1 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,230 Welcome to the Bishop Strickland hour. My name's Terry Barber. I'm with Virgin, 2 00:00:29,260 --> 00:00:30,470 most powerful radio. 3 00:00:30,610 --> 00:00:35,510 And I have the honor each week to interview and have Bishop Strickland talk 4 00:00:35,510 --> 00:00:38,870 about his tweets and then open up the catechism of the Catholic church to share 5 00:00:38,870 --> 00:00:40,830 the good news Bishop Strickland. 6 00:00:40,830 --> 00:00:44,470 Thanks again for taking the time to share the gospel with our listeners. 7 00:00:45,150 --> 00:00:46,190 Thank you, Terry. 8 00:00:46,190 --> 00:00:50,750 Hey, Bishop Strickland. I, I got a quote here, uh, you know, BI, uh, 9 00:00:50,750 --> 00:00:54,470 Scott Hahn, Dr. Scott Hahn is someone I go back 30 some years ago. 10 00:00:54,470 --> 00:00:59,270 I recorded his original conversion story and I've listened to everything 11 00:00:59,270 --> 00:01:00,510 that man has ever done. 12 00:01:00,620 --> 00:01:05,030 It's given me a great education on the faith and you tweeted, 13 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,910 uh, something that he said on the Eucharist. I, 14 00:01:07,910 --> 00:01:11,830 I just wanna share it with the listeners and then tell me why you did it. He, 15 00:01:11,910 --> 00:01:14,710 Scott Hahn said in every Eucharist, 16 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,630 we reenact that Easter Sunday at AMAs, 17 00:01:19,630 --> 00:01:23,470 Jesus reveals himself to us in our journey. 18 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,870 He speaks to our hearts in the scriptures, 19 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:31,110 then at the table of the altar and the person of the priest. 20 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,710 He breaks the bread, the disciples begged him, stay with us. 21 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,670 So he does though. 22 00:01:37,670 --> 00:01:42,470 He had vanished from our sight and the Eucharist as 23 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,230 at MAs, we know him and the breaking of the bread, 24 00:01:47,460 --> 00:01:48,350 your thoughts. 25 00:01:49,940 --> 00:01:53,070 Well, I, I shared that because I, 26 00:01:53,140 --> 00:01:57,470 I share your appreciation of, uh, Dr. Scott, hah, 27 00:01:57,470 --> 00:02:02,470 and just that really needs 28 00:02:02,470 --> 00:02:05,950 to be, we need to constantly remind ourselves of that. 29 00:02:05,950 --> 00:02:10,310 That really every mass, as, as we know, is, 30 00:02:10,310 --> 00:02:12,070 is a little Easter. Yeah. 31 00:02:12,250 --> 00:02:15,350 And that whole experience of the risen Lord, 32 00:02:15,350 --> 00:02:19,990 that the early part of the acts of the apostles speaks of that we have a lot of 33 00:02:19,990 --> 00:02:22,790 those readings for the Octa of Easter, um, 34 00:02:23,060 --> 00:02:28,030 that really needs to be constantly, uh, revisited and, 35 00:02:28,030 --> 00:02:32,830 and prayed over and just absorbed that. 36 00:02:32,830 --> 00:02:37,270 That's what we're doing. The mass, isn't just another ritual. 37 00:02:37,580 --> 00:02:41,870 It's not as has been promoted in our lifetime so much. 38 00:02:42,340 --> 00:02:45,630 It's not primarily a, a family meal. 39 00:02:46,260 --> 00:02:49,830 It's a sacrificial offering of the son of God, 40 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,830 to the father for all humanity. And that's what every mass is. 41 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:55,733 It's, 42 00:02:55,980 --> 00:02:59,920 it's the capturing the power 43 00:03:00,690 --> 00:03:05,040 of the resurrection on that altar at every single mass. 44 00:03:05,340 --> 00:03:10,080 And we just have to keep emphasizing that for me as a Bishop for priests and 45 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:11,200 deacons mm-hmm , 46 00:03:11,220 --> 00:03:15,680 and for all of the laity to really Terry, 47 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,560 the more we can emphasize that the more we will be 48 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,360 reverent be focused, be God centered, 49 00:03:24,370 --> 00:03:26,920 be everything that we should be at mass. 50 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:32,040 The more we enhance that Eucharistic faith just recently, 51 00:03:32,670 --> 00:03:34,320 I was encouraged once again, 52 00:03:34,810 --> 00:03:39,680 in my work as a Bishop to focus on Christ and the 53 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,320 blessed sacrament mm-hmm and on his sacred heart. Amen. 54 00:03:43,540 --> 00:03:48,120 And to know that his sacred heart is a living heart present with us 55 00:03:48,930 --> 00:03:52,000 in the great mystery of the son of God. 56 00:03:52,340 --> 00:03:56,520 Now having returned to the father, he's at the right hand of God, 57 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,440 the father with the holy spirit, 58 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,000 but he's also here the same Jesus that was 59 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:08,200 conceived in the womb of Mary born in Bethlehem, all the stories of the gospel, 60 00:04:08,940 --> 00:04:13,880 all of those, uh, the AME story, um, the, 61 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,320 the new Testament Jesus is with us. 62 00:04:18,860 --> 00:04:23,680 And we need to just deepen our faith and deepen our commitment to live 63 00:04:23,690 --> 00:04:28,560 in his light. If we really know him, I can speak for myself, 64 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,440 Terry, the more deeply I know him, I'm still a sinner. 65 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,320 I'm still weak and can be tempted, but it does make it easier. 66 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:41,240 The more it's like he's a Lord 67 00:04:41,780 --> 00:04:46,040 and a friend. Yep. That you, you personalize it. 68 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,480 You don't want to offend him. Yeah. It's not just, oh, 69 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,040 I don't wanna break the rules. It's just like, 70 00:04:52,820 --> 00:04:57,120 I'm sure that we had relationships. My parents weren't perfect. 71 00:04:57,260 --> 00:05:00,920 I'm an imperfect son. They weren't perfect parents of course, 72 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,840 but they were the kind of parents that I didn't want to disappoint. 73 00:05:05,750 --> 00:05:10,090 And that's the personal relationship we need to have with the Lord 74 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,890 that we don't want to disappoint him, look at all he's done for us. 75 00:05:15,270 --> 00:05:20,250 And I do disappoint him and I humbly return to confession and say, 76 00:05:20,570 --> 00:05:25,010 Lord, forgive me. And we need to, I need to, we all do. 77 00:05:25,010 --> 00:05:28,130 But that quote from Dr. 78 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,810 Hahn just reminds us of the reality that he's there 79 00:05:33,190 --> 00:05:35,170 and we need to deepen that and 80 00:05:36,730 --> 00:05:39,770 reinforce it in every way that we, we can. 81 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,690 There're different things that really deepen our faith for each of us. 82 00:05:44,690 --> 00:05:49,050 But we need to, to look for those things, the power of God's word. Yeah. 83 00:05:49,050 --> 00:05:52,570 The imagery of the sacraments, celebrating them reverently. 84 00:05:53,910 --> 00:05:57,010 And I would encourage the, 85 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:00,200 the people that are listening to us. Now, 86 00:06:01,130 --> 00:06:05,840 if you're disheartened by the lack of reverence of people around you, 87 00:06:05,970 --> 00:06:10,600 or even by the priest or deacon, that's there at the mass. I mean, 88 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,640 we're all human. Sure. We can all lose that. Focus, 89 00:06:14,990 --> 00:06:19,160 know that you can minister to them by demonstrating, 90 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:21,040 not in some showy way, 91 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,640 but simply being reverent dressing. 92 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,440 Well for mass, not, it's not about how expensive it is, 93 00:06:29,540 --> 00:06:32,440 but are you there to greet the king, 94 00:06:32,870 --> 00:06:35,400 your Lord and savior your, 95 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,640 your Royal master that is Christ in the, 96 00:06:39,450 --> 00:06:42,440 in the Psalm for today, we, the Psalm speak, 97 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,120 the Psalm sprain speaks of our glorious king. Um, 98 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:51,840 and he is king of the universe and we have the chance to 99 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:55,520 encounter him. You know, I get carried away with . 100 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:59,800 I like the need for istic, faith and Eucharistic reverence. Amen. 101 00:06:59,980 --> 00:07:02,560 And that's why I quoted Dr. 102 00:07:02,590 --> 00:07:07,560 Hahn because he reminds us of some essential things that we 103 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,160 can't let go of, whatever form the mass takes, right. 