Qorbono Q&A

Speaker 1 (00:01)
It's going to be more like my rambling, but let's make it interactive. So if I say something that either provokes you or you don't understand just interrupt Paul was telling me about this stunning victory where you guys were representing these 2 teachers. In a case where I think my understanding is that they were forced to hide from the parents.

Speaker 1 (00:26)
Any Tendencies of the kids. That's what the school was asking them to do. So in case the kids wanted to do some gender changing operation, they were asking at the Prof.

Speaker 1 (00:36)
from hiding them from the parents. And then they were, I think, Christians, and they objected, and anyways, you guys represented them, and then ended up going to the Supreme Court. And it had a stunning victory.

Speaker 1 (00:48)
Because it not only applies here to California, and it applies throughout the whole nation. And It is. It's obviously a wonderful thing that happened.

Speaker 1 (01:02)
And to me, it is also a sort of a perplexing event that took place, but in order for me to explain why it's perplexing, I need to back it up a little bit. In the early days of the Catholic Church or the Christianity in general. By the way, I'm making an assumption, but I need to validate is everybody Catholic here.

Speaker 2 (01:26)
Here's a couple everybody up the brain's down bit Rebecca, and

Speaker 1 (01:33)
Yes, I've spoken will say no, all right? Okay, very well, so please keep in mind that if you hear me talk most about the Catholic, think of it as almost a professional deformation. But doing it for 30 years.

Speaker 1 (01:44)
So it's not because I'm trying to ignore anything else. This is my focus. It's already been this way, but in the early days of the church there was this one heresy called palagenism.

Speaker 1 (01:54)
How many of you have heard of paleogenism as a heresy? All right, so you know, palegionism was due to a monk. His name was palagius, he was British.

Speaker 1 (02:03)
He was from Great Britain. And he went to Rome and visiting Rome, he was appalled by the state of the clergy, the moral state of the clergy. And that then led him to develop this idea that I would summarize in modern terms with Nike's motto.

Speaker 1 (02:23)
Just do it. The area is If you want to live a virtuous life, all you need to do. It's trying.

Speaker 1 (02:35)
Now, that sounds like a pretty good idea, except that it denies The necessity of baptism. Now, one of the most fundamental most fundamental Notion in Christianity. It's the one that we need the most, and it's the one that is least understood is that of grace.

Speaker 1 (03:03)
There is an obvious rift between the Catholic Church and the protestant church over the notion of grace, the term is used in both. But it means something markedly different. In Luther's mind, grace was an outward sign.

Speaker 1 (03:22)
Given to us to inspire us But it is not sanctifying, it doesn't change your internally. Whereas, for the Catholic Church The best way to think of grace is the gas in your tank. Okay?

Speaker 1 (03:42)
If you want to drive your car, you need gas or batteries, electricity energy, let's use it as such. You need energy without that energy. You're not going to go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (03:55)
But if you fill up your tank and sit in a car, put me your thumbs, you're not going anywhere any either. So you need both So what is the business of you doing stuff once you get grace? What is it that you're supposed to do?

Speaker 1 (04:12)
A lot of people think Do God. To help others. And there's a fundamental mistake.

Speaker 1 (04:21)
There What you have to do is work on your virtues. Because what is grace and badism? Trying to address the one problem that we ought to think a lot about.

Speaker 1 (04:37)
And we barely think about original sin. So when original sin happened, when Adam and eve committed that sin In the garden. It's a really peculiar thing.

Speaker 1 (04:51)
If you think about it, because they committed that sin. None of us commit original sin. Is that something you do?

Speaker 1 (05:01)
So what do we call an assim? If you didn't commit original sin. It's because morphologically, it has the structure of sin, and it is inherited, we all get it because of them What was that Sin 2 understand that sin we have to understand this really important concept that governs the entirety of scripture, you miss that concept scripture becomes something else, that is the concept of a covenant.

Speaker 1 (05:33)
The covering is found throughout entire scripture. If you go to mass, you hear the words that every single time during consecration. Governance in my new blood, the covenant, what is the covenant?

