28 May 24 – What Are Sins of Omission?

[0] Welcome to the Bishop Strickland Hour.

[1] Terry Barber.

[2] This is the last week we're going to have Bishop Strickland on his vacation right now.

[3] He'll be back definitely next week.

[4] So for two weeks in a row, I've been taking clips from videos and his tweets.

[5] He tweeted a lot from Europe today.

[6] So I got a lot of his quotes to share with you.

[7] And it's going to be a great show.

[8] So stay with us.

[9] We're going to first, as we always do, read the gospel of the day.

[10] This is Tuesday, May 28th.

[11] believe the month that's dedicated to our Blessed Virgin Mary.

[12] And I might add, we just, we still have the Blessed Mother Pilgrim Virgin from Fatima at our Sacred Heart Chapel.

[13] And wow, it's so beautiful to have her here.

[14] If you want to make a visit, you can come to the historic Sacred Heart Chaplain Covina.

[15] And you can actually see the statue.

[16] It's magnificent.

[17] I share this with people that 50 years ago, that same statue was traveling the L .A. Diocese, and I'm in high school at that time.

[18] And Louis Casimir, a layman, dynamic speaker, was going all over the country talking on Our Lady of Fatima.

[19] God rest his soul, he died years later, many years later.

[20] But that very same statue, I was able to help pick up and put in the Sacred Heart Chapel.

[21] I'm honored to say I did that.

[22] and I ask our lady to bless our work and the title of our radio network is Virgin Most Powerful Radio.

[23] So we love our lady and you're welcome to come and visit us.

[24] Now I'm going to read the gospel of Mark chapter 10 verse 28 to 31.

[25] Peter began to say to Jesus we have given up everything and followed you.

[26] Jesus said amen I say to you.

[27] you.

[28] There is no one who has given up house, our brothers, our sisters, our mother, or father, our children, or lands for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age.

[29] Houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands.

[30] And this is the part that's really with persecution and eternal life.

[31] life and the age to come.

[32] But many that are first will be last, and the last will be first.

[33] The gospel of the Lord.

[34] Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

[35] If Bishop Strickland was here, I'd say, Bishop, give us some hex of Jesus on it.

[36] I can only say this.

[37] Reading that gospel reminds me of the sacrifices that our priests and religious make in following Jesus Christ.

[38] They give it all.

[39] Now, we make a consecration to our lady, to St. Joseph, the Holy Spirit, as lay people, and we say it's all yours, Mary.

[40] It's all yours, the sacred heart of Jesus.

[41] And it's true.

[42] It's a good consecration.

[43] And I live out my vocation through my married life, through serving my wife and children.

[44] But a religious or a priest gives it all up and says, I'm just going to serve you, Lord.

[45] And a nun becomes a bride of Christ.

[46] she marries jesus christ if you've ever been to the final vows of a nun and i have it's quite beautiful because the girl is dressed in all white like a bride and it's right she's a bride she's a bride of christ and it's so beautiful to see this take place and then what she reads about i give it all to you, our Lord, I am now your bride, and I will serve you for the rest of my life.

[47] It's really quite, quite beautiful.

[48] Now, the last part of the gospel there, when it says, with persecution and eternal life in the age to come, but many that are first will be last, and the last will be first.

[49] Persecution.

[50] This is one way that you know you must be doing something right.

[51] It's when you're persecuted.

[52] When people inside the church, outside the church, say you're nuts.

[53] You are a fool for Christ.

[54] I've had people tell me that.

[55] I said, well, thank you for the compliment.

[56] Because St. Paul said it.

[57] I'm a fool for Christ.

[58] Because I give it all to him.

[59] And remember, I've quoted this on the Bishop Strickland Hour many times from Fulton Sheen.

[60] He says, if I were not a Catholic and I were looking for the true church in the world today, I would look for the one church which did not get along well with the world.

[61] In other words, Fulton Sheen says, I would look for the church which the world hates.

[62] I think one of the biggest problems right now in the church is that the world loves us.

[63] They love the fact that we're focusing our energy on saving the planet rather than saving souls.

[64] Keep it up, guys.

[65] Satan loves it too, and I'll tell you why.

[66] He wants to divert us from the most important thing.

[67] That's the salvation of souls.

[68] He loves the idea of us focusing on mankind as a humanity and nothing about the divine soul.

[69] And forget about the salvation of souls and worry more about the planet from deteriorating because of air pollution.

[70] Don't talk about the pollution of sin.

[71] The devil does not want that to be talked about.

