Marian Vigil - Part 1 - Side B

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I will tell you an experience that I had about four years ago. I was in the area
 
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where Jesus Christ was imprisoned the night before he died and they showed me
 
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the prison as custom had it at that time and they call this particular one that
 
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they showed me the bottle and it was the shape of a bottle with the neck by which
 
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the prisoner was let down through that neck by a rope or whatever else he
 
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couldn't escape and let down to the bottom. In the bottom of that prison they
 
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showed me two areas. One for the worst criminal where he had to stand all the
 
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time. The other is some sort of a stone area where he could lie down and rest.
 
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They said it was where the worst criminal was imprisoned that Christ was there.
 
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So let us turn back the clock to another night, our morning, as real as now,
 
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where a human being was alive and felt suffering and sorrow and rejection and
 
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hatred and injustice and he's in that prison and he was our friend he was our
 
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brother he was more he was God incarnate to take our place to make atonement for
 
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our weaknesses, for our limitations. And so that was a real mourning at five
 
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minutes to two, and later on at three, and later on at four, and later on at five.
 
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And if what they said was true, he was standing at the bottom of the
 
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bottle as they call the prison. That will help you get his thanks for you being at
 
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this time of this morning, twenty hundred years later, believing in him, accepting
 
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him, responding to him, and giving your love and measuring it by your sacrifice.
 
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That's what I want to say in his name to you. The second thing is Mary, his mother.
 
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I was kneeling in St. Peter's three weeks ago. When I go into St. Peter's I go to
 
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one place, the Pietà. And there I kneel, and there I grow, and there I receive
 
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riches of spirit, and there I find my inspiration to go on. And this three
 
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weeks ago when I was there, the thought struck me. How wonderful the man was that
 
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made that pieta out of a block of marble, Michelangelo. He had a chisel, he had a
 
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a hammer. Inside him, however, he had everything that would put, as Cardinal
 
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Carbery said one day to me, that would envelop in that one block of marble the
 
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heart, the soul of our faith. And the thoughts said to me, how will you define
 
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Mary. How will you describe her? Michelangelo tried, but he couldn't do
 
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justice. And I thought of the other Michelangelos that with paint and with
 
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brushes, made paintings that were masterpieces.
 
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Murillo and the rest of them, great geniuses,
 
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trying to define her, trying to describe her,
 
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trying to bring her to life.
 
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And in Paris, the Notre Dame Cathedral
 
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that captures the tourists, that captures the historians.
 
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Another genius, that architect, trying to describe her,
 
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trying to define her.
 
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And so the thought ran along art, sculptor,
 
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writing, singing, songs, paintings, and the rest.
 
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Those who did those things were few. They were the giants. What did the likes of
 
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you and me do to define her, to describe her, to respect her, to pay our tribute
 
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her and I will say they used the tool and they were legion they were our
 
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forefathers they were our mothers they were our fathers they were our brothers
 
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they were our sisters and our grandparents and back and back and back
 
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to the Ignatiuses, to the Loyolas, to the St. Therese's, to the little flowers and
 
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to the rest of them but most of all to the woman that pastor once said if I had
 
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the fate of a Breton peasant, I would know everything.
 
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To these, I want to say that they surpassed in their definition, in their description,
 
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they surpassed the Michelangelos of the world.
 
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And they not only resounded their description of that dear precious daughter of men, the
 
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sister of men, the mother of men, the mother of a God that became incarnate.
 
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They described her, they defined her by the rosary. The rosary was their tool by
 
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which they painted and erected their descriptions of her, their respect for
 
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her and their voices telling heaven and earth, Mary you're alive. We will describe
 
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you, we will honor you, we will create you. Your delicacy, your refinement, your
 
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kindness, your compassion, your faith, your love, your affection, your response to us
 
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and to your God. We will describe you with a tool that will surpass the painters and
 
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the brushes and the stonemasons and the chisels and the hammers. We will shout out to the
 
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heavens and the earth and what we'll say will go out into space so that the
 
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scientists of tomorrow will capture the voices of our ancestors that were legion
 
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filling space with that one or two sentences that is the most out there in
 
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space of all sentences that were ever said upon the earth. And what are they?
 
