's right to do so but my day will come but I'm going to tell you one thing he's not going to tag me for is not proclaiming the truth before I met you I could never speak in public I never spoke in public in my prior life for 20 years even as the owner of the business I never spoke in public because I stutter and stammer and the only time I don't do it is when I Proclaim his news at the mass so you can't tell me oh my god there isn't a god I need you to understand our faith so say what you will about how I pray the mass but one thing you'll never accuse me of is not telling you the truth take what you want discard the rest at the end of the day it's your soul I'm just trying to help you amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

hands hands as in your hands as in mine it's 1970 but I got to tell you you know what I like je why I like Jeffrey is because what you see is what you get and every time they do an interview not every time but I got to you almost every time you do an interview with him he's always telling you it's because somebody offered him this helping hand is why he sits where he does today one person makes or breaks the day for Jeffrey he said look I grew up in California I my my my my family did okay there was one of four children he said I struggled our family struggled he said man then our family mom and dad get a divorce he said it's tumultuous he said for the next 10 years I lived in 10 different little cities or suburbs or houses he said man high school he said it was nothing short of just diabolical he said I wasn't a good athlete so I didn't fit in he said man then I'm not even a brainiac he said man I I can't do anything he said then I meet this guy Nam Mr forworth who goes out of his way to give a helping hand he said you know in the theater you can be whatever you want he said I know what he's talking about so he gets me in a movie called a little play called the Pacific he said man what I realized with acting Jeffrey said is that I could be the greatest athlete of all times I could be the most in ual he said I could play any role even though I'm neither he said man he said I just knew it was for me on a side note just so you know Jeffrey is one of the 10 greatest College dropouts ever just so you know where he sits in the world as a result of it he gets in a couple shows and he said man it's not good he said I get in a sitcom called Bosom Buddies I get another one called Turner and Hooch and then draget and he said man we're struggling and then all of a sudden man the World Turns he said it's almost he said I could just see forworth reaching out and giving me his hand and next thing you know he said man the world becomes my oyster he said imagine imagine I can get you to fall in love with a soccer ball named Wilson thank you Lord thank you he said man I can come up with some of the greatest lines ever not me the writers that that life is a box of chocolates or there's no crying in baseball man I'm in the movies like Apollo 13 I'm in Saving Private Ryan I mean I'm um he's somewhere out there I know he is right and you know what's amazing he did a movie called road to predition which actually I believe is his best movie and you know him is Tom Jeffrey Hanks and it's all because one person gives him a helping hand that is that gospel the good Lord is laying hands on those to ordain them Peter can be whoever he thinks he can be Paul can say whatever he wants Simon James Bartholomew Thomas Simon Maas they can all do and think what they want but until the good Lord lays hands on them they're just your average Joe now my brother and sister in Christ I bet you you're more scriptural verse than you think let me prove it to you I bet you I could describe somebody's hands in scripture and you can name them don't tell me hands aren't important they're essential especially since the good Lord uses our hands to reach others so for example if I told you that his hands were perfectly manicured there was not a bump bruise callous anywhere to be found it was adorned with jewelry and right next to it was a bowl and towel ah man you annoymous pilot if I told you my brother and sister in Christ that man in one hand he's got 30 pieces of silver in a little sack you'd say man it's Judas if I told you my brothers and sisters in Christ that she actually held up this veil with her two little hands of the image of the Christ on the crucifixion you'd probably say man that's Veronica would you know whose hands it was if you look at the Last Supper and seated next to a little salt shaker is a hand that's knocked it over that's judas's hands that's why the good Lord makes the proclamation are you worth your salt see because what you and I know is that the Romans often times were paid in salt which where we get the Latin term salarium salary I mean to be truth be told why pay us in money if we're going to battle as a result we would use our money to purchase slaves this is where we get the term are you worth your salt to carry our equipment so when battle comes we'd be ready if I told you my brother and sister in Christ that his hands are often times holding Keys you'd say oh man of course it's Peter my brother and sister in Christ here's the irony that because you identified people 2,000 years ago so can you and I be described that same way if I was to go and take a picture of your hands and mix it up with a bunch of pictures and show it to your spouse or your family would they recognize your hands well let's see would your hands have a prayer card in it would your hands have a rosary would your hands always have the Bible oh your hands always has the cell phone in it maybe it has that little computer mouse maybe it has the remote control maybe it has a syringe maybe it has a drink my brother and sister in Christ your hands forell who you are for whose hands are you working for you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ is the same as true for me as it is for you and let me warn you is sometimes your hands rich in a ball in a fury woe to you who raise your hand to another person woe to you maybe your hands always pointing out the obvious in others and not to yourself you know what's amazing brother and S Christ every gesture the priest makes during the mass with his hands are exactly how it does in scripture if you notice when I come up to the mass I kiss the Altar and then I put my hands on the altar you see my hands are consecrated which means I'm the only one supposed to be putting my hands on the altar that's why the deacons should kiss the Altar and not put their hands on it their hands are not consecrated you see when I got ordained the bishop maybe put my hands together with oil and then he put his hands around mine and then he ordained me he laid hands on me just as he did the apostles so I can tie myself to Bishop Munch who can tie himself to John Paul who can tie himself all the way back to Peter if I can't get back to the boys if I cannot get back to the boys Peter and the boys then I'm just I'm just another Joe making a pitch my brother and sister in Christ when he put his hands around mine you could feel the heat I'm telling you temperature- wise it was noticeably noticeably different almost to the point of being uncomfortable my brothers and sisters in Christ you know what's amazing is that at the mass you see me come over here and you see me raise my hands but yet you see it so often you don't know why I do it the Jewish people believed that when you raised your hands like this because before the go golden calf you dads of the priest you would raise your hands like this making the offering to God and your family would follow suit once the golden calf incident comes you no longer can raise your hands I have to do it for you this is why I ask you humbly ask you not to raise your hands up and allow me to do it because ever since the golden calf incident this is why I keep my hands raised the whole mass and if you ever notice sometimes they call it the oron's position but the truth of the matter is it's more in line with the crucifixion hence why I keep my hands out the whole way did you ever notice at Mass my brother and sister in Christ I call down the holy spirit it's 3,000 years old the Jews believe that divine intervention would come when they called down God using that same moniker that's why I do it do you ever notice that with my hands I actually rais the host because at the Last Supper we believed he raised it so John would recognize you're raising the host and then I see rais the crucifix they're one and the same you ever notice that I raised the Chalice you notice that I actually put the host together and I crucify him and then I raise him because he was raised up on the cross you ever notice I put the host together and I rais him because he raised on the third day you ever recognize when I give you communion here that I actually raise it a little bit before I give it to you body of Christ and then I give it to you body of Christ not body of Jesus because I'm raising his glorified body dead men don't bleed the fact that he's bleeding after he's been crucified is telling you he's Divine hence why I say body of Christ not body of Jesus Christ is his Divine Ence Jesus is his given my brother and sister in Christ everything that we do in the mass is exactly for a reason you know what's amazing and nobody ever speaks to you about it since my mother is not here when I put my hands together and the bishop puts his around mine he gives me a cloth to wipe the oils immediately I give that cloth after the mass to my mom I take my first confession stole I hear one confession I take the stole off and I give it to my dad so when they pass away and when my dad passed he wore my first stole for confessions so Peter will know he's the father of a priest and when my mother passes she will be holding the the Garment the cloth that I wipe my hands with so Peter will know she's the mother of a priest my brother Christ everything we do with our hands and Mas is for a reason and just on a lighter note in the Seminary they they film your masses you have to do 10 masses eight of which you got to pass reasonably well but every once in a while somebody comes through the Seminary that just simply didn't get it I'm praying the mass it's me and my buddy who's behind the camera I'm praying the mass and I'm following the rule book I don't know if you know this but in that book you read the black listen to what I'm telling you read the black do the red so there's two sentences you got to read the black that you hear then I got to read the red to where my hands go so if you watched me in Mass you would have seen something like this who okay I miss a prayer I don't know I missed the prayer my buddy's behind the camera and I all of a sudden you see this going on behind the camera and he's doing this in the film you see me doing this I forgot the Our Father I drop in the middle of the mass and pray the Our Father it had no business being there wasn't supposed to go there I pray the mass I turn my paper in I see the preach coming the next day he doesn't even stop he just here my brother and sister in Christ the greatest symbol you can make with your hands there's none greater than the sign of the cross I'm telling you right now our faith is true it's not even a close second the sign of the cross is one of the most powerful signs that you could send out to anybody you want to do a quick prayer then make the sign of the cross you want to let the good Lord know that you're not a fence Walker make the sign of the cross cross you want to let your family know that you love them make the sign of the cross before and after every meal when you wake up when you go to bed it was so common in the first 200 years it had been uncommon for you not to see the greatest sign of all with your hands let the good Lord know that you are indeed part of his church for all eternity amen amen name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit please stand <\p>

