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let us pray oh god let's instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of
the holy ghost grant us by the same spirit to be truly

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wise to rejoice in this consolation through the same christ our lord same is
it's good to see you again after a couple of weeks
and i'd like to go back to our story of saint philomena
to give us a little purpose in these conferences about the
holy sacrifice of the mass someone who lived
the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ and remember remember how i told you
last time that there's something significant about her the way her name is
the same as the name of our lord she is light she's the daughter of light
her name is the same as that of our lord and our blessed mother
and her victory over the devil comes just at the zenith or the final
persecution of the roman emperors against the christians
diocletian was the last of the roman emperors who persecuted the christians

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glass of 10 large persecutions and after the victory of saint philomena
against the emperor and his demonic plans the emperor himself felt like a failed
man he said i've i have failed in not winning the
heart of this girl and he himself died about one year later and then came in
constantine who as we know converted the roman empire
so saint philomena was known as the tau maturga
of the 19th century that's a big old greek word to mean
wonder worker there are there are other saints who have the title tau maturga
and she has a title because she was known first of all
for all of her miracles cures conversions even some people who return to life
because of her in the 19th century and following as you remember her relics were

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discovered in the year 1802 and then made known to the whole world in 1805
at the shrine in muniano of italy she was declared the patroness of the
children of mary by pope leo the 13th saint john vianney the cure of ours said
never have i asked anything from her without receiving an answer
saint peter julian aymard who is a great authority and
devotional writer at least of the blessed sacrament
was cured by saint philomena saint damien or damien the leper damien de vuster
of molokai of hawaii consecrated a church to her you may know this the
story of damien how um uh of the group of the fathers of the um
of the sacred heart of jesus he volunteered himself to go to this island

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of the lepers from honolulu to molokai and there he was the only priest alone
taking care of all these people building hospitals and churches
he built four churches and one of them was one of them was in honor of saying
philomena i've been there before some of the things that impressed me were um uh
in one part of the church there are holes in the floor
not big holes about the size of a quarter a coin you know
and where you are in your pew you can look down the floor in this hole in the
side the size of a quarter just about every every place of
every person in the pew has a hole in the floor like that
what is that for so so these poor lepers could assist at a whole mass without
excusing themselves as i say they need to uh well they need to spit
because of all the phlegm that builds up in the mouth uh due to this disease
and so those holes in the floor little uh sewage systems to get out to the

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ground another thing that impressed me about the visit of molokai was simply the
story of how uh damien uh contracted the disease
he was exposed for so long amongst the lepers at least 20 years probably more
like 30 without catching the disease uh he used to smoke a pipe
in order to um kind of like we use incense we use incense because it's a sweet
smell towards god and the smoke signifies our prayers going up to heaven
also brings back to mind all the sacrifice of the old testament with the
sweet smoke going up to heaven but he used the sweet smoke of the pipe
because it was like a deodorant type of smell against all the you know
fetid flesh that he would smell from the disease the leprosy
and as you know uh well as you know children are kind of fascinated by
cigarettes and cigars and pipes and all those things that give off smoke
and especially there's someone sucking on them so

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while um damien was busy with his construction problems or whatever
he would smoke a pipe and also leave it near him while he was working
and the children started smoking it and eventually he was inhaling
kind of the gas from their lungs he was inhaling the the
touching the saliva from their mouth his own saliva so he eventually caught the
disease but he considered that disease a great um
a great honor to be finally united to his savior
in the crucifixion so he had a church named after saint philomena
it still stands today indulgences were granted to saint philomena by the popes
of the 19th and 20th century and devotion to her is still exploding so
last class we had i was talking to you about the transfer
of the remains transfer the relics of saint philomena

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from rome to muniano of italy there was a priest as you may remember
don don francisco um from the city of muniano he was traveling with a bishop
the bishop of naples the newly made bishop of naples um the cesare they left
rome with the relics of saint philomena and the relics of another saint the
saint philomena's relics were placed on the in the seat
under the seat of the bishop he felt raps on his legs three times in a row
and even though everything was closed and sealed and secured
secured he understood those striking the striking to his legs coming
somehow from the box of relics of saint philomena
so he put the relics on his lap and there was no more problem
because feminina would be carried in the most uh dignified of ways
and if you think of the reality you know just sort of pull down the curtain