Speaker 1 (05:44)
The covenant was in ancient Diplomatic structure used when one kingdom I wanted to conquer another or a city. Let's say a city-state before they resort to military action. The conquering king would send a Herald to the city.

Speaker 1 (06:08)
With conditions, here's what you're supposed to do. You're going to pay taxes. You're going to send your guys to fight with me, my army and you're going to stay faithful to me, you're not going to betray if you do those things in a year from now, I make you part of my kingdom you become citizens first class citizens if you don't I'll come and I'll raise your entire city.

Speaker 1 (06:29)
So if you see the structure of this whole thing, it has these parts, there's a strong party. So notice this is not agilitarian, this is not two people on equal term talking, there's a strong party. There's a weak party.

Speaker 1 (06:42)
The conquering king is a strong party. The city is the weak party. There are conditions that the strong protein situates and then if the city abides by those conditions, they're blessed.

Speaker 1 (06:55)
If they don't, they're cursed. And it's precisely how God structured his relationship with us. He takes Adam puts him in the garden and tells him till and guard and notice there are no weekends.

Speaker 1 (07:10)
So anybody who has this notion that the garden is some sort of a Hawaii, or a place where you sit down lounge on the beach. Sine scripture till and guard 24? There is no break That was what he was supposed to do.

Speaker 1 (07:28)
Denise comes and the 2 together lives in the garden. The blessings are given to them which is safety food. Longevity, they would live forever.

Speaker 1 (07:40)
Health staying young, they will never age. There will never be sick. And living in the presence of God, those who are all the blessings.

Speaker 1 (07:51)
There was one condition that the strong party God established. Don't touch that tree. If you do, you will die, that was the curse.

Speaker 1 (08:01)
So what happened? Satan. Shows app now in the book of Genesis, they say a serpent.

Speaker 1 (08:09)
The interesting thing is, if you go back to the Greek. The word used in the Greek to designate that serpent is the exact same word that St. John uses in the book of revelation to speak of the 7 headed dragon.

Speaker 1 (08:20)
So there is a debate as to whether he showed up as a teeny, winning little serpent, or he showed up full force. And there are arguments both ways, nevertheless. As a Middle Eastern God There's this other guy who shows up and talks to my wife when she's naked.

Speaker 1 (08:47)
Really? Now you start to see the structure of sin that appears eve It oversteps her bounds by talking to this guy who's stranger without her husband. Then, sees that the fruit is nice pleasing to the eye and good Has benefits, so she reaches out and grabs it and then she gives to her husband.

Speaker 1 (09:16)
Who takes it and eats quietly? So what happened now? The structure of the sin the rebellion happened in two different ways.

Speaker 1 (09:24)
For the woman, it's an overreach. It's essentially taking an action against gods will. For the man, it's an underreach being passive about it, not standing to the truth.

Speaker 1 (09:41)
And being submissive to his wife in ways they're detrimental to both of their salvation. That's how they behaved. So God comes and establish the curse in a medicinal way.

Speaker 1 (09:57)
He gives the man the one thing he didn't want to do. Work. By the sweat of your brow.

Speaker 1 (10:07)
So therefore work is sanctifying for men Not for a woman. To the woman, he give the opposite. You will listen to your husband.

Speaker 1 (10:23)
And it's in childbearing that you will be sanctified. That's this structure that came sit out of Genesis. That's in created in every single one of us and inherited through a way something we call in Catholic Church concupiscence it's an old word that simply means think of it as weakness and disorder.

Speaker 1 (10:46)
So if you think about your faculties, you have reason will imagination and passion and normally and well ordered individual The will is driving and receiving proper input from reason An imagination and the passion out there to regulate the drive. But since original sin happened, the passion is driving, the will is tied in the back. Reason is going haywire and imagination can't shut up.

Speaker 1 (11:19)
That's essentially what Original sin is Okay, now here's the odd thing. When Christ came and instituted the sacrament of baptism, which is necessary for salvation. That sacrament counters one aspect of original si Only one.

Speaker 1 (11:45)
There's a pipe of grace that spiritual and energy. We need to do the right thing was blocked. It wasn't that God wouldn't give his graces anymore.