fear unadulterated fear to the very marrow of his bones to a point he would almost Shake he would almost have anxiety it would break out man in temperatures he would break out and breakdowns it was just tumultuous it's the 1920s he lives in New York City and his name is skinny skinny was uh extremely tall for young young age and he's about this big round soing wet he's decided that man you know grammar school was tough but High School oh my Lord he is the poster child for being bullied that's the problem he would go he' drop his dog off of the fire department and then he would head out man the fire chief or excuse me one of the firemen kind of befriended him and every day he would come back man they would wear skinny out to a point that it was just it sort to get ugly man he'd be be pretty bad finally this fir pulled sign said man skinny what's going on he said man I am bullied I I I I can't when I walk to school the fear is already in me he said man I'm going to tell you what for the next two or three weeks when you come home from school you stay with me we're going to work out I was a Golden Gloves boxer in my prior life and I'm going to teach you how to defend yourself he said at the end of the day they just need to know that you will stand and finish what was started as a result he starts training him well pretty soon Skinny's going back and forth and on one day he sees skinny coming back now look he's a little he he got a he took a couple hits but he said well skinny what happened he said man he said look I took my hits he said but so did he he said I may I win a fight but I didn't lose it and he said man he said man that that that's great and uh he said I tell you what you keep doing what you're doing he said but he said wait what's your real name because we got to change your name because skinny Skinny's not it and he said my name is is and then he started thinking maybe skinny ain't so bad you know and then he said I tell you what I'mma give you the dog's nickname and we're going to give the dog skinny and you take Duke Lord I I didn't get halfway through the story this is a miracle as a result man he becomes one of the greatest actors of our day right I mean he's in the Sands of eima he's in the Alamo uh my brother and sister in Christ he is the the icon of of westerns in John Wayne my brother and sister in Christ man talk about somebody that started out in fear and ended up where he is that is that gospel that's exactly what the good Lord is telling them you got to stop walking in trepidation all things come through me nothing comes to you that I do not ordain not a hair in your head can get touched no one can approach you no one can go around you nobody can write about you nobody nobody can say this about you nobody can do nothing until he ordains it and if I bring you to it then I expect you to walk with me through it have no fear of what others can do for you what you need to have fear of is losing your soul to the devil if you want to have fear it's the fact that you don't listen to me you don't acknowledge me in public my brother and sister in Christ listen to what I'm telling you we're going to take something as simple inside the confines of the church where we should have the UT most confidence but yet we fall inside the walls of the church communion My Brother and Sisters in Christ every mass of every hour of every day and every language Mana still Falls that's why masses are scheduled as they are so Mana Falls Around the Clock as a result of it you and I come to receive now this is what I'm telling you because somebody's going to quote me somebody's going to call me you can receive the communion any way you choose you can take it in the hand you can take it on the tongue you can stand or you may kneel but I at least want you to understand the theology behind it so that you don't walk in trepidation in fear my brother and sister in Christ everybody who believed Christ to be the Messiah either knelt bowed or laid prostrate on the ground every time they saw him granted it was less than half of 1% but it doesn't change the fact that's how many people recognize him as a messiah that's why you and I kneel during the consecration when we call down the holy spirit so you can still stand but if you would kneel during the consecration if you can wouldn't it be logical that you would now kneel to receive it now brother and sister in Christ the reason that we put the communion on your tongue is because back in the day we would actually when you were baptized we would bless your tongue so that communion would go from Blessed Hands to blessed tongue it would go from blessed surface here to a blessed surface here see that's why we still today bless your tongue at St Elena why because it it's got to go if you will from bless ground to bless ground if it is in your hand the problem is your hands may be clean but you don't see what I see I see phone numbers instructions for the day one two and three the address of where you're supposed to be going after Mass my brother and sister in Christ am I supposed to put the body blood soul and Divinity in that I mean you just finished look like you worked on your car oh I see you think that's the exception to the rule you see but here's the problem we live in a world where I'm at which is 95% Protestant so when I have a wedding or a funeral here and people feel they are entitled they will come up even though I make the proclamation if you're not of our faith outside the church please come forward just put your hands over your heart be honest with me is I am with you and if I was in your place of worship I would respect your rules but they'll still come up and so you know how I know because I won't know as they come up I find communion in my song himal I find the host in my bench I find the host in the where the prayer books are oh yes my brother and sister in Christ absolutely but you see if it was on your tongue then I wouldn't have that problem my brother and sister in Christ at the end of the day what is your fear of taking it on the tongue is it pride is a lack of humility or maybe if you're afraid that man I'm going to touch your tongue and then I'm going to touch somebody else's tongue and then it's just going to go on down the line it's either the body blood soul and Divinity or it is not I'll tell you where it really plays out is when you go to drink of the blood how many times have I heard people tell me oh no no I'm not I father this Co I I ain't drinking after nobody else so what you're telling me is is that it's not the body blood soul and Divinity and that somehow another I first of all I want to meet the person that got sick from it because I have yet now in the past 14 years of priest met anybody that got sick from drinking the blood of Christ but yet you and I do it all the time we said no man I'm not drinking out that because well the blood is him but you know the Chalice is different really so the good Lord's going to delineate it in that fashion my brother Christ you got to stop walking in fear and trepidation because if you're going to do it to receive communion and you can receive it any way you want I'll meet you wherever you're at I'm just telling you what I see from my end of the world and what I have to deal with because let me tell you you know how bad it gets I'm at a funeral and if my brother priest doesn't stand up and say if you're not of our faith or outside the church please do not please come up but don't take the communion when they do not say that and I give communion out at a funeral and I see the person walk with it I've got to stop what I'm doing in the middle of a funeral and go get him the Eucharist how do you think that plays out at a funeral I can assure you not well but therein lies the problem my brother and sister in Christ you and I have got this out walking in fear and trepidation and if we're not going to receive him in a reverent way whatever that may be for you and me doesn't change the fact that if we're not willing to drink of it because we're worried about what's going to happen you we don't even have the faith of a mustard seed mother Christ I don't care if you fake it till you make it it's some point you got to plant your flag if you're not willing to plant your flag to drink the Chalice or to receive the Eucharist how are you going to stand up to the Dodgers how are you going to stand up to Target how are you going to stand up to Bud Light my brother sister Christ if you and I can't win the fights on the little things we're not going to win them on the big ones the good Lord just told you if you do not acknowledge me in public in front of your family and friends I am not going to acknowledge you before my father my brother Christ as simple it is to make the sign of the cross even when you're not leading the prayer why is it why is there so much trepidation you know yesterday Father David and I met with over 300 kids and David asked a remarkable question he asked the kids what is your greatest fear what is your greatest fear and in so many words it came back showing or telling people we're Catholic wow showing and telling people we're Catholic making this sign of the cross brings trouble holding that Rosary is even more trouble and what David was trying to explain to him Father David was trying to say it's not what you think it's just a fear that's come but be honest with you if you know your faith and you know what we believe you would do it anyway cuz you're acknowledging him before his father that way you do it in public and when you stand in front of him man he reward you for a job well done if you and I do not defend our faith now at what point will we give it up look your job and my job is to defend our Vineyard my job is to defend this Vineyard you can choose to follow it or you can choose not to walk and you can choose to walk away that's not on me at the end of the day you got to choose your Vineyard it's you got to decide whether you're going to partake of a certain beverage or go to a certain ball game or go and spend your money at a certain place if you and I don't start doing our job in defending our faith you're going to run in fear for everything and you're going to acques to everything my brother's Christ I am begging you to finish what we started there is a great prayer and I'm going leave you with this there's a great prayer