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of this material world in which you live one thousand five hundred years had
passed since this this virgin had been [Music]
giving her life completely for our lord jesus christ
in at least three martyrdoms and she kept surviving or being
kept being renewed to life again so that she'd go through another martyrdom
but as you know with heaven with the supernatural life
there is no time so even though 1 500 years had elapsed for her this was
just like there had been a commercial break and
now it's time to get back to the program something like that and what was her
program the demons had tried to take from her
the virtue of virginity the virtue of purity and the
the vow of virginity that she had and she wrestled against all hell
against all the demons to maintain that virtue which she did all the way to the
end and now she goes to sleep for a few days

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as far as she's concerned and wakes up a few days later
brand new fresh and ready to carry on the battle again
but not in herself but rather all these other members of the mystical body
which were in munyano as far as she was concerned and then
the rest of the world a point that was given to us in our retreat
this past week was all this impurity unchastity if that's a word
lack of innocence the whole lack of this virtue that we see in the world today
is an attack against our blessed mother how is that because our blessed mother
is the virgin if we just say the virgin we
know we're talking about the mother of god
and all of us are children of the virgin mary

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in so far as we are brothers of her son and so when people go trying to attack
purity in a sense virginity in the life the world that we live in
that is the devil trying to attack our blessed mother maybe he couldn't make her
be a non-virgin but he can make all of her children be a non-virgin
that's what he's after it appears that he has great success
but that's just numbers and he's lost that battle for many centuries
saint philomena is coming back to win this battle of virginity
against the same demons one thousand five hundred years later
not in her own person but now in members of the mystical body members of
our lord jesus christ of which she is a member

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so she had already worked a few miracles in naples we saw a few weeks ago
the mother the woman don angela teres with her illness of 12 years the lawyer
with his sciatica and the woman with the gangrene in the hand these people just
prayed at her to him and then well the for the for the lawyer was for
the lawyer was the next morning for the woman with the ganger in his
hand the same the next instant for don notheres it had been a few weeks
and now the pilgrimage if you will of the relics
move from naples to muniano which is not a great distance
probably a one day walk but they're starting in the about
july the 21st i'm off on that sorry they're starting at the end of july and
uh saint filomina wants to arrive at munyano on the day of her victory

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which is the day that she arrived in heaven the 10th of august
so she's going to make them delay in this journey so that attention can be
can be brought to that day of her victory from naples to munana was a short
journey but many prodigies would happen in route during this procession on foot
so we have deacons and other holy men carrying the beer which holds the relics
of saint philomena while they were marching in the night the path
became excessively dark they could not see in front of them in front of them
anymore because of all the clouds they prayed the same philomena and she
opened the clouds once a beam of light came down from
heaven and directed the bearers of the relic on the path as they passed
through a village named village named simetile the relics became very heavy
so heavy that the bearers could not continue

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walking all they could do was put these relics down
no we're looking at his chest with some you know remains in it
it was because in this place of simi tilley many martyrs had shed their blood
either simultaneously with saint philomena or before her
but at least 1 500 years before saint filamento wanted to recognize them want
to reverence them for their holy martyrdoms
while she was stopped there we already speak about her as like
someone walking in real life while she was stopped there the villagers
came to complain about a crisis they had they had been suffering a horrendous
drought they implored her they implored st philomena to please
give them rain at once a torrent of rain fell from the skies at night
after the people were some somewhat satisfied with all the rain

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the bearers of the beer intend attempted to
lift it again and carry it it was still very very heavy
when they reached the end of the outs the boundary of this town of simi tele
all of a sudden the relics became as light as they had been when
they left naples finally on the eve of the arrival at munyano
so i guess it was several days journey walking
on the eve of the arrival at munyano the town
was completely thronged with pilgrims and local inhabitants
40 priests were present all of them clad in the richest
vestments children on all sides were shouting shouting viva la santa
long live the saint the entry into the town took
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but also because of another factor the day was brilliantly sunny but all of a
sudden it became menacingly dark when a great whirlwind stirred up
coming from the mountains behind them from which they had just come
a priest announced that there was no need to fear
this whirlwind in this menacing weather because this was just the same demon
that had been confounded by saint philomena 15 centuries before when she won the
battle of purity against him and now she saint philomena
was returned to continue with this same battle against him
in all of these catholics the whirlwind reached the casket
and it suddenly stopped and rose into the air and disappeared it reappeared
several times but disappeared just as easily and it never extinguished even one