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The God-given sentences that he described are by Hail Mary, Hail Mary,
 
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Mary, Mary, full of grace, graceful, graceful, an honor to your race, the boast of a
 
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tainted race. Your King is with you, your Lord is with you, your God is with you.
 
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Men, women will honor you. Women will accept you as their number one example
 
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and model and image of what a woman is. Great, wonderful, extraordinary, but there's
 
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one woman above them all and the women of the earth that came in the
 
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generations before us like the little flower and the great Saint Teresa and
 
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their mothers weren't jealous of her because she isn't ambitious, she isn't
 
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self-seeking, she isn't snobbish, she isn't the elite, she isn't the
 
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sophisticated, she's the woman that didn't want anything else but the love
 
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of her God when it's the Luke put in her mouth. My spirit rejoices in my holy God.
 
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My soul magnifies my God, my love, my Lord, my all. And dear God my Father, don't
 
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ask me to say no or yes because whatever you'll ask of me I will say yes to.
 
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These were the women of yesterday and their husbands and their children that
 
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re-echoed across our earth with the holy tool, the greatest tool that defined her,
 
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described her, honored her, pleaded with her over and over and over again because
 
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their needs were more than 50. Their joys were more than 50. Their longings were
 
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more than 50. And they didn't get tired. And they didn't get weary. And they
 
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weren't embarrassed when the little snob laughed at them and said to them,
 
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you're an old woman that has nothing else to do but repeating like a parrot.
 
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But the one that said that measured his ignorance and his absence of faith and
 
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his and his poverty because they knew that with Mary there is never enough.
 
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there is never too much because she's chosen by God not by herself and the
 
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great omnipotent God is so infinitely wise that he cannot make a mistake and
 
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And in his wisdom, and in his love, he chose that precious daughter of men that the Rosary
 
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never tires describing and defining and doing all other things that sculptors and architects
 
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and all the rest of the geniuses couldn't compare with.
 
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Holy Mary, Holy Mary, you're holy, you're holy.
 
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Pray for us.
 
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Pray for us, Mary.
 
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You have influence.
 
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holy Son won't take you lightly. I'll never cease saying to you over and over
 
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and over again how much I need you, how much I love you, how much I respect you,
 
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how much I admire you, how much I bow before you, our tainted nature's solitary
 
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boasts, the mother of our Redeemer, the mother of our Savior, the spouse of our
 
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sanctifier, the daughter of our Creator, and all without her asking for it, all
 
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without her ambitioning it, but our dear God throwing it at her feet, choosing her
 
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from everybody and saying to her, to you, dear little young one, 16, 15, 14, you have
 
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such a sensitivity, you have such an awareness of what's real, you have such a conscientious
 
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disposition, you have everything so wonderful that I will entrust to you my most beloved
 
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treasure of heaven and earth, my son.
 
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Care for him.
 
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Watch over him.
 
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Be conscientious about his welfare.
 
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Clothe him.
 
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Cook his meals for him.
 
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Don't let him get lost.
 
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Don't let him get starved.
 
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Help him along his journey.
 
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God the Father.
 
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And that precious little girl couldn't say to God the
 
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father, no. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, behold this handmaid, behold your
 
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servant, behold your little girl, whatever ever ever you ask of me, be it
 
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the agony, the calvary, the rejections, the exile, to be a refugee running for my
 
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life with my little one, be it done to me dear God the Father as you will." That's
 
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the woman, the generations of our ancestors, the simple people, the lovable
 
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people, the humble people that Christ's always predilected. The predilect of
 
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Christ, the simple, the humble, like you, like you. This is Mary. This is how you
 
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and your ancestors like you described her with that rosary. It's all there. This
 
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This is the tool, this is the great tool that surpasses all the tools.
 