[72] So he's a happy camper right now because in the highest echelons of the Catholic Church right now, we've got prelates who are more focused on saving the planet than what they're supposed to do is save souls.

[73] And I'll give documentation on that.

[74] The last canon in the canon law says everything the church does should be doing it for the salvation of souls.

[75] so the point I'm making is about reaching out for the saving of the planet what's that got to do with the salvation of souls now we should all be good stewards I have no problem about that but I keep saying stay in our lane that's not the lane that the church needs to be in the lane the church needs to be in is for the salvation of souls and it seems that for the last at least 11 years I've seen more secular comments about worldliness than about the supernatural and I pray for our Pope and bishops and cardinals that they will start to be focusing more on the salvation of souls rather than the salvation of the planet meaning preserving the planet from from pollution I just get I know I sound like a broken record but just look at the last interview that Pope Francis did on CBS last month and he's talking about climate change is now a road to death you know I can change one word sin is a road to death we got to be more concerned about our soul than our body our Lord said that don't worry about those who can hurt your body but can't hurt your soul and that's why you know many of the saints the martyrs were willing to die to stay faithful to the gospel and I think that that's the message in this reading from the gospel of Mark which I think is apropos for us today and I'm just honored that I can actually chat with you about this reading because it's always touched me in a very powerful way all right now I want to just mention a couple items before we go to Bishop Strickland tweets, which are really are not, yeah, his tweets are very poignant.

[76] But I want to mention something about Cardinal Burke, who Bishop Strickland and Cardinal Burke are on the same page, along with Cardinal Sirrah, Cardinal Mueller.

[77] These are all bishops and successors of the apostles who have paid a terrible price for speaking out for the faith on the deposit of faith.

[78] Cardinal Burke warns the Senate, warns this.

[79] He says this, he warns that the Senate threatens the spread of devastation of the German church to a universal church.

[80] Now, this is incredible.

[81] He was right in our backyard.

[82] He's speaking at the St. Thomas Aquinas commencement.

[83] So graduation, his eminence told the graduates that the world is facing troubled times.

[84] You think?

[85] What is more the rebellion and revolution sustained by some from within the church, even by some who are called and ordained as shepherds of the flock.

[86] See, he's not mixing words.

[87] He said this on Sunday, this Pentecost Sunday.

[88] He warned the graduates of St. Thomas Aquinas about the potential devastating impact this upcoming Senate in October will have on the church.

[89] He said, we live in these troubled times and sometimes seemingly apocalyptic times, his eminence remarked in his commitment.

[90] commencement address.

[91] We witness in the world, this is important what he says, a denial of our very nature as God has created us.

[92] And he was talking about that, transgenderism.

[93] What is more, the rebellion and revolution sustained by some from within the church, even by some who are called and ordained to shepherd the flock.

[94] He said, we're witnessing this devastating results from the church in Germany.

[95] I'll give an example.

[96] He continues.

[97] The German church just last month took 12 women and say, we can't ordain you to the deacconate, but we're going to give a blessing.

[98] You see how they sneak this in?

[99] Does that sound familiar?

[100] Yeah, a blessing for everybody, right?

[101] So he gives a blessing to these 12 women, and now they're going to function at the Catholic churches liturgically as women deaconesses.

[102] Now, what's the point?

[103] Well, the church will finally come around and get with us and we'll get you ordained.

[104] But as far as we're concerned, just keep doing what you're doing in the chapel and the church and act like you're a deaconess, even though you're not.

[105] And we'll catch up with it.

[106] This is how they did the altar girls back in the 60s, but disobedience.

[107] And so Cardinal is basically saying, be careful because the German church is going to be the model for the entire church if we're not careful.

[108] All right, when we come back, we'll talk a little bit more about Cardinal Burke and his comments at St. Thomas Aquinas College and much more at the Bishop Strickland Hour.

[109] We'll do that and much more.

[110] Stay with us, family.

[111] We'll be right back.

[112] And now back to the Bishop Strickland Hour.

[113] Yes, Bishop Strickland would be happy to hear about Cardinal Burke at the Thomas Aquinas College.

[114] I guarantee you there'll be a day when Thomas Aquinas College will have Bishop Strickland out as a commencement speech.

[115] They probably have asked him before, but he couldn't make it.

[116] But it'll happen.

[117] Now, the thing that I like about Thomas Aquinas College, it was founded back in the early 70s.

[118] It was a response to modernism to give good, solid teachings on faith to the colleges.

