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let us pray instruct the hearts of the faithful by
the life of the holy ghost friend is by the same spirit be truly wise
rejoice in this consolation through the same christ

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hail mary full of grace the lord is is very well so thank you for coming again
this is our third conference about uh the first week first time we had the
class was about um sacrifice being the highest form of adoration
and adoration being the highest form of the virtue of religion
last week we heard about our divine lord who is the only adequate
sacrificer the only one who can pay the infinite debt for debt for sin and
how he is now in heaven as our mediator constantly offering the prayer to his
father of his five wounds for our remission of sin while on earth he is

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constantly offering his holy sacrifice made new over and over again on the altar
and finally last week we studied a little of how
only the priest can be the sacrificer because he's the ordained minister and
that point will come again come up again tonight but first i'd like
to return to our saint who is kind of our theme of these classes for as long as
her story lasts that saint philomena last week we looked inside into some of
the authenticity of her relics her remains in the catacomb catacomb of saint
priscilla i was telling you how the tiles the three tiles which read pakistakum
philomena actually are in the right order and the grave has never been violated
and for that reason the relics which are inside
the grave are the true relics of the person whose name is on the outside of
the grave so this evening i'm going to jump ahead

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a little bit in the story of saint philomena
to some of the more well-known people we know
we know and then i'll jump back again and so forth but the theme will be always
saint philomena for as long as we study her life
remember of course that her name philomena means not just light
but daughter of the light the light being our lord jesus christ
she was given that name by her parents after they
they converted to the true faith and then conceived the child they were barren
until that time until they took the true faith
and um they called her light when she was born
in honor of our divine lord who is the light of this world
and then when they baptized her just a few days later they called her phil
lomina meaning the daughter of the light and when our blessed mother appeared to
philomena in the prison when she was imprisoned by diocletian

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at the age of 13. she was in prison for 37 days and our lady came to her with
her divine child in her arms and she said my daughter you will be here
another three days and then we'll begin many tortures
you will be humiliated because of your physical state but all of your
humiliation will cause greater glory to my son
and she said have no fear our blessed lady told her have no fear
you have my name and you have my son's name
the more i study the story the more i see that
philomena was something essential for the beginning of the church
outside of the catacombs but you have the name
you have the name of my son you have and you have my name
uh my son is light of the world he's taken away the darkness of sin i
also am called moon and star of the sea and dawn our lady she has

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terms of light also which come from her sun the moon is a reflection of the sun
the sea reflects the light of the sky the dawn is the beginning of the sunlight
but our lady has light in so far she reflects that of her son
and she said you have our name philomena
so you know many christians are going to come to the faith because of you and
your sacrifices and so that's what kept philomena
faithful for the different tortures we've heard about the last few
classes so i'm going to jump ahead here to a saint
who's probably the one most responsible for making saint philomena known
and that would be saint john vienne or the curie of ours
in the 19th century at the beginning saint philomena's relics were discovered
in 1802 uh the same relics arrived at her place in munyano of italy

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in 1805 and then miracles started happening everywhere
so people were hearing about saint philomena and saint philomena
and the curie of ours heard of her in france
and he right away started praying to her
so we're talking about the 1830s by that time
and uh you'll we'll hear this story on another night
which was that of pauline jerichot uh venerable pauline jerichot she was
the one who was the founders of the propaganda fidei
thanks to her we have a whole commission in rome which is set aside for bringing
the faith to the missions and that's another story but this woman
became very very ill and she was already a friend of the curie curie of ours
she was french woman she lived in france she consulted
saint john vienne regularly and he said to her she had a great sickness of the
heart heart disease and she was dying it was so obvious