104 00:07:11,250 --> 00:07:16,040 It needs to be centered on Christ and his offering to God, 105 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,920 the father with great reverence and love and awe. 106 00:07:20,290 --> 00:07:25,160 We need to be in awe of everything that happens from the beginning 107 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,840 of the mass to the end, because Christ is there in different ways. 108 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,440 And in his Eucharistic presence, he becomes physically present on that altar. 109 00:07:34,810 --> 00:07:38,920 We need to just deepen that faith and live, 110 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,680 according to what we know to be the truth. 111 00:07:42,510 --> 00:07:46,760 Well said, Bishop Strickland, and that kind of sets up your next tweet. 112 00:07:46,950 --> 00:07:51,240 You're quoting Bishop Athenasius Snyder. Who's been on your show a couple times. 113 00:07:51,810 --> 00:07:52,160 Uh, 114 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,840 he wrote a book called the Catholic mass steps to restoring the centrality of 115 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,240 God, the liturgy. And I've read the book and I've been promoting it. 116 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,760 And if people want to get a copy of it, they can go to V npr.org. 117 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:04,720 It's on our website. 118 00:08:05,170 --> 00:08:10,000 It really is a beautiful book on reverence and also explaining what the mass 119 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,200 is. You quote it on April 23rd in a tweet, 120 00:08:13,670 --> 00:08:16,600 a Catholic mass by Bishop Snyder. Uh, 121 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,160 you quote a Cardinal way back in 15, 12. 122 00:08:21,730 --> 00:08:26,000 It was a, it was a, in such interesting. It was that the council letter, 123 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,360 letter and council, the fifth one. And, uh, I love the quote. 124 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,120 It's very simple, but it's profound. 125 00:08:32,370 --> 00:08:36,960 It says men must be changed by sacred things 126 00:08:37,300 --> 00:08:39,680 and not sacred things by men. 127 00:08:39,990 --> 00:08:44,320 That seems like it was written for us today 500 years later. 128 00:08:44,750 --> 00:08:48,240 Yeah. And that, I love that quote as well, Terry, 129 00:08:48,330 --> 00:08:52,760 because like you just said 15, 12, I mean, 130 00:08:52,990 --> 00:08:57,480 that's that predates? the Protestant reformation. Yeah. 131 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,080 And he's already this Cardinal yeah. 132 00:09:00,250 --> 00:09:04,480 Is feeling the need to emphasize that. Yeah. So yes, 133 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,560 we get concerned, 134 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:11,280 deeply concerned about the lack of reverence and the attempts to, 135 00:09:11,410 --> 00:09:15,920 to reshape the sacred in our image. Instead of recognizing, 136 00:09:16,050 --> 00:09:20,920 we have to look to God to know who we really are because we're created in his 137 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,240 image and likeness, um, 138 00:09:23,430 --> 00:09:27,960 what that Cardinal said all those centuries ago. Like you said, it, 139 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:32,120 it could be a Cardinal speaking now and I'd be applauding him for saying that 140 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,520 because it needs to be said, but I think it's, it gives us some, 141 00:09:36,930 --> 00:09:37,380 uh, 142 00:09:37,380 --> 00:09:42,280 consolation and hopefully strength to stay with the truth that 143 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,240 even in 15, 12, long before or decades, 144 00:09:47,370 --> 00:09:49,840 at least before the Protestant reformation, 145 00:09:51,690 --> 00:09:56,620 a Cardinal of the church is still feeling the need to emphasize sacred. 146 00:09:56,620 --> 00:10:00,780 Things are about changing and shaping us to be more 147 00:10:01,550 --> 00:10:06,380 in the image and likeness that God created us to be in, in a sense, 148 00:10:06,690 --> 00:10:09,020 really, in the light of that quote, 149 00:10:09,670 --> 00:10:14,340 we can say that sin distorts that image and 150 00:10:14,340 --> 00:10:17,220 likeness that we're originally created to be, 151 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:22,060 that's why the immaculate Virgin Mary is such a wonderful model. Amen. 152 00:10:22,060 --> 00:10:26,620 Because she never had to endure the distortion of 153 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:30,220 humanity, the distortion of a human woman. 154 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,140 She is protected from that distortion, which is sin. 155 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:39,500 And so she is full of grace 156 00:10:40,590 --> 00:10:45,460 because she did what that Cardinal is warning that 157 00:10:45,460 --> 00:10:48,820 we need to be aware of. She was changed by the sacred. 158 00:10:50,150 --> 00:10:54,380 We need to do the same. And thankfully we have the same potential. 159 00:10:54,380 --> 00:10:55,420 We're all sinners. 160 00:10:55,570 --> 00:10:59,780 That will always be part of our reality. 161 00:10:59,890 --> 00:11:02,060 Part of the description of who we are, 162 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:05,860 hopefully repentance centers, amen. 163 00:11:05,860 --> 00:11:10,820 That's the kind of sin we need to be constantly repenting more and 164 00:11:10,820 --> 00:11:11,653 more deeply. 165 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:16,300 But the immaculate Virgin area is the model of being changed by the sacred. 166 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:21,180 And it is, I'll say it, it is diabolical, 167 00:11:21,430 --> 00:11:25,260 whether it's in 15, 12 or 2022, 168 00:11:25,590 --> 00:11:30,580 it is of the devil to be changing the sacred, to look more like us. 169 00:11:31,330 --> 00:11:35,540 That is not what it's about. We are meant to be changed by the sacred. 170 00:11:35,540 --> 00:11:40,220 That touches us to be more like we've been created to be, 171 00:11:40,550 --> 00:11:42,140 to be children of God. 172 00:11:43,330 --> 00:11:46,660 Well said, when we come back, we've got a pro-life tweet. 173 00:11:46,740 --> 00:11:49,860 Can't do it with every week. We have to have something on the pro-life side. 174 00:11:49,930 --> 00:11:53,060 This quote, I think will cut your heart. Stay with this family. 175 00:11:53,390 --> 00:11:55,280 You're gonna be blown away. When you hear this. 176 00:12:10,770 --> 00:12:15,440 Welcome back to the Bishop Strickland hour, Mary Barber here at Virgin, 177 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,640 most powerful radio, I've got one more tweet. 178 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,400 And then we're gonna run into the catechism. What are we gonna do? 179 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,960 We're gonna go to paragraph 1691, part three, the life in Christ. 180 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,880 So if you can get your catechism out in a few minutes, 181 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,160 we'll be going to that Bishop Strickland. 182 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,680 There's two things you speak about every week. 183 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:35,880 And I really respect you for this, 184 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:39,800 the holy Eucharist and defensive unborn babies, 185 00:12:40,580 --> 00:12:44,800 and our lady. You talk about all these things and it's not like it's, um, 186 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,240 brilliant insights. It's fundamental teachings about our Catholic faith. 187 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,440 And I think it's just what we need. So you tweeted this. 188 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:58,000 And I remember for the first time reading this years ago, and I was like, 189 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:02,400 wow, look at the way God designed this. Wow. Okay. 190 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,640 Here's what it is. It said in your tweet, 191 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:09,560 you said some of the cells of a baby remain in the mother's body, 192 00:13:09,990 --> 00:13:13,600 even after delivery. Okay. We knew that, but check this out. 193 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:18,080 Folks research has shown that if a mother's heart is 194 00:13:18,090 --> 00:13:18,923 injured, 195 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,680 fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change it into different 196 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,720 types of cells that specialize in mending the heart. 