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candle of those who were close to the casket of saint philomena
it never extinguished one candle so that's a great lesson right there that
the devil of impurity can come back and come back and come back
but if we hang on to saint philomena if we hang on to our blessed mother if
we hang on to our lord the devil cannot put out the candle of purity in a soul
for two days after that the whirlwind continued to howl
but it caused no one any harm and then just one more paragraph about
this transfer the relics the casket was placed under a canopy the
casket arrived at the church of our lady of grace it's important
because it was our lady who appeared to saint philomena in the in the prison
after 37 days to say uh you will be delivered from this prison
normally you would think the words would be of hope and
in three more days you will be delivered and you will go free

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or you have suffered so much now you deserve to have
a time of refreshment no our lady told her you will be in three days your
imprisonment imprisonment will finish will be finished but this will be only to
begin a series of other tortures for you so that you can be united to my son so
that you can give glory to god so that you can win the salvation of many sinners
your body our lady was saying blessed mother was saying to saint
filamento right now your weakened body humiliates you
because you don't feel any power within you but don't worry
i will be with you saint gabriel my angel will be with you
gabriel means strength of god my strength of god will be with you so
that you can bear all of these trials and give victory to my son

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so that is our blessed mother's encounter with saint philippine in the prison
and now what is the church that saint philippines brought to our lady
of grace uh our lady of grace means all of us are um
given the grace that our lord won for us on the cross through our blessed mother
our lady of grace that's the place where saint
philomena goes to accompany our lady in um meriting grace for sinners and also
giving that grace to sinners through her through our lady but still
giving their grace to sinners the casket was placed under a canopy on the gospel
side of the high altar and high mass was celebrated the day was
the 10th of august her feast day she would later make this
known to sister luisa de jesus it was a holy day of obligation in this
region of munano many blessings and many miracles occurred
in the time which followed the faith of the people grew in intensity

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and the sanctuary became known to the whole world for the marvelous favors
given to the pilgrims who flocked to the feet of the little saint
and it's not written in my notes here but there was a town
paralytic uh living some blocks away from the church
and just when the body was entering her relics were entering the church the
bells were announcing this glorious arrival of saint philomena
the paralytic just for hearing the bells received a miracle of walking
he was no longer paralyzed he ran into the church
knocked on the doors beat on the doors and finally opened up for him and he said
i'm healed i'm the paralytic that never could walk just by hearing the bells
i'm healed so that's another part of the healing and the miracles of the
same filimina uh next time i talk with you about her

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i'll either review her story of her martyrdom or go on to another story which is
another story which is the um healing and the curing of pauline
jerichot the good friend of saint john vienne
well very good we come to our lessons about the holy mass
and how is the sacrifice saint philomena's
someone who lives the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
and for all of us we must live the sacrifice which comes from the holy mass
and you know when the priest finishes mass he announces
literally he's saying in english translation would be go it is sent
if someone who studies latin we'll figure that out

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simply means it is sent what is sent answer everything you've seen here
everything you've witnessed everything to which you've assisted
at mass it is now sent very good what have i witnessed the sacrifice
of our lord jesus christ made present on the altar in a living and actual way
not just a memory not just a memorial not just something which recalls what
happened on calvary no we have witnessed a reality
of our lord sacrificing himself to give glory to his father and to pay
the debt of our sins we have just been present for that sacrifice
and now the priest says to us go ity it is sent what do you witness here
the event the liturgy ceremony at which you have
assisted now is to be brought to your homes
and to your daily life and what you have witnessed is sacrifice