Speaker 1 (11:54)
It was just that the reception, the receptor of grace in us was blocked pariginal sin. It would not come in anymore. That's the bit that he fixed in baptism.

Speaker 1 (12:07)
So now grace can float But that fundamental structural disorder in the soul remains, he did not take that away. Now think about that for a second You have the power, your child is sick. I'm gonna give you a m**** w***.

Speaker 1 (12:30)
That can fix any disease. Would you just take away the pain? And leave the disease in place.

Speaker 1 (12:41)
Or rather, this is not the right way, let's see your child got paralyzed because of that disease. Would you just use the one to remove the disease and leave in paralyze or would you heal him? Of all right.

Speaker 1 (12:59)
All of us would do what we would heal the kid completely. Why didn't Jesus do that? Why did he leave us with original sin in us?

Speaker 1 (13:17)
Why am I asking this question? How does a tie 2 that case? That you guys had won.

Speaker 1 (13:26)
Original sin means that every one of us throughout all the generations is born with a virus inside of us. I'm talking here almost like in computer terms. Because my background is in computers.

Speaker 1 (13:40)
No matter what you do, no matter what you fix. Every single computer you put out of that factory has a virus in it. That's what you're selling, that's what you're distributing.

Speaker 1 (13:49)
And there is nothing you can do about it, you cannot stop that. Therefore, every generation every generation has in it from the get, go The seed to fail It doesn't go away. Why would a loving God?

Speaker 1 (14:14)
Do that? See, this is go back to palagenism, which is really lively heresy today. We I have a tendency To love the solution, not the provider of the solution.

Speaker 1 (14:38)
We want the problem fixed. In every aspect of our life We want the m**** w***. God knows that he knows that we fundamentally are Sloth, form, we're lazy.

Speaker 1 (15:05)
And slothfulness, the biggest problem with slothfulness as a vice, is that it opposes love Because one of the worst fruit of slothfulness is indifference, which is the Being tepid so the book of revelation Christ said that those who are neither cold nor hot. He spits out of his mouth. Which incidentally, many people misunderstand this Because they think that he means you either need to be wholly, or you need to be a really, really, really bad sinner.

Speaker 1 (15:43)
But if you're in the middle, I cannot stand you It's not a robot, he meant he meant. You need to be true to your nature. That if your eyes you ought to be cold.

Speaker 1 (15:54)
If your fire, you ought to be hot. When you're in your middle, you're against your nature. And being against your nature is being against the image that God put in you, that's why he spits you out, okay.

Speaker 1 (16:11)
Why is it that he who had the power to do everything left? That problem, as is And why does it matter? For this conversation was having Paul, because there is something that has been in the back of my mind for now, many, many years.

Speaker 1 (16:31)
I told you the covenant always works this way. God establishes the covenant, and he sets the conditions. And he tells you what the blessings are and what the curses are.

Speaker 1 (16:41)
And there is nothing we can do to avoid that, we are all under that covenant. When two people go and get married in front of God, why do they do that? Why do they invoke the name of Jesus?

Speaker 1 (16:52)
What are they really doing? Fundamentally, what they're doing is saying this. We here me and this woman are sinners.

Speaker 1 (17:02)
So we're weak. We're coming here because we have this impossible dream to have a life together for many, many years without killing each other. Being faithful to each other and to you, which is Truly impossible to do for humans.

Speaker 1 (17:26)
We can tolerate each other for many years. But truly loving each other, on our own for many years is impossible. We need grace.

Speaker 1 (17:34)
So we go to Jesus who is the strong party. And we say we need your help. So from the cross, he says He the strong party on his throne.

Speaker 1 (17:46)
Says, if you're faithful to me, I will bless you. If you're not faithful to me, I will curse you. That is the covenant of marriage.

Speaker 1 (18:00)
And he signs with his blood, that document, which is why the Catholic Church is always said there is no such thing as a divorce. Because that contract of marriage is signed What's the divine seal? There is no human power who can break a divine scene that doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 (18:21)
It's just a logical matter, okay. So they're getting, they take on that Covenant, they are now part of that covenant. And this is something I tell all married people, you don't understand the power of marriage.