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he said um pray to saint philomena make a pilgrimage to muniano
which if you study the geography we're in you know france and she has to travel
over the alps to go through italy get italy get down to the southern part of
italy and to muniano to visit the relics of saint philomena which she did
amazingly who knows how she did it in her physical state but she did
she was cured and the cure was authenticated by
pope gregory the 16th yes pogrover 16th and for that reason he canonized uh
saint philomena until that time she was not saying philomena was not canonized
she was just working miracles but thanks to the the the the journey
of uh pauline jerichot the pope finally canonized her and she was saint
so this pauline jericho brought back to eventually went back to france

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visit this she had she had to stay with a pope for a whole year
first in rome so the pope would be sure that this is the same woman he saw this
is so sick and he she was already a friend of the pope before this um illness
because the propaganda fide and she stayed from rome for a whole year
and finally went back to france she saw the cure
and she thanked him so much for the command to go visit
the relics of saint philomena and she gave him a relic
uh just so you remember relics are first-class relics second or third
first are either bone or blood of the saint
second are a part of the habit of the saint or something they were constantly in
contact with like the breviary or something that they use daily or some
sheets of their bed or something like that uh that's the second class relic and
third class relic is anything we touch to the saint
so she brought back for the curie um a first class relic he constructed an altar

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about the year 1837 and from there on out well actually it had already begun but
he was a great devotee of saint philomena he's the one who sent
paulie and jericho to the saint philomena to begin with
and um all kinds of miracles happen in the church of ours the curie of ours in
and it's kind of an interesting um relation there between saint philemian
philharmin and the cure he was so holy already that he was working miracles
but he was especially working miracles because he had the relic of saint
philhamien in his church and she and he was one making her so well known
throughout the world so many times he would cure someone
as soon as they started praising him thank you so much for
giving my sight back or thank you so much for giving my
uh my able ability to walk again oh sir he was embarrassed about the thing

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that's how saints are all he knows is that he loves god if
there are wonders happening on happening around him
it's nothing to do to himself that's what saints know
so causing great embarrassment so the first thing that says no it is not i who
have cured you is saint philomena and he would say things like
to no one he would say i wish the saint philomena would her work
her cures in other places so as not to bring all the fame to me um
so uh saint philomena constantly performed miracles through the hands of
the curie uh this embarrassed him this however did not dissuade
saint philomena from doing this and so he blamed it
blamed all these cures on her blame to be in quotation marks
and he would often say i wish he would do her cures and miracles
someplace else so as not to bring attention to me

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soon all of france was praying paying devotion to her
with churches in her name everywhere uh in the church of ours they had on the
average 14 cures per week either due to saint philomena or to saint john vienne
uh the region of long gray in france alone had 12 churches in the name of saint
philomena and these and her um cultists the devotion to her attracted many
people on three dates in particular august the 11th which is her birthday in
heaven the day she arrived in heaven may the 25th the fine which is the
finding of her relics in 1802 and sunday within the octave of the
ascension which is called the patronage of saint philomena so the year 1843
arrived if you remember i said saint john vienne

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built the altar in her honor in her honor with the relic in 1837.
1843 arrived and the curie was fatally ill he had double pneumonia
on may the third he was too exhausted to preach he retired to his humble room
the next five days he became progressively worse
three doctors consulted him and finally told him there was nothing more they
could do for him the confessor of the cure of ours was
called and gave him last rites the priest said have you forgiven your enemies
saint john said i don't wish harm to anyone i have no enemies to forgive
the next morning the curie asks for mass to be offered
for him at the altar of saint philomena while the mass was going on he was not
present at the mass he was in his private room while the mass was going on
at the very beginning he was very anxious but as soon as the mass started let's
see before the mass started he was very anxious

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as soon as the mass started he became perfectly calm
during the mass he was seen to be whispering or murmuring with someone the
whole time while a greater look of peace came over his face
obviously he was speaking with saint philomena as soon as the mass ended
he joyfully announced that he was cured and it was true there was no doubt no
more double pneumonia the body was still very very weak from
all the malnutrition that happens in these things
but he promptly got up from his bed he went to the church
knelt in front of the blessed sacrament to give thanks to god for the cure
and then he went to the altar of saint philomena to spend
a good long time in kala queen meditation with her
he said that at that time at that colloquy uh with saint philomena she gave him
thoughts and secrets about the love of god that he would retain until the end of