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And dearest people, God, like he did to Mary, she didn't ambition it.
 
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Neither did I ambition the role that God gave me.
 
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I was shy, I still am, fearful, afraid, wishing anything but what I have to do.
 
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Almost 35 years ago, a few months short, on a retreat morning, there wasn't any doubt
 
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in my mind when the lightning struck. The family rosary crusade is your job. It's
 
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your lifetime. You don't have to ask counsel to see if you're wrong or right.
 
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I'm answering you. This is your life's work. I'm not a lunatic, dearest people.
 
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I'm not a fanatic, thank God.
 
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But I'm as sure as God is alive that on that Sunday morning of January of 42, while on
 
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retreat, that lightning strike, the family rosary crusade is your job, that it came from
 
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my God.
 
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And that I didn't say no.
 
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But I found myself close to saying no when my superiors gave their permission to go out
 
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and try to restore, not to start, but to restore what our grandfathers in this United States
 
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always did.
 
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They gathered their families at the end of the day.
 
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And they allowed the rosary reach into their souls and their hearts and their voices and
 
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their hands and their knees and their senses to enable them to cry out,
 
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Dear Holy God, you're alive.
 
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My Holy God, you're alive.
 
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And you are a father.
 
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You're not a judge.
 
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You're not cruel.
 
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You're not a tyrant.
 
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But my rosary tells me to say to my wife and my children, God is our father.
 
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And who is a father?
 
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What is a father?
 
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Why is a father?
 
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We know, it'll bore you to say it, but the rosary told our ancestors, that's the God
 
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that's yours.
 
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And from their hearts and homes came the Holy Mary, the Hail Mary, the holy will of God
 
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be done.
 
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God became our brother, the source of our joy as a result.
 
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That brother of ours saved us and told us to go into the background and hide.
 
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And he would go out to the danger and the evil and meet it head on, even though it killed
 
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him to save us.
 
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The redemption.
 
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Our ancestors with the rosary filling their hearts, filling their homes, filling their
 
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minds with such thoughts as these, with such sentences as these.
 
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that that brother of ours told or showed evil and death and sin that their day
 
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was done when he rose from the dead and conquered death and sin and evil. This is
 
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the rosary of yesterday. This is why the Saints came out of the homes that filled
 
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our earth, that became our missionaries, that couldn't contain their treasures,
 
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but had to go out and be martyred and die in foreign faraway fields to share
 
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what that rosary said to them when they were growing up. And so dearest people,
 
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Almost 35 years ago, God threw upon me that challenge, and my superior said,
 
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try it. We'll bless you, we'll back you, we'll support you. And where I was
 
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appointed the bishop of that diocese, he said the same, I envy you your zeal. I
 
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will back you, I will bless you. And then I find myself in the little chapel of
 
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the Holy Cross brothers to whom I was chaplain. They were up in their schools.
 
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There was no one in that chapel but the Blessed Sacrament and myself. I'm at the
 
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end of the chapel in a little chair. I have all the permissions that I need, all
 
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all the authority that would let me go out before the world
 
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and know that I was not a fanatic,
 
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that I was not a lunatic,
 
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that I had the church behind me
 
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in the persons of my bishop and my superior.
 
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But I began to say to myself in that little chapel,
 
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I cannot do it.
 
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And I said this very thing in my mind,
 
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If I find myself in a church in Chicago,
 
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and I'm in the pulpit, and I reach down to the pews,
 
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and amongst the parishioners is a man
 
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that has a palace to live in,
 
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four or five cars in his garages,
 
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a tremendous bank account,
 
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And he sees this poor little priest in the pulpit, killing himself to say to that man,
 
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the security that you're relying on is like a will of the wisp, like a wisp of straw.
 
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It will flash away in the wind.
 
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It will be burned by the fire and you're in poverty.
 