[119] because we know many of these colleges have just, oh, are you kidding me, just have forgotten their purpose of what they're supposed to be doing.

[120] And Thomas Aquinas was one of those colleges.

[121] It's endorsed by the Cardinal Newman Society.

[122] As Bishop Strickland would know, the Cardinal Newman Society goes through and says, which are your Orthodox Catholic colleges like John Paul 2 or Steubenville?

[123] and you know as a parent that your kids are going to get truly Catholic teachings.

[124] I say this I wouldn't send my kids to Notre Dame.

[125] No way.

[126] So things like that.

[127] Now graduating senior Paul Hesberg, the son of Hungary's ambassador to the Vatican, Edward Hussberg, also spoke at the commencement ceremony.

[128] Can you imagine Bishop Strickland's just going yeah, yeah, we love it.

[129] He urged his former classmates to go out into the world and that the light of Christ shine through us.

[130] Sounds like a Bishop Strickland line to me. Now, Burke further, Cardinal Burke told the audience that was, you know, who are devout Catholics are rightly disheartened and discouraged and justifiably angry at the profound suffering inflicted upon the mystical body of Christ.

[131] And he used a strong word by the apostasy and abandonment of Christ to embrace the ways of the world and rebellion before God.

[132] I just talked about that in the last segment.

[133] I'm on the page with Cardinal Burke, absolutely.

[134] He calls the word apostasy.

[135] That means we're leaving Christ aside.

[136] Now he also urged them not to leave the church, just like Bishop Strickland said that when he got fired from being the Bishop of Tyler.

[137] Don't leave the church.

[138] He said among this unprecedented situation, she's experiencing, there's no word.

[139] go, stay with the church.

[140] What are we to do in this contemporary situation of the church and of the world, which in certain respects is unprecedented in the history of the church?

[141] I say it goes back to the fourth century with Aryanism and St. Athanasius.

[142] He rhetorically asked, certainly, the answer is not in leaving Christ, who is alive for us in the church, but to remain faithfully with him in the church.

[143] He responded.

[144] To be faithful to Christ means repenting of our sins and adhering to Catholic truth as handed down to us in an unbroken line through the apostolic tradition and to the faithful participated mass. He added.

[145] Now before I go to the next paragraph, I just want to mention something.

[146] That's the message I would like to see our Holy Father give and all these cardinals who are speaking about being open to bringing people in and, you know, we've got to take them where they're at.

[147] But he said this, handing on the truths that were given to us in this unbroken line to the apostles, he said, remain faithful.

[148] And he asked us to repent of our sins.

[149] Cardinal Burke, thank you.

[150] We need more prelates to say repent and believe in the gospel, right from the Gospel of Mark.

[151] Now, in a recent essay published by the German magazine Herder Correspondence entitled The Church on the Horizon of Mardinity, dissident German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who, might add, rejects the Catholic teaching on numerous of topics, including its ban on women deaconesses, claims that the Senate in Rome is seeking to establish a global senatoral church of the future that will have greater participation of all the German church is in trouble we see it I think they ordained one priest last year for the whole country give me a break who's going to want to become a priest when you water down everything and I just want to mention to Bishop Strickland if he was here I said Bishop have you noticed like I have that all of the orders of priests that are orthodox, they're growing like a weed.

[152] And all of your bishops, are your priests of religious orders that are liberal in a sense of progressive?

[153] They're not getting vocations.

[154] And I would attest to it that it's the truth that sets us free.

[155] It's not this idea of whatever feels good to do it.

[156] That's not what our Lord taught.

[157] And that's why I think the church is crumbling.

[158] because our leaders aren't giving us the solid and I mean solid teachings of the gospel they're giving us a worldly view of Christianity that doesn't make it a big difference in other words I mean one religion is as good as another we hear that too much and I think many times people say well why do I need you I mean I hear people talking like I just need to go to church no I don't need to go to church I pray I know God and I just do it my way.

[159] Well, we're not supposed to do it our way.

[160] Supposed to do it his way.

[161] And this is how mixed up the world can be.

[162] So Cardinal Burke, thank you for your commitment to the truth, even when it cost you so much.

[163] The last thing I just want to bring up and then we'll get to some tweets here with Bishop Strickland's tweets.

[164] And again, the Diocese of Lexington doubles down on referring to female hermit as he, brother.

[165] And what's so sad about this, folks, I see this, this picture of this woman and then as she's transitioning to her sense being a man, or being a woman, I mean, from woman to trying to be a man, nothing changes on her chromosomes.