197 00:13:28,990 --> 00:13:33,880 What is that? Awesome. I love it. Bishop Strickland, how I, you know, 198 00:13:33,990 --> 00:13:37,240 I I'm sure you, you saw that didn't that just touch your heart? 199 00:13:37,730 --> 00:13:40,040 Oh, absolutely. That's why I tweeted it. 200 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,320 It's such a beautiful reminder of how foolish, 201 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:49,240 how foolish we are when we think we can do better than God. 202 00:13:49,340 --> 00:13:53,400 And we can ignore his laws and just reshape things. Again, 203 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:57,120 according to our image, according to what we've decided, 204 00:13:57,420 --> 00:13:58,880 and it's such a poverty, 205 00:13:59,510 --> 00:14:04,400 it's such a foolishness that we need to wake up to God's 206 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,160 plan is 207 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,440 light years beyond us. 208 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:14,560 as the very best plan, because God is love. Yep. 209 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,160 God's all of his commandments. 210 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,880 All of his designs flow from his reality and 211 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,800 God is love. And what, what a beautiful, beautiful, 212 00:14:26,910 --> 00:14:31,840 scientific fact that we've because of the great science that 213 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,480 God has allowed us and given us the talent to develop, 214 00:14:36,410 --> 00:14:39,840 we can know something like that. Yeah. I mean, it's just amazing. 215 00:14:40,220 --> 00:14:45,000 And there's so many amazing things that go on in the whole 216 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,640 development of, uh, one child in the womb after conception. 217 00:14:49,750 --> 00:14:51,600 It's just the, the things, 218 00:14:52,090 --> 00:14:56,120 if I don't see how anybody could study that 219 00:14:56,700 --> 00:14:58,760 and say, they don't believe in God, 220 00:14:59,390 --> 00:15:03,800 this stuff doesn't just fall together. It's by design. 221 00:15:03,820 --> 00:15:06,440 And it's beautiful. And I mean, 222 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:11,180 to imagine those cells of a 223 00:15:11,180 --> 00:15:15,140 baby that happened to be left in a woman's body. Yeah. 224 00:15:15,140 --> 00:15:19,860 Going into action to actually those, I mean, 225 00:15:19,870 --> 00:15:23,740 we hear about those plural potent cells. Yes. 226 00:15:23,740 --> 00:15:28,420 That scientists love to violate life and, 227 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:29,620 and manipulate. 228 00:15:30,820 --> 00:15:35,580 Let's just allow God to be the Lord of life and be in 229 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,220 awe and always protect what he is doing 230 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:45,580 and trust that his will is always flowing 231 00:15:45,810 --> 00:15:50,220 from his love for us, which is his very existence. 232 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:54,780 It's just, uh, it just blows you away. It does, uh, 233 00:15:54,780 --> 00:15:58,140 to see that wonderful design of God. 234 00:15:59,530 --> 00:16:03,380 I love it. It made me think of what Fulton sheen said in the quotable sheen. 235 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:08,100 The final form of hatred of religion is a wish to defy God. 236 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:13,220 And to main one's to maintain one's own evil in the face of 237 00:16:13,220 --> 00:16:17,500 his goodness and power. If that's not abortion, then I don't know if, 238 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:20,620 what else he's talking about in other words, uh, 239 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:25,740 how somebody can kill an unborn baby and think that it's, 240 00:16:26,050 --> 00:16:28,980 it's a good thing to do when it's so evil, 241 00:16:29,430 --> 00:16:32,020 it shows that, um, 242 00:16:32,250 --> 00:16:36,940 they don't have a clue about goodness and the goodness and power of God. 243 00:16:36,940 --> 00:16:40,380 They've, they've totally closed off to that. And so, anyhow, 244 00:16:40,380 --> 00:16:43,180 thank you for that tweet, cuz it's a powerful tweet. 245 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,540 I'm actually gonna use that at a men's conference this weekend. Uh, 246 00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:51,260 I'm gonna add that into my talk because I just think that is so good. 247 00:16:51,260 --> 00:16:56,140 I'll be in tie. I'll be about an hour from Tyler, Texas. I'm gonna be at, um, 248 00:16:56,830 --> 00:17:00,340 uh, St. Anne's parish and uh, you can pronounce the city. It, 249 00:17:00,340 --> 00:17:04,700 it Coppel did I Cappel Coppel Texas St. Anne's parish. 250 00:17:04,910 --> 00:17:08,260 If you're in the air with all those people who already contacted me and Tyler 251 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:12,740 who said, they're gonna come down and see me from California to tech, to Tyler, 252 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,780 I'd love to see you at the men's conference. It's happening this weekend, 253 00:17:16,780 --> 00:17:19,540 April 30th, Bishop Strickland. 254 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:24,260 I wanna shift gears right now to open up the catechism of the Catholic church 255 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:27,820 to par to the a paragraph 1691. 256 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,060 The section of the catechism is part three of the, of the catechism. 257 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,700 And it's under the life in Christ and it's gonna cover 258 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:40,220 conscience. It's gonna cover the dignity of Christian Christians. 259 00:17:40,410 --> 00:17:45,060 Things that I think are so important for us, but are fundamental to the faith. 260 00:17:45,470 --> 00:17:48,420 So I'm gonna read paragraph 1691 folks, 261 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,560 and then I'll have Bishop strictly comment on it. 262 00:17:52,450 --> 00:17:55,740 Christians recognize your dignity. I love it. 263 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:59,500 And now that you share in God's own nature, 264 00:18:00,430 --> 00:18:04,700 do not return to your former base condition by sinning. 265 00:18:06,180 --> 00:18:11,070 Remember who is your head and of whose body you 266 00:18:11,070 --> 00:18:12,910 are a member? Oh my goodness. 267 00:18:13,190 --> 00:18:17,310 Never forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness 268 00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:21,470 and brought into the light of the kingdom of God. 269 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,010 Holy macro. when I read that paragraph Fisher Strickland, I go, man, 270 00:18:27,260 --> 00:18:29,570 there's a lot in that short paragraph. 271 00:18:30,980 --> 00:18:35,590 Absolutely. It is deep with meaning and powerful truth. 272 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:39,390 A quote from St. Leo, the great. Yep. Um, 273 00:18:40,530 --> 00:18:45,380 and it just reminds us of the 274 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:49,980 significance of baptism and the responsibility 275 00:18:50,670 --> 00:18:51,900 of living that baptism 276 00:18:53,540 --> 00:18:57,550 Christian recognize your dignity from 277 00:18:57,980 --> 00:19:02,590 really what this emphasizes to me, Terry, is that 278 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,650 what baptism does? 279 00:19:06,590 --> 00:19:10,740 It opens the door for us to share 280 00:19:11,730 --> 00:19:16,020 in the live saving action of Jesus Christ, 281 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,220 his live death and resurrection. 282 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,300 Our baptism makes it all available to us. 283 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,860 Mm-hmm the balls in our court after our baptism. 284 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,220 And that, as this says, uh, 285 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:34,900 do not return to your former base condition by sending, 286 00:19:35,990 --> 00:19:39,530 but instead live who you are. I mean, this, 287 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,170 this paragraph really says so much. 288 00:19:42,170 --> 00:19:47,050 It really is a catechesis just in one paragraph and 289 00:19:47,050 --> 00:19:51,210 what baptism means. Yep. That recognize your dignity. 290 00:19:51,230 --> 00:19:55,650 And we hear a lot about that and in various circles of 291 00:19:55,830 --> 00:19:59,770 the dignity of, of people and, and how that needs to be guarded. 