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The only security is when your mind and heart says, God loves my wife and my wife loves
 
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God.
 
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God loves my son and my daughter and they love God.
 
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God loves me and I love God.
 
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That's your security, but you'll never get it cheaply.
 
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You'll never get it by wishful thinking.
 
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Christ said, don't ever throw a pearl to a pig.
 
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You have to appreciate God.
 
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You have to appreciate his grace.
 
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You have to earn it.
 
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And so that man and his wife cannot have that sureness by just going their merry way.
 
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They must measure it so that it's visible.
 
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that the greatest measure is the fidelity to this blessed holy discipline and practice.
 
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Where that Father, like his Father before him, at the end of the day gathered his wife
 
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and children and with the rosary beads in their hands, drawing out of their hearts everything
 
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that's good and beautiful and true, the things we live by, the faith and the
 
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answers we live by, then you can rise even though that you were as bored and
 
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as dry as the Sahara Desert, even though that there was no ecstasy, even though
 
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you rattled off Holy Mary, Mother of God, like a parrot, but you measured your will,
 
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you were orientated in the direction of the great almighty God that saw the
 
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inability of us to talk with ecstatic joy to one you cannot see. And so I said
 
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to myself in that chapel, sitting in that chair, I cannot do this. I cannot do it.
 
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But dearest people, I didn't say that in order to escape, in order to get a
 
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rationalization that would allow me to tell my superiors I was a fool.
 
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No, I was determined that this would happen.
 
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I got off my chair, I walked up that aisle, I got hold of that tabernacle,
 
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And with the violence that our Lord asked in order to capture heaven, I asked for an
 
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impossible thing from him.
 
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I asked this.
 
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I cannot do what's in my heart, the dream that I have of restoring to the American Catholic
 
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family the practice of our ancestors.
 
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I cannot, but you can.
 
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And I'm asking you, I'm obliging you, I'm asking you to give your mother 10 million
 
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American families that cannot be neutral, that somehow or another.
 
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people, thanks, that some way or another they will come to know the seven little
 
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words that spells out the world's number one problem and its solution, the family
 
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that prays together, stays together.
 
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I'm talking to our Lord. It's no wonder that the Blessed Sacrament and this
 
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Eucharistic Congress and its relationship to my apostolate, and it's
 
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not mine, it's God's, is connected with the Blessed Sacrament because of what
 
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happened. I was greedy. I didn't stop with America. I said to our Lord, now I want
 
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more. I want you to deliver to this conviction, to this awareness, to this
 
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knowledge that the family that prays together stays together. Every Catholic
 
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home in the world. How long it took me to do that violence, my hands grasping the
 
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tabernacle and I asked it for his mother. Why did I ask it for her? In my naivety
 
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it might be, but in my old age with God directing me I was asking it so that she
 
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would be able to perform more effectively the second role that she got
 
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from the Blessed Trinity. The Father gave her the first role, make a man of my son.
 
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The Son gave her the second role, make a God of my brother. And I asked that
 
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knowing well that if Christ answered me in that sacrament and took the
 
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responsibility on his shoulders and allowed me to be the donkey that would
 
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never refuse, that would go up the hill to the right, to the left, that would never
 
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bite or kick or say I won't, that he would do the job and that his mother
 
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would perform consequently and more effectively the feeding of the hungry
 
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spiritually and believe me the hungry spiritually is worse off than the hungry
 
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physically, that she would be able to feed the starving spiritual son, the
 
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hungry, the naked, the dying, the need of medicines if they prayed that precious
 
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Holy Rosary. Dearest people, were Christ to have answered me that moment when I
 
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did that violence, he could have said this,
 
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Pat Payton, I like what you're saying but I cannot do what you're asking. I cannot
 
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do what you're asking. I cannot make a family pray the rosary. I'm God, your
 
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beautiful soul knows that. But you are asking me the impossible because I honor
 