[166] She's a woman for the rest of her life.

[167] And what I say this, and Mr. Strickland, you pointed this out in your tweets, that it's really an attack on God.

[168] It's saying, God, you made me a woman, but you were wrong.

[169] I'm a man. And to prove it, I've got the science and the technology to shove it right in your face and say, see, I'm a man. Now that, you don't hear too often, I bet.

[170] But that's what it says.

[171] It's denying what God has created.

[172] and I think this has been the problem of the last 100 years maybe since this French Revolution 300 years ago and that is the rejection of God as king of our universe we want to be our own God and call our own shots and I think what Bishop Strickland would be telling us right now is no we got to do it our Lord's way and he says Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of us all.

[173] We must follow the truth.

[174] He died to share with us.

[175] We cannot compromise the truth for any political agenda.

[176] See, we can't tell people this.

[177] And I'll just make it real clear.

[178] We're living irregular marriages.

[179] What do we call that?

[180] That means they're living with someone who's not their wife.

[181] We used to call it adultery.

[182] But that word is too hard.

[183] But I'm to call it for what it is because it's a biblical word adultery living with a woman or a man that's not your husband or your wife we want to bless them and we want to encourage them that they're still part of the church but we're not giving them the full gospel that says repent and believe in the gospel and we know that we did one of the readings last week and james that talks about uh sins of omission that when we know we're supposed to do the right thing and we don't for correctness or political correctness are just trying to get along and we say oh no that's okay we won't talk about repentance we're just going to welcome you well I think that's tragic because St. Thomas Aquinas as Bishop Strickland has pointed out the definition of love is to will the good of the other well why how can this be loved to tell somebody here I bless you in your homosexual union or I bless you in your irregular reunion of being an adulterist I know the Holy Father has said I'm not blessing the couples but let's be honest they come up as a couple they're holding hands and they want a blessing what they're really asking for and it's clear because that's how they perceive what we're doing in the church is that you're finally agreeing that being an active homosexual is just fine.

[184] It's just a fact, as the Holy Father said in his interview on CBS.

[185] It's just who they are and we've got to welcome them.

[186] But I am of the opinion that welcoming somebody without telling them the gospel of repentance is not giving them the gospel.

[187] And I think, based on scripture, that if we don't tell them to repent, then we're participating in their sin.

[188] And it's a sin of omission not to see somebody who's objectively, and mostly I said objectively, living in a sinful behavior and telling them that's okay, God made you that way, or we love you just the way you are.

[189] All these things, really?

[190] No, Scott Hahn says, we love you, the Lord loves you too much to keep you.

[191] They're doing the same thing.

[192] In other words, he wants you to repent and believe in the gospel.

[193] And so when I tell you this story that is a, this diocese of Lexington doubles down on referring to female hermits as brother.

[194] Well, as I said, the bishop there, John Stowe, he's acknowledging it of the guys that, you know, a gender -confused woman to live in the diocese as a hermit calling her.

[195] and brother so he doesn't he he he's not giving the woman the truth about her identity that god made her a woman and that she needs to work through that and not try and be god and change what god has made because it's really an affront and the thing that really upsets me as a layman bishop strickland i'll just tell you is when a bishop can do that in his diocese and get get no reprimand from the Vatican or replace him.

[196] He's done all kinds of.

[197] He's a big supporter of the LGBT groups in his diocese.

[198] Nothing is done to him, but you come out and speak on the truths of the faith and you get removed.

[199] See, as a layman, I say, there's a problem here.

[200] No good deed goes unpunished.

[201] You got the good deed is you would not compromise.

[202] on the gospel in your diocese you would tell people this is the marriage is made between a man and a woman and i love you enough to tell you to repent and believe in the gospel and that's one of the reasons you're no longer the bishop of tyler texas and i thank you for saying that some people would say well he should have just zipped his lip he tells me that all the time people told me bishop you're talking too much they're going to fire you and he says i can't not talk to you much.

[203] I have to proclaim Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

[204] I don't have a choice, meaning the choice of speaking about Christ or the world.

[205] He made it clear.

[206] We'll talk more about Bishop Strickland's position on morality and why he can't not compromise.

[207] Stay with us.

[208] You're listening to the Bishop Strickland Hour on Virgin Most Power.

[209] Stay with him.

[210] And now back to the Bishop Strickland Hour.

[211] Welcome back.

[212] We're talking about a Bishop John Stowe.

[213] He's a Franciscan conventional.

[214] It's the same order that I was in to a cumsee back in the late 70s.