292 00:19:59,770 --> 00:20:04,570 But the greatest dignity is to be transformed, 293 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:10,090 to have our sins washed away and given the life of God through baptism and 294 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:16,720 really what it reminds us of Terry is it that 295 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,040 door remains open. 296 00:20:19,090 --> 00:20:23,280 If there's anyone we know who has baptized, 297 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:28,040 but is not living in a Christlike way, we can all make that choice. 298 00:20:28,090 --> 00:20:31,040 We all do. To some extent, we're all sinners, 299 00:20:31,550 --> 00:20:36,400 just because we've been baptized, it doesn't make us immune to sin. Right. 300 00:20:36,780 --> 00:20:41,160 But it does make us able to constantly return 301 00:20:41,810 --> 00:20:46,760 to that state of grace as we call it in the Catholic faith to 302 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:51,320 live in the state of grace is to return to that original 303 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,520 place where we were when we were baptized. 304 00:20:55,450 --> 00:20:59,780 I love to think about, I mean, of course as Catholics, we have infant baptism. 305 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:02,020 Mm-hmm , you can be baptized later, 306 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,140 but we believe that as the, 307 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,900 the can law and the catechism says it shouldn't be delayed 308 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:14,740 unnecessarily. I think I was baptized 10 days after I was born. 309 00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:18,460 And you were probably about the same. Yeah, because that was the norm back then. 310 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:22,380 Sure. It needs to be more the norm. Once again, 311 00:21:22,510 --> 00:21:27,300 there's no reason to delay a baptism. There does need, I mean, 312 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:32,220 the can law says a well founded hope that this person will live it. 313 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,380 And that's just reminding us baptism. Isn't some sort of magic ritual, 314 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:42,540 but it's a transformation sharing in the life of God being freed 315 00:21:42,540 --> 00:21:45,020 from our sins and sharing in the life of grace. 316 00:21:45,470 --> 00:21:49,860 We need to constantly seek to return to that state of grace. 317 00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:51,780 Anytime we've wandered, 318 00:21:52,170 --> 00:21:56,950 that's the original place we need to come from. 319 00:21:57,370 --> 00:22:00,390 And you know, when we sin, 320 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,510 we wander down a dark path away from the light. 321 00:22:04,730 --> 00:22:05,990 But the great thing is, 322 00:22:05,990 --> 00:22:09,870 and what I want to emphasize to anyone and everyone listening. 323 00:22:10,740 --> 00:22:15,230 It's never too late to return to that state of grace and baptism. 324 00:22:16,570 --> 00:22:19,110 And for us as Catholics, 325 00:22:19,110 --> 00:22:23,070 we're blessed with the sacrament of confession that 326 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,830 returns us to that state of grace. 327 00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:30,350 I love to think about newly baptized infants. 328 00:22:30,350 --> 00:22:33,470 Mm-hmm we talk about six or seven years old. 329 00:22:33,470 --> 00:22:37,670 I think the official number is seven, probably with your kids. I mean, 330 00:22:37,670 --> 00:22:41,590 I've talked to a lot of parents and they're saying, uh, Johnny's only five, 331 00:22:41,590 --> 00:22:45,310 but I think he's there. I'm with you the age of reason. Yep. 332 00:22:45,330 --> 00:22:46,470 But what's that about? 333 00:22:46,470 --> 00:22:50,950 It's are we mature enough to choose right and wrong? 334 00:22:51,740 --> 00:22:52,590 Definitely. 335 00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:57,310 A one or two year old child is not old enough. That's right. 336 00:22:57,310 --> 00:23:02,270 They're just beginning to figure out what life is and who they are 337 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,430 as we all are for the lifetime. But you know, 338 00:23:05,460 --> 00:23:10,150 a two year old can't sit and I love to, I mean, they could drive us crazy. 339 00:23:10,150 --> 00:23:13,670 Yeah, they do. They can be, you know, they can get into stuff. 340 00:23:13,670 --> 00:23:17,070 They can even do themselves harm. Yep. If we allow them to, 341 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:21,910 they need our guidance. They're very vulnerable, but they can't sin. 342 00:23:22,570 --> 00:23:23,910 But at a point, 343 00:23:24,390 --> 00:23:29,310 every one of us reaches that age of reason where we begin to 344 00:23:29,510 --> 00:23:34,230 have our own personal responsibility and we sin 345 00:23:34,370 --> 00:23:38,710 and we wander off at probably some of the earliest sins for all of us 346 00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:44,190 are breaking one of the commandments. Hopefully not in the most serious of ways, 347 00:23:44,190 --> 00:23:47,000 but honor the father and the mother, 348 00:23:47,410 --> 00:23:51,880 we break that because we get to be Brighty kids that are 349 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:54,800 not wanting to do what our parents tell us. 350 00:23:55,380 --> 00:23:59,880 And hopefully we learn to be respectful and to be 351 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:04,280 obedient and to recognize that's not just good etiquette, 352 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,400 but it's part of being, living our baptism. 353 00:24:07,990 --> 00:24:12,160 It's part of not returning to that former base condition. 354 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:18,120 You got it well said, Bishop Strickland. I, uh, I wanted to mention, 355 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:22,520 I have a two year old grandson and it's so important to give them formation. 356 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,400 Even at these early stages, they watch everything. 357 00:24:25,410 --> 00:24:29,440 We took him to the good Friday, uh, session, uh, you know, 358 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:34,040 service at the church where we venerated the cross. When he went home, 359 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,720 he picked up a crucifix like this and started processing and asking 360 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,000 everybody to kiss the crucifix . 361 00:24:41,150 --> 00:24:41,640 Yeah. 362 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,640 But you see whatever good or bad they pick it up. 363 00:24:44,660 --> 00:24:48,440 Now my wife and this is the last one I'll share it. Why two years old? 364 00:24:49,330 --> 00:24:53,120 He, my wife treats my feet because that's all your nerves are in your feet. 365 00:24:53,340 --> 00:24:56,760 And she has this device that helps me with my circulation. 366 00:24:57,260 --> 00:25:01,240 And because I have painful feet, my grandson said, grandma, 367 00:25:01,630 --> 00:25:06,000 I want you to treat Jesus's feet where he has wounds because he hurts too. 368 00:25:06,110 --> 00:25:07,880 Really? And that's two year old. 369 00:25:08,020 --> 00:25:12,640 Now he's getting the idea who Jesus is at age two. 370 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,000 And while by the time I bet he's five years old, six years old. 371 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,800 He'll be getting close to that age where he'll be able to receive Jesus in the 372 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,120 holy communion. I'm already setting above for it. Hey, stay with us. 373 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:26,320 We'll be back for, with the Bishop Strickland hour. 374 00:25:43,090 --> 00:25:43,760 Welcome. 375 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,920 Back to the Bishop Strickland hour. 376 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,800 We're talking about the catechism of the Catholic church, 377 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,040 but I just wanted to give a good news story. Bishop Strickland. 378 00:25:52,430 --> 00:25:57,160 I I'm constantly asking mom and dad to stand up for their children in 379 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,720 regards to the secular world that we're living in and whatever is undermining 380 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,640 the Catholic family. Uh, that's what we have to, uh, uh, stop fending, 381 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,760 stop supporting. Well, uh, 382 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:12,760 Disney loses 50 billion in stock value as its pro L G B 383 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:17,440 T activism, intensifies, mom and dad. I've talked to the parents, 384 00:26:17,490 --> 00:26:21,000 they're stopping their subscriptions. They're not supporting, uh, 385 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,240 videos or movies that they're gonna buy from Disney. 