Speaker 1 (18:39)
If you're not calling on the graces that God wishes to give you through the Sacramento marriage, they sort of think of it as a one time deal done, and that's it, and never, they don't think of invoking the blessings that come through the Sacramento marriage. They do it with baptism, they do it. I mean, with confession, they do it with the Eucharist.

Speaker 1 (19:00)
But not will marriage like it sits on the side, never to be used again. You ought to call and say if you're married. Call on the second of the marriage.

Speaker 1 (19:09)
It doesn't matter if you're married in Catholic Church or not. Because marriage is a natural institution, it's above any ecclesiasial institution. We have so call and that sacrament to help you.

Speaker 1 (19:20)
He wishes to give you those graces, so call on it. Alright, so you understand this notion of the covenant that governs everything. And throughout the scriptures, when you read it, you see that God always always acts in the same exact way.

Speaker 1 (19:36)
It's very consistent. He watches what Israel is doing. And when does God trigger the curses?

Speaker 1 (19:45)
When will what would provoke God to trigger the curses? So Solomon became king. And because of his sins, many, many sins God said your kingdom will not stand his son takes power and he raises the taxes.

Speaker 1 (20:03)
And creates a burden that Israel cannot hold. So the 10 northern tribes break away And then the 2 southern tribes, Benjamin and Judah become the kingdom of Judah and the 10 northern tribes from the kingdom of Israel. There is no triggering, of course, is when they do that.

Speaker 1 (20:21)
God doesn't trigger those curses for the political breakup. The warning starts coming when the northern kingdom decides to create their own Temple on mongerizm. Because now they're deforming the image of God And so God sends them profits in waves telling them star or else, then the next wave comes saying, get ready.

Speaker 1 (20:45)
It's coming. And the third wave is going to happen right now. And so the caldeans come down and then they overtake all of Israel, and they mix them with the rest of the world, and you can even distinguish them anymore, they're gone Descending out 587.

Speaker 1 (21:00)
This is about 7 87 5 64B. C. Same thing happens to the kingdom of Judah, the ship to Babylon the whole thing is destroyed.

Speaker 1 (21:08)
Okay, so you watch and say, when does God trigger this thing? Is it when people sin? No There isn't a case where the people regular people are sinning that causes God to trigger a covenant, because the covenant it is when the priesthood It starts teaching.

Speaker 1 (21:26)
What is false? Presenting, in what is That's when the curses are triggered. Why is that?

Speaker 1 (21:36)
Because God knows now that society at such is no longer able to support the growth? Of grace and society has now become a one way ticket to hell. That's why he triggered the covenant against saddam and gomora.

Speaker 1 (21:53)
That's what he triggers it through history. And that is the way Christ governs book of revelation is not about the end of the world. It's about the perennial governing of Christ of the world, how he governs the world.

Speaker 1 (22:10)
Okay? So then the structure is pretty well understood. In 1917.

Speaker 1 (22:19)
13 19 13, let's see 17. Was it no 13I think when our lady appeared in Fatama? She warned of the coming curses, Second World War that besides the sky.

Speaker 1 (22:33)
And then many kingdoms, many nations will disappear if the errors of Russia is not stopped. That's what happened before the Second World War. They were Aurora borealis, was seen even from Paris.

Speaker 1 (22:46)
And the Second World War took place all right. And then the consequences are Are clear. So now We live in a world that has been decressionized.

Speaker 1 (23:03)
And where we essentially struggle. To present an authentic Christian identity to the world in ways that the world could understand and latch on And in 19 62 one thing happened, that changed the face of this planet. And it is, I consider it to be our golden calf.

Speaker 1 (23:34)
See in the desert when Israel Decided to erect the golden calf. They didn't do it just because despite God, they did it because that golden calf was atis the Egyptian God of Partying. That's what they wanted.

Speaker 1 (23:55)
They wanted a party. They wanted to go back to the emotional satisfaction. They had in Egypt to the orgies, that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (24:04)
They were taken into the desert. So that they could basically learn the monastic way. So that we can come to a point where they can actually worship God and truth.

Speaker 1 (24:15)
And love. But they decided to go back to party And then we know the consequences. In 1962, something similar happened to us with the introduction of contraception.