written by Mother Teresa it's called deliver me oh Jesus deliver me oh Jesus from the fear the fear of being humiliated deliver me from the fear oh Lord of being deprived deliver me oh Jesus from the fear of being rebuked or slandered Deliver Me Oh Lord from the fear of being forgotten or from the fear of being wronged Deliver Me Oh Lord from the fear of being treated unw unfairly or from the fear of being suspected Jesus grant me the desire that others will be loved far more than me that in opinion of the world others will increase and I will decrease Deliver Me Oh Lord so that others may be chosen as I get put on the side that others may be preferred to me and everything that others will be more holier than I provided that I could be as holy as I can be my brother and sister in Christ listen to me if you do not acknowledge Him in public and you do not acknowledge Him when the confines of the church you will not acknowledge Him when you leave here and then you're going to acquest to everything because everybody's doing it my brother and sister in Christ you and I are going to hear hear one or two statements when we stand before him you're going to hear welcome home my child job well done I watched you I saw you stand up and make that sun AC cross when everybody else trashed you I saw you leave my mother in prayer and when everybody else disparaged you I watched you walk in and out of church make the sign of the cross when you pass and everybody threw things at you I saw you get up and walk out of an event because you did not want to be part of it I am so proud of you welcome welcome to the table of all of my children or you're just going to get a dismissal of depart from me I don't know who you are you knew me not in front of your family and friends because you acques because of the pressure and you had no problems with disparaging me depart from me have no fear you walk and you make that sign on the cross and stop apologizing for being Catholic amen amen amen man God bless you please stand <\p>

yoke as in burden burdensome you know I like Michael I like him because I tell you I like him I like him because he's Catholic I wish he was more Catholic but I meet him where he is you know you'll tell you in the 70s he grew up in a very Catholic Family he was one of I think five children and he'll tell you uh went to Catholic Grammar School school went to a Catholic High School I think it was like a boarding school called The Academy if you asked Michael what is the one burden what is the one yoke that you carried and you still and he said well I'll tell you what I still carry it today and they said well how can that be I mean who you are and your popularity oh my gosh he said it's my height or the lack thereof he said man it's it stuck with me a long time he says now age and wisdom tempers it but he said 'I be honest with you it's always bothered me he said cuz man in high school he said think about it he said man I can't play sports he said which is going to severely diminish your dating skills and he said that ain't bad enough I mean I mean what position can you play or what can you do and he said so man I go through high school and he said I'm petrified about what am I going to do when I get out and he said so my sister comes to me and says Michael I want you to be a hairdresser no he said I am not I'm no I'm not going to do it I will not do it she look look look just come to just come to one class one you don't like it you're out but you come to one class he said I'm going to one class I guarantee you I'm out they open the doors 40 women and two men he yells out I'm home right Michael goes in and Michael's personality is that he makes everybody King for day he said man his sister said it was like I mean our little our little hairdresser place just it blew up he said man he's applying makeup he's cutting hair and pretty soon man the studio needed somebody to put makeup on actors so man he goes and does that well man they need an extra Michael we need a stand in Michael uh you need how many l oh Michael can handle that he said man next thing you know man he's in bits and pieces and then he gets his big break he said where is height really didn't matter because he was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest he goes the movie for those for the six people who saw it it was fantastic as a result he gets in another one uh Throw Mama From the train oh oh Lord yes yes and then he goes into another one called Jewel of the Nile uh he's in a he's in a series a sitcom called Taxi he played the penguin oh man my brother and Christ you know him as Danny Michael DeVito my brother and sister Christ I got to tell you to this day there was an interview he gave only him could say this right he said so is your definition of successful Michael is that you finally made it right you you've gotten over being somewhat small in Statue if you will but but look at you he said oh that's not the definition of successful he said well what would that be he says successful for a man is supplying enough money to pay for everything your wife wants that's the definition he says well what's the definition of a good of uh for the for a female to marry a man who can make sure he meets the demands of everything that you want my brother and sister in Christ it's about carrying a yoke that is that gospel my brother in Christ four times in about 20 sentences you hear him speak about that his burden is light his yoke is easy and his burden is light my brother to Christ now stop let's make sure you understand something let's understand where Christ is when he starts making these statements he's now traveled to four cities the first three have rode him out on a rail he goes to capernum he goes to uh Bas uh he stops at one other and now he's finally come to their city and so the expectations is where is this going and he's saying you know you're trying to carry the weight of the world and then he says let's start with a prayer now I don't know if you listen to his prayer but in his prayer he's speaking to God as an equal nobody's ever done that so when he's praying he's not praying as if there's something like you and I do right to a greater good he's praying to an equal and then he says man from the from Heaven and Earth from the very Beginnings nobody ever says that because that's Genesis he's saying I was in the very beginning with the the Lord with God my brother in Christ he's trying to tell everybody I am who I am so when I tell you that I will take the burden from you provided you give it to me and do not take it back then your life will be very laminer even though you may think there are Hills and Valleys it'll become so Sy systematic because you've given it to me now my brother Christ think for a minute our best players or people that can carry water well beyond their means I mean let's be honest let's say I tell you what you're going to walk with the Blessed Mother from Thursday morning till Sunday at 3:00 make sure you understand where I'm at you're going to meet from that Thursday morning or Friday morning all the way till 3:00 on Sunday when he dies and you will not curse one time you will not have one negative thought you will not disparage one person walk one by you will not walk by and give somebody the look not one sin that's what she does so for her to be able to do that must means that she must have given it over to her son because she knows this must happen so that you and I can do this so therefore she must have already given it to him I'm not saying she didn't suffer that'd be a Fool's bet I'm trying to tell you is is that the only way she could carry that burden is that she had to give it to him and just to continue to pray I tell you what let's take something less than you're Peter you have lived on the Sea of Galilee and actually I got to tell you you're doing okay you do owe a few taxes but which of us doesn't but so as a result of it you work on the Sea of Galilee and you actually have a couple of boats under your name you're pretty much known throughout Capernaum matter of fact remember Christ your house is a Stones Throw from the synagogue and here all of a sudden this guy comes you drop your nets and you've been with you've been with Peter for the last 40 years CU he's older than Christ you've been with him and everything thick and thin buying the first boats going out making sure you pay the debt make sure you pay the tax man you actually going out net fishing in the middle of the night just to have enough fish next morning to make sure you can sell them to make sure you get money to pay your taxes and he walks up to you and says I need you to come with me you drop your nets immediately you don't even mend them you pull the boats up on the shore he said we got to stop in my in the house for a minute let me tell pereria that we're going to be gone for the next 3 years that they are welcome to follow me because I'm going to be a Fisher or Min you can't give Peter the look you can't say wait a minute I need to run home anybody puts a hand to the plow will never look back if you think you need to bury your mother or father then you'll never come back you got to walk right now you got to leave with Peter you can't curse you can't say have you lost what little bit of a mind you have remember in Christ you got to pick up your toys and go that is the measure of somebody that's going to be able to carry their Yol provided they give it to the good Lord man you don't think somewhere along the line I would have given a month's pay okay okay that's not anything I get that trust me I get that to see that conversation between him and pereria man honey I'm home thank God cuz I got to tell you the freezer is empty okay they don't have freezers okay work with me do what what do you mean you don't have anything we owe the tax man we got to get this thing I gotta get the Nets in we got to eat oh no no no I'm going to be a fisher of men well that's great honey but I suggest you get back in the boat and take your little sibling with you me and y'all go back out and fish that is the only way you can carry that yoke is if you gave it to him and didn't take it back it doesn't mean that you don't have doubt and how do you and I know that because when the good Lord ascended into heaven the apostles were still looking at him even after he's long gone the angel had to tell them okay now it's time for you to go even though you have doubts it's not a question of whether you have questions it's not a question whether you have doubts the question is you wouldn't be here if you didn't have a fundamental belief my brother Christ there in lies the point he makes a powerful statement in Scripture the good Lord's now talking to you and I 2,000 years later he's telling you and I look from this point forward listen to what I'm telling you you got to be a man or woman of your word you got to promise me that when you give it to me you give me your word you will not take it back I promise you I will make all things good he said it not my words I will give you peace and I will make all things right but you got to give it to me and not take it back on my time when I want it in or out that's