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his life that's how cool saying philomena is to
the cure of ours and thanks to him all of us know about her
um when we say that about how saint philip st philomena revealed secrets to him
gave him thoughts about the love of god until this dying day
that reminds us reminds me very much anyway of
saint paul the epistle we're going to hear in a couple days
how being united to our lord jesus christ in his imprisonment
he knew about the breadth and length and height and depth
of the love of the sacred heart but without that suffering he would not have
known so sooner or later all these saints sooner or later they overlap
and here's we have saint philomena overlapping with saint john viene
overlapping with saint paul the love of our lord jesus christ which they learn
through their suffering so very good with the thoughts of saint philomena in

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mind about um suffering and sacrifice and loving god
we go into the holy sacrifice of the mass again
remembering that adoration is the highest form of sacrifice
and our lord jesus christ is the only adequate sacrifice
he's the only one can that can pay the infinite debt of sin
because he is god he is infinite and he pays that
in the person of man because man is the one that sinned
that's how we're so grateful to the hypostatic union
the fact that the divine nature of our lord jesus christ informed the human
nature of his body and soul and completely transformed it it's due to that
transformation that you and i are redeemed that you and i can be connected
to the humanity of our lord jesus christ and thus ascend to his divinity

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there is excuse me we study the unbloody sacrifice of the altar
the unbloody sacrifice of the altar our lord makes present his sacrifice of
calvary on the altar in an unbloody manner this is the clean oblation
that was spoken of in the old testament ever since melchizedek until the time of
our lord jesus christ and until now the clean oblation keep in mind what a
person a jewish person an israelite person would have thought of sacrifice
sacrifice is an animal the best sacrifices
are it's bloody sorry to use this word it's messy
uh it doesn't look so glorious but one knows that he's offering up
life as a representation of his own life for his sins whereas
the sacrifice that you and i see is the clean oblation

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upon the altar we see bread and wine but we know the re that the reality is
that is body and blood of our lord jesus christ on the altar
and melchizedek is the first one who prefigured the sacrifice of our lord
melchizedek is a priest and a king who lived the time of abraham
and abraham as you know is the root the source
of all christianity he's the one that was chosen to be the father of great
nations from whom would come the redeemer from whom we are that starts with
abraham and abraham himself was blessed by the king and priest melchizedek
melchizedek is the king of salem which means the king of peace
melchizedek blesses abraham meaning that he's somehow greater than
abraham because the greater blessed the lesser

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melchizedek receives alms from abraham which is true abraham gave a donation to
melchizedek and we know that donations go from the lesser to the higher
you all give donations to the church because the church is higher
and melchizedek offered a sacrifice which was bread and wine and not an animal
not oil not some kind of plant life he offered bread and wine
in that bread and wine he was already prefiguring the clean oblation of our lord
and one of the titles of our lord jesus christ is that he is a priest
according to the order of melchizedek it means he's greater than abraham
it means he offers a sacrifice which is not bloody
the one that's on the altar and it means that he offers the clean oblation and
furthermore melakaiah says it is the clean oblation which is known
to all the gentiles which is offered from the rising of the sun to the
setting thereof it means from the east rising sun to the

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setting road to the west the whole world sees the clean oblation of our lord
jesus christ upon the altar and only we as catholics know about that
even the jewish people the old testament people as close to god as they were
they are the chosen race physically speaking humanly speaking they are the
chosen race they've received they've refused the life of grace
that our divine lord offered them and so now we see them as a just a human and
carnal race anymore but they were once the human and spiritual race
even these people when they are worshipped in the temple
the temple which is one of the most glorious buildings ever made
with the sacrifices so ordained by god in the book of
exodus books of exodus and deuteronomy even then they have a carnal carnal