Speaker 1 (24:34)
No, I don't know if you understand the gravity of sins. How do you measure how do you gauge the gravity of a sin? Typically, you do it by looking at the impact it has on the victim and the innocence of that victim.

Speaker 1 (24:51)
So I'll give you an example. Let's say I steal 5 bucks from Paul. And then the following day, I steal 5 bucks from a little girl, 6 years old named Jenny, who spent 6 months saving the swipe bucks to buy a gift for her brother.

Speaker 1 (25:10)
So objectively, it is the same act. I took $5 from both. Intuitively, would you say the students are equal now?

Speaker 1 (25:20)
Because of the innocence of the victim. Yeah, the greater the innocence, the greater the same. That's why abortion is the graver sin than murder?

Speaker 1 (25:31)
Cold war. So when you come to Kabul to contraception, why is it? Why did the Catholic Church classify as a sin?

Speaker 1 (25:39)
Who is the victim in contraception? It's between 2. Let's say a man and a woman.

Speaker 1 (25:46)
And it just involves them. Where's this in? The reason why is a grave sin and graver than abortion is because the victim is God directly.

Speaker 1 (26:04)
Because the author of life is God, not us. Now, phillagenism tells you, just do it, so you can see how contraception is palagin. We take that into our own hand.

Speaker 1 (26:17)
And then the injustice is done against God in French. There's this expression called ankrim Dulles. Majesty, which is in English, would be a crime against the dignity of the king.

Speaker 1 (26:33)
That's the sort of sin that abortion that the contraception is the one you're attacking directly is got you're taking away from God. The authority and the joy to bless you with a child. In the scriptures, there are many curses but God never curse somebody with a child.

Speaker 1 (26:52)
There isn't a point in scripture where God goes. I'm going to curse you with twins. The child is always a blessing, always Alright, now, contraception is a very respectable sin.

Speaker 1 (27:07)
It is not committed out of the generacy. It is not committed for vice. It is not committed.

Speaker 1 (27:13)
Because you are trying to, let's say Drink too much. Or party too much it is done. Because you're responsible because you want a family because you want the best for the kids you're going to have you have really good reasons.

Speaker 1 (27:29)
It's a very respectable sin which makes it harder. I understand why people contracept. I don't blame them.

Speaker 1 (27:41)
I blame. I blame the church for not taking courageously on that sin had on. And then explaining to people why they shouldn't be doing this.

Speaker 1 (27:53)
Fundamentally, intuitively, if you trust God and if you understand that the child is a gift, then you would structure your entire family life this way not to have 15 kids. This is a typical answer. I get, what does it mean?

Speaker 1 (28:07)
I'm gonna have 15 kids and notice when people say that they throw it as if the kids are a curse. And typically, when they tell me. So look at them said, who are you?

Speaker 1 (28:15)
Who do you think you are forgot to bless you with 15 kids? In case of my wife and I We had 7 and it stopped. Was it a 1 at 14 stopped at 7?

Speaker 1 (28:30)
I wanted 14. Let's say my wife wanted 14. But God knew better right now, right now.

Speaker 1 (28:36)
All right, so you trust that. It's not a number game. The problem would contraception, isn't how many kids you're going to have?

Speaker 1 (28:44)
No, no, no, the problem is that you're separating prayer from sexuality. The whole idea is to have an integral life and to say to God. Is this the right time to have a child?

Speaker 1 (28:57)
And if it isn't you abstain, it's not the right time you abstain. There is respect for the woman. There is respect for the dignity of a man.

Speaker 1 (29:09)
And there is most importantly, a show of love for God. Interestingly enough, I'm sure you know that. But the rate of divorce among couples across the entire spectrum doesn't matter if your Catholic or protestant, or whatever you are is about 4050%, depending who you're asking.

Speaker 1 (29:31)
Except for people who do not use contraception. They are the rates dropped to about 9%. And among Catholics is 0.2%.

Speaker 1 (29:41)
So divorce is the first fruit of contraception. Now, why am I single out contraception? Because it is such a respectable sin no one is talking about it.