what he's asking you he's saying he's telling you and I for my yoke is easy and my burden is light learn from me I am meek and humble of heart my yoke is easy and my burden is light now replace that with the word Grace my grace is easy my grace is light learn from me it's my grace you give it to me and you do not take it back and I promise you your life will come extremely Lamer my brother in Christ that's what I'm talking to you about that's why I keep preaching to you do you walk out of here walk out those doors with the same worry you walked in here with are you kidding me after everything you and I know and after all the scriptures we studied and all the prayers and the sacrifices you're still taking the worry out have you forgotten that this is his church have you forgotten that he is God and we are not thank God but more importantly why would you take it back my brother Christ if you and I could have solved the problem we would have already done so he's trying to get you and I to understand that you you got to stop trying to put your hands around it and put your hands together he said you need to call on me because you can't solve this problem by yourself he said why because it's not going to be your actions that need to change it's their actions is it your family is it your spouse is it your children it's your parents it's your neighbors it's your boss how how do you think they're going to get better by you working harder maybe to a point but at the end of the day it's going to take the spirit Rua numatic it's going to take the spirit to change them are they of the flesh are they of the of the world to come the spirit he's saying look if you walk out those doors then you have forgotten why you come that's why we're here that's why we're praying my brother Christ when you receive the Eucharist don't you see the tradeoff he's saying if you take me the the more you take me the more you will be like me you go to more communions you become more like me pretty soon giving things to me has become second nature the problem is you give me a date stamp then it's not bad enough you give me instructions on how to solve it and then when you don't get your way you pout and you turn your head from me but yet weeks earlier you said you handle it lord I can't take it no more and then you just take it from me I love you so much I will not I will not trample on your free will I am going to respect it to the day you stand before me because that's why I gave it to you so that you could love me freely and without any reservations so if you give it to me then leave it with me trade off that's why my yoke is easy because I control the world you don't think I brought a problem to you without a solution the solution is me that's the solution give it to me my brother CED listen if this was a Jar full of grace and every one of you get one before you leave and with it comes a yoke a burden a sacrifice he said I'm going to give it to you and every time you complain about it I'm going to open the valve and you're going to lose a little bit of Grace every time you complain or call or curse you're going to lose a little more grace he said I'm eventually going to solve it how much grace is going to be left in that jar when it's done the more grace you have the more you become like me the more you become like me the more grace you get it's self-fulfilling the more you love me the more you'll study me the more you study me the more you love me he said you show it in your actions so if you would just take it and carry it and let me be God my brother in Christ you honestly believe that you and I can fix the president thank you do you honestly think you can fix the church the only way that's going to happen is through prayer the only way that's going to happen is you and I offer sacrifice so when you come to the altar now look let me tell you it's not easy it's an oversimplification maybe so but it doesn't make it any less true you take that word that you guaranteed to leave here lord it's my father it's my mother it's my children it's my husband it's my wife it's my work it's this that or the other when you leave it it's his don't you Pi it back and go back to your P now remember this the three people put thoughts in your head he does you and I do and so does he he's going to put that thought in your head doesn't look like he's answering that prayer I think he's dismissed you I don't even think he's listening you know why we're on the topic are you sure he's there pretty soon you're going to get so mad you're going to turn your back on God and you ever thought for a minute the reason he doesn't answer your prayers right away is because he doesn't hear from you until you need something else so he might as well just keep you in the conversation at least he gets to talk to you more he gets to see you more you'll spend weeks praying for something the minute you get it you give him about one hell Mary one ID of father about 30 seconds and you're off and running he said what if I wanted minute for minute back my brother and sister in Christ don't you understand he loves you you're everything to him nothing happens to you that he doesn't ordain not a hair on your head not to your children your job your work the world your neighbors friends family nothing happens the only thing that happens to you is what he wants he brings you to it he'll bring you through it provided you take your hands off the wheel you've got to give it to him and you got to leave it with him my brother and sister Christ he wants to give you the grace so that you can grow and pretty soon it really doesn't matter what that person says it really doesn't matter what happens in the world because at the end of the day Lord I belong to you for your yoke is easy and your burden is light Your Grace is easy Your Grace is light my brother in Christ there's a great story it goes something like this a man comes into church he is incensed at his brother true story he gets in church and he begins to yell at God you ain't helping me I prayed to you you've ignored me you ain't doing what I asked you to do he said every time I see my brother it's a free for all true story walks out of church sees his brother cutting across the parking lot lot he thinks they think one gave them a sign they're in the free-for-all in the parking lot cops got to come Popo's there man they're separating people there're man they they beat each other to a PO he comes back into church and he starts yelling at god well good job it did going to you you said pray for patience what good that it did and then all of a sudden and the man will tell you clear Isabel how will you ever grow if I don't test you and expand you so that you can love me with a greater capacity I gave you the gift and you ignored it it's got to be put into play pretty soon no matter what your brother said or thought did or walked it would have little impact on you it would be negligible my brother and sister in Christ I'm telling you he loves you it's all the way to the ends of the Earth man he was with you before you were born he was with you step away he never leaves you he is right by your side he knows your thoughts your understandings your biggest hurts your biggest worries talk to him tell him tell him everything that's just driving you into the crown talk to him I promise you he'll stay with you every step of the way and give you a peace that's just it's unfathomable and my brother and sister Christ I leave you with the words of uh Teresa of Avala I don't know if you know or this is back in the day of you know covered wagons she has come across a conundrum a yoke a burden she's got to take her and several of her sisters to another Convent a storm is coming she packs them all up into a wagon I.E the West days right they're traveling in a wagon and of course everybody thinks Mother Teresa has lost her mind she's trying to get him to safety cuz she's already been told by the good Lord you got to go pack up your your your sisters in leave she gets to a river the river is starting to pick up she's trying to decide do I cross in in this or do we just walk it on in she decides to get out and test the waters she gets out now this is Mother Teresa Vala she slips and falls all the way down the embankment into the drink a little bit further down the stream where she gets pushed up on shore and when they said she stands up she is caked with mud she looks like a little just like a mold mount a mountain so the sisters you're trying not to laugh it's Mother Superior you go over there wiping her face and she and and they said well mother what do you think and she says well I was just asking the good Lord and I just asked him Lord I thought I was your friend and he said but you are Teresa and she says well now I understand why you have so few amen the name of the father son and holy spirit amen please stand <\p>

Vineyard as in as in your Vineyard man it's about the 1960s 1970s and Harry will tell you that his life his upbringing was he'll say not tumultuous but it wasn't favorable he said man it began in grammar school he said man I was I was bulli and if that wasn't bad enough it continue to high school and he said so you kind of he said man I was mixed up I didn't I didn't know what to do I couldn't even take care of my own self I couldn't even take care of my own yard my own my own Vineyard he said so man I'm desperate for work so he says I get a job as a carpenter and I get this job there's a guy that wants to build a um he wants to build a garage and then eventually he wants to be able to convert the garage so it needs to be set up in such a way that it could be U like a studio and the guy's name is Sergio Mendes I don't know if you ever heard him he's a he's he's right great producer Etc and so he's got the job and he's sitting up up in the house up on the roof in between the two Eaves and he's sitting down in the valley and he's just lamenting life he's actually started to Coast away Harry says he says man I'm thinking about my past life and how tumult it is and then I I hear a door slam and it jars me he said so I sneak up the side of the roof and I look down and here comes Mr Mendes walking out he's going to get his newspaper got his robe on his slip he's got a little pipe in his hand and he says I watch him go get the newspaper like everything is cool he said I slide back down and I sit in the valley thinking my God I'm in trouble you see I have three problems one I've never built a garage two I don't even own a garage three I've never built anything he said man it's a mess he says I'm reading a howto book and you know what's amazing if Harry came to your house today and wanted to do work you would be overjoyed he's actually that good now now granted Harry coming to your house would cause a commotion I digress but I got to tell you so he takes out book and he build he does such a good job taking care of his own work his own yard he said it gave him more confidence than any hundred things he ever did he said for the first time in my life I could take care of my Vineyard he said next thing you know Sergio Mr Mendes talks to a guy named James Khan James Khan gets him to build something