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and exterior sacrifice and saint paul constantly refers to this they have a
carnal and exterior sacrifice they do not have the offering of
a contrite heart they do not have the offering of a contrite
spirit which is giving glory to god they have a carnal and exterior
sacrifice whereas the christian since the time of our lord jesus christ
has the interior into spiritual and interior sacrifice
how is that we come to mass we assist at mass we see
the priests offering sacrificing at the altar but we see no blood we
smell no burning you can imagine what the temple must have smelled like if
we're human beings we like the smell of roasting flesh it must have smelt
kind of desirable and they would say there was a smoke and incense
type of incense being offered to god because they were not the ones
principally who were able to eat from those sacrifices

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but we don't see that we don't smell it we don't physically we don't sense that
sacrifice and that is because even though it is a
true sacrifice there's no doubt about it it's a true
and physical real sacrifice in the altar without it the cross of our lord jesus
christ will remain locked in time without being able to
apply its merits to our souls that's why our lord insisted at the last
supper with his apostles do this in commemoration of me
you know you must offer the sacrifice otherwise it remains
locked stagnant held in one place and um this is true sacrifice we don't
with the eyes physicalize we don't see it we don't smell it we don't sense it
but we know from our the words of our divine lord it is a sacrifice it is the
sacrifice it is spiritual and interior it is making a spiritual and

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interior conversion of our souls with the jew the israelite before the
time of our lord jesus christ there was something spiritual about the
sacrifice saint paul says that it was making reparation for sin insofar as i
looked forward to the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
which would make the final reparation for sin
but saint paul says but in itself it was not cleansing the conscience
it was not purifying the soul it was making reparation for sin and
so far it was connected to the crucifixion but it was not cleansing the
conscience he says how much more will the sacrifice
the shedding of the blood of our lord jesus christ
cleanse the conscience and that is what you and i have
when we assist at i'll say the true sacrifice
this is not to say the sacrifice of the israelites was false i'm just saying

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that it has its fulfillment in our lord jesus christ
when our lord died on the cross you know that the veil of the temple was
torn in two it shows that there is no need for the temple anymore from now on
the sacrifice sacrifice of our lord is open to all souls and it also means
this sacrifice until the time of our lord jesus christ
left the jewish people in a material world
in their material sins material problems the bondage of fear
is how saint paul describes it whereas with the sacrifice of our lord
we're freed from that bondage of fear and we're separated from the world
and now we're living the spiritual life with our lord jesus christ very good

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there is the old covenant and the new covenant in the old covenant
uh the people had to be faithful to the law
and they had the bloody sacrifice which i just described to you
in the new covenant we don't focus so much on the law because we have
our lord jesus christ with his shedding of blood on the cross
that shedding of blood may present on the altar and therefore
the souls are inspired to not just to obey the law but the
souls are inspired to do more and more whatever they can
in order to um give more glory to god and try to think of it and try to focus
on it for we as for us as catholics we live in an age
and it's been 500 years of this age already

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with a catholic church at least humanly and according to man et cetera
is breaking down all right there's no there's no use to deny that but our lord
jesus christ is with his church he will be with it to the end of the world
principally in his sacrifice the holy communion but in many many other ways
so we're used to seeing protestants and hearing protestants and
and eventually after several hundred years to have a certain kind of respect
for them that they persevere as much as they do and i've
seen protestants protesting immoral things and bad things in the
united states so the catholics don't even care about anymore
don't get up to do anything about it anymore all right so not praising them
just giving credit where credit is due here you are here we have this poor
protestant who studies his bible 110 of the day
as compared to a catholic who has everything who has

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transubstantiation let's say the changing of the bread and wine on the altar
into the blood body and blood soul and divinity of our lord jesus christ
he has christ himself with his real presence on the altar
the catholic and many times he doesn't even care about it
and much more so in the last 50 years because our theology and our doctrine
has been watered down and he confused so much to
give us the idea that we believe just this and only the same thing as
protestants believe which is very unfortunate but we have everything
but unfortunately we don't give it as much enthusiasm as the
protestant does many in many cases so um we're now in the new covenant
when our lord jesus christ insisted on this new covenant
it was on the occasion of the last supper