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now bring sacrifice to your daily life the catholic church is our archbishop
says the catholic church is the church of the sacrifice of our lord
if we have the sacrifice we are being true catholics if we
live the sacrifice we are being true catholics but if we don't have the
sacrifice anymore at the altar and if we don't live and as a result
if we don't live the sacrifice in our life anymore
then we are not being catholics and that's why the church is not blessed
anymore with vocations and that's why the church is not blessed
anymore with faithful marriages that's why the church is not blessed
anymore with big families all of them living a life of sacrifice
they don't have a sacrifice anymore so itae misa est
a little review from some of our past classes lessons conferences

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the mass is a sacrifice which is eminently clean or the clean oblation
why is that because the one who sacrifices
is a divine sacrificer our divine lord the victim which is offered is a divine
victim our divine lord it is eminently clean it is the clean
oblation offered from one part one side of the world to the other
and all day long because it is the clean sacrificer our lord jesus christ and is
the clean sacrifice our divine lord please remember that
our lord already made the covenant of this new sacrifice with his apostles

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and us at the last supper so holy thursday the year 33 if all the years
were counted correctly in history holy third thursday
of the year 33 is when our lord made the covenant with his people of his
sacrifice on the cross the covenant is already from holy thursday night and
the ceiling of that covenant is the next day good friday so every
time we have a mass we are renewing this covenant that our lord has
with all the faithful christians and the covenant of his blood
last week we talked about the value of the holy mass
and you might remember not last week but two weeks ago you might remember that
the sacrifice of the cross sacrifice of the cross

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is infinite the sacrifice of the cross was exclusively our lords
the eucharist the holy eucharist which is
offered in the mass is the sacrifice of our lord and of his church
in as much as the church offers it and is offered with it so since the
eucharist the holy mass is offered it has the infinite value of the
sacrifice of our lord jesus christ to his father but then it has another
accidental value which can be more or less good depending on
how good are the dispositions of the priest how good are the dispositions of
the faithful the mass will always be infinite insofar
as the infinite sacrifice of our lord but we'll have a greater or lesser value

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depending on the dispositions or the intentions well better dispositions
which we have when we come to mass and the same for the priest so there was
a question from our last class someone asked someone asked me uh the
prayer of the susheepiad of the mass when the priest says pray
brethren that my sacrifice and yours will be worthy will be a worthy
sacrifice unto the lord our god and you answer may the lord receive your
sacrifice to your benefit and ours the question is well why do we pray the
sushi piat if the mass is always infinite and the answer is yes
the mass is always infinite but here in the sushifiat we pray that our
dispositions will be as generous as possible
so that we might receive the greatest fruit possible
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faithful are saying for your benefit and ours the greatest amount of fruit
or fruit fruit from the mouse the mass is infinite insofar as the
sacrifice of our lord but it has limits depending on the disposition the
dispositions of those who are present and the priest who offers
very good this evening we we will consider the holy mass as um
the four different ends or the four different four different purposes of prayer
we probably hear them frequently and we might not remember them
but as soon as we hear we say yeah i knew that so
as you might remember prayer has four purposes
first of all we adore with prayer we give reverence and praise to god
with prayer and then we pray in order to give thanks to god

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and we also we also come to mass in order to give thanks to god
our third purpose of prayer is expiation reparation propitiation
begging pardon for sins and finally our fourth purpose of prayer is to ask
for what we need and it's always good to add on to that to ask for what we need
for our own sanctification and salvation because if we're asking outside of that
criteria we might fit into that category that our
lord said just after his resurrection hitherto you have never asked for
anything in my name one of the meanings of that expression of our lord is
until now you have not asked for anything which is good for your own salvation
now i ask you to ask for that he was also referring to the fact that
now you will ask through my sacrifice on the cross

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and that will really make your prayer valuable
but he was also saying you've not asked for things
for your sanctification salvation you've asked for things
for your own um security and comfort so adoration thanksgiving propitiation
petition those are the four purposes of the mass
and um the largest one is going to be propitiation
which is really worthwhile studying or knowing about
because i don't think a person a single person in the modern church
could tell you what propitiation means anymore
i would just say that's a long word that maybe in
traditional in a traditional atmosphere used to mean something like
reparation but i'm not sure what it means so i won't spend too long on these
points because i've taken quite a bit of time on