and then he goes I go for him to Richard ders he said they're all friends and they decide that they need to keep a carpenter in the neighborhood so they keep giving me work well then there's not enough work so guess what Sergio and dfus decide to put me as an extra in a movie uh Dead Heat in a marry go around huge hit yes you can see it and he said man I just he said I didn't know what to do I just kind of stood there did whatever I got to do he said but then they started saying man well let's give him more bit parts so they put me on gun smoke and they put me on FBI and he said finally they give me a big break in American Graffiti wow I'm going to burn to death up here but okay all right with that being said man the next thing you know man he says he says man I'm still doing corpy work because I got to eat then they put me on Force tent of naon then they put me in the show witness then I did the Patriot Games I did a Trilogy with an over size chimp named Chewbacca I'm Indiana Jones Harris Harrison Ford please tell me you know who Harrison for okay God at least I didn't burn to death thank you ladies and gentlemen that is that gospel it's actually about taking care of your Vineyard how well did you listen the good Lord says I am a farmer and I throw out seed I'm the farmer you are the seed and he said some of you are going to find in good soil one of you is going to fall on rocks soil one of you is going to fall on a path and one of you is going to fall on the Thorns one out of four is going to the promised land 25% my brother and sister Christ now stop and listen you're a Jew you're a first Cent Jew stop listen to what I'm telling you my brother and sister Christ to the Jewish people when he talks in Parables there's always a Twist like wait a minute that that doesn't make sense the twist in this one is say you're the farmer I mean how bad of a farmer former are you you can't you you missed the field you threw it on the path you threw it in the Rocks you threw it in the Thorns man that's expensive he's saying that's the that's the twist that's where he wants you to focus at because why he wants you to understand I'm the farmer you're the seed where you land is up to you I'm going to water you are you ready to receive it so when he says and if you are ready to receive it you're going to you're going to go 30-fold 60-fold 100-fold do you know what the average producing of a field may be tenfold if you're hitting on all cylinders so to be 30 60 100 man that's pretty substantial he said all you got to do is Meet Me Halfway prepare the soil so when I come is the word first reading and then I water you that it will grow and it'll produce now my brother Christ let's make sure you understand something he's saying one out of four is going to the promised land that's pretty generous considering oh I see you think it should be more than that well I tell you what let's go back in scripture if we go back in scripture and I to ask you of the 1 million people that left Egypt to go by the Israelites to go into the promised land how many made it of the original 500,000 to 1 million people how that's right dose two and you think 25% isn't being generous if I asked you how many people didn't know would say you would tell me you would hopefully Tell me eight of the whole world oh and I see and you think 25% is not generous see my brother in Christ that's what you need to understand you and I need to make sure we take care of our Vineyard this is what I'm trying to get do not get caught up in the world do not get caught up in what Joe says or doesn't say you do not get caught up in what Francis says or does not say you you need to worry about your Vineyard it's the only thing that matters because on Judgment Day it's not going to be you and Joe thank God for that it's not going to be you and Francis it's going to be you and there will be nobody else to arbitrate to mediate to negotiate you'll be naked and alone and at the minute at the nanc of your death listen what I'm telling you at the nanc of your death the nanc while you're on the bed and your whole family's around you the second you die done Heaven held of purgatory for all eternity that's it call the dogs in it's all over with now are you part of that 25% because if you're not then guess what that 25% includes Purgatory because they'll eventually get to heaven the good Lord is saying don't get caught up in the world I'm telling you I'm warning you cuz at the very 90 second that you die now let's be honest I mean come on can we be honest I mean we're all in a church for the sake of God I mean let's be honest not everybody around your bed or my bed is really that sorrowful I mean let's be honest I mean some of them do want your car they do want your golf clubs they do want your coin collection they do want your Camp they do want your guns they do want your stuff my brother and sister in Christ that's the point I'm trying to drive home to you at the very n second it's just now you and him alone so you and I need to make sure we understand things you need to take care of your Vineyard so let me ask you this of the Ten Commandments do you know seven of them at least because remember it's the top 25% that go not the bottom 75% so therefore you would have to know 75% at least if you will of The Commandments do you know seven out of 10 not is a community my brothers and sisters in Christ do you know him and do you know him in the order I mean I mean I've heard it right father I hadn't killed anybody well that's a start well you know I I do honor that uh is what's it mother and father thing yeah it sure is well that's two out of 10 you're not even a good ball player my brother in Christ how hard it is it to love God with your whole heart mind and soul not to use his name in vain keep holy the Lord's Day honor your mother and father do not murder adultery steal baref fa witness coverage your neighbors and goods and spouse how hard is that you know everybody complains that the church has rules we got 10 if you were a Jew you'd have 600 so why is it you and I don't know the Commandments do you think you're going to learn the Commandments after you get to heaven how can you they're exclusionary my brother and sister in Christ do you know roughly six of the eight or nine Beatitudes oo this ain't well my brother and sister in Christ there in lies the point you and I need to understand and remember this and do not get caught up in this as a former Protestant I would tell you one saved always saved if you can clim Jesus Christ as your lord and savior and do so with your mouth you will be saved present tense the very Nan second you said it if the good Lord hits you with a lightning bolt your chances are good because the last words from your lips to his ears is his name good chance but if you live past that now what so when somebody asks you Catholics or are you saved I was I am as I sit here today because I'm speaking about him and if he calls me home then the chances are maybe are fairly good and then I hope to be you and I have free will you got to stop learning this you need to start learning this you have free will to either go or to come to worship him or not my brother and sister Christ you got to persevere to the end Judas is living proof Pro of somebody who accepted Christ as a savior proclaimed him to be the savior of the world even held a man's money and at the end of the day the good Lord told him three things you're the son of prediction Satan has entered you and the CP de been better you never been born so if you're going to make Heaven you should at least been born the boy doesn't make it by the same token the good thief who's a butcher and a murderer at the very end of his life before they break his shins and kill him within minutes probably within seconds he says Remember Me this day this day you'll be with me in Paradise Abraham's bosom the Garden of Eden my brother Christ that's what I'm trying to get you to understand you got to go to mass I don't care you're on vacation I don't care if your kids go in Pro well father you got to understand I mean we're on travel ball he's six he's pitching for Atlanta on Monday really my brother and sister Christ your Soul's at stake that's the point I'm trying to drive home you got to make sure you get to mass that's a minimum how many times do you go to confession do you go once a month if you if you're waiting to go once every six months once a year my brother in Christ you're well too far out I'm not saying you're not holy the average holy person sends seven times a day you don't go to confession for a month that's over 200 don't go for 6 months it's 1,200 sins don't go for a year it's 2400 don't go for a decade 24,000 C so how is it that you think think that somehow or another that you haven't sinned you haven't gossiped you haven't thought about something you didn't have poor thoughts you didn't act imprudently and open our mouth and stick our foot in it my brother and sister in Christ if you're not going to confession once a month I'm telling you you're going to drift from me and you're going to get further and further away pretty soon you're going to agree that there is no such thing as Sin my friends in Christ what I'm trying to get you to understand is you got to get in the game you got to take care of your Vineyard nobody else is going to do it for you it's your soul we got one job job one job only is to make it to Heaven don't you understand the second you die he doesn't care about your Camp your 401 your income your degrees he wants to know did you keep my Commandments did you love God and love your neighbor as yourself yes or no remember this as a Catholic and as a Christian you come in on this day you're going home on this day the minute this happens the second there is no more Mercy only judgment remains that's why they call it my brothers and sisters in Christ between here and here he is the god of Mercy that's why he gives you confession so you can have a mulligan that's why I give you communion so you can be in communion with me that's why I anoint you so that before you stand before me I can cleanse you of your sins that's why I baptize you because if you don't get baptized you won't get in front of me my brother and sister in Christ when was the last time did did you have your children baptized or you got caught up in the argument well when they're old enough to their make their own own decision well why don't you just tie a millstone around their neck and yours as well even the Jews believe that it removed original sin he's a Jew and we're descendants of the Jews my brothers and sisters in Christ you got to get to confession you got to go to mass you got to start getting in the game and taking care of your Vineyard because I'm telling you the fight here is only one out of four is going to the promised land and look I don't care what other people think of you and neither should you when you come to communion if you can't receive put your hands over your heart and walk up show him that you are adhering to his rules but more importantly you love him enough to give him the respect to go up and allow me to pray with you because what's happening is you're