386 00:26:23,540 --> 00:26:27,800 And they're shutting them down because they're undermining their kids. 387 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:29,320 And I think this is a, 388 00:26:29,430 --> 00:26:34,320 a good thing that parents are standing up to things that are gonna undermine 389 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,840 their children by boycotting. 'em. Now I'm not much a big guy on, 390 00:26:37,850 --> 00:26:38,880 on this boycott, 391 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,770 but I think it's a good thing to stop supporting companies that 392 00:26:43,770 --> 00:26:44,970 undermine the family. 393 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,210 Well, Terry, I, I agree, um, 394 00:26:49,420 --> 00:26:51,850 parents as the, 395 00:26:51,850 --> 00:26:56,650 the catechism teaches us and it just makes sense besides being 396 00:26:56,930 --> 00:26:59,770 Catholic teaching, it's just good, common sense. 397 00:26:59,940 --> 00:27:03,010 Parents are the primary educators. Amen. 398 00:27:03,010 --> 00:27:06,810 And just like your you're talking about with your two year old grandchild. Yeah. 399 00:27:06,810 --> 00:27:07,643 Yep. 400 00:27:08,310 --> 00:27:13,090 Children are made by God to be like sponges. 401 00:27:13,090 --> 00:27:18,090 Exactly. They pick up on everything and the good and the bad. Exactly. 402 00:27:18,110 --> 00:27:22,850 And parents need to be very aware that they think, 403 00:27:22,970 --> 00:27:26,170 oh, Johnny's only two. He is not here in this horrible language, 404 00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:28,930 or he's not here seeing these images that, 405 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,290 that don't fit with nature and creation. Um, 406 00:27:34,340 --> 00:27:37,850 we parents need to be aware and we need to support them. 407 00:27:38,190 --> 00:27:42,730 The children are picking up on things. I mean, we were kids once, 408 00:27:42,740 --> 00:27:47,570 of course. And I remember, you know, seeing things that probably were, 409 00:27:47,570 --> 00:27:51,130 I mean, not, you know, pornography or anything, 410 00:27:51,130 --> 00:27:56,050 but just inappropriate things for a five year old to see. Sure. And it, 411 00:27:56,050 --> 00:28:00,090 you remember it and maybe something violent or something just 412 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,610 beyond that age. Yeah. That they just don't need to see parents. 413 00:28:04,910 --> 00:28:09,650 And I know it's exhausting for good parents because there's so much out there, 414 00:28:09,990 --> 00:28:11,530 but they need to be vigilant. 415 00:28:11,710 --> 00:28:16,330 And I applaud the parents that are saying, you know, 416 00:28:16,330 --> 00:28:18,170 it's not about boycotting Disney. 417 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,650 It's about guiding your children in the way of truth. Amen. 418 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:23,533 It really, 419 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:28,650 really loving them as a mother and a father really loving your 420 00:28:28,810 --> 00:28:32,010 children. As I say so often the greatest charity, 421 00:28:32,070 --> 00:28:34,050 the greatest love is the truth. 422 00:28:34,510 --> 00:28:39,210 And you're not gonna allow that two year old grandson or daughter 423 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:40,490 to, um, 424 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,450 just do whatever they want because you know, they've got to be, 425 00:28:45,450 --> 00:28:49,570 even at that age guided in the truth. And as they get older, 426 00:28:49,980 --> 00:28:54,650 it gets a little more complicated and they're asking more questions and their 427 00:28:54,650 --> 00:28:58,010 free will kicks in. all that a parent can do. 428 00:28:58,010 --> 00:29:02,730 Or a grandparent is try to guide them to shape them 429 00:29:03,180 --> 00:29:05,930 in the right direction. Ultimately, 430 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:11,250 we all have to make our own choices and these parents are helping 431 00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:14,650 their children to know the dignity of the person, 432 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,490 just like the catechism talks about to live your dignity. 433 00:29:19,070 --> 00:29:24,050 And what Disney is promoting is the greatest lack of 434 00:29:24,050 --> 00:29:27,850 dignity in a devastation for the human person, 435 00:29:28,020 --> 00:29:29,650 because it's not the truth. 436 00:29:30,270 --> 00:29:34,250 And we can get away with ignoring the truth for a while, 437 00:29:34,870 --> 00:29:37,130 but it catches up with us. 438 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:42,000 Loving parents are going to do everything they can to help their 439 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,480 children know what the truth is so that when they get old enough, 440 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:51,480 they're saying that that's what I want. I want to follow Jesus. Amen. 441 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,560 I want to live his truth. They make it their own. 442 00:29:54,870 --> 00:29:57,960 That's the challenge and the joy of being parents. 443 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,640 Great advice for mom and dad. Thank you, Bishop Strickland. 444 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,640 Let's move back to the catechism paragraph 1692 under 445 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:11,560 the part three life in Christ, the symbol of faith confesses, 446 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,360 the greatness of God's gifts to man in his work of creation 447 00:30:16,860 --> 00:30:20,640 and even more in redemption and sanctification. 448 00:30:21,550 --> 00:30:23,320 What faith confesses, 449 00:30:24,020 --> 00:30:26,640 the sacraments communicate woo. 450 00:30:27,410 --> 00:30:29,760 By the sacraments of rebirth. 451 00:30:30,270 --> 00:30:35,080 Christians have become children of God partakers in the 452 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,760 divine nature, coming to sea in the faith, 453 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:43,080 their new dignity, Christians are called to lead, 454 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,280 hence forth a life of worthy of the gospel of Christ. 455 00:30:48,310 --> 00:30:52,680 They are made capable of doing so by the grace of Christ 456 00:30:53,260 --> 00:30:54,880 and the gifts of his spirit, 457 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,280 which they receive through the sacraments and through prayer. 458 00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:03,520 Wow. I just, Bishop Strickland, when I read these paragraphs, 459 00:31:03,910 --> 00:31:06,120 it's so rich that, you know, 460 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:10,880 this is why I encourage people to get the catechism because they're getting more 461 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:11,800 in that paragraph. 462 00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:16,200 I'm sorry to have to say that all week probably of catechesis in their life. 463 00:31:16,430 --> 00:31:20,480 This is really good stuff. What are your thoughts on that paragraph? 464 00:31:21,310 --> 00:31:23,520 Well, I, I totally agree. 465 00:31:23,630 --> 00:31:28,520 It's in so many of the paragraphs of the catechism. Yeah. I mean, 466 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,360 you could really break it down sentence by sentence sometimes 467 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,480 phrased by phrase. Yeah. Yeah. And, 468 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:40,080 and very significant truth that we need to, 469 00:31:40,410 --> 00:31:44,720 to hold onto for our dear life. Yep. Um, it, 470 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,240 it strikes me, it says the symbol of faith confesses, 471 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:51,040 and some people may say, what are they talking about? 472 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,400 What's the symbol of faith. 473 00:31:52,660 --> 00:31:57,320 And we know that that is one of the ways that a creed or profession of faith 474 00:31:57,890 --> 00:32:01,560 is spoken of, um, a symbol of faith it's. 475 00:32:01,580 --> 00:32:05,640 And I think it's a great reminder that we really need to 476 00:32:05,990 --> 00:32:09,680 listen to what we're saying. And I mean, 477 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,480 parents could make it a very simple thing to just every Sunday 478 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:19,400 at mass, when we make that profession of faith every week, 479 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,880 take one of those phrases and talk to their children about what does that mean? 480 00:32:24,470 --> 00:32:28,920 I know a lot of parents are overwhelmed because we weren't well, catechized, 481 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,440 at least I wasn't, uh, 482 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,080 as a kid because it was not the time of good catechism. Yeah. 483 00:32:35,350 --> 00:32:37,080 I did. I went to public school. 