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with his his apostles the last supper as you probably know has three parts
our lord started with the pasco lamb or the you could say the ceremonial victim
and then from there he went to the washing of the feet of the apostles
and then he concluded the evening with them with the institution of the holy
eucharist now it was necessary and not an accident at all
that our lord instituted the holy eucharist on the same night
as it was necessary to eat the paschal lamb pascal lamb as you know had to be it
eaten entirely from head all the way to the tail and
what they could not eat they had to burn so the idea of immolation is obvious
this lamb stands for is the figure of the redeemer that will completely

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spend himself complete shed every last drop of his blood
to pay the price for our sin so our lord ate that paschal lamb with his apostles
and then after the washing defeat they returned to the table and he instituted
the holy eucharist from some of the elements of the ceremonial meal itself
he gave them his flesh and blood he instituted the eucharist the
institute of the priesthood and it's necessary they did that on that
occasion to show us that the old covenant what used to be
more of a human sacrifice a fleshly and carnal sacrifice
had been sublimated had been lifted to the new covenant which is not just a lamb
whose blood is shed but actually the flesh of god

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himself being shed sorry being being offered and sacrificed uh for
our redemption and that was the beginning of the new covenant
now there are many references in holy scripture in the church fathers
in the writings of the church to insist that the
elements of the chalice at the last supper
were really the blood of our lord jesus christ
we know that he could could not make that blood present
if he wasn't going to shed that blood very very close to the last supper
but the covenant sealed in the blood of our lord jesus
christ was already effective from holy thursday night
and we might think that's a little strange we might
think well wouldn't that have happened uh not until

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good friday when he really did offer his body and blood when the veil
of the temple really did get torn from top to bottom and the answer is no
he was already making that covenant on the night before
the crucifixion because that really is his blood in the chalice as well as
the what appeared to be bread really is his flesh
now why do i insist so much on this i guess that's an important point of
course it's important what's so great about this for us what's
irrelevant about it for us the answer is when you assist at holy mass
and you see the priests breaking bread so to speak offering the holy sacrifice
you are seeing the same sacrifice that our lord
offered to his apostles which was the covenant itself it is no small thing
no small thing at all and this is an important point for you also

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the priest that offers the mass we've studied this before he is the
altair christus or the other christ that person can be very intelligent or
maybe not so intelligent that person might be able to preach or not preach
that person might be a good administrator or bad administrator
that person might be good in dealing with people or that person might be very
disagreeable in dealing with people that person might
be proud or that person might be humble but at the holy sacrifice of the mass it
is our lord who is offering that sacrifice just as he offered on the cross
and just as he made it present the last supper it is the
unbloody sacrifice it is a clean oblation it is superior to that of the old
testament because it's not just the prefigurement
it's the reality and it's offered for the whole world it's not just offered for

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the people that are present at the sacrifice as was the um
sacrifice in the temple you know when we think about it when
we're at holy mass we are present at all those realities which the
apostles were present for this was not merely a communion celebration
but a sacramental state of sacrifice the act of consecration at the last
supper was truly a sacrificial act this is my body which has food under the
appearance of bread is broken for you that is the sacrificial banquet
we must be careful with this term banquet or even sacrificial banquet

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it's a term which has been abused in my estimation
by the novus ordo mass they focus very much on supper banquet assembly community
etc we hear all those words which in themselves are quite worthy words
but we keep saying it's true it's true it's true yes it's true
where is the word sacrifice and you never hear it
and that's because of what we said last week also sacrifice denotes
guilt guilt comes from sin sacrifice means we need a priest who's
going to find you know make make reparation offer sacrifice for us and to be
repaired etc and those are terms that modern man
no longer wants to hear and has been several hundred years
in play until finally we have most of the members of the church saying
we don't need sacrifice man is sufficient to himself to go to god
but in sacrificial banquet it is true we assist at the sacrificial banquet our