getting dismissive I'll catch it next week next month you don't know the hour of the day my brother Christ if other people are watching you as you pray or receive communion shame on them the measure in which you judge is the measure which you'll be judged against I need you to stand up and take care of your Vineyard you got to do what you got to do if it means skipping vacation it means you can't meet with the group or you got to miss a ball game or I can't make the hunt so be it because it's more important I'm here than I am out there because the Mia Koopa of well I'm sorry I miss MK but man we got all kind of jammed up you got jammed up because he wasn't a priority if he'd been a priority you would have been in math my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this there was a great quote if you look over the fence and The Grass Is Always Green trainer can I tell you to stop comparing can I tell you that you need to stop complaining can I tell you you need to stop looking across the fence and start Watering your own dang lawn because at the end of the day it's you on that stake it's you before him take care of your Vineyard I promise you come to mass receive the sment go to confession baptize your children get anointed so that I can get you in front of him in the state that you need to be and then for all eternity welcome home my child job well done God I loved you from the minute of your Inception and man you did right by me I watched you proclaim the gospel I watched you prayed the hell Merit I saw that sign of the cross when no one else did it I saw you go to communion with your hands up because you respected me in my church welcome to my table well done in your Vineyard that is what I need you to understand amen amen I work myself in a priz thank you bless <\p>

one more step I need you to take just one more step I need you to plant that seed if you don't do it nobody else will take the step plant the seed why well because it's the year 1900 I can tell you why and I got to tell I give it look if I lived in the city and the city wanted to do this more power to them they've grown in in their scholar in their um their scholarships their education um their universities it's 1900 but the number of Scholars writers authors teachers professors has grown exponentially so they want to get a book and they want to start a book kind of like making their City more known more popular so they decide they being the I was about to say Church fathers maybe so the city fathers have decided that they want to get together and they want to do a book for the city so as a result their first step is to talk to Mr McMillan McMillan's got it he's he's the bookmaker of bookmakers he not only fabricates books and manufactures them he distributes them he binds them he authors them he edits them he sells them he's he's the promoter he's mcmillon's the guy he's the books of million or bornes & Noble of his day as a result they take the first step they go to him they plant the proverbial seed he said look I get you but you need to take one more step you're going to have to get one guy to kind of be the quarterback of it and he says you got to get a guy that's very um scholarly very educational uh has a tremendous vocabulary for lack of a better term and he said my suggestion to you is you need to plant the seed with a guy by the name of Murray you get him your world gets better and then I can do what I need to do so take the extra step plant that seed they go see Dr uh Murray he agrees man I got to tell you he's all in because he's from the area and he says I tell you what there's no way I can undertake this by myself so I'm going to send out letters cards just I I need I need an associate I need an assistant he said so I'm going to send it out and we'll see a couple days go by weeks go by and he's getting cards and letters from all kind of teachers professors there I mean it's and he's going through it he gets a stack from this one guy and it's page after after page oh my God after page of words definitions pronunciations uh stories short stories books that he's written his name is Dr Miner he said that's our boy he corresponds with him he says man I'm going to need your help if you're all in we're going to start this so they do over one year they go back and forth right putting this book together there must have been I'm telling you I'm not exaggerating a thousand letters between the two they put the book together man they goes public wow they nailed it today today 2023 books still in play some of us still use it it's I got to tell you they got gain as a matter of fact they got so excited at what they did back in the 1900s they had a big parade they had a big Festival they were going to give Awards to uh Dr Murray and Dr Miner so Murray writes minor and says man you need to come he said man I I I can't he said but look accept my graciously thank you we appreciate you man he says man I got to tell you you need to come man can't happen as a result of it man he receives the reward and he says you know what I am going to personally carry my his award all the way to Dr Miner plant the seed that whenever you want you're welcome this man i' love to work with you he spends several hours driving back in the 1900s now driving in a little sense and so and he gets there and he finally gets to this building he finally locates it based on the address he gets out his car he looks at the building and you can just imagine his thoughts Broadmore Asylum for the criminally insane he said he's the physician here he walks in he says I need my name's Dr Murray we wrote the book that everybody's talking about can I see Dr Miner Dead Silence cricket cricket Dr Miner yes I I need to see him because he helped me put this book together what book this one really okay well we'll go get it here he comes walking around the corner kind of in a straight jacket he sees his face and his jaw drops oh my God it's you yes I'm Dr minor you are the same minor who's the greatest Mad Dog killer and serial rapist ever in the UK yes that would be me my brother and sister in Christ the book they write is the Oxford dictionary and y'all say you don't learn nothing in the church what is that my brothers and sisters in Christ that extra step to plant the seed that is that gospel the good Lord saying I don't want you to get caught up in the weeds just do what I tell you just plant the seed don't worry about what comes or doesn't come of it I'm going tell you to go to the field and I want you to plant this type of seed which I got to be honest with you like it's a massive tumble weed right and he says I don't care what you think what you should be doing just do what I ask you just plant the seed I will take care of it I don't want you to worry about whe you should make leavened or unleavened bread just do what I tell you let me worry about it but you still need to take the extra step to plant that seed my brother C now stop you are a first Century Jew you need to understand how he's thinking so that you can understand The Parables every Parable has a Twist something that just man that makes absolutely no sense that's where he wants you to go to so that you can realize that he is God and we are not my brother and sister in Christ he plants a field and he plants it with good seed overnight these weeds grow overnight and it grows as there's wheat and there's tear and if you looked at a picture of both of them you say man how do you tell him apart what he's trying to say to you is man if you had a garden you wouldn't weed it you wouldn't see a weed and pull it now instead of wait a week There's the twist he's saying don't worry about it just do what I told you plant the seed take the step I'll take care of it my brothers in Christ have you ever seen some of these bushes that are growing when he's talking about is I want you to plant the seed of this shrub that looks like a massive tumble weed I wanted you to put it in the middle of your feet which will dominate your field and there will not be one crop that will ever grow and all the birds of the air will come to it and they're thinking there is no way this ain't a cedar tree it's not an oak tree it's a tumble weed for all in sake he said do what I ask you to do take the step and let the Holy Spirit do his job groanings and gasp and let me take care of it and he said well wait a minute what about the woman that that had three measures you know how much three measures of of of Leaven is it's 50 gallons your your bread would be like the Super Dome he's saying don't worry about all the statistics just do what I told you to do my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are people that take the step not worrying about what's going to come of it whether they should really take it is it Prudential Lord he's just saying do what I ask you to do I will make all things new on my time according to my will if your job is to get to heaven then let me help you get there for I am already there for in my house there are many Dwelling Places where if there were not would I tell you that I'mma go ahead of you and prepare a place for you so that where I am you may also be Thomas said master I do not know where you're going I do not know the way Thomas I'm the way I'm the truth and the light no one comes to the father except through me take the step doubt my brother and sister in Christ goes to Peter and Peter makes the statement he goes to his wife I'm a Fisher a men him and pereria agree and he becomes the Vicor of Christ Peter makes the statement to Christ Lord I've given up everything for you and man you could see the Lord's shoulders almost slump oh my peter my Kaya my massive bow you gave up everything Peter well yeah Lord I mean I had boats I had I had a house I'm on the Sea of Galilee I'm I'm married well let's go back through that Peter those are my boats that is my house she is my child and so are you I have given up everything you have given up nothing I just need you to take the step so that you become the Vicor of my church my brother and sister in Christ not only him but can you imagine if you're longus I mean I got to tell you pilate doesn't take a breath without going to ask longus will this will will this work every Centurion loves longinus you're in a battle you want longinus you can lead a charge you want longinus you want to break up a resurrection you want longinus longinus is the guy he gets his authority through the respect of the people not through fear and as a result of it can you imagine your best player deathly loyal to you as pilate stands up of the crucifixion in front of everybody and makes the proclamation truly that man was the son of God not to mention he loses his 401k but did you know within weeks he's got to leave Rome now because he's decided to take the step to plant the seed because I now know that he is everything do you know pilate actually sends a regiment after him of the same men that he protected the same men he led into battle the same men that he made sure they stayed in line you know when they finally catch up to him they finally recognized it's him you know they didn't even recognize him they were having dinner they thought