Speaker 1 (29:53)
Raise your hand. If you remember the last time your pastor I had spoken against this in the contraception. There you have it.

Speaker 1 (30:11)
And this is why it's preoccupying for me, because this institutionalized, it is accepted Japan. By the end, by by the year, 2070 would have lost about 50 million people. So across-the-board, we are we're sliding down from maybe 8 billion total to about in, like, in the 200 years, we'll be about 3 billion.

Speaker 1 (30:43)
Hi, there's a sliding down happening simply because people don't want to have kids. All right But if you look at it from gods perspective, you look at this and you go, huh? Emphama, our lady said, in the end, my immaculate heart will triumph, so we know the end.

Speaker 1 (30:58)
The end her immaculate heart will triumph but logically speaking, there is no way her immaculate heart is going to triumph with the contraceptive. Mentality reigning supreme, as it is right now. Now, how does God deal with this?

Speaker 1 (31:15)
Typically, in scriptures. There are 2 ways in humans with the situation like this. When it becomes institutionalized, when people basically are doing the wrong thing thinking they're doing the right thing.

Speaker 1 (31:26)
He sends profits to wake him up. So Jonah, in the case of Nina Vey Or uses the 4 horses of the Apocalypse, which are economic woes, natural woes, plagues and wars. Those are the only ways in which God has typically dealt with a situation like this one.

Speaker 1 (31:50)
Now I am not I mean I don't have a crystal ball. I can't tell you what is going to happen. This is something I look at.

Speaker 1 (31:55)
And I'm sort of wonder, and I start to think, okay, what is What is God doing right now? What is how is he looking at this whole situation? And what does it mean to all of us?

Speaker 1 (32:08)
Which brings me back all the way to palagianism at the beginning of my conversation. We obviously have to continue to do the right thing. We have to fight the bid fight in the context in which God sets us.

Speaker 1 (32:29)
You're taking on cases which are very important. You are in many ways, a Beacon of hope for the rest of us when we see you. When a case, it means the world to us I mean, you may be aware of this.

Speaker 1 (32:41)
You may not be aware of this. But you mean a lot to a lot of us So what you're doing is very important. What you're doing it in this context where fundamentally there's this sort of ticking bomb Underlying the entire planet, every one I mean it hits, there isn't a country immune to this, that is conscious of Matt, there isn't like in India right now.

Speaker 1 (33:11)
The birth rate is dropped from 7 to 4 This is dramatic drop, which means that in a few years, you're going to drop from 4 to probably 2, so it's hitting every country. So it's there. So what are you supposed to do with this?

Speaker 1 (33:30)
What are you supposed to? How are you supposed to function when you know that something fundamentally is messed up in society? We're back to the time where We're in Jerusalem, right before Babylon comes and destroys the temple.

Speaker 1 (33:47)
And as a righteous Jew, you're looking around, you're seeing the priesthood busy with what they're busy with as Ezekiel shows us doing their worship of false idols under the temple. You're aware this, you see it all. It is nothing you can do about Why didn't God take care of original sin?

Speaker 1 (34:10)
Had you taken care of original sin? Would not have all of this. Why didn't you do it?

Speaker 1 (34:16)
I'll come back to that in a minute. But why are we to do in a situation like this? We then have to look at this and think about it from gods perspective, not our perspective, because I'm not here, my goal isn't to depress you So I'm well aware that what I'm saying has a depressive quality to it.

Speaker 1 (34:43)
So I'm going to try to explain to you why I said all of this Suppose you go to a Meadow, you stand in the Meadow and you watch it's a beautiful day. The temperature is perfect. There's a beautiful breeze.

Speaker 1 (34:55)
The Meadow is covered with flowers. The trees around you in it is peaceful. What do you feel standing in a Meadow like this?

Speaker 1 (35:06)
Tell me what you' Call 87 peace serenity, calm joy, right? This is not a trick question. By the way, just to be clear.

Speaker 1 (35:22)
That's what you feel, right. Now I want you to A drop down beneath the blades of grass and see that same Meadow through the eyes of a termite or an ant, what does it look like? Darwinian, it's the Apocalypse.