484 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,240 I had a great family and that's where I learned the faith. 485 00:32:40,660 --> 00:32:44,200 But as far as formal catechetical classes, 486 00:32:44,750 --> 00:32:45,960 they weren't strong. 487 00:32:46,110 --> 00:32:50,080 They simply weren't a good people trying to do their best, 488 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:53,200 but they weren't being guided by the church. Well, 489 00:32:53,490 --> 00:32:57,400 in the 1960s and seventies and beyond, 490 00:32:58,010 --> 00:33:02,800 so that poor catechesis that parents of today are dealing with and now 491 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,640 grandparents, it, 492 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,600 it puts them in a very vulnerable position and they feel inadequate, 493 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:14,320 but really the profession of faith, it's not, I mean, it, 494 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,960 it expresses some very hard one and deep 495 00:33:18,990 --> 00:33:20,040 theology that, 496 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,720 that took counsels to get it figured out fully God and fully man, 497 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,400 Jesus Christ, who he is, but it's there. Um, 498 00:33:29,460 --> 00:33:34,390 the profession of faith is something is a great catechetical 499 00:33:34,390 --> 00:33:36,310 tool that every parent can use. 500 00:33:36,330 --> 00:33:40,750 And if there's a phrase that you're really not sure what that's talking about, 501 00:33:40,970 --> 00:33:45,070 you can always do a little research, but I would encourage us. 502 00:33:45,130 --> 00:33:47,230 And what I try to do, 503 00:33:47,230 --> 00:33:52,110 even celebrating mass is really get a little 504 00:33:52,310 --> 00:33:56,630 louder and a little more emphasis on, I believe in one God. Amen. 505 00:33:56,630 --> 00:34:00,390 I believe in Jesus Christ. Amen. I believe in the holy spirit, 506 00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:04,310 I believe in the one holy Catholic and apostolic church, 507 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,830 we need to wake up to, this is what we believe. 508 00:34:07,830 --> 00:34:12,430 This is the symbol of our faith. And it, 509 00:34:12,430 --> 00:34:15,590 it troubles me sometimes. Yeah. That, you know, 510 00:34:15,590 --> 00:34:18,030 it it's easy and our human reality, 511 00:34:18,610 --> 00:34:22,870 you get used to something and it's easy to just drone through it. 512 00:34:23,290 --> 00:34:26,150 And if somebody just said quick, 513 00:34:27,610 --> 00:34:32,590 did you make the profession of faith? And it's like, oh, oh, uh, 514 00:34:32,590 --> 00:34:37,590 I think I did, but you have no recollection of it because you're daydreaming. 515 00:34:37,590 --> 00:34:41,510 And you're thinking about the pot roast you're gonna have for lunch instead of 516 00:34:41,510 --> 00:34:43,630 really focusing on. So, 517 00:34:43,850 --> 00:34:47,230 and that's part of what we have to do for reverence. 518 00:34:47,230 --> 00:34:51,270 And the liturgy is really listen. Yeah. Really be engaged. Sure. 519 00:34:51,270 --> 00:34:55,430 We all get distracted. Even the priest presider can get distracted, 520 00:34:55,770 --> 00:35:00,590 but discipline ourselves out of reverence for the Lord who 521 00:35:00,590 --> 00:35:02,350 is there to, 522 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:07,270 to bring ourselves back into focus and to really listen to what we're saying. 523 00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:10,150 I mean, the catechism is great, 524 00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:14,990 but we can also simply praying the mass can be a great 525 00:35:15,350 --> 00:35:18,190 catechesis if we really listen to what's there. 526 00:35:19,380 --> 00:35:22,430 Well set again. And this paragraph again, I, I, 527 00:35:22,430 --> 00:35:26,590 I just wanna encourage people to open up their catechism at least once a week. 528 00:35:26,970 --> 00:35:30,350 I'm just gonna make a quick comment that here I am, uh, in, 529 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,070 in my mid sixties, 530 00:35:32,490 --> 00:35:36,950 and I'm still reading the catechism on a daily basis. And I'm telling, 531 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:41,000 telling you, I get fed by that. I get fed by good holy books. The, 532 00:35:41,260 --> 00:35:45,760 the diary of St Faina has great stuff. I mean, there's so many good books, 533 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,440 but I wanna encourage our listeners, uh, 534 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,200 to get into good Catholic book and read it and get, you know, 535 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,080 your scriptures that way lives of the saints, 536 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,280 because we're in competition with the world right now. 537 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,720 What I mean by that is they're competing for your air time. 538 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:07,080 in other words, some TV show that's useless, right? Uh, you know, 539 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,760 maybe I love Lucy reruns. I don't know. Maybe you like the three Stooges. 540 00:36:10,870 --> 00:36:13,520 What does that do for you entertain you, 541 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:18,520 but I wanna encourage you to spend that time on things that will have 542 00:36:18,570 --> 00:36:22,160 eternal values of your soul for all eternity, 543 00:36:22,340 --> 00:36:27,080 but that's why I encourage people to open up the Bible and your catechism 544 00:36:27,290 --> 00:36:28,960 to really study your faith. 545 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,920 And that's what Bishop Strickland does with us every week. 546 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,840 If this is your first time, you're listening to the show, 547 00:36:35,130 --> 00:36:39,480 we have lots of other shows on our website V npr.org 548 00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:43,640 and, uh, Bishop Strickland before we have a minute and a half before the break. 549 00:36:44,050 --> 00:36:48,440 Uh, I wanna promote also the Institute that you have, 550 00:36:48,970 --> 00:36:49,320 uh, 551 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:54,040 because I think people need to know about what your Institute has as resources. 552 00:36:55,340 --> 00:36:58,200 Now. Thanks Terry. It's the St. 553 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,400 Philip Institute website as they on the screen, 554 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,480 or if you're just listening St. 555 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:09,440 Philip institute.org Philip with one L the only.is 556 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:14,160 between St. Philip Institute and.org, uh, a pretty easy, 557 00:37:14,490 --> 00:37:19,080 uh, website to access. There's some great resources there. 558 00:37:19,470 --> 00:37:23,760 Some podcasts of, of discussing what it means to be, 559 00:37:24,130 --> 00:37:27,640 uh, Catholic, what the, what the catechisms talking about. 560 00:37:27,750 --> 00:37:32,720 What's it mean to live as a baptized member of the body of Christ as a child of 561 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:37,520 God. So the Institute, we've got some great young people, half my age, 562 00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:39,280 who you're doing a great job, 563 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,560 because they love the Lord and they love their Catholic faith. 564 00:37:42,610 --> 00:37:46,040 So I encourage people to check out the Saint Phillips. 565 00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:49,360 I also encourage you when we come back, I wanna ask Mr. 566 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,560 Bishop Strickland about partakers of divine nature. 567 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,480 What's that all about here on 568 00:38:09,090 --> 00:38:13,720 welcome back to the Bishop Strickland hour. We're on paragraph 1692, 569 00:38:14,140 --> 00:38:18,160 and I love this par this little sentence in there. What faith confesses, 570 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,960 the sacraments communicate by the sacraments of rebirth. 571 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,120 Christians have become children of God, 572 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,880 partakers of the divine nature, Bishop Strickland. 573 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,200 I just think that is so awesome to think about what baptism does for us, 574 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:34,033 your thoughts. 575 00:38:35,070 --> 00:38:38,520 Absolutely. Terry, it transforms us. 576 00:38:38,660 --> 00:38:42,600 And one thing that the church teaches is 577 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,240 something I know you're very familiar with, but the, 578 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,160 probably many of us kind of forget about. 