[215] And one of my friends, I'll just be honest with you, won't say his name, but he was in the seminary with Bishop John Stowe.

[216] And they all knew at the time that he was leaning towards homosexuality and they took him out and the order said we'll just do his novitiate in the order so they made an exception for him and this is the point i'm making it's tragic if we would have just said no you can't be a priest you you know as a homosexual the priest has made it the church has made it clear that this is you can't be father and um look what they you know would have been saved and again i'm making the point bishop strickling gets booted for a tyler to Texas because he's outspoken on the deposit of faith.

[217] And then Bishop John Stowe of Kentucky, Lexington, does all these heterodox teachings, and nothing is said to him.

[218] He's still the bishop.

[219] And as I repeat, as a layman, Bishop Strickland, I'm frustrated because we need other bishops and say, wait a minute, Holy Father or Vatican, why is this guy still the bishop?

[220] He's leading people in error.

[221] And, you know, there's lots of ways to participate in a sin.

[222] And as I said, the book of James is real clear that when you don't do the right thing, you're doing a sin of omission.

[223] You're sinning because of what you should do.

[224] I just want to give, I want to pray for this Mattson, Mr. Mattson, he's in, Mrs. Mattson, she's a Miss Mattson, excuse me, a fact a woman.

[225] They had this interview back in 2015 on EWT, and I did a little research.

[226] on that, and it developed strong ties to the Catholic actors and artists about her conversion to Catholicism, apparently without knowing the truth behind Cole's masculine appearance.

[227] They didn't know.

[228] She's 39.

[229] She was raised Presbyterian, and she explained that she converted to Catholicism four years ago after her sex change in college, which she referred to as part of her medical history.

[230] Isn't that a euphemism?

[231] Your medical history.

[232] Rather than a central part of her personal identity.

[233] After her conversion, she felt called to minister to those in the arts.

[234] And what's really interesting, she said it was an obstacle for her to become a religious.

[235] Because back in the year 2000.

[236] Check this out.

[237] We're in 2024.

[238] But 24 years ago, the Vatican document declared that anyone who had a sex change is ineligible to marry, to be ordained to the priesthood or to enter religious life.

[239] Oh, can you imagine that happening today with the pontificate that we have now?

[240] All are welcome.

[241] Do you remember the song?

[242] No, the church did that for a good reason.

[243] Okay?

[244] And it's just unfortunate now that we've compromised, but let's be honest.

[245] What would the world say?

[246] Let that person become a priest or a religious or whatever.

[247] So who's influencing who 24 years later?

[248] That's an example of the world influencing the Holy See in a very, very bad way.

[249] Now, it should all be noted that Madison continues to embrace her trans identity even after her conversion.

[250] She argues that the Catholic Church can embrace transgender people while maintaining orthodoxy.

[251] Really?

[252] And wonder where she got that idea from, maybe from the present pontificate.

[253] And the Vatican -level documents have come out on the high subject, have not engaged with the science at all, according to her.

[254] Now, a report by LifeSight News, Mother Teresa Ivers, a canon lawyer, confirmed that it's canonically impossible for a transsexual person to live as religious or any ecclesial state.

[255] Now, that's not going to stop people in the church today, canon law.

[256] They can care less what it says.

[257] According to Ivers, a transsexual commits a very grave violation against chastity.

[258] Now, here why she's making a, a very serious crime against chastity, not in the sense that chastity is normally understood, but in reference to the fact that transsexual acts against biologically reality and against the type of human person that God intended that person to be.

[259] A violation against the vow of chastity can include bodily manipulation and encouraging others to do the same.

[260] such a sin would be morally grave in nature and we are not judging the soul we'd also incur a sacrilege because it goes against the promise made to God on the virtual religion she added she further explained that while the whole point of religious life and vows to poverty chastity obeisance are to grow closer to Christ the increased charity for the people of God the use of such religious life to advocate for a transsexual lifestyle, which is actually bringing people away from that closeness to God, and contrary to that aim.

[261] So it makes it really clear what we're dealing with is somebody, objectively, who's all mixed up about their sexuality, and it just seems to me like people like courage, Father Harvey's group, needs to be there for helping people work through their problems.

[262] I'm not saying throw them out on the street.

[263] Love them with the truth, though.

[264] Don't acquiesce to what they want to believe is right or wrong.

[265] All right, now, so we need to pray.

[266] A little note to Bishop Aguilar, he's an outspoken preach from Europe, and Bishop Strickland tweeted him.