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lord is offering us his body and blood just as he did with his apostles but it
is indispensable that this banquet be connected with
sacrifice it would have been sorry to say it
it would have been completely empty if our lord had
given his body and blood supposedly to his apostles without having sacrificed
himself without being going to sacrifice himself
which shall be shed for you which will be offered for you
the separation itself of body and blood implies death
you know when you're at the alt when you're at mass um
and the body and blood are made present in a mystical real presence is on the
altar in a mystical way his body and blood
have been made present in a separate way causing what we call what we call a
mystical death of our lord jesus christ on the altar just as he died

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really on the cross our lord is the lamb which has been slain who lives forever
that's a term that comes from the apocalypse the lamb slain who lives
sounds like a contradiction but it's not slain lamb means
what happens to our lord jesus christ on the cross
and that lamb is made present on the altar every day and he continues to live
in his sacrifice and through the mass he was slain on the cross and he
continues to be made present on the altar every day lying as if slain but living

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victorious and triumphant there is a prefigurement of that also in
the old testament the story you know uh which is abraham who finally had a
son when he was more than 100 years old and guided promising
him you'll be as numerous as the sand of the sea it's the stars of the sky and
sand of the sea uh and there was no sun finally he had a son over home 100 years
old the son grew up to be a man and god said okay
prove to me that you love me now sacrifice him oh that was prefigurement
of god himself offering his own son abraham without hesitation brings his
son isaac up the mountain to sacrifice him mount horeb
and just when he's about to put the knife in the heart of his son
out comes a ram to be offered instead a lamb slain yet lives triumphantly
isaac was already dead in a way he'd morally had already been sacrificed by

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his father god stopped the hand of his father in order to make another sacrifice
but that's the death of our lord jesus christ that was prefigured there
he was slain but he continues to live and the sacred heart of jesus bursts
forth one more time in his divine radiating flames of love by remaining
upon the altar for his flock until this banquet finds his fulfillment
in the kingdom of god that is until the end of the world remember our lord
when he instituted the chalice he said i will not the next time i drink this
fruit of the vine with you will be in the next
world we'll be in heaven what he means is you're going to continue to offer and

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offer and offer this sacrifice and it will have his fulfillment in heaven
the sacrificial banquet will become the time that you spend in heaven with me
giving praise to god my father me with my wounds
in his honor and you with all the suffering that you're going to do as
part of your union with my chalice so really you know when we assisted mass
the all the generosity of our divine lord for his father
in suffering and offering himself up becomes our generosity
in the liturgy of uh saint james it is said let all mortal flesh be silent
christ is about to be sacrificed and to be given as food to the faithful
sacrifice and banquet banquet is never mentioned without sacrifice
apologetic proof apologetic means a doctrinal proof that shows the truth

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truth of the catholic faith from the first ages of faith it has been
the practice and doctrine of the church to regard the sacrificial character
of the eucharist this can only come from divine revelation
in the catacombs of saints there are constant witnesses to the uh
meal and the sacrifice going together the the sacrifice the sacrifice of the
mass which is the banquet pictures of altars or tombs with
fishes on the altar and loaves at either sides showing that the one who's really
present on the altar is our lord jesus christ
but he's being slain on the altar and that sacrificial food
is being given to the faithful the early christians in the catacombs

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secretly offered the mysteries which made them seal their testimony
with their own blood so that they could triumph over all the powers of the world
and hell and they had the strength to do this
because christ's sacrifice was their sacrifice
so the insistence this evening was on the superiority
of the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ compared to that of the old testament
and how its interior and spiritual and how it's unbloody instead of bloody
and how it's the complete fulfillment of everything they ever
offered in the old testament so i think all of us have a very good and clear
idea how important is the sacrifice without it
no reparation from our sins without it no cleansing of our conscience
without it no sanctification and finally no salvation and sacrifice i know i've
come back to the word at least a thousand times