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the review and the uh what's the other thing the introduction of this evening
but the holy mass is adoration it's the best adoration we can give to god
when god the father looks down on earth while mass is going on
you can consider every church as a window god the father is looking down and he
sees many many windows and what does he see in those windows he sees his son
on the cross and now what's so wonderful about that but we
already know but it doesn't hurt to hear it again
he sees his son on the cross offering the best adoration possible to him
now there's no vanity in god he can receive as much praise as you can
imagine and that would be just incorrect and he should still receive more
our lord jesus christ on the cross is offering the greatest adoration to his

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father because there you have a completely contrite spirit
completely afflicted spirit we know from the psalms god says
sacrifice speaking of the old testament sacrifice
of animals you know bulls and bullocks and lambs
i will not i don't wish for those things
but an afflicted heart a contrite spirit that i wish for when we see our divine
lord on the cross we have the um personification
of an afflicted spirit my god my god why is thou forsaking me a contrite heart
we see that that is a complete undoing of every sin of pride that has
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and all sin comes back to pride my will not yours i will not serve
uh we have the exact opposite we have someone saying
god i know you're out there but right now my ego deserves its rights right now
even if it comes at your expense expense to your presence and my soul
i kick it out because i want my rights now
so what's going to undo that egotistical spirit nothing less than
god himself on the cross that is our lord jesus christ himself on the cross
with an afflicted spirit afflicted heart contrite spirit saying man is sorry
man is sorry in me so when god the fire looks down from heaven and sees all
these churches all these different windows with liturgy going on inside of them
what he sees is his son offering him the greatest adoration that's the holy mass

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the god man himself offers himself so we
have the perfect sacrificer like we just said the clean oblation
god man himself offers offering himself as a perfect sacrificer and perfect
oblation on the altar to his father all the prayers labors and fatigues
of his humble life his painful passion and death
jesus christ in the mass ever presents to his heavenly father
so you might remember from a couple classes ago
in heaven our lord is our mediator what is the mediation he makes before his
father he's constantly showing him his wounds hands and feet inside
those are each one of is a victorious trophy of our lord of adoration of his
father each one is a victorious trophy of taking all the sins of man
and putting them to death on the cross and that's the prayer that our lord
constantly offers his father in heaven as mediation for us

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while on earth our lord continues day after day after day
his sacrifice on the altar as you remember
the sacrifice and the altar is necessary to apply
the fruits and the merits of the mass to our life
if it were not for the sacrifice and the altar our lord sacrifice on the cross
would remain there an event in history 2 000 years ago which cannot touch our
life it has all the strength but it doesn't have a vehicle
to arrive at our soul that's a huge difference between a catholic and a
protestant the protestant will believe that he does not need
that application of the fruits and the merits through the mass
the protestant will say that he only has to believe in that sacrifice which
happened two thousand years ago and that immediately gives them the fruits and
the merits but that's not the way our lord made it our lord said
do this in commemoration of me this covenant has to be renewed

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do this in commemoration of me that's the adoration of the mass
and now the thanksgiving of the mass we might have a rather
practical or pragmatic idea of giving thanks of i remember reading
in a book one time talking about manners for a priest how he should behave
in order to edify people to to make them feel attracted to the
priest or the priesthood so they'd be attracted to the mass and encouraged
to continue with the catholic life which is all very worthwhile and virtuous

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but they said you know if someone invites you to their house
make sure to say thank you so that they invite you again
which is true i mean i guess we all want that
but uh i would think that there's some other criteria make sure to say thank
you because those people have made a sacrifice for you
those people have enjoyed your company and vice versa
but they've had to do some work themselves to make it happen
and these people deserve thanks because of the good that they've done
and you are thanking god in them as you give them this thanks
and that's what i would say about the holy mass and it's thanksgiving
we're there to thank god without any hope of something in return
you know he's created us out of nothing he's given us all good things that we
needed to live and be raised done and then he gave
us this huge second chance versus the redemption
those are all infinite things we can never repay and so therefore we have the