they just stopped at a house it was his house he's feeding him and then one of them realized it's longinus and then they said well look we'll just tell we'll just tell pilate we couldn't find you he said no you need to take the extra step you need to plant your seed albeit on the wrong side I've already done that so they behead him my brother and sister in Christ what if you're Mary Magdalene I mean come on get come on y'all give the woman or do you got all seven deadly sins Pride anger gluttony lust AB sloth and envy and all of a sudden you're the first to go see the ritten Christ I mean before the vicer himself before John my brother and sister in Christ she already knows the soldiers albeit way too intimately she already knows she can't move the rock but yet at the end of the day here she comes only person outside of her that will eventually know Christ is risen is her hence why she doesn't go to the tomb she already knows you know what's amazing my brother Christ because she takes that extra step she plants her seed she sees Christ and you know be honest with you she thinks he's the gardener and yells out where have you laid me just give me the dead corpse and let me handle it take in other words I'm planting my seed never again will I fall victim to the world or its trappings I have planted my seed I have taken my step he says Mary she yells raboni which means oh great one in their language did you listen carefully to his words let go of me she literally be hugs him to a point she won't let him go and then says quote I have not yet ascended to my father stop you need to understand this sidebar I have not yet ascended to my Father which means he hasn't gone to heaven yet he's been gone for three days so when he told the good thief this day you'll be with me in Paradise the paradise he's talking about is the Garden of Eden the Garden of paradise the good thief cannot be in heaven because the good Lord is not there to open the gates make sure you know that my brother and S Christ everybody who takes a great step you know what's amazing Peter still goes to our Savior and according to the Saints the good Lord is seated Peter comes in and stands literally in front of him and says Lord Rabbi oh great one why why her and not me am I not your vicer you gave me the keys you changed my name you speak of me 180 times in scripture in John only 30 I make all decisions I break all ties they said the good Lord stands in front of him face to face this far apart and says you know my my child I looked for you and did not see you put his hands back down and Peter just slumbered off my brothers and sisters in Christ it's because Mary Magdalene planted her seed and took that extra step our best players make the extra step and they plant their seed plant your flag call it what you will my brother Christ nothing's changed in 2,000 years the same decision is before you and I if you don't acknowledge Him in public he's not going to acknowledge you before his father so if you're not going to take the extra step or you're not going to plant your seed well then brother and sister in Christ then what is you think our come as our judgment do you think he's just going to look the other way for and forgive us when we've had all this time to ask for it my brother's Christ will you take the extra step to write that letter to that one person that you prefer not to something that you've been kicking the can about would you reach out to that family member that you know that man just the mere mention of their name causes the hairs on the back of your head to stand my brother see Christ what about your coworker your spouse your children your parents would you be able to bridge the gap and say you're sorry even though it's not your fault as if somehow or another we keeping score oh there's somebody keeping score and it's the last one you want to keep score my brother and sister Christ will you walk the extra step and make the phone call send the right email my brother sister Christ will you take the extra step to write a letter to run that errand when everybody else is tired and you get the text to run the extra Aaron you'll run it without even saying one thing negative will you take the extra step my brother and sister in Christ to go do something for somebody else knowing full well that you'll never get credit for it and they will never say thank you my brother and sister in Christ why is it that you and I are willing to take the extra step to blow up a bridge why is it you and I take that extra step to send that email back telling them what you think of them and the hearts they came in on why is it that you and I are willing to drive past somebody that's driving too slow and give them the look oh yeah I'm the only one that does that okay my brother and sister Christ if you're willing to make all those other little steps then why is it you can't make the step to be more in acknowledging that Christ is in the world and that you are a disciple of his I'm telling you my brother and sister in Christ the scales of Justice will be weighed accordingly we come from here to here and everything that takes place will dictate how our judgment goes how great would it be when he said you know man I watched you when your family disparaged you you never said nothing back boy you made me so proud of you man when somebody disparaged you you actually sent a kind word back I was even more proud of you I watched you run that extra errand I watched you do that extra job at work when they didn't ask you I watched it when you got no credit I was so proud of you because you reminded me of me my brother and sister in Christ you're going to what you plant is what you get you reap what you seow you want to take the extra step to blow up the bridge anybody could do that but if you want to be Christlike in a world that has very little light they will see it by your Works how powerful is the words proclaim the gospel everywhere you go and only use words when you have to my brother and sister Christ I'm telling you you got to take that extra step look let's be honest even the snails made it to the ark take that extra step make sure you do what you got to do and do it the right way stop counting and keeping scores it's not on you would you prefer to be in their shoes on Judgment Day the way they treated you the way they wrote about you the way they spoke to you email Facebook text message emailed or where' you rather be on the receiving end where you just felt sorry for them and you even prayed for them my brother and sister in Christ it was a story true story a man goes to Mr Edison inventor of the light bulb and says you know Mr Edison You Preach constantly how you always take the next step no matter how bad things get but you know what you failed to admit to you took 10,000 extra steps to not invent the light bulb all of them were mistakes he says you never admit that he said on the contrary he said I showed you 10,000 ways to not invent the light bulb you're exactly right so now I've saved somebody else by taking those extra steps we now know we only have to do it this way my brother in Christ I'm telling you take that extra step plant your seed and allow the good Lord to water it his will be done you did your job good bad or indifferent and the reward will be greater than you can imagine can you imagine you're welcome to the kingdom of God oh my Lord truly you're the prodical son there he comes there she comes that's my child wait till she comes all of my table is to them all the saints will rise the Applause will be for you because you are a spitting image the Messiah himself amen amen in the name of the father and the son holy spirit amen <\p>

fence fence as in straddling straddling the fence you know my friends in Christ you know what I liked about Phillip you can say what you want about him but he is a he is Catholic he now he may not be a poster boy for Catholicism at the start but this is like the 1980s but later in life I got to tell you still to this day Philip's Catholic it's with a big c man he grew up in uh it's connected in New York he'll tell you that is he had a pretty good home life initially he had uh three siblings and he said he loved New York his mom and dad separated he's now got to move I believe it's with his mom down to Miami Florida so he goes to Miami High School Philip would tell you he does two things very well he is an excellent boxer and somehow another he got wrapped up into a play called The Serpent and he loved it the problem is he was far better at boxing 27 and three to be exact as a result of it man he just he gets it he likes the discipline when he stays disciplined he stays out of trouble well he's trying to decide what he wants to do either maybe do more plays but it's it's Miami he gets in a little bit of trouble because he kind of gets away from boxing and as a result of it Philip just gets he said man he gets in trouble he said his his sister comes to him and said look here's $400 you're on the next gry Hound out don't look back don't come back they're looking for you you're guilty get to New York start your life over gets all the way up to New York starts working plays he's got to start boxing again that's all he knows he doesn't he does okay he said he was 6 and three and what made him retire is a guy that hit him so hard it actually gave him a concussion and they said man you knew right then he said no when I woke up I knew he was right then he said man he said I just knew I had to make a decision I got to stop walk I just got to stop straddling the fence I'm either going to box or I'm not and if not I'm going to try acting but if not you got to go to work work so he starts getting these bit parts and philli plays a really good bad guy he like a crooked attorney or just a you know a mob guy whatever but he does real well at it and then all of a sudden man the movies start coming he's in uh Philips in the movies like um uh Diner body heat uhoh not I could already see it in your face n and A2 weeks he played in uh Rainman man uh rain maker rain maker excuse me he played um uh the Man on Fire the pope of greinwich Village you know I didn't memorize a dozen of these things right um my brother said his name's Mickey oor okay that is a third guy that you'll never hear mentioned again in the church right but to give him is due he's Catholic to his core what he knows is is you can't keep walking St rattling the fence that is that gospel not once not twice three times he says the Kingdom of Heaven is this my brother and sister Christ he's trying to tell you you can't take it with you you can't bury it you either on it or in it or you are not you can't play both sides against the middle he gives you an example now remember you're Jewish so you and I now know that when they use Parables there's always a Twist in the parable something that doesn't it just doesn't make sense I mean let's be honest you're walking down a road you look into a field and there's a treasure you're walking down the road nobody's seen it but you and there's a treasure you're so excited you go bury it sell everything you have and buy the field the fact that there's a treasure in the field and you