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in this one conference but that is the point of reference
that's the substance that's the foundation
uh you've probably heard it said that um the holy eucharist is the
foundation of our faith if you don't have uh the truth of the holy eucharist if
you don't have if you don't believe it you're not a
catholic and you don't have what's necessary to save your soul
it is the foundation of the faith and why is that because the holy eucharist
is the sacrifice of our lord made present for our sanctification
we totally depend on sacrifice it's not just because that's the
tendency of man all races and all whatever peoples have done sacrifice and
therefore christians have their own way of sacrifice too and
that's why they do it it's just it's just pure anthropology that's not true
we have sacrificed because our lord jesus christ is the sacrifice

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and that's the way he wants to that's the way he unites us to his father
opens the door to heaven again by this adoration so great for his father
very good i insist on it because now i'm going to show you the let show you in
the last few minutes what has happened to the sacrifice of
the mass in the last 50 years of the church
traditionally the definition of the mass was and should always be forever
the unbloody sacrifice of the new law in which the body and blood of christ
under the species of bread and wine by a mystical immolation
are offered by a legitimate minister of christ
to god in order to acknowledge his supreme dominion
and apply to us the merits of the sacrifice of the cross
excellent we've got a priest who is the minister of god
who offers the sacrifice of jesus in the form of bread and wine
to make reparation for the sins of the faithful in order that

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we can give the greatest praise to god excellent what has become of
this definition since 1969 here we go the lord's supper or mass
is the sacred assembly or congregation of the people of god
gathering together with a priest presiding in order to celebrate the memorial
of the lord for this reason christ's promise applies
supremely to such a local gathering of the church where two or three come
together in my name there am i in the midst these are all words which
relativize sacrifice priest adoration sanctification they'd all just
reduce the terms which are not clear anymore
and which in many ways are contrary to the first terms
why would they have done that in vatican ii uh their big emphasis

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is ecumenism and modernism ecumenism is to relegate the catholic church put the
catholic church on a level with whatever christian doctrine christian pseudo
doctrine is out there and modernism is to say that
what was true yesterday is not true today it just floats
so they don't want to use strong terms about defining what the mass is anymore
didn't even call it the mass they said the lord's supper or the mass
they avoid language like unbloody sacrifice immolation merits etc
because non-catholics reject these teachings very good that was the definition
instead of talking about okay and i'll give you a quote here
we've quoted him a couple of lessons ago father luca brandolini says

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this new definition so he's a modernist this new definition defines the mass
exactly because we begin with the assembly instead of beginning with
god we begin with the people who are in the pews and in it
the sign of the assembly is returned to its first position it
means it should have always been that way
not focusing on the priest not focusing on the altar but focusing on the
group of faithful it's all very democratic you know the people the
people the people sometimes in government maybe that's a
good thing you know the representatives need to be ministering to the people yes
but you don't start with the holy sacrifice of the mass that way the most
important thing is the assembly of the people the great sign which defines and
qualifies the whole celebration according to the new order of the mass
is the eucharistic assembly i still haven't heard the word sacrifice
all we're talking about is how the people get together
and eucharistic don't be deceived that doesn't necessarily mean the host

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it kind of means the whole people together in so much as they are giving
thanks to god and just to continue going through
that definition that new definition it's now called lord supper instead of mass
to deny that the mass was a true sacrifice
and also to stress that what we simply what we have now is simply a
memorial we're going to recall how jesus said this to his apostles
that's why when they offer the new mass there's never a
sacred moment where the priest is only in silence speaking with the host
who is god you just have a pure narration narration the story
no one gets a second to meditate but and he took bread and he break and
he offered it to his disciples saying this is my flesh and after that he took
the chalice and he and he said this is my blood
which shall be offered of you for the new covenant just this one long