Speaker 1 (35:43)
It's war. I don't know if you know that. But there is one ant Colony in California that starts at the border of Mexico and goes all the way up to San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (35:59)
It's a Colony of ants that came from South America. And they're overtaking the ants which are native to California. You can take an ant from San Francisco and drop it close to Tijuana alfrila at home.

Speaker 1 (36:14)
Every day, every day, the The casualties of the war between this Colony and the other colonies surpass a million ants. Every data is a million ant dying For this war.

Speaker 3 (36:30)
Close the border. I'm sorry, close the border.

Speaker 1 (36:34)
I don't know if that would work. Because nobody here. So if you go to this matter, you look at it under the blades of it's war.

Speaker 1 (36:49)
Non-stop war look at the blades of grass. If you pay close attention, you will see that one is trying to climb on top of the other. The same with the trees.

Speaker 1 (37:00)
It is a violent war that is happening. Non-stop, and it is precisely this violent war that is producing the peace and serenity. That's your feeling.

Speaker 1 (37:18)
Not weird. In other words, the The peace and serenity field does not continue. It doesn't.

Speaker 1 (37:28)
It doesn't break down into smaller pieces, serenity, all the way down. It's built from a violent violent War happening at all levels, and you're the recipient of this as peace and serenity, and in many ways, I think this is precisely how God sees this world. We're like the ants and the termites.

Speaker 1 (37:57)
And we get taken by The conflict in the war in front of us. We need grace to see it through the eyes of God. In the end, my immaculate heart will triumph, okay.

Speaker 1 (38:17)
And that brings us full circle back to why didn't he take away original sin in the first place? The answer to that is given by synagogue, when talking about the 10 commandments. Because funny enough, God gave the 10 commandments to Israel.

Speaker 1 (38:36)
And they could not uphold the 10 commandments. None of us can on our own. So he gave them a law that on their own, they could not uphold.

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And so say in Augustine tells us The law was given The defendant commandments that law was given so that grace, we may seek And grace was given So the law You may keep. And the gospel of St. John chapter 8, Jesus, after feeding the The multitude led the apostles.

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Go first on the boat. And they wrote during the night all night, and they basically covered 3 miles. They haven't gone very far.

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Oh no. That one to × 2 the other side At dawn, he comes walking on the water. Which to me isn't the greatest of the miracles this what happens after He comes walking on the water, and he steps on the boat and send John says and immediately They were at their destination.

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As soon as Jesus steps on the boat, there were destination. So why did he leave original sin in honor of us? He left it so we may never, ever believe we're self-sufficient.

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He left it so we may never, ever believe we can do it on our own. But when we are with him As soon as we are with him, we're home. So your home is not a destination.

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It is not when I retire. It is not when my kids are older. It is not whatever plan you may have in your head.

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Because things material things in this world will never, ever make you happy There is no sense of security. You're going to get by any of the plans you have in your head. Understand this Any of the plans you have in your head?

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Any of them? When they are not directed to the greater glory of God Are a mild form of atheism? Let me repeat that any plans you have in your head which do not end.

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So I can give God the glory are a mild form of atheism. If you're back with even the garden, looking at something that is pleasing to the eye and taste good, and that's what you want. That's what you're focuses on And what Jesus is saying is When I'm with you, you have everything you need.

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That's a hard lesson. Because it requires loss. It requires us to make peace with loss.

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And it requires us to make peace with the fact that the world will never, ever be the way we want it to be. So we're required to struggle. We have to do everything we can.

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We have to put our utmost effort in and do the best possible job absolutely, but not for success. For love. All of that is done.

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Just to show him, we'll love you. That is the only way we can find peace. I mean, this mayhem.

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The this world is will always be And for you, especially, that's a hard call Because you are at the forefront of the law, you have to continue to fight. So that the society can end with virtuous laws. The only way a society can be Profitable for the church is if it develops virtuous laws.

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Which we need? So you're always in that situation where you're really focusing on getting a case one. So you have to focus on this, there's no other way You're putting all your energies in it.

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How could you not focus on it? You must. And I'm certainly not telling you don't do that, all I'm saying is, make sure that that is standing in front of the cross.