579 00:38:50,180 --> 00:38:53,160 And I think that's what it's not using the same language, 580 00:38:53,380 --> 00:38:57,840 but it's really talking about that indelible character that 581 00:38:58,290 --> 00:39:01,800 we are marked with in baptism. Mm-hmm, really, 582 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,040 it's another way of saying partakers of the divine nature. 583 00:39:05,690 --> 00:39:08,120 We are marked as children of God. 584 00:39:08,580 --> 00:39:13,320 The book of revelation speaks of those marked by the lamb. 585 00:39:13,740 --> 00:39:17,800 And that, that is what is who we are with our baptism. 586 00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:23,080 Yep. It really, Terry I'm so glad that you were wise enough. 587 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,800 I didn't think of it, but , 588 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,300 these paragraphs are essential. Yeah. 589 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,820 For our time. Ah, man, for this very moment, um, 590 00:39:33,990 --> 00:39:37,550 because there's a lot of darkness out there, 591 00:39:38,060 --> 00:39:42,710 a lot of evil and a lot of confusion and brokenness 592 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,910 in the world. And even in the church, as we talked about, you know, 593 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:52,270 Bishop's writing a letter to the bishops of Germany, 594 00:39:53,130 --> 00:39:57,350 I'm I feel compelled yes. 595 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,750 To sign a letter like that saying live Christ. 596 00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:05,500 Basically what these paragraphs are talking about 597 00:40:05,950 --> 00:40:08,900 is exactly what every man, 598 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:11,500 woman and child on the planet is called to. 599 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,380 And for any leader of the church or a leader of any kind, 600 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:21,260 any mother or father to be advocating a path that leads 601 00:40:21,260 --> 00:40:26,140 people away from this is simply wrong and needs to be spoken out 602 00:40:26,140 --> 00:40:30,140 of that. That's the greatest love we can have, as I say so often. 603 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,380 And I just feel the need to emphasize to people 604 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,980 not to be fearful, 605 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,740 but to be awake and to make clear decisions 606 00:40:42,350 --> 00:40:45,100 to follow in the light of Christ. 607 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,060 And if they're corners of your life, which is true for all of us, 608 00:40:49,650 --> 00:40:53,900 I just went to confession yesterday. Not because always a holy guy, 609 00:40:53,910 --> 00:40:57,900 because I'm not as holy as I need to be. And me too, 610 00:40:58,220 --> 00:41:02,940 we need to constantly seek a deeper holiness and to know 611 00:41:02,940 --> 00:41:06,220 that's our greatest joy, that's our greatest fulfillment. 612 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,460 But as we look at these paragraphs, 613 00:41:08,810 --> 00:41:13,700 I just urge people to really make their decision for 614 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:17,980 themselves. And for those who are responsible for families, 615 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,500 for husbands and wives to, to make decisions together, 616 00:41:23,450 --> 00:41:26,860 like those parents we were talking about with, uh, 617 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,900 not so much boycotting Disney, 618 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,160 but just because they're guiding their children in the truth of Christ 619 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:40,040 to live these paragraphs, right. To live their baptism, to say, no, 620 00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:43,760 not for me in my house. We're gonna serve the Lord. 621 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,040 We're going to be true to Jesus Christ. Yeah. 622 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,320 People need to be aware that these, 623 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,240 these are threatening times. We can't be complacent. 624 00:41:55,250 --> 00:41:59,560 We can't just say, oh, that, you know, there's just a lot out there, 625 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:00,600 but we're okay. 626 00:42:00,930 --> 00:42:04,960 We have to be strong in Christ and whatever comes down the road, 627 00:42:05,570 --> 00:42:09,680 we need to be guided by the light of Christ and stronger than ever. 628 00:42:10,010 --> 00:42:13,240 If it's been a while, since you've been to confession go, 629 00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:15,680 and if you don't have, 630 00:42:15,690 --> 00:42:19,840 if the priests in your area don't provide enough confessions, 631 00:42:20,270 --> 00:42:25,000 tell them father, please make it more available. We're sinners. 632 00:42:25,010 --> 00:42:29,480 We need the sacraments. Thankfully, many priests work very hard, 633 00:42:29,860 --> 00:42:34,200 but I wasn't well formed as a priest in too many ways 634 00:42:34,550 --> 00:42:36,440 I've grown. And we all, 635 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,800 all of us can acknowledge that we're we're failed sinners, 636 00:42:41,090 --> 00:42:45,930 no matter what the formation we receive and no matter what our 637 00:42:45,930 --> 00:42:49,230 background, but we can always do better. 638 00:42:49,530 --> 00:42:54,190 And I would urge people to what I keep praying 639 00:42:54,590 --> 00:42:57,550 constantly repentance, reparation, and atonement, 640 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,990 because there's much evil in the world. 641 00:43:01,330 --> 00:43:05,390 And we can't as Christians. I mean, what this is talking about, 642 00:43:05,670 --> 00:43:10,480 don't go back to that former based condition. 643 00:43:10,830 --> 00:43:14,960 That's pretty strong language. Yup. And a lot of people would say, oh, well, 644 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,960 how dare they speak of human beings in a base condition? 645 00:43:19,460 --> 00:43:22,680 But that's what sin does to us. Yeah. And that's, 646 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,320 what's needs to be rejected with clarity and charity, 647 00:43:27,410 --> 00:43:28,560 as you always say, 648 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:33,280 but with the clarity we need to simply say no to Satan 649 00:43:33,460 --> 00:43:36,040 and who is the father of lies? 650 00:43:36,450 --> 00:43:39,080 We say no to his empty promises, 651 00:43:39,330 --> 00:43:44,000 we say yes to Christ and people need to seriously 652 00:43:44,510 --> 00:43:48,800 take their life in Christ as the treasure that it is, 653 00:43:49,140 --> 00:43:53,760 and not take it for granted because when we take things for granted, 654 00:43:53,910 --> 00:43:56,600 it's easy for it to be taken away from us. 655 00:43:56,940 --> 00:44:00,720 And I'm not talking about some conspiracy or some, you know, 656 00:44:00,870 --> 00:44:04,760 threat of prophecy or, I mean, there's all sorts of stuff out there. 657 00:44:05,620 --> 00:44:07,800 I'm just saying, let us be aware. 658 00:44:08,310 --> 00:44:13,160 It's not just our time when we talked about, uh, Cardinal from 1512. 659 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:13,700 Yeah. 660 00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:18,640 And he saw threats to the sacred threats to the life in Christ that 661 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,920 we're called to as the baptized. 662 00:44:21,310 --> 00:44:25,280 I just urge people to be awake and alert just like St. 663 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,720 Peter says in one of his letters be awake because 664 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,720 Satan is prowling like a serpent seeking the ruin 665 00:44:34,730 --> 00:44:36,680 of souls. That's, 666 00:44:37,030 --> 00:44:40,600 that's the reality that we face that always has been. Yep. 667 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,600 And we need to be sober and alert. 668 00:44:43,430 --> 00:44:45,080 Amen. There's a short paragraph. 669 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,880 And we'll end the show with paragraph 1693 says 670 00:44:49,550 --> 00:44:50,160 Christ. 671 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:55,000 Jesus always did what was pleasing to the father and always 672 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,560 lived in perfect communion with him. Here's the catch here it is. 673 00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:03,800 Likewise Christ's disciples are invited to 674 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:08,520 live in the sight of the father who sees in secret in 675 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:13,120 order to become perfect as your heavenly father is perfect. 