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holy mass which is our greatest help for giving a um adequate uh or um you know
commensurate and adequate thanksgiving sincere thankfulness is the mark of a
noble soul when we give thanks to god we are showing the greatness
and love of the divine benefactor we are paying reverence to his greatness
we are paying reverence to the preciousness of his divine gifts
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wretchedness and unworthiness you might see two people that are equal
working with each other they have a habit of work with each other
and um they don't really have to use that though too many words of um
would you please do this and i thank you so much for having done that
it's good to use that once in a while to remind each other those
very good intentions but you might see when equals work together
they don't use so much that kind of language but father of a family if he
takes his children to a restaurant and gets him some ice cream cones or
something like that uh well you better believe they're going
to be all over him saying thank you and we didn't deserve that and you're so
nice to us and what can i do for you daddy something like that uh that's normal
the child is showing the greatness of his dad
he's showing the how much he values the gift that he just gave him
and he's showing that you know dad i'm just a kid i i don't know anything yet i

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couldn't raise five cents if i needed to and you just gave this to me out of the
goodness of your heart thank you so much we're more like that with
god and thanks to our lord jesus christ we can give a
and keep saying worthwhile or adequate valid
we can give a valid thank you to god the
father through our lord jesus christ but by ourselves we couldn't
the mass is perfectly commensurate with all the benefits that god gives us
what a thought you know how many times do i
do i try to say thank you to our lord and i offer some prayers and i
kneel down or whatever it is and i i know that my little efforts are nothing in
compared to what's what has been given me but i can have

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that security when i go to holy mass that my thanks are being appreciated
by god the father because he's receiving that of a son
and his son is united to me because i'm part of his mystical body
he receives that thanks of his son even though i'm the one who's saying it
through him we know that on the other hand we know
that ingratitude is the reward of the world people do not value
generosity anymore people certainly do not value this supernatural life
and the sacrament of confession sacrament of communion
the holiness that comes to soul through praying the holy rosary
people don't value those things anymore so what is god receiving generally from
the world he's receiving ingratitude but when we go to the holy
mass imagine the constellation we're giving to god the father even
not just our lord but also god the father we're giving him an adequate

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gratitude for taking us out of nothing for giving us all good things and for
them for redeeming us and now the big one propitiation the
holy mass is propitiation it is expiation for sin it is reparation for sin
what should be our attitude about sin first of all
it is good for us to admit it i have sinned i deserve god's wrath for my sin
but then thanks be to god thanks be to our lord jesus christ
there's this thing called propitiation literally it means
i wish to change the sentiment of god i wish to change the attitude of god he

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certainly deserves to be angry with angry with me and justice he certainly
deserves to destroy me because i'm not just
a tiny being compared to him but i'm a tiny being that has
as i call thumb this nose or something like that whatever this gesture is
called an italian that expression i've just done that to god
you are not important to me and i don't wish for you to be ruling my life
but propitiation is where we beg god to change his attitude towards us
for god to be propitious to us you might hear that word propitious
amongst uh politicians you know they sort of bargain and
negotiate with each other and uh politician x was being especially propitious to

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politician why but politician y did not respond propitious protect exceptionally
generous in his offers that's what we're asking for from god
that he'd be especially extraordinarily exceptionally generous with us despite
our bad behavior that's propitiation the fruits of the sacrifice of the mass
are applied to our sinful souls and thereby we are reconciled to god and
regain his favor while we're at mass the holy mass is making propitiation for
our sins nevertheless keep in mind that the mass is not destined

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directly to impart or bring about the grace of sanctification
consequently the sacrifice of the mass cannot without another means
remove mortal sins nevertheless whilst the mass as a sacrifice of propitiation
restrains or disarms god's avenging justice
against the sinner it has as a sacrifice of petition
the power through the divine goodness and liberality
to dispense many fault manifold graces and benefits
the mass is an extremely powerful means to affect the grace
of true repentance and sincere conversion so it's very important to remember
that the mass is the setting to begin the road to conversion the mass um