[267] He's basically an article I read called The Smoke of Satan has made the structures of the church unbearable.

[268] And what he means by that is much of what's gone on in the church is self -destruction.

[269] We've got people like Father Martin, the Jesuit, who's telling everybody, hey, the catechism or their Bible is wrong about homosexuality.

[270] And I'm going, wait a minute, he's a Catholic priest, he's a Jesuit.

[271] Didn't anybody correct?

[272] him?

[273] No. Well, I question if you're not going to correct someone with a violation of Catholic teaching, clear teaching, and you're invisible, then you put that person in a Vatican position on committees.

[274] I can't not believe that you agree with him based on giving him more jobs.

[275] If you didn't agree with him, you would say you would silence him.

[276] So, Father James Martin is prominent, and he's getting the backing of the Pope and the Roman Curia.

[277] And that's scandalous, as far as I can see.

[278] And that's why I appreciate the Archbishop Aguilar speaking out.

[279] He's retired.

[280] I get it.

[281] But he can't be quiet about this.

[282] He sees Holy Mother being torn apart.

[283] So thank you.

[284] And Bishop Strickland said this.

[285] Important article to follow.

[286] resist any false voices that speak of a new gospel for the 21st century.

[287] Christ, yesterday, today, and forever.

[288] See, you can't have this new gospel that says, you know, all are welcomed.

[289] You know, doesn't matter what you do.

[290] God loves you.

[291] No, he loves you enough to have you change.

[292] And when you just give this open -ended, oh, come on, just one religion is as good as another, that's not what Jesus Christ taught.

[293] All right, let's get to the next tweet from Bishop Strickland.

[294] And that is, I talked about it last week, Harrison Butker, the controversial comments of a speech he gave two weeks ago now.

[295] And Bishop Strickland said, thank you, Harrison, for speaking truth.

[296] It is no surprise that some are reacting with extreme negativity.

[297] Too many today hate the truth, merely want their truth which is not truth at all and what he means by that is yeah you have your truth I have my truth we talk about that a lot that's not Catholic teachings and so when he starts getting attacked by Benedictine sisters are you kidding me saying what you said doesn't you know we don't relate to it's not our morality that we adhere to when Harrison was just speaking normal teachings about what the church teaches about marriage and family life and abortion and speaking of about traditional Catholic values and he's going to get beat up for that?

[298] Yeah, he's 28 years old.

[299] He could have shut his mouth.

[300] I bet you the Bible convicted him, James.

[301] He said something when, the book of James, it's a sin of omission when you can do some good and you don't do it.

[302] So I'm just impressed that he did that.

[303] Bishop Strickland also quoted 1st Corinthians chapter 6.

[304] He's saying this, You must know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within the spirit you have received from God.

[305] You are not your own, he said.

[306] You have been purchased and at a price.

[307] So glorify God in your body.

[308] Now, how do you glorify God in your body?

[309] I can tell you how you glorify God in your body.

[310] By doing your daily duty.

[311] Use the body to serve your family as a married man or woman.

[312] A young man, do your duty by doing your homework with your body.

[313] Yes, you're glorifying God because who gave you those hands?

[314] Who gave you the feet, the eyes, the nose, all given to you by God?

[315] I think it's an attitude of gratitude when you can, at the end of the day, start thanking God for all the gifts he's given to us.

[316] Sometimes I think we forget to thank God for all these things.

[317] Bishop Strickland pointed out on that Corinthians, he said, these words contrasts so starkly with our modern attitude.

[318] We must, as Bishop Sheen said, Bishop Strickland says, we must return to an understanding of who we are.

[319] Mary, Queen of Heaven, pray for us.

[320] Who are we?

[321] We're children of God.

[322] We're loved by God.

[323] He died on the cross.

[324] If you were the only one on the planet, he would have died for you.

[325] This is how much God loves you.

[326] And we talk about cheap grace.

[327] What is cheap grace?

[328] A Lutheran minister from Germany during the war, when I come back, I'll quote him.

[329] Because he basically says, cheap grace is that, you don't repent and you think you're going to get to heaven.

[330] It hasn't worked that way.

[331] We come back.

[332] We'll have more tweets with Bishop Strickland and much, much more here on the Bishop Strickland Hour on Virgin, most powerful radio.

[333] Stay with us, family.

[334] And now back to the Bishop Strickland Hour.

[335] Oh, welcome back to the Bishop Strickland Hour.

[336] Indeed.

[337] Usually the fourth segment we get into the catechism.