just didn't take it and run with it you buried it and sold everything yet Brothers Christ there's it doesn't work it's not logical it's not reasonable that's where he said saying you can't bury this treasure and you can't take it with you and he says well I'll give you another example he said it's like you find this beautiful pearl it is so beautiful that you go and sell your house your car your Camp your boats your guns and you go by the Pearl then you realize you can't eat with the Pearl you can't hunt with the Pearl you can't fish with the Pearl you can't buy anything you can't I mean you can't be clothed with it you can't put a roof over your head he says you can't take it with you my brother and sister in Christ he's trying to tell people and he says look at the end of the day there it's like you going net fishing on the Sea of Galilee now why is this important to you because that's the only way you can fish on the Sea of Galilee today you can only net fish and as a result of it when you throw the net out you're going to get good and bad he said I'm telling you this now so that you make sure that you are all in because if not I'm going to send my angels and they will separate you listen why this is important you and I because our best players in scripture are those who are able to delineate whether they're all in or all out you can't ride the fence man my brother in Christ throughout scripture the best players are the ones we know very little about for example the LA wealthiest man in all of their day is Lazarus so Christ's best friend if you will is one of the wealthiest men of all and as a result of it he has two sisters Mary of magdal which she had a house in magala which was his and then he also has Mary Martha and Mary excuse me and Martha now my brother Christ he's got Vineyards he's got grounds he's got he does have slaves he does have property he does have equipment he does have Caravans everybody knows who he is but this is what you don't know about him he's got to die twice so that Christ could be proven that's a friend you got to die twice my brother and sister in Christ do you know why he's not at the crucifixion according to the Saints because he knows good and well that the the apostles have to have somewhere to go do you know why we can't find Peter we can't find James we can't find Nathaniel Bartholomew Thomas we can't find Phillip we can't find the other Simon why because they're all over at his house because if he's not there to protect them but you know what's amazing he already knew this is what he was going to do so as a result of it I got to protect the good Lord and he actually conversed with the good Lord about protecting he actually asked the good Lord can I intercede because of my influence with pilate to stay what's coming my brother and Christ you know 60 to 90 days after the crucifixion and subsequent Resurrection he actually walks away from everything doesn't sell it he leaves it my brother and sister Christ that is somebody who no longer decides I'm just going to just I'm going to straddle the fence he's all in matter of fact my brother Christ he will actually die death later on my brothers Christ longinus as great as he was to pilate he became a greater disciple to our Savior I mean how many people would have the courage in front of all their constituents your fellow workers your bosses the Monarch himself pilot truly that man's the Son of God you lose all your money instantly about 6 months to a year later he'll be beheaded by the same people that he helped with the crucifixion the same people he protected the other centurions the same ones he fought with next to the war my brother and sister Christ he's all in our best players know you can't straddle the fence you can't sound part of this but I I I kind of believe in this so now here you and I sit 2,000 years later well let's see brother in Christ how good are you at straddling the fence or are you all in well let's see my brother and sister in Christ when somebody says you're are you Christian will you stand up and say well absolutely I'm Catholic well tell me as a Catholic are there exceptions to abortion like rape and incest absolutely not there are no exceptions if there had been he would have told me there were you don't think they had rape and incest in the time of Christ you don't think they had that going on my brother Christ they're burning children in the pit they called gehenna while Christ walked the Earth you can't have it both ways my brother and sister in Christ when it comes to abortion it's intrinsically evil in and of itself and the fact of the matter is when people tell you as Catholics that you can I'm sorry Father I'm just not a one isue person well that's a fine how do so what you're telling me is well father he's got a good diplomatic policy he's got a good Economic Policy you don't have a policy your policy is to kill children so you think the good Lord's going to bless your supply and demand you believe that your economic policy is going to work after he kill his children so when the good Lord asked you father father Mark where are my children my answer is going to be well you know I got to tell you that the president had a good Economic Policy he's a pretty good Diplomat for who I have no idea but he's a good Diplomat my brother and sister in Christ that's the point all things come through Christ you can't pick and choose whether you're in or out you're either in the church or you are not mother Christ how many times do I hear people make the argument well father you know we're we're just not ready to have children my brother and sister in Christ please go back and read scripture you are not your not your own you are not your own you have been purchased with a great price St Paul to the Corinthians St Paul to the Romans when you start using the pill or some type of contraception you are putting something between you and your spouse I told you to go forth and to multiply my brother and sister in Christ he is the god of economics if he wants to be able to support you and your children then he will for you and I to step in his shoes and tell tell him that this is how it will be you're telling him it's more important how we do it than how you do it you can get upset you can get mad you can kick your dog I'm telling you right now that's the teachings of the church you got to decide whether you're in or whether you're out you can't walk the fence my brother and sister in Christ this is getting old this is why our country is starting to fracture remember this it does not matter to me what Frances says or does not say what matters to me is where you land all I care about is your soul stop worrying about what he says or doesn't say stop worrying about what Joe says or doesn't say the only thing that matters is your soul do you not understand there is no exceptions when you're in front of him there's no arbitration there's no mediation he's going to say man your judgment you come in on this day you go home on this day please for the love of God remember this the nanc you and I die the nanc before people walk away from your bed before they leave to get in their cars you have already been judged and you're either in heaven hell or Purgatory that's it it's done and there's nothing else to go and it's for all eternity I'm trying to tell you you can't pick and choose either he's The Great I Am or he's not you can't go one in both ways you can't say man I believe in the church but I don't I have exceptions to these rules man do you understand why he went to the wedding of Cana he went there to prove to you that if I had had to go there for 7even days then you need to come to my house when you get married it was so important he'd be at the wedding to canaa we don't even know the name of the couple and it's been 2,000 years so getting married on a beach getting married at someone's house or in the backyard of an annabellum home is not in front of him yes the good Lord is everywhere but he's physically present in the Tabernacle that's why I say this is my body which will be given up to you what I got to get you to understand if you don't understand the faith and ask the questions you can't just keep walking down the middle of the road you can't say man father you know I'm I I know the Commandments do you because if you don't most of them are exclusionary do you know the Beatitudes do you know the very first one at least fear the lord if you don't have that then you won't make it if I asked you what are the four pillars of the church would you know one of them my brother Christ how can you and I Proclaim to be Catholic and remember what Catholic means according to the whole that If We Gather in one place we listen to the readings we sing the Psalms and different from the Jews we break bread instead of sacrifice a lamb that's the definition of Catholic it became so popular it became Universal you and I have got to stop apologizing for being Catholic you need to learn your faith yes we have let you down no if hands or butts about it yes we make it confusing cuz different priests speak different ways that is true and sometimes I'm not sure where Francis is going that's a true statement too but it doesn't change the fact that you need to know the truth and I'm going to tell you I am not going to stand before him and say well Lord I would have pitched it but you know there's going to be push back because now that sin's on me I've got my own set my brother and sister in Christ I'm not going to burn for another so it's important for me for you to tell you the truth you can pick and choose what you want and throw the rest away but nobody's going to nail my foot to the floor telling me man beard you just didn't say what was truthful my brother in Christ my job is to pitch it whether you want to catch it or not it's on you my job is to make sure you know the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God at the end of the day you have got to get off that fence you have got to plant your flag my brother in Christ I'm not saying that you will agree with 100% of the church teaching but you don't get to pick and choose she's been around for 2,000 years and someday you and I are going to stand be in front of him naked and alone and let me promise you we will hear one or two words come Judgment Day man depart from me well Lord man I proclaimed you to be the Messiah I held your money so did Judas or he's going to say welcome to my table God I have waited for you I bragged on you I told the Saints about you I said watch him watch her watch they're going to make the sign of the cross and they're going to be belittled and condemned for it watch he's going to break out the prayer of The Hil Mary when everybody starts to look down they're going to say man I a one isue candidate because that's all that matters is life life Everlasting my brother in Christ I leave you with the words of Johnny Cash A great Theologian in his own right he said if there was a fence Between Heaven and Hell it would be owned by the Devil Himself amen amen amen man thank you thank you I'd like to thank my family who came here stood up and clapped man God bless you flee stand thank you <\p>