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is begging pardon for for sin from god for sin for all of us but it doesn't
forgive us our mortal sins it can still be attended by a person
who's in mortal sin but just that attending of holy mass
is going to give that person sentiments of conversion
it's not the mass itself that converts or that
forgives the mortal sin but it gives sentiments of conversion
so there was a story i think this would be the 19th century
freemasonry was very active by that time and a man
was called upon to assassinate a priest during mass i think the priest was
making special uh obstacles to the freemasons in that city
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exposing the freemasons and people were converting to the
catholics and going to catechism etc and you know the freemasons in and of in
according to their essence there may be a lot of false freemasons out there but
according to the essence of a freemason they have a
purpose which they must fulfill which is to destroy
the presence of our lord jesus christ in this world and so when people start
getting particularly active against them those people are labeled and uh soon
disappear so this man was a hired killer he was supposed to call his go to the
church and kill the priest during mass so he's present in mass and there was a
miracle and the priest as he was consecrating the host
and then elevating it same thing with the chalice
there was very clear for this man not just the priest and the chalice the
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and it was not just the crucifixion the crucifix crucifix on the altar it
was the crucifixion of our lord made present for this man to see
he saw that and he understood it once that this is a supernatural atmosphere
i should not do anything to stop it those who have paid me to kill this priest
are wrong and he did not kill a priest he converted
any beg pardon from the priest and became a catholic uh
so that's really the reality i call it a miracle and it is
but that miracle is happening every time mass is going on the sacrifice of our
lord on the cross in a certain sense as a sort of just
taking down the veil over the miracle so they can see which so the man can see
what's really going on the mass has this value the mass is
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converting sinners to grace mortal sins are acts of ingratitude towards god
god has a plan for each one of our souls he wants us us to occupy heaven
obviously but even in this world he wants us to
fulfill something which is going to add to his glory
and when a person insists on committing mortal sin or staying in mortal sin
without confessing it there's a problem god has a an influx of grace
no a certain amount of abundant grace that he wishes to give to every soul
but when a person stays in mortal sin it's checking checking putting a stop to
the plan of god of giving abundant grace to the soul

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however since the mass is propitiatory as i say changing the sentiment of god
as a result mass averts from sinful man this severe punishment of the withdrawal
of the abundant helps of grace so someone commits mortal sin it makes god
stop giving grace to that soul that person comes to mass
is present in this propitiation for sin and god starts giving grace to that soul
again because the propitiation of the mass
beautiful thought and along those lines everyone should always pray obviously a
person in the state of persons state of grace pray
but even persons who slip out of the state of grace if i can call it that
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even people who slip out of grace they should keep praying
why because they want to give great give glory to god again
as soon as possible and how are they going to go give glory to god well they
got to get back in the state of grace so by praying they open up that door
again to god to give grace to their soul but especially at the mass and the
prohibition of the propitiation of the mass
mass is often repeated even for the same intention
or the same intentions the same person i don't know father
it says on the the envelope for intention of the holy mass please pray
offer mass for my son johnny who's not coming to mass anymore
and the priest receives ten such envelopes for the same person
is that redundant or unnecessarily rep repetitive no um why is that

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because when mass is offered it's the infinite sacrifice of our lord but
it still depends on how much god's justice is placated by a single mass
god sort of decides how much he's going to be placated by
single mass for our offenses and how much he wishes
the obstacles to grace to be removed the ones we just talked about
so mass is offered mass is infinite because it's a sacrifice of our lord on
calvary god receives infinite glory from the mass can't stop that
but with the intention which is getting more into the accidental value of the
mass god can put a value on that and say well thank you for the mass yes
i'm placated you know appeased to this degree by this mass i'm
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keep offering it this mass has gone a long way to help but not completely
and how much also depends on how much god wishes to take away the obstacles to
grace which has been caused by mortal sin and also
it depends on the disposition of the sinner
that we're praying for in the mass how much he wants to be converted
all right well i've gone on quite a bit this evening
i'd like to take it from here the next time but normally i i give you more
i give you a little more information but i don't spend so much time in every
point so normally i see you after the conference and we visit and so forth
this evening i won't do that because father summers and i are still on retreat

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until tomorrow may god bless you and we'll say a prayer is