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narrative story going on and you don't get the sense that what
he's saying is really affecting what his work his words not affecting
what he's saying whereas in the traditional mess when you
see the priest bowed over the altar in complete intimacy with god you know
that his words are changing that bread into body and blood
and the same with his words over the chalice changing the chalice into
i say body and blood because actually all of our lord jesus christ is in every
particle of host and all of jesus christ every drop of precious blood
but uh like so the chalice is changing to blood
it's so obvious but he's not so obvious in the new mass
very good continue they say sacred assembly the essence of the mass is no longer
sacrifice the essence as we said of the mass is no longer sacrifice
but on the assembly we don't come here to focus on that up there we come here
to focus on what's going on in the pews that's why
you might have noticed that novus ordo churches

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it's quite acceptable that people visit with each other talk with each other
before mass begins and then when you hear the ding-ding of mass to start
that's kind of okay the movie's about to start now so let's have everyone
uh lower their voices so we ought to respect for this spectacle
something like that i know here you know when you come to the church
the silence itself kind of shouts out to you
uh because we're in the presence of the sacrifice of our lord
people of god this term we used to say the congregation or the faithful
and now they insist on the word people of god why is that
because by saying that oh he said we used to say the church
by not saying the church anymore we talk about the people of god
it leaves room to think that well anyone who's been baptized
whether even if they're heretics or schismatics those are people of god also
so they use that word a lot nowadays to get rid of this idea of church

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congregation faithful those who accepted all 12 articles of the apostles creed
gathering together all right instead of focusing on sacrifice gathering together
connotes assembling for the lord's supper memorial with the priest presiding
no no no no it should be the priest offering
priest presiding even though those two words share a lot of consonants and
vowels and i don't know what all the priest does not preside the priest
is offering sacrifice and i already told you he doesn't even
have to be a great man he can be a disagreeable man not humble
not even that intelligent but sorry he's been made a minister ordained
minister of god he is or he is offering a valid sacrifice he's not presiding
he's offering a sacrifice without which no one is going to be sanctified

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in order to celebrate their order their assembly that is gathered in order to
celebrate uh yes given the idea that the faithful the people of god
are the ones celebrating the eucharist maybe alongside the priest but let's say
with as much value and as much um thickest efficacy effectiveness as the
priest himself it doesn't say that the priest is there
to celebrate it says the assembly is there to celebrate
the new definition they're celebrating the memorial of the lord
getting away from the idea of sacrifice sacrificing just saying we're going to
commemorate our lord and um and christ will be present
because there am i in the midst that's i would say the um
what do you call the final slash the coup de [Music]

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they use holy words and worthy words because the words from our lord himself
to get away from other words of our lord it should be that they are gathered
there so the priest can offer the eternal sacrifice for their sins
instead they say the assembly is there to celebrate the eucharist because
where two or more gathered in my name there am i in their midst they've said
nothing about sacrifice they talked about some kind of spiritual
presence of christ or moral presence of christ at the expense of mentioning
christ offering his body and blood for their redemption
we know that christ is substantially present at the mass in transubstantiation
the changing of bread and wine into the body and blood by the words of
consecration of the priest but they have said in his new definition
that christ is not present substantially they haven't said he's present at all
they've only said he's present by grace only insofar as we're two or more gather

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my name there am i in the midst but they have not said that he's
substantially present in the host and what causes him to be present the
gathering of christ's followers in his name
it's like you know this all depends on the faith on the people
it doesn't depend on god so there are our distinctions of the new
mass compared to the old mass or the traditional mass
and um to recap the class then not non-bloody sacrifice clean oblation
it's for the whole world it's superior to that of the old testament
it's internal and spiritual rather than carnal and
exterior and carnal and without this sacrifice none of us would be cleansed
and unfortunately since the the new mass has
the new mass has come out these things are not insisted upon

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watering down the catholic mass into a kind of a protestant belief where christ
is present in so far as we're thinking about him but that's about it
very good uh god bless you for your presence and we'll say a prayer
the name of the father and son holy ghost hail mary full of grace the lord is
you