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Make sure your ultimate goal is still the cross, not the case. And you're going to need that for your own piece of mind. You live in a world that is set against us.

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That is set against the teachings of the church that is determined in going to hell. In every possible way So what? What can be tempting?

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What could tempt you is despair? I think that you are not winning every case that you're not able to affect society in a profound way. So despair is always lurking.

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And the only way you can defend against despair is to know that the apostles rode all night made 3 miles out, but as soon as Christ came with them, they were already there. And so your challenge is to know you're already there. But when you look at the there, you're not going to be satisfied And why aren't you going to be satisfied because of original sin because of concupiscence?

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Because of the vices, inside of you There is this one important concept, and I'll end with this. That is, I think, very important for all of us, to really latch on and understand in the theology of grace, we speak of Santifying race and accidental grace. You guys know the difference between the two The very important St.

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Paul tells us if I feed the hungry, raise the dead, heal the sick. And I have no love I have nothing. All right, but he fed the hungry, they were fed.

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He healed a sick that were healed. He raised the dead. They were raised.

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So that's accidental grace. It is the grace given to you. To help others.

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It doesn't sanctify, you So this is why we never judge the holiness of a person by the algorithm action. They take There are never a sign of holiness, they're meant for others. Christ used Judas.

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Through each other's He used satan to each other's But that doesn't mean they're sanctified. Centrifying grace are the secret. It's a secret form of grace that work in the inward of your soul.

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And it produces what What's the fruit of sanctifying, grace? Prison spirits of the spirit virtues. Your virtues, your virtues.

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Happiness joy is the fruit of virtuous life. Joy is not the fruit of a job accomplished that is passing. It never lasts.

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It is the virtues that leaves you in an abiding sense of joy. So Do you know your vices? Can you name them?

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Gina, your virtues, can you name them? If you don't, you're like Somebody You're like almost like a Rockefeller sitting on a pile of gold, but you're starving because you don't know how to write a check. What are your vices?

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What are your virtues? Is the work you're doing helping in your scientification? Is it taking away from you?

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Now, if you have grace to be married. Ask your wife, ask your husband. That'll be very happy to tell you.

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But that's why marriage is meant to sanctify you All right, you put 2 centers on one side, you put a quarter, you crank the machine. And hopefully, after a life were lived out, comes 2 saints. That's the purpose of marriage.

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But if you're not sanctifying yourselves All the work you're doing will benefit others. But not you And in many ways, the job you do has great opportunities for scientification. Because when you think about it You're talking to the Supreme Court, you're talking to, you know, people in authority and power.

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And you have influence So Despair, pride. Um sense of self efficiency. Are all the sort of vices?

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What we call intellectual vices, that can be lurking. Ready to haunt you? But the opposite virtues Humility.

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I like something we call wholly indifference. Meaning you are. You are Focused on gods will regardless of the outcome.

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That's what wholly indifference is. It's not being indifferent. It means really.

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I will take gods will regardless of the outcome. And I will be happy with that. So humanity wholly indifference Gratitude.

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And the joy of knowing that you're doing gods work, regardless of the outcome. Are I think necessary for you to be able to So when sort of when you end, you'd be able to look back and say To the Lord you gave me 5 talons. Here's another five talents.

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And then here him say Well done good in faithful servant. Enter and enjoy your master. So We who are not in your shoes.

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Admire very much. The work you do. We have a lot of admiration for you and we pray for you and for all the work that you're doing here.

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And we hope that you will continue winning many, many cases And My whole, I think this whole conversation, Paul and I were talking where we would come down to this notion that in everything you do you and I must always be in conversation with God. Do not take that away from you whether it's in your own family life. Lord, is this the time to have another child?

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I will do what you want even though it might scare me. In your professional Lord, is this a case you also take? If we do let it be according to your will.

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And most importantly, in your striving for holiness. Because it's hornines at the end of the day that changes the world Alright. I'll stop here, and I want to thank you for taking the attempt to listen to me.

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I mean, having a bunch of lawyers sitting quiet and listening to a guy who is not is a miracle in itself. So, thank you very much and appreciate that.