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the gift I gave. But I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll do the next best thing and
 
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more than you ever dreamt of. I'll make the world a little village so that from
 
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one end of it to the other, not only the Catholics but the Jewish, the Protestants,
 
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the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Buddhist, the Parsi, the entire human family will
 
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come to know that the family that prays together stays together. And so my
 
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dearest people, the heavens opened. I know our Lord answered me immediately
 
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that he said yes in his way the only way I was wrong but he was right go out to
 
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all the world and I would place in your hands the instruments the personnel that
 
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will make of this world a little village that nobody can say I never heard this
 
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and who fell into my hands in order to accomplish this. The Hollywood stars and
 
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the bishops of the earth. The Hollywood stars to soften the ground, the aerial
 
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bombardment, the crossing the oceans and the mountains and the continents,
 
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harnessing the air, bringing into the hearts and homes of men this tremendous
 
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seven-word sentence laden with dynamite to tell anybody that has any sense,
 
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I better examine this, I better see this, I better see and examine it in order to
 
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save my family from the million escapes that I'm experiencing, the drugs, the
 
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dropouts, the rejections, the lack of obedience, the rejection of authority,
 
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divorce, abortion, euthanasia, and all of them nothing but symptoms, symptoms of
 
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something that's fatal. They're the tops of the iceberg and the tops of the
 
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iceberg never sank the Titanic, it was the bottom. And the bottom of our iceberg
 
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is not what we're killing ourselves with committees, with every effort to
 
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knock this thing out and it's like Don Quixote. But the family Rosary Crusade and
 
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Jesus Christ in that sacrament answering me that day brought it about that the
 
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bishops of the earth with their pastors all united and the Hollywood stars with
 
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their ability to harness through science the airwaves to bring about the bottom
 
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of the iceberg would be attacked. The crises of fate. There is a God that's
 
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alive, he is alive and he's a trinity and he became incarnate and he died for us
 
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as a man and he rose from the dead. When we forget all that then we must escape
 
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to the alcohol, to adultery, to the drugs, to divorce, to abortions and to all the
 
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rest. But the real, real problem, the bottom of our iceberg is the crises of
 
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our faith, the crisis of faith is delivering the escapes to the families.
 
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And so dearest people, the bishops of the earth was Christ's answer. Bishop Kidd of
 
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London, Ontario the first, at a gathering like this Philadelphia Congress, but it
 
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was an honor of Mary. I went there and Bishop Kidd of London, Ontario through
 
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one of his pastors brought me to that diocese and all those pastors of all
 
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that diocese headed by Bishop Kidd of London, all the teachers united with that
 
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bishop.
 
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gave to the families of London diocese three months of their time, putting everything else
 
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in the background except one thing, let us help, let us comfort, let us enlighten, let
 
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Let us strengthen, let us come to the rescue of the one only community that we cannot survive
 
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without, the little family.
 
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Let us go not just to the elite, let us not go to save the saved, let us begin with the
 
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family that needs it most because if we have the faith we'll make Christ change that family.
 
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And so that great bishop lighted a fire that will never go out.
 
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The bishops of the earth ever since, since 47 until now, are taking the torch one and
 
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passing it on to the other.
 
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Just now, came from the Philippines on the 30th of June in a little province down in
 
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the south, Leyte.
 
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I saw a sight that is a proof that the shepherd can bring his sheep from the desert to the
 
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green grass if he's truly a shepherd.
 
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And I'll say that no matter whether he's a bishop or a pastor.
 
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any shepherd wherever he is if he wants to pay the price in love and leadership
 
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and in the ability to oblige Jesus Christ to answer him and to do his work
 
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for him can move his starving sheep from the desert sands into the green grasses.
 