[338] Can you imagine a Catholic bishop every week giving out catechetical teachings?

[339] What a novel idea.

[340] We're in his little book that the Diocese of Tyler put together the Way of Christ.

[341] The St. Philip Institute put this together.

[342] And we are still on the Holy Eucharist, the source and summit of the Christian life.

[343] And it's basically question and answer like the Baltimore Catechism.

[344] So we can't beat that.

[345] The question comes up, who can receive the Eucharist?

[346] Now, this is important because I don't know about you.

[347] I'm just being honest with you.

[348] I see all kinds of people, whether they're Muslim receiving Holy Communion.

[349] I've seen that.

[350] I've seen Protestants at funerals receive Holy Communion.

[351] And nobody does say us anything.

[352] So it seems like we've just kind of thrown that aside and saying, all are welcomed.

[353] Well, that's not what the church teaches.

[354] Here's what it teaches.

[355] Only baptized Catholics in communion with the church, having fasted for one hour, and received absolution for any mortal sins they may have committed may receive Holy Eucharist.

[356] This is because we must be in the state of grace to receive the Holy Eucharist and because by receiving the Holy Eucharist we are professing to believe everything the Catholic Church believes.

[357] That's why non -Catholics wouldn't receive.

[358] And I say this, because many of us who receive becomes nonchalant and I think one of the things Bishop Strickland and I had talked about is like when he goes to say Holy Mass he says I try to think that this might be my last mass that I offer so I want to offer it with reverence well I think it's the same thing for us lay people when we receive Holy Communion consider it maybe this is my last Holy Communion and it'll become more special to us because again it wasn't until maybe 100 years, 120 years ago when frequent communion was even common remember the little flower she received her first Holy Communion I think she was seven years old that wasn't common back then and so the point I'm making is let's really really buckle down on receiving Holy Communion in that state of grace.

[359] Now, remember, if I'm not in the state of grace, say, Jesus, put me in the state of grace.

[360] Joan of Arc had that famous line when they asked in their interrogation.

[361] Are you in the state of grace?

[362] She says, I don't know, but if I'm not, I pray that I obey in the state of grace.

[363] See, that's a very good answer.

[364] So all of us, I'd say this, and Bishop Strickland would agree, if you haven't been to confession in the last 30 days, go.

[365] I'm going twice a month.

[366] Every couple weeks I'm in the confessional.

[367] And I don't, you know, I'm just a sinner like everybody else.

[368] But I want to receive those graces of the sacrament on a regular basis because I know we talk about the power of the Eucharist.

[369] Well, it's much, it's tied into the sacrament of confession because if we're not in the state of grace receiving Holy Communion, it's a sacrilege.

[370] What?

[371] Nobody told me that?

[372] I'm sorry.

[373] I have to tell you.

[374] I love you.

[375] I'm willing the good of the other.

[376] I've actually had people tell me they've had an abortion and they've still been going to church receiving Holy Communion and never repented.

[377] And I said, well, you know that it's wrong?

[378] Yeah.

[379] But I didn't want to bring it up.

[380] well bring it up in the confessional get that sin off your chest tell the priest that you just didn't know and get absolved how many people just are ignorant well there's a lot i'll never forget i think i shared this with bishop strickland pope john paul too had the american bishops over for their adliminal visit, and it was the East Coast this time, and many of the bishops were telling the Holy Father there's so much invincible ignorance out there in America.

[381] People just don't know their faith, Holy Father.

[382] Surely they won't go to hell.

[383] And the Holy Father's eating his soup, puts a soup pool down and says, surely they won't.

[384] But those who are responsible for that invincible ignorance shall surely go to hell.

[385] But who's responsible for this ignorance?

[386] Well, in part, it's the leadership of the church.

[387] Not all.

[388] There's other elements.

[389] But I would say, from my perspective, our bishops have let us down.

[390] Our leaders have let us down by lowering the bar.

[391] Saying, oh, you don't need to go to church on this day.

[392] Oh, it's not a sin.

[393] Oh, that's meant, you know.