676 00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:15,333 Wow. 677 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,000 wow. That's nice and perfect. As your heavenly father is perfect. 678 00:45:21,030 --> 00:45:25,760 Yeah. From Matthew five. Yep. Verse 48. Yep. 679 00:45:26,910 --> 00:45:30,360 It's so easy for us. And I think we live in a time Terry, 680 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,520 where people have said, ah, that can't be true. That can't be exactly. 681 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:39,050 He didn't really mean that we believe he. 682 00:45:39,050 --> 00:45:39,883 Did. Amen. 683 00:45:40,230 --> 00:45:44,050 And of course, perfection is beyond us. Right. 684 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,970 That's why the church strongly reinforces our belief 685 00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:51,290 in purgatory. Yep. 686 00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:55,890 Because it says we must be perfect as our father is perfect 687 00:45:56,450 --> 00:45:57,650 since we aren't, 688 00:45:58,260 --> 00:46:02,770 we should be grateful for that purging fire that 689 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,770 ultimately brings us the perfection that we're not capable 690 00:46:07,770 --> 00:46:12,170 of. That's what we believe we can choose and do our best. 691 00:46:12,550 --> 00:46:16,330 And because we just celebrated divine mercy Sunday. Amen. 692 00:46:16,330 --> 00:46:18,090 Because of the mercy of God, 693 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,530 he's willing to fill in the gap in our lack of perfection, 694 00:46:23,150 --> 00:46:27,450 but it goes back to what partakers of the divine nature. 695 00:46:27,980 --> 00:46:32,210 We can't be partakers of the divine nature if part of us 696 00:46:32,660 --> 00:46:34,210 is not of God. Amen. 697 00:46:34,210 --> 00:46:38,170 And when we sin where that part of us is not of God. 698 00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:41,690 So we need to be perfected by God's grace. 699 00:46:41,980 --> 00:46:46,170 We have to cooperate with that. We have to make our choice to say, yes, 700 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,530 father, I want to live your grace. 701 00:46:49,790 --> 00:46:54,250 But ultimately we trust in God's grace and his 702 00:46:54,650 --> 00:46:59,530 abundant mercy to forgive us and to guide us in the light of his son. 703 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,050 Well said, I was just thinking while you were talking there, 704 00:47:03,050 --> 00:47:07,770 Bishop Strickland about the book of revelation that says nothing but perfect and 705 00:47:07,770 --> 00:47:09,410 pure will enter the kingdom of God. 706 00:47:09,830 --> 00:47:14,610 And so purgatory is very scriptural in 707 00:47:14,610 --> 00:47:19,130 saying that. So I always joke with people. I'd rather do my purgatory here, 708 00:47:19,430 --> 00:47:24,130 cuz the saints have told us it's better to do our purgatory here 709 00:47:24,130 --> 00:47:25,570 than in the next world. 710 00:47:25,710 --> 00:47:28,730 And I wanna just give a comment and give me your response. 711 00:47:29,220 --> 00:47:34,120 But we talk about self denial as Christians and purifying our 712 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,640 will. And discipline, you talked earlier in the show about, 713 00:47:37,170 --> 00:47:41,800 it seems to me that the Opus day spirituality talks about 714 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,560 walking away from a good dinner, uh, 715 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:49,080 where you didn't add the second amount of potatoes that you really like, 716 00:47:49,290 --> 00:47:52,720 or maybe you didn't eat the dessert that you would really like the apple pie. 717 00:47:53,140 --> 00:47:58,040 And the principle is that you say no to yourself at every meal. In other words, 718 00:47:58,070 --> 00:48:01,520 moderation. Now that's easy to say hard to do, 719 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:06,480 but I find that these are sacrifices that 720 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,600 make me stronger. Am I onto something Bishop Strickland? 721 00:48:10,010 --> 00:48:14,160 Oh, absolutely. And what strikes me is you're talking Terry is that, 722 00:48:14,910 --> 00:48:17,480 that it's the best for our health. Oh it is. 723 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,680 It's best for every aspect of who we are. Yeah. 724 00:48:20,850 --> 00:48:25,560 To not overeat and to, to pay attention and to eat the right things and to, 725 00:48:25,860 --> 00:48:29,680 you know, even, I mean, probably you were raised the way I was. Yeah. 726 00:48:29,810 --> 00:48:32,080 If you put it on your plate, you need to eat it. 727 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:32,913 Oh absolutely. 728 00:48:32,950 --> 00:48:34,600 Well, and that doesn't mean, well, 729 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,320 I just pile as much as I possibly can fit on the plate. You, 730 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,720 but once you do put it on your plate, 731 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:45,640 you you're judicious about what you choose and then you don't waste it, 732 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,080 but you eat it. And that that's very simple. I mean, 733 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,720 how many parents have tried to teach their kids that, 734 00:48:51,940 --> 00:48:55,720 but it is woven into Christian virtue. Yes. 735 00:48:55,790 --> 00:49:00,640 Into living as children of God means that we eat 736 00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:05,000 healthy and we sustain ourselves and keep ourselves healthy. 737 00:49:05,220 --> 00:49:09,720 But we don't Gorge ourselves and certainly don't eat the things 738 00:49:09,990 --> 00:49:13,800 that ultimately are not healthy for our bodies. Uh, 739 00:49:14,010 --> 00:49:16,600 so it all fits together. It's one truth. 740 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:21,810 Well said, Bishop Strickland. Um, you mentioned divine mercy, Sunday. 741 00:49:21,810 --> 00:49:26,570 And we all went to confession over the weekend and people were, I mean, I, 742 00:49:26,570 --> 00:49:28,210 at a parish, I was at in long beach. 743 00:49:28,210 --> 00:49:33,170 The pastor has the priest in the confessional, even during mass. And he, 744 00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:36,730 he doesn't buy the idea that you can't celebrate two sacraments. In other words, 745 00:49:36,990 --> 00:49:41,930 the people were in line. They wanna go to confession and he got him in and uh, 746 00:49:41,930 --> 00:49:44,770 he just in his homely, he said, man, it's like starting all over. 747 00:49:44,910 --> 00:49:49,330 You take advantage of divine mercy Sunday. So here's my point. 748 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,250 Before I ask for your blessing, 749 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:56,290 it's not too late for people still to go to confession and receive those graces. 750 00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,250 I, I understand it's like a week or nine days between the Fe. Is that, 751 00:50:00,250 --> 00:50:02,490 is that still the case? How many days? Sure. 752 00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,410 It's never too late. Oh, there you go. Um, absolutely. 753 00:50:05,410 --> 00:50:07,010 All right. Could we get your blessing please? 754 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:11,050 Sure. Heaven, father, 755 00:50:11,090 --> 00:50:15,370 we ask your blessing for all of us. As we continue through this Easter journey, 756 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,810 help us to know that the light of your son shines as brightly as ever. 757 00:50:20,110 --> 00:50:24,490 And that your truth is a truth of love that guides every person 758 00:50:24,940 --> 00:50:27,400 to that perfection, which is beyond us, 759 00:50:27,660 --> 00:50:30,080 but a perfection that you call us to live. 760 00:50:30,450 --> 00:50:35,120 We ask your blessing for all of us in the name of the father and of the son and 761 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,680 of the holy spirit. Amen. 762 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,600 Amen. Thanks again, Bishop Strickland folks, 763 00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,160 you can listen to all of Bishop Strickland shows are on 764 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,040 podcasts@vmpr.org. 765 00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:48,240 And there's plenty other shows that Terry and Jesse showed Jesus 9 1, 1, 766 00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,840 Terry Maud's practical apologetics, 767 00:50:50,900 --> 00:50:55,080 and many other good shows that help build up the body of Christ. 768 00:50:55,310 --> 00:50:59,200 I want to thank you for listening. Hey God, richly bless you and your family. 769 00:50:59,260 --> 00:51:02,560 And thanks for supporting here, here, and BPR, 770 00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:07,080 Virgin post powerful radio. God love you and your family.