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And so in that laity province I saw a rally that the Manila Press estimated to
 
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be 500,000 people gathered together with five families, each taking a decade, the
 
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resurrection, to lead that multitude in saying to God you're alive, in saying to
 
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Mary, the mother of our Redeemer, in saying to Mary we rely on your
 
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motherhood. Pray for us. And so the rosary is not outmoded. The rosary is not
 
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for old women that has nothing else to do. Those few little whippersnappers
 
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that laugh at it, that measure their emptiness, will rue the day because what
 
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God wills no man can destroy. God put Mary where she is.
 
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And all the efforts of hell will never depose her.
 
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and the rosary is our stepping stone to her intercession and intervention.
 
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But that's Manila, that's the Philippines.
 
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I went to the Cardinal of Cebu.
 
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He was present.
 
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He saw that.
 
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I said, that victory for me is not a victory unless it delivers a thousand more.
 
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I ask you to give to us the best priest you have.
 
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And I mentioned him by name.
 
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Let him leave his parish.
 
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Let him come totally to serve the Philippine church and people.
 
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I went up to Manila and I said to the new Cardinal, what happened in Leyte can happen
 
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in the whole blessed Philippines.
 
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I want the best priest you have to be released to the crusade of the family.
 
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Let him come with us to Latin America.
 
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He will be trained on how to bring the gospel out to the streets through the 15 films on
 
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the mysteries of the rosary.
 
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He will integrate the diocese's power, priests, nuns, and all to give their all to win and
 
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motivate and educate the families to restore what they cannot survive without
 
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God in their midst through prayer. Cardinal Sin said to me immediately,
 
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I'll give you the best priest I have, Monsignor Lim. Monsignor, I said to him
 
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then, send him to Philadelphia so that he'll get his first taste of what to be
 
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lost in Christ and the sacrament is at this Congress so he's here. Then to go
 
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down to Puerto Rico where that Cardinal and all his bishops for the last year
 
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and a half with a great redemptorist priest and two Dominican nuns and about
 
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40 of our sets of Rosary films in the streets of San Juan and the rest
 
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bringing one out of every three out to go to an innate night
 
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appreciation of our redemption and what the rosary says.
 
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And so it isn't a thing of the past, it's a thing of now because
 
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those two Cardinals are now determined after what they saw at Laity
 
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to give a three to a four-year program
 
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to do the same but at the grassroots to the entire Philippines.
 
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I will come to a conclusion as soon as I can and it's this.
 
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The Blessed Sacrament. When I was a little child in this classroom and had
 
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to answer what it was. I could rattle it off. That was one thing, but it was quite
 
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another when I was in desperation to get a job done and that I knew so well I
 
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couldn't do it. And when I went to the Blessed Sacrament to say, you do it.
 
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35 years have passed except for a few months since that day and our blessed
 
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Lord in the sacrament has never ceased but intensely answering that violence
 
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that took me a minute to perform in order to...
 
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I have to go around the bush to tell you what I want.
 
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I gave you a hint of it earlier.
 
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34 and a half years have shown me
 
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how silly it is to worry about statistics,
 
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to worry about memberships.
 
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to worry about organization.
 
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That our Lord
 
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brought it clear to me, right from the beginning,
 
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but especially within the last few months,
 
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that my job is not to glory in how many families are praying the rosary.
 
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That's God's prerogative.
 
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My job is to bring the horse to the water. I cannot force him to drink it.
 
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But if I say, are the farmer that owns the horse and brings him to the river
 
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and the horse refuses to drink it, if the farmer says, okay, never again will I
 
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I bring you to the river. Go back to your pasture and die of the thirst. I'll never
 
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bring you again. I'm giving you what's my life. Our poor Lord is so good, so
 
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lovable, that he'll never cease bringing the horse to the water so that the horse
 
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will know that there is water and someday he'll drink it and live. And so
 
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with the whole wide world to throw on the billboards of the highways, to go
 
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into the radio and the television, to go to a lovely Saints like you at this time
 
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of the morning, to make apostles of you, is not to do what God cannot do, make
 
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families pray but make them aware. Make them aware.