[394] And they falsely attribute Vatican, too, saying, there's no purgatory i've had priests tell me that that was old school well i'm sorry father you just don't know your faith what did i say that yeah i'm a layman and when i hear you say things like there's no purgatory look in your catechism it's right there so i'm not going to believe you and i think bishop strickland said it well in one of the treat that tweets i think i quoted it already when he said that we must follow Jesus Christ he died to share his faith to share with us we cannot compromise the truth for anything and I think that is so true right now because we are being tempted to just say come on let everybody in don't worry about sin God loves you just the way you are have you heard that one go ahead and receive Holy Communion and mortal sin No that's Satan That really is Because he wants you to get to help So he would love to see everybody receive Holy Communion and have very short lines for confession Hmm That's what's been going on for 40 or 50 years He must have a headache That's exactly what's been going on All right our next question on the Holy Eucharist How do we receive the Holy Eucharist when we present ourselves to receive Holy Communion we first bow and reverence and the reason I say that is if you're kneeling down you don't need to bow but for a lot of people in America we're standing up so the church says if we're going to stand you've got to make some outward manifestation of reverence to Jesus and the Holy Eucharist and then the priest or the extraordinary minister says the body of Christ and we respond, amen.

[395] The best way to receive the body of Jesus is by opening your mouth, sticking out your tongue, allowing the priest or the extraordinary minister, if there's too many people receiving, minister to place the Holy Eucharist directly on your tongue.

[396] Now, there's an indult that you can also receive it in your hands and we now know back in 1977 when that came through i remember i was a teenager uh i was shocked i didn't want to do that i saw the consequences of that in my own life for 50 years 48 years devastated the flock because you basically said this isn't really a special i can take it with my hands and that's very sad oh my gosh it's so sad if we choose to receive the precious blood under the both species we bow in reverence before it the minister says the blood of Christ and we're supposed to say amen the minister then hands us a chalice of the precious blood and we take a small sip then we hand the chalice back to the minister now Jesus Christ just to make clarity happen here he's present body blood soul and divinity in the sacred host or the precious blood.

[397] No difference.

[398] Some people can't receive the Holy Eucharist under the parents of bread because of their celiac problem.

[399] So they receive Holy Communion with the precious blood.

[400] Now, do they receive fully the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ?

[401] The answer is yes.

[402] A big yes.

[403] So I just want to make that clear.

[404] People ask me that a lot.

[405] All right.

[406] Now, what are the effects of receiving the Holy Eucharist?

[407] What a great question.

[408] By receiving the Eucharist, we receive Christ Himself.

[409] In doing so, the memory of Christ's passion is renewed.

[410] The soul is filled with grace, and the pledge of the future glory is given to us.

[411] Why do we say that?

[412] Because you read the Gospel of John, Chapter 6.

[413] unless you eat of my body and drink of my blood you have no life in you my flesh is real food my blood is real drink that whole chapter 6 of gospel of john will help you understand the power of the holy eucharist and why we need to be in the state of grace to receive holy communion i've heard priests say we are the body of christ you know when you see the eucharist they forget to make the distinction that yes we're old we're trying to be other Christ in the world but we're not the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ he comes into our heart and to us through communion, hopefully on the tongue our Lord is there physically with us for at least 10 to 15 minutes a good idea to acknowledge that and this is the greatest time to pray because Jesus Christ is inside of you physically and this is something that it takes time to really realize are you kidding me why didn't anybody tell me that well I think he's right about the lack of catechises Bishop Strickland said that for many years that people just don't know the faith and I agree they don't and so it is important I had an older woman in her 70s Yesterday tell me, I didn't even know about adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

[414] And that's our next question.

[415] What is Eucharistic Adoration?

[416] And I'm laughing in one sense of me, are you kidding me?

[417] No, nobody told me about adoration.

[418] Now she's at our chapel praying for years before the Blessed Sacrament spending her holy hour.

[419] And I say, praise God.

[420] But why did it take a layman, a bald -headed old guy, to do that for her?

[421] Why didn't she get that when she was a child?

[422] I'll give you the answer.

[423] Poor catechesis.

[424] That's one of the reasons people leave the church.

[425] They don't know what they're leaving because they haven't been taught.

[426] So it's like, well, go to Mass. What for?

[427] Mass is just some kind of ceremony.

[428] Well, no, it's much more than that.

[429] And we'll talk more about the mass in our next segment, or actually in our next day tomorrow with Bishop Strickland's tweets.

[430] and the catechism telling people about the source and summit of Christian life.

[431] So don't forget tomorrow we'll touch up in what is Eucharistic adoration and why it's the key to the restoration of a Eucharistic piety and the folks that are putting on the Eucharistic revival of Bishop's Conference spending $50 million, I could give them a couple ideas for free that bring back people to the Eucharist.

[432] Thanks for joining us, and may God richly bless you and your family.

[433] Stay with us again tomorrow.

[434] We'll have one more day without Bishop Strickland.

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